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Looks like he's taking pains to ape the stilted writing style rather than do a similar "spare prose, cute pictures" idea, which probably does have a niche.
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Nessus posted:Looks like he's taking pains to ape the stilted writing style That's his normal authorial voice.
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Jan 30, 2016 23:45
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Doc Hawkins posted:They are a step below genre fiction in literacy-space, but a step above genre comics. lol no. and i say that as an anime liker
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Jan 31, 2016 00:00
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Literally The Worst posted:Wow it's crazy that you say that because I sure as hell didn't (It's the only person I know who cares about comics.)
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Jan 31, 2016 00:19
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Literally The Worst posted:Nah comics are an actual thing I spend most of my time on in some fashion, and the people who think Watchmen is the best superhero comic are the people who don't read comic books they read Graphic Novels What's the best superhero comic? Final Crisis?
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Jan 31, 2016 00:36
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divabot posted:Instead, I know of nobody bothering with Aurini of late. However! Our esteemed colleague HBomberGuy has a new video out on the alt-right reaction to Star Wars! Holy crap I could not stop laughing once it hit the guy whining about having to share his comics and sci-fi with non-white people. 
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Jan 31, 2016 00:52
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Night10194 posted:That's his normal authorial voice. That really is his normal authorial voice. It reads like the author of the LessWrong Sequences trying to write porn of an underage girl and thinking "loving nailed it."
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Jan 31, 2016 00:54
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icantfindaname posted:lol no. and i say that as an anime liker Yeah, in terms of quality and subject matter, LNs are closer to webcomics than to actual comic books.
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Nessus posted:Looks like he's taking pains to ape the stilted writing style rather than do a similar "spare prose, cute pictures" idea, which probably does have a niche. The best part about this is that he's not even aping the stilted writing style properly. I linked this thing to a friend of mine who does professional Japanese translation, and she pointed out that his awkward-translation-isms don't derive from the Japanese structure/phrasing/idiom issues that create authentic awkward translations, presumably because Yud doesn't know enough Japanese to have any grasp of them. He's basically just cargo-culting it, because why would a smart person ever have to do research? The sad thing is that, based on Yud's immense problems with word bloat, he'd probably benefit as a writer by trying to write something like how he describes light novels: bare-bones prose, easy-to-read style, all plot/no filler. Instead, he apes the stupidest and most shallow elements, and he doesn't even do that right. It's like if someone praised Harlequin romance novels for their pure focus on the emotional relationship between the leads, then wrote a "homage" that was all garbage filler plot and bad sex scenes, and also they were making up a whole new set of bizarre genital euphemisms as they went.
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Jan 31, 2016 01:11
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Dr. Video Games 0081 posted:What's the best superhero comic? Final Crisis? All Star Superman.
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Nessus posted:Looks like he's taking pains to ape the stilted writing style rather than do a similar "spare prose, cute pictures" idea, which probably does have a niche. No this is just how Yudkowsky writes. This could just be a Sequence talking about schoolgirl masturbation or whatever.
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Literally The Worst posted:Also note I never said it was bad, just that people who think it's the end all be all of superhero comics are kinda fuckin wrong and also it kinda ruined superhero comics for thirty years and counting, that and Dark Knight Returns which is as important in terms of history and impact and making a statement on the nature of comic books but it's about Batman so it's poo poo (also it's actually poo poo and I hate it) You're wrong about it and DKR ruining comics, but that's a fight for another thread I guess. Jim's Blog is just strange. I appreciate that it's the full panoply of the alt-Right. You've got white nationalists, you've got gay MRAs, you've got a guy who believes in Jewish theocracy. The only people they hate more than each other is every single person one inch to the left of them. They're so cheerful about how they're going to murder one another after they get done with the rest of us.
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Jan 31, 2016 02:24
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Dr. Video Games 0081 posted:What's the best superhero comic? Final Crisis? While I prefer Morrison to Moore in general, FC is a loving mess I would have a hard time picking one best superhero comic because there's so many reasons to give it to one. Like, Action Comics #1 created the template that's still in use today, but Fantastic Four #1 shattered that template and gave birth to a whole new style, and Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen both were a major influence on comics pretty much from the minute they hit and continue to be today. poo poo I've argued for Ninja Turtles #1 before for being the spark that set off the indie boom that lead to Image being a thing. I mean, I know what my personal favorites are (All-Star Superman is on there, for sure, with the issue of Spider-Man where he lifts an entire building off himself) but I wouldn't want to even think about calling something the best Whoa look at that nuanced answer that you weren't expecting when you made your pissy one liner almost like this is a thing I've thought about because comics are just what I do
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Literally The Worst posted:I mean, I know what my personal favorites are (All-Star Superman is on there, for sure,
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Peztopiary posted:You're wrong about it and DKR ruining comics, but that's a fight for another thread I guess. DC has spent thirty years chaining itslef to a book that sprang from the realization that Batman is never actually allowed to change and continues to gently caress up what makes a book Mature and For Adults to this day (hint it's not people losing arms and titties everywhere) to the point where they keep loving asking Miller to do sequels when both of the ones we have so far are about how stupid DC is for chaining itslef to DKR You'd lose that fight is what I'm sayin
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Lady Naga posted:Ahahah awesome. The lead up to "you're stronger than you think you are" is literally what I use to explain why I fuckin love Superman even though I hate his comics for the most part to customers at the shop I work at
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rear end is the only Superman comic you need to read, but I'm a Morrison fanboy.
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Count Chocula posted:rear end is the only Superman comic you need to read, but I'm a Morrison fanboy. Nah you definitely should read Silver Age superman, after they sued Captain Marvel out of existence and then hired the guy who was writing him to write Superman, whose name is escaping me right now. Morrison pulls from those stories a lot in rear end much like he pulls from Silver Age Batman stories for his Batman run Edit it was Otto Binder and they basically asked him to do all the things he did with Captain Marvel, mostly the creation of a "family", but with Superman instead of not-Superman
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Literally The Worst posted:Nah you definitely should read Silver Age superman, after they sued Captain Marvel out of existence and then hired the guy who was writing him to write Superman, whose name is escaping me right now. Morrison pulls from those stories a lot in rear end much like he pulls from Silver Age Batman stories for his Batman run Also lol @ cartoons
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Cingulate posted:What's with you and final periods? I'm posting from my phone, which is also the only reason you're getting caps Also you're literally the jackass I was talking about when this all started, kudos
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Jan 31, 2016 03:20
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Doc Hawkins posted:You couldn't be more wrong. Is this a joke or are you seriously defending him? Do you really believe an emotionally stunted narcissist like that guy could have a non-exploitative sexual relationship? I doubt he thinks of them as equals as he believes he has no equals.
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dear god shut up about your western comics, only manga is on topic for this thread and then only if it's been made into an anime with technologically advanced reactionary hordes and of course underage girls masturbating in detail written in the style of the Sequences: Pounded In The Butt By My Own Girl with Red Tidday Up and White Tidday Down Corrupted by the Internet who is the Summoned Hero?! by Roko's Tinglisk
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divabot posted:dear god shut up about your western comics, only manga is on topic for this thread and then only if it's been made into an anime with technologically advanced reactionary hordes and of course underage girls masturbating in detail written in the style of the Sequences Actually you know what One Punch Man is the best superhero comic
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Literally The Worst posted:Actually you know what One Punch Man is the best superhero comic I will pay that one sir.
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Jack Gladney posted:Is this a joke Yep!
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I don't like Dark Knight Returns and I don't think I've ever read a Batman comic that really stood up to the hype. The Killing Joke is horrible. Grant Morrison's Batman comics aren't even that good. All-Star Superman, Final Crisis, and parts of 52 were for me, great stuff. Sticking with Grant Morrison, Vimanarama and the first Seaguy series were some of my faves.
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Dr Pepper posted:Holy crap I could not stop laughing once it hit the guy whining about having to share his comics and sci-fi with non-white people. hbomberguy's stuff on the alt-right/gamergate is always pretty funny, but Rocking MrE has always struck me as particularly weird. He isn't white or at least really doesn't look white, and yet he's a white supremacist.
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Terrible Opinions posted:hbomberguy's stuff on the alt-right/gamergate is always pretty funny, but Rocking MrE has always struck me as particularly weird. He isn't white or at least really doesn't look white, and yet he's a white supremacist. it's a relatively common thing in Southern Europe 
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A lot of people who'd in the US be classified as Black have much lighter skin than many Greeks or Spaniards. (Race is not a biologically valid construct.)
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I know race isn't a biologically support thing really, but it's just wierd that someone no visibly not white is claiming to be white.
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Terrible Opinions posted:I know race isn't a biologically support thing really, but it's just wierd that someone no visibly not white is claiming to be white. I don't know where you're from but this dude looks pretty white to me. e: And I'm from the deepest, whitest reaches of the Midwest 
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Admittedly I am from Mormonland, but he looks like a Turkish person to me. Especially in the Star Wars video he looks way darker than the latino character he claims is not white enough in the Force Awakens.
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Jan 31, 2016 21:27
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Gee it sure is getting racially weird in here. Next people will start using words like "swarthy"
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Jan 31, 2016 21:47
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Maybe they identify as a trans cracker.
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Cingulate posted:A lot of people who'd in the US be classified as Black have much lighter skin than many Greeks or Spaniards.
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Dr. Video Games 0081 posted:What's the best superhero comic? Final Crisis? Yes.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Admittedly I am from Mormonland, but he looks like a Turkish person to me Nessus posted:Ah, but what about all the dark enlightenment bloggers who disagree, and who need some advocacy in this thread? Or are you breaking the streak?
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Stop trolling
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Race makes literally no sense hth
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Cingulate posted:Americans are so weird about race.
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