Part 2
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Recently, I have been hit by a writing bug for a story I’m working on, where the entire thing will be a combination of Warehouse 13 and Kingdom Hearts. I want the story to be a critique of both how postmodernism functions and how it destroys contemporary culture by trying to subvert that which works and that which people enjoy. In order for me to write this story, I am required to study both postmodernism and satire of postmodernism, which has strangely led me to a little cartoon from the middle of the 2000s known as Drawn Together.
It ran for 3 seasons, had a direct-to-DVD movie, and vanished from the face of the Earth after that. Nobody dares to mention it and yet there are tons of youtube clips of it that are filled with praise in the comments. People love the show, yet nobody can mention its name without social backlash from the woke left. Why is that? Well, let’s get into what the show even is to begin with.
Like every chick who dresses as Harley Quinn for Halloween, it has some severe issues that are treated as normal.
Postmodernism was already popular by the time we hit the 2000s, and by this time we have had postmodernist media for about 40 years. An entire generation worth of rejecting modernism. With this, we gained a lot of different media styles and new genres. The internet was growing into something capable of creating flash cartoons, movies like Fredy Got Fingered popularized shock comedy and neo dada, we started to have shock jocks take over the airwaves with uncensored satellite radio, and soap operas for the ladies were being replaced with reality TV.
Postmodernism allows for a blending of media and real life to create a hyper reality where we can’t see where media begins and reality ends. Media is part of our lives, all day every day, in this highly connected and social media focused postmodernist era. Even now, we wake up to our pop music alarm clock that holds notifications to our social media and the only way to escape media is to leave society and never read anything. That’s impossible for most of us, so we’re stuck in this hyper reality where we’re always watching others and we ourselves are always being watched. We’re at a point in history where people can become popular by just filming themselves making a goofy sound, vomiting, or taking off their clothes.
Usually it’s all three.
This should concern everyone, yet we tend to embrace the absurd reality that is postmodernism and reality tv. Despite common belief, reality TV began with Candid Camera, a show from 1948 where people would be filmed while being at the butt end of a prank. This kind of filming was a look into how real people provide real reactions to things when they aren’t expecting certain situations, which is actually in relation to the neorealism film movement that was inspired by the poetic realism french film movement. We enjoy seeing pranks being done because we get to see a real person provide real emotion and it’s no different than seeing a fight break out in real life, or seeing a car crash. It’s that train wreck mentality that keeps us glued to the scene as shit gets real.
Or was it the shit that glues us to the train as our real mentality gets wrecked?
It’s the same reason we love to see game shows and court shows and Jerry Springer. Add in some sexual exploitation like busty Ukranians and you have Naked Funny, which is a show people search for without caring about any words being said, since it’s a show with zero dialogue but plenty of mouth watering mammaries. Have the exploitation be where people are horrifically injured or do something sensational, and you have Jackass. Have a bunch of people pretend to be outraged and engage in scripted events while living in a single house, and you have The Real World.
That’s right: it’s a show with fake situations and it’s called The Real World.
This type of “reality” TV caused a massive issue in media because it allowed incredibly fake situations to pass as real, and there was no way to counter it because people were convinced it’s real. Just like professional wrestling, just like any show featuring a magician and a paid audience, just like any porno, there is a mix of real things and fake things that create this ambiguous state of hyper reality. Yes, a person can actually be hit by a chair or a sledgehammer, but there’s no way someone is going to be trying to win a match by holding their hand over the head of the sledgehammer and lightly tapping the other guy with it. Obviously, they don’t want to hit their co-worker, unless they’re in a porn shoot with a white woman. That’s when it’s fair game.
Postmodernism is a term that postmodernists try to avoid defining, because of the main doctrine of postmodernism: there is no such thing as a truth that can be verified by human experience. This means that anything being stated must be an opinion and thus everything being stated is completely disconnected from one another. A postmodernist is unable to make a clear and definitive statement that is true, because it goes against their doctrine. Everything must be vague and open-ended. Everyone has an equally valid interpretation. With that kind of mentality, art can be anything we want to call art. Rules are there to be broken, especially if they are rules of a broadcasting network. The R rating, the X rating, the unrated, these are products of postmodernism, due to the intention to break rules.
Subjectivity, blurring of genres, juxtaposition, playfulness, skepticism of a grand narrative, intertextuality, irony, pastiche, appropriation; all of these things are what makes postmodernism appealing to the masses. There is no desire to make something good, so the goal is to do something else, like be blindly entertaining or blindly propagandist. There is so much art before postmodernism and so much established through modernism, like science, that the goal of the postmodernist is to deconstruct all of that and make it feel like none of it matters.
Despite all of the deconstructionism and subversion that comes with postmodernism, media still has to appeal to an audience, and an audience reacts well to archetypes. We don’t know who to cheer for if we don’t know who is the heel and who is the good guy. There can’t be drama if there isn’t some red haired succubus or pampered shrew to throw a wrench in the circle of hotties. And at the same time, we can’t have all of them being that type of person, or else there’s nobody to root for. In the most ironic way possible, postmodernism is required to appeal to archetypes even more than modernism, due to the demand for audience retention and interaction.
Every reality show had to have at least one of every archetype, but remember: it’s totally real, everyone. It just so happened that there’s only one sneaky bitch and there’s only one cool guy and there’s only one innocent girl and there’s only one slacker. It was by random, totally not on purpose, and you’re crazy if you think producers are controlling the environment of these shows in any way. Same goes for dating shows like Next. It’s obvious that these people with their one liners and bad acting are being honest with all of us.
If you didn’t get it by now: I’m being sarcastic, these shows are faker than lady boy tits and the apologies from Bud Light for advertising with such fake tits. And yet, people can’t stop watching these pointless shows. Even I enjoy it, because of how dumb it is. A big part of my life after school was relaxing late at night with MTV and watching stupid reality tv shows. Even respectable ones like Cops were dumb because the entire show was about police officers finding people breaking the law. The entertainment comes from people ruining their day or their entire life with one dumb act after another.
You’re probably wondering: What does any of this have to do with Drawn Together?
Well, imagine all of these reality shows mixed into a cartoon and then each cartoon archetype is from a different type of cartoon. That’s Drawn Together, and the show gets more insane from that point on. The eras of cartoons are represented by the cast members who are to live in one house, as a satire of things like The Real World and as parody of cartoon archetypes. You have Princess Clara(a parody of the Disney Princess), Foxxy(a parody of 70s mystery solving cartoons like Scooby-doo), Xandir(a parody of 80s Nintendo and action cartoons), Wooldoor(a parody of 90s style Nickelodeon shows like Spongebob), Ling-Ling (a parody of anime like Pokemon), Spanky(a parody of internet cartoons from the early 2000s), Toot(a parody of 1930s black and white cartoons like Betty Boop and Popeye), and Captain Hero (a parody of 90s superhero cartoons like Batman Animated Series and Animated Superman).
These character types are all based on their known stereotypes when it comes to appearance, with their appearances never really mixing since these are all different types of cartoons from different styles. You never see a Pikachu with a Batman, or a human unmasker talk to a video game character, or a human princess from a fairy tale talk to a farting pig from the internet. These things never happen in their environment because these things don’t mix. Then the show puts all of these unrelatable characters into a single house to provide random challenges in the same way reality tv does in order to juxtapose the genres.
The art styles also are juxtaposed. Captain hero is drawn with a square jaw, while Toot is drawn incredibly circular and with a giant head. Woldor has giant white eyes while Foxxy only has pupils. Xandir and Claira are drawn rather similar, but even they have their differences with colors and the thickness of the outline. To the untrained eye, these are easy to miss, but to the artist, these are great homages to the very style something is drawn in. An important part to note is that these are all based on other things and are meant to represent them as symbols. There’s no reason for any of this, yet the show does it anyway.
This is what postmodernism is all about: doing things for the sake of doing it. Juxtaposition is a big part of postmodernism. Blending genres and mixing them around is a big part of postmodernism. Subverting tropes to claim originality is a big part of postmodernism. Non-sequitur is a big part of postmodernism. This entire show is one of the most postmodernist things you can find out there and I love everything about it.
You might be thinking “Is Erwin sick? He talks day and night about how postmodernism sucks and then says he loves Drawn Together. Is this an imposter?!”No, it’s me. I’m simply able to understand the purpose of the show, and I love the meta attempt in all of it: the show is a postmodernist attack on… postmodernism. Everything in the show is designed to be a massive middle finger to how postmodernism functions, by being the dysfunctional postmodernist mess it is. From how meaningless the challenges are, to how characters can never die all the way, to how 4th wall jokes stop the show, to how there is a mundane message tacked on at the very end. Everything in this show is a jab at postmodernism, but at the cost of the show’s own integrity.
In the story I’m working on, I would be required to present postmodernism in it so that I can critique it. But, if my entire story revolves around only that, then I would be presenting postmodernism the entire time, which means I can’t separate the thing that I’m attacking from my work, just how a story about the evils of racism would have to feature a racist. Postmodernists attacking postmodernists is the same as a racist saying “racism is fine, but only in the way I do it.”
But is all postmodernism really the same? The show is hated now, after all, right?
Yes, it’s hated now, because it(ironically) went against the grand narrative that postmodernists currently hold, but it was part of the narrative that was held during the early 2000s. Barely 20 years ago, less than half of a generation, millennials were being raised by exploitation. I know that the postmodernists hate it when I use this word to describe nearly all of postmodernism, but by definition, it’s exploitation. You can blame the 80s for this, because once home media became popular, we had movies that went straight to VHS and then later DVDs that were able to push the envelope.
That’s what postmodernism started as: a way to push the envelope.
South Park and Simpsons didn’t do things that were part of the status quo. They went against it to then become the status quo right after. In fact, there’s an amazing joke from the show Bevis and Butthead(another example of postmodernism) that captures this phenomena perfectly, where the two go to a radio show because they were the only caller, and then they influence the radio show by saying stuff sucks and stuff is stupid.
Their own stupidity and negativity was seen as a sort of punk culture by the viewers and so they demanded the radio host, who was angry at them, to do the same. And so, the next day, the radio host does exactly what he threw Bevis and Butthead out for doing. This complete hypocrisy that somehow there are rules, but they can be broken if the money is there, is something Drawn Together also tackled.
The entire first season was all about having pointless challenges with a character called Jew Producer, who was a parody of both Richie Rich and Donald Trump. How did they connect these 3? Easy: Donald Trump had a show called The Apprentice, Richie Rich was a cartoon, and a Jewish producer is a Hollywood cliche that's entirely true. A lot of Jewish people produce Hollywood stuff and TV shows. I don’t know why this is a controversial statement or why the left always gets insulted by that fact, but they constantly freak out the second someone mentions that someone like Harvey Winstein exists.
While I’m talking about controversies, Adam Carolla, the voice of Spanky, was blacklisted by Hollywood because he decided to do the cardinal sin of… demanding free speech in a country with free speech as a constitutional right. I know, how dare he! It shouldn’t surprise us that the former hippies who ran Hollywood on the backbone of free speech and demanded freedom of expression are now against… freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Meanwhile, Tara Strong, a proud jewish woman, voices a character like Princess Clara, with Princess Clara being a racist, homophobic, anti-semite who is also in a sexual relationship with her father.
So, let’s recap: a jewish woman is able to do the voice for such a terrible thing, yet an Italian male comedian is not able to ask for the acceptance to joke about such topics.
Why is this even a thing?Well, at first it really puzzled me, but like when we saw the left defending drag queen acts in front of children, it finally clicked. The problem in Hollywood isn’t that something terrible is said or written or put in a show. A white princess saying terrible things is normal to them, because that’s how they view white people. Their fear is that something might make a non-white person look bad. Something might make the LGBT look bad. There might be an “uncomfortable truth” revealed in a chain of unregulated jokes.
One of the most profitable postmodernist comedians around, Dave Chappelle, was canceled over making trans jokes, despite being a good friend of a trans person who killed themselves after… trans advocates hated the trans person due to being friends with Dave Chappelle. The woke are disgusting people, to put it bluntly. Zero people were harmed by Dave’s comedy, yet the woke harassing people has a death toll that’d make Pol Pot take notes on their efficiency.
So the difference between Tara and Adam is that Adam wants to make jokes about anything, while Tara is just doing her job and reading the script. The free thinker is the threat, while the obedient follower is not. That’s why Tara still gets jobs and Adam is off doing a podcast and somehow still making millions. I’m sure he’s wiping his tears with gold bullion over the thought of no longer being able to do voices for farting animated pigs.
But what exactly makes Drawn Together hated?
To be honest, I didn’t even know someone could hate the show until I was around 20 or so. Some online people I chatted with told me how offended they were by the show and I never understood what offended even meant until that era. I watched the show throughout my teen years without a care in the world. To me, it was another adult animated show that tried to do anything offensive and it was funny all around. Some of the subject matter, contains but is not limited to:

• Incest
• Self harm
• Suicide
• Homoerotic behavior
• Satanic rituals
• Genocide
• Mass murder
• Mass shootings
• Fat jokes
• Donkey shows
• Cannibalism
• Necrophilia
• Pedophila
• Mexican babies getting pregnant
• Asians and their inability to drive
• Black fathers leaving their kids
• Lewd conduct
• Shitting on a pizza
• A live action squirrel with big balls
• An old man with dirty balls
• And let’s not forget the idea that Clara’s vagina is a giant hentai tentacle monster

All of these things are put in the show to offend us, because the show intends on making people go “ew”. If the constant vomit, blood, shit, piss, burps, farts, cum, sweat, and queefs aren’t a dead give away of them trying to gross the audience out, I don’t know what is. The point of the show is to do exactly what the 90s and early 2000s is all about: doing stuff that is gross so you laugh at how gross it is. Nickelodeon was notorious for this intention of grossing people out, to the point where they would throw green slime around just for fun. As fun as it looks to be drenched in green slime like a Leprechaun bukkake, the goal is to make the audience say “ew… cool!” because that is a male oriented reaction.
And this is where we find the split in postmodernism. When postmodernism began as a means of subverting modernism and regulations, it quickly became a cesspool of creative INABILITY thanks to the woke taking over. We went from freedom of expression to being required to advocate, which is a detriment to comedy. Recently, we had a controversy over a show called Big Mouth, which was hated by the right for being considered pedophilic and indoctrination, because the characters were teenagers dealing with puberty monsters and were depicted as being sexualized.
This is one of the many areas the right is losing the battle on, because so many of them are trying to be Platoist or Mohism, meaning they want some kind of hyper utilitarian and aesthetic free environment due to a hatred of art. Plato believed that art was an “imitation”, that it was a “copy of a copy of a form”. It was a corruption and perversion of reality, thus he saw art as evil. Mo-Zi, a Chinese philosopher who shared a lot of his views, also saw art as a pointless distraction because it’s not the responsibility of the government. These kinds of “right wingers” are accidentally falling for philosophies that pave the way for socialism, so it’s hard to take their positions on art seriously when they can’t see how brainwashed their approach is.
I’m going to go with the Jews on this one and say that art is very important, and so is freedom to make art.
Big mouth is not a show that I will say is one of my favorites, but it’s nothing as how the right wanted to depict it as. Obviously these are just people who wanted the next Cuties outrage and they had a swing n’ a miss. The left, on the other hand, is able to say something like Drawn Together is offensive to them and so it must be canceled. And lo, we have the tumblr people unable to reblog about it, we have reddit radio silent about it, we have twitter people afraid to meme with it, but then it’s still prospering in places like youtube.
People want to watch it, but nobody is brave enough to talk about it in fear of being canceled.
The show is a Martyr in two ways:

1. It is a postmodernist work attacking postmodernism
2. It is a dead form of comedy due to both the left and the right trying to cancel things like it

I already went over the second point by talking about Big Mouth, but I will quickly reiterate: the right and the left want to cancel things that are offensive, but for different reasons. Something like Drawn Together would be hated by something like Daily Wire, and yet I am a conservative who loves the show. I understand that the show is making fun of stuff, I understand it’s gross out humor and pointless nonsense. I love that it’s aware of what it is, to the point where they had an episode where Spanky goes to see their #1 critic and it’s a Jewish, conservative, pro-life, born-again, overweight, Asian, homophobic, lesbian broad who cuts herself.
He then straight up tells her that she’s not their audience, so her opinion doesn’t matter on whether or not the show is good. And he’s right, if you aren’t the audience for something, why should anyone listen to your opinion on the thing you instantly don’t like? It’s like if I had an opinion about which sports team is better. I am 100% uninformed about anything sports related, and the only sport I ever willingly watched was professional wrestling. That’s a sport, right?
Either way, the show is aware that it’s offensive. It’s proud to be offensive. Each character has their own way of offending, both when it comes to a group and when it comes to art itself. This is when postmodernism kicks in and subversion is used to create a surreal environment suited for satire and parody.
As a quick reminder: Satire is when a subject is critiqued and parody is when a subject is used for a joke. An example of this would be where satire is when Scream uses movie tropes to figure out a murder and parody is when the alien from Signs pees with his finger in Scary Movie.
Princess Clara is the Disney princess. Usually a Disney princess seeks a prince to live happily ever after, and she is pure of heart. They subvert this by attaching a bit of reality to the word “princess” and have her in a sexual relationship with her father because princesses would sometimes do that to keep royalty in the family. She’s also a racist and Christian, because royalty in Europe was Christian and it’s “old fashion” for a rich white girl to be racist. Although they keep her desire to sing, the lyrics are still going to hold her views about people, so the humor comes in how she delivers terrible things with a cheery tone. Her character is meant to make fun of traditionalist people, all while using the Disney princess as a face.
With the way wokeness is going, I don’t see a difference between Clara and the current Disney princess now.
Foxxy Love is the Hanna-Barbera style mystery character who is meant to solve crimes, most likely inspired by Valerie Brown from Josie and the Pussycats. She suberts the role by causing crimes and being a degenerate all over. She is a slut, she acts ghetto, she constantly has abortions, you know the deal. This juxtaposition comes from the fact that Valerie is meant to be a hippie musician, and black women on reality TV are depicted as ghetto thanks to shows like Flavor of Love. And for those who don’t know, hippie musicians are usually promiscuous and incredibly loose, with zero regard for decency or sticking to one sex partner because they are all about second wave feminism.
Again, ironically the woke have caused this subversion to be their intentional norm for a lot of black female characters, only they see it as virtuous instead of comical.
Wooldoor Sockbat is the Nickelodeon style hyperactive loony toon who is meant to be both stupid and gullible. There’s not much subversion here with personality, but it’s all with how far he’s willing to go with his zany humor, such as randomly threatening to suck someone’s dick and having giant tits out of nowhere, which he will then squish into the camera while crying. He’s meant to be loud and random, just like Spongebob or Stimpy. However, with the way Spongebob has become after their first movie, the only thing separating Wooldoor from something like Spongebob is direct word usage.
Plus, Ren and Stimpy had their adult party cartoon reboot made by the creator, so doing something gay and entirely disturbing is nothing new for that kind of character. I still can’t believe that it came out in 2003. In fact, I can’t believe Ren and Stimpy was on Nickelodeon with the stuff they put in there. But, that’s the appeal of Wooldoor, because he does the stuff people have been doing with characters like him for years. I would even say he’s not much of a satire since he’s so close to the content he’s meant to make fun of.
Xandir Wifflebottom is the 80s action cartoon parody, as well as early video game cartoons. During the 80s and 90s, we had a lot of Nintendo shows like Legend of Zelda, which took after plot scripts like Transformers, GI Joe, He-Man, and other product placement shows during that time. Only a few episodes of Drawn Together make fun of these simple action plots, but this connection between the merchandise advertising shows and video game cartoons is important, since they are the same thing, and it’s a product of postmodernism. Shows during the 80s and 90s that were simply there to sell something with the show, whether it was a game or a toy, were part of this media and real life blur. His gayness comes from how people viewed both He-Man and Link, since Link was a feminine looking elf and He-Man was a muscular dude who didn’t wear a shirt when he’s fighting.
This one is kind of interesting since it touches on the subject of queer coding. The left is so desperate to feel like the LGBT is represented, they will declare something is gay because it “feels gay”. This feeling is based on whoever is attracted to a fictional character, so if gay men are attracted to He-Man, or if they like his outfit, then that means he’s totally gay. Link is a character who has sadly been considered a “gay icon” by websites like Polygon, all because the designers made him rather gender neutral in later games in order for him to appeal to a female fanbase that was growing. And when they say gender neutral, they mean “he’s not muscular and he has a pretty face”, similar to practically any 00s alt rock band memeber.
Apparently, having that and then having gay people make gay fanfics about the character instantly means the character is gay. The show made fun of this queer coding nonsense by making Xandir a raging homosexual that is constantly killed like a Mortal Kombat character.
Captain Hero, my favorite character, is the comic book show hero that we all know and love. He’s meant to save the day from evil villains, but they subvert his role by having him be entirely useless and usually the cause of mass destruction. He has superpowers, but he’s so stupid and useless that he doesn’t use them most of the time, like when he is immune to bullets but he still grabs a random woman to use her as a “hero shield” when getting shot at. His character makes fun of how postmodernist super heroes try to depict the classic hero as a terrible monster or some kind of morally warped anti-hero. This is due to how Batman went from whacky detective to psychotic nut job during the transition from the 60s to the 80s, thanks to influences like Alan Moore’s Watchman and Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns. His character is more like a Superman, which the Bizzaro Superman comics have covered that kind of thing to make way for a super powered idiot who has sex with corpses.
Why does he have sex with dead bodies? Well, because he’s “alien” to us, the point of the joke is that he’s so super powered that he can do whatever he wants, and uses his powers to have sex with something that can’t fight back. Kind of a “he can have any woman he wants, but he would rather have sex with a rotten corpse” kind of thing. Or maybe it’s making fun of how Superman cares about Lois Lane even though she might as well be a rotten corpse to him, because she’s a human and he’s an alien. Either way, it covers a big problem we started to get in the 90s where superheroes were quickly becoming hyper violent assholes who do anything disgusting for the sake of shock value.
Ling-Ling is basically a Pikachu, but here he will battle with anything and cause gory deaths upon his opponent. The joke is that kid shows featuring these little monsters, like Pokemon and Digimon, will have zero blood, and yet the attacks they do are strong enough to cause giant explosions. Thankfully, these go past the typical Dorkly joke and Ling-Ling will also have jokes centered around being Asian and have a made up language that sounds Japanese because he says “kitowa” a lot.
Just like Xandir, Ling-Ling is treated like a punching bag by the others in nearly every episode, and I think it has to do with the video game relation, since Pokemon began as a video game and the show was there as a way of advertising the product. Plus, during the 00s, there was little respect for something like anime, no matter how much someone knew about the golden age of 80s anime.
Spanky Ham is something I’m not really sure what influenced him, but it’s said it might be an early flash cartoon called Evil Piggies. However, there is a flash cartoon from 1997 made by John K, the creator of Ren and Stimpy, called The Goddamn George Liquor Program, that seems more in line with Spanky’s scat fetish. Early internet cartoons usually had people’s faces done in a South Park style, where the mouth moved by cutting the bottom half off and moving that up and down. When I went on Newgrounds during that time, all I would see were stick figures, parodies of existing cartoons, and something like Ctrl+Alt+Del where the characters were drawn as humans in that typical web comic style. He might have also been inspired by Happy Tree Friends, which first came out in 1999, so the idea of cute animals dying randomly, and the crude humor of The Goddamn George Liquor Program might have caused a farting pig to come into fruition.
The joke is that he’s a pig who likes to drink and have sex, as well as be disgusting, but then somehow he’s also like Ren where he has schemes to make money. I forget if there is a word for this kind of character, but he’s the Squidward type who always gets harmed by his own greed. There is also a lot of Fritz the Cat in his character, which was an animated movie based on an underground comic about a cat who would go on sexual escapades. This “cartoon animal doing adult stuff” has been a joke since the 60s, and even Howard the Duck had issues with what Nostalgia Critic calls “duck boobies”. Speaking of adult ducks, there is even a show called Duckman that was made by the same company that made Rugrats.
People treat Bojak Horseman as this hip new thing when it’s simply part of a long line of animated foul mouth farm animals wearing suits.
Finally, Toot Braunstein is the representative of silent cartoons. Betty Boop was seen as sexy for being curvy, and the joke is that Toot is just plain fat and old, with her body hair and repulsiveness, as well as her tits always sagging to her cankles. She is always harming herself because of a self-esteem issue, caused by her weight and age, which is joined by an alcoholic problem due to her being from the roaring 20s. The joke is that she’s that girl in every reality TV show that is completely disgusting to look at, but she’ll see herself as a hot chick despite hitting the wall so hard that illegals can pour through the cracks. Plus, people believe Betty Boop was based on Clara Bow, who was a flapper “it girl” who suffered from hard drug use, schizophrenia, and was constantly rejected for being too fat.
Toot is the only one in the list who’s not directly a product of postmodernism, but there was a particular charm to rubber hose animation(gained its name for how limbs acted like rubber hoses) that continued onward to create things like Ren and Stimpy, Loony Toons, Tom and Jerry, and even some movies that tried to revive properties of the 30s. The Popeye movie is a great example as to how studios in the postmodernist era tried to desperately mix live action with cartoons, and same goes with Who Framed Roger Rabbit with how it was a movie that mixed live action with rubber hose animation.
Part 2

There are so many options these days and I'm having a hard time to committing to something. Have you tried anything you can recommend?
I have a Quest 2 and HTC Vive with three extra trackers to use. But phones also seem quite capable these days. Also have all the audio clips related to the animations, so I'm thinking I can play them while acting out the animation. But it would be great if it was recorded straight into Unity.
Any guidance would be helpful, thank you!

Over the last month Jagex invited a handful of talented content creators (as listed here) to come out to Jagex HQ to check out and play test the new Necromancy skill as a first look.
However, not really mentioned, but the OSRS side of Jagex also invited at least one, if not more OSRS creators to check out the new content recently for their version of the game as well. I can recall, but cannot find the clip of Purespam commenting on the rerelease of Bounty Hunter off the top of my head, however here is proof of him going to Jagex HQ to at least provide feedback as one of multiple playtesters on the upcoming Desert Treasure 2 content in a similar time frame.
Josh Strife Hayes is an established MMO reviewer that was also invited to Jagex during the same time frame, unannounced to the public, to give constructive criticism of the early game of RS3 ahead of the Necromancy release (even getting a selfie with our man Waydots.) He speaks openly in that video about how passionate and talented and phenomenal the content creators visiting Jagex were doing high level things. However he was the only one asking questions at the lower level that no one thinks about. He pretty much nailed the head on what makes RS3 combat suck to learn and why EoC pretty much failed us when it comes to a tutorial on the intricacies of how combat works.
Now keep in mind, I'm a 20 year old veteran, w/ 5.6b xp, so I'm no newb to this game, so I understand how difficult it would be to integrate tutorial island into the Burthrope pathing system into trying to explaining the EoC combat system into a tutorial might be. That's impossible. You want to try and explain the basic concept of skills into the game (ie woodcutting->fishing->firemaking->cooking), try and explain that it's a sandbox MMO, then explain how complex the combat can be (stuns, bleeds, adrenaline, thresholds, ults, etc), and I don't know how that's possible to streamline that all in one encompassing "tutorial".
So, the point of this post? I was hoping some of the community managers could fill us in of any progress made by meeting with people like Josh Strife Hayes and any if their meetings helped them gain insight on how to grow the game or if their input has made any sort of difference and if so, how.
If not, was there was anyone who could help with making combat easier to understand besides sticking us with a basic revo bar and saying "this is why the things are this way" and skipping over all the reasons to pay attentions to stuns/bleeds or when/why you should use defensive abilities. You're never really taught why you should use them or when. How could you incorporate these ideas into a tutorial of combat and when and why you should use them in a teaching/tutorial capacity? Prime example, I'm a Comp'd player who is 200m in all skills and I've still to this day never learned the timing or use of the Resonance ability. That should be an issue of concern.
In conclusion, pardon my ramblings. Jmods, if you see this, great. I hope to hear back from you. If not, I get it, please continue to be the rockstars you are.

Okay before you start yelling at me, hear me out and just take a few minutes to think about it.
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Ive is arguably one of the most popular girl groups of 4th gen. Now many fans are like 'it's cause they make great music!' or 'the members are so talented!' but we need to be realistic. Wonyoung is a MAJOR reason the group is performing the way they are.
Now again let's paint a picture. We all know Wonyoung and Yujin participated in Produce 48, and we also know that they became members in IZ*ONE, first and fifth place respectively. Wonyoung, winning first place, became the center of the group, and already being popular on the show, becoming center just boosted her status in the general public.
Wonyoung is, as we all know it, very beautiful and fits most, if not all Korean beauty standards. Her visuals are very pleasing to the eye, and the general public agrees. Wonyoung is literally all over Korea. Beauty products, clothing brands, everything you can think of this girl has done and many K-fans have stated this.
So how does this tie into Ive? Well when the group debuted in 2021, fans were excited for a new girl group, especially with 2 ex-iz*one members. As the group started gaining fans, it was clear that most were there for Wonyoung, which the fandom is still like (though a lot of Wonyoung stans have started the other members as well). Her popularity shone through, as seen in just the views with anything that has her face on it.
This hasn't changed, being popular brings haters and lovers, and as 'fans' started hating on Wonyoung for 'doing the most' or 'being a pick me', more people started looking at Wonyoung clips, interacting with Ive content, and realizing that the hate was for literally...no reason.
And this is why Wonyoung has many opportunities that some of the other members don't have, whether that be becoming a MC, modeling for a brand, etc.
Now you may say, 'well the company pushes Wonyoung so ofc she'll be more famous!', well if the most popular member brings attention to the group (which means money) I'd pushed them more too. But the truth is besides RIGHT at their debut (when starship pushed both Yujin and Wonyoung), Wonyoung doesn't need any help getting attention from the public, a reason why she is seen as the unofficial center of Ive.
But the point of this rant is that Wonyoung is the main reason that the group got THIS popular. We have to be honest and say that if Wonyoung debuted in any other group, it would do the same. But we can't say that if Ive debuted without Wonyoung the group would have THIS amount of success (I'm not saying that the group would flop, because it wouldn't, but they most likely wouldn't be charting the way they are right now).
This isn't hating the other members, because they all play big parts in making Ive the group they are, but we can't deny that a large part of Ive IS Wonyoung. Of course, their music is really good (Stream I AM for clear skin), and that the members are talented, but that is not the main reason for their huge success, Wonyoung is.
Again, I love the members (all 6) so much, so please don't take this as hate !!
Thank you for reading my rant, have a nice day <3

I've had a few ASUS ZenWifi ET12s for a few months now. I sadly have a situation where the ZenWifi is too tall, and I have to lay it on it's side.
The rest of my mesh network is great (2.5G ethernet backhaul), but devices connecting to the "on the side" unit always have a much weaker connection.
I decided to try to mod it to attempt to change the antenna assembly to be "right side up" when the unit is on its side.
DISCLAIMER - if you try to follow my mod below, be prepared to void your warranty! Also be sure to follow regulatory laws in your area - some countries/jurisdictions don't like you messing with radio hardware!
First thing - I noticed there are ZERO teardowns/internal info on this unit around. I decided to post pics of my exploratory surgery to help anyone who might be like-minded in the future.
First - to open, remove the bottom rubber ring. This exposes the screws. https://imgur.com/t8O8U7D.png
Next, simply pull (with some force) on the clear plastic top - the whole cover slides right off. https://imgur.com/aAu8HME.png
Once out, you can see that the top assembly is held on by 4 screws (two on each side) and the antenna cables https://imgur.com/1x7eLZZ.png
Wireless Radio board side view https://imgur.com/4RWkknN.png
CPU/chipset board side view https://imgur.com/rRc1eB6.png
There is a plastic port cover covering the ethernet side. It pops right off (held on with some middle clips) https://imgur.com/5aKmHvM.png
Pic with the Ethernet cover removed (a bit blurry, sorry) https://imgur.com/aPVYbRH.png
Pic of the other side for completeness https://imgur.com/E3IoyOS.png
The clear plastic cover is held to the inner plastic cover via plastic clips. I have some good iFixit removal pics, and they helped easily pop these one side at a time. https://imgur.com/lXuI6Xu.png
Inner plastic is held with clips to the 4-screw assembly below it. once both Inner plastic and outer plastic are removed, you can see the default antennas. https://imgur.com/Y1DJcr5.png https://imgur.com/rx4ZcfX.png
Bottom of Wireless Radio heatsink https://imgur.com/EG3zSgv.png
Here's the best shot - the wireless board and all the antenna connections. There are the 8 default connections (CON01-CON08) and a hidden, unconnected CON09 connector, and a spot for a CON10 connector (but there is no connector soldered for CON10.) https://imgur.com/NIbVM2J.png
A bit closer examination shows these are U.FL IPEX Male connectors https://imgur.com/mKLoJDI.png
Now - next steps. The factory cables are super tight and no slack to remove the factory assembly and reconnect. I decided at this point to buy new cables and make an RP-SMA breakout board.
First, I did a 3D-print design for the new breakout board on Tinkercad - matching the antenna layout/spacing/azimuth as closely as possible. Links:

• https://www.tinkercad.com/things/dOdeUCFnVTw
  
• https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6057492
  

Printed it - it turned out pretty well: https://imgur.com/9jVtXzL.png
I next bought the following from Amazon:

• 2x Right-angle RP-SMA to U.FL IPEX cables (12in - 5 count) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098QG9VXF
  
• 4x Small dual-band RP-SMA antenna (2-pack) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1PN4QXV
  
• 2x U.FL IPEX Male to Female extension cable (in case the 12in cables were to small for some..) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P85J34J
  

I first added the 8 RP-SMA mounts to the 3D-Printed board: https://imgur.com/9Eiiajc.png
Then I drilled a hole in the ET12 top to help route the cables a bit easier. (avoid the circuit board, of course!) https://imgur.com/Mpb0smp.png
Final assembly done: https://imgur.com/xwC2mJs.png https://imgur.com/hUjik5w
I've been running this for a couple weeks now, and signal to this unit is much improved. All and all, really happy with it now!
Hope this helps someone else!

Like yeah i miss him too, i never watched him while he was active, only really seeing pink guy clips around
But i do think that he ended the character the best way he could. He made entertaining comedy videos for those who want that, and a deep lore that you can explore and build on for the people who want that
And with everything being great, having a massive fanbase with a good catalogue of videos and and an album under one of his characters, he ends the character while he's ahead, and walked his own path into the music scene
I love the fact that he never piggy back off of his fame from Frank. Sure there were probably fans that followed him but he made Joji his own thing. Any lesser comedian would've posted the new stuff on the already successful channel, alienating both his old fans and limiting his reach for new fans
If frank kept making his stuff, it would get stale, he would lose the title of one of the top comedians on the site. Any deviation from the formula would be met with an outcry of "missing the old frank" and lack of change would be met with "this style isn't as funny anymore"
I'm glad to see most of you guys feeling the same way, as i don't really see posts actually wanting frank to come back or to wish for him to have never departed from the character. The way George handled all of that was perfect
Idk i just felt like rambling about this

Hey,
Making a commercial video with music, I downloaded a preview of the music first (with a voice warning it's a preview every few seconds) since I wasn't sure I was going to purchase it. I used the remix tool on it, works great, purchased the music, into Premiere, exact same length as the preview clip and in sync with the preview clip used previously, but then the remix tool won't remix it the same way (the cuts aren't in the same place).
I've set the same parameters for the remix as the preview, then played around with segments and variations, but it won't remix it in the same way. Is there any way to force Premiere to remix it the same way? Is it possible it's analyzing the clip differently because it's lacking that regular voice every few seconds warning it's a preview?
I can do it manually looking at how it remixed it but I don't have that much experience and I just feel the remix would do it better than I can.
Thanks!

Hi swap! Getting real close to that 100! Got a couple things for you guys.
Timestamp - https://imgur.com/a/zqMqcQe
Hinderer XM-18 3.5 Spanto - $425 SV/TV
https://imgur.com/a/JJG3ZQ9
This knife has been cut and sharpened on wicked edge by last owner, overall still seems to be in good shape, comes with OG scales as well and all the other washers etc.
CKF EVO 2.0 MONO ZIRC CLIP AND FAT CARBON SCALES - $1100 SV/TV
https://imgur.com/a/0zKPVwK
Got this knife here on swap at 1200 value, overall knife seems to be in great shape I don’t see any marks or wears on the knife appears was not cut or carried by me. Clip I believe is JohnnyT , unsure where scale is from.
Let me know if you guys have any questions , I am willing to do trades plus cash, as I am needing money probably not straight trades, thank you for looking!

Looking to move on from a few wonderful knives that I no longer carry.
Time Stamp
Peña Caballero: SV:$225 - This is a catch and release. I wanted to try a front flipper but have realized this one’s just a little small for me. Action is great. Good centering. Blade is sharp. I am 2nd owner. I never carried it but previous owner did. Small blemish on clip side next to the pivot I tried to capture in picture and video. Blade steel is M390. All around it’s a great knife.
WE Banter: SV:$115 - I am the original owner but only carried a handful of time. It’s a great knife with a smooth and crisp action. I just don’t ever carry it. S35VN Blade is nice and factory sharp. Fat Carbon Scales. Spot on blade centering. Small signs of wear on the clip. For an extra $15 I’ll leave the ultem bead on it.
Not interested in trades.

Recent post about them blaring "Set Fire to the Rain" during the rain delay got me thinking of a few things I noticed this season. They were examples of announcers/graphics/media people being funny (maybe unintentionally?) this season.

1. Washington has been showing flashbacks of great moments in Husky softball history to celebrate thirty years of the program. When Utah and their assistant coach Paige Parker came to Seattle this season, UW made sure to show the clip of Parker giving up a homer to Julia DePonte in the 2018 WCWS. Not sure if anyone noticed but I got a laugh out of it.
2. In the super regional between Utah and San Diego St, the play-by-play announcer was talking about how the players were really hungry and competitive. Next up was Mac Barbara (the girl who nicknamed herself "Tank"). He proceeded to say "Another athlete with an insatiable appetite, Mac Barbara..." I mean, come on man.
3. This was the worst one. Washington vs. Oregon St. The Beavs had a bunch of important players out with injuries this season. At least five down, including their ace and leadoff hitter. Whatever jerks run the Pac-12 Network put up a graphic that showed these five girls' pictures with the caption "Banged Up Beavers." We were all speechless. They had to know what they were doing.

I have been buying some “coop refresher” and it’s just a mix of dried herbs. My coop smells great! wanted to try and make some. Does anyone have a best method? I don’t want to use a dehydrator for the herbs, as I want to make a LARGE batch. And another person just put the herb clippings in a bucket to dry…. But will they effectively dry out? I have some very fragrant sweet mock-orange I’d love to use some of that in the mix. Love to hear from others who have done this!

What’s up fellow knife buds!
I have some bills piling up so have to slim the keepers down.
I’ve had the Laconico for a bit and it’s guaranteed gonna be an amazing knife for anyone who loves Ray’s designs.
Toenail Clipper is a catch and release, just showed it some love and attention!
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*** Monterrey Bay Knives/ Ray Laconico Pinscher

⁃ Beautiful Ray Laconico design! ⁃ Perfect detent. Great lockup. ⁃ Amazing action, hits way above its price level, such a smooth knife. ⁃ 3.5 inch Satin M390 blade, perfectly centered and sharpened by me on a KME sharpening system. 18 degrees. ⁃ Timascus clip new from MBK. 

*** Second price drop from previous post!
*** SV ~$275~ ~$250~ NOW $225!
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*** Tidioute Cutlery Toenail Clipper # 36

⁃ Great “Walk and Talk” on this classic in India Jigged Bone. Blade is nice and sharp, looks to be factory edge. ⁃ I’m second owner. Original owner here on the Swap said knife had never been used, just stored in a safe where it developed a little rust. ⁃ Cleaned up the small amount of rust spots real nice upon receiving the knife but had to take off a little of the “Toenail Clipper” badge on the blade. ⁃ Luckily if you’re planning on using the knife then some nice patina will keep the blade more rust resistant and cover any buffing spots noticeable after I cleaned it up. ⁃ Big Ol’ hefty sheepsfoot blade made of 1095 carbon steel, with a nice half stop. Perfectly centered. ⁃ 2022 run from Great Eastern Cutlery in Titusville, Pennsylvania. 

*** SV $200
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*** Rockscale Designs PM2 Backspacer & Lanyard Hole Plug

⁃ Green Anodized Titanium 

*** SV $40
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Shoot me a message if I’m missing any details! Thanks!
*** Venmo or ApplePay is Preferred but PayPal works too!
*** Shipping is CONUS ONLY! 🫶🏽
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*** YOLO takes first dibs but I’m open to trades occasionally.
You can always shoot me a PM for any questions, comments or offers!👊🏾
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🍻Cheers knife friends!🤚🏽

Hey y’all, last couple pieces for now. Prices are shipped, payment through Zelle/Cashapp as PayPal/Venmo won’t let me transfer to my bank anymore. Not particularly looking for trades, maybe partials. Prices are pretty great bro deals, but if you think I’m off on pricing feel free to send a PM. Thanks y’all!
The Goods
Holt Morpheus - $725
Stud mod completed by previous owner, beautiful blurple ano on the scales, clip, and stud. Has the full kit. Stud is in a great spot, pleasant flick and reverse flick.
CRK OP Zaan WITH TOOL - $950
Fresh back from a spa, clip has a little wear but that’s it. I can reblast the clip for you before shipping. Comes with the pivot tool, body screw wrench, lanyard, reissued box and BC. Has second backspacer barrel installed.
I run @Rockytop_Customs on IG, lemme know if y’all need anything. Thanks!

I'm currently binging all of Jeannie's VODs and I'm in mid August 2020. She mentions her Recorder cosplay is finally coming up, but I don't see it in the lineup. I did notice some VODs are "unavailable" so I'm guessing one of them is that particular VOD.
Did something happen? Was it deemed inappropriate? I was really looking forward to watching that one soon as well as continuing down the line (I'm going to do that anyway, but yeah).
If anyone can help with this I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
PS, I know I can catch clips of it in the highlights channel, but I enjoy watching the full stream.