Questionable Content 4: Attack of the 60-Inch AnthroPC

[memnarch]

Or Hanners just took an Ativan and didn't look

Actually, I'd say it's a different reason. Same page however; it would tick off her mom being the reason.

[John Cribati]

@ Glass Mouse, Gez, Small Pumpkin, Herpestidae....

I would like to know how you people are capable of randomly finding out the precise strip where something was mentioned among about 2K vaguely titled strips, most of which are semi-random jokes following the thinnest of storylines....

There's an online database of the scripts for this comic. Forgot what it's called. That's what they probably used. For me, I just knew where that particular strip was in relation to a strip that was previously linked.

[Traab]

There's an online database of the scripts for this comic. Forgot what it's called. That's what they probably used. For me, I just knew where that particular strip was in relation to a strip that was previously linked.

Pretty much that for me too. I can remember the general time frame of a specific comic to narrow it down, and after that I archive trawl until I find it.

[Fawkes]

@ Glass Mouse, Gez, Small Pumpkin, Herpestidae....

I would like to know how you people are capable of randomly finding out the precise strip where something was mentioned among about 2K vaguely titled strips, most of which are semi-random jokes following the thinnest of storylines....

Let's test it!

Who can find me... the strip where Hannelore jumps into a fireman's arms?

[Kato]

Let's test it!

Who can find me... the strip where Hannelore jumps into a fireman's arms?

Yay, experiments FOR SCIENCE!

.... I tried and failed. I only found the one where she mentioned sexy foreman pictures.

[memnarch]

Done.

[Gez]

@ Glass Mouse, Gez, Small Pumpkin, Herpestidae....

I would like to know how you people are capable of randomly finding out the precise strip where something was mentioned among about 2K vaguely titled strips, most of which are semi-random jokes following the thinnest of storylines....

In my case, I used a script I have that can automatically glue web pages together if the links between them is predictable (e.g., a "next" button). I let it load this way the entire archive (took a few hours) while I was doing something else. Then jumping to the end and quickly scrolling upward, stopping when a page looked vaguely like what I remembered. Took a while since I ended up mostly rereading forgotten strips. Some are quite funny.

I didn't use ohnorobots because, well, it's dreadfully out of date. Without eager contributors to transcribe strips, it's useless.

[Gamall]

In my case, I used a script I have that can automatically glue web pages together if the links between them is predictable (e.g., a "next" button). I let it load this way the entire archive (took a few hours) while I was doing something else. Then jumping to the end and quickly scrolling upward, stopping when a page looked vaguely like what I remembered. Took a while since I ended up mostly rereading forgotten strips. Some are quite funny.

Interesting. I expected something more along the lines of a keywords database, but not quite that. I have written similar scripts, but the aim was simply to get some given comic on my HD in order to read it comfortably, not to aggregate the strips.

I didn't use ohnorobots because, well, it's dreadfully out of date. Without eager contributors to transcribe strips, it's useless.

Concerning transcription, a lot could be done just using simplistic OCR, since most webcomics are simply lettered using some specific computer font (preferably not Comic sans MS...). Only the hand-drawn sound effects and the determination of who the heck is speaking requires human intervention.


edit after test with tessaract (relatively old version, admittedly): the above statement might be optimistic. A quick test on strip 2054 yields a lot of noise with no discernible text whatsoever (ironically the only readable ascii sequences which happen to be actual words are "gay" and "***".... which do not appear in the comic).

So yeah, turning this into an automatic process might be a little bit of work...

[Marnath]

Wow, you guys and your fancy keyword searching shenanigans. When I looked up those 5 or 6 times Sweet-tits appeared in the strip I did it the hard way, by looking at every strip that happened after her introduction.

[Glass Mouse]

Wow, that's complicated.

I generally just remember an exact line or two plus some context. If a google search for those doesn't turn up something, I can usually remember a comic before or after. At some point, something turns up.
Or if I have nothing else to do, I just reread my way to the exact comic. But I rarely feel like doing that.

[small pumpkin m]

@ Glass Mouse, Gez, Small Pumpkin, Herpestidae....

I would like to know how you people are capable of randomly finding out the precise strip where something was mentioned among about 2K vaguely titled strips, most of which are semi-random jokes following the thinnest of storylines....

I just used google which gave me a link to ohnorobot. If it was any more work I wouldn't have bothered.

[Knaight]

So far I considered her to be... well. not asexual.. but she's one of the rare female people where i never even thought about her bust.

Wait. She is something close to asexual, because you have never thought about her bust. How does that even work?

[Glass Mouse]

Um... wow. That was surprisingly straight-foward.

[Kato]

Wait. She is something close to asexual, because you have never thought about her bust. How does that even work?

Okay, okay. that wasn't what I meant. Sorry. I think you do know what I intended to say.



Woohoo, booty, BOOTY, BOOTY! Go, Marten!

[Sampi]

Um....

The strip by strip wiki?

On another note: makeouts, woo!

[Julian84]

Huh. Well. This is an interesting development. I'm not certain I approve of Marten/Padma, not just because she's impulsive and just shot down... whatever his name was.

No, my problem is that she's going to California. And that's going to create drama. Lots and lots of drama.

[Lynn]

For maximum drama this strip might be foreshadowing that Padma had a fling with Sven.

[Gator]

Craaaaaaaaaaap.

[Traab]

"We probably shouldnt do this, you are going to be leaving for california soon."

"Nah, I only said that to elliot to get him to leave me alone."

"Wait, dont you WORK with him?"

"Uuuuh, ooops?"

[Morph Bark]

Y'know, with her eyes half-shut, Padma suddenly looks a lot more attractive.

Prolly the fact I dun like people who look like they have their eyes wide open all the time.

[Tirian]

No, my problem is that she's going to California. And that's going to create drama. Lots and lots of drama.

I predict that Padma's grandmother will quickly die of some wacky accident, so Padma can get back to Massachusetts to be with her honey. The accident will, of course, be butt-related.

[MoonCat]

Well ****.

Everyone who isn't offscreen by the second panel IS AN IDIOT.

[Yana]

Forget the rest of this strip, it should have been just the first panel. YELLING indeed, Hannelore.

And now to hope against hope that Elliot doesn't find out about this... indescretion on Padma's part.

[MoonCat]

Forget the rest of this strip, it should have been just the first panel. YELLING indeed, Hannelore.

And now to hope against hope that Elliot doesn't find out about this... indescretion on Padma's part.

But... Faye and Hanners are still onscreen on the first panel!

Oh yes. Let's hope nothing more comes of this. And that we don't spend another five weeks of Marten angsting about it after Padma cuts it off.

[Marnath]

Heh, this is why I don't drink.
I make more than enough poor decisions sober. Silly Marten.

[Coidzor]

Huh. Well. This is an interesting development. I'm not certain I approve of Marten/Padma, not just because she's impulsive and just shot down... whatever his name was.

No, my problem is that she's going to California. And that's going to create drama. Lots and lots of drama.

Padma:"Sorry you're too stupid to notice a casual fling before leaving the state when it smacks you upside the head, Marten."

Marten: *proceeds to be even more boring and bog the strip down for 3 months*

Audience: JEEEEEEEEEEEEEPH!

Heh, this is why I don't drink.
I make more than enough poor decisions sober. Silly Marten.

Nah, Padma's a great decision. She's just not relationship material and he's not convinced the audience that he's made of stern enough stuff to deal with anything other than "twu wuff.'


By the by, did anyone successfully parse what the heck Marten's "Thank you Hannelore" was in response to and supposed to mean in the strip before this one?

[John Cribati]

Hannelore gagged drunk Faye before she could say anything stupid.

[Gez]

By the by, did anyone successfully parse what the heck Marten's "Thank you Hannelore" was in response to and supposed to mean in the strip before this one?

Drunk Faye was going to say "that's your job", as in "you're going to be keeping him awake all night long", which was a bit of a crass comment. Hanners and Marten both guessed what she was going to say and found it in bad taste; Hanners stopped her; Marten was thankful.

[Coidzor]

Oh. There's not two separate panels down there. Whoops.

[Mutant Sheep]

I predict that Padma's grandmother will quickly die of some wacky accident, so Padma can get back to Massachusetts to be with her honey. The accident will, of course, be butt-related.

And then we get a nice old funeral scene where Marten flies out there and does something really stupid in the service. Because Jeph hasn't done it yet and its time he did.