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I dunno, The Quiet Man revealed itself to be a stupid gimmick when there was no sound whatsoever when the third person omniscient camera ended up tracking other people in separate scenes and then dropped a sound version to make people play it a second time so it'd make sense. This is just committed to the bit to an idiotic degree.
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 20:01 |
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Yeah the Quiet Man was dumb because the audience couldn't understand things that the protagonist clearly could, and the sound was muted even in scenes he didn't appear in.
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 21:08 |
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Drunk Theory posted:They both made their deaf protagonists look like morons, but I think I agree. If nothing else the Quiet Man didn't come off as utterly infantile. I started thinking about that because in both cases the creator(s) clearly never bothered talking to or consulting someone with an actual hearing impairment, or doing like any research into how they live their lives.
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 21:12 |
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Maxwell Lord posted:I started thinking about that because in both cases the creator(s) clearly never bothered talking to or consulting someone with an actual hearing impairment, or doing like any research into how they live their lives. I would say that in Mookie's case it would be a bit different because the way hearing impaired folks lived their lives in medieval and pre-modern times was doubtless different from how they do it today when things like literacy and laws protecting and helping individuals with disabilities and special needs are prevalent - but lol like Deeganverse isn't just the modern world .
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 21:15 |
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:I would say that in Mookie's case it would be a bit different because the way hearing impaired folks lived their lives in medieval and pre-modern times was doubtless different from how they do it today when things like literacy and laws protecting and helping individuals with disabilities and special needs are prevalent - but lol like Deeganverse isn't just the modern world . Of course, this discussion is all hypothetical. Mookie doesn't consider how anyone, impaired or not exists in his settings.
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 21:38 |
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Snout feels like a worse portrayal of someone without hearing to me just cause Mookie’s always making jokes at his expense directly related to it. A guy with hearing writing a scene where a deaf man is so desperate to cure his deafness that he drinks earwax cleaner feels mean spirited. And folks with hearing leaving out deaf people from the conversation both intentionally and accidentally is a real thing. It seems like every time Snout being deaf comes up it’s just for yucks.
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 21:55 |
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YF-23 posted:We have been explicitly shown that it does affect ink magic, with the "wayfinder spell" the ink witch disguised herself as and her ship crashing because of it. Of course, the ink witch could have been lying about that, but I think if that were the case it would have been found out within half a strip. I mean, that's what she said, sure. But what about all the times she used her magic and the mild edge didn't affect it, like when she made that tree for them to sit under, write words in the air, tell fortunes, and a bunch of other stuff. My point is it's inconsistent and stops happening when mookie forgets or needs her magic to work. The Little Death posted:There's something about Snout's naivete that is really grating to me. Like here we see that he reacts to conflict like a child, getting angry that people are fighting and deamnding that they stop. And because he's portrayed as so innocent, what we're seeing is like watching someone kick a puppy. But the fact that he's obviously the stand-in for the author, that he's been in all these weird sexual situations with the Ink witch, and that his deafness cutshim off from understanding situations until they are spelled out to him by the other characters just lends this almost fetishistic quality to things, like his relative helplessness and lack of agency is the point. Just feels weird and uncomfortable. This is a really good insight. You know what it's a lot like? It's like the creatures in the movie "cats." They're very blatantly sexual with each other but they're also childlike and infantilized and you feel like you should call someone. Rotten Red Rod posted:Sure we do, one is Rannon Mhorgs, and he is evil because he is evil. The other is boobs, and she is evil because boobs. Rannon Mhorgs? Did I miss a comic?
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# ? Jul 12, 2020 07:58 |
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Invisible Clergy posted:Rannon Mhorgs? Did I miss a comic? No. You missed one of Mookie's old D&D sessions.
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# ? Jul 12, 2020 08:32 |
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https://twitter.com/mookiebean/status/1282272492153974785
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# ? Jul 12, 2020 12:21 |
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He’s at the point where he just gets invited because he’s always been there.
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# ? Jul 12, 2020 12:28 |
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This whole comic is Mookie's mid-life crisis nostalgia about the con scene while he complains into an empty white void about how he thinks he should be more relevant and why aren't people still wearing Dominic Deegan scarves to the cons like they used to?! Old Man Yells at White Void
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# ? Jul 12, 2020 13:42 |
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There's a non-zero chance that "Rannon Mhorgs" is an anagram of someone who gave Mookie trouble in high school, isn't there?
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# ? Jul 12, 2020 13:44 |
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Amazing. He delivered the entire speech without dialogue.
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# ? Jul 12, 2020 13:44 |
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Ugh. His loving memorable heroes and villains presentation, again? I tried watching it once to pick apart and mock, and man, is he loving intolerable to listen to.
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# ? Jul 12, 2020 13:56 |
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You gotta admit, "heroic rapist" is pretty memorable.
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# ? Jul 12, 2020 18:05 |
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Nighthand posted:You gotta admit, "heroic rapist" is pretty memorable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn3gB4fRvUc Not sure why his brother went into pediatrics though.
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# ? Jul 12, 2020 18:08 |
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TheHan posted:Snout feels like a worse portrayal of someone without hearing to me just cause Mookie’s always making jokes at his expense directly related to it. A guy with hearing writing a scene where a deaf man is so desperate to cure his deafness that he drinks earwax cleaner feels mean spirited. And folks with hearing leaving out deaf people from the conversation both intentionally and accidentally is a real thing. It seems like every time Snout being deaf comes up it’s just for yucks. I'm not blind or deaf and my issues are just anxiety/depression related so I don't claim to speak for people with those types of disabilities, but I always thought the way Toph was handled on Avatar was the right way to handle disability jokes. Whenever Toph's blindness comes up in a comedic fashion, it's never her or her blindness that is the butt of joke - it's the other characters, usually Sokka, forgetting or doing something dumb around it. So while Toph's blindness can be a source of comedy, neither she or it is ever actually the punchline. That seems like the way you handle it. Of course comparing Mookie who I still say is the nadir of creative endeavor to something as amazing as Avatar is unfair, but hey, what are ya gonna do.
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# ? Jul 12, 2020 18:22 |
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Yeah if anyone other than us and Mookie's tiny audience of Twitter sycophants read this comic I'm sure there would be some controversy about his depiction of deaf people. Unfortunately instead he thinks he's being brave and progressive.
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# ? Jul 12, 2020 19:47 |
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One of his latest tweets is jerking off a little bit about his "Writing Unique Heroes & Memorable Villains" panel. Mookie will never change.
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# ? Jul 12, 2020 19:51 |
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When making a villain you gotta make sure to have no ambiguity. Your audience should have a baby’s understanding of right and wrong. I think Snout had a heart attack? Did he die?
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 02:07 |
I’m choosing to think that he didn’t pass out from the punch, but from realizing that Evil Witch is about to start reading his written wankfests out loud.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 02:14 |
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Why would she immediately jump on reading his diary mid-confrontation? I mean, it's because that's the only reason for them to consider snout at all important. But it's not even remotely justified in-character. Like, even having the diary open to a random page with "important" symbols or drawings and having that catch her eye would at least be a way to connect those dots. It's not hard.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 02:22 |
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Why did he have to make the second panel so funny?
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 02:27 |
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 02:31 |
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 02:34 |
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For a moment I thought Ink Mom's hair was fading into ink swirls, but until I realised it was just her collar I thought that was a neat touch. That last panel is real bad though (not that the others are much better). It's just a mess.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 02:35 |
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What in the actual hell are these panels. They don’t even look like one leads to another.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 02:49 |
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5 finger exploding heart technique lol
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 02:58 |
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I'm surprised there isn't a panel of her ripping out the pages while cackling.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 03:25 |
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TheHan posted:When making a villain you gotta make sure to have no ambiguity. Your audience should have a baby’s understanding of right and wrong. Does Inkmom represent how the viewers feel about this comic?
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 03:37 |
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rudecyrus posted:I'm surprised there isn't a panel of her ripping out the pages while cackling. That's Wednesday's update, don't get ahead of yourself.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 03:39 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:What in the actual hell are these panels. They don’t even look like one leads to another. Yeah seriously. First he's rolling on his side, then he's sitting up from being on his back, then he's falling prone. There's absolutely no consistency between panels. Also the bald dude's nose is horrifying.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 03:42 |
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Dull surprise making a stellar appearance here.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 03:55 |
I revise my earlier thoughts. Those last two panels make it look like he was massively constipated, and passed out from the effort.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 04:02 |
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Oh, hey. I was wondering when Mookie's martyr complex would rear up again. Snout's deafness wasn't enough to appease it, I guess.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 04:11 |
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Does Inkmom represent how the viewers feel about this comic? She just got to the part where he talks about cuddling.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 08:08 |
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Fifth panel will be reused later in the comic for the worst sex scene ever created.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 08:10 |
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Panel four too.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 08:23 |
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TheHan posted:I think Snout had a heart attack? Did he die? We wouldn't be so lucky.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 10:02 |
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I wonder, since Snout's the POV character and he's passed out, does this mean he can skip over the potential confrontation between Arudak, Squidward and the newcomers, and they can fill him in later with text so now Mookie doesn't have to draw a combat scene and just has to draw a static bedroom scene?
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