i guess they're OK but i don't know enough about them. i do have a gut feeling that they're a little too perfectly whimsical and sweet though

it's dejiko from di gi charat

Not really. Is it so interesting to post about it sucking to live back with you parents, even if temporary, and the costs of international moving services?

Took a while to add up the numbers! She's fully automated now. Try buying a book and see the counter move!

I think she would have an internal divide on that. She's depressed and under a ton of emotional strain, which means even a chance of rejection is almost the same as the real thing, so saying it was enough to overwhelm any serious thought as to how realistic that scenario would be.

Why ask me?

You should wait until I find enough spare time to process the survey results

Yeah, I have thought about this. The trick is in fact already dumbed-down: it used to simply generate an answer on page load, and never change after the page had loaded.

At this stage I think the amount of confused people isn't too much to be bothered with. I'd take it down if Veronica asked me to, even though her level of tolerance is likely much lower than my own. At this stage, I think the amount of pain it's causing in having to explain it is less than the pleasure I get from imagining people reading and appreciating the joke, so it stays.

Thank you! I appreciate that.

Start by making something great. Or something that people will like. This is the first step.

Then read this great post: http://jephjacques.com/post/596723785/so-you-want-to-start-a-webcomic

And all I can add to that is make some great ads, put $100 into Project Wonderful and learn how to use it, and once that's working, put $3000 or so into it over 6 months. Get used to spending money.

Then you'll have a pretty OK audience and can start doing cool things like selling merchandise! But don't put the cart before the horse. First you need something good, and then you need readers.

Veronica and I are trying to make a few more friends, especially given our ambition to live in the US and go to more conventions, and these things I wrote seemed to be causing far more problems for us than it was providing any value to our lives.

While I valued the posts, not many others did, so I will keep my opinions on humour to personal conversations where they're less easily linked in negative discussions about me. Sorry if you miss it.

It was really hard to manage! I had to do a lot of extra work to monitor whether those memberships had expired, so when I was working on the big store automation script of a few months ago, I decided to phase them out. The other reason is that a few people seemed to abuse it. Since it cost about $5 and a lot of effort to send out a welcome letter, I wanted to minimise the chance of getting 10 people who only sub for a month just to download all the member comics.

Isn't that standard procedure?

at first

Don't you ever post a comment?

Not really. I'm compelled more by writing and design and thoughtfulness than "good art" as most webcomic people consider it.

never drink pee

No real limit, probably. I'll do the Kickstarter people first but for the US deliveries it'll all be handled instantly by Amazon anyway.

Seeing as a lot of our fanbase was built on advertisements on other sites, I'd say there'd have to be a ton of MSPA and Questionable Content fans in the audience. But most recently I've been blown away by the amount of My Little Pony search terms that lead to the BCB site. I am not sure what to make of it. It could be a vocal but small section of the readership or it could be a large range.. I suspect somewhere in the middle. BCB's readership is, after all, a share of the webcomic readership: mostly male, mostly late teens to early twenties, mostly nerdy, mostly fad-following and desperately in search of an identity, mostly poor taste.

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They're okay, I guess, but what we're all waiting for are 1. Retina displays 2. SSDs in the base models. I suspect that'll happen in late 2013. The changes to the housing are neat, I guess, but ultimately evolutionary.

Apple has indeed had a prolific year, but a bit of a boring one too. The retina iPad and MacBooks (the fact they're retina, nothing else) are exciting and innovative for sure, but everything else has been iterative. We got no TV, Siri was barely touched, OS X 10.8 and iOS 6 remain dull, and the iPad stuff this year was about as predictable as it could ever be. iWork and iLife are dead and rotting, though iPhoto for iOS is a promising indication of where Apple are going. And iCloud still feels very 1.0, with an extremely worrying OS X implementation that is going to be hard to make useful with 10.9 and so on.

I hope 2013 is the year of a major new product (TV) but also more dramatic software and design improvements. The iPad is in need of its iPhone 4 moment. The iPhone is in need of an industry-leading battery. iOS isn't old and bland like the Android faggots say, but it needs a new vision for the home and unlock screen, Siri 2.0, usable notifications (not the dumbass Android clone we got last year), inter-app communication and (DESPERATELY) better multitasking support on the iPad. And it would be bold as hell for an ARM-based MacBook Air with doubled battery life. There are certain huge things Apple can do that nobody else could, and this is one of them.

I think we'll remember this year as the year of the early retina Macs and the end of the old executive order. Let's hope 2013 is the year of Retina Everywhere, Apple TV and all-day batteries. And the first iPad you can work on.