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Friendly Primarina said:
I don't remember if this was posted in this thread but Scott Ransoomair is still alive, apparently:
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Umm. Do you know how shippers feel when their pairing shows up on the screen? Are you able to guess it? Okay. I was never invested in VG Cats, and that's good, since I did not recognize the roommate relationship between Aeris and Leo as a romantic one and the emotion that I'm feeling is the opposite of the one that I mentioned, because my original reading makes this feel like an incestuous scene.
 
Cnidarian said:
More existential comics.
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Lord of the Large Pants said:
Okay, that one is actually kinda funny. Probably because it's a philosophy gag rather than being thinly veiled politisperging.
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Ghostse said:
The idea of the comic is kinda funny, the execution is still sort of teh suck
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Lefty philosophy wonks are invariably far too wordy. The bit about leftist memes just being a block of text is true. Brevity is the soul of wit.
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gaysexenjoyer said:
I actually find this guys artstyle very appealing, can't say much of the content though
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A lot of people agree, he's a talented artist and has always been. And as a writer he's made some likeable characters and compelling stories. But when his politics, whatever they may be this week, get involved all of his talents as a storyteller go out the window and it's just propaganda for whatever crusade he's on at the moment.

I just want him to go back to Slick, Squig, 'Nique and Crimnee hanging out and goofing around. That's what he was good at. But he doesn't want to do what he's good at.
 
Not A Cat Person said:
Lefty philosophy wonks are invariably far too wordy. The bit about leftist memes just being a block of text is true. Brevity is the soul of wit.
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I don't see how you do a comic about Plato like it's a meme because Plato was famously verbose.
Arthur Morgan said:
I just want him to go back to Slick, Squig, 'Nique and Crimnee hanging out and goofing around. That's what he was good at. But he doesn't want to do what he's good at.
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I think he's pretty good at being a deranged schizo.
 
Cnidarian said:
Umm. Do you know how shippers feel when their pairing shows up on the screen? Are you able to guess it? Okay. I was never invested in VG Cats, and that's good, since I did not recognize the roommate relationship between Aeris and Leo as a romantic one and the emotion that I'm feeling is the opposite of the one that I mentioned, because my original reading makes this feel like an incestuous scene.
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They always gave me fuckbuddies vibes, ngl.
 
Chromeo said:
Maybe I'm just old and tired, but in an Internet where every fucking personality turns out to be a groomer, gooner, troon or pooner deviant freak of nature, I just can't care that this one guy's bland and pretentious. Oh no, he's literally every art and film school student, aaah the horror. His webcomics were positive and safe enough (except the weird hammer trilogy, I'll give you that one) you could've hung them up in classrooms. I wish there were more webcomics like that than "nondescript cute Blorbo has zippertit scars and punches ICE agents #753."
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You don't know how real this is
You go to youtube and every other day someone's getting exposed in an hour long video. Go on twitter and you see dozens of artists spouting the same things the exact same way over and over again. What I miss is when everyone just treated the internet as some wacky place you can find stupid shit on like flash games. People didn't treat it like their bedroom because everyone expresses their weird behaviors to everyone not realizing most of the world is strangers and not their best friends.
 
Does anyone have any advice on how to kick the habit of checking up on a comic when doing so is so easy? Asking for a friend.
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Chromeo said:
so what is this animal crossing BDSM about?
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TL;DR The author created an allegorical comic about trauma that actually had an interesting premise and instead of drip-feeding lore about that she decided people would rather look at her fetish and her self-insert acting like a spoiled brat.

I've been thinking recently:
- Hello from Halo Head: Turned into fetish shit
- VGCats: Turned into fetish shit, artist started drawing porn of his characters for money
- Blind Girl: Turned into fetish shit, assuming it wasn't fetishy to begin with, artist started drawing porn of his characters for money

Does it always have to end this way? I can't think of anything overtly fetishistic in Pipe Up, but even FYR has that weird "yuri childbirth" lore so it's only a matter of time.

I don't know where I'm going with this, honestly. Here's the closest Garfield ever gets to being political, to my knowledge, in almost 50 years (November 26, 1989)
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For all the criticism Garfield (rightly) gets, so many comics live in his shadow purely because it never got political or fetishistic (also that strip makes me lol).
 
Friendly Primarina said:
Does anyone have any advice on how to kick the habit of checking up on a comic when doing so is so easy? Asking for a friend.
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As someone who read CAD years after Loss and kept checking Sinfest after the Matriarchy took over, I'd love to know.

I always had comics I read in my bookmark folder and deleted them when I stopped reading them or they stopped updating. That got me to stop checking out bad comics. And sometimes completely forget I'd ever read them.
 
Friendly Primarina said:
TL;DR The author created an allegorical comic about trauma that actually had an interesting premise and instead of drip-feeding lore about that she decided people would rather look at her fetish and her self-insert acting like a spoiled brat.

I've been thinking recently:
- Hello from Halo Head: Turned into fetish shit
- VGCats: Turned into fetish shit, artist started drawing porn of his characters for money
- Blind Girl: Turned into fetish shit, assuming it wasn't fetishy to begin with, artist started drawing porn of his characters for money

Does it always have to end this way? I can't think of anything overtly fetishistic in Pipe Up, but even FYR has that weird "yuri childbirth" lore so it's only a matter of time.

I don't know where I'm going with this, honestly. Here's the closest Garfield ever gets to being political, to my knowledge, in almost 50 years (November 26, 1989)
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For all the criticism Garfield (rightly) gets, so many comics live in his shadow purely because it never got political or fetishistic (also that strip makes me lol).
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Sex sells alot when you have the ability to draw porn. That's just my guess.
 
Arthur Morgan said:
I always had comics I read in my bookmark folder and deleted them when I stopped reading them or they stopped updating. That got me to stop checking out bad comics. And sometimes completely forget I'd ever read them.
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I did the same thing! I used to read SMBC and Cyanide and Happiness daily, but SMBC started getting too scientific for me to understand and C+H just got so violent. I think they both chilled out, respectively, but now it's been years and I don't want to do a whole archive read + the crap I stopped reading for. I'm also still disappointed Helvetica stopped updating forever.
 
Friendly Primarina said:
I can't think of anything overtly fetishistic in Pipe Up
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Are you fucking high?! The whole comic is about the creator acting out their mental illness fetish and being a troon.

Basement Dwelling Dork said:
Sex sells alot when you have the ability to draw porn. That's just my guess.
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Avatar checks out.

Friendly Primarina said:
Does anyone have any advice on how to kick the habit of checking up on a comic when doing so is so easy? Asking for a friend.
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delete your bookmark. remove it from browser history. Then force yourself to a routine, productive task before you view the comic - it can't be too long but it also needs you to minimize/close the browser. "I have to drink water before I can check the comic", "I need to brush my teeth before checking the comic","I need update my financial software", "I need to do some stretches". Anything to disrupt your thought routine that takes you to check it.
Slowly you will just stop giving a shit.
 
Friendly Primarina said:
I don't remember if this was posted in this thread but Scott Ransoomair is still alive, apparently:
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"Alive" may be in quotations, as if /co/'s to be believed (they're the only ones who occasionally remember this comic's existence) he stroked out or something a couple of months ago and hasn't logged onto Discord since january. He's probably not dead but I doubt he'll be any less inactive online than he already is.
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Friendly Primarina said:
Does anyone have any advice on how to kick the habit of checking up on a comic when doing so is so easy? Asking for a friend.
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The occasional 1% of lore drops can NOT be worth 50% of the comic having someone go "lol step on me mommy" and the remaining 49% having someone else go "fuck you mom I do what I want", can it?
Friendly Primarina said:
've been thinking recently:
- Hello from Halo Head: Turned into fetish shit
- VGCats: Turned into fetish shit, artist started drawing porn of his characters for money
- Blind Girl: Turned into fetish shit, assuming it wasn't fetishy to begin with, artist started drawing porn of his characters for money
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There was also Sparklecare/cometcare/whatever but near as I can tell they weren't cashing out on the characters' canonically fucking each other in their super secret incest comics. Despite the insanity in her works, SNP doesn't strike me as the type that would draw porn (even if only because her interests lie more in made-up psychology, Pokemon, and self-important rats and rabbits), or even be able to, but I wouldn't be surprised if she makes a comic that's all about validating some particularly depraved/fetishistic lgbt identity because she was talking to a larper on Discord.
 
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