mcDuffies wrote:
As for Ghastly's comment, although I agree that it's be more convenient to change Spot, we all know that is not gonna happen. But other than that, I think the change of name can only help us.
If by help you mean alienate us further from the Keen family then I suppose.
I just see it as a way of further disenfranchising Spacers from what goes on in Keen. The fact that this name change is being forced upon us by Spotters further supports this.
The negative ramifications of a name change are greater for the Spacers than the Spotter, but a few bitchy Spotters are deciding that Spacers have to bow to their wishes and change. Since Spot would be much less affected by a name change and it's the Spotters who want this differentiation in the first place I say let them change.
Being less related to Spot, gives us more oportunity to develope our own, gistinguishable brand. And if some spotters think that it's a good idea for a totally different reason, well, then everyone is happy.
I for one would not be happy. It doesn't matter what you call us, we're not going to be "distinguishable" from most of Keenspot anyways because the top Keenspace comics are almost identical to the top Keenspot comics in quality anyways.
I just see this as a way of kicking Spacers out of the family and marginalizing us even more than we already are. What's worse is we're not even getting a say in it. Spotters are dictating that we must change our name. We're being given somewhat of a voice in what the name gets changed to but we're not being given a choice wether or not we even want to change our name to begin with.
This is like your 320 lb cellmate Bubba telling you "I'm going to rape you, but I'm empowering you with the choice of wether you want to get raped in the face or raped in the ass, of course I'll still make the final decision on where you get it anyways."
You're still getting an unwanted dick inside you.
Although I gotta mention that to me, that rivalry between Spot and Space and "spotters look down to spacers" or "spacers hate spotters" is really an old story and it does not apply anymore. After all, structure of spotters has changed greatly in last year.
There have indeed been a few changes, but don't kid yourself into thinking that a couple of Spacers promoted up through the ranks have suddenly fixed everything. There's still a lot of anti-Space resentment in Spot.
The name change has nothing to do with a couple of idiots who post Space related messages in the Spot forum. It has everything to do with a few Spot primadonas who feel they are
better than us and resent the fact that the average reader sees no difference between the quality of their strip and the quality of any of the more popular strips on Space.
There's still very little difference between your average popular Space strip and your average Spot strip. A great many Spot strips are only read simply because they're able to ride on Tatsuo Ishida's and Michael Poe's fame and talent, feeding off the few adventurous clicks off their sites to expore the rest of Keenspot. Take away Keenspot's promotional power and many of those strips would likely not even be pulling in the numbers of the top 100 here on Space.
Forcing Spacers to change their name isn't going to make anyone suddenly think those Spot strips are now good. The superiority of Spot only exists in the minds of certain egotistical Spotters and Keen has certainly done it's part to foster that attitude.
Forcing Spacers to change our name to stroke the egos of a few bitter, swelled heads on Spot would be the biggest insult Keen has leveled against Spacers yet. Spacers may be the bastard redheaded stepchildren of the Keen family but at least up until now we've been part of that family.
