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Vandar posted:I went on a deep dive a while back of all the webcomics I used to read. Finding out that Megatokyo is still updating (and I use the term 'updating' loosely) kind of made me sad. In semi-related 2000s webcomic news, the person behind the Real Life webcomics started transitioning and started a series about it: https://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=june-29-2020
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Did ol fred ever improve his mediocre pseudo-manga style or is he still doing that for Megatokyo?
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Dreadwroth2 posted:Did ol fred ever improve his mediocre pseudo-manga style or is he still doing that for Megatokyo? It's still the same and it still looks like it did fifteen or so years ago.
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Vandar posted:It's still the same and it still looks like it did fifteen or so years ago. Basic composition, anatomy, stylization? Nah. About the only change is he found out how to deactivate the sketch layer he used to rough out the panels. Honestly, 20 years of doing something and you'd figure some change. Right? Like his art should look like my avatar? It's the same sketch look from 2001.
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piratepilates posted:In semi-related 2000s webcomic news, the person behind the Real Life webcomics started transitioning and started a series about it:
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FilthyImp posted:Gabe from Penny-Arcade actually enjoys making art and pushing his boundaries every now and then. Piro just kinda got stuck in this very rough approximation of manga and never improved. He's like a lot of webcomic artists, they all need to take some art classes badly. Like at least 2-d design, life drawing, and layout editing for starters.
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Vandar posted:It's still the same and it still looks like it did fifteen or so years ago. The header of the site has said "relax, we understand j00" for over two decades at this point. Nobody has unironically used l33tsp34k for at least 18 of those years
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Heath posted:The header of the site has said "relax, we understand j00" for over two decades at this point. Nobody has unironically used l33tsp34k for at least 18 of those years It's so innately tied into Largo's character though, even with how absolutely aged it is. At this point I don't think he could remove it. (I'm pretty sure that even after twenty years, they've still only spent like, five months in Japan altogether. Kind of weird to skim through things and see more modern references and tech being used when it should still be the early 2000s in the comic.)
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A storyline that actually takes place in 2000 in Japan could be interesting if it were researched to be accurate to the time period but that would be a little too much 
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CRT could stand for Cathode Ray Torus
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that thingd be cool to play a modified ultrawidescreen version of gradius or something on
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Shibawanko posted:that thingd be cool to play a modified ultrawidescreen version of gradius or something on The old Darius games have super wide displays
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WITCHCRAFT posted:I had a Stepmania file for the song from the swimming pool Adult Swim bumper. That is maybe the most 2000s thing I can personally remember. Idk how thatd ruin Akira. Diff studios and directors obviously but i think Akira is primo 80/90s anime movie.
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The only thing that ruined Akira for me was the manga. Because there was so much stuff that had to be cut from the movie and it should have been a series.
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I found the Final Fantasy VIII comedy fanfiction I wrote in 2001 when I was 11, still preserved on my fanfiction.net account. I was funnier as a literal child than I am now
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HonorableTB posted:I found the Final Fantasy VIII comedy fanfiction I wrote in 2001 when I was 11, still preserved on my fanfiction.net account. I was funnier as a literal child than I am now Whenever I find my old doodles I feel sad because I was way better at drawing than I am now. Not good, but a lot better.
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Happy Landfill posted:God the Akira manga is so good I haven't even read all of it and it's been ages since I read any of it, but man, the art and design of everything was so drat solid.
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WITCHCRAFT posted:I had a Stepmania file for the song from the swimming pool Adult Swim bumper. That is maybe the most 2000s thing I can personally remember. It was also later included in DDR knock-off/upgrade "In The Groove" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdL18qmvkE
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Groke posted:I haven't even read all of it and it's been ages since I read any of it, but man, the art and design of everything was so drat solid. One of the real snobby things in the early anime scene was to go "Akira only adapts a tiny amount of the manga" to newer people.
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Xenoletum posted:It was also later included in DDR knock-off/upgrade "In The Groove" I'm absolutely mesmerized by that ceiling carousel horse thing, I want to know where the hell this arcade is
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Pasketti posted:I'm absolutely mesmerized by that ceiling carousel horse thing, I want to know where the hell this arcade is Turns out, it's in The Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v0DwvlMNZQ
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I still log in to my Gaia account periodically
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bangbros dick through pizza, putting oil on everybody, it was porn for the bush years
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Shibawanko posted:bangbros Not from what I remember
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Happy Landfill posted:I still log in to my Gaia account periodically Eldritch BiLast posted:Turns out, it's in The Netherlands: THANKS. I already had a weird rear end dream that I was there just based on what I saw in that not-DDR video.
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Pasketti posted:Same...Just recently got back into the habit..
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Happy Landfill posted:The dress up is still kind of fun and I like seeing what new items they have. Shame they stopped updating the gold shops and seem to be focusing solely on premium. their pokemon clone game shits out items enough for me to make some cool outfits at least
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So the Borat sequel reminded me I never actually saw the first one apart from a few clips in college. I do remember that the other actor from the first film, Ken Davitian, appeared in Fox News' failed Daily Show attempt. I think it was called the Half Hour News Hour. God, I forgot how awful that was.
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Vandar posted:It's so innately tied into Largo's character though, even with how absolutely aged it is. At this point I don't think he could remove it. Which is strange, because the IRL Largo was purged from the creative process about 18 years ago and the comic's been unfunny ever since. Foamy the Squirrel is still trucking and hasn't changed in 20 years, for better and for worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ASWOuQOnL8
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I'm quite happy to have realized recently that it's been a while since I've seen a bro truck with an orange county choppers sticker on it.
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When I was in college (early 2000s) I jumped on the file sharing craze and downloaded many mp3s and music videos, among other things. The thing that stands out for me with the music videos was the "splash screens" that would be inserted for the first few seconds. I screencapped 20 of them and made an album, linked here since some of them are  https://imgur.com/a/3IpT1tHHere are some of the safe examples:     What is the proper term for these, if there is one?
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je1 healthcare posted:Which is strange, because the IRL Largo was purged from the creative process about 18 years ago and the comic's been unfunny ever since. Oh dang! 20 years of foamy huh.
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What? What? What? Huh? Whatever. What?
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Whens the last time anyone updated their car domain page?
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je1 healthcare posted:Which is strange, because the IRL Largo was purged from the creative process about 18 years ago and the comic's been unfunny ever since. This just reminded me that Rodney Caston ran (unsuccessfully) for public office in Texas as a Libertartion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Caston He now does ethical hacking stuff, which is pretty cool
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One joke that didn't age well: slutty teen girls get raped up the butt on Myspace. This was just an edgy non-incel thing to say and it's pretty  now.
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Violet_Sky posted:One joke that didn't age well: slutty teen girls get raped up the butt on Myspace. wät
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Violet_Sky posted:One joke that didn't age well: slutty teen girls get raped up the butt on Myspace. I think your space might have been slightly different from my space.
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