Bad webcomics -

[Rev]

The original "Pepe the Frog" comic is one of the worst piece of shit I've ever seen, and would make something that a socially-retarded 13-year old graffitied on the wall of a McDonald's bathroom look like "high art" in comparison.

It basically puts the level of degeneracy and untermensch-ness of the so-called "Master race" who worship this abomination into perspective.


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you take that back Boy's Club is a literary masterpiece

 

[Kabuki Actor]

...I think replacing the artist with Thunt would be a definite improvement over Last Res0rt

 

[Ghostse]

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...I think replacing the artist with Thunt would be a definite improvement over Last Res0rt

It's MA'AM!

 

[downwardspiral]

The last couple of VGCats have this really preachy undertone. It's annoying:
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I dont get it is this trying to be le random? I dont see this as preachy because I cant tell what its even preaching

 

[160048]

https://www.homestuck2.com/
Andrew hussie deserves to have all his fingers broken for this pile of shit. Homestuck in general is a mess about halfway through.

 

[FriendlyPrimarina]

I dont get it is this trying to be le random? I dont see this as preachy because I cant tell what its even preaching

I was thinking the "Why risk your life when you can risk someone else's?" Not bad on its own but the last couple of comics have had this "WEAR THE MUZZLE" vibe.

 

[Kabuki Actor]

I was thinking the "Why risk your life when you can risk someone else's?" Not bad on its own but the last couple of comics have had this "WEAR THE MUZZLE" vibe.

What government agency is mandating Chink Flu PSAs in every new panel?

 

[Yukari Yakumo]

https://www.homestuck2.com/
Andrew hussie deserves to have all his fingers broken for this pile of shit. Homestuck in general is a mess about halfway through.

You talk about Homestuck^2 and not bring up the side 'game', Pesterquest? For shame!

 

[160048]

You talk about Homestuck^2 and not bring up the side 'game', Pesterquest? For shame!

This is not a bad visual novels thread.

 

[Yukari Yakumo]

This is not a bad visual novels thread.

I mean, just for reference since they're both connected in one way or another.

 

[Rainbow Frog Army]

https://www.homestuck2.com/
Andrew hussie deserves to have all his fingers broken for this pile of shit. Homestuck in general is a mess about halfway through.

I'd say when it became a mess is a matter of debate, but everything I heard says that it pretty much nailed the landing of HS like an extremely intoxicated person with significant motor disabilities attempting to do Olympic-level gymnastics...with a blindfold on.

I was reading it before Act 6 started. I have still not bothered going back to finish it, because by the time I stopped reading I had picked up loud and clear that if he did have plans for ending this monstrosity, those plans were scribbled illegibly on a bar napkin while totally shitfaced drunk sometime before HS started & the most that had been done since then was to occasionally frown at it in the completely futile hope of at least confirming that it'd been written in some language anybody involved could identify...instead of, say, really bad pornographic doodles.

This is the kind of thing that can make a webcomic with an actual story end up firmly landing in "If this was a physical book, my wall would have a dent" area of quality.

 

[DoubleD]

Greg Dean / Mae Dean, creator of Real Life Comics, made fun of Comic Sans in a comic last week, then received backlash from the community because "DYSLEXICS USE COMIC SANS. REEE!" , then doubled down and posted a 13-tweet thread full of autism about fonts, which he has since deleted.

Spoiler: The thread, preserved for posterity

I still fucking hate the way Twitter makes you read things in reverse order. This was the only thing I could procure from the Google cache without photoshopping it to make the tweets appear in the right order.

When he finally did realise he'd done something bad and Problematic, he took the thread down and posted this comic in lieu of an apology with a series of non-jokes about other fonts.

The wall of text in the first panel is so long, it actually made the whitespace above the comic 99px taller.

Aside from one good take about Haettenshweiler, the rest were garbage. And I don't get the one about Lucida Console either. Ampersands in Lucida Console just look ordinary. Or is that the joke?

Oh and in case you haven't heard it yet, Greg Dean is trans now.

Quoting myself from the Assigned Male thread, but if this story is new to you, it bears repeating.

Spoiler: How the trans journey was handled in-comic

Immediately after that page, we have a 57-panel dream sequence where Greg meets his female self in a library (never would have guessed the inside of his head would look like that), who explains that she has been dormant for 38 years, introducing herself as 'our "id". Our core self.'

There are walls of text. Over the next few weeks of daily comics, it is explained that "Greg" is the person's ego. Quote: 'you [Ego-Greg] exist to get us what I want in a way that doesn't put us in any danger.'

Id-Mae explains that she's been trying to send signals to Greg for years by way of thoughts in the back of his mind, reminding the ego that he's wanted to be a girl since he was 7-8 years old. Shapeshifting was apparently the superpower young Greg most wanted to have. He also now plays female characters in video games. Then we get the line about how Greg never gives his female id the tiniest bit of consideration.

The superego is introduced as a toxic male in a 'TREK4LYFE' hat. Quote: 'the embodiment of parental influence, societal rules and peer pressue, all rolled into one massive douchey dudebro.' This is offered as the explanation for why Greg conformed to masculinity for so long. She cites the villain reveal in Ace Ventura (1994) as one of the things that emboldened Superego, causing Greg to repress his true nature.

They talk about anime sex changes and Greg's female screen name of Mae that he's used since the late 1990s. Id-Mae once again nags Ego-Greg to listen to her. Greg says they used to say mean stuff about the comic on Reddit (4th wall breaks are a regular thing, but Greg here isn't literally supposed to be the comic's author). The wife and kid are briefly addressed, and then Ego-Greg agrees to let Id-Mae take control.

Spoiler: Greg dies

Which is portrayed in the comic as Ego-Greg getting Thanos'd out of existence.

Greg wakes up in the next page with a new perspective on reality, comes out to his wife (off-screen), and begins transitioning after they have their second child. In-comic these things occur during the pandemic, but they are largely based on events that happened 2 years ago. Thee video game references continue as before, and Greg is largely the same character as before, except that now there's also the occasional strip about transitioning, buying new clothes, and her being super-excited to grow boobs.

Because, to quote one reader of the comic, 'sore tiddy is more tiddy'.

Oh and for what it's worth, someone did say mean things about the comic on Reddit (I guarantee this is not the only person who thought of CAD) and Mae responds while a group of sycophants jumps to her defence. I think she may (ha) have tweeted about that comment too, but it would take me too long to dig up the tweet.

Edit: Can't believe I almost missed this, but there was a Twitter thread documenting instances of 'Egg-like behavior' in the Comic.

One of them is a page from 2010 where Greg is annoyed that he can't give his video game character enormous anime tiddies.

Spoiler: big trans girl energy

 

[RazorBackBacon]

What government agency is mandating Chink Flu PSAs in every new panel?

All the OG webcomic artists have gone full Woke, this is hardly surprising.

 

[DoubleD]

All the OG webcomic artists have gone full Woke, this is hardly surprising.

On that note, the guy who did One Over Zero and Leftover Soup - does anyone know what his newest comic is like besides it being set in the future and the main character is non-binary?

 

[Ghostse]

On that note, the guy who did One Over Zero and Leftover Soup - does anyone know what his newest comic is like besides it being set in the future and the main character is non-binary?

That comic is Forward http://forwardcomic.com/firstpage.html

I have not read it, but I have a suspicion of how it is going, with the MC being non-binary and this being the blog post for the most recent update.

"Rando" is an interesting term. When someone you don't know hits on you at a bar or slides into your Twitter DMs, they are, to you, a randomly selected member of the human race, generated from the ether by a series of inscrutable dice rolls. But, of course, from the rando's perspective, they are quite specific and intentional, and have reached out to you for intentionally specific reasons that relate to their own wants and needs and emotional journey. We are all, presumably, randos to someone else - indeed, we are all randos to the vast, vast majority of billions of people.

But that's not quite how the term is used, is it? Like many neologisms ("troll", "Karen", etc), the word isn't just what it says on the tin, but also carries signifiers of race, gender, age, and class. A "rando" is far more likely to be a straight white cismale, which, I would argue, is quite unlikely to be what you'd get if you randomly selected a human being from our diverse planet.

...but, then, a "rando" is not usually someone that you select, is it? A "rando" is generally a person who takes the initiative and approaches you (generally, initiating an interaction that you neither want nor need) and perhaps being straight, white, and cismale renders one more likely to be thusly proactive with one's unwanted advances - or for said advances not to be wanted. The term is never a compliment, and almost always carries the implication that this random person is yet another chore or obstacle or irritation to be avoided, blocked, or tolerated, an insignificant blip in an otherwise rando-less day. It says "your own beliefs and motivations and emotional journey that have led you to contact me are unimportant. I don't know them, and I don't want to know them. You are a bug on the windshield of my life."

Have you been called a "rando"? Did you feel insulted? Did you feel that it was justified? Were you able to change the person's mind, and show them that your motivations and thoughts and emotional journey were important, and that the thing you brought to them was worthy of consideration? If a friend changed their account before contacting you, and you accidentally called them a rando, then they revealed that they were, actually, someone you knew, would you feel you owed them an apology?

If a randomly-selected member of the human race is someone that you consider unworthy of consideration, what does that say about you? What does that say about our species?

 

[AnOminous]

That comic is Forward http://forwardcomic.com/firstpage.html

I have not read it, but I have a suspicion of how it is going, with the MC being non-binary and this being the blog post for the most recent update.

What a bunch of sperging. A rando is random to you. Randomness outside the quantum level and chaos really doesn't exist. For instance, if someone shuffles a deck of cards and brings that to the table, and deals in the normal fashion, from the point after shuffling, the results are entirely deterministic. The cards are in a specific order and will show up in that order. In a fair game, nobody knows what that is, so it is "random" from their perspective.

But suppose I'm cheating. Suppose I am colluding with someone. Suppose we both have ace-king and have communicated that to each other. The flop gets dealt and the ace of spades is on it. Now, this is random to everyone else at the table, but to the cheaters, Bayesian inference tells us it's absolutely certain nobody has three aces.

Almost all randomness is actually pseudorandom, and only random because of a lack of information. You only get true randomness from things like radioactive decay, and this is such a limited source that even pseudo-random number generators that actually use sources of true randomness generally only use it as the seed to a PRNG like Mersenne Twister that actually generates the larger amounts of "random" data that are needed for large simulations (like online poker sites). If you actually had access to the seed data, the results would be deterministic.

Hence, "rando" refers to the randomness of a particular person, who the fuck is this rando. You know nothing about them. It also is generally just intended as an insult.

I just responded to someone sperging about randomness by sperging about randomness. But at least my sperging is right.

 

[RazorBackBacon]

"Rando" is an interesting term. When someone you don't know hits on you at a bar or slides into your Twitter DMs, they are, to you, a randomly selected member of the human race, generated from the ether by a series of inscrutable dice rolls. But, of course, from the rando's perspective, they are quite specific and intentional, and have reached out to you for intentionally specific reasons that relate to their own wants and needs and emotional journey. We are all, presumably, randos to someone else - indeed, we are all randos to the vast, vast majority of billions of people.

But that's not quite how the term is used, is it? Like many neologisms ("troll", "Karen", etc), the word isn't just what it says on the tin, but also carries signifiers of race, gender, age, and class. A "rando" is far more likely to be a straight white cismale, which, I would argue, is quite unlikely to be what you'd get if you randomly selected a human being from our diverse planet.

...but, then, a "rando" is not usually someone that you select, is it? A "rando" is generally a person who takes the initiative and approaches you (generally, initiating an interaction that you neither want nor need) and perhaps being straight, white, and cismale renders one more likely to be thusly proactive with one's unwanted advances - or for said advances not to be wanted. The term is never a compliment, and almost always carries the implication that this random person is yet another chore or obstacle or irritation to be avoided, blocked, or tolerated, an insignificant blip in an otherwise rando-less day. It says "your own beliefs and motivations and emotional journey that have led you to contact me are unimportant. I don't know them, and I don't want to know them. You are a bug on the windshield of my life."

Have you been called a "rando"? Did you feel insulted? Did you feel that it was justified? Were you able to change the person's mind, and show them that your motivations and thoughts and emotional journey were important, and that the thing you brought to them was worthy of consideration? If a friend changed their account before contacting you, and you accidentally called them a rando, then they revealed that they were, actually, someone you knew, would you feel you owed them an apology?

If a randomly-selected member of the human race is someone that you consider unworthy of consideration, what does that say about you? What does that say about our species?

Fellas, is 'rando' racist?

 

[MugolEx]

The last couple of VGCats have this really preachy undertone. It's annoying:
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I didn't know scott still made VGcats comics. Last time I checked Scott was drawing porn of Leo and Aeris.

 

[Aquinas]

The last couple of VGCats have this really preachy undertone. It's annoying:
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wheres the preachy?

 

[Ghostse]

wheres the preachy?

The whole "have the poors risk their lives for pennies to brave the Black Coof".