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[Webcomics] What are they Worth to you?

XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
edited May 2022 in Social Entropy++
Webcomics are terrible

Except:

Oglaf
OOTS
K6BD

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

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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited February 2022
    Mary Worth abuses the Informed Attribute trope

    Thanks for not making this the Wilbcomics thread btw

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    GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    The Wibur Man Cometh.

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    GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Wilbcumics

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    GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Webcomics are worth $17 a month to me according to my patreon account.

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    PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    I like Sleepless Domain.

    It's like one of my Japanese animes.

    Switch: SW-6132-4331-5349 | Steam profile | I made a small video game. It's free on itch.io
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    SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    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.

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    shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    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.

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    Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular


    Ozzie the Vampire

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    The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    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?

    Ideas hate it when you anthropomorphize them
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    MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    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

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

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    shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    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.

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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    yeah they joined a cult probably

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    nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    The constantly Unsounded disrespect will not be forgiven.

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    Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    edited February 2022
    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.

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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    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.

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    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

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    RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Travel to europe
    Destroy cult
    Rescue the author


    Sounds like a good comic premise

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    klemmingklemming Registered User regular
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    xkcd
    Oh, I'm totally using this.

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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    RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    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

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    http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
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    klemmingklemming Registered User regular
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    Questionable Content

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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    klemmingklemming Registered User regular
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    Darths & Droids

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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    Quantum TigerQuantum Tiger Registered User regular
    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

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    klemmingklemming Registered User regular
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    Dumbing of Age

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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    klemmingklemming Registered User regular
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    Skin Horse

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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    RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    nightmarenny wrote: »
    The constantly Unsounded disrespect will not be forgiven.

    My soul is not a fart

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2022
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    https://comicskingdom.com/mary-worth

    everybody disliked that

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    Hey Satan!
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    DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2022
    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

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    it's kinda sad that instagram embeds format so much better and load so much faster than twitter embeds

    Hey Satan!
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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Twitter really wants you on Twitter itself lately, logged in and doomscrolling

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    MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Twitter loads now like to seize control of the webpage I'm on and yank it back up while I'm scrolling down

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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    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?

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2022
    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

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2022
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    like that's ~500kB per embed and it's never cached

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

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

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    DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Twitter wants us all browsing and retweeting inside the app, I guess

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    Quantum TigerQuantum Tiger Registered User regular
    Twitter is a cancer that spreads tendrils of misery through the arteries of the internet

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    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?

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    Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    disrespect from people who have not experienced the act of sounding?

    Steam PSN: DerWaffleMous Origin: DerWaffleMous Bnet: DerWaffle#1682
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    durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    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.

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    DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    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.

    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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