Iroh

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World-travelling country boy from the Appalachian foothills. I'm as comfortable digging ditches as I am rubbing elbows with foreign diplomats. Both can be satisfying and both can get you dirty, all at the same time.

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  1. about 18 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    The colors are very close, but they are different. The Colonel’s hair is closer to the color of his camos than his camos are to his t-shirt. As usual, however, these aren’t solid colors. The colorist probably used solid colors. Computer monitors do RBG and newspapers do CMYK and should composite any solid color nicely. However, data compression often simplifies the pallet and composites it in ways other than RGB. This is why you get odd dithering artifacts at borders between colors and solid colors made up of two or more colors with pixels of one interspersed among the pixels of another. All that to say, it’s sometimes hard to tell exactly what the colorist is doing when data compression changes it.

  2. about 18 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    Happy New Year, Gent!

  3. about 19 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    Peace and blessing in the New Year, Vengey!

  4. about 19 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    It seemed a possible reason, and only a marginally kinder one than the observations that somewhere between the Tribune and Eric, they don’t have their act together and are producing substandard stories.

  5. about 19 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    Welcome to the new year!

  6. 3 days ago on Dick Tracy

    I could footnote the heck out of non-fiction, but for fiction it’s better writing to include all necessary information in the narrative in a natural way.

  7. 3 days ago on Dick Tracy

    He puts the Eric back in esoteric.

    The problem is that he focuses on the esoteric to the detriment of coherency in the core plot.

  8. 3 days ago on Dick Tracy

    I wonder whether Eric actually thought that all out. I thin it’s supposed to be good enough to suggest that he’s into electronic countermeasures and that’s enough to explain whatever electronic magic is supposed to have happened.

    I mean, in Eric’s defense, we have accepted 1950s style space coupes as a thing, though this doesn’t read like it’s supposed to be science fiction.

  9. 4 days ago on Dick Tracy

    No, but I did. 8-0

  10. 4 days ago on Dick Tracy

    So, what are you trying to say?