For my 1000th post..

You've posted intermittently at least Sedako, your name and avatar are both very familiar so it can't have been that long since you were last around.
 
Ennui said:
You've posted intermittently at least Sedako, your name and avatar are both very familiar so it can't have been that long since you were last around.
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Well, I was quite active before I stopped visiting every day. I believe I initiated our very first "Steal someone's avatar day". Good times.
 
Que-Ever said:
Sluggy Freelance. Go.
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Do you hate me, Que? I thought that we were friends, yet you must hate me something fierce to direct me to that abysmally-written, poorly-drawn-with-a-ballpoint-pen travesty arranged into panels and passing itself off as a comic. What it really is is euthanasia FOR MY F*CKING EYES.

I read today's strip. I gave it the benefit of the doubt, since I am unfamiliar with the characters and scenarios. That is, however, no excuse for what I read. I got to the last panel, reread the thing again...and instead of stopping, I read the previous strip. And the one after that. And something seemed really amiss to me, then I caught it. Aha! These are supposed to be JOKES. Those last panels? They're actually punchlines! THAT'S what the writer was going for. And here I thought he had developed an e-based weapon to strike the reader dumb.

Against my better judgement I even read a fourth strip, with stickmen in space. That sounded like a winner; no one can f*ck up stickman humor! And it was at this point I realized that the writer of Sluggy Freelance HATES F*CKING HUMANITY.

I thought we were buds, Que. But you do this to me. I don't even know what I did to you. I can't even fathom it. I wouldn't have my worst enemy read Sluggy Freelance.

Jesus, I've got to cleanse my mind. Gotta read Lackadaisy Cats or Gone With the Blastwave, or Dr. McNinja. Hell right now I'll read Bleedman's pseudo-pedophilic Sugar Bits and that'd be a massive improvement over what I read today.

Good lord I think I'd rather read Dominic Deegan and then gouge my eyes out with a spoon. Sluggy Freelance...
 
Sedako said:
Well, I was quite active before I stopped visiting every day. I believe I initiated our very first "Steal someone's avatar day". Good times.
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Puts me in mind of Upside-down avatar week. That's how I found my avatar when I came back a couple of months ago :P
 
I'd nick your avatar or something equally silly, but I'm not on my home computer... and I daren't in case I never get my current avatar back
 
Sedako said:
Well, I was quite active before I stopped visiting every day. I believe I initiated our very first "Steal someone's avatar day". Good times.
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Druckles said:
Puts me in mind of Upside-down avatar week. That's how I found my avatar when I came back a couple of months ago :P
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CyberPitz said:
I miss those days. :(
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Those WERE good times. I think the Munravatars fad was the most epic... considering there were like 100 of them.
 
Darkside55 said:
...ok, I was joking about never seeing a good webcomic before, but holy shit, you think Fuckley is good?! As in Tim, "I can only draw one face" Buckley?

8^U

Real awesome artistic skills there, bud.

CtrlAltDelete is one of the shittiest things I have EVER had the misfortune to read, and I've read Mega-****ing-Tokyo. Half the "jokes" aren't even funny, and half of THOSE are ripped directly from other comics like Penny-Arcade, like this little gem. Hey, nice going, the pig-faced loser and the bald guy did that SAME COMIC STRIP almost a year ago.

In fact the only way to make Ctrl-Alt-Del bearable is to remove 95% of all speech bubbles--which by the way make up 95% of any given comic (stop f*cking talking!)--and then cutting down the panels. Usually one to two panels will serve for most of CAD's jokes, but noooooooooooo, Buckley needs at LEAST four panels and a full page of written dialogue to kill--I mean, get the joke across.

CAD's friggin' terrible. The only good thing to ever come out of CAD was a picture of Player 4 shoving a pez dispenser up her vagina. Yay, hello pez.

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Well, you might not like them but I do. I tried reading Penny Arcade back in high school and found it less engaging. While I don't like all of his 'one-off' joke strips, the story itself is fine to read. You should really calm down.
 
Darkside is clearly a reader of Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad (or simply has the equivalent in discriminating taste) - and justifiably so.
 
Cheomesh said:
Well, you might not like them but I do. I tried reading Penny Arcade back in high school and found it less engaging. While I don't like all of his 'one-off' joke strips, the story itself is fine to read. You should really calm down.
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Yeah, I enjoy his stories too, like the one where the guy with the 8^U face went on a blind date with the fat chick from the internet who had a 8^U face, and he spent the whole night agonizing over how he was going to break it to her that he no longer wanted to date her because she was fat, BUT THEN WHAT THE CRAP IT WAS A FAT SUIT OMG so everything's OK and they mutually like each other. What a tweest; M. Night Shyamalamaringydingydingdongrazamataz would be proud. I love how brilliant CAD is too.

Also, calm denied.

Sulkdodds said:
Darkside is clearly a reader of Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad (or simply has the equivalent in discriminating taste) - and justifiably so.
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I...I have never heard of or seen this site before. There's a lot to go through here; I probably won't get around to reading any of it but the juicy--OH MY GOD HE'S RIPPING ON SINGLE ASIAN FEMALE. There is no comic in the world I despise more than SAF. This man and I, we are kindred spirits.

Thank you for showing this to me, Sulk, my friend. Oh, he's ripping on F*ckley now, gonna read.
 
Glad to be of service. :p
I've rarely seen worse a comic than SAF.
 
That one grates on me personally because I'm half-asian, half-white, so the not-so-thinly-veiled AzN PrYdE racism jars a nerve. It might actually insult me if I didn't know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the artist's a loser projecting his own feelings of inadequacy off to the world as "the white man bringing down the asian."
 
Darkside55 said:
Yeah, I enjoy his stories too, like the one where the guy with the 8^U face went on a blind date with the fat chick from the internet who had a 8^U face, and he spent the whole night agonizing over how he was going to break it to her that he no longer wanted to date her because she was fat, BUT THEN WHAT THE CRAP IT WAS A FAT SUIT OMG so everything's OK and they mutually like each other. What a tweest; M. Night Shyamalamaringydingydingdongrazamataz would be proud. I love how brilliant CAD is too.

Also, calm denied.



I...I have never heard of or seen this site before. There's a lot to go through here; I probably won't get around to reading any of it but the juicy--OH MY GOD HE'S RIPPING ON SINGLE ASIAN FEMALE. There is no comic in the world I despise more than SAF. This man and I, we are kindred spirits.

Thank you for showing this to me, Sulk, my friend. Oh, he's ripping on F*ckley now, gonna read.
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It's a comic. I judge for how well it makes me want to continue reading, not the artwork. If I want to judge art work, DC is only an hour away.

If you want to rag on a lack of artistic skill, go jump on Cyanide and Happiness.
 
No one will fault Cyanide and Happiness for its aesthetic quality. Stick figures, or slightly fleshed-out stick figures in this case. If I fault Cyanide and Happiness for anything, it'll be for its, "SHOCK VALUE LOL" jokes. Not that I haven't laughed at the thing, twisted as I am, but really if I want shock I'll go read Electric Retard or those redone-in-MSPaint Sonic the Hedgehog comics where Robotnik tells his lackeys to go climb a wall of dicks.

And really, that's good humor right there. "Go climb a wall of dicks." Classic.

Also, I hate CAD's stories more than the art, as I elaborated. You cannot seriously tell me you think any of his comics are actually entertaining. I don't want to say negative things about you personally.

And DC sucks. I think they have, what, two good artists? Also, Dan DiDio hates you and would rape you right in the ear if he could, while simultaneously killing off Batman and shoving a plunger down your mother's rectum.







LOL SHOCK HUMOR
 
I like you you, fool. I just said I'd miss you when the zombies inevitably feast on your brains.
 
Darkside55 said:
Do you hate me, Que? I thought that we were friends, yet you must hate me something fierce to direct me to that abysmally-written, poorly-drawn-with-a-ballpoint-pen travesty arranged into panels and passing itself off as a comic. What it really is is euthanasia FOR MY F*CKING EYES.

I read today's strip. I gave it the benefit of the doubt, since I am unfamiliar with the characters and scenarios. That is, however, no excuse for what I read. I got to the last panel, reread the thing again...and instead of stopping, I read the previous strip. And the one after that. And something seemed really amiss to me, then I caught it. Aha! These are supposed to be JOKES. Those last panels? They're actually punchlines! THAT'S what the writer was going for. And here I thought he had developed an e-based weapon to strike the reader dumb.

Against my better judgement I even read a fourth strip, with stickmen in space. That sounded like a winner; no one can f*ck up stickman humor! And it was at this point I realized that the writer of Sluggy Freelance HATES F*CKING HUMANITY.

I thought we were buds, Que. But you do this to me. I don't even know what I did to you. I can't even fathom it. I wouldn't have my worst enemy read Sluggy Freelance.

Jesus, I've got to cleanse my mind. Gotta read Lackadaisy Cats or Gone With the Blastwave, or Dr. McNinja. Hell right now I'll read Bleedman's pseudo-pedophilic Sugar Bits and that'd be a massive improvement over what I read today.

Good lord I think I'd rather read Dominic Deegan and then gouge my eyes out with a spoon. Sluggy Freelance...
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So, what, you like south park or something?
 
Darkside55 said:
No one will fault Cyanide and Happiness for its aesthetic quality. Stick figures, or slightly fleshed-out stick figures in this case. If I fault Cyanide and Happiness for anything, it'll be for its, "SHOCK VALUE LOL" jokes. Not that I haven't laughed at the thing, twisted as I am, but really if I want shock I'll go read Electric Retard or those redone-in-MSPaint Sonic the Hedgehog comics where Robotnik tells his lackeys to go climb a wall of dicks.

And really, that's good humor right there. "Go climb a wall of dicks." Classic.

Also, I hate CAD's stories more than the art, as I elaborated. You cannot seriously tell me you think any of his comics are actually entertaining. I don't want to say negative things about you personally.

And DC sucks. I think they have, what, two good artists? Also, Dan DiDio hates you and would rape you right in the ear if he could, while simultaneously killing off Batman and shoving a plunger down your mother's rectum.







LOL SHOCK HUMOR
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I find it entertaining. I guess you should go read XKCD, if you'll be able to get the jokes.
 
hl2.net is an old truck retrofitted with a gag mechanical punching arm

every other online community is a mildly amused migrant worker
 
I want to hear Darkseid's Megatokyo review, since the Your Webcomic Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad team hasn't yet.

Also, an additional mention of Omega Beams would be pleasing.
 
I agree with everything in this thread that wasn't said in defense.

Also, seconded on a Megatokyo review. Even though that'd be like sucker punching a quadruple amputee.
Darkside55 said:
Gotta read Lackadaisy Cats
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Oh thank christ. Someone else who's reaction to that comic isn't "OMG furries lol".

Damn you internet!
 
Darkside55 said:
What IS your avatar?
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Um...

I don't know, it just looks good.

It better than the last one I had, it was just a random P (in blue) with squares floating off it... kind've like 02...

*sues 02*
 
Que-Ever said:
So, what, you like south park or something?
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Sometimes, yes. I haven't watched it in a dog's age though.

Cheomesh said:
I find it entertaining. I guess you should go read XKCD, if you'll be able to get the jokes.
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Don't care for XKCD. Whatever XKCD's pushing, it isn't jokes. I consider myself a person able to read between the lines and analyze something exceptionally well in order to discern meaning from it, and frankly if there's any kind of humor to be found in XKCD it's lost on everyone but the author himself. "Your 19th century saber is photoshopped." Ha-HA, is he being serious or is he mocking the post-SA, Fark, and Worth1000 era internet user who claims everything looks like a shop? Only you know, Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD. And I bet you find it pretty damn hilarious.

I certainly hope you achieve some kind of masturbatory self-appreciation from seeing your humorless comic--to everyone but you, of course!--up on the interwebs where other people can discuss why they don't understand what the hell's going on, and people on your forum can act snide and tell them they simply don't, "get it." (When, of course, they don't get it either)

TollBooth Willie said:
I bet they can't even do The Monster Mash.
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I prefer to do the keyboard mash.
The keyboard mash.
It was a 4ioj54tmnt5324t 4t3t,rg dgb,m bvbcvb

Jintor said:
I want to hear Darkseid's Megatokyo review, since the Your Webcomic Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad team hasn't yet.
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Let me first say that I used to LIKE Megatokyo--although, looking back at it now, even the old strips, I wonder what kind of brain trauma I must have been under to find this comic tolerable enough to stare at for strips on end, let alone enjoy. Were I thinking with portals, time-traveling portals, the me of today would go back in time and promptly crack the Megatokyo-reading me of the past right over the head with a tire iron. The resulting coma I'd experience would save me months (years) of having read this drivel, and I would not regret it. When time finally caught up to me I'd have to thank myself, today.

What can I even say about Megatokyo? I'm honestly at a loss for where to begin, because it's just so BAD. Let me break the whole thing down in a single sentence:

Narcissistic weeaboo with subpar artistic skills moves to Japan with his wacky, alchoholic, game-obsessed friend in tow.

And even reading that makes the comic sound better than it is, because if you're expecting anything decent to come out of it you might as well just take the route I just mentioned and find yourself a tire iron.

You've got two gamers, because all webcomics must center around two gamers, usually whose personalities are diametrically opposed because it creates INTERESTING TENSION AND DRAMA. The main character is Piro, an anime-obsessed Japanophile who, upon finding that the rest of the world just doesn't understand his love for so ronery dating sim games and drawing piss-poor anime style drawings of sad girls in snow, over and over and over again, decides to kidnap his best friend and take them on a journey to that magical, mystical wonderland Japan, where obviously everyone will understand him, love him, and not ostracize him like the horrible culture-confused wretch that he is.

His buddy, Largo, may have at one point been the only redeeming factor in this webmanga, and I use the term "redeeming" loosely. While his beer-fueled antics might cause the occassional chuckle, a closer inspection of his character reveals that he's nothing more than a game-obsessed simp who clearly downed a can of Sherman Williams paint as a child and now has the unenviable inability to distinguish games from real life. Later on in the story Piro tries to rectify this character flaw by making Largo's paint-and-alchohol ramblings as "deep" and holding some "inner words of wisdom," but seriously, the guy's just off his f*cking rocker and his shit isn't funny anymore. Trying to give him character depth, and even going so far as to set up a relationship with the cold, distant tsundere (look it up) chick who works at the nearby video game store isn't going to work. It's just a pathetic attempt to introduce complexity and drama when there is none to be had.

Which brings me to another point: relationships. Holy shit, the relationships in this comic are more tangled than a nappy-headed ho's weave. Piro, upon arriving to Japan, lands himself a job at a game store (the same one tsundere chick works at). By the guiding hand of the Fates, it turns out tsundere's roommate just happens to be an "idol," a Japanese voice actress for those dating sims our protagonist loves so much. Finding out that the voice his right hand has been thinking about all those lonely nights now LIVES CLOSE TO HIM, he becomes a creepy f*cking stalker. But, of course, because he's so completely socially inept, it takes years (in actual time, not comic time) for them to actually go out on a date. Part of me wants to actually praise this part of the comic, because it's so goddamned accurate to anime nerds, and nerds in general, who'll fawn over women and make complete, stuttering asses of themselves around them. But then it just makes me angry because I hate those kinds of people, and also the fact that they seem to have gotten together in the comic at the point I last stopped reading takes a sharp divergence from reality. In reality, the girl probably would've had a restraining order filed.

And then you have the young teenage girl who finds Piro's sketchbook and becomes enthralled with tracking him down and learning his awesome secrets to drawing sad girls in the snow with beady eyes so far apart they look like they're bordering on Down's Syndrome, tiny noses, and perpetual O mouths. Because he's just so goddamned TALENTED. But, nevermind the veiled references to pedophilia in having a fourteen-year-old stalk YOU. This guy's living the dream of every anime nerd from here to Kokomo, Nebraska.

Wiseguys: "Darkside, Kokomo's in Indiana."

Whatever.

There's just so much bad about this comic I haven't even scratched the surface. Really, I haven't. You've got things like angels and demons and hamsters and ninjas and lame puns on Japanese culture and some mysterious, tragic video game event that happened in Piro and Largo's lives that I never stuck around to see them explain. And there's that goth girl who also tries to be cryptic and mysterious, and may possibly be a vampire or a zombie or some shit. The only thing I know about her for certain is that she definately shops at Hot Topic, because she dresses kinda skater-punk-rock-40% gothic.

I'm not making any judgements, I just know where she buys it.

And the reason Megatokyo's so popular and has its own serialized manga that you can go to Barnes and Nobles and pick up is because this generation churned out an unfortunate mass of similarly culture-shocked children whose best programs and forms of entertainment are imported from magical, mystical Nihon, and the comic IDENTIFIES with them. It's "humor" and "drama" at their level, and they're just too dumb to realize how absolute shit it is. Piro's a hack, and if ever there's a list of reasons webcomics should be banned forms of intertainment (I'm coining that phrase), Megatokyo's at the top.

I'd love to appease Jintor, but this review isn't even WORTH my omega beams.

Bad^Hat said:
Oh thank christ. Someone else who's reaction to that comic isn't "OMG furries lol".
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Nothing wrong with anthropomorphic animals. Decades of cartoons I cherish have taught me that. I can appreciate something like Lackadaisy Cats, even if it has talking, humanized animals. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that; I don't equate that to furries.

There is, however, something wrong with dressing up in a fursuit with the crotch cut out, and that is where the line is drawn.
 
On the subject of maturity on this board, it's just about right... lots of butt sex with a sprinkling of intelligent conversation. If you want the "ZOMG TEH MATURE KIND BOARDSZ" go to Lionhead's... their kindness is just a little (lot) kind.

On the subject of web comics, Perry Bible Fellowship.
 
Only one I ever remember from Perry Bible Fellowship involves a dog and a burning building.
 
Three Panel Soul? Faans? Shortpacked?

(Shortpacked is extremely specialised nerdy. D:)
 
*applauds*

Megatokyo was one of those comics I enjoyed back in the day because I was waiting for it to pick up and develop a plot. Then I realised that was it.

Darkside55 said:
Nothing wrong with anthropomorphic animals. Decades of cartoons I cherish have taught me that. I can appreciate something like Lackadaisy Cats, even if it has talking, humanized animals. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that; I don't equate that to furries.

There is, however, something wrong with dressing up in a fursuit with the crotch cut out, and that is where the line is drawn.
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Yeah, it's just all too easy to put anything even slightly anthropomorphic under the furry umbrella now, when really it's about more than just that. It started out being the subject of derision because of the perversion and depravity of it, now it's just "it has fur, kill it!" (unless it's a lolcat, of course)

Also, I just love the author's response to the inevitable question:

Lackadaisy person said:
Q. Are you a furry?

A. Uh. I'm not entirely sure what that means. I draw furries (if you can't think of a less schmaltzy name for them), but I'm actually a not-very-furry upright primate. I suspect you are too, unless you're a cat walking on the keyboard. Get off the keyboard!
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Darkside55 said:
There is, however, something wrong with dressing up in a fursuit with the crotch cut out, and that is where the line is drawn.
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I often wondered if that was categorised as furry at all, seeing as you're totally taking anthropomorphism almost out of the picture and just making it very very wrong.

Fursuits == scary;
 
Nope. Boy in burning building. Tells dog to go fetch help. Dog goes to house. Dog gets fed.

Something bizzare like that
 
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