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I remember being an avid reader of prequel till I fell off of it when I realized that I actually hated the gimmick of nothing is ever going to get better for her. I was mostly there for the Oblivion jokes.
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Twibbit posted:I remember being an avid reader of prequel till I fell off of it when I realized that I actually hated the gimmick of nothing is ever going to get better for her.
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The Lone Badger posted:Surely that should be past tense. It can't be still going. Oh no, it still pops up once every few months or so. Most recent one was December 17 of 2020. https://www.prequeladventure.com/
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jng2058 posted:Oh no, it still pops up once every few months or so. Most recent one was December 17 of 2020. https://www.prequeladventure.com/
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I liked Prequel when I thought things were actually going to get better for her.
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Jan 24, 2021 03:19
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lol kazerad
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Xarbala posted:lol kazerad
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Jan 24, 2021 03:42
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PMush Perfect posted:I'm surprised he hasn't shown up like Beetlejuice to dig himself deeper yet.  I'm always here, you guys have the best comic recommendations. But when someone brings up the slow update speed in my stuff or sense that nothing is getting better, I think the best I can say is that it's not for everyone. I like things that take their time and move in excruciating detail, and seeing if I can make little things like not drinking for one day as big of a deal to the reader as they are to the characters.
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Kazerad, on one hand, I kinda feel guilty making GBS threads on something that someone clearly works so hard on. On the other hand, my dude, you have some profound issues with women.
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PMush Perfect posted:Kazerad, on one hand, I kinda feel guilty making GBS threads on something that someone clearly works so hard on. Obviously I don't think I do, but I'm pretty sure everyone feels that way about themselves. The best I can say is that I try to run everything I do past a lot of proofreaders, particularly if I'm touching a sensitive topic that I don't have first-hand experience with. The reason I try to Beetlejuice my way into conversations like this one is to make sure I'm at least aware of and engaging with criticisms that don't come up with the proofreaders. I've never made it any secret that Prequel is me trying to get better at comics and writing, and I think this is a part of that. Katia doesn't have a particularly easy time in the story, but the majority of the cast is female, and I don't feel like she's being particularly singled out for it? When it comes to criticisms that the story is needlessly cruel, I admit it's hard for me to respond to because I know that a lot of my readerbase strongly relates to Katia and the emotions she feels. If I portray these struggles as some minor thing she works through early in the story while on the way to becoming a Proper Protagonist, I think it would be kind of needlessly demeaning to the people who see themselves in her position. Something they frequently say to me is that they have trouble finding other fictional characters who capture those feelings they feel, and I don't really want to lose that.
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Jan 24, 2021 07:09
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no gently caress off go away
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Jan 24, 2021 07:25
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everyone please get vaccinated so chilis can re-open
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Jan 24, 2021 08:03
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Toxx to finish your comic kazerad
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Jan 24, 2021 10:08
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e: wait I had people confused
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I have no idea why people are being rude to someone who politely came in to explain his comics-making process.
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because he is a gamergate loving mysogynist who pays ppl who program his comic in gift cards to chilis
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Rand Brittain posted:I have no idea why people are being rude to someone who politely came in to explain his comics-making process. Kazerad is or at least was a supporter of Gamergate. They write a comic where the female main character suffers a lot, including sexual assault. It's hard to be charitable to someone who writes something like that when they also have written in defense of a harassment campaign against women.
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The Chili's giftcard thing was a one-off joke suggestion a friend gave him for contributing some thing to some contest project Kazerad was working on iirc. His friend actually contributed something to that for free. However, he did put in some hardcore man hours throwing up the "actually it's about ethics in gaming journalism" smokescreen because /co/ likes his comic. And does weird poo poo like setting up google alerts to ping him whenever he's mentioned anywhere because he can't not look at people talking about him and I wish he'd gently caress off.
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Nuns with Guns posted:The Chili's giftcard thing was a one-off joke suggestion a friend gave him for contributing some thing to some contest project Kazerad was working on iirc. His friend actually contributed something to that for free. However, he did put in some hardcore man hours throwing up the "actually it's about ethics in gaming journalism" smokescreen because /co/ likes his comic. And does weird poo poo like setting up google alerts to ping him whenever he's mentioned anywhere because he can't not look at people talking about him and I wish he'd gently caress off. Heh, explains why its so easy to page him. But yeah as it is, prequel is exactly what it's going for, however kind of gross that goal (catperson misery porn) might be. Still, the national political throughline from gamergate, to pizzagate, to Qanon, to storming the Capitol definitely makes any past pro-gamergate remarks embarrassing as hell at a barest minimum.
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Xarbala posted:Still, the national political throughline from gamergate, to pizzagate, to Qanon, to storming the Capitol definitely makes any past pro-gamergate remarks embarrassing as hell at a barest minimum. I started writing about the topic because I was doing a blogpost about 4chan at the time, which meant I was going there a lot to figure out how it worked. The timing was such that I saw the initial GamerGate stuff when it was first going down, and a lot of the retroactive reporting on those events did not strike me as accurate. The reason I keep the old posts chrono-order-linked on the side of my Tumblr is so people can see the exact progression of my views on the topic, since I think it is important to have a window into that, even if some of the things have retroactive corrections noted on them, or links to really good counterpoints that might otherwise get lost in the notes. I would argue that a lot of my predictions came true, but in ways I didn't expect (e.g. I wrote about how these conditions tend to create create niche markets that are apathetic to outside opinion, but didn't really foresee the creation of weird isolated-information-markets like QAnon people). Some of the stuff I said back then I think holds up pretty well, like the post about exercising control over anonymous groups. Other stuff, like the gift card thing, I like to think is a result of me being 6-years-worse at articulating my points. Thankfully, I write fanfiction about an ex-cultist who always says things the wrong way, so struggling to overcome a degree of dumbassery kind of tracks.
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This would be a great time to take the L and not keep digging, to mix metaphors
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instead of reading even a single pixel of that braindead poo poo, why not read my webcomic. thanks for considering
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fun hater posted:instead of reading even a single pixel of that braindead poo poo, why not read my webcomic. thanks for considering mm, far better
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fun hater posted:instead of reading even a single pixel of that braindead poo poo, why not read my webcomic. thanks for considering Have I mentioned how much I love your webcomic? The between-chapter you did where they scream about "you can blow Alice up any time you want!" was masterful comedy.
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https://hyperdrivencomic.com/ http://tarottournament.com/ Youse guys should read these comics! My friends do them. I think gamergate would have ended a lot better if a larger adult, middle aged but physically large to an adult in the way an adult is to a child, stormed into Polygon, began destroying games, consoles and computers, Threw a ceramic statue of Mario through the window, and made everyone write an article of real, non-gaming news while he glowers at them.
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FunkyAl posted:https://hyperdrivencomic.com/ Ooh, cheers! I'm quite enjoying them so far! Tell your friends they do good comics!
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Jesus, some wierdo fujoshi creep talked to me like that I'd throw up on them. Watch JJ do the thing for the 150th time where he makes a character do something really lovely but then pulls it back the next strip after he gets called on it.
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FunkyAl posted:https://hyperdrivencomic.com/ i think you have a pretty poor understanding of what gamergate was if you think the problem that needed to be solved was polygon writing different articles, especially if your solution is (even jokingly) "someone should've gone to their offices and physically threatened people"
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flatluigi posted:i think you have a pretty poor understanding of what gamergate was if you think the problem that needed to be solved was polygon writing different articles, especially if your solution is (even jokingly) "someone should've gone to their offices and physically threatened people" I think the problem is that "gamer culture" and "games journalism" are just lifestyle ads for specific types of consumption that end up creating the kind of guy who is in a gamer gate at all, and they are filling in places where we need Real Culture and Real Journalism. The targeted entitlement directed at people like Zoe Quinn is the result of a culture machine that is constantly provoking that entitlement. You are right though, I have a poor understanding of what gamergate is. Then I looked at the wikipedia and found this:  Which, I think, says it all.
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can someone post literally anything to prevent this conversation from continuing
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I mean, congratulations on finding your way to the wikipedia page, but when people are talking about gamergate these days they're referring to the targeted harassment of large chunks of both the videogame industry and the people who covered it (particularly, anyone who wasn't a straight white dude who was seen as not being a True Gamer). the 'lack of coherent position' is referring to when the harassers were asked about why they were doing things like sending bomb threats to the target of the moment & couldn't come up with anything concrete as a smokescreen. even the inciting incident that named the movement was a fake -- the guy who started it admitted he just wanted to ruin his ex's life, nothing in it was true, and the core accusation of 'they slept with people to get positive reviews' fell apart when you actually went and looked and saw their game never got any reviews or even coverage on those websites so, no, gamergate wouldn't have been solved by further attacking journalists! doing that was the problem in the first place! (i know this is a sidetrack for the webcomics thread, but given that people were just talking about 'openly supporting gamergate' as a thing you could've done by accident that did no material harm I felt like it was important to clarify how wrong that is) edit: sorry bea
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Alpha Flag has released a dozen new pages for the first time in a couple years! http://alpha-flag.com I basically always forget about this webcomic until it updates again out of the blue.
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Malpais Legate posted:Have I mentioned how much I love your webcomic? The between-chapter you did where they scream about "you can blow Alice up any time you want!" was masterful comedy. Alaois posted:mm, far better i forgot to mention this but  flatluigi posted:
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Here is the point I was trying to make: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EglOsfErtaE
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Rexxed posted:I also have not read the Snow Queen but did read Demon's Mirror. It had some weird pacing issues where new characters would show up and suddenly be on board with the current events, but it was alright. The author's next comic, A Better Place, ended a few months back. i read this bc of this thread and i really liked it. its a breezy read and took me about 2 days. about 250+ pages. not at all where i expected it to go from the start and i was struck by the message of the comic's ending feeling like kind of an open plea to humanity. i enjoyed it. its nice to see works people have poured a ton into! you can tell a lot of this world exists in the creators mind but we, the audience get to see enough of it to make sense of it.
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fun hater posted:can someone post literally anything to prevent this conversation from continuing Yeah, please, everybody please stop talking about Gamergate in a non-videogame thread in a non-videogame subforum. It's a topic that is really out of place here and is bound to do nothing but stir up tempers and relitigate old wounds so drop it.
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fun hater posted:can someone post literally anything to prevent this conversation from continuing Okay, here is a promotional image from John Allison's upcoming Sausage Force Staring Desmond Fishman, Paul Hollywood, and Amanda the Octopus! 
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hmmmmmm, i hate Desmond but i do enjoy themed hero suits
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