Happy Fireworksth of July, 2024
First off, HOLY CRAP that took so much monger to do than it looks like it did. It always catches me off guard just how long little details like all the things in that box take to do, even BADLY. Like, it’s not even hard work, it’s just loooooooooong work, and all of a sudden I realize it took me a whole day to finish something that LOOKS like it only took twenty minutes.
And on a second, related note, I’m afraid there’s not a new TWC Voting Incentive this week. I hate to flake out right at the start of another monthly voting cycle, but I really did blow waaaay more time fiddling with this than you’d assume looking at the state of the version I finally posted here. I just don’t got it in me to plow on ahead with working on an incentive, not with all the OTHER stuff I was supposed to get done this week but haven’t because I was too busy writing out text that nobody can actually read.
But we WILL have the regularly scheduled page 1327 come Tuesday!
There really, really needs to be an extra clickable link or something like that on these that lets us view the original sized/resolution version – I like a challenge as much as the next reader, but no amount of zooming and squinting is going give me any idea what that warning label text on the yellow strip at the bottom of the package says, and it really bothers me that I don’t know! (Nitpicking gene causes not knowing to be intensely painful…must…know…useless…information….)
I’m still reluctant to burn through too much bandwidth by posting the full-sized original images, especially after some bad experiences we had with the site automatically scaling said images with really questionable results.
But on the other hand… https://faroutthere.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/4thofjuly24-detail.png
Oh great, I can finally read the fine print…but now my immortal soul is in jeopardy! 😮
(The Nitpicker I hired fortunately argued successfully that the legislating authority lacked jurisdiction over said item, so I’m in the clear! 😉 )
More seriously – a solution to multiple problems: have the enlarged format be the TWC vote incentive – you get something for your added bandwidth – votes! And you get additional votes from folks who want to see the fine print who wouldn’t have gone there since there would otherwise have not been a new incentive! Alternate solution: put the enlarged versions on Patreon. That way Patreon eats the extra bandwidth cost (I guess?) and maybe some new person pays a buck to Patreon who’s curious about the fine print…and then sees there’s more stuff they want to see there and pays additional bucks….maybe….
Actually, it really MIGHT be an interesting thing to do a series of blog posts on Patreon where I zoom in on previously hard-to-read details in past comics…
Trigger, I know that you want to keep your back in one piece, but you KNOW that set’s too small. Go get the regular set of fireworks that’s the same price of the set your currently carrying, despite being ten times the size and twenty times the weight (mass).
Aww. The hover text I apparently didn’t read before calls that the “Big Box”. Unless the Regular Sized Set is the “Huge Box”, everything I said is wrong. T^T