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Namekian George Floyd said:
This kind of reminds me of how almost every website used to have a forum section but that faded out so slowly over time that I never really noticed, what exactly happened?
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Managing a forum requires you to actually invest time in your community and form bonds with the people that are part of it.
 
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Hardline Traditionalist said:
I realized that I dislike these webcomics with the elf girl.
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The punchline is always one of the three:
1)Elf is mad at the guy for no reason.
2)Elf is actually a tsundere an wants to be with him.
3)Elf makes an ugly face.
But hey, the author has lampshaded the last one, so it's ok now.
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There are multiple Elven manga that do it better.
but one of the most comparable imo would be Kono healer.
That comic is basically Kono healer in the most generic form, Kono Healer is about a Swordsman who is so weak and unskilled he cannot even defeat a slime (not in the Isekai power scale way, dude just has no talent at all) so nobody wants to join him and a Cleric Dark elf who probably has no Holy powers at all let alone any right to call herself a Cleric.
It's a pretty dry sort of Comedy that revolves around Karla making fun of Alvin or just flatout being rude to monsters till they accept defeat.

One of my favourite chapters is one about a Witch taking both of them home in an attempt to kill them but every single time she tries Karla either spills water on her poisoned food or trips her up in other ways but because its Karla it's hard to tell if she is doing it intentionally to save them or if she is just being kinda a dick.

Highly recommend, the anime is not great pretty low budget but good enough.
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Namekian George Floyd said:
This kind of reminds me of how almost every website used to have a forum section but that faded out so slowly over time that I never really noticed, what exactly happened?
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Blame general social media. Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook were easier for the normie posters who were only there for social engagement to use, and Reddit got the autists who wanted specific discussions about a topic. Both exoduses caused the long, painful death of specific (and even general) forums over the past 15 years.
 
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reptile baht spaniard rid said:
PA has been pussies ever since they didn't fight American Greetings over Rawberry Shortcake.
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I think the breaking point was the 'raped by dickwolves' thing.

Mike was clearly not woke and resented his woke fans. He fought them over that joke twice, and lost both times. It was a cautionary tale of all the buckbroken nonsense we would see in the decade to come.
 
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Public Disrespector said:
Mike was clearly not woke and resented his woke fans. He fought them over that joke twice, and lost both times.
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He cucked both times. That's the only reason he "lost."

Give these cunts an inch and they'll take a mile. It was a huge mistake to mark himself as a cuck who could be bullied by apologize to those proto-SJW Shakesville whores. He should have just told them to get fucked, preferably by dickwolves.
 
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Dickwolves was fucking funny, and it wasn't even about the rape. It was about the fact that in an MMO, you do the quest and you move on, regardless of how sadsack the quest lures are.

They did a COD one many years before that with knives in helmets, and they went "ding" and then said they got shammy gear. SAME FUCKING JOKE, no outrage.

Furries need to seek the light of Willy Pete.

I blame their asian lawyer. They established a sphere of people and never thought "Hey, maybe my buddy the lawyer sucks cock"

I would like a more detailed rundown of how they sold their company though. I've read some versions, but nothing that seemed particularly real.

Like they fucked up and sold penny arcade to scum. Scum was laughing about it...

and then they got the rights back. FUCKING HOW
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
I'm not sure where to put this, but, it's webcomics related I guess?

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Penny Arcade has apparently hit a point that they can't afford to run their forum anymore. Once their hosting contract ends in May they're shutting it down.

The head Admin, DJ Eebs, apparently fucked off. Only thing I ever remember him doing was taking over the forums and posting this screed about how heckin' valid and brave trannies are and if you're an evil nazifascistcapitalist istaphobe you're not welcome in HIS community. Standard SJW takeover shit, which was enough to drive me away from that community.

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In light of recent and current events, of which I'll not rehash, as we are all currently living through them, we're enacting some new rules and guidelines on the PA Forums, and reemphasizing some of our current policies.
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His little screed there is great. He's probably still seething this very instance from yesterday's election.
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I'm still amazed every time i see Bald and Piglike being mentioned in the present day, i never liked the comic even when it was supposedly good but i can't say i don't admire their business acumen. Same goes for Buckley, who, to my eternal surprise, made two actually funny comic strips this year.
 
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Namekian George Floyd said:
This kind of reminds me of how almost every website used to have a forum section but that faded out so slowly over time that I never really noticed, what exactly happened?
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@HTTP Error 404 and @I don't like gays :^) have it. Social media.
instead of 500 forums with a "current events" section you have /r/GayThingYouLike and now all the people from other niche interest areas can go to /r/politics.
I could go on about how this concentration of discussion makes things worse and easier for tranny jannies to coopt discussion but I'm not waiting to go that deep on a webcomic post.

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Forums also used to be a free "value add" on hosting packages, check a box and your forum is ready in 5 minutes, but that's less common now. Some places still offer them but you have dig or request via support ticket, but mostly you're on your own to deploy your own app or go 3rd party.

For webcomics, specifically, three things:
1) Free forum hosts are folding. Forums used to be a free box-tick you could check in your webhosting package, but not any more. Ad revenue in general has been drying up ever since 2008, hackers and russian bots keep trying to get around protections, so a forum is now something you need to pay for. This is fueling a vicious cycle with the above mentioned social media concentration, means more people go to the "big" sites -> ad market for small forums dries up -> more small sites fold -> more people go to the "biggies" - this also fuels why forums usually aren't a part of hosting packages anymore.
2) Expanding on above, ad revenue being down means webcomics have less money, so the money spent on the forum may not be a good place for limited scatch to go when you can just point everyone to Facebook/insta/reddit/twitter, which feeds into...
3) Webcomics no longer grow their own communites, they suck in people from other communities by reposting and hoping shit goes viral. Hosting your own community is good for retaining fans (sort of) but is poor at attracting new ones. When I say "sort of", you can end up with stuff like PA forums where a lot of people probably haven't read the comic in 5+ years but still come to the forum to bullshit with the people they've bullshitted with for the past 20; basically a bald man hanging around the barbershop.
Webcomics having a dedicated site and not just using Instagram or similar is becoming less common. Terminal Lance, a good military humor comic, has even moved from a traditional webcomic site to a style sheet over a generic media blog.


Public Disrespector said:
I think the breaking point was the 'raped by dickwolves' thing.
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AnOminous said:
He cucked both times. That's the only reason he "lost."
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The reason they cucked out was because at that point Penny Arcade wasn't a webcomic anymore. It was Child's Play and PAX and they believed screeching triggered libs that these things would hurt their other brands. Basically sold the fuck out and have been getting gayer ever since.

ZipDisk said:
Dickwolves was fucking funny, and it wasn't even about the rape. It was about the fact that in an MMO, you do the quest and you move on, regardless of how sadsack the quest lures are.
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That's the dumbest part. The comic is all about how terrible rape is and that in an MMO the player is arguably a total sociopath because they never actually fix the source of the problem. At no point is rape portrayed positively.

The Feline Solution said:
Same goes for Buckley, who, to my eternal surprise, made two actually funny comic strips this year.
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Intentionally funny? I don't believe you. Post them.
 
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Ghostse said:
Intentionally funny? I don't believe you. Post them
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Don't have them at hand, sorry. One is the God of War Ragnarök strip (might be from last year, time flies) and the other one got posted in one of the picture threads but fuck me if i can remember what it was about. Already commented on the first one when it was posted on here how it is one of the signs of the End Times when Fuckley makes an actually on-point and intentionally funny comic strip.
 
Namekian George Floyd said:
This kind of reminds me of how almost every website used to have a forum section but that faded out so slowly over time that I never really noticed, what exactly happened?
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Because even making your own website for your webcomic by itself isn't something you can really just get up one morning and do anymore. So adding a forum to it when quick and disposable Discord servers exist just makes it another expense that you have to code and moderate and shit while you're ALREADY making a comic, it isn't really worth the effort for most people anymore.
 
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