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It's funny to read that strip in retrospect, because it implies that pre-genocidaire V has more emotional maturity than someone.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:And that doesn't apply to Thunt? Doesn't that "cheats fate" or whatever donation drive thing earn him literally thousands of dollars? DolphinCop posted:well he also earns literally a thousand dollars every time the comic updates, going by his patreon subscription rate With his update schedule he still probably makes less than $15k a year.
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Yeah, Thunt may be doing relatively decently or whatever, but he's Rich's creative peer and arguably competitor. In almost all cases, it looks tacky when people call out their direct peers/competitors in the field, especially when you're in a business that's largely dependent on fan goodwill, like webcomics. Harry Potter, meanwhile, is so huge that satirising it is like satirising Sherlock Holmes, or Alvin and the Chipmunks. No matter how cruel your jape, you are only playing on the steps of a titanic cultural monolith.
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WickedHate posted:Harry Potter is absolutely punching up. If JK Rowlings gets her feelings hurt she can wipe the tears away with hundred dollar bills. If JK rowling gets her feeling her she will write you as the most hated character in the world's most book series. Or make sure that book is difficult to pronounce with your lisp, so you look silly doing the audio book. JK rowling is definitely not someone to gently caress with.
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Shwqa posted:If JK rowling gets her feeling her she will write you as the most hated character in the world's most book series. Or make sure that book is difficult to pronounce with your lisp, so you look silly doing the audio book. The story of Stephen Fry and the audiobooks is hilarious: quote:Saw Stephen Fry live last week, and he told us this story: Just after the first Harry Potter book had been released, he was offered the role of narrating it for audiobooks. He hadn’t read it, and was simply told it was a children’s book, so figured it would be an easy afternoons work. When he met JK Rowling, she mentioned that she was writing a sequel. Stephen replied very condescendingly “good for you”.
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Aug 17, 2016 20:27
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I can't wait to see how Witch Burlew and his Indestructible Thumb show up in Harry Potter and the Whatchamacallit of Whodathunk. (edit) Not saying that Burlew's jab at Harry Potter is mean-spirited, Harry is tough, he can take it. scuba school sucks fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Hahahaha. I love her, it's certainly petty and I usually feel like authors should always try to hold themselves to a higher standard but I can get behind that. I believe she also wrote one of the Slytherin girls to be horrible and unmarried because she's based off of someone she hated back in highschool and she didn't want her to be happy. Stone cold. quote:I can't wait to see how Witch Burlew and his Indestructible Thumb show up in Harry Potter and the Whatchamacallit of Whodathunk. I think what he did falls in line as literary criticism and if he's actually read the books despite that it probably isn't mean spirited unless he's made a post somewhere where he affirms it. Regardless I'm glad he's not taken potshots at other webcomic artists. Randall always struck me as particularly classy and good natured.
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Aug 17, 2016 22:36
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Honestly, the jab against HP is not that surprising. There is a lot of backlash from fantasy fans who weren't teen during the books release and while some it is probably just hype backlash, there is also some pretty valid criticism.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:18
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Harry Potter was a fun series that I got a lot of enjoyment out of but nobody should pretend it doesn't deserve all the poo poo it gets. Hell; people make fun of Lord of the Rings for having plotholes and that is a considerably better story all things considered.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:22
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It depends entirely on what you're looking for in a narrative, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter are so far removed from each other they aren't really comparable.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:24
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One of the most disappointing things is growing up in the none-anglophone world and eventually finding out that Harry Potter is in large parts not magical, but just very, very British. It also explains a poo poo lot of stuff I couldn't wrap my head around.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:29
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I just think it's pretty funny that he knocks "Whatever occurrence or random even is happening in the area always relates to me, personally" after the sheer number of times someone's family member has gotten conveniently caught up in the plot in OotS.
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e X posted:One of the most disappointing things is growing up in the none-anglophone world and eventually finding out that Harry Potter is in large parts not magical, but just very, very British. It also explains a poo poo lot of stuff I couldn't wrap my head around. I'm curious as I'm Anglo-Canadian and wonder what I'm missing.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:31
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The division of schools into competing "houses", perhaps?
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ImpAtom posted:I just think it's pretty funny that he knocks "Whatever occurrence or random even is happening in the area always relates to me, personally" after the sheer number of times someone's family member has gotten conveniently caught up in the plot in OotS. Oh god you just reminded me of slogging through all of Elan's family and their issues
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Aug 18, 2016 15:42
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Totally. I figured the idea of different houses who compete which each other for points to win a house cup was an entire magical idea to me. But essentially everything. Everything I thought of as Rowling inventing something whimsical and weird was mostly just British stuff.
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e X posted:Totally. I figured the idea of different houses who compete which each other for points to win a house cup was an entire magical idea to me. But essentially everything. Everything I thought of as Rowling inventing something whimsical and weird was mostly just British stuff. I loving hate Harry Potter because any positive portrayal of the utter hell of bullying and elitism that is British private school can go gently caress itself.
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e X posted:Totally. I figured the idea of different houses who compete which each other for points to win a house cup was an entire magical idea to me. But essentially everything. Everything I thought of as Rowling inventing something whimsical and weird was mostly just British stuff. So there really are trees that punch you, house elves, mismanaged government agencies that try to hide awful crimes against humanity, and giant spiders in Britain?
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Calaveron posted:So there really are trees that punch you, house elves, mismanaged government agencies that try to hide awful crimes against humanity, and giant spiders in Britain? Three out of four.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:53
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ZearothK posted:Three out of four. Yes, the spiders on the British isles are all reasonably small.
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Yorkshire Tea posted:I loving hate Harry Potter because any positive portrayal of the utter hell of bullying and elitism that is British private school can go gently caress itself. I'm not sure why you consider it a positive portrayal when half the books are dedicated to "Hey, maybe it's kind of lovely things are set up this way" and multiple major characters say it is wrong and the latest book explicitly is about how someone is unfairly bullied for being in the wrong house.
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ImpAtom posted:I'm not sure why you consider it a positive portrayal when half the books are dedicated to "Hey, maybe it's kind of lovely things are set up this way" and multiple major characters say it is wrong and the latest book explicitly is about how someone is unfairly bullied for being in the wrong house. Probably because I quit reading the series early on.
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Yorkshire Tea posted:Probably because I quit reading the series early on.
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FMguru posted:I, too, loving hate things I can't be bothered to read or finish. To be fair, it's a bigass series of books. "The early books were shite" is a pretty good reason not to read them all, and it doesn't necessarily discredit criticism.
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Aug 18, 2016 16:56
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I much prefer the earlier books to the later ones.
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e X posted:One of the most disappointing things is growing up in the none-anglophone world and eventually finding out that Harry Potter is in large parts not magical, but just very, very British. It also explains a poo poo lot of stuff I couldn't wrap my head around. It's less British and more English, mostly.
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FMguru posted:I, too, loving hate things I can't be bothered to read or finish. That's the same thing a dude told me when I said I wasn't interested in reading the My Little Pony/Fallout crossover series. I've since stopped using that argument.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:37
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Helium from the Elemental Plane of Air, in the comic that has established the existence of Chlorine Elementals and the like? You disappoint me, Burlew.
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Aug 18, 2016 19:41
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Lord help me but I giggled at "falling rocs"
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This ship isn't really magical, it's just magically light, magically strong, and magically conjures its fuel.
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If you built a car with a mythril body, adamantine hubcaps, and a glassteel windshield, and used minor creation to make vegetable oil for it to run on, but still had a typical internal combustion engine, is it a magic car?
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Wanderer posted:If you built a car with a mythril body, adamantine hubcaps, and a glassteel windshield, and used minor creation to make vegetable oil for it to run on, but still had a typical internal combustion engine, is it a magic car? Yes because it's made of magic materials. This was a pretty lame page (besides falling rocs).
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Wanderer posted:If you built a car with a mythril body, adamantine hubcaps, and a glassteel windshield, and used minor creation to make vegetable oil for it to run on, but still had a typical internal combustion engine, is it a magic car? No, nothing you described was magic other than the creation of the vegetable oil, which is functionally no different than non-magically created vegetable oil.
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Wanderer posted:If you built a car with a mythril body, adamantine hubcaps, and a glassteel windshield, and used minor creation to make vegetable oil for it to run on, but still had a typical internal combustion engine, is it a magic car? Only if Phil Smeeton is behind the wheel
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From a game mechanics standpoint, if it functions in an antimagic field, its not magical.
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greatn posted:This ship isn't really magical, it's just magically light, magically strong, and magically conjures its fuel. Roy's a good guy but also the worst sort of "Well, ACTUALLY" kind of guy.
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RandallODim posted:Yes because it's made of magic materials. I lold
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greatn posted:This ship isn't really magical, it's just magically light, magically strong, and magically conjures its fuel. This fighter isn't a wizard, he's just magically strong, magically fast, magically tough, and magically talented with his magical weapons.
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I assume the difference is that it functions under logical rules and if you count find another power source it would continue functioning under those rules where as a magic ship is held together by wishful thinking. Y'know, like Roy said.
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