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Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by flomo » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 5:19 AM UTC

fortran77 wrote: post #13

The longest running web comic on the Internet called "Jerk City / Bonequest" uses Microsoft Comic Chat to render It is 20 years old this year, and has never missed a day. https://www.bonequest.com/7541 (May not be SFW, depending on where you work)

I wish I had forgotten about this. Hopefully this webcomic's persistence is actually due to it being a PERL script riffing on dadjokes.txt and whatever reddit lol monkee cheese stuff from 2012.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by trynewideas » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 5:52 AM UTC

volkadav wrote: post #5

mention of ms comic chat seems somehow incomplete without reference to JerkCity aka BoneQuest, a decades-long webcomic composed using it https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23linux

don't forget the API https://www.bonequest.com/api/v2/episode/2851

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by vyrotek » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 6:14 AM UTC

Someone should make a /comic command for Slack which turns the last N messages into a comic.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by krige » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 6:17 AM UTC

Even if you don't connect to the IRC network, even under Windows 10 MCC can still serve with minimal issues as a comic strip generator. That means that yes, you too can have your "own" Jerkcity if you want to.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by karlp » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 7:28 AM UTC

statico wrote: post #9

I reimplemented the comic-drawing algorithm in Ruby almost 15 years ago because I wanted to make my own daily comic based on our IRC chats. It turned out that I wasn’t as funny as I thought. Source and artwork is available here: https://github.com/statico/spittoon

I laughed at the example comic, deadpan is always great

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by aliswe » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 7:57 AM UTC

Comic Chat, Dogz, the 3.1 games .... Those were the days.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by self_awareness » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 8:02 AM UTC

statico wrote: post #9

I reimplemented the comic-drawing algorithm in Ruby almost 15 years ago because I wanted to make my own daily comic based on our IRC chats. It turned out that I wasn’t as funny as I thought. Source and artwork is available here: https://github.com/statico/spittoon

I really like the aesthetics, nicely done!

Also the example comic IS funny ;)