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At 3/21/10 02:50 PM, TheRadicalOne wrote: Hello.

I discovered the comic when I was reading MS Paint Adventures with my script-blocker off one day. I loved this comic and I'm surprised other people know about it too!

Thank you so much!

Its not so well known, but it deserves praise.

Happy reading.

At 3/21/10 04:10 PM, TheRadicalOne wrote: Why didn't you check your last thread? :C

Thanks man. The reason I reposted was because when I was posting the first time my internet crashed. I went on Newgrounds and it looked as if it hadn't posted at all (in reality it seems it just is updating quickly).

Glad to see it actually posted!

Hey all,

So a couple of months ago I found this fun webcomic. Unfortunately I didn't save it in my favorite places. I can't find it. I think it was called "Great." (Searching for "great webcomic" on the net obviously does not help, since it is not a famous webcomic and "great" is an adjective everyone uses.) It follows the story of this guy who gets fired, whose wife leaves him, and who becomes homeless, but then learns the power of positive thinking and turns his life around. It's in black and white and well drawn but simply drawn, and humorous.

Other scenes that stick in my mind are when he goes in for a job interview. His interviewer says, "Why should I hire you when you don't have any of the skills we require?" He says, "Because I will do a GREAT JOB!"

He eventually finds work working at a ramen shop for a man whose goal is to make the greatest Ramen noodles in the world.

When thugs from 20th street come, he says, "Oh yeah, well I'm from 40TH STREET" and beats them down. One of the thugs says it made him think upon his life and inspired him to become an actuary. Not just an actuary, but the greatest actuary EVER.

Anyone know what I'm talking about and where it is, or how I could go about finding it? I think it's fun and would like to read it again.

Thanks.

RP

Hey all!

A couple of months ago I found this webcomic. I think it was called, "Great." I was trying to find it the other day, but had neglected to put it in my favorite places. Google searches are worthless, as "great webcomic" only yields top 10 webcomic lists, and Great is not one of the famous ones (though I heartily enjoy it).

It's black and white, simply drawn but well-drawn. It follows the life of this guy after he is fired, his wife leaves him, and he becomes homeless. He then see a show on the power of positive thinking. He goes to apply for a job, and when the interviewer says, "Why should we hire you? You don't have any of the skills we require" our hero says, "Because I will do a GREAT JOB!" (He doesn't get the job.)

He ends up working in this Ramen noodle shop, for a man whose goal is to make the Greatest Ramen in the World.

Other notable occurences are when thugs from 20th street come, the protagonist says, "Oh yeah, well I'm from 40TH STREET" the idea being that higher street numbers are more hardcore. After being defeated, one of the thugs says he was inspired to become an actuary. But not just an actuary, but the GREATEST ACTUARY EVER.

I enjoy the humor of this webcomic, and would like to find it again. Does anyone know what I'm talking about, or ideas for finding it?

Thanks.

At 12/24/08 04:35 PM, Tancrisism wrote: Dragon, I think you seem to be completely ignoring the position that the Palestinians are currently in. Terrorism doesn't just occur randomly (with some exceptions), and especially not in such a widespread way like Hamas. I am not saying they are justified, but it amazes me how one-sidedly people look at the issue, an issue which is much more complex than people realize.

I don't see how. You wouldn't realize it from my post, but I have sympathy for the Palestinians, especially since they are governed by terrorists who don't care about them. I'm just pointing some stuff out. Hamas and Fatah have been indoctrinating the Palestinians with anti-Semitism and fanaticism for decades. They (the terrorists and PA, not the average Palestinian) do not want a state more than they want to deny the Jews one. They have had countless opportunities to build state institutions (Oslo accords, Gaza withdrawal), or even final status peace agreements (Oslo, Camp David in 2000), but have chosen terrorism instead. Because terrorism works. Why moderate when Israel will release prisoners and the international community will give you millions of dollars?

You are correct when you say terrorism does not emerge randomly out of a vacuum.

I've been saying Hamas wants to kill Jews and Israelis, and that's true. Also of great importance to Hamas, however, is power. This they also symbiotically gain through terrorism and opposition to Israel. During the intifada Fatah and Hamas competed to kill the most Israelis.

Terrorist leaders attack Israel to gain power, and terrorist members attack Israel because of the ideology and false history with which they have been brainwashed. (I admit, some probably do it for a paycheck - those who would fight but not be suicide bombers. This is why I hope Netanyahu gets elected PM of Israel in February. His policy of developing the Palestinian economy and building peace from the bottom up is what is needed.)

Thanks man!

I want a user to input a hexadecimal number into an input box. What is the best way to do this? Is there some way to declare that an Input Text is for hexadecimal?

Or do I have to take a string and go through it character by character, converting it into its hexadecimal number (and checking for whether it is valid)?

Thank you.

If I have a php file, can I put meta tags inside the <?php ?> brackets with the rest of the php code? Do meta tags have to be inside <html></html> tags?

Thanks.

Does anybody know what the maximum voting power is? What about the maximum voting power possible with a silver whistle (since I am aware whistles now influence VP)?

(On a side note, I like the general site updates, as well. I notice now that the skyline in the back of the post composition box has also been updated.)

Yo, thanks for the update.

I'm approaching you guys.

Experience: Ranked # 2,782 out of 1,143,225 users!

At 4/21/07 11:37 PM, LittleMissVixen wrote: Maybe I should give my account to someone who actually cares enough to do something with it.
It's useless being #20 and having a nice voting power when I don't do anything with it.

check your PM box.

They already have "rules of war." They aint exactly being followed everywhere.

At 4/1/07 11:56 AM, TrueDarkness wrote: judge after I get the trial...

Do they have a date for when the trial comes out?

Well, the first new Flash version under Adobe's ownership has come out, and it looks pretty neat.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/in troducing_flash_cs3.html

Hey guys I'm pumped because I just realized I'm a Elite Guard Brigadier General!

The first of the super-cool b/p icons. I am truly in the upper echelons now, in a place to which I could only look far ahead to before.

(Sorry, I do not mean to sound presumptuous or arrogant.)

At 2/28/07 01:06 PM, AfroUnderscoreStud wrote: There's a problem with the site at the moment. The user of the day hasn't changed and if you try voting on a submission you voted on yesterday, you're told you already voted today. I assume the rankings are also affected by this.

Yeah I noticed it.

OK conflicting views....should I go with the majority?

When I upload a flash, and I upload a 46 x 46 gif to accompany it, can I change the pic after I upload it, or is the gif I upload the first time associated with it forever?

Thanks for the update.

At 12/9/06 07:23 AM, Denvish wrote: 195) 14687 0476 068.0 Roth-Productions 9

Ah, so close to making the 10 rank climbers list, so close to 75 per day.

In any case though woohoo; top 200!

Congrats to all else who acheived things.

Heh, he just wants to create a little body of power that includes him to give himself power. You have to earn it man! :P

We all want power, that is part of being human. That is the cleverness of the NG system of blam/protect points and experience. The more you go to the site, the more powerful you become. In the beginning, you advance quickly, but then as time goes on the distance between checkpoints becomes longer. It sucks you in, and never lets you out! The more you post and post well the more forum goers may think of you. But post drivel and you get a reputation as such.

Alright. Been looking for this thread ever since I got into the top 300. Glad I found it again. So, congrats to all the peeps with accomplishments.

At 10/28/06 07:34 PM, EcKo-WR wrote: Ok I have a simple non bias question.

Where do you see Israel in the next 10-15 years?It's International relationship and it's relationship with the arabs.

Totally unpredicatable. Right now, it's relations largely depend on how the divide in the Palestinian government heals (or worsens) itself.

Also what good things will come out of Israel in this time period?

Technological advances, scholars, I guess new and better versions of stuff in all the fields that good stuff has been coming out of Israel up to this time.

At 8/1/06 04:13 PM, RedGlare wrote: I mean especialy as Israel is Taking active measure to kill Lebanese citizens/civilians.

No, they are taking active measures to save the lives of Lebanese civilians, and taking active measures to kill Hezbollah and their weapons.

And also why the Fuck should they have to leave its there country and there homes why should leave so Israel can destroy there homes?

Yeah. Isreal needs to bomb Hezbollah, otherwise they won’t stop firing rockets. The Lebanese so they don’t die.

Who are you to tell the people of another country to leave there homes so it doesn't look as bad when tthey level the place?

If by “you” you mean Isreal, than Israel is being attacked, and wishes to fight back harming the least civilians possible while still harming Hezbollah.

Also im not buying that Israel is actualy trying to turn people against Hezzbolah. And if they are then they aren't half doing a shitty job.

I’m not aware of any goal like that.

If anything your increasing Hezbolahs numbers. By hurting civilians your saying "hey Hezbolahs right we are bent on wiping you out".

Yes, yes, hopefully though Israel is damaging Hezbollah’s capacity to fight. I agree that the situation can’t be solved without international intervention. It’s tough for Israel when they are held responsible for protecting not only their civilians but the civilians of the country in which the terrorists bombing them hide.

At 8/1/06 05:21 PM, -Toast- wrote:

At 8/1/06 04:09 PM, Dragon_Smaug wrote:

At 8/1/06 03:54 PM, RedGlare wrote: But you've just admited that Israel deliberatly targets those civilian homes.

No one denied that.

I am. If you read official articles, not all those propaganda sites, you'd know that Hezbollah rocket carriers put children on the rockets during the transport, and then hide their rocket launchers in populated buildings (For example one that was destroyed about 3 days ago). They hide children and women with them everywhere, what can Israel do about it?

Yes, but I’m saying Israel is firing targeting homes, but not by virtue of them being homes. They are targeted after rockets come out of them. They are targeting civilian buildings, because Hezbollah shoots rockets from civilian buildings, but Israel is not targeting civilians. I think we’re on the same page, toast.

At 7/31/06 01:00 PM, areyoureadyEddie wrote:

At 7/31/06 12:48 PM, Dragon_Smaug wrote:

No, Israel is not trying to eradicate anyone. Everyone else (except maybe Egypt) is hoping to eradicate Israel.

Everyone cares about killings civilians; Israel tries not to while the terrorists try to.

even though Israel kill far more innocent people

Yes.

At 7/31/06 02:32 PM, areyoureadyEddie wrote: like i said. Israel know they're massacreing civilians, they admit they are bombing civillians in the hope they vent their anget out on Hezbollah, but in reality it just makes them support Hezbollah more and hate Israel more.

I don’t think that was every there goal. If it was, it was a peripheral goal. Israel has stated that the Lebanese should blame Hezbollah for Israel’s attacks, but has not attacked with the goal you mention.

At 7/31/06 02:35 PM, lapis wrote: The standpoint of the pro-war side seems to remain unchanged: the Hezbollah movement provoked Israel by kidnapping the two soldiers and since the Lebanese government didn't do enough to stop the Hezbollah 1) a full-scale war was justified

I, personally, disagree with bombing power plants, but other than that I feel most of the bombings are justified, yes.

2) a full-scale war was the best solution to the hostage crisis

Some measure of bombing was, at least.

3) the way it is being carried out is justified

Not 100%, but 90-95% yes.

4) the way it is being carried out is the best long-term solution to the problem.

Yes, with the word best emphasized. Israel has no good option.

The main problem about 1) is that Hezbollah does not represent the whole of the Lebanese government or the people in particular. But in the end the latter two parties carry responsibility over what happens in their territory and if militant groups use that territory to harm Israel then Israel at some point has the moral authority to intervene.

Point 2) is a lot more debatable however. The option of putting diplomatic pressure on the Lebanese government and Hezbollah was hardly ever seriously considered before the IDF took military action against Lebanon, it took them less than a day if I remember correctly.

Many have stated how the Lebanese government has no control over Hezbollah. The option of putting diplomatic pressure on the Lebanese government would not have worked because Lebanon probably could not have done anything. There is value in using diplomacy, and I’ll concede that there is a remote chance something would have resulted from a diplomatic route. I believe that it would, in reality, only mean that the timetable of the war would be pushed forward by a few days. Israel decided, correctly as I see it, that diplomacy would have no effect.

The original objectives of the Hezbollah are first to be considered: their demands concerning the release of (Palestinian) hostages were unspecific and completely disproportionate so it seems improbable that the Israeli soldiers were captured with the intent of a future prisoner exchange. A more obvious explanation would be the hope of being seen as having solidarity with the Palestinians, who were grossly punished after militant groups captured Shalit, by the Lebanese people and the Arab world in general. They needed a popularity boost, they had openly opposed the withdrawal of the Syrians in 2005 and by doing that they alienated a lot of Lebanese who held the Syrians responsible for the murder of Hariri. And while Lebanon was enjoying a temporary peace the necessity of supporting militant groups like Hezbollah was waning, their charitable wing not being enough to compensate for this loss.

The main objectives of Hezbollah are to destroy Israel.

Moving on to 3), bombing installations like sewage plants and public utilities are collective punishment and forbidden under international law. Bombing power stations causes a disproportionate amount of grief to the population in contrast to the Hezbollah who aren't exactly known for their state-of-the-art military equipment. Bombing infrastructure would inconvenience the Hezbollah but the problem is that this action negates the carte blanche that dropping warning flyers is supposed to give. Telling civilians to flee before a shelling is noble but if you just bombed the means for them to flee the message becomes void. Since roads were still being targeted the Lebanese civilians would be at risk of being killed whatever choice they made, stay or attempt to escape.

Actually, although I disseagree with bombing power plants, its not collective punishment if there are military objectives in destroying them. Warning fliers is supposed to save lives, Israel knows that its bombings will make the lives of the Lebanese worse. As for the roads being bombed as they were being told to escape, they now have a 48 hour time in which to escape. There is no way to fight terrorists militarily without killing civilians, Israel can only attempt to reduce the casualties.

Cities in Southern Lebanon were bound to remain populated and I doubt that the IDF was incapable of following the same line of reasoning as the Lebanese civilians. They knew that there would be civilians in Qana for example and when civilians die unintentionally they can be counted as "casualties of war" but when the deaths of these civilians were entirely predictable you've crossed the line of deliberate killing and you've committed a war crime. It's irrelevant that Israel is not seeking to kill all Lebanese civilians, these civilians were purposely murdered.

No, the civilians are not purposely murdered. If you don’t believe the evidence against it, I have another point for you. What could Israel’s motive be in the alleged targeting of civilians?

4) stuff

Yes, well both civilians dying or Israel not retaliating helps the terrorists. If you are so critical, can you think of a better way? I haven’t heard a good answer to this question. (Although your idea of calling in international forces from the beginning is not bad, but the U.N. et all has never rushed to the aid of Israel before so I’m not sure how realistic an idea it is.)

@someone, I foget who: I don’t think I said it before, but Lebanese are pretty split about blaming Hezbollah or blaming Israel.

At 7/22/06 08:58 PM, Wes_is_king wrote: The best way I've heard this whole situation described is like this:

This is the same as if a terrorist from Canada went into the states, kidnapped an American cop and drove back to Canada and the US retaliated by bombing the shit out of Canadian cities.

Isreal is out of control. I do agree they can't just take this, but they can't go around levling civillian facilities.

This is like how the American forces are in Afghanistan, destroying whole villages because of a rumour that a suspected terrorist is in town, but that's another rant.

Hmmm, your comparison has some flaws.

1) To make your comparison more analogous, it should be not one terrorist, but many terrorists from which the kidnappers were merely a part of.

2) To make your comparison more analogous, you should specify that this group of terrorists had been bombing American cities with short range rockets, and always increasing in range. Actually, since America is so much bigger than Israel, these Canadian terrorists should have rockets that are semi-long range.

3) To make your comparison more analogous you should have a soldier be kidnapped instead of a cop.

4) To make your comparison more analogous you should specify that these terrorists had been ordered by the UN to disband 6 years ago, and that Canada had taken no action to help this. You didn’t exclude that fact, but you give the impression that the terrorist in your comparison sprang out of nowhere.

5) To make your comparison more analogous, you should specify that Canada was still doing nothing, even after the attacks and kidnapping.

6) To make your comparison more analogous, you should include the fact that Canada’s government includes terrorists on it. (Now that I think of it, I don’t you if you choosing Canada was that analogous either)

7) To make your comparison more analogous, you should acknowledge that the terrorists have infiltrated civilian cities, and are firing their rockets from the homes of civilians who sympathize with them.

8) To make your comparison more analogous, you should mention how the terrorists are probably trying to get the kidnapped cop/soldier out of the country into….um…..Greenland, and that the terrorists are definitely getting weapons from Greenland. And Greenland is developing a nuclear missile and denies the right of the U.S. to exist.

But hey man, don’t worry, analogies are tough. Keep trying and you’ll find one that actually fits.

At 7/18/06 05:09 PM, Turandot wrote: I think he's justifying the fact that you are at war with the terrorists and you have tanks and planes and the terrorist doesn't. Therefore they use themselves.

If two sides are at war, it's hard for one if they don't have the weapons of the other.

I have no problem with the terrorists using themselves. Obviously, in a war, just or not, each side uses whatever tactics are available to it. What I have a problem with is the terrorists' goal of killing as many civilians as possible and destruction of Israel, and their targetting of civilians.

At 7/3/06 02:11 PM, FAB0L0US wrote:

At 7/3/06 06:33 AM, Dzex wrote:

They NEVER intended them to leave. Never. Only to get people out of the way of fighting. And this next quote was so damn out of context it made me laugh when I found what was really said. And that is heresay and no evidence of an offical government doctrine anywho even if it is true.

Regardless of their intent, you cannot deny that Arab warnings of military invasion, rich Arabs leaving the Mandate altogether, exaggeration and invention of Jewish atrocities, and propaganda took place, even if you refuse to believe all of it was widespread (although I beleive there has been sufficient evidence). This had the effect, whether unintended or intended, of causing mass flight.

Yes, I believe in telling them that the term for peace is the end of terror.
What's your point?

Nothing will change. Nothing. So I want America away from Israel. Liability.

Yes we get it that you want America away from Israel, I think that that’s been thrashed out fully. You believe ceasing-to-be-with/abandoning an alley would stop or decrease terrorism, I believe it wouldn’t and that its wrong to abandon an alley because terrorists attack them. We’ll have to agree to disagree on that point.

Therefore, when you say that Israel is asking for peace, “on our terms,” make it clear that you’re not implying Israel is being unreasonable, but that you merely feel its reason to stop being allies with it. If you are saying Israel is being unreasonable, then defend yourself or admit wrong, or elaborate further when someone brings up a counterargument (or asks for elaboration), don’t change the thrust of your argument to something else.

by calling the BBC pro Palestinian. That is ridiculous. No big western news sources are pro terrorism, anywhere.

So, being pro-Palestinian is now being pro-terrorist?

At 7/3/06 02:30 PM, VigilanteNighthawk wrote:

At 7/2/06 10:58 PM, Dragon_Smaug wrote:

I said, Israel having less fatalities than Palestine but having more people than Palestine didn't help his argument. IE: Israel has a population of 100 people, and they lost 5 of those, so 5% of their population was killed. Palestine has a population of 50 people, and ten of those died, so they lost 205 of their population. Israeli's lose 5% of their population, Palestinians lose 20%. It was meant as a comment about his argument more than trying to make a point.

You don’t understand his argument. He never referred to total population. He referred to the fact that out of the total number killed on each side, the percentages of combatants verses noncombatants for each side showed how merely stating the number killed was misleading. Total population of either side was never a factor.

At 7/2/06 10:58 PM, Dragon_Smaug wrote: Why does everyone keep bringing up military equality? Should you not fight because your enemy is weaker than you? Also, why does being less powerful give the terrorists ANY right to target civilians? That is not a “war tactic.” You continually decry Israel for mistakenly killing civilians, yet you are justifying the terrorists targeting Israeli civilians?

I brought it up because it helps to explain their tactics. You don't send in suicide bombers when you have tanks, do you? Part of the reason these people fight the way the do is because they do not have military parity. The other reason they continue to fight is because they know they are vulnerable to Israel. If they were equals to Israel, much of the outrage would likely disappear. I'm trying to explain why they fight and why they fight the way they do. I don't agree with it. There is a difference.

So you condemn the terrorists? Good. I thought you were trying to justify them or their cause, sorry.

At 7/2/06 04:32 PM, VigilanteNighthawk wrote:

Your right, citizen was a bad word. For the longest time they were a subject population of Israel, with little if any self government. Currently, their leaders can be kidnapped at almost the whim of the Israeli government. The Isreali government can cut off funds when the Palestinians don't vote the way Israel wants. The Israelis can even prevent Gaza and the West bank from having land access to one another. I'd say that makes they a subject population of Israel.

No, their leaders cannot be kidnapped at the whim of the Israeli government, unless they are terrorists. Do you think Israel doesn’t have a right to capture terrorists? Israel is not refusing funds completely, they are rerouting the funds (as much as they can) such that they bypass Hamas, which is incidentally a terrorist group seeking for Israels destruction.

What do you mean by a subject population of Israel? Before I debate you, and your argument, I want you to clarify that term (I’m not being picky, I’ve never heard it used before, and what to hear how you define it) and state what you feel is unjust about their situation.

Don't know if someone has already said this, but I have a suggestion. I'd like to be able to read the messages that I have sent in addition to the ones I've received. I'd also enjoy being able to check the status of my messages (if and when someone has read them). This being said, its a great feature that you have added. Personally, I enjoyed coming into my profile one day, innocently expecting the usual page and then BLAM! no wait. I mean BAM! "INBOX" It was pretty exciting. I was all, "Woah!" It was all, "INBOX!" Then I came over here and found this thread and said, "Woah! Inbox!"

-Roth Prod.

At 6/2/06 05:32 PM, The-Sun wrote:

At 6/2/06 10:07 AM, Roth_Productions wrote: There should be a "mark response-to-review offensive" button.

No , because 99% of the times when an author responds offensively is because the reviewer was abusive .

Besides , We have the right be as abusive as we want to our retarded reviewers because WE submitted CONTENT and PASSED through judgement while being bombarded with abuse ! THEY didn't ! Having such an button would undermine the authors here on the portal even more!

Authors > Abusive Reviewers

Yeah, I see your point. But what about when a good reviewer respectfully criticizes a bad author, and is responded to with abuse? I mean, the author is not always in the right. Sometimes, also, both the author and the reviewer need anger management and lessons in tolerance and manners. Sometimes it is your example, when the reviewer abuses an author unfairly.

There should be a "mark response-to-review offensive" button.