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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:while it's cool to invent things that make you sad, the actual result is that about half a dozen people have encountered Thorsby comics for the first time, binged the entirety of them, and had their lives immeasurably enriched i thought they were referring to raine dog which is absolutely garbage
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It’s legit good that people are being introduced to thorsby comics. Again, anybody who liked the passion, lies, and fungus part of the comic I would highly recommend the lies, sisters and wives comic. Very similar energies except this one is set in a self contained short story. I started reading this thread because I saw a few gamer dilbert comics and liked them. Figured out that I could get my fix by seeing them posted here. Like heck am I going to scroll through Twitter to get my webcomic fix. I’m all in favor of full runs of comics being posted here a few per day so that we can all commentate on them together. If you don’t like it just scroll past, or worst case scenario, put the user on ignore like a handful of people have done with me. 
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I legitimately went from hating PFSC to loving it because of this thread. I don't read a lot of BSS, but following Trixie Slaughteraxe with the thread there was also a lot of fun. Occasionally there would be some wild-rear end speculation that would end up right. Please start posting Whomp again, I just got back into that comic and haven't read the rough early ones in a long time. 
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Jul 9, 2021 12:40
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i vaguely remember some extremely weird drama about pupkin's creator but not what it was
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Jul 9, 2021 12:48
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rydiafan posted:OK, Hitmen For Destiny just used a "if super powers were scientifically accurate" thing I've been annoying people with since I was like 10 years old, and that's amazing. Yeah, H G Wells already worked that one out in 1896. His invisible man was just a pair of retinas floating along at about head level. Oddly, Ralph Ellison never mentioned the point.
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Len posted:Pyf comic kind of implies like a curated list not "I'm going to repost all of this comic here" OK, here comes  mod inputOcean of Milk posted:Posting Nedroid was okay because it's excellent and every strip is in fact everybody's favorite comic. Ziv Zulander posted:I’m all in favor of full runs of comics being posted here a few per day so that we can all commentate on them together. If you don’t like it just scroll past, or worst case scenario, put the user on ignore like a handful of people have done with me. I basically agree with this. I know there are, elsewhere, at least two other threads for posting comics: the newspaper comics thread (which I read and post in every day) and the webcomics thread (which I have not so much as looked at in years). They're also both in very disparate parts of the forum in terms of community and moderation, although there is poster overlap. I don't like timg in a comics thread because scrolling past something I don't care about is, for me, easier than having to click and enlarge something I do care about, especially on mobile, where too long a touch opens the image up in (99% of the time) a loving imgur browser tab. Pretty much everything is OK to post but I have put my foot down about Moon over June. Absolutely not. That said, I don't think big dumps are useful, even for comics that are / have been long-running. The newspaper comics thread largely has each comic posted once a day, twice if someone is playing catch-up. That gives the comics, and the conversation around them, a lot of breathing space. If you want to binge-read something and not discuss it, I'm sure people will be happy to point you in the right direction to do so! Let's say you're not a Whomp superfan but there's one installment you really like. Cool, post it. Let's say you are a Whomp superfan and want to repost the whole comic here from its start. Also cool, but limit yourself to posting two strips a day or so. The PYF comics thread has its own culture and it's one that I (and I think pretty much everyone here) has come to like, but we've gone from "ha ha what if I posted all of X" to "oh lord, he's actually posting all of X", and so I think the above guideline allows for a middle-ground. Pastry of the Year has a new favorite as of 13:05 on Jul 9, 2021 |
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Jul 9, 2021 13:03
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Carthag Tuek posted:i thought they were referring to raine dog which is absolutely garbage it definitely is but i also think it should be inflicted on PYF, to punish you all
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:it definitely is but i also think it should be inflicted on PYF, to punish you all Splicer has a new favorite as of 13:16 on Jul 9, 2021 |
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Jul 9, 2021 13:13
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Splicer posted:It's also short and brought us the amazing Hot Dog which I cannot find  edit: you son of a bitch
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Jul 9, 2021 13:17
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 Translator's note: local = Polish, imported = Spanish.
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Can confirm, polish tomatoes are bounds and leaps better than the watery imported trash.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Pretty much everything is OK to post but I have put my foot down about Moon over June. Absolutely not.  Carthag Tuek posted:i thought they were referring to raine dog which is absolutely garbage lmao
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gleebster posted:Yeah, H G Wells already worked that one out in 1896. His invisible man was just a pair of retinas floating along at about head level. Oddly, Ralph Ellison never mentioned the point. Ralph Ellison's invisible man is only invisible because he absorbs a lot of light which does not interfere with his retinas.
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Hitmen for Destiny #6, 31st Dec 2013
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Hitmen for Destiny #6, 31st Dec 2013 loving the dun-dun-duh!
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Hitmen for Destiny #6, 31st Dec 2013 Note: those dates are probably new site's upload dates (they are all within three days). I think the original comic launched in 2007, I believe.
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Kennel posted:Note: those dates are probably new site's upload dates (they are all within three days). oh thanks for the heads up, I probably would've posted the entire series without noticing that lol
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Mx. posted:i vaguely remember some extremely weird drama about pupkin's creator but not what it was All I can remember is that he was friends or acquaintances with Shmorky, who said that he was okay but extremely weird (anything they said is suspect, but it's all I have to go on). I'll stop posting if he was like a nazi or molested kids or something, but will otherwise continue. Pastry of the Year posted:OK, here comes Thank you for loving Pupkin. Twitch has a new favorite as of 15:48 on Jul 9, 2021 |
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Twitch posted:All I can remember is that he was friends or acquaintances with Shmorky, who said that he was okay but extremely weird (anything they said is suspect, but it's all I have to go on). I'll stop posting if he was like a nazi or molested kids or something, but will otherwise continue. if it was something that bad I probably would have remembered
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im the guy lower left who couldnt think of anything clever but is into this poo poo anyway
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Pastry of the Year posted:Pretty much everything is OK to post but I have put my foot down about Moon over June. Absolutely not. My sixer was well deserved and worth it. Also it was surprisingly hard to find the first couple MOJ comics, which is truly for the best.
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Mx. posted:if it was something that bad I probably would have remembered From some Googling, it looks like his brother and his mom are the people who run Keenspot, and there's no way that hasn't resulted in extremely weird drama. Slimy Hog posted:My sixer was well deserved and worth it. I think MoJ got moved to a straight-up porno site at some point.
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Kennel posted:(and then when you've read all the good thorsbys, it's time to read The Evolutions of Homosexuality and Suicide and be disappointed) I read this with concern, because I love thorsby and it sounds like a not great title. I am both gay and a geneticist and I was pleasantly surprised. It's surprisingly genetics-literate. It's wrong, but not because of any particular misunderstanding on thorsbys part, in fact he's got a better grasp on basic population genetics than some of my first year students. It's only wrong because genetics of behavior is a lot more complicated than the punnet-square level logic he's using. It -feels- offensive, but only because it's got that weirdly frank and forthright autist-logic style he has. Overall, this could have been a lot worse. I would not have wanted to have learned that thorsby was a nazi today.
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It's not a comic but for everyone who's new to Thorsby, I'd like to also recommend The Adventurer's Consumer Guide, a text adventure he made about being a writer for a magazine that reviews adventuring equipment. It's very fun and has the same sort of humor as Hitmen for Destiny. (Yes, you can read every single page in that book) Snake Maze has a new favorite as of 16:41 on Jul 9, 2021 |
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That's a dichotomous key taxon ID manual, haha. Okay thorsby has 100% done a genetics undergrad.
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Twitch posted:All I can remember is that he was friends or acquaintances with Shmorky, who said that he was okay but extremely weird (anything they said is suspect, but it's all I have to go on). I'll stop posting if he was like a nazi or molested kids or something, but will otherwise continue. speaking of shmorky, i used to have the entire "big ones" run from keenspot on my hd around 2000. i might even have burned it on a cdr, but last i checked i couldnt find it. tbh, its probably for the best.
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Phy posted:On the origins of Sgt Chowdown this is my new favorite comic
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is that a monkey paw situation where he's trapped in a mess-hall placard, forever pre-chow?
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The comic states nothing about the maliciousness of the genie, and I won't be party to stereotyping it as such Sgt Chowdown truly enjoyed his dog and soft drink, and it wasn't until days later when he realized he had blown his wish on the equivalent of a buck 25 at Ikea
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:while it's cool to invent things that make you sad, the actual result is that about half a dozen people have encountered Thorsby comics for the first time, binged the entirety of them, and had their lives immeasurably enriched Raine Dog and Moon over June were being posted in the spirit of "if we're posting bad comics you should be subjected to this". That's the distinction I wanted to draw.
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Phy posted:Sgt Chowdown truly enjoyed his dog and soft drink, and it wasn't until days later when he realized he had blown his wish on the equivalent of a buck 25 at
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By popular demand posted:
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Pupkin's author was Chris Crosby's younger brother Bobby I think (the former being founder of Keenspot comic host) and they all were kind of strange? The latter was a poster here after some people were joke posting the comic and they'd always end their posts with "thank you for reading pupkin" and got banned a couple times I think. I seem to remember them talking up how successful their comics were and that they were being optioned for a movie deal but have no recollection about how that ended up.
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I'm continuing to binge HfD, and finally, FINALLY somebody has explained to my satisfaction why Finnish is the way it is.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:GISing "Dominic deegan jazz hands" led me to the old loss.jpg thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e60JlM6ZXHc
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haha I just ran across that again a week or two. Fuckin classic
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