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Comic Strips

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😇 Be Nice!
- Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
🏘️ Community Standards
- Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
- Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
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- Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.
🧬 Keep it Real
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📽️ Credit Where Credit is Due
- Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
- Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!
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- Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
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  ✅ Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
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🏴‍☠️ Internationalization (i18n)
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  Sí, por favor [Spanish/Español]
🍿 Moderation
- We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
- When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.

Banned Artists

The following artists are banned from the community.

Jago
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GPrime85

It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.

Web Accessibility

Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.

When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:

Markdown - Links / Images

Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)

Web of Links

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 38 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Get a specific rock, refine it and draw specific patterns with anoter refined rock, add some sort of tamed lightning.

"Witchcraft!'

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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you squeeze enough runes it and write the correct spells it can mimic humans. Now we can't tell who's human and who's a pile of rocks.

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

fun fact there's an antique chinese/southeast asian fairytale about it

the original human, the buddha, was lonely and thus wrote faces on rocks. the rocks became "alive", at least they looked alive. They were automatons. That is the explanation why today, there are people who are more or less machines (very superficial, only useful for work, no deeper soul), and people who have a much deeper soul (the buddhas).

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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 13 points 3 months ago

Guess calling people NPCs is a timeless tradition, even if the terminology has changed.

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[–] Ugh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Well, I'm not superficial, and my crippled ass sure isn't useful for work... so that must mean I'm a buddha! Woohoo?

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

Not me, I'm definitely a pile of rocks, oh ah, uh... I-I-I mean human, yeah totally that's what I meant.

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