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TheBench.org: Community Cartooning
BlueCalx- writes, "TheBench.org, from the makers of Penny Arcade, just opened. They provide graphics pictures of a kid, a squirrel and a bench and you have to create hilarious situations for them to get into. They already seem to have an impressive following. Open source has reached cartooning, eh? "
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dude, that was awesome. you made my day. long live pants!!
spawn_of_yog_sothoth
Well hgalhagahlghgalhgghlaghahgh, I'll be dipped. It certainly is down, isn't it? Here's a mirror.
spawn_of_yog_sothoth
No mention of collaborative cartooning would be complete without Slow Wave, a truly awesome comic strip drawn by the inimitable Jesse Reklaw. Every week features his rendition of someone's dream that they've sent him. Neat.
spawn_of_yog_sothoth
Unfortunately, most of the comics that people submitted are stupid, and totally without humor. Go browse the archives. I haven't found one that is even remotely funny or clever.
"90% of everything is crap." I forgot who said that, but it definitely applies to many sites where users submit the content. Let's hope it doesn't get this bad on Slashdot!
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Penny Arcade is where this originally came from. One of my favorites would have to be this one about Linux or maybe this one.
Well, those who follow jerkcity will recognize this one.
GET YOUR WEAPONS READY! --DR.LIGHT
make sure that your cartoon is cooler than User Friendly, or at least state it in every cell.
And of course the pictures don't matter. Obviously someone should make a web site where you just write the jokes, and they are all attached as captions to the same picture of a potato, so they don't have to mess around with the pictures at all.
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Win dain a lotica, en vai tu ri silota
All the graphics are saved as jpegs even though they all have large swatches of single color and sharp boundaries between colors. They really should be saved as gifs. In almost every one, there are visible distortion around the boundaries. This is especially true in the ones that have text.
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There are already several /. comix up. Here's one.
"Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality." -- Dalai Lama
The Bench, as a community, needs flexible community standards. While I feel that the creators do have the right to retain some of the control over their "property," I think that letting visitors moderate/vote their opinions of the resulting set of comics is a great way to raise the overall quality, without making it draconian or losing sight of the "participation" aspect of the project.
If it had a "top ten this week" gallery, I'd visit regularly.
As it is, I couldn't help but submit my own attempt at humor.
(All good things in Moderation? =anagram> Handiest old monitoring goal.)[
Actually....it's right here.
--Have a Johsonville brat.
With persistent connections enabled these limits don't seem too difficult to reach. Ugh.
javier
A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama!
If The Bench is going to become a daily spot for me like Real Life, PvP, or its father, I NEED some way to sort through the.. 30-80 odd submissions a day is it?
Open Source only really works when everyone is striving at a common good, yes? The most successful open source projects (/. included) always have a central cabal or something leading the way. Right now all The Bench has is Gabe, Tycho, and their weekly pick for Sunday.
So Gabe, Tycho, if you guys are reading this (damn well better be)... you need a voting/moderation system on The Bench.
Making fun of tomb raider
Tasteless zombie humor
Holy Quake3 Batman
Diakatana
id software is watching you
Fun for the kiddies
Best Geek Girlfriend
I feel the need for speed
And finally....
Making fun of slashdot