Is this Gain?
Fuuuuck you beat me to it
Sorry for your loss
I too had the same thought. I would say great minds think alike, but I’m dumb as shit
In Germany we say “Zwei Dumme, ein Gedanke” (two stupid people, one thought)
I’ve got good news! The full quote is “Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.”
So it can still apply to you, it just means you’re calling OP a fool too 😄
How to hold a baby like in the comic
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.:|;:now the internet can begin to heal
I’ve never understood all the hate levied at ‘loss’. Can you imagine experiencing a miscarriage, building a popular web comic, and then integrating your own experience into it, showing one of your most vulnerable moments, and then it becomes a ruthlessly mocked meme?
It kinda came out of left field and pissed off all the people that actually liked the sitcom that CAD was becoming.
Also, Tim Buckley’s news post commenting on the comic made him sound like an asshole. Cyanide & Happiness actually spoofed the Loss comic but with the guy delivering a snippet of Buckley’s post
Yeah, it came out of left field, but it’s an Indy webcomic. It’s his singular expression and ip. Why should the audience a) feel so entitled to react in such an invasive and insensitive way, b) react with anger instead of empathy? It’s just childish.
it was far more than an indie comic at the time, it rivalled penny arcade for readership. there was a convention and everything.
reading the preceding and following ten pages is insane tonal whiplash because the comic didn’t tell coherent stories and it wasn’t about to start just because there was a horrible, traumatic event written into it. also, there was no indication from tim at the time that it was connected to real-world events. that came later.
none of which, of course, is an excuse. however, the reaction to the comic was typical of fans at the time, and tim’s reaction to the fans was more of the same. it passed into memehood not because of any connection to the artist’s internal turmoil, but because of the very visible turmoil of the webcomic ripping itself apart from inside in an attempt to reestablish normalcy. it was crazy to witness.
