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PMush Perfect posted:Yeah, in retrospect, the Matrix trilogy is packed to the gills with trans symbolism. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life.
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Ague Proof posted:Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. Edit: Getting unplugged is supposed to be monumentally harder once you're an adult. Guess what else is monumentally harder once you've reached puberty? girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Jun 22, 2019 |
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Joe Slowboat posted:Maybe the comic's constant veering into extremely bad despair holes was an artifact of her dysphoria and related depression? I mean I'm not going to start reading it again (ask me about my bad webcomics decisions) but that would be nice. If you're being extremely generous it might also explain the comic's recurring...issues with women.
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mycot posted:If you're being extremely generous it might also explain the comic's recurring...issues with women. What does it say about the character based on her mom that was a sex slave
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PMush Perfect posted:Webcomic author news: Thunt, author of ellipsis is kind of a kickass name too
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The "red pill" itself is the same colour as estrogen pills were at the time.
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Wasn't there a short in the Animatrix about a bullied teen that throws himself off the roof of his school and escapes the Matrix that way? Mouse? Something like that?
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Kid, and to be fair, he WAS being chased by agents at the time. But yeah, I always found the message in that one a little... Muddled.
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Japan's rarely a good direction to look for messaging about bullying. This is the place where collectivism lets them say "the bully is right, stop being so different" with a straight face.
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mycot posted:VGcats is just one of those odd pieces of history that's completely mystifying in retrospect. I don't think anyone who wasn't there at the time can believe it blew up when it doesn't have "good art", it definitely doesn't have good jokes, and it barely updated. Every once in a while I think about Necromancers singing Linkin Park and it makes me smile.
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mycot posted:VGcats is just one of those odd pieces of history that's completely mystifying in retrospect. I don't think anyone who wasn't there at the time can believe it blew up when it doesn't have "good art", it definitely doesn't have good jokes, and it barely updated. I think you gravely underestimate just how impressive gradients and fancy digital lighting effects seemed in the early 2000s. Seriously, it's all aged badly, but back in the day even the most mediocre of artists could shine if they threw in some gradients and fancy digital effects, because the new technology was amazing at the time. It was all over professional comics too.
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VGCats dates back to the era where a webcomic enthusiast would be able to name six comics.
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Eh VGCats is fine. It's certainly always been more consistently clever than Penny Arcade or CAD ever were.
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A big flaming stink posted:is awful hospital still going? Yep. Just passed its 900th page. Fern is currently posing as a staff member, with the help of a handy name tag.
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Tenebrais posted:VGCats dates back to the era where a webcomic enthusiast would be able to name six comics. VGCats, Bob&George, 8Bit Theater, Penny Arcade, CAD, Megatok- 
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Eh VGCats is fine. It's certainly always been more consistently clever than Penny Arcade or CAD ever were. It updated so rarely that it's hard to call it consistently anything.
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Archenteron posted:VGCats, Bob&George, 8Bit Theater, Penny Arcade, CAD, Megatok- 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_webcomics "Inspector Dangerfuck" is an incredibly webcomic title.
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Joe Slowboat posted:Maybe the comic's constant veering into extremely bad despair holes was an artifact of her dysphoria and related depression? I mean I'm not going to start reading it again (ask me about my bad webcomics decisions) but that would be nice. There's another tweet thread where she affirms her "gender issues" (her phrasing) were a thing she struggled with most of her life, but it became unbearable in the past 5 years. Rotten Red Rod posted:Eh VGCats is fine. It's certainly always been more consistently clever than Penny Arcade or CAD ever were. The poop/pee/penis jokes were... okay I guess. The rape jokes werent. And it definitely wasn't more clever than PA or CAD.
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Archenteron posted:VGCats, Bob&George, 8Bit Theater, Penny Arcade, CAD, Megatok- You forgot 8-Bit Theate-- oh. No you didn't. 
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Archenteron posted:VGCats, Bob&George, 8Bit Theater, Penny Arcade, CAD, Megatok- BUttlord GT. Road Waffles. Exploitation Now. Sluggy Freelance. PVPonline. Superosity. The terrifying thing is the percentage of these comics that still update daily. Old Kentucky Shark fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Jun 24, 2019 |
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Don't forget all of the Dumbrella comics, of which several are still running (Diesel Sweeties, QC, BOASAS).
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Oh geez, I just remembered that General Protection Fault was a webcomic. And it somehow still exists?!
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Archenteron posted:VGCats, Bob&George, 8Bit Theater, Penny Arcade, CAD, Megatok-
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PuddingKnight posted:was 8-bit theater good
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:BUttlord GT. Road Waffles. Exploitation Now. Sluggy Freelance. PVPonline. Superosity. EN isn't something I've thought of in ages. Doesn't Poe still do some comic or other?
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Mac Hall! We all forgot Mac Hall!
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Grapplejack posted:Oh god scarygoround is down John's twitter says his registrar let the domain expire despite John paying for it two months ago. They're looking into it.
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Ashcans posted:Oh geez, I just remembered that General Protection Fault was a webcomic.  1999-02-05  2008-04-04  2018-11-23
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YggiDee posted:Mac Hall! We all forgot Mac Hall! three panel soul, made by the same author and artist is still going
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nine-gear crow posted:To this day I still miss Life of Riley and my 2005 self would have loved to how the gently caress that story was going to end because after 5 years of wheel spinning it finally started working towards an endgame and then dropped dead in the middle of an exposition dump. Life of Riley was the one with a combined arms paintball fight against the devil right? It kinda amazing how many early webcomics started as gag-a-days and lead into serious storylines about fighting demons.
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Patrick Spens posted:Life of Riley was the one with a combined arms paintball fight against the devil right? It kinda amazing how many early webcomics started as gag-a-days and lead into serious storylines about fighting demons. Back then webcomics ended one of two ways: fizzling out only to vanish when someone forgot to renew a domain, or updates slowing to a crawl until the artist finally puts out a hastily written 800 word conclusion describing what the last strips would have involved had they felt like drawing them, just so people will stop asking them about it. For a long time I was still expecting Dresden Codak to go out that way.
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Paladin posted:Back then webcomics ended one of two ways: fizzling out only to vanish when someone forgot to renew a domain, or updates slowing to a crawl until the artist finally puts out a hastily written 800 word conclusion describing what the last strips would have involved had they felt like drawing them, just so people will stop asking them about it. For a long time I was still expecting Dresden Codak to go out that way. Did it not? I admit I stopped reading DC a while ago but when I left off it was on an ever-slower crawl.
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Dawgstar posted:EN isn't something I've thought of in ages. Doesn't Poe still do some comic or other? EN was succeeded by Errant Story, which was a plotted fantasy comic that ran for a decade and which I literally only just now remember that I read all of. It ended in 2012 (with an epilogue!) and was succeeded by Does Not Play Well With Others, which apparently still updates semi-regularly but which I don't read. Weirdly, Poe seems to be one of the only old-guard webcomic "artist" types who didn't fall into the porn thing, which I would not have predicted at all.
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