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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 23h ago
Crimes!? Say less!
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u/kajo404 23h ago
aahh i love that game!!!!!!!!
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 23h ago
Night in the Woods is a must play in my opinion. Its got an amazing narrative. Plus crimes
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u/HardTale_Sans 23h ago
YOOOOOOO
Night In The Woods!
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 22h ago
10/10 game totally worth it even at full price
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u/The_Lavender_Scare 14h ago
I bless thee sir Bullet, for spreading awareness of the greatness which is Night In The Woods
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u/bugbearmagic 19h ago
I can’t look at it the same after the team threw Alex under the bus.
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u/KaminaTheManly 5h ago
Context?
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u/bugbearmagic 4h ago
Look up Alec Holowka. And keep in mind that he was a genius artist and gamedev from the golden age of indie devs well ahead of his time. He unfortunately was surrounded by parasites of the industry that villainized his depression against him to frame themselves as victims of his personal depression.
I remember at least one was essentially saying he verbally abused them by saying he wanted to take his own life - basically whining that he was a downer. Honestly pretty disturbing stuff that just shows he was surrounded by people that lacked the ability to properly identify the dangers before it was too late. Sure didn’t help he had a relationship with Quinn, who invented a business model around claiming to be the victim of abuse, often with no evidence.
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u/KaminaTheManly 2h ago
There is a lot of context missing but to not try and get him help and instead blame him like that is pretty wild. I wonder if they feel responsible for his death.
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u/Gonokhakus 23h ago
PSA: Please do not eat the sidewalk plants, a lot of them are likely to absorb noxious chemicals and heavy metals as they grow.
Urban gardening is badass, but it's also a good way to get lead in your brain without being on the business side of a gun.
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u/the_orange_alligator 23h ago
Gonna eat the sidewalk plants in order to gain superpowers
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u/MoistStub 23h ago
I ate so many lead paint chips. Superpowers should be kicking in any day now. Everything just hurts, but I'm assuming that's the powers entering my body.
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u/Elegant_Run_8567 22h ago
The pain is just part of the superpowers!
Ask Wolverine if his powers hurt
“Every time”
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u/Vyntarus 21h ago
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Congrats on your surely-soon-to-activate superpowers.
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u/gramathy 23h ago
Specifically the plants next to roads are especially bad due to proximity to car exhaust. You can have an urban garden with plots if it's a reasonable distance away from traffic and started with fresh soil.
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u/NettingStick 22h ago edited 17h ago
Certain saprobic (dead-plant-eating) mushrooms are known to break down toxic hydrocarbons like motor oil and gasoline. They also concentrate heavy metals in their fruiting bodies, which can be collected and sent to heavy metal recycling facilities. Pleurotus ostreatus is probably the most aggressive and omnivorous commercially-available species.
Mix liquid or grain spawn into a load of moistened hardwood wood chips (get them for free from Chip Drop) or sawdust fuel pellets. Also mix in a few pounds of alfalfa pellets. If you want to do math, the water should be 60% of the final weight and the alfalfa pellets should be 10-15% of the dry weight.
Put the chunky mushroom grits in a barrel or sturdy trash can just before the temperature drops below 50 for the winter. Make sure there's at least a little air flow. Allow it to ferment over winter - P. ostreatus will grow slowly in cold weather but contaminating organisms will struggle. When the ground is warm enough to work, mix the barrel of wood chip spawn into the ground. Let it go for a year. Tada, you have done a DIY soil remediation. Do soil tests before and after treatment if you'd like to know how well you did.
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u/Lobster_LeninN329 21h ago
Is eating plants on the sidewalk something commonly considered?
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u/wolfgang784 20h ago
There was a semi-viral video guide not super long ago about plantin kale or spinach or somethin like that in all the sidewalk cracks in your neighborhood and harvesting it repeatedly to eat. I think they also may have done onions.
Either way, they were eatin a significant amount of sidewalk vegetables and grindin them for spices and stuff and people in the comments places were up in arms about the toxicity the plants prolly had.
Ive got no idea if anyone else took that persons advice to plant sidewalk vegetables or not though but I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of hipsters have done so.
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u/Lobster_LeninN329 20h ago
Sometimes I forget how dumb people are
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u/PixelatedGiant 19h ago
He could've also been lying to his viewers and eating perfectly fine vegetables not from the sidewalk. The people who suffer usually aren't the grifters, they are obviously in on it. It's the ignorant people that follow.
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u/CandidLeg3910 21h ago
That's why I plant native wildflowers instead. You don't wanna eat most of them. MOST of them.
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u/masterjon_3 21h ago
Don't listen to this guy. I ate sidewalk plants and now I have super strength. It doesn't come with super durability, so my ankles snapped when I tried lifting a truck, but the super strength is still pretty cool
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u/Gonokhakus 21h ago
Fair enough. The pain of your bones breaking is just their weakness leaving your body.
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u/Improving_Myself_ 20h ago
Similarly: mushrooms have a tendency to absorb heavy metals.
Lead is used so often as an additive to cinnamon for weight and color that you're probably better off not eating cinnamon at all. Cinnamon gets recalled for lead a LOT.
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u/EtherealPheonix 17h ago
I briefly worked with an urban garden that determined they needed a several feet thick layer of clean soil on top of the polluted ground to provide safe vegetables, this was fine for them since the garden was part of a food waste collection -> composting company but isn't practical for most people.
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u/Leonie-Lionheard 15h ago
Isn't the main part burned fuel gas and tire dust? Where does the lead come from?
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u/Chemical_Building612 14h ago
Areas adjacent to roads that were in place during peak leaded gasoline era still have significant lead accumulation in the root levels of the soil.
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u/Leonie-Lionheard 13h ago
That was 30 years ago. I doubt that after renewal is streets and sidewalks there is so much left. But it would be interesting to know how long such things stay.
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u/FlashyAdvice1646 11h ago
They only banned that shit after after abnormal levels of lead were found at the bottom of the ocean. the poisoned dirt underneath the concrete was never removed.
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u/Leonie-Lionheard 8h ago
I dunno. In my country (DE) they exchange a lot of soil under roads if they renew them.
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u/scorpiologist 15h ago
Wait you serious? I never thought of that. It makes sense though. . . Think berries, peppers and fruit trees would be affected?
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u/Cool_Set4681 23h ago
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u/Zerech12 23h ago
Fuck the rules, save local biodiversity
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u/FormerEchoes 21h ago
Youtube alternative for your guerrilla gardening needs.
Warning: these videos are filled with beauty, vast plant knowledge, crude humor, and class warfare.
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u/ProjectOrpheus 22h ago
The seeds of a criminal mind were planted that day. It grew like bamboo. I mistook jackin' the beanstalk but proudly embraced taboo.
Get your soil here! Extra soiled pre soiled soil, here!
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u/SignificantHippo8193 22h ago
She has a lot of dirt on her sticky fingers but I'll let it pass because she's adorable 🥰.
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u/altymcalty-2 17h ago
Fair warning, don't plant bamboo. It's highly invasive, will spread to and break surrounding foundations and is fucking difficult to fully remove
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u/RazertheCreator 8h ago
To the comments: It’s not AI for those who are wondering just a cool artist.
if you look at the second stripes on the kid’s sleeves in panel 2, you can see the ends of a few digital brush strokes, and if you zoom in, on the left arm in that same panel, there’s a couple very small spots that they didn’t colour in.
To the artist: This is a very cool art style! I’m a big fan of very boxy and angular character design, and I love the look of your line work. I’m assuming you’ve been drawing with a round brush and erasing the edges to give it a more jagged look? Very cool.
Good comic.
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u/kajo404 6h ago
whoa, yes, i do use the eraser to get these edges!!
the first layer is always a physical pencil sketch i just took a photo of,
then i try to make the lineart look like a linocut (i love linocut!!).
i am used to drawing on paper and obviously need a lot of practice with digital coloring. some ppl really seem to have a problem with the yellow tint in this one??
anyway, i'm experimenting and learning with each comic, i'm getting closer to finding my style, and so far, it's a lot of fun and keeps me entertained at work haha2
u/mint_lawn 2h ago
I think that at least one AI tends to tint picyures yellow. Not sure why. Nice work!
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u/GIOvch 22h ago
Remember to plant natural plant from the biome you live. Most of plants artficially planted are not from their natural habitat
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u/Made_Bail 23h ago
Officer Meow is going to let this one pass. Just because your comic is fucking peak.
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u/Skypirate90 17h ago
I also want to participate in criminal activity such as :
Feeding the poor
Or giving someone in need a ride.
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u/SutterCane Tells Everyone 22h ago
I wish I was better at crimes. I think I keep overcriming the whole time since I’m worried about undercriming.
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u/Teh_Original 21h ago
I would recommend the YouTube channel "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't" if this concept aligns well with you.
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u/immersemeinnature 21h ago
Omfg I love this.
My small front yard had been transformed, by me, to be a native plant habitat. It's full of bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, mosquitoes, spiders, toads, beetles... You name it- every critter is welcome. Same in the back but the lawn is huge. But we keep the leaves and have fireflies. Birds everywhere too!
I highly recommend it. Fuck HOA's and Fuck mosquitoe Joe specifically.
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u/twenty_three_three 21h ago
this sent me on some Hayduke flashbacks. For the record, Hayduke lives.
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u/TacoIncoming 15h ago
OP, I’m someone who (legally) commits crimes for a living. Would you mind if I borrowed this for my next PowerPoint presentation?
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u/Educational-Car-8643 6h ago
... Some of those are papavar somniferum, so yeah thats definitely crimes... Based crimes
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u/dumnezero Art enjoyer 21h ago
Send this to https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/ (on YT or others)
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u/BadKittyRanch 20h ago
The first video I saw of Joey was 5-6 years ago and I was hooked: Tony Santoro's Guide to Illegal Tree-Planting
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u/GiveToMeWhatIWant 18h ago
I myself love throwing resilient flower seeds everywhere and hoping that they grow. The world is a little less dull when greenery comes up through the cracks.
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u/Weak_Car2509 16h ago
If todd understand how to talk it out with the child. Breaking bad might end peacefully. Oh wait nvm.
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u/Tough-Stomach-2960 15h ago
Idk why, this gives me AI vibe, but has so much personality that i don't think it's AI
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u/BlackberryArtistic85 14h ago
Stinks from sooo far away with Ai
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u/minnieboss 7h ago
It's not if you look at it or OP's history for 2 seconds. What a rude thing to say about someone's art.
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u/BlackberryArtistic85 5h ago
Counter point his profile is 20 days old and he put out finished art every 2 days with is very frequently for a human with a life to take care of not just grind out art and every post is multy panel so more so
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u/AwareAge1062 21h ago
Can you do one where the friendly neighborhood police officer asks her what she's doing and she says, very enthusiastically, "Crimes!"
Genuinely think that'd be hilarious, edit because I read it again and it sounded sarcastic 😅
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u/ma-kat-is-kute 10h ago
The yellow tint, the composition, and some suspicious line-work makes this look quite like AI. Please don't be AI.
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u/Pescarese90 23h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/fH0ukveQzPbrikcXO8