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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!
Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:
Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield
The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.
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What's the joke?
There haven't been any changes to etch a sketch in decades. It's already great...
...or maybe just the etch a sketch R&D department really aren't the brightest bunch out there.
It is great but as a Magna Doodle (basically e-ink but manual and magnetic) kid, I can't be convinced to switch to drawing only continuous lines on a tank-like interface. Yes, the effective resolution is about an order of magnitude higher so you can fit an entire poem instead of a short sentence but drawing letters is 20 times slower. Also, there is no monopoly, lots of companies make Magna Doodle clones (I never had the real thing either). If I could make a sufficiently dense (1mm) array of powerful inductors, I would use a scanner mechanism and an Arduino to play 30fps Bad Apple!! on it in a timelapse, showing its superiority in speed (5 seconds per frame) and filling dark regions. (No, the inductors cannot be staggered like nozzles in inkjet printer heads because that would produce streaks by disrupting previously blackened cells.)
It's really hard to make anything with an etch a sketch, even their own r&d can't do it.
idk, Maybe that each person there is working separately instead of collaborating? Just like the Etch A Sketch controls?