{"id":807,"date":"2006-12-09T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=807"},"modified":"2013-07-12T23:58:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T04:58:30","slug":"dripping-with-angst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"RE: DM of the Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made some comments expressing my envy of Rich Burlew, and Wonderduck<\/a> responded with this comment<\/a>:<\/p>\n

He doesn't have a choice, that's how he is. He's one of those people that thinks that anything he creates is crap-on-a-stick and he's embarrassed to inflict it on people… Fred Gallagher of Megatokyo is another one of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem.
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Okay, I have seen Fred do this and it does indeed annoy me. In fact, his self-loathing is one of the things that drove me away from MegaTokyo<\/a> desipte my love for the artwork. I didn’t even realize I was doing this same sort of thing until Wonderduck pointed it out. <\/p>\n

Part of the problem is that I really don’t laugh at my own jokes. (You can’t. By the time you re-word and re-arrange a joke a couple of dozen times the humor is gone. By the time I’m done<\/em> with a joke I’m sick of it. I doubt most people laugh at their own material.) This leads to a lot of self-doubt and second-guessing. If I made one that was spectacularly un-funny, how would I know? <\/p>\n

Okay, so here is my promise: No more of this navel-gazing crap. I’m grateful for my readers. It doesn’t matter if there are a thousand of you or just my mom, I’m glad you like the strip. So from now on I promise not to do any more of this Cloud Strife “Everyone believes in me but I still suck” self-loathing and angst.<\/p>\n

Cool? Cool.<\/p>\n

Also:<\/p>\n

The Ferret<\/a> has posted a generous and thoughtful review of DM of the Rings<\/a>. I just want to tip my hat in return for the link and the praise. <\/p>\n

The only thing I want to add is that The Ferret says that the strip is made from screencaps found on the web. Just to be clear, I own all three movies and rip the images myself. The over-compression and JPG damage is the result of my tightwad attempts to save precious bandwidth, not a result of being careless with the images. I have unspoiled higher-resolution originals that I plan to release someday.<\/p>\n

And finally:<\/p>\n

I’m going through the comments in old posts and making a FAQ for the strip. If you have any questions relating to DM of the Rings, ask away.<\/p>\n

Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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