JERKCITY SUCKS PEOPLE
I’ve no clue when we rolled the 2.0 version of Jerkcity, but WITH EACH PASSING DAY THE 2.0 VERSION OF JERKCITY GETS OLDER AND OLDER.
What I am wondering is this:
1) What do you hate about the current Jerkcity layout?
2) What do you love?
3) What features do you think we lack?
4) AND NO WE’RE NOT PLANNING ON CHARGING FOR JERKCITY OR ASKING FOR MONEY
WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO IS KEEP THE MAGIC ALIVE FOLKS.
WHY DON'T YOU REMAKE IT IN FLASH AND TURN IT INTO A PORTAL SITE FOR OTHER COCK-RELATED COMICS?
No, d00d, it's a comic. You click it and it shows you another comic. I think that's an adequate interface for a site that shows you funny pictures.
I don't remember ever reading Jerkcity and thinking "Hmmm, I like this, but it would be better if I could cross-index the strips by the perversion they discuss with a single click".
Jesus, I don't think you should ask this in the fear that people's stupid fucking ideas would sway the constant hilarity that spews from this magical site. SERIOUSLY, don't even ask what to change. It's rare that people have what you have, AND YOU GUYS HAVE IT IN SPADES. Pulling down pants, gobbling it up, waiting everyday at midnight for more.
OH, but hurry up and make a shirt worth a shit, dicklickers.
Having all the strips seachable (i.e. doing another round of strip -> text conversions).
Jerkcity 2.0 is definitely an improvement over 1.0. I don't see anything wrong with it.
In terms of strips - no more smooth fonts please. Having text non-anti-aliased I believe is actually a nice touch (nice and dirty, just like the dialogue).
Also more Ozone/Hanford/Dick/Bung!. Although Yourself/Pants/Deuce/Spigot/Atandt are the "main 5", it's good to have some more variation. That being said, it's always a treat to see the lesser-known characters in a strip, so perhaps it's good to only include them occasionally rather than more often.
And yeah, bring on the shirts :-)
Euhm, I don't know if it's just me but I found strips ~950 to ~1050 to be the funniest, along with some very early ones. These days, it seems that there are occasionally good strips, but nothing like some of the earlier stuff I read. Well, OK, maybe sometimes, but I just think you had a really good 'run' from 950-1050. I'll still buy the T-Shirts if you make them, though. OK? Also, the other day I think there was a fuck up and the strip wasn't working so I propose that you invest in a "Tech. Support" department (with Apple G4s running Mac OS X, no less) that people can call when stuff breaks - for extra credit: a dirty-talking tech. support department K PLZ THX.
I like the current layout. As Konrad said, you get a comic, and you can click it and get another comic. Everything else is just gravy.
It would be fun if some of the other Jerks let us see their non-cartoon identites, but I can think of good reasons why they wouldn't want to. And hell, it might spoil something if I knew too much about the reality behind Jerkcity.
Speaking of shirts, a friend made me a shirt featuring the "You can watch" panel of http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity975.html. Sometimes I forget and wear it to the store. Hilarity ensues.
I think the site/comic is great as it is. Like an earlier comment stated: you click it and get another comic.
No need to think about silly diversifications like so many dot coms have done. :)
I WANT TO SEE MORE DEUCE THOUGH!
UM LIKE HELLO MORE RANDS
No, really... Uh, I dunno. I guess the sidebar thing can get a bit annoying since on OSX it's frustrating to have IE be the ONE WINDOW THAT IS WIDE, for the sake of Jerkcity. I dunno, maybe links along the top and bottom so the horizontal is free for the strip (and the coming banner ads). Maybe start doing searches based on the textual jerkcity (as someone else suggested already?) and such.
Things I like... Well, the mostly-black-and-white thing works well, so don't go making it all rainbow coloured. I don't care what you do to it as long as it isn't LESS GAY THAN PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED.
Streamline the code, get rid of all the dirty hacks in the background, automate everything, make the code a public project, get it tuned to be lean and mean and SUCK COCKS TWICE AS FAST, and it'll be fine. I think the outward appearence isn't as important as it is that everything work fine (HELLO /y/ WAS EXPOSED FOR A WHILE *SHOCKING*), and be automated and shit so that things like searching, etc., are easier over time.
ALSO I THINK TOMORROW SHOULD GO AWAY, PEOPLE LIKE TO READ IT AND SPOIL JERKCITY FOR THE NEXT DAY THEN I HAVE TO READ "TOMORROW" EVERY DAY UNTIL I MISS A DAY AND THEN I CAN START READING THE REGULAR SHIT AGAIN.
Some thoughts.
I'd like the RSS to work properly... JerkCity in my Livejournal friends list would make me happy.
The only thing that bothers me about Jerkcity is the site search isn't up to date. I'm more into functionality rather than aesthetics. Looks like with Jerkcity 2.0 one was trying too hard to make the site look hip and happening with ROUNDED CORNERS AND TABLES SIR WHY NOT USE SOME SHADE OF BLUE AND HAVE A SWOOSHY LOGO OR A LOGO OF SOME "ACTIVE" FIGURE ??? YOU TOTALLY NEED AN IPO !!!
So why don't you hold a 3.0 contest? What would make it any different than the logo contest? You have at least twelve readers and those twelve readers would do anything to be associated with Jerkcity. Only downside I can think of is the fact that you folks could end up choosing something because it's slick and cool but will be horribly dated come 2004.
Cocks are funny. Dongs are funny. Poo is funny.
The new layout is shiny and pretty.
All is well.
Comics about cocks and dongs are funny. Brilliant piece of comic work. HUAHGLAHUGHA
The thing that is missing in Jerkcity 2.0 is the title in Algerian (or whatever that font is called). It's sheer crapulence enhances the effect of that jerkcity sorta just happened. Bring back the Algerian!
P.S. I love you. Don't tell anyone. It can be our secret.
Please use PNG instead of GIF. Please make it so I can download today's comic WITH THE CORRECT FILENAME with 'wget www.jerkcity.com/today.png' (i.e. do a redirect from that URL). Right now I have an ugly and inefficient and very badly coded python script that does the download and conversion (sample line: "url = 'http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity' + str(int(((time.time() + time.timezone) / 60 / 60 / 24) - 10500)) + '.gif'"). I know about netcomics and dailystrips, but dailystrips renames the files, and netcomics isn't packaged in my distribution.
Only faggots use .png
Real men use .gif or .jpg
WHAT WOULD RICHARD STALLMAN DO??? (FREE AS IN RAPE BUT NOT AS IN WELFARE)
DON'T TOUCH DON'T CHANGE IT I SWEAR TO GOD, I CUT YOU.
JUST SLAP THE JERKCITY.COM LOGO ON SOME T-SHIRTS AND SELL IT UNTIL YOU THINK OF SOMETHING BETTER. PERFECTIONISM DON'T TURN ME ON, BABY!
What you should do is allow users to rate the cartoon they have just read for overall funnyness and perhaps other factors (presence of a favourite character, for instance).
Massive amounts of data could then be compiled and analyzed for trends in hilarity. I think this would be both fascinating and completely unique. To date, no large scale survey has established whether dicklicking is funnier than cocksucking, or gayness funnier than lameness etc. I have had heated arguments over whether pants is funnier than spigot or deuce (rands is generally thought of as the least funny character, although perhaps because rands is the least brash) and with this statistical analysis we can finally rest.
You could plot graphs of funniness ratings against presence of certain keywords, characters, number of panels, number of "I don't get it" votes, really anything. Use your imaginationation.
Make it funnier.
What about printing some of the IRC shit the strips are based on?
More pigdog interviews ...
And a Jerkcity game. I'm sure it would write itself.
Sound effects?
1)About the layout, nothing to hate. It would be gay to hate the layout.
2)Dicksucking. God I love it.
3)Not that you really *lack* anything but if there could somehow be MORE, MORE OF ALL THE DELICIOUS COCKS AND MURDERED PROSTITUTES AND DUMB GIRLS AND BATHROOM STALLS IN GENERAL AND EVERYTHING I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I WANT MORE. Although I do think that publishing your IRC stuff would be a little gay. Also perhaps you could sell TSHIRTS ALREADY AND THE HELLO MY NAME IS PANTS ONE IS THE BEST and also maybe Jerkmail accounts?
4)Should you break down and ask for money so that Spigot could go fulltime or is that too much dicksucking to ask of a man?
If the title is true and Jerkcity really sucks people, can I be next?
I say this in all seriousness:
Make the site crappier.
Things are too easy to find as it is... put the comics on the front page and everything else hidden in some horrible labyrinth.
Also tshirts
Yeah - some strips based upon the dialogue in the IRC channel would be good. There are often some gems in there.
NO STRIPS BASED ON IRC DIALOGUE PLZ
NO GEMS THERE
NADA
ZILCH
YOU COULD MAKE A BUNDLE (AT LEAST A NICKEL) BY HAVING MICROPAYMENTS LIKE SCOTT MCCLOUD DESCRIBED IN HIS SEQUEL TO UNDERSTANDING COMICS CALLED "YOUR FIST IS SPLINTERING MY TEEF OH MY GOD THE BLOOD" WHICH WOULD BE A RELATIVE ***BOON*** TO THIS MISUNDERSTOOD AND UNIVERSAL ART FORM YOU CYBERNAUTS PARTICIPATE IN ON A DAILY BASIS !!! ALSO MORE OBSCURE GOLDEN AGE COMIC REFERENCES IN ADDITION TO RE-ENACTMENTS OF KIRBY ERA MARVEL COMICS BY THE JERKCITY PLAYERS !!!
Re: Jerkcity 2.0
Think e commerce with Jerkcity T shirts
More museum artifacts please!
The subtitles are hilarious and you still are all anarchists; keep them coming!
- Klaatu: "We do have a system. And it works."
Klaatu birada nikta to U
Perhaps you can write a program that converts the strip into ASCII art so that I can read it in LYNX thus freeing me from that dastardly inefficient mouse.
MORE SUGGESTIONS:
GET RID OF THAT WET BLANKET RANDS
COOL MUSCLE CARS FOR THE CAST OF JERKCITY THAT THEY DRIVE AROUND AND HAVE ADVENTURES IN
NEW CHARACTER AFTER NEW CHARACTER AFTER NEW CHARACTER
PAID MEMBERSHIP-ONLY ACCESS TO NUDE GALLERIES OF THE JC CAST
MORE GAY JOKES
I found nothing wrong with the original layout. When I discovered that you had switched over to this new 2.0 layout, I was crushed...cause jerkcity was always 'little black navigation frame at the top, with a flashy logo'. I've been with since way back...mid-300's I do believe...so any change from the original is going to disrupt my homeostasis.
However, who am I to disuade from change? Just don't go commercial with your gayness...we see that daily on MTV, and it's a sad, sad spectacle.
Aufweidersehen
-Gottheit
Suggestion:
Stop with that "T RANDS" or "T SPIGOT" IRC thing, it sucks, there's no need to use it in a COMIC!
Well, I have a big cock, I think the reason they use the "t rands" "t spigot" irc thing is because this whole comic is done with microsoft comic chat. So, in essence, it's a chat. Therefore any chat lingo, jargon, etc., can apply. Be it "a/s/l", "lol", or "HAGAHLLHAGAGHGA."
Aufweidersehen
-Gottheit
Atandt, roofies (shared), 6 gallons of J-Lube and an electrojaculator.
On my desk by morning plz.
more strips about me driving vehicles into the homes of various jerkplayers
I can; \t remember what i was going to say because i have been having whiskey shots since s who cares
in any case. erm. . '
shit
dontlisten to the se fuckwards. what the fuck was i going to say. (2minutes later) oh yeah
i just want you guys to be able to quit your jobs and be able to get your bread from doing this bullshit fulltime. that would be the funniest shit ever(and i love you guys
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