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I hate this page, it is my enemy. Don’t anybody compliment it, it has been the bane of my existence for the past two days! I don’t think there’s anything more disheartening to a digital artist than to lose their work right near its completion to a corrupted file. We bought a PSD file recovery program and saved some of the background painting, which was a curse and blessing because I had to draw over the painting, which resulted in less good drawings. It’s not awful, the page is fine, I guess, but the headache of doing it again from almost scratch was not fun, I assure you, dear readers!

EDIT: After careful consideration, I have decided not to hate this page.

Published on September 23, 2014 by Alex Kolesar

Mike

That’s the spirit! Just make sure you’re not on the boat with them when they do.
- http://www.nn4b.com suburban_samurai
  
  Ricardo makes it a habit to be the last to board any ship!
Sunwu

Good thing he’s selling the nitroglycerine machine guns to the Koreans
- http://www.nn4b.com suburban_samurai
  
  Wait, how is that a good thing??
  - Sunwu
    
    Ricardo is a shrewd business man and he knows how to play the game of regional stability. Japanese gets gunpowder, Koreans Get nitroglycerine, and the Chinese get opium, copious amounts of government crippling opium.
    - MoveAlongCitizen
      
      Nah, that’s the British. He’s selling MERCURY to the Chinese. Told them it was a vital ingredient in Eternal Life potions and if it didn’t seem to be working, they just needed to up the dosage.
      - 627235
        
        Wouldn’t he be almost two millennia late for that?
charles81

He be hating
They be rolling
He be ducking
They be ‘sploding
- http://www.nn4b.com suburban_samurai
  
  Tryin to catch me photoshopin’ dirty. (I couldn’t think of a clever version of that)
  - charles81
    
    Alex be saving
    Files be corrupting
    Alex be hating
    Files be recovering
Robert J Brien

It was bad and you should feel bad for making it.

That good?
- http://www.nn4b.com suburban_samurai
  
  I find your proposal acceptable.
  - Scott Henry
    
    You should commit seppuku in shame.
    - http://www.nn4b.com suburban_samurai
      
      Allow me to cleanse myself of this dishonor, ScottHenry-dono!!
Bart Massey

You’ve got a plan for backups for next time, right? Some way to make sure you get an isolated snapshot of your work every half-hour or so?
- http://www.nn4b.com suburban_samurai
  
  Yes, I grew complacent since I haven’t encountered a situation like this since I can remember! Photoshop CC creates backups every five minutes, but I was using the older Photoshop CS5 at the time. Anyway, I have no one but myself and TECHNOLOGY to blame. It’s annoying, but I definitely should be making work-in-progress back up files.
  - Thiago Kurovski
    
    Put everything in Git :). Everything!
    - Xinef
      
      And put the repository in a Dropbox folder and push it to Github every now and then 😀
      - Thiago Kurovski
        
        Just don’t put it in iCloud :)…
Lady Courage

*pets your head gently* OK, no compliments on the page… How about… Compliments on your persevering?

I’ve lost work to corrupted files too. It’s maddening. I also one time somehow saved an original photoshop file in such a way that all my extremely important work that had taken me an entire 8 hour day to put together was flattened into a single layer. And then I had to change stupid fiddly things like colors, so had to recreate it just so I could change the darn color. Ugh. It’s stressing me out again just thinking about it…

Anyway… I’m sorry. ‘Ya did good anyway.
- http://www.nn4b.com suburban_samurai
  
  It’s a tough life we live, in this digital age. I’ve overcome my anger at ‘the man’, though. Let us never think of corrupted files again. You know, until next time, when all the pain and rage suddenly comes flooding back and a desk gets flipped.
  - Lady Courage
    
    Glad to hear it! Let’s shake on never thinking of corrupted files again. And desk flipping.
Petrus

So I just read through this entire comic, and while I will not compliment this particular page as per your wishes, I will compliment all the others. The story is interesting, I love the humor (I let out a hearty laugh in the middle of class for “Fish ain’t breakfast!”), and the art is awesome. Thank you for providing such quality entertainment!
- http://www.nn4b.com suburban_samurai
  
  Sir, I will take your compliments and consume them along with my balanced breakfast!
Hfar

They see me rollin’! They gaijin! Pursing trying to charge me reals in thirties!
- http://www.nn4b.com suburban_samurai
  
  Oh, your version’s way better than mine!
  - Hfar
    
    To be fair trying to come up with something of a similar syllable count to that song that’s relevant is bloody difficult.
MoveAlongCitizen

Please don’t hate the page. It just wants to be loved.

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