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Nuns with Guns posted:So uh..... apparently the Erfworld guy was trying to pay for various serious expenses (medical, long-distance moves, correcting years of tax filings, etc.) by having his webcomic's fans run bitcoin miners and he isn't doing too hot after the crash finally happened: https://www.erfworld.com/blog/view/61963/state-of-the-erf-part-2 This is like...I'm pretty sure this is karma because exploiting your fans to be your buttcoin slaves is hella shady, even more than anything involved with the bitcoin in the first place.
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Nuns with Guns posted:So uh..... apparently the Erfworld guy was trying to pay for various serious expenses (medical, long-distance moves, correcting years of tax filings, etc.) by having his webcomic's fans run bitcoin miners and he isn't doing too hot after the crash finally happened: https://www.erfworld.com/blog/view/61963/state-of-the-erf-part-2 Ian Miles Cheong was WRONG about bitcoin!? Shocking if true.
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Joe Slowboat posted:How well do you have to know them? when you think about it, do any of us really know anyone
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Nuns with Guns posted:So uh..... apparently the Erfworld guy was trying to pay for various serious expenses (medical, long-distance moves, correcting years of tax filings, etc.) by having his webcomic's fans run bitcoin miners and he isn't doing too hot after the crash finally happened: https://www.erfworld.com/blog/view/61963/state-of-the-erf-part-2
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Elephant Parade posted:The gently caress was he doing that for? Just start up a Patreon like every other webcomic artist under the sun, dude. He has a custom made Patreon that is set up per update, he's posted in the past that many of the backers cancel their cards or something so he doesn't get the full amount each time. He's also bad at sticking to a schedule and earlier this year (I think) his game plan was to have a skip or 2 every month (in a 2 updates a week schedule) without informing his readers.
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nimby posted:He has a custom made Patreon that is set up per update, he's posted in the past that many of the backers cancel their cards or something so he doesn't get the full amount each time. He's also bad at sticking to a schedule and earlier this year (I think) his game plan was to have a skip or 2 every month (in a 2 updates a week schedule) without informing his readers.
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Tollymain posted:i think they call those tapeworms
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PMush Perfect posted:Not to mention he's doubled down on update Honestly even with the crypto thing that description of the healthcare process is pretty 
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i respect any attempt people make to wrangle with the american healthcare system, whether it be bitcoin mining, camwhoring, wildlife smuggling or whatever lowtax was doing with the dumb poo poo ribbon
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He made a deal with a demon I think, each of us who saw the ribbon lost a sliver of our souls and in exchange the demon subsidized Lowtax's dental insurance. (this post is on topic because I used the word "demon")
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Tollymain posted:
Mind if I ask the source on this one? It looks... interesting... 
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nine-gear crow posted:Mind if I ask the source on this one? It looks... interesting... It's from Wilde Life (recognise the art style and the character), but I couldn't tell you what's happening because it's in my backlog and I haven't caught up yet.
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This chapter of Wilde Life has been fuckin nuts
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Mikl posted:It's from Wilde Life (recognise the art style and the character), but I couldn't tell you what's happening because it's in my backlog and I haven't caught up yet. Teenage werewolf Clifford is being stalked by experienced shapeshifter Raven, who has gone from "let's be friends based on mutual magical powers" to "you should abandon your ties to mere mortals" to "I will stalk you relentlessly" to "I am so crazy it is literally causing me to melt" over the course of, oh, let's say, twenty-four hours.
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Cat Mattress posted:I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. Maaaad world. Eeeerf world.
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nimby posted:He has a custom made Patreon that is set up per update, he's posted in the past that many of the backers cancel their cards or something so he doesn't get the full amount each time. He's also bad at sticking to a schedule and earlier this year (I think) his game plan was to have a skip or 2 every month (in a 2 updates a week schedule) without informing his readers. They don't pay up unless they get the service they've put money in for? Shocking.
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Rand Brittain posted:Teenage werewolf Clifford is being stalked by experienced shapeshifter Raven, who has gone from "let's be friends based on mutual magical powers" to "you should abandon your ties to mere mortals" to "I will stalk you relentlessly" to "I am so crazy it is literally causing me to melt" over the course of, oh, let's say, twenty-four hours. He mentioned he had something under his skin that was driving him mad, he felt like he had to infect Clifford to keep it at bay or something.
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nimby posted:He mentioned he had something under his skin that was driving him mad, he felt like he had to infect Clifford to keep it at bay or something. Not even that, just that Clifford's presence seems to be fulfilling whatever need he's feeling. And apparently increasingly intensely.
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nimby posted:He has a custom made Patreon that is set up per update, he's posted in the past that many of the backers cancel their cards or something so he doesn't get the full amount each time. He's also bad at sticking to a schedule and earlier this year (I think) his game plan was to have a skip or 2 every month (in a 2 updates a week schedule) without informing his readers. Doesn't Patreon have an option that's already "I only get paid when I do an update"?
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"it's not working... it won't stop scratching. your skin is in the way" doesnt give me the impression that raven is getting whatever it is they need by dint of clifford's presence alone i think its fair to say we sort of have an idea why clifford shouldn't bite humans tho now lmao
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He gets his rear end saved by the White Faced Bear fairly frequently so I'm banking on a cloud of spiders showing up real soon.
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personally im banking on whoever he contacted w his phone showing up. im guessing eliza
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Tollymain posted:personally im banking on whoever he contacted w his phone showing up. im guessing eliza Did he actually contact anyone with his phone? I thought he just looked at it, remembering how Eliza told him to call, but he's being a stubborn teenager and refusing to ask for help.
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Mors Rattus posted:This is like...I'm pretty sure this is karma because exploiting your fans to be your buttcoin slaves is hella shady, even more than anything involved with the bitcoin in the first place. It was entirely voluntary in the first place, I guess it's just easier to get people to spend extra money on electricity and graphics card replacement than yo get them to pay you directly.
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i'm a shapeshifter
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Tollymain posted:personally im banking on whoever he contacted w his phone showing up. im guessing eliza
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Nuns with Guns posted:Doesn't Patreon have an option that's already "I only get paid when I do an update"? Yeah, one of my podcasts charges per episode instead of per month, because they didn't want to put their listeners in this situation, of paying for work that didn't happen.
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incredible flesh posted:i respect any attempt people make to wrangle with the american healthcare system, whether it be bitcoin mining, camwhoring, wildlife smuggling or whatever lowtax was doing with the dumb poo poo ribbon yeah getting any form of seriously ill in America is a great test of "what will you do to live" and if cryptocurrency malware winds up being your personal moral nadir that's a little disappointing from an imagination standpoint, but def not from an ethical one
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:yeah getting any form of seriously ill in America is a great test of "what will you do to live" and if cryptocurrency malware winds up being your personal moral nadir that's a little disappointing from an imagination standpoint, but def not from an ethical one
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IIRC it started with him running shady browser-level miners, and then he switched to a voluntary system when people started pointing out the whole "this is you giving your readers a virus" angle, but I can't find the original blog posts discussing it anymore. Either way it was more harebrained than malicious
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Nuns with Guns posted:Doesn't Patreon have an option that's already "I only get paid when I do an update"? Yeah, but he's got a non-Patreon patreon setup on his site, called the Toolshed. People who sponsor him are Tools. He's also got 4 people working on his comic/site, which is insane when you realize it updates twice a week with a skip now and then and the quality isn't super amazing like K6BD or something.
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nimby posted:He's also got 4 people working on his comic/site, which is insane when you realize it updates twice a week with a skip now and then and the quality isn't super amazing like K6BD or something. Three for the website, plus four for the comic, seven total.
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what are the lot of them including him even doing e: here some content   
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Cat Mattress posted:Three for the website, plus four for the comic, seven total. I'd never even heard of it until now, but is it even a comic anymore? It seems like it's just in text form with a few sparse illustrations, like how Poppy Opossum went. I really fail to see how that takes so many people. Edit: ok, that's just the prologues and epilogues, I guess. Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Dec 3, 2018 |
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nimby posted:Yeah, but he's got a non-Patreon patreon setup on his site, called the Toolshed. People who sponsor him are Tools. I can get needing a lot of people working on website if you've built up your own knockoff Patreon/cryptocurrency mining program through it, but I don't see how you're getting ahead of using Patreon and not worrying about all of that. Then again, he's in dire financial straights so I guess it didn't work out all that well after all...
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The fun fact about collaboration is that pretty often more people don't mean it gets down any faster. Though I suspect the point about having three people work on the comic is that several of them have day jobs.
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Cat Mattress posted:Three for the website, plus four for the comic, seven total. Plus one to get fleeced
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Malpais Legate posted:He gets his rear end saved by the White Faced Bear fairly frequently so I'm banking on a cloud of spiders showing up real soon.
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