Burned Loss

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• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I never understood the hate for Loss (the original). Is it that it’s trying to evoke emotion? Is it because it’s a departure from the more gamer orientated content? Is it because it’s one sided? Is it actually cheap? I didn’t mind it.

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  • Lumiluz@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Taking a traumatic, devastating, and most of all very personal health event like a miscarriage that your girlfriend went through and hand drawing it in a cartoon style to post on your public “Funny haha” gamer douche web comic is generally considered a dick move.

    Some further context is that the author Tim Buckley was generally pretty despised at the time and considered a huge dick. The comic itself IIRC was full of that turn of the century gamer douche “haha women bad” type comedy. So the posting of that comic was not only like a comically huge tonal shift but almost felt like him trying to somehow appear more sensitive and likeable.

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    • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or perhaps it was a genuine expression of how he felt and he used the tools he had to express it.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I never saw it as a dick move. It always seemed to me like any other creative person putting their life experiences into their work. That didn’t make it good, but his best work in a comedy comic isn’t likely to come out while he’s grieving. It was sort of a shark jump moment for that site, but it always seemed way more distasteful to me to make it into a meme.

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    • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks for the context. I only looked at it from within the frame of the comic. From that perspective, it only seems strange to have such a tonal shift - a usually comedic comic presenting a more serious issue. So the problem was the context, got it.

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  • bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If i remember right (i may not it’s been a long ass time)

    It’s bc it was originally an anti abortion comic. I think the artist has since changed his views as well.

    But it’s also possible I’m confusing it with a different comic. It’s been many years at this point

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Uh, no, it’s a meme because people suck and are unoriginal.

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  • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I believe it was because CAD was already under fire by 4chan for being a subpar gaming comic. This just delivered meme material.

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• MRLimcon@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pov: i just threw a mini-nuke at him.

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All four panels?

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