🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

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MarineTrainedTard said:
LOL, my sides. Sweet, people are telling you that because you've never once said you want to go back to college to learn. Every time you talk about going back to college, it's because you talk about the "all you can eat meals" and "women ringing the men's dorm for nightly sex" and "easy college relationships conducted mostly by phone."

Idiot.
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Sorry, MTT - I may have ripped you off in my response to Jon. After all, you make an excellent point.
 
Bound2 said:
Sweetums finally returned to Brony forums, specifically to the art thread he posts his god-awful comics in.

Looks like Marty McFly's comment got to him:


Ah, CD burners. The answer to all of life's problems. That and ASU, obviously.
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Wait he's on Windows 98??? First thing he needs to do is get some new fangled technology like Windows ME. I'm sure he can add a CD burner to that.
 
See, I can almost understand Sweet's complaint here. Some people learn better via face-to-face interaction as opposed to written DIY tutorials - maybe he's one of those people. Or maybe he just wants someone to do all his work for him, just like always. Whatever his motivation, though, I don't doubt that he's using this as an excuse for why he can't do certain things. Instead of "nobody TOLD me how to X" it's "nobody offered to do X for me."

He Sets Me On Fire said:
Sorry, MTT - I may have ripped you off in my response to Jon. After all, you make an excellent point.
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Agreed. People have told the guy numerous times that if he wanted to go back to school to take some classes and earn a degree, like most adults who choose to return to college, nobody would give a shit. It's the obsession with his bizarre idea of "college relationships" and his belief that horny co-eds will serve as his free phone-sex operators that has everybody curling their lip. But nope, Sweets is incapable of acknowledging or owning his bad behavior so he's got to twist what his detractors say to turn it into a pity ploy.
 
Shadow Fox said:
See, I can almost understand Sweet's complaint here. Some people learn better via face-to-face interaction as opposed to written DIY tutorials - maybe he's one of those people. Or maybe he just wants someone to do all his work for him, just like always. Whatever his motivation, though, I don't doubt that he's using this as an excuse for why he can't do certain things. Instead of "nobody TOLD me how to X" it's "nobody offered to do X for me."


Agreed. People have told the guy numerous times that if he wanted to go back to school to take some classes and earn a degree, like most adults who choose to return to college, nobody would give a shit. It's the obsession with his bizarre idea of "college relationships" and his belief that horny co-eds will serve as his free phone-sex operators that has everybody curling their lip. But nope, Sweets is incapable of acknowledging or owning his bad behavior so he's got to twist what his detractors say to turn it into a pity ploy.
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Precisely. You want to go to school to take some classes and benefit yourself, better yourself? Awesome.

Step 1: Get a job. Yes, you will have to pay for those classes, which requires money, which usually means a job.
Step 2: Do it.

That's it. It's that simple.

But it won't be what he thinks it will. I went to community college for a bit, and there were several older students, many in their late 30s-40s, but they were working, stable, kind people who saw the rest of us as what we were at the time, kids! Not conquests.
 
Depending on what program you're in, it's not really that uncommon to find older students. For instance, I think the average age for the anthropology program at my alma mater was in its mid-30s. Same with criminal justice. As others have pointed out, age only becomes an issue when you are attending college expecting it to be some sort of bizarre nanny program/brothel.

Maybe one of the experts here can help me but what has been Sweets explanation for why he can't cook? If it's lack of funds, there are a bunch of great blogs out there to show you how to make a good dinner for under $10. If it is sheer laziness like everything else, fuck him.
 
Has anyone told Iconoclast about USB CD burners yet? I think so - and in this very thread. Maybe I even did and forgot about it. I'm guessing the older computer he uses doesn't even have USB anyway.

Although on Windows 98, it may not be able to use the drivers nessecary to recognize the thing. Also, it's been years. Even ASU probably upgraded their equipment by now.
I use Windows 98 in Virtual PC (a legal emulation program) for old games and stuff, so I don't think it's bad to use Win98 per se. But like I said - using it on the internet? Some research has shown that old Windows with access to the internet with no security measures in place can lead to an infection in minutes. And a lot of websites nowadays use HTML5, scripting, and Flash elements that won't even render on old browsers.

Also, it's interesting that he blames his lack of technological skills on being in a backwater place and getting kicked out of college. If he's in the USA with internet access, that's kind of a weak excuse, to be honest...
 
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Francis York Morgan said:
Maybe one of the experts here can help me but what has been Sweets explanation for why he can't cook?
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He said he can't cook? That's odd, he's mentioned that he has cooked before. Believe me, I'm not doubting your word, Francis, it's just that I find that anything Jon says is highly suspect. There are precious few things he says I put stock in. "I pee in bottles!"? Yup, I've no doubt.

Edit: Incidentally, here's the page Jon put up, for those who can't see it:

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"I have plenty of talent," defends Jon. Uh-huh. Chris-chan feels the same way.
 
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wheat pasta said:
Obvious lie. I think we all know that he doesn't actually care about his poor mom.
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I think it might be that, or it could be that he blames her for his shortcomings along with the peanut gallery of villains he's constructed in his mind. Perhaps he has it together just enough to understand that biting the hand that (literally) feeds might not be a good idea, but I strongly get the impression that she's deserving of some of the blame in his mind. :(
 
He Sets Me On Fire said:
He said he can't cook? That's odd, he's mentioned that he has cooked before. Believe me, I'm not doubting your word, Francis, it's just that I find that anything Jon says is highly suspect. There are precious few things he says I put stock in. "I pee in bottles!"? Yup, I've no doubt.
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It may be me mistaking his desire for those gourmet all-you-can-eat buffets for an inability to cook because, as anyone who has eaten a dorm buffet before can tell you, it's not that good. However, I still can't help but think Sweets is close to Chris Chandler in culinary skill. He's just so lazy about everything that I don't see him going through the trouble of preparing anything remarkable.
 
Jon Thumb said:
I have plenty of talent.
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You're so talented that I find your comics to utterly unreadable. Ranging from your awful decision to chickenscratch the writing to the garish colors that clutter things up so badly I can't see the forest for the trees, I literally cannot read them.

Muh College said:
No, I get mad when people keep saying I need do this and do that and get with the times and learn how to use this equipment and that gadget...but when I talk about going back to college to actually learn how to do all this stuff, they tell me I'm too old and gross and unstable and I'd just be taking up valuable space.
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You only really want to go back to college to sit on your ass though. You rarely mention what classes you want to pick up at the college, but constantly reference the food, board, and worst of all the "sex". And go fuck yourself; my best friend is an animator by trade; he picked up everything without being taught in a school setting. He just had the will and the desire to do so, looking up data by googling these things and experimenting repeatedly. He has a willingness to learn while you are even lazier than Mr. Chandler.

I Wish This Was A Joke said:
Pick one, dude-- you can't have it both ways. I'm sorry my grip on technology is 15 years behind, but that's what happens when you screw up, get kicked out of school, and are exiled to a technological backwater for over a decade.
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This is so fucking stupid that I can't even. You do not need to go to college to master the usage of technology. Hell, I didn't when I got my smartphone last year, or my Laptop the year before. Didn't need that shit with most devices, up to and including my SodaStream.

Jon Can't Do Shit By Himself Ever said:
If someone could just show me how to integrate my old OS with my new laptop, I might actually figure some of these things out on my own -- but I'm getting confused, contradictory information from everyone I talk to.
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That's actually a piss-poor idea old boy. Downgrading a new rig to something completely unsupported and that old does a variety of nasty things. It makes it so it's far less secure for one thing. It also can utterly destabilize your computer, since Windows 98 is very unlikely to be able to handle the drivers for your new Laptop. It also still restricts your net access, since it can't fully handle the stuff you'd want it to do. Basically, you're advocating breaking your Laptop in the vain hope to use an ancient OS.

Thumbface on Remembering Advice said:
They recommend downloading all sorts of programs, which suggests some Win 98 platforms still connect to the Internet (unlike mine).
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All designed for file storage you fucktard! If you paid attention when people suggested things like Mozilla Thunderbird and other storage sites like sendspace rather than make racist jokes about bum wines, you'd know this you fucking creepy old man!

Not this Shit Again said:
I have the answer. I just need a Win 98 platform with a CD burner. Easy, or so it seems.
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They're twenty fucking dollars Sweets. Just buy one if you're so fucking fixated on them. Just make sure to find one that has the type of ports that your rig can use, since you failed to properly update them.

Goddamn it Tanglepubes said:
No one seems to actually have a computer made between 1998 and 2003 which I can simply network to and transfer data. Once I have the files safely on disk, then I look into other means of storage. I think I have one in my laptop bundle that I want to try as soon as I have the files ready.
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No shit no one else would have a computer nearly 20 years old in operation still you fucktard! And if you do have one already this shit is pointless to argue until you discover it won't work with your rig due to age. Just fucking try and use that ossified and underused structure in your head to explore and think!

Treenbeen said:
But it won't be what he thinks it will. I went to community college for a bit, and there were several older students, many in their late 30s-40s, but they were working, stable, kind people who saw the rest of us as what we were at the time, kids! Not conquests.
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In the Education Field here; it's very common to have a few classmates quite older than average; there's usually at least one to three people in the class noticeably over 30. The oldest person I've met in college was a fellow who was almost 60. He was an ex-navy guy who wanted to do something with his life once he retired from the force.
 
Adamska said:
You're so talented that I find your comics to utterly unreadable. Ranging from your awful decision to chickenscratch the writing to the garish colors that clutter things up so badly I can't see the forest for the trees, I literally cannot read them.
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I looked at that page I posted at least three times before I began to get the slightest idea of what was happening. That's a comic-book fail right there.

Edit: Ninja'd by ToroidalBoat. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Even the 'humor' makes no sense.
 
Okay, wait, so, hold on -

StickJon gets wrapped up, his arms bound to his sides, right? Then, when the mardi-gras jester or whatever the hell it is approaches him, StickJon punches through the side of his bindings, with plenty of room for him to extend his arm. In addition, the bindings still curve as if they're wrapped around something - which would be his arm. Also, if the bindings were so tight that he couldn't unwrap them on his own, how could he maneuver his arm enough to burst through with his hand, let alone work up enough force?

Why, when he tosses the crossdressing mime into the potato-head guy, is his horribly-drawn hand now attached to a full arm, as opposed to the stick it was before?

And why are there a bunch of ALFs standing around?

Here's the previous page he uploaded:

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Talent. Yup. The picture of the turd Jon uploaded has a better sense of anatomy and perspective than he does.
 
Apparently, he draws the comics in pencil first, then goes over it in pen (while leaving some of the pencil marks still there), and then scans the lineart into Windows 98 and colors it in MSPaint.
I wonder why Sweet doesn't just rescan them into the new system and recolor them, or easier still - get a USB floppy drive (they are relatively cheap)? (Sweet apparently indicated in the very first post he made in this thread that he relies on 3.5" disks.)

Sweet could save stuff onto a floppy disk on the built in disk drive on the older system, put the disk into a USB floppy drive and connect the USB drive to the new system, and then copy the files to the new system, and to even more modern media like a USB flash drive also connected to the new system.

Also, I wonder if Sweet knows about the concept of backing up (copying) a file to a different disk or drive as a safeguard against the original file being unintentionally lost?
 
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Literally could not figure out what was going on in half of that comic. I saw that Self Insert Sweet was getting tied up by his Naitsirhc in the top left, and in the middle was a party scene with some ALFichus and Trademark Stick Figures. I really had no idea what the other three corners were depicting, even after deciphering Sweet's handwriting - which looks like the result of a family of spiders dipping themselves in ink and then making a Harlem Shake video.

Who is Sweet's target demographic for this? All of his cultural references - Baby, It's Cold Outside, the Adam West era Batman narration, ALFichu - are too dated to appeal to a young audience. His fellow Limbaugh listeners tend to be in their 60s or older, and probably aren't great comic-buyers despite being the only group who won't be put off by the political tubthumping and racism. Who does that leave?
 
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