I feel like this should be satire, but it never becomes funny and just reads as a poor (and, quite honestly, not very original) attempt at trolling.

It largely depends on what kind of niche audience you are attempting to reach. I’ve also faced this challenge (not in writing specifically, but I create mods for videogames and for DnD) and I guess there’s no correct answer. Sometimes it’s up to luck if people finds you at all.

I don’t like compromising my artistic integrity for improved marketability. I’d rather remain unknown but happy with what I create, than making things I don’t like. There is an argument to be made about finding a compromise, but I’m not that good at giving up my vision. Of course this doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t take feedback into account: accepting criticism is the number one step to get better, and I’ve always been grateful for other people’s feedback on what I create. But I want feedback focused on improving what I want to do, not aimed at changing it to make it more preferable to others.

Lol, enshittification came faster than expected. At least Netflix was successful before the price hike, and then decided to be greedy because their user base was willing to pay.

On the other side of the fence, Xbox Series consoles tanked harder than XOne (which was already a colossal failure) and Game Pass subscribers fell short of corporate expectations every year since its inception. And they decide that this is the best time to double the price of the service? Good luck with that decision, Microsoft.

Who is gonna pay $15/month for a catalog of old games? Old games are already cheap enough that you can buy them directly and still “profit” over keeping an ongoing subscription. And $20/month for day one games? At that price, you’re better off just buying the damn game. GP was already hard to justify at its previous price, but this new price point is egregious.

Great games, I have fond memories of me and my brother playing those flash games.

If you don’t want to pay, the Flashpoint Collection already has these flash games and they are fully functional, although I think I’ll grab this release to support the dev after all these years.

Wasn’t this already confirmed a few months ago?

The Boiling Isles must be grateful that Hooty is on their side. Not even the titans and the archivists combined could defeat him.

On a side note, why so many comics all of a sudden? I can barely keep up! Lol

I respect Mark’s choices: it’s his canon, his story and, by this point, pretty much his world. And I appreciate his attempt to explain why he wrote certain characters a certain way.

While I do respect his choices, however, I don’t agree with them. He is comparing early S1 Eda to end series Eda, which are two completely different characters. Since then, Eda took it upon herself multiple times to protect her children (at the end of S1 and S2, for example), and both times Luz went after her to have her understand that she couldn’t fight alone.

Heck, the motto of the series is “Weirdos stick together”. Owl House was never a battle shounen anime where people fight to become stronger and growing up in the process: it was a series about finding like-minded individuals and facing adversities together, because no matter who you are, you can’t face life alone.

Mama Eda allowing Ayzee to fight in the Fight Coven was fine as long as it was cartoon (“fake”) violence, but the moment people began cheating, fighting 3v1 against Ayzee (one holding her and the other punching her in the face), and real weapons were thrown into the mix, and now one guy doing that to Ayzee, I feel confident saying that the “real” Eda would not have watched from the sidelines doing nothing.

That being said, I’m not trying to rain on someone else’s parade. Sorry if my comments soured the mood a bit around here. I still appreciate Mark for the work he’s done in single handedly keeping the series alive, and even with my criticism about this arc, I still have to point out that it has very good art. It’s a testament to Mark’s skill that he’s able to put so much effort into such beautiful panels and release them at a daily pace.

My comments are not about “Mark bad”, but I do think that he missed the mark (heh) here, which is sad because, after reading his comics for more than one year by now, it’s the first time I feel not only disinterested in them, but grossed out as well. I do think that he did not handle the change of tone from silly cartoon to “adults punching, stabbing and dislocating shoulders of a kid” really well.

This is what happens when the Paladin needs to choose between using their bonus action to Lay On Hands, or to Smite.

I very much doubt it will, but still, seeing a grown-up man beating a kid in an illegal fight club does not exactly scream “fun” to me.

Like, sure, it was established since the beginning of this story arc that Ayzee would be fighting in a fight club, but, like, it was cartoon violence, no one was really getting hurt. Ayzee would be bitten by a demon, and it was fun just like watching an anvil fall on Will E Coyote. It was “fake”.

But in the last few pages they’ve been using real weapons against Ayzee, and now this guy does that… It’s just… Yikes.

I’ll keep reading, but I hope this arc ends soon and we can go back to Ayzee and her friends having fun in the silly magical world and developing crushes.

:(

This story arc is making me a bit uncomfortable.

You mean the harness, or the halfling?

DM: Trying his best to write an emotional moment

Player: I play the flute while I loot the dead kid’s body

Oooh Ayzee is hecking serious now.

“Okay guys, you brought this onto yourselves… For death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth!”

Hourglass of Lost Chances
Wondrous item, legendary (requires attunement)

This magical hourglass, crafted from a material more resilient than steel yet as transparent as glass, contains sand that remains curiously still and does not flow.

While you have the Hourglass on your person, you can utter its command word as an action to activate it. Upon activation, the sand begins to flow from one bulb to the other, a process that continues unabated even if you turn the Hourglass upside down.

While you have the active Hourglass on your person, you can utter its command word again as an action. Doing so reverts the timeline to the moment you activated it. Every event, including death, is undone, but all creatures across the multiverse retain their memories of what transpired during that timeframe. However, any creature that was not within a 1-mile radius of you at any moment while the Hourglass was active experiences this as a sense of déjà vu.

The Hourglass becomes inactive 10 minutes after activation or immediately after you use it to revert the timeline. Once deactivated, it cannot be activated again for the next 7 days.

(Edit for clarity)

It’s more a figure-eight of life.

I see no borders from up here my modded console.

Poor Ayzee is so traumatized that she can’t stop shaking :(

I think she’s pushing herself too much.

I did, but my DM is a big softie :)

The Vaporeon pasta.

I highly recommend not looking it up if you don’t know it.