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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:25 am |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:05 pm |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:19 pm |
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spectralsound
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:32 pm |
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today in webcomic controversy:
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It seemed hard at first to fake depression, due to the amount of energy involved. I could not do it for long. By the time I got comfortable with it I found it necessary to allow this deception to extend into my private life. I believed one or more stories of myself as "pretending to be depressed" could have distanced me from my chosen demographic.
My most prominent regret is not deceiving people and taking their money, and it's not helping depressed people perpetuate their negative thought loops via replication and display. I regret the borderline people, those who could identify the problems in their life, face them, and allow themselves to be changed, but instead found it necessary to conceive of themselves as "struggling with depression" rather than being genuinely held back emotionally by some nasty and real situation. Any work participating in the "culture of depression" has probably contributed to these sad and unnecessary cases.
I've done a lot of soul-searching and now believe it is my calling to be the first "artist" to admit to an audience "I've been pretending to be depressed." I've spoken with a handful of others who are interested to see where this experiment goes. As far as any of us can remember, no one's tried coming clean about this. |
p.s.: hi tim
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| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:44 am |
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| The more people I knew who refused to admit to me they were faking their depression, the more confused I got. Was I communicating incorrectly? Did they believe that I was the one who was failing to communicate that I was faking depression, was I confusing them? I got more and more exhausted with acting unhappy and withdrew from the majority of my friends. I spent a great deal of time alone and extremely happy, making art suggesting otherwise in order to attract others who were also pretending to be what I was faking. |
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L
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| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 3:08 pm |
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A bitter update:
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I am attempting to make a home for myself where I feel safe emotionally and physically. I have lived off of very little money for the majority of my time as a cartoonist but chose this lifestyle because the desk jobs I've worked have helped make me desire to die.
The idea of a happy person drawing hundreds to thousands of compulsively melancholic stick figures "for profit" is a funny idea.
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Now let's all collectively pack up these two days in a box and think of them only with gentle mocking laughter in the distant years. |
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L
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:01 pm |
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L
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 2:42 pm |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 3:01 am |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:02 am |
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Why is this webcomic getting even worse at hiding its fixation with boobs |
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L
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:36 am |
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Epilogue |
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L
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 3:27 am |
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This is an especially stylish page. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:22 pm |
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http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/10/02/homestuck-interview-andrew-hussie-bryan-lee-omalley-ms-paint-adventures/
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| Let's face it, in normal person world, which at least I think is where I still live, a million bucks is a lot of fucking money. Like, remember how that was always the ultimate prize in game shows and reality TV, as if it was the absolutely undisputed benchmark for a dauntingly inaccessible pile of wealth? The irreducible Pot of Gold. People would sit in a chair and answer, like, 50 really hard questions and fail every day on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Or in Survivor, you'd go to an island full of assholes and eat bugs and almost die for like two months just for a shot at a million. But here all I did was put together a few nice looking prize packs and pushed a button and I blink and suddenly there's two million there. These are silly and startling times we live in. It's not merely an age of excitement. It's an age where dollar figures apparently begin to lose their meaning, and the nature of quantitative reality itself starts to come apart at the seams. |
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kitroebuck
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 3:59 am |
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| Funfact re Opplopolis: Carla Tumblemas was the name of my first Dark Souls character. Yeah, that just makes it more dumb, I know. |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 1:51 am |
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glossolalia
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 4:43 pm |
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| L wrote: |
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on a similar note
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L
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 4:27 am |
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L
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 11:34 am |
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Time for a CLASSIC COMIC:
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glossolalia
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 4:07 pm |
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| thank you for that. |
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Baseballkappe
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:23 pm |
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| Yeah, that was beautiful |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:49 am |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:29 am |
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Mikey
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:05 am |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 7:39 am |
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i can’t believe what i’m reading. @sheanam and @ericdsnider broke the news to me first on twitter: lucas is putting the whole $4 billion from his selling of lucasfilm to disney right into education programs.
didn’t like jar jar? i gave $4 billion to schools
crystal skull should have used darabont’s script? i gave $4 billion to schools
why won’t you release the unedited original trilogy on blu-ray? i taught your child how to read
man. i’m seriously taken aback
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Takashi
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 5:41 pm |
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| On the one hand I'm not sure if I completely approve of "JRPG Webcomic" becoming a genre now (as something entirely distinct from and opposite to Videogame Parody Webcomic) but I must admit seeing something unironically rejoice in the jollity and colours of Nintendo JRPGs is a pleasing and fresh, albeit shallow, sensation. |
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Gorblax
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:26 pm |
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I still read questionable content and I thought I'd report that Jeph Jacques had a mental breakdown yesterday and stabbed himself (he is okay now, I think)
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| My vision of gorblax is of an automaton built to function seamlessly in a society which no longer, or perhaps never, existed, but which is similar to our own. |
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Mikey
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:50 pm |
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| Gorblax wrote: |
| I still read questionable content and I thought I'd report that Jeph Jacques had a mental breakdown yesterday and stabbed himself (he is okay now, I think) |
Oh, jesus.
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| On the one hand I'm not sure if I completely approve of "JRPG Webcomic" becoming a genre now (as something entirely distinct from and opposite to Videogame Parody Webcomic) but I must admit seeing something unironically rejoice in the jollity and colours of Nintendo JRPGs is a pleasing and fresh, albeit shallow, sensation. |
Cucumber Quest does JRPG webcomic right, I think. |
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