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Discuss Anything / Re: Giving the following the 198X treatment

« on: August 26, 2016, 10:37:22 PM »

As a Canadian I  had to take a lot of French courses and I think I remember Asterix being mentioned in one of my workbooks.  However, I can't think of an alternate name for it. 

As for Doctor Who, I would say, "Doctor Anonymous" since the doctor doesn't have an actual name and because of the fact the doctor "has the ability to regenerate when his body is mortally damaged, taking on a new appearance and personality."  (I looked up that last part on Wikipedia)

In regards to Seduction of the Innocent, I might suggest something like "Temptation of the Youth", since that whole thing was about comic books supposedly causing juvenile delinquency.  I also had to look that one up.

For the Clint Eastwood films, I might go with " A Handful of Cash", "For a Few Bucks More" and "The Benevolent, The Malevolent and the Repugnant".  Okay, I think the last one might sound a bit too highbrow.  Anyways, you can go a whole bunch of different ways with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly if you use a thesaurus. 

I can't think of anything for Gladiator, plus I'm not familiar with it.  As for Thunderbirds, maybe you could go with "Super Marionettes" since the show used something called "Supermarionation".

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 31 - Spoils

« on: August 25, 2016, 11:26:13 AM »

This is another page that I originally wrote way too much dialogue for. My initial draft goes into more detail about Dean’s older sister Debbie. About how she’s a model who moved out to LA, where she’s now dating a famous movie director and getting some bit movie roles. But none of that’s very important, so it was cut.

So how does Trance know that SlatCorp Tower has machine gun wielding robots patrolling it? Because his dad, Doc Sheen, is a scientist who works for SlateCorp’s robotics research and development division.

If these robots with machine guns are anything like ED-209's then I would recommend using a Cobra Assault Cannon (It's state of the art, bang-bang!).  Heck, even if they weren't anything like ED-209's, it would still be a good idea.  I'm also guessing that Michael Slater's a cross between Dick Jones and Gordon Gekko.  Furthermore, I'm curious to see what Doc Sheen is like.  Is he going to be an arrogant jerk like Bob Morton or is he going to be a care-free eccentric guy like Doc Brown.  Or maybe he'll be a terse, socially awkward brainiac who takes his work very seriously like Egon Spengler?  Lastly, I hate to be a stickler but SlateCorp got misspelled the first time.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Movie Remakes

« on: August 25, 2016, 11:04:32 AM »

First of all, the reason why I'm posting this late is because I was uh,  busy battling Space Pirates on the planet Zebes.

Cool to see you pop in again, Microwave Dude! I'm going to take this comment to mean you've been playing the recently released (and then smacked down) fan re-make of Metroid 2 (speaking of remakes). Or wait, did that take place on SR388? My Metroid lore is a bit rusty. As a kid, the first game blew me away because it had an "open world" and the levels could scroll both vertically and horizontally, which was totally novel at the time. I think I finally managed to beat the game when I was about 12 or so. Never played much of the GameBoy sequel except this one time my friend was trying over and over to beat the final boss. In frustration, he finally he let me give it a go and then I made him look like a total ass by beating the Mother Metroid on my first attempt (which was also my first time ever playing the game). One of my prouder gaming moments. And of course Super Metroid was one of my favorite SNES games. I never got into the Prime games because I wasn't into the changed game-play.

My comment didn't have anything to do with me actually playing Metroid (I don't own any Metroid games, although I would love to get my hands on Super Metroid).  I was just making a really lame joke to explain why I haven't posted anything in a while. Sorry for the confusion.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Movie Remakes

« on: August 24, 2016, 11:22:46 PM »

First of all, the reason why I'm posting this late is because I was uh,  busy battling Space Pirates on the planet Zebes.  Yeah, that sounds about right.  Anyways, I probably should've been more specific in my criteria for remakes.  I think that this article has a good idea of when remakes are necessary.  At any rate, I have also seen the True Grit remake and I thought it was pretty good.  One thing that bugged me though is that it wasn't always easy for me to understand what Jeff Bridges was saying because of his drawl.  It's why I like watching movies with the subtitles turned on-it makes the movie easier for me to follow along. Furthermore, my dad loved the song, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms by Iris DeMent which was featured in the True Grit remake .  However, my older sister made the mistake of buying my dad an Iris DeMent CD.  Lets just say a little Iris DeMent goes a long way.

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Discuss Anything / Movie Remakes

« on: August 13, 2016, 07:53:27 PM »

I recently read that there's plans for a remake of the 1983 Scarface movie which itself was a remake of the 1932 film of the same name.  So basically they're planning on doing a remake of a remake.  I've also heard that there's going to be a remake of Splash, Cannonball Run, Jumanji and possibly Big Trouble in Little China.  I've already seen the terrible Total Recall remake and I absolutely refuse to watch the Robocop and Ghostbusters remakes.  I realize Hollywood has been churning out remakes for decades but it seems like it's happening more and more in recent years.  It just seems like Hollywood is out of ideas and are basically saying, "Fuck it, let's just put out another remake and call it a day."  However, Comic Book Girl 19 has an interesting take as to why there's so many remakes, etc.

In addition, I realize that not all remakes are bad (for example, the 1982 version of The Thing is considered to be much better than the 1951 version).  But generally speaking more thought needs to be put into what should and shouldn't be remade.  They shouldn't just be made willy-nilly.  There has to be a good reason why the remake is being put out.  The remake has to in some way, shape or form find a way to improve upon the original, otherwise there's no point (The 1998 version of Psycho is a good example of a pointless remake).

On another note, one that bugs me besides all these incessant remakes, is when people say you can't judge a movie that's in theatres until you watch it.  So basically you want me (or someone else) to pay to watch a film just to see if I'll like it.  The problem is that by doing so you're potentially enabling Hollywood hacks (i.e. Michael Bay) to make more shitty movies.  If I know that I'm not interested in something, I'm not going to pay or have someone else pay for me to watch it.  For instance, I have no interest in watching the planned Big Trouble in Little China remake.  James Rolfe also mentions the concept of not paying to watch a movie you know you won't like.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 9 - Ninja Power Montage

« on: August 11, 2016, 11:17:22 PM »

You might be the first person to call out the Punch-Out!! reference, which is surprising, because I thought it was one of the most obvious references on the page. Someone called out the Gymkata reference almost instantly, which I didn't think anyone would notice.

I looked a bit into Gymkata and it looks like something Rifftrax would make fun of.

P.S: Thanks for helping me out with links info!

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 30 - Nerd-a-nator Strikes Back

« on: August 11, 2016, 10:49:11 PM »

I just want to say Happy Birthday to the immensely talented blue-haired artist, Jessica Safron! I hope that you had a totally radical day!  Keep up the awesome work!

Oh, and one more thing: Here's to Jessica Safron and the amazing work she's done; here's to Satan Ninja, the webcomic that is number one!  Cheers!

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 9 - Ninja Power Montage

« on: August 09, 2016, 11:02:30 PM »

I don't know about you guys, but to me the gold standard of montage music is Push it to the limit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT8OU5WtfkQ).  Also, I like the shout-out to Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!! as that was my favourite NES game when I was young.  I only ever got as far as Mr. Sandman, and for a while I thought that wasn't too bad.  That is until I saw video of a guy getting to Mike Tyson-blindfolded (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvzIb53Lcno).  I also remember playing Ninja Gaiden as a kid and as far as I can recall, I didn't get very far. 

Oh, and by the way, I was wondering how I could post links on here without showing the URL.

Edit: Okay, I posted the right link for Push it to the limit this time.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Dude Shinobi Homebrews

« on: August 08, 2016, 08:51:20 PM »

Another possibility would be finding a few guys who'd be interested in making a sort of beat em up platform enthusiasts can use to make their own games with. Basically a program you can plug simple animations into, some environments, etc.

In order to showcase what the platform can do you'd build a game with it, which would be excellent advertisement for SN8X if that were to be the game..

Ah, sort of a Trojan Horse approach. Not a bad idea, but what you're suggesting is that we'd make the street brawler equivalent to RPG Maker. Making a highly customizable editor that's accessible and easy to use would take a lot of effort, and then we'd still have to use that engine to create an SN8X game on top of that. If we're going to spend the time to create an SN8X video game, we'd want to focus on simply making the best SN8X video game we can. That means creating a game engine that's geared specifically to the gameplay elements we'd have in our game, without worrying about sticking to features that would lend itself well to a "universal" street brawler game.

Also, I'd want there to be more to the game that simply being a Double Dragon clone with SN8X-themed graphics. But it's waaaaay too early for me to really get into that.

Okay Adam, since you've been such a cool guy to me, I'll give you another example.  I don't know what your thoughts of I-Mockery are, but I do know that they make their own flash games.  Some of their games are original (i.e. Godball), some are based on video games and video game characters (i.e. Abobo's Big Adventure) and some are based off movie characters (i.e. Goon: The Game!).  Roger Barr, the creator of I-Mockery, is a friend of Maddox and judging by the content on http://www.i-mockery.com/, he doesn't shy away from R-Rated stuff or retro stuff.  I wouldn't be at all surprised if Roger became a fan of Satan Ninja (or maybe he already is, I don't know).

As for Rijst's idea, it sounds a lot like Mario Maker or Minecraft which sounds pretty cool.  I've always liked the idea of being able to create my own environment in a video game (it's a big reason why I liked playing Excitebike).

First off, I definitely think Excitebike is one of the best of the first wave of NES games. I don't think I ever got too creative with the level editor though—all I would do is place that ramp that let's you get the most air. Over and over again.

I'm familiar with Roger Barr, mostly through his appearances on Maddox's podcasts. And Abobo's Big Adventure is awesome, but hard as fuck. I'll have to give it another shot sometime and see if I can beat it. Anyway, I doubt Roger has heard of Satan Ninja 198X unless Maddox has told him about it, but I suspect it'd be up his alley.

Anyway, if Roger was ever interested in helping us get an SN8X game made, that would be totally rad. But things like that need to happen organically. What I mean by that is, once you get any amount of success or fame, you start to get flooded with requests from total strangers who want you to use your success to somehow further their own projects. It's super annoying and it makes you really jaded, really quickly.

So yes, Roger would probably think SN8X is rad. But if I were to email him out of the blue and ask him to check out my comic, he'd probably ignore or delete the email. And even if he did check it out, he'd probably at least be annoyed and highly critical and looking for reasons to not like this unsolicited thing that a stranger has shoved in his face. Now, if, on the other hand, a friend of his were to say, "Hey, Roger, you should totally check out this comic." He'd likely be a lot more receptive to it. The same could be said if he were to stumble upon it on his own while browsing Reddit or something. That's what I mean about things like that needing to happen organically.

And that's just talking about how hard it can be to get someone to simply check out a webcomic, which requires minimal effort on their part. Asking a stranger to do actual work for you (and yes, making a video game—even a retro one—is a ton of hard work) is way too presumptuous. Especially if you can't afford to pay them (and I can't).

Well, even if the collab doesn't work out, maybe I-Mockery will add Satan Ninja to their Chums list at the very least, or something.  Anyways, no matter what you guys have in mind for the future, I'm sure it'll be awesome.  But in the meantime, keep up the awesome work with the webcomic. 

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Discuss Anything / Re: Dude Shinobi Homebrews

« on: August 07, 2016, 04:18:44 PM »

Okay Adam, since you've been such a cool guy to me, I'll give you another example.  I don't know what your thoughts of I-Mockery are, but I do know that they make their own flash games.  Some of their games are original (i.e. Godball), some are based on video games and video game characters (i.e. Abobo's Big Adventure) and some are based off movie characters (i.e. Goon: The Game!).  Roger Barr, the creator of I-Mockery, is a friend of Maddox and judging by the content on http://www.i-mockery.com/, he doesn't shy away from R-Rated stuff or retro stuff.  I wouldn't be at all surprised if Roger became a fan of Satan Ninja (or maybe he already is, I don't know).

As for Rijst's idea, it sounds a lot like Mario Maker or Minecraft which sounds pretty cool.  I've always liked the idea of being able to create my own environment in a video game (it's a big reason why I liked playing Excitebike).

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 29 - Street Brawling

« on: August 06, 2016, 11:49:28 PM »

At that moment,the sound of a police siren can be heard in the distance...! Razor yells out: "COPS! Let's bail!!!"

Also at that moment, Eddie grabs Sam, later collects his clothes and duck into an old building so that the psycho one can get dressed.
Then they slip out a door on another side to avoid Razor's gang and the police!!!!

I take it this is your prediction for the next page? Interesting. We'll have to see how close you are.

Or maybe it'll be like the NES game Urban Champion and everybody will just stand around pretending that nothing's happening; and then the fighting resumes once the police car leaves. 

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Discuss Anything / Re: Dude Shinobi Homebrews

« on: August 06, 2016, 09:13:23 AM »

Hey guys, there's this guy called Pacnsacdave who might be able to do that sort of thing.  He has a website called http://pacnsacdave.weebly.com/.  I learned about him from watching the LJN Defender on Youtube.  As a matter of fact Pacnsacdave made an LJN Defender NES Game.  The Youtube video of the LJN Defender game can be found here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebCWcCMA8T0 .

Whoa, that was a lot to sink my teeth into. This Pacnsacdave dude needs some kind of "About" page for his site or at least a bit of descriptive text to better explain what all these games on his site are. Apparently the guy makes NES ROM hacks where he mashes up assets from various games to create "new" games. What I find baffling is that he's actually charging money for some of these, like "Batman Vs. Predator." No way does he have permission to sell a game using those licenses. I'm guessing he's gotten away with it so far because he's not very well known.

It'd certainly be a neat novelty to have an SN8X game created by stitching together assets from various NES games, but if we were to ever make an actual Satan Ninja video game, I'd want to go the legitimate route and make a game from scratch. We'd take inspiration from retro games for sure, but I'd want the SN8X game to stand alone as its own thing. A good example would be the Scott Pilgrim game that came out a few years ago. It wears its River City Ransom influence on its sleeve, but it still manages to be it's own unique game.

Well, this Pacnsacdave guy does have a Youtube channel which contains videos of his work.  Anyways, if you want to go the legal route, maybe you could get a hold of the guys responsible for the AVGN video game.  That game was developed by Freakzone games and published by ScrewAttack Entertainment (I found this out by watching the AVGN on Youtube).  There's also tinyBuild-which I found out about from watching some Games Done Quick videos on Youtube-who publishes and develops video games.  Here's the link for Freakzone games: http://freakzonegames.com/.   Also, here's the link to tinyBuild: http://tinybuild.com/.  Lastly here's the link to ScrewAttack: http://screwattack.roosterteeth.com/.  I know that's a lot to digest, but I'd really like to help you guys out with this, since I think the idea of a Satan Ninja or Dude Shinobi video game is totally rad.  Okay, that's all I'm going to say about that because I don't want to come across as being too pushy.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Dude Shinobi Homebrews

« on: August 05, 2016, 08:19:16 PM »

Seeing Dude Shinobi being played in the arcades as shown in the comic, I was thinking on if someone were to make an actual Dude Shinobi beat-em-up fighting game for old school consoles like the NES, SNES, Genesis/Mega Drive and others.

With homebrew games popping up like wildfire, it would be something to see a real Dude Shinobi game created for fun. Of course, it has to have the standards of all games like items, enemies and bosses. Fun stuff.

What do you think?

Hah! I would fucking love that. In fact, it's actually something Jessica and I have talked about. But making a game, even a simple retro beat-em-up, is a huge task. Maybe if our comic ever blows up in popularity, it'd be something that we'd be able to tackle.

Hey guys, there's this guy called Pacnsacdave who might be able to do that sort of thing.  He has a website called http://pacnsacdave.weebly.com/.  I learned about him from watching the LJN Defender on Youtube.  As a matter of fact Pacnsacdave made an LJN Defender NES Game.  The Youtube video of the LJN Defender game can be found here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebCWcCMA8T0 .

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 29 - Street Brawling

« on: August 05, 2016, 07:53:13 PM »

Apologies for the mix-up.  I should've known better than to make that kind of mistake.  I promise that I'll never confuse the two of them again.  After all, I actually like Viper as he's a total badass-I can't wait for his next appearance.  Razor on the other hand, is a total dickwad who deserved some kind of retribution after the stunt he pulled at the Pizza Wizard.

No worries, dude. It's not hard to make that sort of mistake when there are a bunch of characters with names like, Viper, Razor, Toxic, etc. Hell, Viper's original name was Blake, and it took Jessica and I a super long time to stop calling him that.

Thanks for being so understanding.  At any rate, I'll keep in mind that Viper=good and Razor=bad.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 29 - Street Brawling

« on: August 04, 2016, 11:13:26 AM »

Here I am!  Anyways, I think that it's totally cool seeing Eddie kicking Viper and his gang's ass.

Whoa, I don't think Viper would be pleased with you getting him confused with Razor. And saying that he's gotten his ass kicked too, why Viper would sue for slander. Except he wouldn't, because he's a bad ass and suing someone is probably the least badass way to handle a gripe.

But seriously, if you think about this situation, Eddie and Sam are kind of being the bullies here. They went out specifically looking for trouble, and when they don't have any luck, Sam decides to instigate a confrontation by stripping down to his underwear. Not to say that Razor and his alternative posse don't deserve to get a little ass-kicking...

Besides, I can't blame Eddie for wanting a chance to use his newfound ninja powers by beating up some creeps.

Apologies for the mix-up.  I should've known better than to make that kind of mistake.  I promise that I'll never confuse the two of them again.  After all, I actually like Viper as he's a total badass-I can't wait for his next appearance.  Razor on the other hand, is a total dickwad who deserved some kind of retribution after the stunt he pulled at the Pizza Wizard.