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Runa posted:Forgot what thread I had open and spent about ten seconds wondering what Tim Sweeney's very specific monomania was Its losing massive amounts of money on anything that isnt Fortnite.
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Speaking of a specific kind of monomania, I recently discovered a comic called Motherlover. I want to share the About page for it. I went the extra mile to include the formatting, you're welcome.Motherlover's About page posted:Motherlover is a sweet serial romance comic about two moms from different walks of life who (are going to eventually) fall in love, with a bunch of other life stuff that happens along the way. I admire the purity and directness of "THIS ENTIRE COMIC IS TO MAKE THESE TWO KISS."
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I've had Motherlover in my RSS feeds for a while but fell behind on it. I need to catch up, I remember it as being pretty decent, but I may end up waiting until it's done. Another comic that recently picked back up is the  -ish Go Get A Roomie.The artist started doing a re-publishing of it in regular intervals, and after getting to the original end, revealed that they'd drawn more stuff and would continue the story, since some people originally felt the ending wasn't the best it could've been.  EDIT: Looking at it, it looks like the rerun is finished too?
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There's this new comic called Sun Princess which I found incredibly adorable: https://tapas.io/series/Sun-Princess/info It's about a young girl who has a curse that makes her faint when she gets anxious, so she decides to become a monster hunter to beat the curse.
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Wow, Mother Lover is really good. Thank you for linking it.
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Love your mother! And love you! Get loved!
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im sorry, i just don't love your mother anymore
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Well this loving sucks, John Allison just got a cease and desist for his Conan story... despite Conan being public domain. https://badmachinery.com/comic/announcement/
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Captain Oblivious posted:And Namesake. God I hate Namesake. Do as I say not as I do kids. I'm not asking for a massive youtube ransona special or anything but what's Namesake's deal? It's one of those Hiveworks comics that just seems to constantly pop up on ads, and that's the only way I've become dimly aware of it. habeasdorkus posted:Well this loving sucks, John Allison just got a cease and desist for his Conan story... despite Conan being public domain. That sucks. The Conan IP holder is definitely one of those entities that's litigious as poo poo even when they probably don't have the legal grounds to stand on here. They're relying on the fact that untangling what is legally permissible to use would be too expensive and time consuming for most people over loving Conan the Barbarian. Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Apr 23, 2024 |
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Apr 23, 2024 03:31
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Nuns with Guns posted:I'm not asking for a massive youtube ransona special or anything but what's Namesake's deal? It's one of those Hiveworks comics that just seems to constantly pop up on ads, and that's the only way I've become dimly aware of it. It's like some kind of "What If The Wizard of Oz & Other Stories Were Real" type story about ostensibly real people finding themselves inside famous fictional universes. I also have no idea why it's reviled. Far as I knew the author stopped updating it years ago, but a glance at its main page shows it's back...?
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habeasdorkus posted:Well this loving sucks, John Allison just got a cease and desist for his Conan story... despite Conan being public domain. It might have been one of those things where Allison could have drawn Conan public domain stories but as Conan himself is trademarked he couldn't make a new story. Funcom at one point bought the rights to REH's stuff - which gave us the MMO - and Funcom was later bought out by Tencent.
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Dawgstar posted:It might have been one of those things where Allison could have drawn Conan public domain stories but as Conan himself is trademarked he couldn't make a new story. Funcom at one point bought the rights to REH's stuff - which gave us the MMO - and Funcom was later bought out by Tencent. he literally says who contacted him if you click through edit: although my bad I guess cabinet (who owns conan properties international) IS what got bought by funcom? I still dont know why tencent is relevant to this, cabinet was like this long before that studio mujahideen fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Apr 23, 2024 |
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Nuns with Guns posted:I'm not asking for a massive youtube ransona special or anything but what's Namesake's deal? It's one of those Hiveworks comics that just seems to constantly pop up on ads, and that's the only way I've become dimly aware of it. Nah it doesn’t warrant a massive rant really don’t worry. Namesake’s deal is this: It starts with a girl not named Dorothy (this is part of the initial mystery) being pulled into Oz and learning that there are people called Namesakes who are doomed/destined to repeat certain stories to shore up the fundamental Symbolic Magic of the universe. Which is a fine enough premise and it starts out well. But to make a very long story short, it devolves into uh…a lot of very fanfic-y retcons and technobabble and so much goddamn technobabble as the stakes ever escalate and the plot becomes ever more obtuse. The art can be very pretty though, though a lot of people in CCCC actually didn’t like the art and found it cluttered? Idk. I don’t have strong opinions on that one.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Namesake’s deal is this: It starts with a girl not named Dorothy (this is part of the initial mystery) being pulled into Oz and learning that there are people called Namesakes who are doomed/destined to repeat certain stories to shore up the fundamental Symbolic Magic of the universe. That's basically the plot of Pratchett's Witches Abroad, right?
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Tree Bucket posted:That's basically the plot of Pratchett's Witches Abroad, right?
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It's Witches Abroad crossed with Wicked crossed with thar "female YA protagonist" twitter account.
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Splicer posted:It's Witches Abroad crossed with Wicked crossed with thar "female YA protagonist" twitter account. This is an excellent summary. But you’re still underselling the degree of AO3 fanfic with 300 chapters levels of “it’s chapter 267 and it’s time to asspull a bunch of technobabble and retcons” involved.
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my experience with the ppl who write and draw namesake was very negative lol. they are hiveworks staff and blew me off when i tried to warn them that one of the other hiveworks artists was a unabashed career scam artist like 6 years ago. it would have been financially inconvenient for them to do anything about it and would have required either tweedledee and tweedledum to have a spine i guess. never read the comic until it was posted in CCCC and its quite bad e: sorry I'm still bitching about this stuff but its a relief to see people talk about comics outside of obligatory and insincere "professional courtesy" fun hater fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Apr 23, 2024 |
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The CCCC thread didn’t even post the ‘good’ stuff. It was still in the harmless YA novel phase before things get WILDLY stupid.
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Captain Oblivious posted:The CCCC thread didn’t even post the ‘good’ stuff. It was still in the harmless YA novel phase before things get WILDLY stupid. thats ASTOUNDING to me that what we read was the before times. holy moly lol
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Captain Oblivious posted:The CCCC thread didn’t even post the ‘good’ stuff. It was still in the harmless YA novel phase before things get WILDLY stupid. WHAT it was already so boring bad and stupid hahahah
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I poo poo you not we didn’t even get to the “actually bad” stuff in relative terms. It’s a swan dive from what we saw before CCCC got bored. Namesake eventually gets so obtuse that even I, connoisseur of garbage, couldn’t stick with it.
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I liked namesake. Not enough to keep reading it apparently since this is my reminder that it exists, but I liked it when I read it.
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The main character and her sister and the girl she's a clone of looked too similar. It always took me a second to figure out which of them was which. That wasn't the only time I was confused about what the hell was happening in that comic, either. It just seemed directionless most of the time.Captain Oblivious posted:Lore Olympus doesn't deserve a hate train. Like, it's bad, no doubt about it...but it's at least kind of benignly, weirdly bad. It's fun to pick apart it's deeply strange decisions. It's ongoing efforts to girlbossify Greek Myth is some of the funniest poo poo I have ever read. I wish more people treated bad art this way. Nowadays I get bummed out when a group of people boil in their own anger about the fact that the thing they don't like exists. The only exception I'll allow for is bigoted or socially harmful art, and even in that regard some people love jumping to conclusions.
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I think the clones looking similar is, uh, justifiable. I dont think I've ever confused the sister for either of them though
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Really enjoying the last couple weeks of QC. I realize I'm a much bigger fan than most of this thread, but the party scene is the definition of good clean fun.
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habeasdorkus posted:Really enjoying the last couple weeks of QC. I realize I'm a much bigger fan than most of this thread, but the party scene is the definition of good clean fun. QC is doing what it does best. It is blandly inoffensive. Sometimes it gets a sensible chuckle or small smile. Working as intended. I don’t really get virulent QC hate. The QC reddit is full blown mock thread psychosis and has a massive hate on for Claire. GlyphGryph posted:I think the clones looking similar is, uh, justifiable. I dont think I've ever confused the sister for either of them though Later on when the plot is like 8 Xanatos Gambits and assorted time travel from their mom deep the little sister gets older and it becomes way easier to mistake them at a glance.
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Captain Oblivious posted:I poo poo you not we didn’t even get to the “actually bad” stuff in relative terms. It’s a swan dive from what we saw before CCCC got bored.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Lore Olympus doesn't deserve a hate train. Like, it's bad, no doubt about it...but it's at least kind of benignly, weirdly bad. It's fun to pick apart it's deeply strange decisions. It's ongoing efforts to girlbossify Greek Myth is some of the funniest poo poo I have ever read. That's why I find it more disgusting than amusing.
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Double posting is a land of contrasts.
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Splicer posted:Please go on... Okay so while it starts as Namesakes and Ur-Symbolic Magic that sustains the universe we eventually learn that Ozma, Princess of Oz, is the last true Muse or the last living fragment of The Muse I forget which honestly and that in the beginning of time like, darkness became sentient and started devouring The Muse(s) who tell the stories that sustain existence and now all the Muse(s) are dead and reality is fundamentally broken and everyone wants to craft a Skeleton Key, a super Namesake to open the way to the King of Crowns which is apparently a fancy name for death or the universe’s recycling bin for stories which is now overfull because the Muse(s) are dead or both honestly I forget. Anyway they need a Skeleton Key to open the way to the King of Crowns to fix reality or remake it in their own image it depends. And so Emma is a synthetic Skeleton Key made by the Rippers who started out as a faction rebelling against the injustice of the entire existence of being a Namesake and also people just looking to slurp up Namesake magic for their own interests but it turns out that this is just layer one and in fact the Rippers were just doing what Emma’s mom planned and Emma’s mom is a super genius Vorpalsmith iterating on functionally infinite Emmas across functionally infinite realities/timelines, and her powers and abilities get increasingly ill defined with time. At some point three orders of witches are introduced and they obviously knew all of this the whole time despite only appearing on like page 2000. Also she bangs a male version of the wicked witch. Except not really it’s all very chaste. This is all off the top of my head imperfect recollections but it should be mostly correct. Captain Oblivious fucked around with this message at 10:29 on May 7, 2024 |
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Splicer posted:The basic premise is a looks-in-his-40s guy creeping on actually-is-a-teenager and this is portrayed as good and every adult who says it's not is immediately shown to be an evil monster with their own agenda. Which would be just regular "gross lol" if it was some niche comic but it's very popular with and directly advertised to the vulnerable group it's grooming. All of that is true. And yet the author is a woman (she even frequently wears her hair like short hair Persephone!) and so are the audience by and large. It’s a bodice ripper harlequin romance novel basically, it is a fantasy by women for women. That doesn’t make it good but fantasies are often not good. But it means I mostly shrug at it because it’s not a man writing about his lust to groom, it’s a woman using Persephone as her author/audience insert. Yeah that sucks but one is considerably more concerning than the other. Or in other words it’s about as concerning as Twilight. Captain Oblivious fucked around with this message at 10:50 on May 7, 2024 |
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I hope everything turns out okay for our heroine, Laura Limpus.
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If someone comes up to you to start a long rant about how much they hate Pizza Margherita, which they nonetheless eat every day… QC is fine, and anyone who has strong opinions on it is inevitably wrong about many other things.
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Captain Oblivious posted:QC is doing what it does best. It is blandly inoffensive. Sometimes it gets a sensible chuckle or small smile. Working as intended. what a shocker that they zeroed in on that character in particular  https://youtu.be/DOqb_UzJSUQ?si=mTvE3e-kRfP70QPE
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To be honest I haven't even seen QC hate on SA in a long time. At least here it seems like the mood on it has stabilized to about where its own mood is.
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Order of the Stick updated! I was getting worried about the author. It feels like every time I check on my old favorites something bad happened to the artist and they go into eternal hiatus.
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isasphere posted:Order of the Stick updated! I was getting worried about the author. It feels like every time I check on my old favorites something bad happened to the artist and they go into eternal hiatus. You're not wrong to think it. Rich hasn't had so much issues as a lifetime subscription over the years.
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Runa posted:To be honest I haven't even seen QC hate on SA in a long time. At least here it seems like the mood on it has stabilized to about where its own mood is. Yeah, folks on this thread don't hate QC. I think most people find it meh whereas I actually like it. Dawgstar posted:You're not wrong to think it. Rich hasn't had so much issues as a lifetime subscription over the years. We were worried in the OOTS thread that we'd have to restart alignment chat to summon Rich's next release.
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