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by kate leth 01/13/2015, 2:52am PST |
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Mysterio wrote:
But it would be better if the college students were even a tiny bit likable, or if they had at least SOME halfway understandable reason for acting so stupidly, instead of just being straw men
On giving this more thought, "likeable" is a pretty subjective thing. They come out as being anti-gun. That makes them inherently likeable to certain people.
The same applies to "understandable reason for acting so stupidly." This is a good point that it has to be portrayed to the audience. The only thing is that it's how people act in real life, it is fully congruent with the beliefs that millions of people hold. And why do they hold those beliefs? Because they were taught those beliefs. Nothing more. In a way, that information is portrayed in the story, through the simple fact that they were all college students, and continue to live in the university, symbolically never moving beyond the things they were told, mostly because they were able to bunker up and ignore the problem outside. The only option to make this understandable to the reader is probably just to make it more obvious, which I don't want to do, because I feel the story already works as it is, and already runs the risk of being far too obvious.
On the idea of the characters being "strawmen," there are plenty of people who behave as living breathing strawman arguments. They are objectively wrong, they hold incorrect stupid beliefs that they worship dogmatically, which in a way is the main theme of this story (padded out with a bunch of shooty action post apocalypse stuff). On one of my other comic projects, the satire one, I actually had someone angrily complain and say that the writing is bad because, and I'm not lying, they said that "satire needs to have subtlety." They actually for real thought that objectively false concept, held the lie in their mind, and never once questioned it. Timing, much like history and objective truth itself, was on my side in this one, as this was only about a week ago. My response was this:
And then I thanked them for being a living breathing strawman that I could easily destroy. Why do they always come to me to die? 8) |
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Yeap I've pretty much written a new """graphic novel""" myself heh. by kate leth 12/31/2014, 11:16pm PST 
Pretty good by Mysterio 01/11/2015, 10:40am PST
I would but they are strawmen in real life. ^_^ by kate leth 01/13/2015, 1:28am PST
Re: Pretty good by kate leth 01/13/2015, 2:52am PST
Re: Pretty good by Mysterio 01/13/2015, 7:04am PST
Re: Pretty good by kate leth 01/13/2015, 11:46am PST
the word for satire without subtlety is farce by Mysterio 01/14/2015, 9:24am PST
That's like when Paul claims the definition of insanity is to be unable to tell by Eurotrash 01/14/2015, 10:02am PST
I can't tell if you missed the riff on a cable post or just didn't look it up NT by Mysterio 01/15/2015, 6:39pm PST
Tell that to everyone who says the faily shit or cuntbert report are satire. NT by kate leth 01/14/2015, 10:12am PST
Says the one person here beneath the Daily Show by you could write that stuff 01/14/2015, 12:47pm PST
On the contrary, I don't. Welp, I just won that argument, that was easy. 8) NT by kate leth 01/15/2015, 6:14am PST
He's like an actually threatening Colbert by Vested Id 01/15/2015, 11:18am PST
FAILY SHIT HA HA HA HA HA by #ItsAboutEthicsinGamingJournalism 01/14/2015, 4:15pm PST
Still funnier than you. Unless you count involuntary hilarity, in which case by Eurotrash 01/15/2015, 11:07am PST
if you're going to claim significant insight you might as well get shit right by Mysterio 01/15/2015, 6:42pm PST
Yeah, no more fuckups, Cable. NT by Terminally unemployed shutin 01/15/2015, 7:19pm PST
"You're wrong. [no proof]" I win. 8) NT by kate leth 01/16/2015, 9:02am PST
"You're right, but have room to be more right." "You think I'm wrong!" Insecure. NT by Mysterio 01/16/2015, 9:59pm PST
Degrees of rightness. by kate leth 01/17/2015, 7:19am PST
>degrees >not bringing up the total number of things you're right about by Mysterio 01/17/2015, 9:22am PST
Total number of things I'm right about: 99% by kate leth 01/17/2015, 4:24pm PST
Watching Jhoh school #Its has been worth the price of admission. NT by Mysterio Lollerson 01/17/2015, 8:29pm PST
Your pet right-wing blogshitter has schooled no one by #ItsAboutEthicsinGamingJournalism 01/20/2015, 12:47am PST
Oh. I seem to have clearly thought that he did. by Mysterio Lollerson 01/22/2015, 6:31pm PST
I'm making an indiegogo to pay to have this drawn. by kate leth 01/16/2015, 2:01pm PST
I just decided on "either/or" by kate leth 01/16/2015, 2:43pm PST
8) 8) 8) 8) 8) by kate leth 01/17/2015, 11:45am PST
You do make a good point. by kate leth 01/17/2015, 4:25pm PST
Who would pay for your worthless bullshit? by #ItsAboutEthicsinGamingJournalism 01/17/2015, 2:50pm PST
What's wrong with jacking off to cartoons? by Worm 01/17/2015, 4:11pm PST
Cartoons aren't capable of giving consent by Social Justice fan fic writer 01/17/2015, 7:01pm PST
Re: What's wrong with jacking off to cartoons? by Mysterio 01/18/2015, 11:26am PST
I say seek help NT by Eurotrash 01/19/2015, 10:00pm PST
Related. ^_^ by kate leth 01/21/2015, 9:07am PST
Fully revised finished version (with pitchas too). by kate leth 01/26/2015, 3:29am PST
Related, AGAIN. by kate leth 02/01/2015, 7:03pm PST
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