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Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by tim333 »

ryantgtg wrote: post #111
the_af wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get the sense that Calvin's parents don't like him. He is a force of nature and he overwhelms them, but they don't dislike him.

I get the sense that Watterson is sharing his own childhood relationships with adults and author figures. And by and large they aren’t happy, healthy relationships. His parents regularly debate whose choice it was to have a kid, and despite the exceptional strip shared by another reply to me, for the most part his dad seems happier working than being with Calvin. I definitely didn’t notice or care about this dynamic…

Conflict makes for humor and drama - see Homer strangling Bart etc. It would make for boring stories if everyone was nice all the time.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by tim333 »

chmod600 wrote: post #11

Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.

>It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.

I thought it was great but took me back to 30 years ago when magazines in the mail were the thing. I think I prefer the modern situation where at least you can go to sites like HN which are relatively non commercially biased. Back then there wasn't so much unbiased stuff available - maybe BBC programs and library books.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by vfinn »

I'm studying Spanish, so I made a little script that fetches Calvin & hobbes cartoons in both Spanish and English and then converts each strip into bilingual strip with ImageMagick. It works well enough (>99%).

    #!/bin/bash
    for i in {1..1000}; do x=$(date +'%Y/%m/%d' -d "$i days ago");
    z=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d' -d "$i days ago");
    wget https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbesespanol/$x -O $z-es;
    wget https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/$x -O $z-en;
    y=$(cat $z-es | grep -o -P '.{0}https://assets.amuniversal.com.{0,33}' | tail -1);
    f=$(cat $z-en | grep -o -P '.{0}https://assets.amuniversal.com.{0,33}' | tail -1);
    wget $y -O $z-es.gif; rm $z-en; sleep 1;
    wget $f -O $z-en.gif; rm $z-es; sleep 1;
    convert $z-en.gif $z-es.gif -append $z-bi.gif; #ImageMagick
    rm $z-es.gif;
    rm $z-en.gif;
    done;

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by junyoon »

Looks like there's no connection pooling

Warning: mysql_connect(): User yingling_sandbox already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in /home/content/41/5598741/html/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.php on line 10 Unable to connect to database! Please try again later.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by supernova87a »

avalys wrote: post #38
ryantgtg wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward their kid. Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad’s restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew…

There are plenty of C&H strips that show his parents love him. This one comes to mind, but there are many others: https://i.redd.it/wgwm23u9k4sx.png Kids are not stupid and you don't need to insulate them from everything that isn't 100% happy, fluffy and wonderful. As a former kid who had loving parents and loved C&H, the only message I remember taking from the strip in this regard was that parents are people too and…

I love how in the middle few panels, just 2 little dots for eyes are able to convey the frustration about "why am I wasting my life on paperwork when my real life is waiting for me?"

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by Moru »

chmod600 wrote: post #11

Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.

It's funny how everything looks so new and cool but when you do a little research, you find that it's not that new after all. Many things are just a rechew of something old.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by gdavisson »

sieste wrote: post #44

So funny this is coming up just now. My sons (6 and 4) found a C&H book in the shelf last week. Since then they did this https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/06/24 and tried this https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/06/28 This lockdown has gotten more interesting for the whole family.

A friend of mine was reading a C&H book (probably the same one) a while back. Suddenly he ran to the bathroom, and there was a flush followed by gales of laughter.

He was in his thirties.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by faeyanpiraat »

chmod600 wrote: post #17
treesrule wrote: post #9

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I think he specifically does not want you to know what he thinks about these things.

Is it really a secret? Calvin and Hobbes contains a ton of relevant commentary. Just the amount of time Calvin spends outside tells you something. He probably would leave it as observation rather than presciption, like most humorists.

I think it also has to do with not wanting to accidentally ruin the legacy, like some of the successful tv series do with their last season.
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