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Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

a fetish with plausible deniability

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Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

i wonder what it's like to absolutely crave negative attention on the internet

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

clevcomics

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Pavlov posted:

No, it's my fault. I should have known better than to utter the spell that is "steven universe".

Power Word: Discourse

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

you're not even putting in the effort anymore

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

I distribute my art entirely by stapling it to electrical poles around town and putting a rusty tin can underneath and hope that people get the message

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

also any webcomic that is marginally interesting and still updates immediately gets cordoned off to its own thread to ensure that this thread doesn't get any traffic i guess

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

FunkyAl posted:

A twitter personality lives and dies by his or her ability to be replicated. They assume or externalize certain traits that people find relatable or within their parameters for social acceptability, that can also be shared and ingested at a fast enough pace to make room for the rest of the content coming down the horn. Someone like Mister Hayden can easily manipulate this media to their own ends by assuming traits of like a "soft boy" or whatever and creating passionless, meaningless, but aesthetically inoffensive content for the lowest common denominator. The man's entire success rode on a personality that was easy to manufacture, and upon discovery of his more real personality it is easy to reject him because nobody was ever actually there for his work.

The emptiness of the work is a condition of the problem. Why doesn't it matter?

Instead of posting here, you should print out your posts and make a zine out of them to distribute to interested parties

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

fun hater posted:

everyone shut up, the important thing is we get the mods who keep banning avshalom defrocked or whatever the term is

hell yeah

fun hater posted:

e: also i guess read a webcomic or whatever, gently caress

no. gently caress no.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

nine-gear crow posted:

QCS is that way, duder. You don’t see Avs crying about it, do you?

drat, cop solidarity in here, thin blue star and all that

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

funkyal have you considered printing that post out and stapling it to a telephone pole, as i recall that being your ideal method of communication

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

you fuckin gary groth sycophant buttlicker

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

i think it would be extremely cool to shoot at morbi's feet with revolvers to make him dance for the rest of eternity

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Morbi posted:

Hey, I know it's been a while since I dropped in on this thread (and also updated Poppy) but I'd really appreciate it if people didn't spread gross unsubstantiated rumors about me
I'm currently aiming to get Poppy back to a regular update schedule in June/July-ish after finishing up the Poppy 1 redraw/owed pages

get ready to dance, boy

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

im gonna loving kill all of you with powerful karate fists and feet

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

nankeen posted:

omg

for the record botl did not stalk anybody. i will say nothing about the rest of it, but the "stalking" thing started as him ragging on a single guy who turned out to have psychological issues (like 100% of this place's users), he targeted like three threads that the other goon also frequented to shitpost in so someone else took the opportunity to claim he had a vendetta and was trying to push this poor figurine enthusiast to suicide or some poo poo. fast forward a few months and the story has transformed into "stalked and doxxed multiple goons and probably also murdered someone, who knows what he's capable of!!!!"

i had no intention of talking about botl itt but that rumour escalated so quickly i am legitimately alarmed. the guy hates fantasy novels and clevin. he has not stalked or doxxed anyone. like please correct me if i'm wrong and he turned up to somebody's house or something, by all means, but as far as i know this was the actual sequence of events

didn't know you became a cop

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

mookie played the quiet man and was overwhelmed with emotion and needed to put his own spin on it

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

the only thing that matters in art is if it looks dope. that steven universe poo poo don't look dope.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Oxxidation posted:

it’s only going to get worse, much like absolutely everything else

can't imagine why with posts like this

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

get the gently caress out of here kazerad

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

mycot posted:

It's probably for the better for Aaron Diaz that the closest thing he had to relevancy was years ago instead of on Twitter, where he would be eaten alive for obliviously writing from a white techbro POV (seriously that's how you get Storm as Kony).

do you not remember the many times they had to quit twitter after showing their rear end about one thing or another

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

fun hater posted:

mock threads gets swept up in a kind of sad and pathetic need by people in said thread to be the Guy Who Hates The Thing The Most and twisting yourself in knots to come up with more and more contrived reasons as to why something is the WORST THING EVER instead of being normal by posting things that are kind of funny bc they kind of suck and going "lol" with your friends and then logging off and not trying to wring 3000 posts out of it

we must end the mock thread. now is the time of the bemused appreciation thread

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

no gently caress off go away

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

fun hater posted:

instead of reading even a single pixel of that braindead poo poo, why not read my webcomic. thanks for considering

mm, far better

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

IDK dude I posted about 17776 and you come up all huffing and puffing with this 'u mad, lol care' poo poo, I think you just kinda suck now?

is that what you think happened

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

isasphere posted:

It's the afterword at the end of the comic where the real alarming talk starts, people in the comments are actually concerned the author fell into a cult with the conspiracy theory talk about the vaccination passports and the talk of worthlessness.

hoo buddy you wasn't kiddin

quote:

Then 2020 rolled in with its pandemic, and in late summer many people (much smarter than me) started pointing out the striking similarities between the core concepts of how a Social Credit Sysytem works and the proposed (back then still "hypothetical") health passorts. The proposals were of the spirit that anyyone who in the future wished to travel, attend public gatherings, use trains, buses or other public transportation, would be rewuired to join a the new Health Passport system. Some organizations were proposing it should eventually be rquire even to attend university, visit libraries, banks, shopping centers or hotels, possibly even every day grocery stores If you refused you'd simply not be allowed to participate in society. If that were to turn from a hypothetical solution into reality it'd be very easy to turn into a full-on global Social Credit System by simply reframing that "health passport" as a general "good citizen" passport. (*Note*:As I'm writing this the hypothetical suggestions are being made reality, the European Union just recently announced ther coming "Green pass". Deciding to name it vaguely the "Green pass" instead of the "Health passport" does seem to imply an intent to use if for more than just health purposes in the future years. *End note*)

quote:

What's not to like? Everyone just goes with the flow of the system and enjoy an endless flow of cheap trinkets and gadgets to consume, an ever-increasing stream of free entertainment to fill every waking moment; movies and videogames and pornography and events. You can spend your Universal Basic Income on restaurants of all sorts and travel and thrilling "experiences" for pictures on social media. If somehow you still feel unfulfilled just consume a pile of self-help books that will teach you how to reach enlightenment by loving yourself more, manifesting your higher consciousness and finding the divine of your own self. If that doesn't help just smoke some weed, or seek something stronger from your doctor. You'll be content one way or another. Nobody will be around anymore to tell you about how you sin against God, to repent and humbly turn to Christ for forgiveness and salvation from the judgement that comes at the end of everyone's lives. That would be offensive, hurtful and harmful, and thus not allowed! You can say that Jesus loves you and wants you to live your best life, that's it! But... we're not there yet. The all-silencing Social Credit System is not yet here, and there's still time to sound the message of salvation.

quote:

But as so many other last year (2020), I was jolted out of my comfort. And through many turns God, by his providence, allowed me to undertand something of how truly sinful my nature is, and how little I deserve mercy. How no amount of doing good could ever make me righteous enough to deserve being in God's presence. I'm exceedingly prideful, self-righteous, greedy, covetous. There's so much spite and envy in my heart. So much love for myself and so little for God, even if I tried to excuse myself and pretend otherwise. And most of my life I'd belittled God and sneered at biblical Christianity, while elevating myself as more enlightened and wise as a progressivism-minded Atheist. Yet despite all this God granted me the gift of belief in His existance, and then, in late autumn of 2020, repentance and forgiveness throught his son Jesus Christ. I have nothing to fear.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

those are just a taster, the afterword is like 10 paragraphs long and it all like that

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

GlyphGryph posted:

That is specifically the part that wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be. I was expecting to at least hint at it being terrible that these poor Christians had to be decent to other people or something, and requiring it was tyranny... but it didn't really go down that road?

Edit: It's also possible it did and I just missed it somehow.

To clarify, I am not a Christian so while I am well aware of the fact that the Christians are typically the ones pushing this sort of social control (it's actually amusing the extent to which it mirrors being excommunicated from christian society for heretical beliefs! And obviously there are ties to the whole "cancel culture" BS. But despite that...) I can also sympathize with the underlying fear of having to hide ones true beliefs and cater to a society that thinks the only proper way to do something is the way the people in power have decided is the proper way, to adopt a superficial persona that supports that requires you to laud the very things which you see as problematic with that society, and which just so happens to conveniently line up with the behaviours that strengthen the power of those who already have the most. Something I'm sure many leftists are familiar with!

So I guess it's that even though the comic is clearly not about people like me, I can still see some of myself in the people in the comics, and the major flaw doesn't seem to be the underlying message so much as her inability to likewise see herself in the situations of people like me, if that makes sense?

I'm not saying it's not bad, either, just not as bad as I thought/worried/imagined it was going to be.

did you read the afterword

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

fetishes for me, not for thee

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

jedit'd again

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

flatluigi posted:

you'd think with this many people enjoying projecting poo poo onto the author there'd be a several hundred page BSS thread on the comic already

and let me tell you something about jeph jacques

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Cowcaster posted:

look i'm sorry to just dismiss you out of hand here because this is obviously very important to you but all i can think about is that guy who entered The Discourse a week or two ago because he was outraged that the children's movie Turning Red didn't once reference 9/11 or the traumatic impact it would've had on the children's lives. i'm running through all the possible comparisons in my mind to what this whole argument comes across as and all i can come up with is someone calling out calvin's parents from calvin and hobbes being neglectful, abusive monsters who deserve child services to come down on their asses for not paying attention to their struggling child and not just an archetypal plugin of "disinterested parent"

what is it about modding Games that makes people act like this

or do they only pick people who act like this to mod Games

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

did you storm into like, the Fallout: New Vegas thread every so often to tell people "wtf are all you psychos talking about, this is a video game for children, none of this poo poo was intended, stop overanalyzing it"

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

fun hater posted:

thank you, vtuber guy

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

wilde life looks like a porno comic someone removed all of the pages of hardcore sex out of

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

the important thing about jj abrams ted talk about the mystery box is that he revealed the mystery box is a literal, physical object. an actual mystery box he bought at a magic store a decade before and never opened it because he liked the idea of not knowing what was inside it more than he would like the reveal. that's been the driving motivator for his entire career.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

2020s bodice rippers are all about wolf sex now its extremely strange

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Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

MikeJF posted:

I don't know that the sex wolves stories would be bodice rippers because bodices are traditionally worn by women.

the sex wolves stories are straight now

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