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It's a lot like the alcoholism subplot, bad stuff happens sometimes, and people gotta deal with it. Just bad things that happen to androids is kinda weird because it has to do with a bunch of stuff outside of the human experience. Adventure Time played the same game of speckling the background with crazy postapocalyptic stuff that was at no point relevant, although Adventure Time's foreground was also pretty fantastical. The funniest page of QC that drew me in was the one where they guy put on his glasses to see a hologram of an anime maid there and just went and noped outta there.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:this is the first take that has ever made me want to read QC and i wish i could believe Jacques did it intentionally he can be a pretty sharp and funny guy, just never ever ever when writing his actual comic David Willis syndrome
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Nov 24, 2019 01:53
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:he can be a pretty sharp and funny guy, just never ever ever when writing his actual comic because his comic is Garfield for hipsters
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It's not the bad stuff happening that bothers me, it's that the bad stuff got totally defanged out of nowhere by a pretty literal Deus Ex Machina. If you're going to have plot, commit to having plot. If the joke is that Neuromancer is happening in the background, you can't have that stuff intrude on the main characters' lives only until it's genuinely inconvenient then magically it's fixed and you don't have to worry about it anymore. Or, I mean, you can, but that doesn't make it a good plot beat or an effective story. It just makes the minor conflicts really minor, and the major conflicts get shuffled off-stage before they can do anything. E: also this is a minor peeve but 'the singularity' absolutely did not happen in QC. The Singularity doesn't mean 'super-smart AI' it means 'the point at which the world of tomorrow is as distant from the world of today as the Microsoft Anti-Trust Act is from the lived experience of Joan of Arc' to use Vinge's original example. This is often understood in science fiction as taking off when smart AI can build smarter AI, but, if the world isn't changing and people aren't having to deal with a collapse of their lived experience in the face of the new, it's not the singularity. At all. Definitionally. Joe Slowboat fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Nov 24, 2019 |
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Nov 24, 2019 02:27
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:he can be a pretty sharp and funny guy, just never ever ever when writing his actual comic It is a pity that Willis' best stuff is snarky comments on the Transformers wiki.
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Nov 24, 2019 03:05
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Dave Willis is the loving worst and 36 new posts about questionable content is WAY too much
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Nov 24, 2019 14:36
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Man reading someone write tons of angry words about how much they hate QC sucks and makes me actually want to defend it which is a feeling I never wanted to have. So stop it, not caring about QC is the only emotion anyone should feel about it drat it!!
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Nov 24, 2019 15:16
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Regy Rusty posted:not caring about QC is the only emotion anyone should feel about it drat it!! It's worked for Jacques! 
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Nov 24, 2019 16:26
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TwoPair posted:It's worked for Jacques! exactly, we must follow his example
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Nov 24, 2019 16:27
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I need to keep in mind what I dislike to outweigh the force of habit that would make me waste more time on it. Unrelated, but Sleepless Domain is being charming.
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Nov 24, 2019 17:33
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Cube is a gift we don't deserve and her twitter posts are magical.
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Nov 24, 2019 18:14
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I too, have a QC question. Why so many of the new robots hot?
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Nov 24, 2019 20:08
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Who the hell would make a non-hot robot?
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Nov 24, 2019 20:41
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Kennel posted:Who the hell would make a non-hot robot? Someone's gotta be the X-32 of robots 
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Nov 24, 2019 21:33
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Are they hot? They seem like just JephJack's baseline style with maybe a little less features.
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Nov 24, 2019 21:38
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I can't relate to attractive, or even average looking, robots
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Nov 24, 2019 23:03
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Ever since Questionable Content killed my parents I've been on a quest to master every martial art in the world to take my revenge. I'm at 66 so far.
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Nov 24, 2019 23:40
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I'm trying to imagine Batman in QC-verse but I have no idea where to even start.
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Nov 25, 2019 00:16
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PMush Perfect posted:I'm trying to imagine Batman in QC-verse but I have no idea where to even start. Didn't QC have some sort of vigilante way back in the early days? Something involving a Vespa I think. I vaguely remember Marten using a stop sign as a weapon and find it hard to imagine it's the same comic.
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Tenebrais posted:Didn't QC have some sort of vigilante way back in the early days? Something involving a Vespa I think. I vaguely remember Marten using a stop sign as a weapon and find it hard to imagine it's the same comic. Yeah, the... deep sigh... 'Vespavenger.'
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Nov 25, 2019 00:32
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SardonicTyrant posted:Cube is a gift we don't deserve and her twitter posts are magical. I understand and appriciate that Sleepless Domain is where her heart is now, but I just wish she'd hurry up and wrap up Kiwi Blitz already. It's like probably 20-30 pages from an ending, if even, and this one update very two weeks... maybe poo poo is just torture.
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Nov 25, 2019 00:42
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That was from when QC was at the peak of it's "yeah, why not" weirdness. I prefer that to its current "modern life except when it's not" setting. Remember when Martin's best friend used to be a secret agent? Remember Pizza Girl?
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Nov 25, 2019 00:42
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PMush Perfect posted:That was from when QC was at the peak of it's "yeah, why not" weirdness. I prefer that to its current "modern life except when it's not" setting.
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Nov 25, 2019 00:47
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SardonicTyrant posted:There's an allisaurous serial killer that eats all of the old characters, I thought we agreed on that.
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Nov 25, 2019 00:53
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SlothfulCobra posted:There's been a few webcomics that officially end and then put out a couple one-offs sporadically afterwards. I think that was Willis's plan for It's Walky and Shortpacked before he relapsed and started Dumbing of Age. And then there's Bobbins. Not that it was ever super big on continuity to begin with, but The Non-Adventures of Wonderella has been pretty good at posting a few strips every year even after it ended.
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Nov 25, 2019 00:57
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PMush Perfect posted:That was from when QC was at the peak of it's "yeah, why not" weirdness. I prefer that to its current "modern life except when it's not" setting. Yeah but then there was the whole invisible alpaca thing or "this side character is now having Serious Emotional Plot Time because another big robot dude just kinda tripped and fell on her and smooshed her with his butt heehee".
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Nov 25, 2019 08:58
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It seems like it's exhausting and frustrating to have opinions about Questionable Content.
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Nov 25, 2019 09:01
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The real reason "Sam and Fuzzy" is ending is because Sam Logan's stripper pinups couldn't compete with Jeph Jaques's robo-nudies.
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Safari Disco Lion posted:Yeah but then there was the whole invisible alpaca thing or "this side character is now having Serious Emotional Plot Time because another big robot dude just kinda tripped and fell on her and smooshed her with his butt heehee". I enjoy QC for what it is, but it is not lost on me how far it is from what it could be.
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Nov 25, 2019 09:54
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In other news, Tigress Queen has been updating pretty regularly for a while now and it's amazing.
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Mors Rattus posted:In other news, Tigress Queen has been updating pretty regularly for a while now and it's amazing. Ooh, this looks great, thanks!
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Nov 25, 2019 17:12
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It and Godslave are my two current fave comics at the moment.
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Nov 25, 2019 17:24
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nine-gear crow posted:I understand and appriciate that Sleepless Domain is where her heart is now, but I just wish she'd hurry up and wrap up Kiwi Blitz already. It's like probably 20-30 pages from an ending, if even, and this one update very two weeks... maybe poo poo is just torture. While KB isn't bad, Sleepless Domain is so much better that I can't really blame her. I also want to say how much I loved Let's Speak English, since I discovered it when I, too, was an ESL teacher in Japan.
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rereading some of gunnerkrigg because of a linked page and i dont remember if i noticed how incredibly good this panel is the first time
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...I really dislike that apparently Coyote planned to get killed given how great the set-up was for him being blindsided by Ysengrim’s intense resentment. I don’t mean to be complaining constantly about comics, and I certainly still follow Gunnerkrigg. But it takes something away from that whole set-up if he was in control the whole time. Joe Slowboat fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Nov 26, 2019 |
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Nov 26, 2019 01:13
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He could have set it up then forgotten about it so he could get surprised for real
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Synthbuttrange posted:He could have set it up then forgotten about it so he could get surprised for real Oh, sure, but like... that's my problem, I don't like the idea that he had total control and everything went according to plan, when the set-up and results are way more satisfying and interesting if he didn't totally set everything in motion. Plus the mythological Coyote was hardly known for always having the last laugh.
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i get the feeling that this still wont go down as coyote planned i can absolutely buy that coyote surprised himself with murder tho, thats right in line w his primary concern being staving off boredom
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Nov 26, 2019 06:39
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in tonight's All-Night-Laundry, it seems the botfly is being empowered directly by the metanarrative itself
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So Smackjeeves is gonna turn into a Tapas clone. Importantly, this means:quote:Removed Features on Smack Jeeves If you have a webcomic on Smackjeeves and you're using a custom template and/or a custom URL, now's the time to look into moving. Someone made a template converter to move to ComicFury, so that's one possible alternative.
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