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scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
http://www.somethingawful.com/news/funny-burlesque-names/

is the joke that 3 people were involved in writing this poo poo morsel? :chanpop:

i don't think these listicles fit with the tone of the site or the other front page articles and i'd like to see less of them if that's cool.

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scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
http://www.somethingawful.com/news/livetweet-baby-airplane/

http://www.somethingawful.com/news/star-trek-novels/

what is going on

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
this week's was better 'cause the sparse word count was transferred onto some good trump pics. i don't wanna poo poo on him completely because it's not like i do any writing of my own.

I wouldn't be able to come up with content that fulfills all the funny/original/punctual criterias on a weekly basis.

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
i'll take your challenge.

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
well now we've done it

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

Asterios posted:

Nope, nobody submitted anything.

initially I was intrigued by your challenge. but I don't have much of a response to "let's see if you can do better" because I really just wanted you to do better. at least some of the people in this thread like a lot of your stuff and just know you can do better.

if you feel insulted and are retaliating with low effort throw-aways, that wasn't my intention.

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

Asterios posted:

What low effort throwaways? I honestly don't get this criticism. If anything, graphical content takes more time to create than prose-only content.

It's easy to go "hurr hurr u made six JPGs cant believe LOWTAX gave u MY TENBUX" but it can be harder to write & design graphic one-liners than a five hundred word article. That's like judging how good a painting is based on the size of the canvas. It's dumb.

That's like painting one painting, copying and pasting it 6 times, and then calling it 6 paintings.

Asterios posted:

Something else you might not realize: graphical content performs a lot better, because people like retweeting and sharing graphic-driven comedy.

http://www.somethingawful.com/news/star-wars-spoilers/ <-- this got retweeted by Carrie Fisher from the red carpet of The Force Awakens premiere to her one million followers.

http://www.somethingawful.com/news/donald-trump-contradictions/ <-- these got so much traffic that people started stealing the JPGs, and Lowtax had to go after content thieves: https://twitter.com/lowtax/status/707579293098909696

http://www.somethingawful.com/news/more-tombstone-goofs/ <-- these were featured on the front page of the Huffington Post.

I have a shitload more examples of this, but you guys seem to want every article to be filled with hundreds and hundreds of lines of text. If that's what you like, awesome, read someone else's stupid bullshit. My stupid bullshit has a lot of graphics in it.

It's hard to argue the merits of comedy because it's entirely subjective. But calling the poo poo I produce low-effort is just stupid. Jesus christ, the thing I made yesterday took loving forever.

I liked Trump vs Trump. I saw that huffpo picked up your tombstone goofs and that's cool. i don't think either of us think that the amount of shares or tweets something gets is an accurate metric for how funny something is. and i can jack it forever without any effort so time taken doesn't equate to how much effort you put into something. like if http://www.somethingawful.com/news/mean-girl-states/ took forever, there aren't as many units of comedy per units of time spent as in http://www.somethingawful.com/news/slate-clickbait-headlines/ .

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

Asterios posted:

Jesus christ, are you getting paid to be a pedantic rear end in a top hat or something? Because A) I am, and B) you know what I'm trying to say here.

well I'm at work right now so I guess I am.

I don't have a problem with your tombstone spoofs. I thought the first set was all right. i'm glad they were featured on huffpo.

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
what's your book going to be about?

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
i liked today's picto-article, too

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
what happened to dick? o_O

that was an awkward finale.

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
what did we ever do to you

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

Asterios posted:

You started a hate thread about my writing?

no, I made an encouragement thread.

why isn't it working :mad:

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
I never said it's not what I'm used to. I said it wasn't very good!

You could poo poo in my mouth and tell me it takes some getting used to and I'll tell you No sir I don't like it.

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
asterios, i volunteer myself as your attorney. please purchase plat for me so that I may search your past posts to build a defense case for your "bad posting".

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

Asterios posted:

my posting is bad

DON'T CONFESS NEVER CONFESS

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

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

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

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
whoa that jiggle belly doll's a bit expensive...

.. how about happy time harry?

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scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
that was a very mean thing you said to me the other day, asterios. >: (

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