mandingo
February 26, 2006 4:22 PM | quote:
not_Scyess
allo, my name is mandingo montoya. you kill my Sea Monkey. prepare to die.
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Some of those would actually make a positive contribution to the site. The rest are either useless or can be done adequately with existing art.
all men characters can be done "adequately" with one man character. all female characters can be done "adequately" with one female character. so unless you're willing to follow it to its logical conclusion and advocate 1 man and 1 woman character, you should toss out the "can be done adequately with existing art" argument. and that's even assuming "adequately" is objective. the fact that it's subjective blows that argument to hell again, but no need to beat a dead horseman.
so that leaves the argument that the art you omitted is useless. but realizing that what's "useless" is subjective to the person, and that, based on those who've posted, yours seems to easily be the minority opinion, that's enough to show the fallacy in your argument
but even assuming uselss is an objective term, your omissions are shaky at best, using the objective standard of the art currently on stripcreator. to prove this let's see how the sc characters would change if we followed your ideas of useless:
- you omit the Smurph and Budda Burger...uh... JesusSandwich forum user characters. using the objective standard of characters that already exist, you just eliminated most of the forum users group. (i think wirthling, brad gaming, Spankling, kaufman, crabby, boorite, fuzzy, and kajun would survive your opinion of what's useful, while the other 18 people would get the axe body spray.)
- you eliminated the Matrix characters. disregarding the fact that we have few to no characters wearing sunglasses on the site (you just omitted 4 that did) and that we have few characters with weapons on the site (you just omitted 2 that did), you also just eliminated all the gabe characters that derive from the watchmen comics, tyler from kofightclub, all the star trek characters drabies did, and Abe Vigoda. Abe Vigoda. you. heartless. bastard.
- you eliminate the Matrix background, which would get used a ton on the site. i doubt even you disagree with that.
- you eliminate Kevin Smith... i mean Finn... who'd be used as Kevin Smith. he's one of the 18 forum user characters your definition of useless wacked
- you eliminate the cowboy... but not the indian... apparently because we have a cowboy already. but you ignore the fact that it's in a vastly different art style. and also... and this might sound crazy... but what about having TWO cowboys! i know, i know! but then the cowboy wouldn't have to talk to his identical twin whenever you want him to talk to another cowboy. because i hear that cowboys do talk to other cowboys. even more than robots and space aliens (not more than cows though)
- you eliminate 2 more forumuser characters, mmyers and Chi_the_Cynic. mmyers made the mistake of wearing a cowboy hat and looking the part of the perfect Texan. poor guy never saw you coming
- you eliminate 3 girls in bikinis, a playboy bunny, an angel, and a devil girl, because you're obviously gayer than Liberace living in the 1920s. and because i guess we have too many people in bathing suits, too many angels, devil girls, and playboy bunnies, and that the last would go just TERRIBLY with the restaurant background.
- you eliminated the sea monkey. you. eliminated. the. sea. monkey. i know it's a messy divorce, but part of me wonders if you ever loved me at all. and i should point out that by this reasoning you also just eliminated all the dolphins, sharks, crabs, etc, then snorted a line of coke and eliminated either the red or blue fish as well.
my point is that "useless" is a subjective term, and that your being in the minority opinion shows that your idea of what's useless isn't in step with the average user here. but even if it was objective, dependent strictly upon the patterns set by the characters we now have, your opinion of what's useless and what isn't is out of step
in reality though, it is a subjective decision. one that will ultimately be made by brad, i'd guess based on bandwidth and esthetics like you said. if Brad wants input, one thing he could do is say something like "OK, i only want to add 7 characters, so decide which ones are your favorites." or "i'm only adding 7 characters, and these are the ones i've chosen."
*pours out brine solution for dead sea monkey homies*
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