I agree with you, FO. I don't understand what is is about being long-winded that people think is so funny. They must not be able to get through any
newspaper or novel without busting a gut.
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Posts: 526 (04/04/08 7:59 AM) Bagel, Dammit! Bagel! |
Where can I find...a bagel? |
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Posts: 426 (04/04/08 8:00 AM) |
Why are you posting as Forum Jackass? Isn't that usually your prank account? It's like an old Halloween costume. You're bored, you try it on, you find it surprisingly fun, and you cavort about in it. |
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Posts: 101 (04/04/08 1:18 PM) |
I also don't want to log in at work with my admin accounts unless it's absolutely necessary for some reason, and right now this is the non-admin name I
just chose to use.
I know I'm being a little harsh, but I just don't see how you could NOT realize that was going to happen considering that blog attracts a lot of people from the shallow end of the internet's gene pool, so it's just rather amusing that they're now complaining about something that only two reviews ago they said was hilarious and couldn't wait to see more of. Of course, it's not too late for them to wise up and turn things around, unless Solomon decides to turn the comments off again. Ironically, I don't think there was anything that bad going on when he turned them off and put the blog on hiatus the last time. The discussion under the ComicGenesis entry was particularly fun.
Oh my God, they found Tom.
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Posts: 101 (04/04/08 1:22 PM) |
DOVEBLOB wrote: Like any type of humor, there are occassions when it can work, but usually in those situations there's something else to it. A good example that comes to mind is that POE forum post I linked a long time ago where someone parodied the dialogue in Metal Gear Solid. You were supposed to skip through it, and at the end there was a line that said, "You just skipped through all of that, didn't you?"
Oh my God, they found Tom.
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Posts: 2230 (04/04/08 5:39 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost |
Kind of off topic, but I notice a lot of people in the comments suggesting F@nboy$.
I actually like that webcomic. Some of the stuff they do is so off the wall I can't help but smirk, and I'm not sure I've seen one "hur-hur-hur gay characters and penis" joke there (the closest I recall was that fanfic comic when Sonic was announced in Brawl). Besides, the guy who runs it seems like a pretty decent guy, and actually listens to criticism instead of dismissing comments about his artwork as "it's not bad art, it's a STYLE." |
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Posts: 17476 (04/04/08 6:17 PM) Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts |
They shouldn't have reviewed that comic, even as an April Fool's joke. They caused word about who's making it to get out to the internet.
I knew it was a prank comic all along, so knowing where it's coming from doesn't ruin it for me, but it might ruin it if the commentors who don't know that it's a joke find out.
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Posts: 41 (04/05/08 9:17 AM) |
Oh, no. How could they be so foolish? The creators of Power-Up Comics created a comic that pokes fun at Ted David, and the newfeed has a link to the blog. So
far, apparently none of the commenters bothered to look at the comments, and see the link to the topic at the forum of the creators, but it'll probably
happen soon. See for yourself. And I'm pretty upset, too, because I really wanted
to see their plan of carrying on until they're out of ideas and make the next newsfeed post just a link to the topic, come into fruition.
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Posts: 17476 (04/05/08 9:24 AM) Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts |
Some people actually were posting the link to the giveaway topic in the comments under the previous PUC entry, but the creator muted them all out.
Although the joke of it has already been given away for some, I'm still betting there will be a good number of people who won't notice, or won't care, and will still take it seriously. When pointlesswasteoftime did an article called something like "The Top Reasons Lord of the Rings Sucks", it was so obviously a joke article, but a lot of people took it seriously, and even after they came right out on the site and said it was a joke in no uncertain terms, people would still show up on the forums to refute the article. I had something (though not quite on that scale) happen to me awhile ago, too...
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Posts: 2 (04/06/08 7:10 PM) |
They really should just move that thread to a hidden forum if they don't want the joke ruined. I was going to suggest that, but I kind of like having
access to the topic myself and I think that if they really wanted to, they would have done that by now.
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Posts: 734 (04/08/08 12:55 PM) Band on the Run |
Yeah, I like being able to see the creation topic, too, because you can see a lot more comics that haven't been put on the DrunkDuck site yet.
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Posts: 10229 (04/24/08 12:23 AM) Lunitari Mage |
Does it seem to anyone else like Penny Arcade has experienced a severe decline in quality in the last 2 or 3 weeks?
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Posts: 2230 (04/24/08 12:34 AM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost |
It seems to me like Penny Arcade has experienced a severe decline in quality in the last 2 or 3 years.
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Posts: 11032 (04/24/08 7:15 AM) The Fuzzy Physicist
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The writing to me seems to be about the same as always.
It looks like the art is experimenting with more cartoonish expressions... 
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Posts: 10229 (04/24/08 9:41 AM) Lunitari Mage |
Yeah, the art's fine. Maybe it's just my mood.
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Posts: 521 (04/24/08 12:45 PM) Some Assembly Required |
Those last two are awesome.
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Posts: 1734 (04/26/08 4:44 PM) and my bird can sing too! |
http://vermismysteriis.smackjeeves.com/comics/349563/unsaved/
this webcomic seems inspired by bad things. is it bad? 
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Posts: 17476 (04/26/08 9:27 PM) Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts |
Tycho in the second to last panel (the front view) is giving me a Switched at Birth vibe, but I can't place it.
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Posts: 11032 (05/27/08 10:24 PM) The Fuzzy Physicist
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TaroSH wrote: I might find it bearable if it got rid of all references to games (and the early "your" mistakes). As is, every time it has something to do with games (which is like 80% of the comics), eyugghh, it just gives me the heebie jeebies. On the plus side, since the subject of facial expressions has come up here before, this is a more complex (in terms of conveying an emotion) expression than I've seen in *cough* some comics. 
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Posts: 10229 (05/28/08 1:40 AM) Lunitari Mage |
I've browsed a handful and I might continue. I liked this one.
I wanted to click on the "About" link for character bios and such but it seems to be nonfunctional. 
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Posts: 3545 (05/30/08 12:17 PM) The Fuzzy
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I've heard people complain about xkcd fans, who are so smug and think that people that don't like xkcd just are too dumb to get it.
That does sounds annoying ... until I came in contact with people who hate xkcd, and through their complaints I get the idea that they are just too dumb to get it. The complaint seems to be that the whole joke is, "Look, a science concept!" That is NEVER the joke. Like for the cat proximity one. Is the joke, "Hey, look, a graph!" No, the joke is based on "it's funny because it's true." People do act that way around cats (and sometimes babies). The reason for the graph is that it helps communicate the joke (it is not the joke itself) in a brief, and thus witty, way. But you have to at least have the bare minimum intelligence that your brain doesn't freeze up when you see a graph to get that joke. "Without a foothold in the past, we cannot walk towards the future." -Vagrant Story |
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Posts: 542 (05/30/08 12:37 PM) Omni-Wonder |
Now that Perry Bible is retired, XKCD is the only webcomic I read regularly.
The Omni-Wonder
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Posts: 17476 (06/01/08 4:49 PM) Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts |
CRAWLand1000 wrote: This very same subject was mentioned earlier in the topic and I said then that I think those people really are just stupid. It's the equivalent of
saying Airplane! isn't funny because airplanes aren't funny.
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Posts: 2230 (06/02/08 11:07 AM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost |
Related to this topic but not the previous posts, but at Yahtzee's home page Fully
Ramblomatic (not Zero Punctuation) if you search "you cad" it takes you to an entry about Ctrl+Alt+Del, webcomics, and some other stuff I thought
was a decent read.
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Posts: 3545 (06/02/08 12:35 PM) The Fuzzy
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Well, his point that CAD is too wordy and that Buckley has no idea how to tell a joke is stuff that everyone has already thought about that comic.
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Posts: 2230 (06/02/08 12:38 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost |
True, but he also took the opportunity to make some general observations on writing and criticism, like "the cruellest thing you can do to an artist is
tell them their work is flawless when it isn't"
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Posts: 542 (06/02/08 12:45 PM) Omni-Wonder |
I don't much like CAD (or any "gaming" comic for that matter), but if something is enjoyable and entertaining to me, I wouldn't harass the
creator over every little flaw I might perceive in it. For an example, I wouldn't pester the XKCD guy to draw real people instead of stick figures.
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Posts: 11032 (06/02/08 6:53 PM) The Fuzzy Physicist
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TaroSH wrote: Well, when you tell them their work is flawless and give them money for it, enough that they can live off it, it's probably not very cruel at all.
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Posts: 101 (06/03/08 7:59 AM) |
I took a look at his links page and noticed this:
8-bit Theatre - In the face of webcomics like this, faith in my own ability to run a webcomic as good was quickly lost. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Seriously, though. As bad as CAD is, Tim Buckley does not deserve the entire brunt of the internet's criticism for being "too wordy" when things like SomethingAwful and 8-Bit Theatre (and about a million other megapopular sites I could mention) are just as bad (but for some reason, no one has the guts to say it about them.) And are the people ciriticizing others for saying his art is "flawless" really think they're any different when they say the same about anything Hideo Kojima, Fumito Ueda, or Suda51 shits out?
Oh my God, they found Tom.
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Posts: 11032 (06/03/08 8:10 AM) The Fuzzy Physicist
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8-bit theater is probably my personal least favorite webcomic. People might be able to argue that others are worse in some way or another, but the thing is,
I've read maybe a dozen or so Shredded Mouse strips. I'll read a CAD strip when it's brought up, but I never bothered checking it regularly or
going through the archive.
But I once, for some reason, kept trying to force myself through 8-bit theater, and now when I think about it, I get the same instinctual shuddering I would get from thinking about eating a blackened banana. Even if you don't know what poison is at first, you learn. |
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