Lime Paradox

 

I admittedly don't follow the comics forum, but I do look at the polls of contests, and I think this is the first time I've seen anyone call BAC ironically terrible. In all cases that I can recall people who were fans of it seemed to not acknowledge that, and often outright denied it.

I know most of the people who make those comments; they know it's ironically terrible. They're continuing the joke by insisting it's a masterpiece. It's why I even use the term masterpiece; it's ironic, because it is truly awful. (Yet, on a deeper level, perhaps masterfully so.)

 

As ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE I'm going to have to disagree here, if only in that "ironically terrible" is just a really misleading way to describe it

Like... SBaHJ could be said to have been "ironically terrible" at first, seeing as it started out as a direct parody of a specific bad comic series, but it very quickly became its own distinct thing. And BAC never even had that going for it - it started off not as a mockery of actual bad comics, but as a blatant derivative of SBaHJ and developed its own identity from there. BAC's brand of "terrible" has always been a good ways removed from actual realistic terrible, and only distances itself further as we improve our abilities as authors and it becomes wrapped up in its own traditions and injokes

If I wanted to just make BAC look bad, it would be A LOT uglier, because the BAC aesthetic actually has a lot of thought put into it to make sure it only looks "bad" in exactly the right ways. If the goal was to imitate the actual bad series that populate BZP's comic forum, I'd be throwing around MS Paint airbrush effects, generic grassbrush and lensflare backgrounds, gratuitous smudge tool, etc. Instead, most of the effects used are stuff like oversaturation, constant sharpening filters, saving the comics as jpegs so low-quality that they actually wouldn't be possible in MS Paint, etc - all of which go toward creating a look very specific to BAC and things like it. Even the spelling and grammar "errors" are distinctly divorced from anything I have ever seen anyone on the internet unintentionally type like. Its visual style and sense of humor work for reasons that, while somewhat alien compared to "traditionally good", also remain mostly disconnected from actual awful things

Basically BAC is a DISTINCT STYLE, and kind of an acquired taste I guess, but boiling it down to "ironically terrible" is all kinds of innacurate

Please tell me this is in fact an RPG adaptation of Twisted!, the book about horrifying living rollercoasters that was and could only have been written by someone from deviantArt

Because I don't want to read the comments for the last section, I will comment here, and only on what we agree upon.

 

There is definitely a problem with the treatment of LGBT people. Too many people treat them as if they're not people at all. Now, everybody knows what I think about the whole issue, but I am sick and tired of hearing people describe them with curse words and just treat them in a poor manner in general. I don't support what they work for, but given the opportunity, I will defend them from persecutors, just as I would defend someone who is being treated wrong for elements of their religion (for instance, my sisters wearing skirts all of the time, which earns them much ridicule on the part of their soccer teammates and so forth.)

 

And that's as far as I care to discuss the issue right now.

Is this... really necessary right now

Like I get what you're trying to say, and congratulations on actually having something resembling a conscience I guess

But the whole thing just sort of comes off as "hey everyone I am still a vile homophobe, and I have no issue with directly contributing to the problem in other ways, but I am still sort of a decent person, please believe me on this"

Next time you want to sound sympathetic for the stuff LGBT people have to deal with, MAYBE consider not prefacing it with a reminder that you still think they totally suck

POTENTIALLY CONTROVERSIAL CONFESSION TIME

Having recently finished watching it for the first time I kind of really didn't like the ending

Episodes one through eleven were fantastic though

the bible said adam and eve not adam and red square with a pink equal sign in it

^kissing the way it was meant to be - passionately

I think we all know who the best Seinfeld character really is

I think you're forgetting the most obvious candidate here

Here have a mascot

But what if I say that being a homosexual is a choice? What if I say you are born a Christian?

Kahi I'm sorry but that is a REALLY terrible argument

Christianity is a set of beliefs that are passed on from person to person and is up to one's personal interpretation, just like any other religion

Like I guess you could be born predisposed to be a religious kind of person that would be more likely to believe what someone else tells them about this stuff but

No one is going to be "born Christian" in the sense that they have like the entire Bible in their head or something

That's just

No

Mutation isn't natural, sorry.

So uh

How exactly is something that happens in nature all the time without human intervention "not natural"

Just curious here

My view of the comics forum is too much grass brush

I don't remember if your old stuff was any good or not, but you've probably improved a lot since then anyway

Either way, ArtIII is in such a bad state that even mediocre comics would help right now

So yeah, go for it

I've found that the people who think that are often also the people who say "grammer"

Because the topic is so big and there are so many images and my computer hates it

Come on you guys are staff

Can't you just like make another page with staff magic or something

What kind of rumor? The kind where a credible source has suggested that this will actually happen, or the kind where a few people on the internet really want to convince themselves that Bionicle might come back?

Silly brickeens, reusing age-old sprite sheets made by others is a fine art

It can be.

The use of sprites is terrible in comics. It ruins the idea of the comics forum (at least for me). Comics should be drawn, whether on a computer or by hand.

I'm against the use of visually unappealing art in comics, but that's never stopped anyone...

I'm not sure what the point of this blog entry is, other than an excuse for people to whine about sprite comics. I'm sorry that the hand-drawn comics you linked too aren't swimming in praise, but as far as I'm aware, they're really getting no less attention than any of the other entries. It's also worth noting that they're all seriously lacking in the plot department, and the art in all three consists solely of rough, colorless sketches. To be bluntly honest, the only one that I'm actually impressed by is Kakaru's, and that one doesn't really even fit the mystery theme of the contest. =/

Personally I think the "nex and brezz smooch smooch" one was better. =/

HF shipping?

They're robots.

Robots!

Robots!

...Yeah, if you're doing a top 10 LMB quotes thing you need to see this topic. Everything about it is amazing.

The LMBs don't need anything. They are absolutely perfect the way they are. If anything, I'd say it's BZP that needs more incoherent posts and ugly emoticons and Hero Factory shipping wars.

i made you a present for your blog

You don't have to be super-obsessed with music to listen to anything other than what's played on the radio.

I know that. I'm just saying that for some people, music really just doesn't matter enough to go actively looking for it. I happen to be one of those people, in case it wasn't obvious.

I'll read them, although I may or may not criticize them brutally.

And that's exactly what the problem is. People are too lazy to explore beyond their narrow tastes and actually find something better.

...Or maybe some people just don't really care about music as much as you do? =/

It was something like "May Space Bionicles live forever in our hearts" (if anyone knows the quote tell me)

...Sorry, but I saw someone mention .jpgs and I couldn't resist. =/