4w ago

Rule

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Is this Gain?
- Fuuuuck you beat me to it
  
  Sorry for your loss
  
  Same. The exact sentence.
  Now I must start WW3.
- I too had the same thought. I would say great minds think alike, but I'm dumb as shit
  
  In Germany we say "Zwei Dumme, ein Gedanke" (two stupid people, one thought)
  
  I've got good news! The full quote is "Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ."
  So it can still apply to you, it just means you're calling OP a fool too 😄
- Angry upvote

now the internet can begin to heal

I've never understood all the hate levied at 'loss'. Can you imagine experiencing a miscarriage, building a popular web comic, and then integrating your own experience into it, showing one of your most vulnerable moments, and then it becomes a ruthlessly mocked meme?
- It kinda came out of left field and pissed off all the people that actually liked the sitcom that CAD was becoming.
  Also, Tim Buckley's news post commenting on the comic made him sound like an asshole. Cyanide & Happiness actually spoofed the Loss comic but with the guy delivering a snippet of Buckley's post
  
  Yeah, it came out of left field, but it's an Indy webcomic. It's his singular expression and ip. Why should the audience a) feel so entitled to react in such an invasive and insensitive way, b) react with anger instead of empathy? It's just childish.
- I think the simple answer is tone. Just as a silly moment can undercut drama and the serious tone, a serious page in an otherwise light-hearted comic is jarring.
  Imagine if Garfield and Jon had a moment where Jon confides in Garfield that he has cancer and he is worried it may be fatal; without some sort of punch line to lighten the moment it would feel sad, dark, and foreboding which goes against the tone set by the rest of the comic.
  
  You reminded me of a distant memory of a sad Garfield comic.
  
  Oh I understand why people didn't like it. It just feels to utterly entitled and unempathetic to react in the way his audience did. It's an Indy webcomic, not a professional newspaper strip. And even if it were, it wouldn't be the first time that a comedy comics artist injected some personal drama or statement.
  I mean, i loved Garfield growing up, and if I'd seen that strip you've described, I wouldn't react with anger. I'd be saddened. I'd realize that the author is speaking directly to me about his own fears, his own anxiety.
- It's because the comic strip's style and history didn't fit the story being told. If anything, it was a massive tonal shift compared to previous comic strips in the whole webcomic.
  The author was used to the 4-panel comic layout, which was great for comedic setups and punchlines, and didn't know to switch to something more appropriate for such a somber subject in Loss. That's why Loss feels lifeless, rather than sad.
  There are so many great ways to add tension and emotion in comic form through panel layouts, compositions, style, and shading; if Loss had employed any of those to convey a compelling emotional story, it would not have been so badly received, even if posted in the same webcomic series.
- i could give you a million reasons, but i can try to boil it down.
  the webcomic was not a serious or dramatic affair, and swapped between silly one off gags and a linear narrative, so Loss was squared up with goofy comedy
  the author took a real event that he and his girlfriend experienced, but appeared to have a completely unsympathetic and callous opinion on his real ex's real miscarriage
  the derivative nature of the webcomic series in both style and substance, and its perfect encapsulation of gamers and gaming culture, makes it s prime target for eternal parody by outsiders and insiders alike
- Why don't we hear what the author of Loss thinks about the miscarriage then, quoted in a comic?
  
  wtf did the author leave her after a miscarriage???
- I think Hareton Splimbys (hbomberguys) video about loss explains the criticism/hate it received pretty well. It’s just a really weird and uncalled for departure of this usually comedic, lighthearted and gaming-centric cliche webcomic
  
  Great, that still leaves everyone that turned it into a meme an unoriginal jackass.
- It is impossible to fully understand loss as it happened without being around to witness what an absolute shitbag Buckley had been online for a long time preceding it. A big part of what made loss so ridiculous was it being so sanctimonious from the internet's most childish shithead.
- I thought art was supposed to make you feel uncomfortable sometimes if done right. That's what i was taught/learned was what made art valuable because it forces/compells an emotional response.
  In the case of Loss it may have been a jarring departure in style but it was also the dudes lived experience and he chose to externalize it, which is generally supposed to be healthy and a way to heal.
  But dudes weren't/aren't ever rewarded for it if they don't also please others while doing it, only get beaten down and made to feel shame.
  Stunning lack of empathy to care more about the fictional world created by the actual real human being who created it