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4 year anniversary + my poorly received first comic [OC] (feddit.nl)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/15257613

Back in 2020, people complained about the poorly translated Russian. This made me a little sad, because I had the Russian stuff translated by an actual Russian person I happen to know. Talk about high expectations. Apparently there are more than one versions of Russian, idk.

For the younglings, who understandably might not know the reference: movie director Stanley Kubrick was supposedly involved in making/faking the Apollo 11 moon landing. (for the record: I do NOT believe any of this stuff.)

Wanna read more? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories#Origins

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I do like the joke that the moon landing was faked by Stanley Kubrick, but that he was such an auteur that he would only do it if he could film on location. :)

Fun comic!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's wrong, though. Kubrick hated travelling and filming on location. He had NASA send astronauts to the moon to shoot the backgrounds, but filmed everything in London. (As part of the payment, he got the lens he used to film Barry Lyndon, which had been designed to film the dark side of the moon and allowed him to shoot scenes lit only by candlelight).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The dark side of the moon isn't dark, btw. It gets as much light as the other side.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

If we're getting pedantic, you're talking about the far side of the Moon, not the dark side. The dark side is the side that isn't lit and that changes over the lunar cycle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I assume the lenses were intended to allow the Apollo missions to photograph the literal dark side of the moon, i.e., the side not lit by the sun while the capsule was passing over it, since they couldn't wait half a month for it to get well lit and making the lenses was almost certainly cheaper than launching more capsules to make sure they covered every bit. 🤷‍♂️

Whatever the case, they were very “fast” lenses (that is, they had a very large relative aperture), which allowed cameras using them to get good pictures under very poor lighting conditions, like a big black rock lit by starlight or some XVIII century crooks lit by candlelight.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Thanks.

Mr. Kubrick was such a perfectionist. 😁

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It is a good one. It was at least amusing.

But it would probably go better if there weren't 20 other jokes sharing the same 4 panels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

that he was such an auteur that he would only do it if he could film on location

I came here to say this. Brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Love it, congrats on 4 years! It’s awesome to have at least one creator posting their own comics directly on Lemmy :)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. I haven’t seen any of my “colleagues” here. 😕

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Loading artist?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’ve seen his comics here, but I’m quite sure Greg doesn’t post them himself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hm. The account is called loading artist, so I just assumed it was him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Oh, wait. My bad. I looked a little harder and he DOES post his own stuff…. and so does a bunch of other people.

Well. As long as they credit the creator it’s all fine, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I don't know any russian at all, but its the first time I've seen this and it got a chortle out of me. I think that's three now, but there's surely tons of your older stuff I haven't seen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Congrats Klossie, good of you to board the Lemmy space(craft). Nice to see the overall appreciation you get here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Thanks, bud. 🫵😎👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Congratulations! Your comics are great!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

Don't worry I won't complain about the Russian. Instead I will complain about the Russians, especially the government. I don't speak their awful-sounding language though, so that's not a problem.