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WCDT: 2598-2602 (16-20 December 2013) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Fhqwhgads:
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 18 Dec 2013, 00:10 ---Yep, I usually prefer light on dark themes.
Actually my favourite color scheme is Solarized, by Ethan Schoonover. Here's a css with it, I put together for a German watchblog I'm reading: link.
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oooh I lurve Solarized, I use it for my default theme in Notepad++.
also I just logged in to say today was a good day to introduce the new format; it feels like Marigold's sleepless night suddenly has a lot more impact.
tl;dr: yay Solarized, yay new format
Shjade:
The new page color scheme feels very...Apple.
Undecided as to whether that's a positive or negative.
KOK:
--- Quote from: Fhqwhgads on 18 Dec 2013, 00:59 ---
also I just logged in to say today was a good day to introduce the new format; it feels like Marigold's sleepless night suddenly has a lot more impact.
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But it will be an awkward start of a new book. Numberwise it would make more sense as the last page. Storywise it will be quite a cliffhanger, whether first or last.
Skewbrow:
I quite like where the story seems to be heading.
My freshman calculus course ended last week (exams still to be graded), so let me draw a few parallel lines.
Last week there was talk about calling Marigirl on her s@¤t and making her accountable for how her actions affect her friends. My first reaction: doing that is roughly equivalent to me asking my students to take the final exam on day one. Not cool, because they haven't been exposed to much at all yet, so holding them accountable for something they may have had zero chance learning is a non-starter.
My second reaction was to rebut myself by observing that I do hold my students accountable for the things they should have learned in high school but in many cases didn't. Instead of forever banging my head against this brick wall, I do review the high school stuff, but this doesn't reach all of them. At least not at the level I would like to. Some of the crucial gaps in their understanding should have been cured in junior high - may be earlier. Which brings us back to where Marigold is. In terms of social skills junior high would be a bit taxing for her. I can relate to her plight in that I would have probably learned better social skills, if it were a subject to be studied from school textbooks as opposed to being left to each and every one of us to pick up from the cues around us - if we were at all inclined to see the need to take note of such cues. Early failures lead Marigold to completely lose interest in learning that skill set. Whatever she has learned since may be something like a patchwork of isolated observations - not unlike a collection of calculus tricks that won't help you much unless you see how they fit into the bigger picture (am I projecting myself here enough already?).
This week has a promising start. A sleepless night seems to make Marigold reflect on things. It looks like she will soon have a desire to learn some social skills in that not having them may lead to a concrete loss to her. If Hanners had stormed Marigold's place last night, and given her a lecture, it would have been just a lecture. Now that Marigold will have had time to reflect things, that lecture (I still think it would be better if the lecture came from Hannelore as opposed to Momo) may actually result in some learning.
Mind you, in my teacher evaluation reports those students who only hear me lecture often give critical evaluations, and praise the teacher in charge of their problem sessions. The students in my problem sessions rate me higher. The reason for this is obvious. Most of them won't have tried to learn the material themselves prior to being hit with a set of homework problems. So at the time of the problem session they will be better equipped to appreciate an explanation of the finer points, and are actually left with the feeling of having learned something.
Mlle Germain:
I can see why Jeph changed the comic format; the new one is much more flexible and thus probably more interesting to draw. The way the panels are laid out can also drastically change how the story is told.
And that makes me sad. I like the classic QC broad panels with several characters in them or lots of background. You can immediately see the reaction of the entire group when one character says something or watch little fun story arcs in the background. I'm quite sure the new format means that each comic strip has a smaller size in total --> less QC per day. But more importantly, with this format, there will probably be way more close-ups of single characters in small panels instead of the usual wide QC panels. Otherwise, with the new shape of the strip, only two classic panels can fit instead of four, so I don't think this is how Jeph wants to tell the story anymore.
I'm sure I'll get used to it and like it after a while - as I said, it offers many new exciting possibilities for storytelling. But right now I'm still with Faye:
"This is why I don't like change. It changes things." (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=576#)
Warning - while you were typing a new reply has been posted. You should be eternally sorry for changing the topic back to the format when somebody has just started a discussion on comic content.
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