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what is this ?
by poki89 2y ago
what is this ?
- 0xEF 2y agoIt's the Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion.
- Sardtok 2y agoThank you for clarifying. It's now as clear as a crystal glass filled with tar. /s
- hagbard_c 2y agoWould that be a glass of coal tar, pine tar or bitumen?
- GTP 2y agoThis would help clarifying it.
- Stratoscope 2y agoClarified tar is a beautiful thing. Just don't turn it into dip!
- firesteelrain 2y agoI know this has /s but I am with you on this one. I don’t know why people feel free to not post productive comments.
- rogerclark 2y agoIs "what is this ?" even a productive comment in itself? That's the point the parent is trying to make. If you click on this link, and you can't tell what it is, you probably don't care what it is. And after that, if you don't care enough to search "Daffy Duck" on Google or whatever, you really don't care what it is. Why would we possibly need a Hacker News comment explaining what Warner Brothers cartoons are?
- firesteelrain 2y agoAgain another non productive comment. Commenter didn't know what the companion meant. That's all he/she was asking. Why is that hard?
- mapt 2y agoWarner Brothers & Hanna Barbera cartoons introduced us to a great deal of culture by repetitive memes. This cinematic universe has hundreds of hours of short-form content, which back in the dark ages of television was fed to us intravenously age 2 to age ~12. Reruns played for decades after the original airdate in the hours after getting off from school or on weekend mornings. I didn't have any idea who Orson Welles was until I recognized him in school as the person that The Brain ('Pinky and the Brain' on Animaniacs) was a parody of. To this day I've never seen Peter Lorre, but there was a quite distinctive caricature that repeatedly played on Looney Tunes, and it took half a day of Googling to figure out what that memory referred to. There are lots of other reference jokes - repeated tropes, voices, facial poses, and musical themes assumed by these shorts that clearly carried some cultural meaning that we intuited by repetition, even if we never understood the source material. It's nice to have a "TVTropes For WB Cartoons" if only because we don't know the name of many of these things to be able to look them up. Unfortunately the maintainer seems to be largely focused on the 1940's and early 1950's, with most of the references.
- sumtechguy 2y agoIs it just me or is the format of that page distinctly odd. Narrow column down the middle with a decently small font.
- maxwell 2y agoLooks perfectly normal on a 640x480 VGA.
- firesteelrain 2y agoReminds me of many ham radio pages. Amateur hobby not meant for mobile screens.
- Spastche 2y agoI feel like radio dudes they make their sites and software look terrible on purpose
- boomboomsubban 2y agoLinking to the introduction would make more sense http://www.warnercompanion.com/index.html#intro http://www.warnercompanion.com/index.html#intro
- whateveracct 2y agoor just the person you're replying to..clicking it? it is very prominent
- boomboomsubban 2y agoSure, but why link to the "D" page?
- mrweasel 2y agoBriefly I thought it was cartoon characters man pages. Would be kinda fun to do "man 9 Daffy Duck"