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Lmao you’re a joke dude

andrew hussie is genuinely a shitty person and i wish people would stop supporting him: a masterpost

starting with his old comic site, Team Special Olympics, first off the damn title is mocking the special Olympics, a sporting competition for people with learning disorders and other disabilities, so failed step one.

on TSO, Andrew drew comics with semi-graphic rape, abortion jokes, racism, jokes about hitting women, and racist punchlines

now, in his comic Homestuck:

multiple places in the comic say all the human characters are white, but when asked about it, Andrew changed certain lines of text and lied and said the kids were always aracial… And that viewers could imagine them as whatever they wanted, but they definitely weren’t black. Then he joked about how racist that was.

Not to mention, the damn “Caucasian” joke, which, white people aren’t even Caucasian

Used the word “r*tard” unapologetically several times in comic, not to mention the existence of the character Karkat Vantas, who does nothing but spew hate about the perceived intelligence of others.

The word “cr*pple” is used in the eugenics-like storyline of Tavros Nitram, who is a wheelchair user defined only by his disability, who gets Fixed without his consent later on and then dies at the hand of the girl who paralyzed him, and is given no respect in death with a gross attempt at revival

Uses uncredited, stolen art several times in various places as posters on character’s walls

Got mad when people asked if characters were chubby, gave some fatphobic / fat fetishizng answers

Was absolutely amazed when gay people wanted to see themselves in the story, and proclaimed on his Twitter that Dave Strider and John Egbert were not gay, was also very gross in the fetish-y way he describes Kanaya Maryam, a canon gay character

Dave Strider was abused and neglected by his guardian and Hussie literally makes jokes about the beatings Bro Strider gives Dave

Mom Lalonde and Rose’s relationship isn’t much better, with Mom Lalonde being an alcoholic who tries to win Rose over with presents of things she doesn’t want; when Mom is killed, Rose and the narrative imply it’s her fault for not being a good enough kid

Presented a storyline with the hemospectrum that mirrors classism and seriously says something about what he thinks of poor + disabled people

Forgot that trans +/ multisexual people existed apparently, and said all reproduction that can result in a child is heterosexual

Saw the opportunity to make a joke using the word “f*g” and took it

When someone asked him a gross question about if the then 13-year old trolls had boobs, he made a joke about being sent to prison for child molestation

The entire comic of Homestuck is extremely inaccessible for people with epilepsy, and while the fake-game format of the comic is fun, it often uses quickly flashing images as a gimmick

Feferi Peixes is pretty much based off the ableist eugenics-like ideal that some people of certain qualifiers / blood should have their autonomy taken away so people higher on the hemospectrum can take care of them 

Terezi Pyrope is nothing but the Disability Superpower stereotype, a disabled character who has a cool ability which ~cancels out their disability~, and she’s later cured coercively

We’ve also got the character of Mituna Captor, who is a giant infantile stereotype of people with brain damage

Kankri Vantas, who’s meant to represent the non-existant nasty tumblr ~~SJW~~ and has created a serious unsafe space for fans of the comic who need triggers tagged, the character’s entire stick is mocking trigger warnings and the rightful anger of oppressed groups, and tried to call it satire

Cronus Ampora, based off a spiritual belief called Otherkin which has nearly completely defamed by obnoxious trolls claiming that all Otherkin are just attention seeking. Cronus is literally just every awful untrue troll fact rolled into one, and the existence of his character, not to mention, Horuss Zahhak, has made uneducated rude comments extremely prevalent in kin tags on tumblr

Hussie also was “ironically” racist in his creation of Damara Megido, a horny Japanese schoolgirl stereotype who speaks Google translate Japanese. She was bullied into a psychotic break and this is excused / implied to be just fine in the narrative

Her Imperious Condension (or however her name is spelled) is LITERALLY an African-American stereotype, with pitch black skin, large lips, and ~~sassy~~ text. The other ancestors have pitch black skin, supposedly because it’s stylization, but HIC greatly resembles old anti-blackness advertisements

While not technically Hussie’s doing, a joke that originated from one of the Homestuck calenders is March!Eridan, the male character Eridan Ampora dressed like a woman; many fans of the comic who are trans women have expressed their disdain at this and I figured I should include it

On that line, Hussie/What Pumpkin partnered with Hot Topic for official Homestuck merch, apparently ignoring the fact that Hot Topic constantly steals content

*EDIT* An official Homestuck shirt features whitewashing of John, see here

All media has problems in one way or another, but the amount of untouched, unchallenged bullshit in Homestuck is unbelievable.  The way these awful things have created a racist and transphobic fanbase is terrifying, and unsafe for me.

If you have more to add, you can @ me in a post.

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WE already have hard evidence of how this works in real life; when was the last time you bought anything made in Denmark? When you start stealing people’s money they take it and leave.  And now you have an 80% tax rate but the ones you wanted to tax have fled.

Thoughts on this quote?

http://dailyanarchist.tumblr.com/

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good slogan

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“Mike’s whole argument was that people were being too sensitive and overreacting his joke. Yet rather than ignoring the perceived silliness, he was the one still crusading about the incident three years later. Who’s overreacting?“ lmaoing at this grade school tier writing “OMG R U STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS L O L caring about that was so last season.” Props to Mike for not backing down in the face of bullies and working hard to maintain his artistic integrity.

I sent in one of my articles early and it ended up being published today! I hope everyone enjoys!

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I want that varsity jacket.

This is oddly fitting.

Art by Gabe over at Penny Arcade. [x]

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The job offer was posted 708 days ago, someone should check if it’s been filled yet.  And I’m pretty sure Gabe isn’t actually trans-phobic, more like he’s an old white dude who had no idea what a trans was.

On Penny Arcade, Exploitation, and the Myth of the Do-Everything Rock Star

A couple of my friends pointed out this absurd LinkedIn post from the gentleman behind the actual monetary success of the popular webcomic Penny Arcade, Robert Khoo. Here it is in full – http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/9887522?trk=job_nov – but allow me to summarize:

“We want someone who can code well in multiple front-end and back-end languages, maintain servers and other hardware including load balancing and database admin, do general office IT, manage your own projects, deal with the fact that one of our co-founders is a rampaging trans-phobic asshole, and be on call 24/7 though we hope not to bug you too much in the middle of the night.”

For this you get zero equity, a pathetic 401K match, “periodic bonuses”, and a salary described like this:

you should know up front we’re not a terribly money-motivated group. We’re more likely to spend less money on salary and invest that on making your day-to-day life at work better.

Now let’s be clear, here: Robert Khoo has built an entire career by being money-oriented. It’s because of his business acumen that Holkins and Krahulik have an empire, not a little webcomic that maybe pays their bills. Spending less on salary so they can “invest” that in the day-to-day working life? That’s being money-motivated. They will save twenty grand or more per employee that they convince with that line, and spend maybe a quarter of that per employee on “fun” office stuff each year … and even that much would surprise me.

Oh, and don’t forget this little gem:

We’re terrible at work-life balance. Although work is pretty much your life, we do our absolute best to make sure that work is as awesome as possible so you at least enjoy each and every day here.

I think the thing that frustrates me the most about it is: they’ll probably get a thousand applicants. A bunch of 25 year-old kids with a ton of talent and stars in their eyes are going to try to get this crap job for crap pay so they can work somewhere “cool” and feel like a part of something big. The Penny Arcade “machine” (their term) will roll on, making its millions of dollars while somehow retaining the “little guy” image that hasn’t been accurate for at least five years, and probably more. That’s one of Khoo’s many gifts – he has figured out exactly how to sell this company, even if the image they’re peddling is a load of horseshit.

This is a company that runs three massive trade shows a year, sells an incredible amount of merchandise, commands extremely competitive advertising rates, publishes multiple comic properties each week, runs their own gaming magazine, does paid story and illustration work for their ad clients, produces multiple web video shows, employs several other cartoonists, and has put out three video games.

They’re not hurting for cash, and they could surely pay four people to do the “four jobs” that this posting says the applicant must be able to do. They just don’t want to. They don’t even want to pay one guy a competitive rate to do those four jobs, because why bother? When you have an army of fans dying to work for you, why pay a realistic wage to a realistic number of people?

Let’s touch also on the other problem with that job advertisement: it’s complete nonsense.

I’m a “unicorn” … a designer who can code, and is actually good at both (and has been paid for both). In fact these days I’m more a coder who can design, but either way, the term “unicorn” makes it pretty evident that this is a rare thing. Some people hate the term, and that’s fine, it’s just here for reference. Anyway, you know what’s even more rare? A guy who can write excellent code in several disparate languages, manage multiple different server installs, administrate databases, and configure office firewalls. All while being motivated to do “tedious” work and manage his own projects while not caring about his work/life balance and being solely focused on the job.

That’s not a unicorn, it’s something more like a deity, and it doesn’t actually exist. There is no one out there who can realistically meet that job description. What they will get instead is a jack of all trades who has mastered very few or none of them, and who will have to scramble like crazy just to meet the base requirements of the job, let alone excel at them. You know why? Because as they readily admit, it’s a job that should require four people. You get what you pay for, guys.

I have met the original two Penny Arcade guys in real life. I worked with Mike Krahulik during his time at GameSpy, exchanged emails with him, went to Christmas parties with him. I’ve been to their trade shows, given thousands of dollars to their charity, and read every single one of their comics since the very first one, published in Loonygames, a publication for which I also wrote. Hell, I’ve been drawn by Krahulik multiple times (here and here among them). I do not “hate” Penny Arcade, or wish them ill.

But I’m offended by this job post and I sincerely hope people will avoid responding to it. You don’t want that job. There is no upside to taking it. You’ll be worked like a dog and paid like shit while you’re doing it, while Khoo, Krahulik, and Holkins continue cashing their trade show checks.

Robert Khoo is a brilliant businessman, and such businessmen excel by finding the sucker and exploiting him or her.

Don’t be that sucker.

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me, you, us.

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I think Hussie’s locked down by an NDA as part of the settlement but I’m pretty sure he got most of the money back.  That’s how he was able to just open his own damn game studio.

woah wait what's this about Hussie getting half the money stolen for the game?? I haven't heard anything about this what happened D:

Im on mobile now so ill keep things quick. Basically some company called the odd gentlemen was helping hussie on the hs game but they scammed him out of like half his money. I recommend googeling it if u want more detailed information.

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It’s important to stay informed about modern “hip lingo” and how it will inevitably be the end of all things.

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special snowflake man comes at you with a knife, what do you do?

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Reblog if you're part of the Caped Baldy fan club

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INCINERATE

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All I have to say is fuck Computer Organization

This sums up college pretty well

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DEATH

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This is my new car’s ass.  I sold the diesel Benz a couple years ago and got this: A 1998 Lincoln Mark VIII.  4.6l DOHC V8 up front, sending power to the correct(rear) wheels through a 4-speed 4R70W transmission, with a dank overdrive gear that gets me 26 mpg highway.  I like it, it’s a tremendously comfy car. And the best part: I bought it with 89,000 miles on it.  It’s at almost 96,000 now; I plan on keeping it until at least 200,000 if possible.

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Oh Shit I’m Back

Just fucking around while I procrastinate on a Data Structures assignment.  We’re making a Binary Search Tree, thankfully only one that handles strings so I don’t have to fuck around with template BULLSHIT.  Figure I’d blow the dust off my ancient tubular and see how dumb my shit used to be. I need to unfollow Aaron Diaz lmao i can’t be complicit in his incredible procrastination anymore