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Listening to this cover the other day inspired me to have Frimomen cover another song by the same songwriters, and the one I chose this time was the 1924 song "Fascinating Rhythm". I'll definitely be using Frimomen for more covers of vintage songs.

Music by George Gershwin, Lyrics by Ira Gershwin

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A lot of people try to explain this without knowing anything about how voice synthesis works, so here's my breakdown on No, Hatsune Miku Is Not AI, And No, AI Voice Synthesis Is Not Bad.

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Everyone now knows about Mike Hatsune, but what about Granpa IBM-7094?

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Technically the NES in the mid 90s, with the SNES a short time later.

Which was your first?

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While we didn't have the best view of today's eclipse in my area, I did manage to get some decent pictures through the skylight in my house.

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Tetra and St Zel the best Zeldas

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thunder cracks, mysterious rattling sounds ⊟

door creaks, rectangular form standing in doorway silhouetted against the intermittent flashes of lightning

unknown figure shuffles into the light of the room, revealing Tiny Cartridge, risen from the grave

DUDES there's a slime pet bed now

[via Noisy Pixels, thanks bdorf!]

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After looking at the release dates of the Mega Man Battle Network games and seeing how all of them were released in a relatively short amount of time, I decided to look at the release dates of the rest of the Mega Man games and...wow. Capcom really oversaturated the franchise and ran the poor guy into the ground, especially in the 2000s.

By my best estimate, and counting only the main games and spinoffs for consoles, handhelds, pc, and arcade, there are over 60 games total, and about 71 if all the versions of the Battle Network and Star Force games count. Roughly 33 (or 42) games were released between 2000 and 2010, with most of them (about 17 or 26) being connected to the Battle Network and Star Force series. The highest concentration of games I found was between 2003 and 2005, where about 16 (or 20) games were released. Going by just the main games and excluding all the spinoffs, we have 36 games in total with 22 of them bring released in the 2000s.

Between releasing so many games of varying quality in that time, along with other factors such as Inafune leaving Capcom, no wonder Mega Man fizzled out after 2010 with barely any releases (not counting rereleases) since then, and only one of them being a mainline game.

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I had a fun conversation with some other cartoonists in a National Cartoonists Society open house Zoom a couple of months ago about the difference between traditional inking and "digital" inking. I mentioned always feeling a little weird calling it "inking" as, obviously, no "INK" is required in any way. The idea sat in the back of my head until I also realized how often I draw myself at a drawing board I RARELY use anymore, and I figured I could combine the concepts and make Dandy the voice prodding the questions. He's FAR less antagonistic than Skeezicks, who I used to use as the Anxiety Demon in the strip, but still able to get under my skin for the sake of comedy. Plus... I never get tired of drawing him. What can I say, it's my comic strip. I'm self-indulgent. lol

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While continuing my journey through the Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection, this time with the fifth game, it seems the developers didn't learn their lesson from Battle Network 4 and made yet another ridiculous minigame a requirement to beat the game in the form of the samurai minigame, though at least it only felt partially completely rng based in comparison to that soccer minigame. After seeing things like this in two games so far my suspicions of the Battle Network games being rushed during development, especially from 4 onwards, has greatly increased.

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Your work will continue to make us smile.

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