Inactive Andrew Dobson / Tom Preston / CattyN - STOP DOING SEXIST CRAP

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Yeah, Dobson can’t stand being talked about and not knowing what’s being said.

 

[sparklemilhouse]

The man's like 40 years old, isn't he? What the christ is he still doing living with his parents? Even Phil has his own house and is a hell of a grifter despite his continuous fuck-ups and terminal inability to play games.

Dobbo is too dumb to work, but not dumb enough to get assistance.

 

[Sope Roap]

I know he'd never admit it publicly. Not for reals or anything. But I wonder if, some time in the deep watches of the night, if Dobson has ever truly faced his failure-hood. Admitted to himself, if no one else, he's a galactic-sized flop, and finally, finally realized that in spite of everything, there's no one to honestly blame but himself. I doubt it, but I wonder.

Dobson is that perfect storm of ego and stupidity that prevents any real meaningful self reflection. He lives in a world where he’d rather blame the internet for how he no longer has a “valid” comic “career” than put himself through any relative self improvement, even if it would be small steps like shaving his fucking head so he looks less like the neckbeard in South Park and more of a proper adult. Dobson’s ignorance to anything constructive is reflective of both his egotistical desire to feel important and his absolute retardation in virtually every aspect of the real world.

You can look at this rationale through the lens of his comics. In art, there are two central camps to the creation of a published artistic medium:

The first is actively listening to constructive criticism and trying to improve your craft. For all the shit Ctrl+Alt+Del puts out, Tim Cawthon at least tried to move away from the cut-and-paste vidya game webcomic format he lifted from Penny Arcade once the chorus about its plagiarism became loud enough, and overtime he tried to improve his art style. If it wasn’t for him at least listening and trying to do something different, we wouldn’t have gotten the beautiful blunderfuck that was Loss. CAD is still a predominately shit webcomic, but it at least falls in the first parameter that criticism was listened to and implemented.

The second camp in art creation is just getting good on your own terms, actively studying your craft to where it actually becomes something good, and then putting it out without really giving a shit what people think. A lot of hobbyist cosplayers usually start out absolutely shitty, but if they enjoy that first outing enough they typically study the craft to where overtime they go from shit to incredibly good, but don’t really care what people think because they’re having fun. They warrant some respect because they actively worked to be good just for the hell of it. It’s a niche example, but one I’ve seen quite a bit.

Dobson doesn’t belong in any of these camps. If he’s in any camp at all, it’s in the woods, struggling to light wet firewood under a half collapsed tent. Whatever quality of art he started at until he started “professionally” releasing comics, the rise to his publishing isn’t worth shit because his art has not improved at all as a “professional”, has not listened to feedback to improve his art, and has not done anything about trying to improve it just to impress himself and feel satisfaction. The major component of this is his ego, but the fact that he can’t even try to improve his art for himself is a reflection of his own stupidity.

Dobson is a textbook Catch-22: too stupid to recognize he’s egotistical, and too egotistical to recognize he’s stupid. Realizing he’s a failure isn’t a feasible concept to him because he’s stuck between a retarded rock and an autistic hard place. If anything can get him out of it and enable him to at least try to do better, it will be an act of god enacted by someone or something else.

 

[RileyV]

So I'm gonna guess that, if he were around, Dobbo's hot take on the Will Smith vs Chris Rock thing would be to side with Jada because "mean misogynist comedian takes piss out of rich woman".

 

[UtopiaGuy]

So I'm gonna guess that, if he were around, Dobbo's hot take on the Will Smith vs Chris Rock thing would be to side with Jada because "mean misogynist comedian takes piss out of rich woman".

Not surprising, since that appears to be what most SJWs are doing. They're always saying they're against bullying and violence and want "teachable moments" all that, yet somehow it's okay for Smith to hit Rock. Dobson would simply parrot the prevailing view once he's sure which view that is.

 

[Sope Roap]

Normie friend sent me this going “isn’t this the shitty webcomic artist you like dragging?” Had to explain it was one of two (the other being our favorite autist Chris), and decided to venture into the hell that is Twitter to see the thread myself.
Some decent souls were quick to elaborate on who Dobson is and turned it into a drag fest, but there’s obviously that smoothbrain chunk of Twitter users saying “he makes a valid point!!!!”. Nothing new for us, but it was nice to see a bunch of Twittertards become exposed to the glorious sadcow since he’s been AWOL. If Dobson sees that thread I hope he’s having his trademark hissy fit over it.

Real shit, I was bullied as all fuck in middle school and I’m glad I didn’t end up having this mentality. Middle school is just full of kids who are always trying to one up each other in the middle of puberty, holding a grudge over that era is stupid because that’s a period when kids really don’t know better. As an adult I’ve become friends with kids who picked on me, they straight up apologized to me for how they behaved and I was totally cool with them. Dobson’s crybaby attitude always makes me feel better about how I ended up as an adult. Not perfect, but at least I’m not Dobson.

 

[BipolarPon]

Not surprising, since that appears to be what most SJWs are doing. They're always saying they're against bullying and violence and want "teachable moments" all that, yet somehow it's okay for Smith to hit Rock. Dobson would simply parrot the prevailing view once he's sure which view that is.

They are against bullying, unless they have the wrong polictial opinions.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

here’s obviously that smoothbrain chunk of Twitter users saying “he makes a valid point!!!!”

I'm willing to bet Dobson is one of the smoothbrains defending the comic, of course we have no way of proving it, and he is not retarded enough to give himself away by saying something idiotic like "I think the absolute master who made this masterpiece has a valid point, I also heard he is an amazing person, but those DANG DIRTY TROLLS harassed me I mean him into oblivion"

holding a grudge over that era is stupid because that’s a period when kids really don’t know better.

especially because most of the bullying and teasing is rarely anything major, most of the time its just calling you silly names and even if there is actual physical harm its mostly minor, I've never heard of a middle-school bully beating a fellow classmate to dead. And yet Dobson seemingly developed PTSD as if the bully had tortured him for years, and when I say "torture" I say actual literal torture, not what soyboys call torture (I.E. "He misgendered me that is MURDER" "OMG he called me dumdum everyday for a full year that is TORTURE!!!!!111!!!!!!")

 

[John Titor]

View attachment 3151272Normie friend sent me this going “isn’t this the shitty webcomic artist you like dragging?” Had to explain it was one of two (the other being our favorite autist Chris), and decided to venture into the hell that is Twitter to see the thread myself.
Some decent souls were quick to elaborate on who Dobson is and turned it into a drag fest, but there’s obviously that smoothbrain chunk of Twitter users saying “he makes a valid point!!!!”. Nothing new for us, but it was nice to see a bunch of Twittertards become exposed to the glorious sadcow since he’s been AWOL. If Dobson sees that thread I hope he’s having his trademark hissy fit over it.

Real shit, I was bullied as all fuck in middle school and I’m glad I didn’t end up having this mentality. Middle school is just full of kids who are always trying to one up each other in the middle of puberty, holding a grudge over that era is stupid because that’s a period when kids really don’t know better. As an adult I’ve become friends with kids who picked on me, they straight up apologized to me for how they behaved and I was totally cool with them. Dobson’s crybaby attitude always makes me feel better about how I ended up as an adult. Not perfect, but at least I’m not Dobson.

Eh, I'm of the mind that you have no obligation to forgive anyone. That said, making comics like this is self-congratulatory masturbation. I can't explain it, it's the same kind of shit "The Least I Could Do" or whatever the fuck that webcomic is called does.

 

[Sope Roap]

Eh, I'm of the mind that you have no obligation to forgive anyone. That said, making comics like this is self-congratulatory masturbation. I can't explain it, it's the same kind of shit "The Least I Could Do" or whatever the fuck that webcomic is called does.

I really won't go out of my way to forgive people for shit they did to me a long time ago unless they actually talked to me and apologized, but at the same time I really just let most shit slide and don't really even think about it years later. The kid who beat the shit out of me multiple times in middle school grew up, got a decent job and got married with a kid, really all I could say was "glad he's doing well" because really at the end of it having hatred towards him over shit that happened when we were twelve is gay. I'm not really gonna forgive him for what he did to me unless he actually told me he was sorry, but at the same time I'm not gonna pull a Dobson and have a never-ending hate boner.

But Dobson LOVES to hold onto grudges as a form of validation, and this is another instance where that gratuitous ego jerking comes into his comics. "Oh, I have a web comic now that millions of people can see, time to get back at that bully I never got over" isn't a flex like he thinks it is, and that's what makes it so hilarious. When you grow up to be a balding, overweight comic artist that bitches about geek shit and sexism in your strips, you just can't get a serious response out of that. You just come off as a mega faggot.

especially because most of the bullying and teasing is rarely anything major, most of the time its just calling you silly names and even if there is actual physical harm its mostly minor, I've never heard of a middle-school bully beating a fellow classmate to dead. And yet Dobson seemingly developed PTSD as if the bully had tortured him for years, and when I say "torture" I say actual literal torture, not what soyboys call torture (I.E. "He misgendered me that is MURDER" "OMG he called me dumdum everyday for a full year that is TORTURE!!!!!111!!!!!!")

Dobson "developed" PTSD after getting sprayed with a water bottle at a comic convention, so any form of physical torture he likes to display in his comics is essentially Rashomon through the eyes of an incredible fuckup. It almost certainly didn't go down that way, but he sure as shit believes it did.

 

[Ophelia]

One of my childhood bullies is living well, one is doing horribly, and neither has any impact on me. Only people who never mentally made it out of high school dwell on what happened then. It was shitty for everyone.

 

[Shaneequa]

I was a highschool bully and I'm now an adult internet bully. Someday I'll be a retirement home elder bully.

 

[Felis Meanis]

Eh, I'm of the mind that you have no obligation to forgive anyone. That said, making comics like this is self-congratulatory masturbation. I can't explain it, it's the same kind of shit "The Least I Could Do" or whatever the fuck that webcomic is called does.

Haha, I thought of that webcomic not too long ago — I believe it was some everyday social justice warrior event that reminded me of it. I read it some 10 years ago or so, and while it was never a great webcomic, it was the kind of schlock that I found myself enjoying to the point of regularly revisiting. I also read the same author's other webcomic, Looking For Group, which was not particularly great either, but satisfied a certain need for amateur high fantasy adventure. I stopped reading LFG as the quality started to drop substantially over some time, and it became what I'd consider to be quite cringe, and I noticed that LICD followed the same pattern. Then, after having dropped both webcomics for about one or two years, I decided to check up on them again, and saw that the author had gone full-blown SJW dangerhair. It was a little bit shocking, considering the kind of comic that LICD used to be, what with prostitues being made fun of for going around with a sign that said "suck for a buck" etc. All of a sudden, the main character's past female conquests had gone MtF transvestites, and the virtues of social justice were being espoused. The author had also started to post comic strips that focused on people who commented negatively in the comments section, mocking them for their foolishness! Considering the 180° the author made, and his overall conduct, I think it's safe to say that we're dealing with abnormal and asocial creeps, when we're discussing these kinds of artists.

 

[Sope Roap]

One of my childhood bullies is living well, one is doing horribly, and neither has any impact on me. Only people who never mentally made it out of high school dwell on what happened then. It was shitty for everyone.

Sometimes my close friends I've kept from that era bring up assholes who picked on me and I just shrug. I get that school days make up a decent chunk of core memories for a lot of Americans and we'll like to bring them up as a result, but honestly I don't give a shit about that period at all anymore. Some people I know from back then can't seem to mature, even if they're reasonably successful they still have a lot of the behaviors they kept, which can be anywhere from egotistical prick to Dobson-esque anger against the world at large. I made it a point to move on and otherwise not care for the most part because living in the present has done so much more for my well-being that dwelling in the past.

 

[John Titor]

Haha, I thought of that webcomic not too long ago — I believe it was some everyday social justice warrior event that reminded me of it. I read it some 10 years ago or so, and while it was never a great webcomic, it was the kind of schlock that I found myself enjoying to the point of regularly revisiting. I also read the same author's other webcomic, Looking For Group, which was not particularly great either, but satisfied a certain need for amateur high fantasy adventure. I stopped reading LFG as the quality started to drop substantially over some time, and it became what I'd consider to be quite cringe, and I noticed that LICD followed the same pattern. Then, after having dropped both webcomics for about one or two years, I decided to check up on them again, and saw that the author had gone full-blown SJW dangerhair. It was a little bit shocking, considering the kind of comic that LICD used to be, what with prostitues being made fun of for going around with a sign that said "suck for a buck" etc. All of a sudden, the main character's past female conquests had gone MtF transvestites, and the virtues of social justice were being espoused. The author had also started to post comic strips that focused on people who commented negatively in the comments section, mocking them for their foolishness! Considering the 180° the author made, and his overall conduct, I think it's safe to say that we're dealing with abnormal and asocial creeps, when we're discussing these kinds of artists.

He kind of was a more successful Dobson now that I think of it. At least he was able to tell a punchline.

 

[Ghostse]

Eh, I'm of the mind that you have no obligation to forgive anyone.

I really won't go out of my way to forgive people for shit they did to me a long time ago unless they actually talked to me and apologized, but at the same time I really just let most shit slide and don't really even think about it years later. The kid who beat the shit out of me multiple times in middle school grew up, got a decent job and got married with a kid, really all I could say was "glad he's doing well" because really at the end of it having hatred towards him over shit that happened when we were twelve is gay. I'm not really gonna forgive him for what he did to me unless he actually told me he was sorry, but at the same time I'm not gonna pull a Dobson and have a never-ending hate boner.

But Dobson LOVES to hold onto grudges as a form of validation, and this is another instance where that gratuitous ego jerking comes into his comics. "Oh, I have a web comic now that millions of people can see, time to get back at that bully I never got over" isn't a flex like he thinks it is, and that's what makes it so hilarious.

I came to the conclusion that "IF you come seeking revenge, you dig two graves"/"its like drinking poison to make your enemy sick" is correct.

You don't need to completely forgive, you don't need to go seek out your bullies on facebook, but you need to move on. If you let those people rule your life, they win. You also need to step back and realize... firstly, all kids are assholes. second, is accepting the role you played in making yourself a target. It doesn't excuse your bullies, but you need to accept your bullies are human and not soulless monsters and that fearless moral inventory is the first step.

I mean, I don't go to highschool reunions because I have nothing to say to the people I went to highschool with... but hanging around with people from sort of the tri-county area after college, you learned things. Like one of kids who bullied me in junior high was being abused by his parents. Another popular kid who gave me a hard time was living a lie as the family business was imploding and they were living in eye-watering debt and it came crashing down about 2 years after we graduated (I guess the parents were really big into keeping up appearances and the dad was trying to keep the wheels on until he graduated college, so he as under huge pressure to keep his grades up, qualify for any scholarships, and seeing if he could graduate early).

Again, it doesn't make what they did right. But it means they were normal kids with their own stresses and venting them in stupid kid ways. I was a right little asshole myself at times, and could be mean and petty and vindictive. It was just a difference of scale.

tl;dr: You don't need to go all mother theresa, but holding hate in your heart doesn't do them harm. You should move on, and not let them live rent free in your head, or you'll become a Dobson.

 

[Sope Roap]

You don't need to completely forgive, you don't need to go seek out your bullies on facebook, but you need to move on. If you let those people rule your life, they win. You also need to step back and realize... firstly, all kids are assholes. second, is accepting the roll you played in making yourself a target. It doesn't excuse your bullies, but you need to accept your bullies are human and not soulless monsters and that fearless moral inventory is the first step.

I mean, I don't go to highschool reunions because I have nothing to say to the people I went to highschool with... but hanging around with people from sort of the tri-county area after college, you learned things. Like one of kids who bullied me in junior high was being abused by his parents. Another popular kid who gave me a hard time was living a lie as the family business was imploding and they were living in eye-watering debt and it came crashing down about 2 years after we graduated (I guess the parents were really big into keeping up appearances and the dad was trying to keep the wheels on until he graduated college, so he as under huge pressure to keep his grades up, qualify for any scholarships, and seeing if he could graduate early).

Again, it doesn't make what they did right. But it means they were normal kids with their own stresses and venting them in stupid kid ways. I was a right little asshole myself at times, and could be mean and petty and vindictive. It was just a difference of scale.

tl;dr: You don't need to go all mother theresa, but holding hate in your heart doesn't do them harm. You should move on, and not let them live rent free in your head, or you'll become a Dobson.

I am always the first to admit I could have handled my shit better in school and that would have given me a better time, I think growing up and getting out of that social box helps you understand that period more and calms you down as time goes on. I was an angry kid, like I was always raging at the world around me for various reasons, but now that I'm older I just go with the flow. Shit pisses me off every once in a while but I try not to internalize it, which is a far cry from who twelve year old Sope was.

Got my first high school reunion in a few years and I don't have any desire to go just for the same reason. I really have nothing to say, and I know they tend to be jerk off sessions to talk about how great your life is after high school. I've been able to carve out a nice niche for myself in adulthood, but I don't brag about it because I did it for me, not to show it off. I also was able to learn that a lot of kids who picked on me also had shit going down that in hindsight explained why I was the punching bag. I think that's one of the reasons why I've become so much more forgiving and mellowed out, knowing that everyone has their own demons and shit behind the scenes. Like you said, what they did doesn't make it right, but I don't need to irrationally hate them because they were just letting it out in an environment they felt they had more control in.

About two years ago a kid who mercilessly picked on me got arrested for stabbing another dude over a half a gram of meth. Tried fleeing the state but didn't get too far. I found out that behind the scenes this guy had a really fucked up household when he was growing up, and that drug use ended up being passed along to him. When I learned this, I actually felt really sad that his life got so fucked up. My girlfriend at the time (funnily enough a chick who picked on me in middle school) said he was an awful person who deserved what happened to him. Her rationale behind that stemmed from not getting over middle school and high school, and I didn't really know it at that time but her mentality regarding all of that partially contributed to me eventually breaking up with her. I think her carrying all that hatred from years past made our relationship rocky because she used it as rationale to ignore opinions and observations she didn't like, ironically similar to Dobson. Even though we're not together I still care about her in a way, and I really do hope one day she can move on for her sake.

 

[Ghostse]

I think that's one of the reasons why I've become so much more forgiving and mellowed out, knowing that everyone has their own demons and shit behind the scenes. Like you said, what they did doesn't make it right, but I don't need to irrationally hate them because they were just letting it out in an environment they felt they had more control in.

It also helps getting over and moving on when your life didn't peak in highschool.

About two years ago a kid who mercilessly picked on me got arrested for stabbing another dude over a half a gram of meth. Tried fleeing the state but didn't get too far. I found out that behind the scenes this guy had a really fucked up household when he was growing up, and that drug use ended up being passed along to him. When I learned this, I actually felt really sad that his life got so fucked up. My girlfriend at the time (funnily enough a chick who picked on me in middle school) said he was an awful person who deserved what happened to him. Her rationale behind that stemmed from not getting over middle school and high school, and I didn't really know it at that time but her mentality regarding all of that partially contributed to me eventually breaking up with her. I think her carrying all that hatred from years past made our relationship rocky because she used it as rationale to ignore opinions and observations she didn't like, ironically similar to Dobson. Even though we're not together I still care about her in a way, and I really do hope one day she can move on for her sake.

That's kina fucking eerie, because the girl from my highschool class who I dated post-college also clearly never got over highschool; she was also one of the 'nerds' and specifically never got over not being popular in highschool and it also was a prime factor in that relationship imploding.

 

[John Titor]

I was trying to find that comic in archive.org because it came with a blogpost and unfortunately I couldn't find it but I saw in his favorites that he has a picture of Taki drawn by coomer artist. I didn't think he'd like Soul Calibur outside of the Link cameo.

 

[LordofCringe7206]

Real shit, I was bullied as all fuck in middle school and I’m glad I didn’t end up having this mentality. Middle school is just full of kids who are always trying to one up each other in the middle of puberty, holding a grudge over that era is stupid because that’s a period when kids really don’t know better. As an adult I’ve become friends with kids who picked on me, they straight up apologized to me for how they behaved and I was totally cool with them. Dobson’s crybaby attitude always makes me feel better about how I ended up as an adult. Not perfect, but at least I’m not Dobson.

You have to remember to take any claims Dobson makes with a grain of salt. I would be shocked if Dobson actually experienced any serious bullying during his lifetime. And considering how he acts he most likely brought it on himself if he actually did experience it.