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[–] [email protected] 102 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I haven't seen Sexy Losers in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Quick, back to the time machine! Next stop: megatokyo, or sluggy freelance.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Three Panel Soul has been good, it just doesn't update often.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Megatokyo. That was a fun one until it turned into a dating sim visual novel because his partner left. Still not as bad as the hard right turn Sinfest made.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sluggy is still going! It's a bit weird with convoluted lore though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's wild! I think it's too late for me, though. It'd be like trying to get into One Piece now. I'll keep it in mind, if I'm feeling nostalgic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I remember the lore already being convoluted 20 years ago lol

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

I've recently re-read all of it, and it made me so nostalgic for internet that wasn't sterile and jokes like this were the norm.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Wow. Til the latest one was posted July the 13th of 2024... Gotta reread them all then!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

We’ll be doing oglaf.com soon at this rate.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Right? Also I remember it somehow different and I also must partially confuse it with another lewd comic from the time.

Anyone remember a comic very similar to sexy losers? I remember one story arc with a scantily clad girl that always masturbated and tried to convince people of stupid sex ideas, e.g. pitching to bounty kitchen paper execs to make soft super absorbant paper targeting chronic masturbators, I think the tagline was "gay for bounty" and her pitch was "that's how we get those fuckers at kleenex" and the execs went "how do you keep getting past security?"

E: found it! Ghastlys ghastly webcomic EE: The comic in question

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Thin H Line..... A name I haven't thought about in a long time

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Sleeping pills? What, like he didn't follow her home?

(Also we're counting deciding to kill themselves in a different way as "prevention?" At best it's procrastination.)

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

He doesn’t, but you see in later comics he’s working at the funeral home and… well… it takes a couple turns.

Edit: For anyone who wants to read this specific arc.

Warning: it’s seriously fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Yeah that's fucked up alright, this slide was notable

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's one fucked up comic... Thanks for linking it I enjoyed it greatly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I was thinking this would be the obvious thing to happen without even knowing there were more comics about it. It's good see stuff be reused.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

that was uh… interesting

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah, finally, people posting this without cropping either the last panel or the header. Good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah I've never seen the last panel before

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Why’s she dressed like a Japanese schoolgirl?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's for teenage suicide prevention. Which makes the sex thing worse.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

But not unusual in Japan!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Because the comic is inspired by Japanese 4koma comic structure.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

The artstyle is also very reminiscent of old manga/asian comic styles (like 1970s 1980s) so it would make sense the boy and the girl are dressed in that fashion

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I guess she's a Japanese schoolgirl.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I don't know wether to upvote or downvote...
On one side it's a joke that works but on the other it's creepy af
I'll meet in the middle with a +0

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

This is the least bad comic in the series. This is the guy that literally invented fap.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When I die I donate my body first to the necrophiliacs of the world and last the cannibals. Go nuts you guys.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No no. Get the order right.

  1. Necrophiliacs
  2. Organ donation
  3. Cannibals
  4. Wiccans, pagans, or anyone else who can use bones for religious ceremonies.
[–] yumyampie 6 points 3 months ago

First should be organ donation, it got to be fresh

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

At least he tried to save her.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Save her body for later use.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"To understand revolutionary suicide it is first necessary to have an idea of reactionary suicide, for the two are very different. Reactionary suicide: the reaction of a man who takes his own life in response to social conditions that overwhelm him and condemn him to helplessness.”

“I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth. This belief lies at the heart of the concept of revolutionary suicide. Thus it is better to oppose the forces that would drive me to self-murder than to endure them. Although I risk the likelihood of death, there is at least the possibility, if not the probability, of changing intolerable conditions.”

“But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.”

– Dr. Huey P. Newton

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Huey P. Newton (Revolutionary Suicide, 1973)

A Black Panther Founder, killed a police officer in 1967 but overturned after two hung juries.

Accused of murdering Kathleen Smith and Betty Van Patter in 1974, Patter being the Black Panther's bookkeeper found brutally beaten to death, still no conviction. Black Panther leadership admitted to firing her, and she apparently made statements before her death accusing them of tax evasion.

After that seemingly distanced himself from the movement and went into academia.

Died in 1989 murdered by African American Prison Gang "Black Guerrilla Family" which if nothing else is pretty ironic. I'd wager that he regretted ever publishing this excuse for violent extremism by the time he died.

Ya'll can just skip the shit that got him and others killed and go straight into academia if you want to have a positive impact on the world.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Iirc there is a manga about this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What even is the joke here? She decided to kill herself at home to reduce the likelihood of someone raping her corpse?

Or is it funny because the guy on the bridge saw her attempt at suicide as a sexual opportunity?

It's almost like an anti-joke, where the humor comes from how offensive it is. It's sad to think there are people who live this sort of experience, being seen as a sex object more than a human being, even in the darkest hours of their life. That's gotta fuck someone up.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It's called black humor. It's funny because it's dark, shared suffering. Hospice nurses and grade school teachers, for instance, tend to have great black humor.

Either you're looking for something to be offended about or you're lucky and haven't suffered much in your life.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Sexy Losers explores far worse subjects. This, in particular, is an origin story. It gets so, so much worse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

There was/is a twit h account called SeeYouTomorrow. No idea who was behind the account (only in other streamers chat. Didnt stream). Will never forget those simple 3 words.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Wouldn't work, but good humour.

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