We don't earn experience points by going about our daily lives, nor are we guaranteed to have lots of adventures and earn lots of gold in our lifetimes because, like it or not, life is mostly mundane.
But if you want to feel a sense of accomplishment in your dull life you can create an "epic tasks" checklist every day and pretend you're completing quests as you cross stuff like "put on clean clothes" and "heat up leftovers" off your list.
Just try not to make the list too long or too unrealistic, or you might end up stuck at level 1 for the rest of your life. (Comic by Optipess Comics)
Animals are born with a devil-may-care attitude, so we humans who have been taught to be polite for the sake of a civilized society find their brash and boisterous attitudes both enviable and endearing.
That's why videos of cats who knock stuff off counters go viral, and why our favorite cartoon animals are always sassy and brazen jerks who love to tell humans to get stuffed.
In a False Knees strip you'll find animals tellin' it like it is, critters who aren't afraid to not give AF, and lots of funny observations about life and death in the natural world.
When it comes to zombies most people don't think to draw distinctions between dead people of different genders, races or ethnicities, because they're all an abomination and need to be destroyed immediately.
Some zombies would be easy to put down, and a shotgun blast to the head would be doing them a favor, but trying to take out a British zombie could be a bit tricky.
Because, as this comic by Julia Lepetit shows, British zombies are just too polite to blow away!
The fact that the main heroes in Stranger Things are kids is really important to the storyline, and since the show pays homage to 80s movies like E.T., The Goonies and Stand By Me having a group of kids as the heroes just looks right.
If you want to see how wrong Stranger Things would look if the main stars were adults watch this short by Devin Super Tramp entitled Stranger Things Meets E. T. In Real Life Parody! and LOL at the ridiculousness of it all.
It's stupid funny, and Gaten Matarazzo makes an appearance, so Stranger Things fans are sure to love this short!
In the 80s I was a full-blown Commodore 64 fanboy, and I still believe the C64 was the best computer in its time due to the fact that it was user friendly, affordable and had floppy discs so you could share games with your friends.
Now as much as I loved my C64 back in the day I haven't had one since the 90s, and I would never trade my modern PC for a classic Commodore, but some people don't feel the need to upgrade.
When you're one of the hairiest superpeople in the Marvel Universe you start to wonder- what would life be like without your signature hirsute look?
Beast had the chance to be hair-free for a while and he found he missed his shaggy blue coat almost immediately, and when Tigra shaved her legs she immediately realized she'd made a terrible mistake.
So, as this comic parody by Kerry Callen shows, it's best to simply embrace who or what you are and wear your superhair proudly, or else you'll end up feeling cold, alone and totally un-special like all the other hairless normies in the world.
Scarecrows and crows are sworn enemies, and as you can guess by their name scarecrows are created in order to scare crows away from the crops, which means the scarecrow's life depends on them keeping the farm crow free.
But what is a scarecrow to do when their terrifying appearance no longer scares the birds? They can't just hang around hoping the crows will go away, they've got to get creative and find ways to make those crows leave the farm for good...
The holidays can get a bit nutty even if you don't have a large family and a gang of in-laws flying in from all over the country, but no matter how crazy the holidays get for humans they're far more horrible for sentient walnuts.
They can walk, they have faces and arms and sometimes they can talk, too, and yet people still use their nutcrackers on them, cracking them open and devouring their tasty meat like they would any ordinary non-walking walnut.
The thing is- ordinary walnuts don't emote while they're being cracked open, and they can't scream...
Nutty Christmas is a cracking good animated short created by Ringling College of Art and Design students Kyoyoung Na and Yoon-Sun Hyun which will definitely get you in the spirit of the season!
Despite the problems it creates on the return trip I can't travel abroad without visiting a local record store and buying an LP or ten, and these records become both new additions to my collection and mementos of my trip.
But it can be hard to find record stores in every town I visit, even with a little help from the internet, which is why I'm super jazzed about Discogs new global record store mapping project called VinylHub.
VinylHub features an interactive map that lets you find a record store near you no matter where you are in the world, and their goal is simple:
Our mission is to document every physical record shop and record event on the planet. With your help, we can create an accurate listing of all record shops & record events, useful to diggers and travelers everywhere.
There are so many 30 day challenges out there it's hard to keep track of them all, but if you've got a black metal heart and a fetish for facepainting the only one you should care about is the 30 Day Corpse Paint Challenge.
And if you want to see a prime example of how to do this challenge right you've gotta watch Modern Valkyrie's "metalhead fantasy-nerd" Lady LeananSidhe kill it with 30 different dark looks that will keep you up at night.
Movie monsters typically resemble real-life animals in some way, or in the case of movies like Kong: Skull Island they look just like giant-sized versions of real critters, making them terrifying in a more realistic way.
Viewers assume movie monsters screech, scream and roar like their normal-sized cousins, so filmmakers keep their voices pretty much the same, but according to scientists these creatures would make a sound like you've never heard before.
This video by The Verge examines the sound that should be coming out of a giant movie monster's mouth with a little help from paleontologists Dr. Thomas Williamson, David Weishampel and Dr. Stuart Sumida and biology professor Philip Senter.
It must be fun for photographers to take photos for stock photography sites, because they get to set up and shoot hundreds, if not thousands, of different shots just to make sure they're supplying stuff for every possible demand.
And since they're fulfilling a visual media need stock photographers get away with shooting stuff no other photographer could, like pics of smoking babies, suicidal Santa fans and teens posing for assault rifle selfies.
How much do you pay a baby to pose for photos anyway? Do you pay them more if they bring their own cigarettes?
Video game journalist Andy Kelly can't answer those questions, but he does have a knack for finding the darkest and most bizarre stock photos on the 'net, which he shares via his Dark Stock Photos Twitter feed. Give it a follow then sit back and watch the strange and demented photos roll in!
Practitioners of the Dark Arts utilize the skills they've learned in various ways, from casting spells to scrying to communicating with the dead, but only the bravest black magic users attempt a ritual of summoning.
Summoning opens a doorway to our world and there's no way of knowing what sort of creature will come storming through that doorway, but Claire the witch knows exactly what kind of demon she wants to import. If only she hadn't run out of troll fat...
Robert Crumb is a comic art pioneer, a trailblazer in the world of indie comix and one of America's most famous illustrators, but before he became the Big Cheese R. Crumb had to join the rat race just like everyone else.
At nineteen Crumb's art skills landed him a job designing cards at the American Greetings company in Cleveland, Ohio, where he met Harvey Pekar and other artists who inspired him to get out there and try to get paid for his comics.
Crumb's cards feature his signature art style minus all the pervy and drug-themed material found in his underground comix, and even though he didn't really dig the job the experience helped shape him as an artist:
Of all the big cities I’ve been in, Cleveland’s about the deadest or something. But that’s only in certain ways. In other ways I really like Cleveland, ya know? It’s like the lowest common denominator or something. Like you can get right down to basics here or something. Like in Chicago, Milwaukee, or Detroit or Denver or a lot of other towns, I can get a lot of attention from people who appreciate artists. Like I get a lot of ego build-up that way, but Cleveland’s a big dumb town.
I was here off and on for three or four years. I came here when I was nineteen after I left home to look for a job and to live with my friend Marty Pahls, and I was here like two weeks and got a job with American Greetings doing color separations. So I worked in the color separations department for about a year and then I was promoted to the Hi Brow department for about a year and then I got married and went to Europe and came back and worked American greetings again for about two months and then I decided to f@#k Cleveland and went to New York to try to make it big in New York.
I was there for nine months and I said f@#k New York and came back to Cleveland. Worked in Cleveland for about another eight months or something and then I went to San Francisco.
The boss kept telling me my drawing was too grotesque. He got me to draw this cute stuff, which influenced by technique, and even now my work has this cuteness about it.
Really, what did you expect? We knew Star Wars was made for the merchandizing industry when they designed the Ewoks specifically for the Christmas toy market. Selling out to Disney should have been another clue. But the furor over the video game Battlefront II has the internet up in arms… well, a large portion of it, since there's a big overlap between gamers and Star Wars fans. This is the latest comic from Jeff Lovfers at Don't Hit Save. Thanks, Jeff, for the most concise explanation of the controversy I've seen yet -otherwise, thinking of how to explain it to non-gamers was giving me a headache.
