I was hoping someone would bring up Homestuck. This webcomic never ceases to amaze me.
Yes, I would say it is "Best overall web comic series of 2012". Despite the young age of the characters and some of the younger themes (which are hardly the main points of the story at all), it is by far one of the most brilliant things I've ever encountered. The plot development and how everything connects over time are absolutely incredible.
Concerning the humor, it's certainly based on "randomness". But if you're a fan of that, then Homestuck is a great place for it - especially due to the unique development of its earlier acts. Seeing as Homestuck is written as if the reader is playing an adventure game, the author forced himself to use reader suggestions as the "commands" given to the characters, so the story often takes some very random and very funny twists.
The art in itself is also incredibly unique. Andrew Hussie, the author, does a great job of making things look shitty where it works (for example, the internal webcomic Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, but does a wonderful job of making key scenes look fantastic in contrast. His art style is also something that develops the comic - the common lack of arms on characters and the idea that the entire comic was made in Microsoft Paint (where the name MSPaint Adventures comes from) certainly add to the work.
Relevancy? Well, considering the awfully strange universe that Homestuck takes place in, the literal plot is hard to relate to at all. But there are a huge number of characters that all have entirely different personalities, and every single one is characterized extremely well. With this in mind, the interactions between characters are relatable for a huge number of people.
I have never recommended anything more than I have Homestuck. It's a great story full of brilliant twists, exciting moments, relatable characters and fun. Not to mention that it has a huge community of (mostly) excellent people reading it.
I am sort of acting as the database manager for the Global Ozone Project, an organization that sends ozone monitors to schools around the world and has them upload their data to our database. We are currently in the process of working with AIRNow, the EPA's air quality organization, to see if our data can be included in their database. So far, we have spent about a month trying to get things set up and working. The vast majority of our problems have been related to timestamps on each ozone measurement. Because there was no way to guarantee that people had set the time on the ozone monitors right at all, we had to use the time that each point was uploaded to the server. This would be almost fine except for the fact that it was a Windows server and no one had bothered to change the default timezone, so it was using the local time and daylight savings was turned on. We ended up converting all of the times to GMT, but it still meant that when daylight savings goes away there is one hour where we have twice as much data as we should and the next hour has no data.
In other words, I am fed up with dealing with timezones and daylight savings. Yes, it would be very hard for things to get adjusted, especially when it comes to things like the firmware in our ozone monitors, but I believe it would be worth it. And people? People can get used to things. I would find it better anyways.
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I was hoping someone would bring up Homestuck. This webcomic never ceases to amaze me.
Yes, I would say it is "Best overall web comic series of 2012". Despite the young age of the characters and some of the younger themes (which are hardly the main points of the story at all), it is by far one of the most brilliant things I've ever encountered. The plot development and how everything connects over time are absolutely incredible.
Concerning the humor, it's certainly based on "randomness". But if you're a fan of that, then Homestuck is a great place for it - especially due to the unique development of its earlier acts. Seeing as Homestuck is written as if the reader is playing an adventure game, the author forced himself to use reader suggestions as the "commands" given to the characters, so the story often takes some very random and very funny twists.
The art in itself is also incredibly unique. Andrew Hussie, the author, does a great job of making things look shitty where it works (for example, the internal webcomic Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, but does a wonderful job of making key scenes look fantastic in contrast. His art style is also something that develops the comic - the common lack of arms on characters and the idea that the entire comic was made in Microsoft Paint (where the name MSPaint Adventures comes from) certainly add to the work.
Relevancy? Well, considering the awfully strange universe that Homestuck takes place in, the literal plot is hard to relate to at all. But there are a huge number of characters that all have entirely different personalities, and every single one is characterized extremely well. With this in mind, the interactions between characters are relatable for a huge number of people.
I have never recommended anything more than I have Homestuck. It's a great story full of brilliant twists, exciting moments, relatable characters and fun. Not to mention that it has a huge community of (mostly) excellent people reading it.
I agree. Homestuck fits every category.
I am sort of acting as the database manager for the Global Ozone Project, an organization that sends ozone monitors to schools around the world and has them upload their data to our database. We are currently in the process of working with AIRNow, the EPA's air quality organization, to see if our data can be included in their database. So far, we have spent about a month trying to get things set up and working. The vast majority of our problems have been related to timestamps on each ozone measurement. Because there was no way to guarantee that people had set the time on the ozone monitors right at all, we had to use the time that each point was uploaded to the server. This would be almost fine except for the fact that it was a Windows server and no one had bothered to change the default timezone, so it was using the local time and daylight savings was turned on. We ended up converting all of the times to GMT, but it still meant that when daylight savings goes away there is one hour where we have twice as much data as we should and the next hour has no data. In other words, I am fed up with dealing with timezones and daylight savings. Yes, it would be very hard for things to get adjusted, especially when it comes to things like the firmware in our ozone monitors, but I believe it would be worth it. And people? People can get used to things. I would find it better anyways.