I think they mean that the navigation is weird when you’re clicking Previous on the site. Here’s the overall archive:

https://www.oglaf.com/archive/

They mostly do 1 pagers nowadays, but if you go here https://www.oglaf.com/signs/ and then click “Previous”, it will take you to the first page of https://www.oglaf.com/goat/, with no indication that there’s a second panel that you can get to by clicking “Next” from that page.

Can you put that behind a NSFW tag?

It’s a pun on “breaks the ice”. The one penguin breaks the ice by pointing out an awkward spelling mistake. That lets the “enimy” in through the now-broken ice

This is cool, but until we can probe further into black holes, seems unfalsifiable

FYI I posted all of the Jon strips in [email protected] a while back, starting with this one:

https://discuss.online/post/21851092

Fun fact, those are in the public domain due to lack of copyright notice when they were published

He stopped for a while, but started occasionally drawing new ones every so often around 2020 or so. He’s got a Patreon that he releases them early to, and also draws stuff that he doesn’t release to the site. I repost old ones once per day, excepting that I’ll post new ones instead whenever he releases them.

Yeah, the original is GIF, maybe I’ll update my posting script to automatically convert any GIFs. I do that for a few other comics.

Yeah. I’m not clear on exact timeline, but he started publishing these in 2001 in The Daily Orange, his college newspaper. Sometime between then and 2005 according to archive.org he started putting them on the website. The dates for these posts are pulled from the site’s HTML, so I assume they’re correct.

Thanks, I’ll check it out!

I tried it and didn’t like it. Maybe I was expecting it to be more like Elder Scrolls games and it’s not; I haven’t played other games in the genre either. The combat felt clunky to me, though I’ve heard that it’s better to think of it as a rhythm game. I like dark fantasy, but didn’t quite connect with the worldbuilding either, maybe because it felt like a zombie game dressed up as fantasy. It’s also a minor thing, but was also obviously made for console and ported to PC so felt a little weird.

It would be doable, and libraries have been amenable to this sort of thing, like not handing over records about checking out books. This is even easier than checking out books, since you don’t actually need to record who is attached to the account. Libraries could obfuscate information that could lead to invasion of privacy. And because it’s distributed and local, it’s much harder to abuse. If someone tried creating 100 accounts, the librarians would start remembering them and refusing to give them more. Going around to 100 libraries would also be much harder than spamming a new account page on some website.

becomes easier to dox if you have the person’s location

Yeah, I guess “take over” is too strong vs “provide the option of”. It shouldn’t be the only way, but would be one very good option. They don’t need to actually keep any records of who they gave an account to, and can take steps to obfuscate any privacy-violating processes. Historically, they’ve been very amenable to this, such as not handing over records about who checked out books.

How many libraries

That’d be a great thing IMO. More skills like that should be distributed and federated. Libraries should be community centers of learning, including learning how to run servers. Information isn’t just books anymore, and libraries need to adapt.

It’d be nice to see public libraries take over this sort of thing. They can do community-based physical verification, without cost. They can assert that someone is legit, without revealing any private info. They’d have to be low-drama, boring infrastructure, in that they merely assert “This person is real”, without getting into “This person is good”.

It’s not sexy like a new protocol or blockchain or whatever, but IMO it’s one of the few ways to really handle the problem, and also is a good way to help build local community.

I’ve heard of the phrase “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, in that order”, and in looking that up TIL there’s even a bit more to it:

The bird took the S from the speech bubble and fed it to its chicks. The bully intended on saying “I’m going to beat your ass!” It’s a 4th wall break of an S commonly looking like a worm.

The art might also be something of a callback to this comic: https://discuss.online/post/38690279

As an artist? If so, do you have a link?

It’s one of the earlier comics, and is simple dark humor. Instead of continuing a presumed rivalry full of hijinks, traumatize the gopher. Kind of like if Elmer Fudd did that with Bugs Bunny or something.

Whoops thanks, updated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nye

Have you considered becoming a speechwriter?