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Something that I find delightful about this project is that Jim Davis approves of it! From Wikipedia: "Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, approved of the proj
by jf 1y ago
Something that I find delightful about this project is that Jim Davis approves of it!
From Wikipedia: "Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, approved of the project, and an official Garfield book (also called Garfield Minus Garfield) was published by his company. It was mainly edited comics by Walsh, with some comics contributed by Davis."
- omoikane 1y agoSee also "What Jim Davis thinks of G-G" (linked from the bottom of the page): https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/private/61669516/fSymsOGXOgrmmihjqTZaCBY2 https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/private/61669516/fSymsOGXO...
- jf 1y agoThis is the link that I had in mind when I was writing my comment, thanks so much for posting it here!
- m463 1y agoAlso makes me wonder if people talk to their cats...
- nunez 1y agoI 100% talk to mine!
- saghm 1y agoNot only do I really l talk to my cats, but they talk to me too! We're about equal in our abilities to understand each other; sometimes one of my cats might just run around for a bit yell-meowing and it's not clear why, but I'm sure they feel the same way when I occasionally get upset at things. Other times, like when one of them starts whine-meowing when I'm putting their wet food into a bowl, I know _exactly_ what's she's saying even if it doesn't actually cause me to get it done any faster.
- Cyphase 1y agoQuiet... Chilling... Quiet... I make certain noises as I retrieve the wet food container Meeoooooooooowwwww! races ahead to where the dish is
- saghm 1y agoNot only that, but the meows get more frantic as I'm walking towards the spot where the dish goes. She needs to be absolutely certain that there's no chance I'll change my mind two steps before getting there!
- keeganpoppen 1y agoyes to all of this. i actually think my cat thinks i am dumb, because she often mimes out the thing that she wants me to do in increasingly unsubtle ways as she gets more and more frustrated as i don't get it-- like she is playing charades and i'm the useless teammate that isn't getting it (which i find absolutely hilarious every time, even if it is often something that is objectively annoying were i to forget that she is a cat and not a human). she also has an astonishing "vocabulary" of very different meow... tambres?... that it is very hard for me to think don't have _some_ purpose-- if they didn't, why wouldn't she just make the same or similar noises every time?
- kerkeslager 1y agoWait, is there anyone who doesn't talk to cats? I had no idea.
- Iwan-Zotow 1y agoFrankly, people not talking to their cat(s) should be registered as certified sociopath
- krige 1y agoIME while clear two-way communication might be impossible [1], talking to your pet, cat or dog or any other mammal [2] does deepen the mutual bond and provides some communication framework - not saying that your cat will definitely understand what does it mean when you say "Garfield, fetch me that yellow slipper", let alone actually obey, but it will, over time, learn to recognize tone, sounds, and even context, and will also try to vocalize back, which may turn into patterns you start to recognize. So yes, it pays to talk directly to your pet. Though that's not as strange as talking to your plants that seems to help the plants somehow. [1] let's call it super rare because one in a trillion trillion is still not zero [2] smarter birds too, can't say much about reptiles beyond a pond turtle really bonded with my brother
- mapt 1y agoThere are a million cat & dog owners out there using Talking Buttons, borrowed from nonverbal human assistive communications. Mostly to make funny Tiktok videos, to be fair. It's rarely clear what is random, what is Clever Hans training, and what is direct operant conditioning.
- nunez 1y agoCareful; the Dan walsh hyperlink goes straight to porn!
- zombot 1y ago[flagged]
- trashburger 1y agoPathological case for link rot.
- wileydragonfly 1y agoSweet, thanks for letting me know!
- mock-possum 1y agoWorse, it’s not even interesting porn, just banal straight Asian stuff
- blitzar 1y agoAh, I See You're a Man of Culture As Well
- sirbranedamuj 1y agoWelp wish I had read that before clicking on it.
- xivzgrev 1y agoJim created Garfield for money[1]. It's not surprising that he likes anything that can make him more money, he isn't personally tied to the character. [1] Garfield was originally created by Davis with the intention to come up with a 'good, marketable character' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield
- KerrAvon 1y agoIt's still notable that Jim Davis has that level of chill about it. Someone with a mercenary capitalist attitude toward their work can be just as much a control freak as Bill Watterson. (Not being judgmental; Watterson's position is completely valid too.)
- cogman10 1y agoIt honestly seems a little silly to worry about the purity of the intent of an artist. That Davis did it for the money is just "meh". Most people work for money.
- formerly_proven 1y agowe at hacker news work for first principles instead
- OnionBlender 1y agoHow does Jim Davis feel about the Garfield Lovecraft stuff?
- vintermann 1y agoI don't think he's said, but he has written some shockingly creepy stories himself, like the Halloween special which suggests Jon died or moved out ages ago and Garfield is just hallucinating due to starvation and despair. He claimed he wrote it after a market survey indicating that loneliness is what people fear the most (this is a pattern with Davis - he always cheerfully claims he's just in it for the money whenever someone suggests he has any kind of artistic vision). Or the one in "Garfield: his 9 lives" where a different incarnation of Garfield goes suddenly feral and kills the elderly woman owning him. Jim Davis didn't draw it, but he did script it!
- selcuka 1y agoFor the curious: https://screenrant.com/garfield-his-9-lives-primal-self-horror-evil/ https://screenrant.com/garfield-his-9-lives-primal-self-horr...