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monster on a stick posted:3 Switch Revolving Decanter and Glassware Apparently it is important that everyone know this project is notgay: quote:This is what started it all. A very challenging piece to produce. Patrick had been working on this for many years when he was introduced to Brent as a possible glassblower to fulfill the difficult task of making it. It is a difficult shape to produce by hand and then Patrick wanted the glassblowers to add a conical foot to it while still hot on the blowpipe. Encolmo glassblowing takes a lot of skill. With much trial and error the project slowly evolved as well as Brent and Patrick's relationship as partners...the business kind. 
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DoctorTristan posted:...the business kind. He could not have made that sound any gayer.
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Aug 25, 2013 22:28
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The glassware looks like decorative candle holders they took of the wall at their mom's house and glued a wood cone to the bottom of.
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Aug 25, 2013 22:31
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DoctorTristan posted:Apparently it is important that everyone know this project is notgay: Hey, that's really great of them for being able to turn their gay partnership into a business.
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Aug 25, 2013 22:32
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DoctorTristan posted:Apparently it is important that everyone know this project is notgay: Well, they are talking about their evolving relationship with someone they hired because they're really good at blowing. It would be far too much trouble to pick a different choice of wording, e.g. "Brent and Patrick's business partnership". Or, you know, notice that they'd exclusively referred to "glassblowing".
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Aug 25, 2013 22:40
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Dogdoo 8 posted:The goofy marshmallow project got almost 200% funding. So he makes all that money and this is the quality of the product:  What's up with those breasts? I'm not an artist by any stretch of the imagination, but there is something wrong with that perspective. edit: maybe it's the totally 2d face that bugs me, I don't know
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That's so bad that when I didn't read what you were quoting I assumed it was what the daughter made for the RPG Maker Camp thingy.
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I'm still having trouble coming to terms with the fact that MegaTokyo is still a thing, first of all, but also that it's a thing with a significant enough fanbase to pull down $300k.
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Great Rumbler posted:I'm still having trouble coming to terms with the fact that MegaTokyo is still a thing, first of a all, but also that it's a thing with a significant enough fanbase to pull down $300k.
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Great Rumbler posted:I'm still having trouble coming to terms with the fact that MegaTokyo is still a thing, first of a all, but also that it's a thing with a significant enough fanbase to pull down $300k. This strikes me as a last gasp thing. There hasn't been much to generate money from in a long time and now that it looks like there will be some sort of endpoint and new content a lot of old fans started paying attention. If nothing comes out, Fred has 300 grand that he'll probably blow through fairly easily even just from having a kid and medical bills and then have nothing afterwards and no real job experience from the last several years. Even in a best case scenario from a production standpoint, they still probably won't generate much in sales after the kickstarter since most everyone who thought there would be an actual game already pledged. I've gotten a dollar's worth of entertainment from lack of updates so I guess I can't complain.
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Nubile Hillock posted:So he makes all that money and this is the quality of the product: I'm a cartoonist, and I have always been irrationally infuriated by Fred's artwork. He's a very mediocre cartoonist and a poster boy for artists who think that throwing cheap anime signifiers (shiny eyes, triangle nose, etc) into your artwork is all you need to make compelling work. The reason those breasts are so weird is because he's drawn the chest in a different perspective from the rest of the body (not to mention also being anatomically incorrect,) it happens when you don't use an underlying structure when placing characters in an environment or composition. It's also clear he doesn't use linear perspective at all, which some artists can get away with, but Fred cannot. He makes the types of mistake developing artists make, and I think is excusable for someone starting out, but the fact that he has drawn 500+ pages in a professional capacity and has improved so marginally, floors me. The sad thing is that he's proved that he doesn't need to improve to have a dedicated following who worship your every lovely un-inked panel. And don't even get me started on his backgrounds, good christ they are so naive and ugly. Regarding the spinning glassblowers, the spinning wine glasses seem like a disaster waiting to happen, but I think the spinning decanter is kind of cool. It fulfills the purpose of what a decanter is supposed to accomplish by aerating the wine, so it might make a good gift for the wine-connosiour who already has everything.
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Great Rumbler posted:I'm still having trouble coming to terms with the fact that MegaTokyo is still a thing. The guy has such a reputation for being incapable of releasing anything on time or putting project on the sidelines - usually with a massive pity plea that the duo at Penny Arcade were pretty stunned to realise how much he just hated himself when they met in person. I really can't see this being much more of a money grab to deal with his recent health issues. BogDew has a new favorite as of 02:29 on Aug 26, 2013 |
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Aug 26, 2013 02:11
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BanjoFish posted:Regarding the spinning glassblowers, the spinning wine glasses seem like a disaster waiting to happen, but I think the spinning decanter is kind of cool. It fulfills the purpose of what a decanter is supposed to accomplish by aerating the wine, so it might make a good gift for the wine-connosiour who already has everything. Yeah, I could see the decanter being a neat thing to break out for parties, but I just know I'd get really annoyed at trying to use the glasses. Edit: I do find the actual idea behind that Kickstarter pretty neat, though. senrath has a new favorite as of 02:24 on Aug 26, 2013 |
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WebDog posted:It's the poster child for excessive adoption of anime as a valid art style / nerd bait back in 2002. I recall he tried to get Megatokyo published in Japan and was upset when it was a dismal failure. A reason for this is that he is one of the many, many nerds who think Japanese comics look like Japanese animation. Pretty much the entire style of anime is about simplifying animation and reducing its cost. Their comics, on the other hand, can be super detailed. A comic with crappy animation visuals isn't going to cut it. Also he can't write for poo poo.
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WebDog posted:It's the poster child for excessive adoption of anime as a valid art style / nerd bait back in 2002. I recall he tried to get Megatokyo published in Japan and was upset when it was a dismal failure. I'm shocked to learn that Fred, paragon of healthy living, has health issues.  Also I want to remind everyone this is what him and his wife look like in the comics:  
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Ahahaha, that last drawing is something you'd expect to see in a 17-year-old girl's deviantArt gallery.
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What are the MegaTokyo guy's health issues? Not looking for WebDog-level investigation.
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UncleSmoothie posted:What are the MegaTokyo guy's health issues? Not looking for WebDog-level investigation. Well, as an example of one major medical symptom, he drew MegaTokyo.
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Wasn't MegaTokyo just straight up stick figures for a while, was that some other comic that made the transition to lovely anime wannabe -> stick figures
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Every now and again it would drop into stick figures. As a highschooler during the worst of the ~lol random~ Newgrounds bullshit, this was acceptable.  This man just got 300k 
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Great Rumbler posted:I'm still having trouble coming to terms with the fact that MegaTokyo is still a thing, first of all, but also that it's a thing with a significant enough fanbase to pull down $300k. Yeah, Megatokyo is a testament to the fact that some folks will throw money at just about anything as long as it's "anime". Babe Magnet posted:Wasn't MegaTokyo just straight up stick figures for a while, was that some other comic that made the transition to lovely anime wannabe -> stick figures Those would be the "Dead Piro Days", a.k.a. the days where Piro just couldn't be bothered to actually draw a comic. Of which there were many.
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Nubile Hillock posted:Also I want to remind everyone this is what him and his wife look like in the comics: Still less ridiculous than Penny Arcade and their wives.
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Someone managed to get it in their head that crossing a golf cart with a skateboard would dramatically improve the golf experience. I'm sure there are some people out there who might appreciate an electric skateboard with some real build quality behind it, but how many golfers are going to spend over $3000 on this thing instead of renting a cart?
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Still less ridiculous than Penny Arcade and their wives. They didn't start out as being author avatars though, they just ended up that way. Given the names and everything, I'm pretty sure we're supposed to see Tycho and Gabe not as Mike and Jerry, but as analogous to them.
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DoctorTristan posted:Apparently it is important that everyone know this project is notgay: The guy's name is Patrick FitzPatrick, I imagine a lot of childhood teasing has lead up to this. Also is the design intentionally supposed to make me think of giant drinkable dreidels?
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Megatokyo. I can't think of anything witty here so basically gently caress that guy. Fred has basically 4 possible outcomes for everything he does: 1: Do a comic page as scheduled. (unlikely) 2: Do a comic page several days late, or just do nothing. 3: 'Dead Piro Day' wherein he posts a lovely half-finished sketch of something vaguely related to the comic and some pity-plea that he is working SO HARD 4: 'Shirt Guy Dom Day' wherein even less effort is put forth and he has a buddy do a rock-stupid stick figure comic that is OMG SO WACKY I used to read it way way back in the day, when he still had Rodney around to tell him to stop doing so much dating sim self insert fantasy poo poo. It was actually pretty tolerable then, and the mediocre art was pretty much head and shoulders above webcomics at the time. He was fairly decent about sticking to something resembling a schedule back then. I stopped reading about the time he basically forced Rodney out and made a bunch of whining blog posts about how he was the victim and everyone should pity him etc etc. I'm still annoyed that he never made good on his bitchfits about shutting down the comic for good if he ever found porn of it.
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It's still better then Chugsworth Academy. 
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Cockmaster posted:Someone managed to get it in their head that crossing a golf cart with a skateboard would dramatically improve the golf experience. I'm sure there are some people out there who might appreciate an electric skateboard with some real build quality behind it, but how many golfers are going to spend over $3000 on this thing instead of renting a cart? This thing is awesome. Helps to be on a course in Hawaii and not Local County CC, though.
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WickedHate posted:It's still better then Chugsworth Academy.
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Dogdoo 8 posted:The goofy marshmallow project got almost 200% funding. I was so hooked on MegaTokyo in my super awkward high school days. I feel like I'm surprised it's still around, and moreso that people actually care about it.
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WickedHate posted:It's still better then Chugsworth Academy. Chugsworth had the decency to go away forever about four years ago, though.
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Arigot posted:I was so hooked on MegaTokyo in my super awkward high school days. I feel like I'm surprised it's still around, and moreso that people actually care about it. I was that person in high school. I just can't get it out of my head. I can't get Fred out of my head. I sort of understand why other people pledged, I remember reading through the beginning parts of the archives and thinking "with a little self awareness this could lead somewhere interesting", "interesting" pretty much meaning Welcome to the NHK, which we now have anyway.
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Great Rumbler posted:Chugsworth had the decency to go away forever about four years ago, though. He's back doing porn last I remember. Unless there's someone else who likes snuff porn and draws in his exact same style. Rodeny also did a webcomic after he left MT. Lots more effort put into it from what I could tell (or at least drawn on a computer and polished). Didn't last too long though. I also remember buying volume 1 of the webcomic and reading the commentaries from Fred and Rodney and Rodney pretty much said that he wanted to try and lean it towards a Penny Arcade style of comic.
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TTBF posted:Their comics, on the other hand, can be super detailed.
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Xelkelvos posted:He's back doing porn last I remember. Unless there's someone else who likes snuff porn and draws in his exact same style. I was looking for the comic (which I remember to be generic gamer jokes and anime drawings) and I guess Rodney ran as a libertarian for state rep in the Texas legislature. The comic was named Uberclocked and no longer exists.
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Dogdoo 8 posted:I was that person in high school. I just can't get it out of my head. I can't get Fred out of my head. I sort of understand why other people pledged, I remember reading through the beginning parts of the archives and thinking "with a little self awareness this could lead somewhere interesting", "interesting" pretty much meaning Welcome to the NHK, which we now have anyway. Yeah, I think a lot of us had that same feeling about Megatokyo, way back in the early days of the comic. It's pretty amazing how Fred completely squandered all that potential, mainly out of sheer laziness.
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This is some pretty classic Awful Kickstarter right here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1997247042/gridiron-thunder-awesome-indie-football-game-for-o?ref=search Gridiron Thunder is going to be like no other football video game you've ever played. Why? Because the devs understand fun. What's fun about Gridiron Thunder is that the players onscreen will do AMAZING touchdown celebrations. And that seems to be about it. This is truly my favourite awful Kickstarter in weeks. It has it all.
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HEGEL CURES THESES posted:These are all beautiful. I'm bored and need new reading material--where are they from? The second one is from Junji Ito's story Gyo, but I don't recognize the others. As far as awful kickstarters go, this one is pretty terrible- a grown man drawing six-year old quality single frame comics about pets, captioned in Comic Sans. "Is Glee on tonight?" is just a preview of the fantastic dialogue we can expect from this cartoonist. I guess we should just be glad he's not asking for tens of thousands of dollars? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bombaypets/bombay-pets-coffee-table-book?ref=category (I have no clue how it's managed to get up to nearly 3k already.) 
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HEGEL CURES THESES posted:These are all beautiful. I'm bored and need new reading material--where are they from? The first is Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita, the second is Gyo, I don't know where the third one is from, and the last one is the Ghost In The Shell: ARISE anime tie-in. There's probably even more. Katsuhiro Otomo of Akira fame is pretty famous for having really highly-detailed panel work and probably the more accessible to Western audience. He also has a new film out, Short Peace, and recently did this portrait of a famous director in his most famous work... 
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