Thread "Volte6 has left the building" in forum "Meet, Greet, Show and Sell*"

Posted at 3:06PM, Jun. 25, 2008

[edit: please HPK, not you too… just put it in the bug section, don't use it as a tool to continue APC's nonsense.]

Posted at 4:06PM, Jun. 25, 2008

[edit: please HPK, not you too… just put it in the bug section, don't use it as a tool to continue APC's nonsense.]

I love Drunk Duck.

Posted at 4:06PM, Jun. 25, 2008

Best place ever. ^___^

Posted at 4:06PM, Jun. 25, 2008

[edit: please HPK, not you too… just put it in the bug section, don't use it as a tool to continue APC's nonsense.]

I love Drunk Duck.

Drunk Duck loves you.

Posted at 7:06PM, Jun. 25, 2008

Hey everyone, i'm cleaning this thread up a bit… there's really no need for all of the fighting :)

Thanks for all the support once again.

I would draw you some flowers, but i lost my colors.

Posted at 8:06PM, Jun. 25, 2008

Now that Volte's left, we can turn the duck brown and the tweety bird green.

Posted at 9:06PM, Jun. 25, 2008

In fact, let's just rename it to High Chicken.

Posted at 10:06PM, Jun. 25, 2008

No, we should call it "Voltegrad" in honour of our once great leader.
Or maybe Saint Dweedlesburg?

Posted at 12:06AM, Jun. 26, 2008

Whoa, well…see ya around Volte. I wish you luck, but don't be a stranger now!

Posted at 12:06AM, Jun. 26, 2008

Best Joker ever! ^___^

Sarah's fears are groundless though. Mrdweedles is actually a pretty great guy, and Volte and him have set it up so that we'll be A-OK.

You'll see. :)

Posted at 12:06AM, Jun. 26, 2008

Dweeds seems p. cool but I would also like a programmer. Just sayin'.

Regardless, I like this guy.

Posted at 1:06AM, Jun. 26, 2008

I don't know that I can trust a person named Mr Dweedles. That could be a fake name (however doubtful) for all we know! Volte6 was a trustworthy name. No shenanigans there.

Posted at 1:06AM, Jun. 26, 2008

When I see the name "Mr Dweedles" I think of a supervillain owning a fluffy cat.

Posted at 2:06AM, Jun. 26, 2008

When I see the name "Mr Dweedles" I think of a supervillain owning a fluffy cat.

Really? I think of the fluffy cat owned by the supervillain.

Posted at 3:06AM, Jun. 26, 2008

THANKYIOU VOLT I AM GOING TO HAVE MY WEDDING HERE!!

Posted at 3:06AM, Jun. 26, 2008

When I see the name "Mr Dweedles" I think of a supervillain owning a fluffy cat.
Really? I think of the fluffy cat owned by the supervillain.

I picture him as a round fat british guy with pinstripe pants and a jacket that barely fits him while he has a white monopoly man mustache and has a bowler hat or top hat and a monocle

Posted at 5:06AM, Jun. 26, 2008

It's been a great run, Dylan! Drunk Duck has always been a great tool for artists to get to know eachother and to get their work seen. I have no doubt it will continue to do so for a long time.

Still it won't be the same without volte6 on Drunk Duck. But change is life and all that stuff. You'll be missed around here.

Stay in touch!

Posted at 5:06AM, Jun. 26, 2008

Hey Volte6,

It's been nice being here working on Drunkduck and I highly appreciate this site and your work.

You shall be missed and good luck for your future and I'm a big fan of DD and I'll continue working and giving my appreciation to the loyal amins all around.

Good luck and have great future, man, you do deserve it.

Posted at 7:06AM, Jun. 26, 2008

Just as a counterpoint, especially since all of the other counterpoints were sanitized, I think it's legitimate to disagree with a "majority" of posters on the quality of work that's been done (especially in the past few years), and I think that was what APC was trying to do in his… manner.

I think we can all agree that Volte deserves props for creating and re-creating the site, and basically giving webcomic artists a centralized community that didn't cost them anything. I haven't posted anything on this site in years, but it was always good to know that I could float ideas and post my art without worrying about generating traffic just to get a decent test audience.

Of course, the site could have been handled better than it was; I don't need to re-post APC's laundry list to convince everyone that the system in its current form is seemingly in the alpha-stage of development with no real promise of improvement. People have legitimate complaints, but frankly for all the talk I've heard in the past five years nobody's stepped up to create their own site. If you ask me, we can't fault Dylan if we aren't up to putting in the effort we accuse him of lacking.

But all that is besides the point, and it isn't why I decided to make this post anyway; I owe Mr. Squires a huge debt for creating Drunkduck in the first place.

In 2002, unsure of what I was going to do with myself after I flunked out my first semester of college, I started drawing ridiculously poor webcomics. I thought they were okay at the time, but looking back they were really, really bad. Still, I posted them on this site and started to get feedback; in particular the long-gone artists Breezy and Squeegee always supported what I was trying to do, and I gradually improved.

Eventually I gave up comics [mostly because at the time I felt I had no "voice"], but through them I came to the realization that I loved layout and art, which lead me to pursue my BFA in Graphic Design. I graduated last month, thanks in no small part to my experience on this site.

Did Dylan personally get me to that point? No, of course not. He did, however, give me and thousands of other people a community that fosters creative development, which in my case dramatically changed the direction of my life. Honestly, I can trace my decisions back to the experiences and conversations I've had on this site, and without them I'd probably still be working the same retail job I had when I graduated high school.

So for all the problems with this site, I personally owe much more to it than I can express here. Dylan, thank you for putting this out there and keeping it alive when letting it die would have been much more convenient.

Also, sorry for stealing your chat room that time.

Posted at 7:06AM, Jun. 26, 2008

When I see the name "Mr Dweedles" I think of a supervillain owning a fluffy cat.
Really? I think of the fluffy cat owned by the supervillain.

I picture him as a round fat british guy with pinstripe pants and a jacket that barely fits him while he has a white monopoly man mustache and has a bowler hat or top hat and a monocle

How about an white fluffy cat dressed up like a british man in pinstripe pants and an top hat with a monocle?

Anyway, I agree with Radarig. I love DD, even with some of it's annoying flaws. And there's nothing you can say to change that.

(I'd love to see APC make his own website. Let's see him back up his tough talk with his walk… oh wait, he's banned. Never mind. =p)