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Giant Ethicist posted:She is reliably to be found masturbating in a bog minutes outside of town. Who amongst us...
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TheHan posted:no más. I’m tapping out. Mookie has managed to become more tedious than his loving road trip arc good god
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Mookie I implore you to start taking notes. Use the free word processor on your computer, index cards, sticky notes, ANYTHING so you don't keep doing this poo poo. A checklist with a few words can work. No one cares that you want to "keep yourself surprised" or whatever. Having a coherent story that actually progresses would be a surprise
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MOOKIE posted:Another goddamn loving recap Fuuuuuuuuuuckkkkk youuuuuuu mooooooooooookieeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:Mookie has managed to become more tedious than his loving road trip arc good god but that horrible arc brought us the snout fucks arc, which is either a sign we need to hold strong or give up months ago
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:but that horrible arc brought us the snout fucks arc, which is either a sign we need to hold strong or give up months ago I'm pretty sure Mookie is delivering exactly what we want and expect
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Snout seeks out the Chandrak, who fucks him and lets him know he needs to find Luna. Snout goes and reads a book, and wonders if he needs to find Luna. He figures that the Chandrak can tell him where Luna is, so he seeks her out. The Chandrak fucks Snout and tells him he needs to find Luna. Snout goes...
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Snout met the Chandrak, and had a vision that said "Luna". Note that he isn't even saying he's going to ask the chandak, but thinking about whether he should. It gets worse when you realize that he did the same thing earlier, where he didn't actually resolve to look for answers to any of his questions about Luna, but simply wondered about her before getting distracted by how good vegan food was, at which point the chandak texted to point him to the answer. He's not even making it as far as deciding to try, anymore. I'm just completely exasperated at this. It's all recursion and redundance; stalling and avoidance. Emrikol fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Jan 31, 2022 |
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Not that it would make the most recent comic good but it would be better at least if Snout just said "I'm going to go to the chandak and ask about Luna." It would show Snout has at least a basic level of intelligence to say "Oh maybe the woman who literally showed me a vision about Luna is a good person to ask about Luna" as well as him showing actual motivation to do something. Snout usually just gets dragged around passively, so just having him say "I will do a thing" would make him an active participant in his own quest (what little "quest" there is anyway). It seems like the only time Snout does things on his own is when it ultimately doesn't matter (like him getting fishing rods to take everyone else fishing).
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Maybe if he had loving ASKED HER ABOUT WHERE TO FIND LUNA THE LAST 3 TIMES HE SAW HER
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FlocksOfMice posted:what on earth is the source for this
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Maybe if he had loving ASKED HER ABOUT WHERE TO FIND LUNA THE LAST 3 TIMES HE SAW HER Now now, it's not like she's a member of a species/culture that reveres Luna as a sacred figure. For that matter, it's not like Snout is in a town full of orcs who presumably share the same reverence for this person!
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Love it Roman Reigns posted:Mookie I implore you to start taking notes. Use the free word processor on your computer, index cards, sticky notes, ANYTHING so you don't keep doing this poo poo. A checklist with a few words can work. No one cares that you want to "keep yourself surprised" or whatever. Having a coherent story that actually progresses would be a surprise The whole make-it-up-as-you-go thing seems like a perfectly fine way to write the first draft of a story, but it so clearly doesn't work the way he wants it to. Like I've heard plenty of writers say they like to start with a basic premise and let the characters take the story wherever it goes, but they aren't usually releasing each page as they write it. For the sake of saying something positive, I think the idea with the book shifting into the author just casually talking to the reader was supposed to be in Snout's dream, rather than actually being written in the book, and I admit I kind of like the idea of a book on lucid dreaming that's designed to bore you to sleep since falling asleep is the first step in having a dream. That could be a cute or funny detail in a better story.
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Oh that's very funny. What do you use for shops like this? The title and graphic look just like the actual thing. A shame it was cut short before the second arc where he looks for a gift for his aunt
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How is he so bad at writing? How does he not remember this already happened? Goon upthread said that Mookie HAD to like making comics to keep at it despite not growing at all and not meeting his patreon quota to actually do the strip but I disagree. Mookie loving hates making comics but he cannot imagine not being known as a comics guy
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Calaveron posted:How is he so bad at writing? How does he not remember this already happened? I think he likes making comics, he's just doing an even worse job with this one. Turning Snout into a passive soft boy means he can't do anything proactive and has to have things happen to solve the plot for him. When that doesn't occur Mookie just spins the wheels of the story over and over again. Maybe it's because it's been over two years (!) since the comic started but I swear things happened faster then.
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Invisible Clergy posted:Oh that's very funny. What do you use for shops like this? The title and graphic look just like the actual thing. I apparently hosed up either a selection or layer ordering at some point because there's weird artifacting around the A in "Deegan" but I didn't bother saving anything so I can't check what the problem was. The rest of the "work" was just rectangle or lasso selecting the existing text and filling in with the background colour and then adding new text using Blambot's Digital Strip font. Did it all in gimp because lol but you could use pretty much image editor because it's all extremely basic poo poo that even schmucks like me who know next to nothing about image editing can handle.
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Good to know, thanks! When I'm making stuff like this, I usually use pixlr. I don't know all the tools yet so they don't turn out as clean looking. I'm still figuring out basic stuff like the magic wand to erase stuff on one layer revealing the one behind it so i can put a crab's head on Gregory Peck's body (Crabicus Pinch) but the more stupid the joke, I feel like it's funnier if it looks really good.
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ScienceSeagull posted:Now now, it's not like she's a member of a species/culture that reveres Luna as a sacred figure. For that matter, it's not like Snout is in a town full of orcs who presumably share the same reverence for this person! One of Snout's friends is also an orc. Heliotrope posted:I think he likes making comics, he's just doing an even worse job with this one. I think Mookie likes making comics like my mom's friend likes doing puzzles. She has a puzzle on a table with the pieces lying beside it. She doesn't actually sit there for any length of time figuring out the puzzle, she just will try a couple of pieces when she walks by it for a few seconds on her way to do other things. The puzzle will eventually be completed, and she's having a good time doing it, but she isn't investing any time in it or making any effort to complete it. Mookie's the same way. I feel like he doesn't even think about Legacy until he sits down at his computer and goes "Oh yeah, I gotta make a new page today," shits one out in fifteen minutes, then goes on to play video games or watch Youtube videos or whatever. It doesn't mean he's not having fun making it, it's just that he doesn't want to spend any time on it or focus on it. He can't even bother to look up what he's already done, which is why we have Snout doing the exact same loving thing he already did before, just like how my mom's friend might mess with a puzzle piece she already messed with the day before, she just doesn't remember.
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The idea that the gibberish word salad in the book is more of a ritual chant to help you lucid dream is kind of an interesting one I know that's not quite what Mookie means here, though
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Medenmath posted:The whole make-it-up-as-you-go thing seems like a perfectly fine way to write the first draft of a story, but it so clearly doesn't work the way he wants it to. Like I've heard plenty of writers say they like to start with a basic premise and let the characters take the story wherever it goes, but they aren't usually releasing each page as they write it. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say he's also just bad at it. Like, improvising your plot is obviously never ideal compared to properly planning and writing a story, full stop, but plenty of (off the top of my head) manga artists have had to pull whole arcs and characters out of their asses with far less boring results. I've been writing by the seat of my pants for years now (over a decade, arguably) and the outcome's been mixed--sometimes confusing, often ugly, but Jesus Christ never so meandering or repetitive. I really, seriously don't know how someone gets stuck in a recap loop without just, I don't know, being entirely devoid of ideas or investment. Even just having characters idly gently caress around should have something to it if the writer has anything so say with or about those characters. Dude's not just carving the path as he goes, he's also doing it with no compass and no destination in mind so he just ends up going in circles. Lunatic Sledge fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Feb 1, 2022 |
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If Mookie did the cliche stuck writer thing and have ninjas come out of nowhere to beat up Snout and steal the book it would be infinitely better than the Mariana Trench like rut he is stuck in now. Honestly I think he's forgotten he had the Redactor and that monk as antagonists. The only antagonist now is the Challenges Symbol.
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Baller Ina posted:The idea that the gibberish word salad in the book is more of a ritual chant to help you lucid dream is kind of an interesting one That... ...is actually a pretty funny idea, yeah.
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It took a year and a half to get to the library, they spent three weeks at the library, then left and spent another three weeks traveling to a remote harbor town where they've been for the last five months, trapped in an interminable loop of redundant visions, recaps, and assorted frittering. We don't know why they did this. That they did it to test themselves emotionally was just our brains extrapolating a line about needing to toughen up backwards as a motive to try and make sense of something. No explanation has been given for this entire trip.
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Emrikol posted:It took a year and a half to get to the library, they spent three weeks at the library, then left and spent another three weeks traveling to a remote harbor town where they've been for the last five months, trapped in an interminable loop of redundant visions, recaps, and assorted frittering. We don't know why they did this. That they did it to test themselves emotionally was just our brains extrapolating a line about needing to toughen up backwards as a motive to try and make sense of something. No explanation has been given for this entire trip. Wait, it's been how long since the library?
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super sweet best pal posted:Wait, it's been how long since the library? Six and a half months. I didn't include the time between leaving the library and leaving Aktu Hold. Emrikol fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Feb 1, 2022 |
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