Maven

Maven OP , 4 months ago

China actually! In 500ish BCE :D

Maven OP , 4 months ago

It wasn't until 2015 that the top Go player lost to an Ai while chess lost in 1997. It's wild how big that gap is when you think about how much tech had to improve to make it possible.

Maven OP , 4 months ago

I was hoping someone would comment on this actually. Every android app I've tried has been riddled with ads to the point of being impossible to play.

If someone has a good one PLEASE let us both know!

Maven OP , 4 months ago

Do you have a source for that? I can't find any information on it and every Go site lists China including the British Go Association

Maven OP , 4 months ago

Maybe one day I'll get fed up and make one myself

Maven OP , 4 months ago

Thanks!

Maven OP , 4 months ago

My main opponent right now is my boyfriend (who is also learning the game with me). Nothing we've done has been particularly quick in any sense.

Maven OP , 4 months ago

I haven't found the manga but it was made into an Anime that's on Hulu right now. I was thinking of watching it when I'm bored some day.

Maven OP , 4 months ago

I've been following a series of tutorials by Go Magic. They have a YouTube channel! The videos are extremely well produced and explain things super well!

Edit: I grabbed a link

Maven OP , 4 months ago

I'm not convinced 100% isn't shrunk in some way

Maven OP , 4 months ago

Not yet but we can definitely start it!

Maven OP , 4 months ago

I can do it on Lemmy world. I'd prefer not to be the only moderator though since I'm already moderating 3 other small communities.

Maven OP , 4 months ago

I made the community! https://lemmy.world/c/toiletpaperusa

Join and I'll find a way to make someone else a moderator

Maven OP , 4 months ago

I made the community! https://lemmy.world/c/toiletpaperusa

Join in and I'll find a way to make you a mod

Maven , 4 months ago

God damnit

Maven OP , 4 months ago

Pigs sell late -> Pixelate

The bottom right image is pixelated

Maven OP , 4 months ago

I get that a lot

Maven OP , 4 months ago

When I posted this meme I wasn't expecting a lesson on anal hygiene but I appreciate it. Thank you for taking the time to write this. I appreciate you.

Maven OP , 4 months ago

The opposite actually. It was almost entirely a discussion on how it's a bad idea.

Maven OP , 4 months ago

Why? Because I'm smoking?

Maven OP , 4 months ago

Mmm rubber

Maven OP , 4 months ago

In general having more original creators here posting their own work consistently is a good thing if we want to grow the platform.

Showing that it can be good to post here for creators will make more creators want to post here leading to an overall improvement in this community.

Maven OP , 4 months ago

One of the big problems people have with Lemmy atm is the lack of content. Convincing people that posting here is a good thing will pretty much entirely remove that. Plus comic makers very much have an interest in keeping the content QUALITY high as well so it won't just be more posts... It'll be more high quality posts.

Maven OP , 4 months ago

That's not responding to literally anything I said.

You're right. It doesn't matter who.

However, people who make and want to share content... Tend to make and share content...

Something that's good for a link aggregation site...

Maven OP , 4 months ago

Nobody cares WHO posts the thing. The important part is that people post.

Link aggregation sites need links to aggregate and those links need to be posted by SOMEONE.

People who make the things being linked tend to be more likely to post the thing in the link.

I have no idea how this is controversial. Why is posting your own memes/comics worse than posting someone else's content?

If it doesn't matter who posts it then there's literally no difference here except that more content is posted to Lemmy when the comic authors themselves are on the platform.

Maven OP , 4 months ago

As the OP, I appreciate not being blocked. I'm definitely not trying to freeboot or anything. My main goal with my entire account is to just boost the engagement on Lemmy in general and pizzacake is a creator a lot of people enjoy despite the comics being fine (generally the easiest option with every punchline).

More people using Lemmy consistently means we're more likely to grow as a platform which will in turn improve other areas and so on and so forth. Especially with this being an open source project, more users means more people willing/able to help on the codebase itself so the entire platform improves as a result.

Ultimately I agree with you that her joining herself would be better because you can just block her and be done with it. Her popularity would also probably bring engagement and yada yada as previously said.

Realistically I'll probably just not post her comics in the future since I hadn't heard about the annoying critic bashing stuff she did and I don't care enough about her work to try and hold on past annoying stuff.

Maven OP , 4 months ago

Comic artists have a big interest in creating consistent quality content... Because it's like their whole job...

While not everyone has the same tastes, so some comics (like this one for example) aren't something everyone wants to see, it's better for the creator to be here posting it so the individual user can just block her and never see them again. With the creator posting them they all come from the same source vs with random people posting where you have to stamp out each individual one.

Maven OP , 4 months ago

Pizzacake is a popular comic artist over on Reddit. She gained popularity mostly because she is extremely active in the comments of all of her posts. She is constantly chatting and attempting to make friends.

As for why she is disliked, there's a few reasons.

The one she sites the most is sexism though there isn't actually a lot of evidence of this outside of her own testimony.

Another is that she won't stop talking about how people who don't like her are sexist. She's made multiple comics about how her critics don't read her comics and just dislike them due to woman.

Her jokes also tend to be the easiest possible punchline for every joke. this has a kinda weird double effect because it means that her comics are extremely applicable to most people because they are generic enough that you can fit most of them into most situations. On the flip side, if you don't like one the comics... You probably won't like any of them... They're all similar enough to be mostly indistinguishable other than the topic itself. along that same train of thought, if you like one... You'll probably like them all.

As for my own opinion, I don't really care one way or the other. She's fine. I've heard accusations of her paying for likes on Reddit for promoting her own comics and so on but honestly I haven't seen any proof myself so I can't confirm or deny any of those.

Maven OP , 4 months ago

The art being flat as a way of saying it's low effort is an argument I genuinely don't understand. Comics are all low effort art wise... That's part of the whole thing.

Comics historically have been the lowest quality you can get away with since they have to be put out every day for the newspaper. I know XKCD does more than 1 thing but the art style is literally stick figures and they're one of the most popular web comics.

You may not like the art but I would call it a mediocre art style more than a low effort one.

Everything else I fully agree with. She gets the (unfortunately) normal amount of hate a woman gets online for being a woman. Which is why I made sure to do italics for it when I said lot. She tends to get significantly more support than hate in pretty much everything she does either way.

Maven OP , 4 months ago

Oh I'm definitely not saying anything negative about XKCD. I LOVE those comics. My point is simply that even stick figures can make good comics.

It's fine if you don't like the art as art tends to be subjective. I just don't think her art is any lower than any other average web/newspaper comic.