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Cat

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  1. On 1/26/2022 at 5:09 AM, paqart said:

    No one "believes in that nonsense". Not you, and not the people you think believe in it. This characterization is false, created for political reasons only. It's like when people from one political party demonize their opposition for things they never thought, said or did, and vice versa. Instead of swinging bats at piñatas, it makes more sense to ask who is putting out all this fake information. The only result is that it distracts people from the real bad guys who control the narrative for everyone. The key to this working is to redefine words and substitute fake codes for everything you hear. In that way, the innocent sound guilty and vice versa.

     

    First off, I apologise to everyone else for this. This will be the last time I take this thread off topic. @paqart, if after this comment of mine, you wish to discuss this further, please either make a new thread, making sure to make it non-political (difficult to do about Comicsgate), to continue this discussion. Please note none of what you will see now is meant to be political. I am not using anything I have read, only what I have personally observed. I don't know what fake information you're talking about, everything mentioned so far here was bang on. I stand behind it. If you want to be specific, please do so. But you can't, because everything can be refuted.

    And don't start on 'the real bad guys that harm people'. Who is that? Marvel? DC? They're not nameless conglomerates. They're made up of people. People we can name, for the most part, and many we can even talk too. From here it continues to degrade to even more gibberish, and I just can't parse that, so I'm afraid you do need to work on strengthening your arguments, your way of thinking, and those you hang around. Beware the echo chamber. 

    Yes, paqart, both you and I know people believe in this 'nonsense'. People do seriously call Ethan Van Sciver 'Caesar', as funny as it sounds. I'm sure you're aware of it, and have encountered it. You know the audience you're getting with these books, and what they are. You're one of them, for goodness sake. Your experience mirrors theirs. Your wants and desires out of the industry. 

    Remember, it all started with a milkshake. 

  2. On 1/26/2022 at 4:06 AM, CGC Mike said:

    Hey all:

    Bad Idea approached us at the beginning of 2020 with the idea to create and encapsulate an invisible comic as a way to showcase and promote their new book and writers. Given recent feedback, we have asked Bad Idea to cease selling them, and only use them for promotional purposes.

    Mike

    Thanks for finally giving us a response, Mike. You've done the right thing at last by asking them not to sell them. I fear that might be too late though, as aren't copies already out there now? But next time, pay attention to the name. It was right there! 'Bad Idea'! 

  3. Covid made us reassess our lives, and it lead to some surprising new directions for some of us, be it new hobbies, fitness, whatever, work life, whatever. Our lives have changed and for a lot of people they aren't changing back anytime soon. We also faced our own mortality. I think money lost its value in a lot of people's eyes, and they became much more willing to splash the cash as a result of this newfound mental freedom, while their bodies were somewhat caged. 

  4. On 1/25/2022 at 3:40 PM, Lord Gemini said:

    If you say so. It's obviously a joke to me and many others. Ten pages of this outrage. :eyeroll:

    Problem is, a joke from a serious company can weaken their foundations in the eyes of their customers, and that's how many of us see it. 

    As the industry leader, we thought they were above such shenanigans.