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Archive for March 2002 While making the alternate voices for the Chex animation (go look at it), I was practicing my "exciting movie trailer announcer" voice, so here. [MP3, 202 KB]  So... do I? I guess I don't. I might understand if hitting Enter committed to that link, so people thinking they could just hit Enter and get rid of the "window" would end up going there, but 1) It doesn't look like the Windows API. A red border? 2) I doubt they're that smart, so circling "No" is the advertiser saying "hell, highlighting 'yes' didn't work, so..." Here's another thing. Since when are poor internet users desperate to play casino games? I don't give a crap about going to a casino. They act like my whole life is me biding time between visits to Las Vegas. And, maybe it's just me, but no amount of animation and graphics can equal the glamour of losing your money in Vegas itself. So if there was an online casino, it'd be like a text-only affair, and would run like this: SUPER SLOTS! BIG PAYOUT! Play? y We have 5, 10, and 25 cent slots. How much would you like to play for? 25 How many trials? 300 IF YOU LOSE IT ALL, the maximum loss comes to $75.00. This is the maximum that can be charged to your account (if you lose all trials). Do you accept? y Running trials... Outcome: You won 14 out of 300 trials You have lost $58.50 Thank you $58.50 will be charged to your account I decided to try a 2001 theme briefly, which will find a home elsewhere. It was just too dark for reading a journal, and didn't make any sense. But the picture will stay. Also, this serves as a sneak peek (for anyone who cares) at the upcoming site redesign. A few other things have changed at Nightlight Press if you poke around. I think I'm about 60% done. If you're not a big webcomics history buff, let me bring you down to speed. A fellow named Oliver Gaspirtz has a cartoon/humor site, has a few small press parody books out and so forth. He insists that his site gets many visitors. From what I've read/seen, it's very possible, although his site often resembles a photograph of every pop-up ad at once. Anyway. He's got his site listed at The Funny Papers, where my and a lot of other sites are listed. They move a good number of visitors to and from webcomics on that list. Since Gaspirtz joined the list, his comic shoots up to #1 almost instantly every month, displaying a pretty gaudy 3D rotating banner (thus my parody). The complaints are thus: - If he's cheating to get up there (since the rate at which he gets up there is inconsistent given that TFP logs votes in relatively real-time which it may not), he should be removed. - If he's not cheating at all and is in fact relatively popular, he gains nothing from the list, and prevents lesser webcomics like mine, the kinds that move about 2,000 or so unique visitors a month or less, from being #1. It would be like Calvin and Hobbes coming back and getting listed there. It'd never leave the #1 slot, and no one would have a chance of snagging the lead. Plus, the point is to make lesser comics with a few more votes visible, not give already-popular sites a permanent home for their ad banner. So, that's the complaint from myself and a host of other web cartoonists. His cartoons may or may not be so great, and the ad-laden design is more of a personal irk, not really a sign that he's a hack or a cheat. To each his own, just not when it kicks sand in the face of fair play. |
