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Asterios
Apr 17, 2008

So long, Skorpex!

https://www.presidentbaby.com

RestingB1tchFace posted:

Sorry.....but that article was a flop. No laughs had.

You seem really, really sorry to say that.

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scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

Asterios posted:

my posting is bad

DON'T CONFESS NEVER CONFESS

Davoren
Aug 14, 2003

The devil you say!

Asterios posted:

You know who'd disagree with you? The thousands and thousands of people who liked and shared my front page article this week.

But my posting is bad. If only I were more like you, a guy who makes post after post about how to raise imaginary video game birds!

Much in the same way as I don't need to write front page articles to comment on them, I can be a bad poster and recognise bad posting. In fact it helps!

Asterios
Apr 17, 2008

So long, Skorpex!

https://www.presidentbaby.com

Davoren posted:

Much in the same way as I don't need to write front page articles to comment on them, I can be a bad poster and recognise bad posting. In fact it helps!

Have fun training up that golden chocobo in your mid-thirties.

Rollersnake
May 9, 2005

Please, please don't let me end up in a threesome with the lunch lady and a gay pirate. That would hit a little too close to home.
Unlockable Ben
That sure was a mediocre Buzzfeed article.

Asterios
Apr 17, 2008

So long, Skorpex!

https://www.presidentbaby.com

Rollersnake posted:

That sure was a mediocre Buzzfeed article.

If you think you can do better, offer's still on the table. I'd rather read your funniest article than your lame loving insults.

Wanamingo
Feb 22, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Calm down, Asterios.

Symbolic Butt
Mar 22, 2009

(_!_)
Buglord
I'm not sure if the Ghostbusters article is funny per se or if it's only funny because I'm imagining Asterios' voice reading it. A huge dilemma in my life.

Asterios
Apr 17, 2008

So long, Skorpex!

https://www.presidentbaby.com

Wanamingo posted:

Calm down, Asterios.

Go gently caress yourself, buddy.

Praxieris
Dec 1, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 5 years!
Taco Defender
I thought the GB article was pretty good. Asterios has clearly captured the prototype for a reviewer beaten down by the potential for any negative public opinion, to the point where even their manner of speaking is non-threatening. [Well, that's how I read it.]

Asterios
Apr 17, 2008

So long, Skorpex!

https://www.presidentbaby.com

Savant Lard posted:

I thought the GB article was pretty good. Asterios has clearly captured the prototype for a reviewer beaten down by the potential for any negative public opinion, to the point where even their manner of speaking is non-threatening. [Well, that's how I read it.]

Thanks, dude! That's nice of you to say!

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
I didn't really get the broken English thing; it seemed to get in the way of the joke. Capturing a typical review's extremely imitable tenor in addition to its substance would have been much funnier - in fact, it's possible to pile on so much stylistic parody that the writing itself becomes hilariously incoherent in the breathless kind of way that this seemed to be aiming for. Mark Prindle isn't writing about Pink there like a caveman; he's boiled a hack's writing style down to its most irritating tics and built an entire review out of them (plus some gimmicks of his own, but they work in the context of his site), while still communicating a discernible, hackish appraisal of the music. This does more or less the opposite, and while I recognize that its more specific (and very astute) points need more direct communication than broad parody, I don't think that it needed to come at the expense of reading like a movie review, which is what it's supposed to be mocking after all.

Sorry that this is so late; I've been doing a bad job of keeping up with the front page.

Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Jul 18, 2016

Asterios
Apr 17, 2008

So long, Skorpex!

https://www.presidentbaby.com
Writing just a straight ahead parody would have been boring. A lovely film review already reads like a parody.

Asterios fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Jul 18, 2016

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
Fair enough!

I really like today's piece. Feels very "classic SA" and is easily my favorite so far.

Asterios
Apr 17, 2008

So long, Skorpex!

https://www.presidentbaby.com

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Fair enough!

I really like today's piece. Feels very "classic SA" and is easily my favorite so far.

Thank you very much!

Davoren
Aug 14, 2003

The devil you say!

Yeah, I was kind of a dick before but I liked this one, as sham said it felt very SA.

Edit: For more meaningful feedback, I generally don't like list articles, and didn't think the lists you wrote previously were that good, but I like the ones you came up with for this and you integrated them into a traditional sa style article in a good way.

Davoren fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Jul 18, 2016

504
Feb 2, 2016

by R. Guyovich

Asterios posted:

You know who'd disagree with you? The thousands and thousands of people who liked and shared my front page article this week.

But my posting is bad. If only I were more like you, a guy who makes post after post about how to raise imaginary video game birds!

Are you realy getting offended by mild criticism on SA?

Do you really think every person In the world is supposed to find your work funny?

Did you really really really just resort to "HAHAHAHA you play video games" as a retort?

I think you have logged into the wrong site, please follow my handy link..

http://www.cad-comic.com/

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
As much as President Baby has been living up to his name in this thread, he has won me over on the front page. Nothing lazy or clickbaity about any of these past few articles; this one especially seems like an active throwback to that whole early-2000s Seanbaby/I-Mockery/X-Entertainment scene, which I have a real soft spot for.

Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Jul 25, 2016

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
i agree. this week's was pretty good.

great job, asterios. no one's gonna call you unfunny, lazy, or lovely on my watch this week

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)
The Paperboy article was pretty great.
Someone mentioned Seanbaby, I agree, it has that entire Seanbaby "I am going to take something ridiculous and make it more ridiculous" air to it.

I could go for an entire series of these!

RestingB1tchFace
Jul 4, 2016

Opinions are like a$$holes....everyone has one....but mines the best!!!
The paperboy article is solid. I give it an 8/10. Solid B- yo.

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

Wanamingo
Feb 22, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

*flings poo poo at somebody for knowing too much about final fantasy*

*starts a pokemon go LP and then immediately abandons it*

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

yeah actually they will
Aug 18, 2012

504 posted:

Are you realy getting offended by mild criticism on SA?

Do you really think every person In the world is supposed to find your work funny?

Did you really really really just resort to "HAHAHAHA you play video games" as a retort?

I think you have logged into the wrong site, please follow my handy link..

http://www.cad-comic.com/

Why would a gaming webcomic use "HAHAHAHA you play video games" as a retort.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

no they will not posted:

Why would a gaming webcomic use "HAHAHAHA you play video games" as a retort.
g0m i like your front page articles, why haven't you written one since December?

tag youre fat
Aug 16, 2013

C'est l'homme ideal
charme au masculin
am i too late to say 'nice meltdown'?

tag youre fat
Aug 16, 2013

C'est l'homme ideal
charme au masculin
no?

tag youre fat
Aug 16, 2013

C'est l'homme ideal
charme au masculin
well in that case

tag youre fat
Aug 16, 2013

C'est l'homme ideal
charme au masculin
nice meltdown

tag youre fat
Aug 16, 2013

C'est l'homme ideal
charme au masculin
:grin:

Asterios
Apr 17, 2008

So long, Skorpex!

https://www.presidentbaby.com


SIX THINGS DONALD TRUMP COULD SAY AND STILL GET ELECTED

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/08/six-things-donald-trump-could-say-and-still-get-el.html

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Today's article was too modern-day Onion-like for my tastes, but I did like this one.

http://www.somethingawful.com/news/firefly-netflix-resurrect/

Woebin
Feb 6, 2006

I don't know who Adolph Hitler is, but Adolf Hitler was kind of a prick.

Asterios
Apr 17, 2008

So long, Skorpex!

https://www.presidentbaby.com
New article up!

"The Fact That Hillary Secretly Murdered Dozens Shows She’s Ready To Lead"



http://www.somethingawful.com/news/hillary-murderer-endorsement/


Also: new episode of my PokemonGo Let's Play, where I try my best to not get killed walking around with a laptop in NYC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANtByVkINk4

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
I liked the hillary article because i've always agreed that if the american mid to upper crusts want to maintain their livelihoods, they need to put hilldawg in and keep this racist western murder machine going cause it's just too late to hit the brakes now.

i don't understand the appeal of a let's play, and even less so for a game like pokemon go. but it did remind me of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA2tpPl-9GQ

nobodygetshurt
Dec 11, 2007

I'd like to go on record as saying - Asterios, I like your recent articles starting from the Firefly article. I stand by what I said regarding your previous work here, but lately you've been killing it!

Chairman Capone
Dec 17, 2008

I was hoping this was going to be JeffK passing the torch on to his son.

RestingB1tchFace
Jul 4, 2016

Opinions are like a$$holes....everyone has one....but mines the best!!!
That last article was teh suxx0r.

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Minimalist Program
Aug 14, 2010

Asterios posted:

New article up!

"The Fact That Hillary Secretly Murdered Dozens Shows She’s Ready To Lead"



http://www.somethingawful.com/news/hillary-murderer-endorsement/


Also: new episode of my PokemonGo Let's Play, where I try my best to not get killed walking around with a laptop in NYC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANtByVkINk4

:chloe:

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