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NGrassi22
Member - Tobor Fan Club

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Anyone feel Stripcreator has "lost something"?
I love SC, can't go a day with out loggin on, and yes I once was a stupid, foolish n00b. Now, though, I have learnt my place. But I feel SC has changed so rapidly, over the time span of one month...maby two. I'm saying that what used to be a small Site with sophisticated humor is becoming...corny humor. I don't know, don't bash this, I'm just saying how I feel. I'm not puttinf Stripcreator down, I'm just stating a point. Anyone else feel this, in some way?

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1-30-04 4:57pm (new)
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MaKK_BeNN
VOTE JEB BUSH 2008

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If there's one thing SC has always been free of, it's corny humor. Better nip this in the bud.

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1-30-04 5:02pm (new)
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Brad
Feature Creep

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[banning all corn]

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1-30-04 8:39pm (new)
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DragonXero
I'm Here, You're Queer, Get Used to it

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I feel my mind slipping, brad. Daisy... Daisy.... Give me your... answer... *blip*

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1-30-04 8:59pm (new)
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Spankling
Looking for love in ALL the wrong places, baby!

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TOBOR CORNHOLING THE BAND!

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1-30-04 9:22pm (new)
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Inflatable_Man
Heart stopper. Hip hopper. Pill popper.

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NGrassi, you have absolutely no credibility in criticizing other peoples strips, because you have some of the worst strips on this site. You're a suck-up (you attack dcom and boinky and then when you see you can't win, you stick them in your favorites and try to make love to them so people don't hate you afterwards) and a joke. And you're still a foolish n00b. You've been on this site... what... a month or two?

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Destroying my reputation one post at a time.

1-31-04 9:44am (new)
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BigEvilDan
Comic Overlord

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This site has been going downhill since Jan. 7, 2001.

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1-31-04 9:51am (new)
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ObiJo
Eamus Catuli

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I find it a hard case to make that the comics are going downhill. The forums have changed, some people may like the changes, some people may not. But the comics are as funny as ever, imo.

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1-31-04 10:25am (new)
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MikeyG
Shoots the shit and often misses

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I laugh at regs and n00bs alike. Some people are funny, some people aren't. NGrassi-assi22 definitely falls into the latter category. Pure. Eructation.

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1-31-04 7:14pm (new)
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boinky33
I'm with stupid ^

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1-31-04 8:30pm (new)
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DragonXero
I'm Here, You're Queer, Get Used to it

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No way. It was perfectly fine until February 26, 2001.

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1-31-04 10:36pm (new)
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dcomposed
C3H5N3O9

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No way. It was perfectly fine until February 26, 2001.


I agree.

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1-31-04 11:10pm (new)
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MaxPayne
Senior Comic Technician

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it was great until this thread

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2-01-04 5:14am (new)
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KajunFirefly
chooby digital (in stereo)

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Yeah, sometimes I wonder why the people who come to a comic creation site and complain about the forums don't just continue to make comics and go and socialise elsewhere. If they don't like the other users, they can go and share links to their comics with people from some other website. People who share their same sense of humour or something. Brad can't be held responsible for his user's posts or opinions, we do our best to weed out the anti-social crap but everything else is just a matter of opinion.

If you don't like the regulars, don't try so hard to become one.

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2-01-04 6:09am (new)
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ObiJo
Eamus Catuli

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There's probably 50 answers to that, all as unique as the individuals. In general, it comes down to competing desires - some aspect of the forums they like enough to stay here, while other aspects they dislike enough to complain about.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

2-01-04 6:35am (new)
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KajunFirefly
chooby digital (in stereo)

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All I'm saying is the whole point of this website is to make comics, not friends.

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Dad was flammable

2-01-04 6:47am (new)
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ObiJo
Eamus Catuli

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If that were true, there wouldn't even be forums.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

2-01-04 8:59am (new)
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KajunFirefly
chooby digital (in stereo)

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Good point.

But this thread is the same one that crops up once every month or so, even Bunner posted a whiney long-winded version of the same "not as good as it used to be" complaint.

If you think of the forums as a party, at the start, people keep on arriving and everyone starts to enjoy themselves more. As the night drags on, people leave, perhaps they have work in the morning or have found cooler friends, perhaps they just caught Spankling trying it on with their sister in the bathroom. Sometimes a perfectly good party can be ruined by a bunch of complete ass-pirates and it takes a while before they pass out on the stairs.

Personally, I would never turn round to the host and say "Oi, this party isn't as much fun as it was half an hour ago!", I would just fuck off into the garden for a smoke.

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Dad was flammable

2-01-04 9:19am (new)
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ObiJo
Eamus Catuli

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Which is perfectly cool. But it's no less cool to say to the host, "I'm not having as much fun since we stopped drinking and started playing trivial pursuit." Otherwise, you could end up having 100 people playing trivial pursuit when only 5 really wanted to, all because the other 95 didn't speak up. If the host says, "Fuck off. I'm having fun playing trivial pursuit," then we play trivial pursuit. If he says "You know what, I was having more fun when we were drinking too," then we try to start drinking again.

That said though, I'm starting to think the party's just fine. Maybe the problem lies with some of the first partygoers to arrive. They talk about the first 15 minutes of the party so much, they miss the fact that new arrivals to the party are having a great time.

And that's the true measure of a good party.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

2-01-04 10:15am (new)
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MaKK_BeNN
VOTE JEB BUSH 2008

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So I can do that here then. Sweet.

How come I can't get a good open-faced turkey sandwich up in here?

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2-01-04 12:02pm (new)
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Brad
Feature Creep

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I don't get much of that though. I just get "STRIPCREATOR WAS BETTER BEFORE. IT SUCKS NOW" and when I ask why I get "STRIPCREATOR SUCKS NOW. IT WAS BETTER BEFORE" and maybe a list of users who aren't around anymore to illustrate it. Not much I can do with that.

This whole leaving forever thing has lost its charm and I think I'm going to start moving all those threads over to this forum as they happen. People can at least be moody and introspective in the appropriate forum.

I agree with Kajun and Obijo. Constructive feedback is cool, but just announcing that everything sucks here before you leave just seems like a ploy for attention or an attempt to pick a fight to me.

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2-01-04 1:21pm (new)
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MikeyG
Shoots the shit and often misses

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I personally loved mmyers' mad-lib version of the 'I'm leaving forever' phenomenon. We should resurrect it.

Jesus, a lot of people here love this place. Kajun and ObiJo hit the nail on the motherfucking head. If someone has a goddamn problem with the party they're at, they go to another fucking party. Or they stick around and hope it gets better. I came here, I paid my fucking cup charge. I've been tapping the keg with that same damn cup since then. Who the fuck pays for a cup and leaves the party before you get your money's worth?

I think stripcreator sucks now because it was better before. Like when those other guys were here. Now there are these guys and they're not as good, so Stripcreator sucks.

P.S. - I challenge Brad to a slapfight by the monkeybars after school.

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2-01-04 2:07pm (new)
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smamurai
Too orangey for crows

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When old regs start complaining about the good old days they are really just sublimating their fears that they are no good anymore. That's what it comes down to, you guys enjoyed this place more when you thought your own personal comics were funny, now that you are grasping for teh funny it's only natural that you place the blame elsewhere. Here, by saying that the goodness on this forum is now no longer at the level that is conducive to you for making good comics is a childish (but common) defence mechanism.
This place is really funny and there is also competion to be funny. Perhaps when the old 'Gods' were here you consoled yourself by placing them on a pedestal as some sort of super human gag machines and that should they ever go you will become funniest by default, then you crash to reality by realising that this is not so. Soon you will have to place the new guys on a pedestal. Or take a fucking holiday, forget about this place for a while and come back making the super funny comics that you know you can. New experience is the facial sauna to the greasy pore of writers block.

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2-02-04 5:34am (new)
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Zaster
Wait for it...

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I don't know. Whenever people fail to adequately amuse you in real life, don't you guys usually find that it helps to announce in a loud, strident tone, "this place sucks. It was so much better before you people showed up. You know, back when those other guys were here!"

That usually livens up a room pretty well, doesn't it? Guys?

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

2-02-04 6:03am (new)
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ObiJo
Eamus Catuli

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When old regs start complaining about the good old days they are really just sublimating their fears that they are no good anymore. That's what it comes down to, you guys enjoyed this place more when you thought your own personal comics were funny, now that you are grasping for teh funny it's only natural that you place the blame elsewhere. Here, by saying that the goodness on this forum is now no longer at the level that is conducive to you for making good comics is a childish (but common) defence mechanism.
This place is really funny and there is also competion to be funny. Perhaps when the old 'Gods' were here you consoled yourself by placing them on a pedestal as some sort of super human gag machines and that should they ever go you will become funniest by default, then you crash to reality by realising that this is not so. Soon you will have to place the new guys on a pedestal. Or take a fucking holiday, forget about this place for a while and come back making the super funny comics that you know you can. New experience is the facial sauna to the greasy pore of writers block.

That entire theory falls apart when you take into consideration an old reg like me who says that the comics are as funny now as they ever were, but, to me, the forums aren't as much fun. If I, or other regs, were doing what you said and trying to put ourselves on a pedestal, surely we'd be saying the comics are going to hell. The fact that we're not shoots the entire theory in the arse.

I do agree, though, that it has more to do with the old regs themselves than the site. Here's something I emailed to someone earlier, and I'll copy and paste it here, since it states rather concisely my take on it:

"I think it's more that the people are changing than the site is changing. Not just changing with the type of peeps arriving (which boorite nailed when he was talking about how at first, when the site was smaller, those arriving were more likely to be "like us"), but also changes in the people themselves. That is, the longer peeps stay, the more comics they make, the less new ideas they have, the more likely they are not to enjoy the site as much. That really has nothing to do with how the site is run, and completely to do with the nature of people and creativity. What I'm saying is, maybe on a site like stripcreator, it's a natural process to have a turnover, to every so many years have a changing of the guard."

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2-02-04 6:05am (new)
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