Most people don’t get to see recent comments to much older posts for obvious reasons, but I thought this, from Nina, on this post, was hilarious:
I could really do with a “fuck this shit” button on my browser. You know, one I could click every time I come across something so mediocre that I never, ever want to see anything that is even associated with it ever again. Like, I would press the button on Megatokyo.com and then everything that Fred has ever scribbled or written will be magically blocked and I can just pretend that this abomination of a comic never happened.
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Cool. One day, someone may look back upon this comment, and marvel at how people in 2009 were so much stupider. And possibly say something about hovercars.
Quick! Someone call Firefox!
Oh, how I wish that were possible.
Somehow it doesn’t seem so farfetched… a script that forces a 404 whenever a particular url, considering some wildcards, is requested… And hide related material via keywords…
SOMEONE WORK ON IT NOW PLEASE.
Oh that’s not nice, I mean I remember Megatokyo had a funny joke.
Once.
8 years ago.
And come to think of it it wasn’t that funny either.
I remember giving his comic a chance back in college, when my anime-fandom was at its highest. But even then, I knew anyone who called the creator of Love Hina a “genius” was irredeemably full of shit.
I still think Megatokyo is pretty darn good, although it stopped being a humor comic long, long ago.
Like, six months after it was created.
You can basically do the blunt force version of this with adblock (block a URL), just like you can get rid of the Flickr invisible overlay with it.
No dice on kill-filing someone net-wide, though.
That would be nice, really. I’d also be interested in a “This, I Need More Of This” button. More reliable than Google, which always thinks I want to know when a name was mentioned once in a long stream.
A forum I visit has the most annoying, asinine, unfunny emoticons. Even people I otherwise would listen to and respect use them, and it makes every post seem ten times less intelligent.
I used Adblock to make them not show up anymore. (Similar to what Z mentioned.) My enjoyment of visiting this forum has increased appropriately.
Felt like mentioning it.
In a moment of optimism, I bought the first volume of Megatokyo instead of reading it on the website. I recall describing it as “aggressively mediocre, with nice art.”
I felt silly for having paid money for it. But not as much as I did over buying the first two Anita Blake books at once because they were short and cheap and highly recommended.
Curiosity got the better of me and I read through the article proper. Not a bad statement, but I certainly regret reading through the blog it linked to. Way overboard, I think.
The thing about Megatokyo that really saddens me is that, underneath all the pedophilia and terrible art, there’s actually the seed of a genuinely interesting story there. Treating retired singers and actresses as “unexploded ordnance,” capable of manipulating emotions on a mass scale? That’s actually almost cool.
Of course, to get there you have to get through the aforementioned terrible art. Seriously, the girls all have the exact same face so the only way to tell them apart is by their haircuts and there are only six of those
Alright, I’ll be honest: I /like/ Megatokyo; I honestly enjoy it. Yes, I realize it’s not actually manga, its melodramatic and I don’t take it seriously, but it’s still fun. The way I see it, its ok to enjoy something that sucks as long as you realize it does. Why all the intense hatred?
I don’t see where the pedophilia comes in, either.
Holy shit, am I famous on the internet? Cool!
My problem with MegaTokyo – just to clear it up – is that it is completely mediocre in every way imaginable an Fred is doing nothing about it. I’m someone who went to art school. I worked my ass off for years to reach a level in work where I don’t feel guilty asking money for it — and I’m still studying even now because I know I’m not that great. It just boggles my mind that Fred is completely OK with selling that abomination. It’s not about the money, it’s about respect.
Let’s face it, there’s no way he can look at his characters and not notice that they are all downs patients with terrible hairdos and empty, dead eyes. In all these years, he never bothered to take even a slice of his profit, even a small percentage of his money, to actually learn how to draw.
I find that to be greatly disrespectful to his readers. Just look at Penny Arcade and you’ll see what I mean. That’s a guy taking his work seriously. Fred? Fred is just seeing how much money he can squeeze out of people before they notice how completely terrible he is.
Sorry for the lengthy reply. I just wanted to clear that up.
I should clarify–I don’t have intense hatred for Megatokyo. I tried reading it, I thought it was dull and not worth my time, and I gave up reading it because I had better things to do. Really, this thread is the most thought I’ve given Megatokyo since I finished reading the collection I bought.
Taking a look at the comic on the front page, I don’t see anything like a “Downs patient” or a “terrible hairdo” or “empty eyes.” This page actually looks pretty good.
Now, if you wanted to make a reasonable criticism, you could point out how nearly all the pages in the last chapter have gone unshaded.