figmentPez
Staff member
Dammit Dave, now he's going to bring back Reggie. That would really suck, I'd have to stop reading PVP.
[Webcomic] PVP Discussion
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No. No it isn't.
That comic is a big pile of what the fuck.
GasBandit
Staff member
No, it's a joke about melodramatic internet culture. Trigger warnings aren't just for rape.
figmentPez
Staff member
Trigger warnings are for everything! Posting a picture of the sausage pizza you just ate? Better label it trigger warnings so that sensitive vegans don't have to be reminded that pork fat rules!
I would hope after the recent Goblins debacle webcomic artists would learn that rape and webcomics do not mix very well.
GasBandit
Staff member
I didn't even know there was a debacle with goblins, though I remember the controversy with the PA Dickwolves.
Dave
Staff member
Someone got upset that Goblins had Kin being raped over and over again and took everything the wrong way, thinking the author was making rape jokes. It got totally blown out of proportion and context and was a clusterfuck.
Yeah, basically some woman read a few pages of Gobins (I believe it was the ones where the creepy guy with the wooden arm and Minmax were in the bar), saw the creepy guy mention how he'd rape Kin nightly, and basically didn't read anything else in the comic. She went nuts on Thunt using her website and twitter, he basically unleashed his fans in a fit of rage, then regretted it and asked them to stop when they started sending her death threats.
The woman was the one at fault for being a fucking idiot and not understanding a villain when she sees one but Thunt was out of line for what he did in response. To his credit, at least Thunt realized his mistake and tried to reel it in.
It was actually even sillier than that. She read the strip where the demons and Fox were having a parlay and there was the line where the demon said he and his friends were going to dogpile someone's soul as a threat and she freaked out about it publicly, and then when people told her she was overreacting, she went deep into the archives to find the mention of wood guy and Kin.
North_Ranger
Staff member
What was the demon supposed to say, then? Threaten the guy with a comfortable pillow?
Only if he did so in a way that didn't trip triggers for this one person.
Dogpile is not even really a word implying rape. I don't think I have ever even heard the term used in a sexual context. It's pretty much just a lot of guys piling on top of eachother. Is she going to get offended if she goes to a football game, and out of wackiness, the winning team yells out "Dogpile!" and everyone runs into eachother on top of the quarterback?
Maybe the term goes back farther and has different context then from which I grew up? Anyone mind informing me?
Maybe the term goes back farther and has different context then from which I grew up? Anyone mind informing me?
North_Ranger
Staff member
Porn?
figmentPez
Staff member
General search engine that compiles the results from other search engines.
...so yes porn.
Wow that thing's still around? I used it circa... 2001 or so?
Alta Vista was where it was at.
Wow, I used Altavista around... 1996.
figmentPez
Staff member
My first web browser was Mosaic.
Didn't AltaVista try to go pay to use or something? I just remember they pissed me off over something and I quit using them.
Hell yeah, Telnet! And Pine for an email program, bitches.
GasBandit
Staff member
Actually, if I want to get REALLY picky, I suppose you could say that my first was "Telix."
