If it weren't for Comic Genesis...

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:55 pm

Mo wrote:If it weren't for CG, I'd probably be rich, famous and married by now!

Do they have potatos where you come from?

Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:04 pm

And I'd have gotten away with it too...

Prettysenshi · Post by **Prettysenshi** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:29 pm

If it werent' for CG, I would have grown bored of the whole webcomic thing, and would probably be a myspace addict. I wouldn't have met all the really cool, diverse, and to me, inspiring people that I met. I wouldn't have improved my work to the level I have today, and I would have never learned how to take criticism.

I think CG has made me a better artist, and taught me to be more tolerant of different kinds of people, with different attitudes and opinions, and personalities than myself.

EDIT: Plus, I learned a bunch of stuff from CG in terms of computers and gaming, where if I weren't a part of CG, I would have never thought about.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:59 pm

Well, I've met a lot of really interesting people, none of whom I'd ever have had the chance to get to know otherwise.

But I'd have so much more free time, as I wouldn't have ever decided to start a webcomic. Curse you all!

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:21 pm

Keffria wrote:But I'd have so much more free time, as I wouldn't have ever decided to start a webcomic. Curse you all!

"Free time is only valuable for what you can fill it with."

- Joel Fagin

Elegant Gremlin · Post by **Elegant Gremlin** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:09 pm

If it weren't for Comic Genesis...

- I wouldn't have a site up right now.
- I wouldn't have a forum for no one to use.
- I would still be the #1 link when you search "Sock'd" in Google (not really, but I can't even find my site here when searching Google)
- I would still spend every update night wondering if my autoupdate actually worked or not (it was sporadic)
- I wouldn't be here right now

Ekolter · Post by **Ekolter** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:39 pm

I became a part of this family by association. Then joined it full fledged to see what the other half was so preocupied with.

KS/CG has provided a great outlet for my husband's sometimes destructive hobbies. The backyard experiments have got down over the years. And you can guess how much I enjoy not having a yard now.

I have met a lot of people I consider dear friends. You guys have keep me sane through many up and downs in my life. You all were one of the few things that kept me going when I thought there was little to keep going for.

I finally got to do a big get together. Something I've always wanted to do. Enjoyed them so much, I'm considering a possible career into event planning.

Inspired me with the sheer awesomeness of art to take an art class.

There is probably more but I'm at a brainfreeze.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:56 pm

I would have probably never posted my comic online and never been able to open up and show my work to others.

I've also improved (I think) hugely over just the year and a half I've been doing it. Plus I've had some fun here and there posting on these here boards.

Hooray for Comicgen!

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:28 pm

i'd be much less confident in myself, and a shittier artist. i still can't comic worth a damn but my art sk1llz (i like to think) have gone way up <3

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:29 pm

Without CG i wouldn't be making as many people laugh and wouldn't be laughing as much because of a lot of people. I've discovered so many great people through CG and many friends I hope to keep for a very long time.

Post by **Kisai** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:54 pm

Hmm...

From the other side of the fence.

If I had not joined Keenspace way back when, there would have been no improvements to autokeen, no database use, the forums and comic server would still be crashing daily, if not abandoned alltogether. (Remember the big crash?)

There's a lot of stuff that was my inititave, that, even if KeenSPOT changed their mind later, I took down, but had I not done certain things, the forums and the comic server most certainly would not be in the state they are now, given (that would have been leaving Kelly in charge of both... maybe someone else would have stepped up to the plate, or maybe not and Kelly would have abandoned it.)

...

Now as a person, had I not started doing anything with keenspace/comicgenesis.
a) Probably would grudgingly be holding a job somewhere hating my life
b) Probably would still be working on several failed projects (one of the choices I made in the past was to focus "free time" only on projects with the highest payoff, with CG being the only one with a payoff.
c) Wouldn't have met CJ
d) Would probably be still hating my life or hanging out with really-dumb-as-rocks people.

... though as time has proven over and over again, in any group of people, with the exception of CN Expo, it always seems like I'm the smartest person in a group, which has the disadvantage being the one that makes the decisions.

Which is one of two reasons why I don't speak up.
The other is just untill I'm sure of peoples personalities I avoid talking to them directly, and have a hard time "speaking up" literately.

I should state again how much I hate hanging around dumb-as-rocks people, to the point that I've assumed everyone is half as intelligent as I am and that they need everything explained step by step. XD . No seriously, in parallel time with Keenspace/CG I had hung out with some really not-smart christians, and some not-very smart agnostics. I was working on Keenspace before I ever had a 'real' job. It's incredably frustrating being surrounded by helpless idiots. I'm sure I may have found happiness down a different road, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be as good as the road I took.

X_x ... and just because I call everyone an idiot, doesn't mean they are. Just their first impression was. Some people that I dismissed as an idiot, turned out not to be when put in a situation they are good at, but there are others that I wish I had dismissed as an idiot at first so I wouldn't have wasted my time with them. How does it go, ci cera cera?

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:10 pm

Elegant Gremlin wrote:- I would still be the #1 link when you search "Sock'd" in Google (not really, but I can't even find my site here when searching Google)

You're on page 22, but I really do find it astounding that dozens of sites that mention your comic or are about your comic are considered more relevant than your comic itself.

Laemkral · Post by **Laemkral** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 12:05 am

I would never have been able to explore the side of my personality that lets me make my comic. All this pent up humor would have gone to waste, and I'd have never met my current roommate who's been an awesome friend.

I'd have never had the opportunity to meet the cool people who showed up to San Diego Comic Con. I'd have never traveled to Disneyland to meet MORE people. I'd have never done any of the crazy, cool, fun stuff I've done for "some friends I know over the Internet".

My life would be filled with a lot more suck and frustration, because every time I come into chat and talk with everyone my life feels a lot better. Same thing with the forums, really does help me cope with real life.

CG isn't the best thing to have ever happened to me, but its certainly up there.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 12:12 am

"If it weren't for Comic Genesis, I wouldn't have spent that extra year in college." </Lewis_Black>

But seriously, I'm like most of the rest of you. CG has given me some semblence of a social life, and a creative outlet to fill a void in my life which might have been taken up by who knows what other kind of unhealthy obsession.

Robin Pierce · Post by **Robin Pierce** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 2:20 am

Mo wrote:If it weren't for CG, I'd probably be rich, famous and married by now!

But... I still love ya all. Well, not all, but the good ones, you know who you are. And I never would've gotten to the USA without CG... for the first time... meeting real cool people... That was the awesomest thing. It also helped me to develop a lot artistically. And I found my Doppy. So um... thanks. <3

Doppy <3 =D

Oh also a bunch of other wonderful people who should by no means feel less special because they're not a doppy. ... .. okay maybe a lil less special

Col · Post by **Col** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:03 am

I probably wouldn't try to keep up with my comic, and I think it would be a lot worse if I didn't have you people to talk about comics and how they're made. Also, it's kept me in touch with SuburbanLetdown and Yeahduff after college, and those guys inspire me the most to keep going with the comic.

Tynan · Post by **Tynan** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:27 am

Kisai wrote:though as time has proven over and over again, in any group of people, with the exception of CN Expo, it always seems like I'm the smartest person in a group, which has the disadvantage being the one that makes the decisions.

Awww shucks...I'm not that smart.

CSchaefer · Post by **CSchaefer** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:36 am

If it wasn't for CG, well, my own comic would still be stuck in my head somewhere (and that ain't healthy), but also I wouldn't have met a ton of you cool folks and been introduced to a whole world of great webcomic reading. Thanks, everybody.

EDIT: Oh, and I would never have been stuck in a box.

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:25 am

Tynan wrote:
Kisai wrote:though as time has proven over and over again, in any group of people, with the exception of CN Expo, it always seems like I'm the smartest person in a group, which has the disadvantage being the one that makes the decisions.
Awww shucks...I'm not that smart.

And apparently the rest of us are idiots.

Mo · Post by Mo » Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:57 am

pierce studios wrote:Doppy <3 =D

Oh also a bunch of other wonderful people who should by no means feel less special because they're not a doppy. ... .. okay maybe a lil less special

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