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Billy Gnosis posted:Isnt the link suppression a myth? Yes, but also he doesn't have many engaged followers on twitter anyway
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Mx. posted:Yes, but also he doesn't have many engaged followers on twitter anyway Yeah i can see Mookie looking at the engagement and just not acknowledging reality. Him believing its wrong because the he gets constant praise on twitter (nevermind its from the same 2-3 accounts over and over again)
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I don't know what SEO magic he expects to happen. Webcomics get popular through word of mouth sharing, from fans and other webcomic creators. Not the Twitter algorithm.
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I'm very confused by the idea of hi def Deegan strips.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I don't know what SEO magic he expects to happen. Webcomics get popular through word of mouth sharing, from fans and other webcomic creators. Not the Twitter algorithm. Seeing this happen irl with my stuff completely outside of social media has been one of the coolest things that I thought was literally impossible.
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Mors Rattus posted:I'm very confused by the idea of hi def Deegan strips. perfect for the connoisseurs of that "drawn during trigonometry class" style
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I don't know what SEO magic he expects to happen. Webcomics get popular through word of mouth sharing, from fans and other webcomic creators. Not the Twitter algorithm. Many artists on social media these days expect the algorithm to magically bring them an audience without any promotional effort on their part and they throw fits when the people running their platforms make it less effective for them.
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Invisible Clergy posted:Did inkwich blast her hat off with a note card inside of it and pass it to Snout? Did Snout write that offpanel to himself? Either explanation is weird. It's clearly Ink Witch's, but yeah, her hat blew off and into Snout's hands, and it just happened to have a note in it with an aside to Snout written on it. The last time she was in the Wild Edge she spent time communicating with Snout via magic notes, so, seeing as we're back in the Wild Edge, we're doing that again. It's extra weird because it's totally unnecessary. We can see Arudak and Jacob glaring at each other. It's visually communicated that there's a bad history and mutual dislike between them. Emrikol fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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Emrikol posted:It's clearly Ink Witch's, but yeah, her hat blew off and into Snout's hands, and it just happened to have a note in it with an aside to Snout written on it. It's not unnecessary. Because Mookie wrote a note about it, it stops being the author running out of ideas and instead becomes a recurring theme!
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SatansOnion posted:perfect for the connoisseurs of that "drawn during trigonometry class" style We've joked about that since the old thread but, honestly, I'd loving love that. I feel like a comic that leaned into it and went whole hog for the 'this is something a bored kid in the 90s or early aughts drew during middle/high school math class" could be really drat interesting and fun if done right. Just, you know, another example of how you can do all sorts of interesting and fun things when you know the basic rules of your medium and choose to break them in interesting ways, rather than being an idiot who never learned them in the first place.
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Mookie posted:Gumroad is pretty chill about what you make, so long as it’s yours. YOURS?! You're selling books with traced fuckin' art in them, you hack.
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MiracleFlare posted:But what about art done by people who don't have the benefit of being well-known? For example, in that traced image of the park, how many people are going to know first that it was traced at all, and then know that the original photo was taken by Jake Tobin Garrett, a guest writer who took photos for a city design project? Which also makes it doubly lovely that Mookie hasn't even acknowledged he's using photos that were taken for a specific organization and specific reason. Instead he just talks about how much pride he has in having drawn that page. I had to go back to the post where I found out the source he traced a park backgrounds from, and half the pictures aren't on that page anymore. I don't know if it's because of normal data loss, from me not remembering which photo was traced (I think I might have been referring to the one in this post), or if the photographer deliberately removed it for any reason. Either way, gently caress off Mookie stop trying to sell uncredited traces for money. Also how do Arudak and Jacob even have beef? I thought the "Zombie Alive" was supposed to be a mysterious historical figure and that it was hard for just Kikero to be able to contct him. Then again that's probably my fault for making assumptions of the plot and not just knowing that Arudak coincidentally knows the guy who knew Kaianda's original body. Also gently caress off Ink Witch, you caused half the drama with Arudak. MiracleFlare fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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Like this feels like a scene in a JRPG where all that's happening is the stock character portraits are popping up in the dialogue interface with like a big sweat drop or angry sign or whatever while the text box just displays "..." again and again.
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Mookie just get Daz3D and start tracing models and backgrounds.
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Given that...well, I was going to say that Mookie doesn't give a gently caress about craftsmanship but actually the artistic temperature of Legacy is holding at about a billion fucks below absolute zero. But yeah, given that he absolutely doesn't give a poo poo about craftsmanship for its own sake or whatever, it would make sense for him to throw a bunch of his old strips into DreamBooth or whatever to get an aesthetic embed and then get SD or whatever to cough out the art for the strips, either as a reference to trace over or, let's be real, just to use by themselves. But he's worried about AI stealing his non-existent ideas so w/e.
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This is so grange for me to say but I don't understand how you make like a significant amount of money and put out 10 black and white panels a week. In the last 2 days I did 17 colored and shaded panels. Fun Hater does a poo poo ton of beautifully rendered panels in the same amount of time, so do many other content creators. How do you pick the easiest fastest medium and still phone it in.
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He's not just a hack, but a loving hack
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Boba Pearl posted:This is so grange for me to say but I don't understand how you make like a significant amount of money and put out 10 black and white panels a week. In the last 2 days I did 17 colored and shaded panels. Fun Hater does a poo poo ton of beautifully rendered panels in the same amount of time, so do many other content creators. How do you pick the easiest fastest medium and still phone it in. And it's full time. This is his job. I work a day job and do 15 pages a week lol.
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I was thinking of you exactly! Yes! I mean what the gently caress. The more I do this the more I love it. I just can't imagine getting to a point where I just loving give up like that. Just not give a gently caress.
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I imagine taking care of his kid is part of it, he's posted about being a stay-at-home dad. Which is fine? That's fine. Good for him.
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Boba Pearl posted:This is so grange for me to say but I don't understand how you make like a significant amount of money and put out 10 black and white panels a week. In the last 2 days I did 17 colored and shaded panels. Fun Hater does a poo poo ton of beautifully rendered panels in the same amount of time, so do many other content creators. How do you pick the easiest fastest medium and still phone it in. Oh you just know he knocks out those pages in as few hours as possible. If he had any pride in hard work he wouldn't have done that full page of text.
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It’s harder to make a comic when you have no idea what you the Hell you even want to do
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I don't know what SEO magic he expects to happen. Webcomics get popular through word of mouth sharing, from fans and other webcomic creators. Not the Twitter algorithm. Oh well too late now.
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I know when I have beef with someone, I walk up to them the moment I see them, even if they're surrounded by their friends who clearly love them. Then I stand about a foot away and start scowling right in their face, so everyone knows I'm really mad at them. Snout's snout is back at least.
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That Sweet Spot of Board Gamesquote:I am not a huge board game player, but I’ve come to greatly enjoy a very particular kind of board game.
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First: What games are you talking about, Mookie? You didn't name a single one. What are the games? Second: This is another story about how you're stupid and annoying and people have stopped inviting you places. Third: I don't believe you. I'm honestly surprised at how much Mookie's blog posts make me angry. They're so fake, and empty, and unintentionally self-damning. I've always tried to be generous, but the more Mookie talks the more I find myself moving from confusion and exasperation into actual hate. He's stupid, creepy, and self-absorbed. Emrikol fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Now this is the kind of stuff where knowing your limits and having come to terms with them is a good thing, since it is a social thing that involves other peoples' comfort. But the man doesn't know how to drive engagement at all. Is he worried that if he namedrops board games it will be some kind of product placement? He could be giving examples of the games he likes and the ones he doesn't so that his readers and patrons could share their own experiences with them or give recommendations about them - or even bring up the webcomic author they follow to their friends that are into board games and possibly expand his reach.
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Mx. posted:And it's full time. This is his job. What comic do you write?
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Mx. posted:That Sweet Spot of Board Games I worryingly agree with parts of this blogpost. There is this tendency in boardgames to make them incredibly complicated, and I don't like that. We recently had this new game and started by watching a twenty minute Youtube tutorial before digging through the manual and then we still forgot tons of things as we played. Was kind of fun because we were all on board with it and all at the same level, but one of our friends is hyper competitive and kept getting frustrated. If we'd been on different skill levels, this would have been less enjoyable for sure. Of course then we get to "I refuse to play games my elementary school kid can't play", which... says a lot about the type of games Mookie considers "require bluffing and/or strategy at the level of a military commander". "You placed one of your figures close to my goal and waited until I got close to kick me out? What kind of military commander are you? This game is no fun!"
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His blog posts are written at the level of a 4th grader's essay in that class where you first learn composition. They're the blog posts that Patrick Bateman would write. They say and reveal nothing, and that becomes revealing of the void that lies underneath. It's the kind of thing where I'm trying to imagine who would disagree with it. Like yeah, there are certain games I will never play again because I don't have a good time with them. For example, games that are very heavy on wheeling and dealing, like Sidereal Confluence, are just no fun for me. I'm slow to speak up, I don't know how to profit in a game like that, and so I either try to be too vicious and get nothing or I'm too nice and get steamrolled over. The whole point of these posts is to drive engagement. It reminds me of a bad conversation on a dating app. You know, you get these nothing replies that don't really move the conversation forward. How are you supposed to engage with this. Ideally, his fans could recommend board games or maybe help him identify how he could enjoy certain games more. Or you know, actually talk. What I learned is that Mookie likes some games and doesn't like others. I can't wait to learn about his music taste. I bet you he likes some genres and dislikes others, but that's a few songs he likes that are in genres he doesn't typically enjoy. I don't know if the world can handle that hot take.
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