Being disappointed over webcomics never
was my forte.
My LKH analogy is still spot-on, though.
EDIT: Fuck it. Fuck it! Hold on, everyone shut the fuck up and let me think for a second.
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Okay. So.
Gaston was bad, but he got better. I haven't read it in fucking ages so I don't know when that happened exactly and I have better things to do than read the entire bloody archives of Megatokyo to figure out when, but at some point he did. The art just stopped improving at some point (or "plateaued," as I put it) in some sort of calculated effort at Jim Davis-esque sustained mediocrity, except that Jim Davis could actually keep to a schedule. He's not bad, per se (it's all generic moeblob bullshit but at least it isn't actively offensive), but the fact that he's settled for slightly above average with no interest or incentive to get better is more damning than any lack of talent.
Is that what we're driving at here? Is that it? Gaston being a disgusting, stagnant beast unable to crawl out of his own misery and surrounded by spineless apologists that would embarrass the Papacy while parroting the most insipid excesses of Japan's bastard children at a near-glacial pace?
Jesus fucking Christ.
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Is self-improvement some sort of
bad word these days? Are people so afraid of criticism or doing something hard or - heaven forbid -
losing that they throw a shit fit whenever someone suggests that maybe they could be doing something wrong? I mean look at that last post up there by me. LOOK AT IT. That is some spineless, flaccid arguing. But it reinforced a very good rule for me:
Don't try to argue a fucking point if you don't fucking know anything about it. I fucked up! I admit it! I did something wrong, Doom saw an opening and he attacked my weak point for massive damage!
(He still used "devil's advocate" when he did not, in fact, argue the opposing viewpoint and just expressed jealousy over the exact thing that I started a tangent over but that doesn't count for anything at this point, at all, ever.)
But oh wait you can't do anything
wrong on the Internet! Not when there's
so many people telling you that you did something
right! That's some serious "everyone is special in their own way" bullshit right there and it sickens me. You think that people point out perspective problems or bad grammar or plotting or sloppy code or poor level design because they hate you? If they hated you they'd just call you names and troll your MySpace page. They do this because it's generally assumed that when people do something they want to get better at it. But maybe not! Maybe someone just wants to be...
average. Maybe they like perspective problems or bad plotting or constant hall of mirror effects. I do not know! I am not them! Possibly because I am not so fucking insecure as to take people pointing out errors I didn't see as personal attacks and most likely because - get this -
I realize that I am not infallible! I am not perfect! Neither are you! It's amazing, I know!
There's a saying I toss around a lot and usually I'm joking when I say it but here I'm not: "You don't get the fans you want, you get the fans you deserve." Well I gotta tell you right now, Megatokyo proves this. It practically
defines that saying, because MT's forums are a bunch of underage no-talent weeaboos who wouldn't know quality from QUALITY if it broke their boxes of Pocky open and drove that stale-ass shit under their fingernails, and if you talk shit about MT every single one of them will defend this fucking comic to the death -
to the death. Gaston's probably too depressed over his own inconsequential shit to get it up these days, much less respond to criticism, but that's okay because he has a
great big forum full of rollicking, teeming, unwashed masses ready to tear you apart if you point out things like his chronic ability to keep to a schedule or stagnating art because OH-EM-EFFING-GEE HE MADE FUN OF PIRO-SAMA. Good job, you guys. Maybe if you shout a little louder you can drown out that little voice of doubt in your mind that says that maybe the other guy's got a point.
Any human being with a shred of decency would eventually become disgusted with the perpetuation of a plot most Japanese artists at least have the decency to add gratuitous sex scenes to (so even though you're wasting your time reading it you have something to show for your efforts) and either the unwillingness or inability to
get better at something, because heaven knows enough of the former readers have. But maybe that's what's happened. Maybe he got disgusted with himself years ago and he's dragging his feet but doesn't have the balls to either man up or put a bullet in this abomination so he's just keeping the status quo.
Same as usual, then, I suppose. At least he has his fans to keep him company.
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At this point I don't even fucking care that this is all amazingly long-winded and potentially off-topic and illogical because I'm going to forget everything I typed in a matter of hours, and if you know what's good for you then you will too.
