May 21, 2005

VGcats It's a webcomic that's funny.
posted by Platypusfunkstyle 19 years ago
  • Not Found The requested URL /www.vgcats.com was not found on this server. HA HA HA HA HA I don't get it.
  • Corrected Link And I love VGcats most of the time, )))
  • And my personal favorite, :).
  • Where is it funny?
  • platfunk, you may want to preview your links before posting. The link for this story, and the homepage link on your user profile are both duds. Just had a look at vgcats. I'm with Chyren - where's the humour? vgcats is another in a long line of supremely unfunny web cartoons - this one just happens to have cats, and something to do with video games. Not a single smirk passed my lips.
  • Funny is still subjective, isn't it?
  • Can I have my minute back?
  • tracicle, if maybe the webcomic had been different, or offered a fresh visual style, or even had something interesting to say, then i wouldn't have been so harsh. But it offered none of those, and didn't bring any laughs with it either. For example, I happen to think Cat And Girl is a fantastic webcomic. There are many times it is just plain unfunny, but at least it isn't a oh-so-unfunny-computergame-based-geek-out that reeks of so much yawn with absolutely no insight or humour. To summarise the summary of the summary - hardly worth the post. Maybe a nicely developed "geek webcomic roundup" (featuring such travesties as penny-arcade and userfriendly) might have sparked something more than the sequence of "UGH"s that this is going to. To further summarise: yeah. humour is subjective. and vgcats tastes like arse (and not in the good way)
  • Ugh!
  • I've tasted arse. Wasn't that bad, actually. Maybe the ones I've tried have been good ones.
  • That comment was funnier than the comic strip. But in the author's defense, writing a comic strip is hard. I know, I did it for 3 years. People like Gary Larson, Bill Waterson or Matt Groening are damned rare. Part of it is subjective - the stuff that runs in your local alt weekly isn't going to entertain Garfield fans, but it still needs to tickle a wide swath of people. Much of the humor you share with your friends is based on knowing both the person and the circumstances. Even then, most people lean heavily on sarcasm, someone else's pop culture catch phrase or vocal delivery. Being consistantly funny in comic strip format is harder than almost anything. Back in the days before the web when you needed someone else to vet your concept before you would be published, the pool of syndicated cartoonists was smaller than the total number of NBA players. As I recall, they only let in about 3 new entrants a year and most of them never really caught on.
  • Platypus, why do you think vgcats is funny? I consume a good many comix and this one seems filled with insider jokes (=not funny) from the get-go.
  • Why do comics have to be funny? I read Gil Thorpe, dammit.
  • "Why do comics have to be funny?" Because they are comic.
  • ... and platypus' assertion that "It's a webcomic that's funny" gave me hope that someone had found one. But alas... I've now spent more time bitching about this post than is sane.
  • Sounds like a MoFi tagline.
  • Gil Thorp ahhhh..... BTW Nickdanger, no e in Thorp
  • Gil Thorp!!!
  • "I've now spent more time bitching about this post than is sane." Actually, I think this is an analogy of life, really. This thought makes me extremely depressed and head for the liquor cabinet.
  • Honestly, the comic's been pretty hit-and-miss lately, and the one up right now is easily one of the worst he's ever done. Should have either posted last week or waited a few days and hoped for the funny to come back.
  • Wow it's like penny arcade, except slightly worse! Note: penny arcade sucks I mean good god, it's not so much that I don't find it funny but I'm just embarassed that you do! And you said so publicly!
  • I consume a good many comix and this one seems filled with insider jokes (=not funny) from the get-go. You think? I've never heard this. I'm always the lameass everyone hates because I don't think in-jokes are the height of hilarity. Even when I'm in on them, I usually think they're funny for a few hours or days and then get stale. Also errr, something as huge as video-game fans isn't an in-joke so much as a target market that you're not in. ("I don't get this! It's for people with different hobbies than mine! Therefore it's bad and wrong and bad and wrong and bad!") That said, I've never bothered reading VGCats and I don't intend to start. Meh. But I don't think being nerdy is in and of itself equal to inferiority.
  • "But I don't think being nerdy is in and of itself equal to inferiority." Fucking well was when I was at high school.
  • Ah, Chyren. Remember that high school only lasts 4 years and bears no resemblance to the real world. In the real world, the last shall be made first, the cheerleaders are fat, and the jocks are all used car salesmen. You have the rest of your life to grind their noses in the dust. RAH! There is justice in life.
  • High school is a perfect microcosm of the real world!
  • In the real world, the last shall be made first, the cheerleaders are fat, and the jocks are all used car salesmen. *cough* current president *cough*
  • Errr, the fact that everything in HS isn't necessarily true doesn't mean that it's all wrong, either. I meant in terms of humor - "this is bad because I don't get it" is the tone lazy, and I find that kind of ...lazy. Now, granted, this might be lame gamer humor - but it's lame because it's lame, and not because it's gamers. Is that clearer?
  • wtf. First lazy == here. The tone here. Memo to fingers. Obey brain. Or else.
  • Wurwilf: pass the Windex, will you?
  • I'm not spooging over it; I haven't even read it more than once or twice. Oh, whatever.