[Webcomics] What are they Worth to you?

Xaquin

Webcomics are terrible

Except:

Oglaf
OOTS
K6BD

.... ummmm possibly others but not Mary Worth and especially not Mary Worth

RMS Oceanic

Mary Worth abuses the Informed Attribute trope

Thanks for not making this the Wilbcomics thread btw

Gundi

The Wibur Man Cometh.

Gvzbgul

Wilbcumics

Gvzbgul

Webcomics are worth $17 a month to me according to my patreon account.

Peewi

I like Sleepless Domain.

It's like one of my Japanese animes.

Skeith

SSSS is winding down and it makes me sad. It's an interesting premise and world, but I don't think the author is going to touch it again after she's done.

shoeboxjeddy

Skeith wrote: »

SSSS is winding down and it makes me sad. It's an interesting premise and world, but I don't think the author is going to touch it again after she's done.

The author of SSSS underwent character undevelopment and only bad things were possible after that point.

Moth 13

https://twitter.com/ericlide/status/1489045157618016260

Ozzie the Vampire

The Zombie Penguin

shoeboxjeddy wrote: »

Skeith wrote: »

SSSS is winding down and it makes me sad. It's an interesting premise and world, but I don't think the author is going to touch it again after she's done.

The author of SSSS underwent character undevelopment and only bad things were possible after that point.

For those not in the loop, could you elaborate?

Madican

The Zombie Penguin wrote: »

shoeboxjeddy wrote: »

Skeith wrote: »

SSSS is winding down and it makes me sad. It's an interesting premise and world, but I don't think the author is going to touch it again after she's done.

The author of SSSS underwent character undevelopment and only bad things were possible after that point.

For those not in the loop, could you elaborate?

Found Jesus, went full fundie

BahamutZERO

oh Stand Still Stay Silent, I thought I was in the anime thread and we were talking about Gridman for a second

shoeboxjeddy

The Zombie Penguin wrote: »

shoeboxjeddy wrote: »

Skeith wrote: »

SSSS is winding down and it makes me sad. It's an interesting premise and world, but I don't think the author is going to touch it again after she's done.

The author of SSSS underwent character undevelopment and only bad things were possible after that point.

For those not in the loop, could you elaborate?

They wrote a very long comic about how those who believe in Jesus will soon be persecuted by some combination of (stand-in for) Facebook and the government, so the best thing to do is destroy your phone and... live in the woods? It's an extremely strange bit of work. Then their messaging on their site went full bananas as well.

BahamutZERO

yeah they joined a cult probably

nightmarenny

The constantly Unsounded disrespect will not be forgiven.

Commander Zoom

They were dealing with bad social anxiety before an actual pandemic came along and basically undid any progress they might have been making in that regard.
And then, apparently, they fell in with some Christian sect that promised belonging and purpose and community and all the usual stuff that lonely, needy people glom onto like drowning victims.
It's genuinely sad, IMO.

BahamutZERO

did it happen after the pandemic started? I can't remember if it was after or before. Regardless it probably went down like that either way.

tynic

Damn. That comic was really good, and had a lot of cool pagan imagery and spiritualism. I always meant to get back to it at some point

RoyceSraphim

Travel to europe
Destroy cult
Rescue the author


Sounds like a good comic premise

klemming

xkcd
Oh, I'm totally using this.

RoyceSraphim

Freak angels hit that Apocalypse sweet spot where things are bad but people still have a chance of rebuilding if they could stop being bad people

klemming

Questionable Content

klemming

Darths & Droids

Quantum Tiger

A Redtail's dream still remains a good comic from Minna Sundberg before this spiral she seems to be in. I hope she can get out of it one day

klemming

Dumbing of Age

klemming

Skin Horse

RoyceSraphim

nightmarenny wrote: »

The constantly Unsounded disrespect will not be forgiven.

My soul is not a fart

Brolo

https://comicskingdom.com/mary-worth

everybody disliked that

DouglasDanger

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2022/02/03

Nancy continues to be great.

As does Mr. Lovenstein

Poorly Drawn Lines

Sarah Andersen

Chris Simpson

They Can't Talk

Brolo

it's kinda sad that instagram embeds format so much better and load so much faster than twitter embeds

RMS Oceanic

Twitter really wants you on Twitter itself lately, logged in and doomscrolling

Madican

Twitter loads now like to seize control of the webpage I'm on and yank it back up while I'm scrolling down

RMS Oceanic

Madican wrote: »

Twitter loads now like to seize control of the webpage I'm on and yank it back up while I'm scrolling down

Is that why it's been happening on the forums?

Brolo

really it's just a function of twitter embeds being incredibly slow, they're both several times larger (in byte payload) than any other embed, and they transfer slowly since twitter throttles and parcels their sizes, so after 5-10 seconds of scrolling, the embed will finally load, expanding its size and changing where your scroll bar is indexed relative to the page height

this is a miserable user experience and something google has advised against for years, but twitter don't give a fuck

Brolo

like that's ~500kB per embed and it's never cached

to show you a jpeg and at most 280 characters of text


the jpeg, compressed and sized correctly, is 28kB

it's largely why I gave up on using tweets for the PC games thread, posting a full OP with 15-20 embeds resulted in ~20MB page payloads that would fuck up load times for 60-90 seconds as you'd scroll and have text jump up and down as twitter slowly populated each embed

edit: lol
https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/225144/pc-games-void-bastards-outer-wilds-draugen-atmocity-out-today/p1


like it re-transfers the exact same embed resources every single time, regardless of whether you have them cached

DouglasDanger

Twitter wants us all browsing and retweeting inside the app, I guess

Quantum Tiger

Twitter is a cancer that spreads tendrils of misery through the arteries of the internet

DarkPrimus

nightmarenny wrote: »

The constantly Unsounded disrespect will not be forgiven.

Do you mean people here disrespecting Unsounded, or characters being disrespected in the comic proper?

Der Waffle Mous

disrespect from people who have not experienced the act of sounding?

durandal4532

I do like that Twitter now just stops me from scrolling when I'm looking at a person's page on my phone because it's like hey you've got a great point this isn't helping me or anyone I'll start reading a book.

DisruptedCapitalist

I have twitter blocked using NoScript and only unlock it whenever I see like a gazillion awesomes on someones post. Definitely cuts down on wasting my mobile data on Twitter's bullshit.