YirNews!: Pen Pal Idea, Troll Update…
PEN PAL IDEA- We’re pretty much a go on the pen pal idea. We’ll need a cool funny name for it and I’ll leave it to the friends of Yirmumah to decide. The basic Idea.. anyone, from ALL OVER THE WORLD, can send us whatever they want to, and we’ll send something back. We really encourage international stuff, because we thought it would be cool to get something from places we’ve never been and will probably never go to. Rules/ideas so far are:
-It doesnt have to be anything fancy or expensive. It could be a damn sales receipt for something retarded, as long as it shows where it came from. Bob’s suggestions if you’re stumped: “money from your country, coins, dollar, whatever. Postcards, knick-knacks–
-We’ll try to match whatever it is you send on a coolness factor and send you something back. Times may vary depending on the amount of crap sent to us. Bob has a bunch of stuff planned to send people already, and itching to send stuff.
- We’ll chronicle everything on the site here in photos, of what you sent, and what we sent back–and we’ll give it a number.
- Also, I’m gonna try to put together scrapbooks of stuff we get. Bigger items, I can just take photos of for the scrapbook. The scrapbooks can then go with us to future comic shows and events… because we DO plan on doing those sometime in the future again.
- At some point in time, we may have a public vote on what’s the coolest thing we sent, you sent, etc… and possible prizes to be had for everyone.
- I might need a PO box. Posting my home address might be a little iffy. Seems like it’s worth it though with the responses we’ve gotten.
Sound good? If you want to send something NOW– e-mail me for the mailing address. yirmail@yirmumah.net
Troll Update: I thought our troll, William G. Had left us. But it occurred to me he’s in a weird time zone, so posting is varying. Luckily he stayed. They usually say “Don’t feed the troll” but dammit, I’m gonna! I thought it would be fun to track down some interesting other places where our troll has trolled before. Ready?? I am! Keep in mind, I’m only using a simple google search to dig up some crap on this clownboy.
-Here you can see mention of the article he wrote and took down on his old crappy blog about PVP vs PENNY ARCADE! He pretty much is the living incarnation of the pot calling the kettle black. A lot of people linked up his article, but the fayg took it down. I’m sure it’s cached somewhere if people want to search further…it’s not worth your time though.
-HERE , you can see our man in Amsterdam trolling on the…. drumroll….. SCOTT McCLOUD message forum. Can someone say…. Kiss Arse Defender!? AH-HA! You can see Willy G. criticizing a webcomics tabloid, and the aforementioned bigger comic strips he has a hard on to diss.
-HERE, you can see William G. responding to the webcomics tabloid that he says in the previous link that he wouldnt return to. And someone else calls him a troll, which made my day, so Drew Price posted for me there.
-HERE, He’s trolling on someone’s blog calling them primadonnas and passive aggressive. A term I had thought about using for William G. Himself. WOW, William G. sure gets around with the trolling, huh?
- HERE, I am called an asshole and linked. But I come in to defend myself a bit, and then I’m trolled by none other than WILLY G. Neil, the blog owner tells us to cool it and get with the discussion, so I add my two cents about GoogleAds– and you can see how William keeps nipping and making himself look like a whiney troll.
Ok, this is boring now. And I need coffee. But I’m happy to have him as a troll either way. He loves us. I can tell. If not only by checking logs and seeing how much he checks our site and how often. He REALLY loves us! — You too can have fun by simply searching things in google like: William G+Penny Arcade
, or –blah.. I don’t want to listen to anyone who would say “webcomics will become a farm system for print publishers.”
That is backward thinking. It might even be like saying… “VCRs are the way of the future I tells yah!”
~TIP JAR~
June 23rd, 2005 at 10:08 am
If you’re going to have a pet, then you’ll have to promise to feed it and take it for walks.
June 23rd, 2005 at 10:10 am
Looks like William G. has lost his mind– http://delineatedlife.blogspot.com/ — Hurry before he deletes it as well too. He pretty much tells all of webcomics to go get fucked. Thats awesome.
Hopefully he quits and I never have to hear from him again.
June 23rd, 2005 at 10:56 am
okay, first off, the name for the pen pals thing should be ‘Yirlonely’.
Second, what the fuck is wrong with a little cultish behavior Willy G? Just cause nobody let you lead the crazy doesn’t mean the crazy should can’t be fun.
June 23rd, 2005 at 10:57 am
I was thinking about YirDouche
June 23rd, 2005 at 11:12 am
you should send all the stuff in plain brown paper, like my magazines get delivered.
June 23rd, 2005 at 11:14 am
or better than a penpal service, I think you guys should start a girlfriend service.
Guarantee that the clients mom will believe they aren’t gay anymore by sending them little scented letters once a week with Bob’s smooch marks on them.
June 23rd, 2005 at 11:58 am
After reading all that stuff i really wish I hadn’t.
End of the day he’s just some random juvenile shilling his under-developed opinion on webcomic issues. The best thing is to just ignore him and leave him to his unviewed blogs. You get Dickheads on the internet. Thats a fact that aint ever going to change. I realise how annoying to see printed words libeling your position with an uninspiring nickname heading a page, untracable to its author. I’d just leave it be if I were you.
Love the comic by the way!
June 23rd, 2005 at 12:59 pm
I was lucky enough to get to read William G.’s post. HAHAHAH! *wipes the tears from his eyes* HAHAHAH! Internet: 1 William G. : 0. This is the kind of guy that calls in bomb threats to comic conventions just because a catwomen cosplayer told him off.
June 23rd, 2005 at 1:28 pm
Well, e-gads Chad, why so hostile? Personally, the things you offered don’t do much much good, since a girlfriend service would just make me gay. Jeez, some people.
Personally, I think it’s an amusing way to try and discern your fanbase. However, god knows what will happen if people send you stuff. “Pack rat” Pal? “Random sleaze accruement” Pal? Maybe I have lil faith in humanity, but I can see some twisted stuff get sent, but perhaps that’s part of the fun.
Well, now whenever I walk around my city I am gonna have to look for something random and quirky to send. Gah!
June 23rd, 2005 at 1:52 pm
Jess, DJ and I go back a ways. In fact, I’ve been known to pay him for favors. He knows I’m just funin’ with the concept and will probably be sending him some N. Jersey landfill or leftover diner food (for bob).
June 23rd, 2005 at 1:54 pm
Oh thank god.
I’m all sorts of noob.
June 23rd, 2005 at 1:58 pm
Here let me help translate what he really meant:
“the vile stain of fanboyism” was spread over my sheets as the “the greasiest fanboy” left from the lair of love. All i could say was that the “Branch Dividian-like nature of you comic fanboys” gets me off. I love you “webcomic fanboys” never leave me.
June 23rd, 2005 at 4:19 pm
On the topic of that whole Ad overhead thing. How much do you make per click?
June 23rd, 2005 at 4:26 pm
By Googles terms of service, I’m not allowed to say– -but I can tell you it varies per click, based on what the advertiser is paying for the keywords.. it can be anything from 4cents a click to a buck a click if you use Adsense yourself.
June 23rd, 2005 at 4:40 pm
Google is so much fun to try to control. it’s a little geek game to me.
June 23rd, 2005 at 9:58 pm
How does this geek game work, i am interested.
June 23rd, 2005 at 10:18 pm
sign up for ad sense
try to make lots of money.
game set match.
June 23rd, 2005 at 10:45 pm
Detailed AND infromative. I will be playing it as soon as i finish my secret project site.
June 23rd, 2005 at 10:55 pm
Like I said before– I can’t discuss my Google account– but you can get plenty of info at their site, or at these forums– http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=27
June 23rd, 2005 at 11:32 pm
He’s usually trolling KeenSpace. Here’s at least one of his threads:
http://forums.keenspace.com/viewtopic.php?t=65661
June 24th, 2005 at 1:19 am
You’d think that someone who’s constantly posting things like “lets make up” and “we should bury the hatchet” might eventually figure out that it’s not OTHER people making problems…
…wouldn’t you think? Wouldn’t you?
b
June 24th, 2005 at 6:47 am
wow, you only get paid if people click on the ads.
previously I was ignoring them. I’ll make a point of clicking them now.
cheers
June 24th, 2005 at 9:25 am
Speaking of Google, their new g-mail thing is really quite cool, nice little layout they’ve got going there. If you haven’t heard of it, Google have made their own email service, its only in the “testing phase” so you need to be invited in, but its much the goodness. Well, I think so anyway. if you want to know more, i can’t be of too much help, all i can say is that its rather smooth and simple, and its got a nice little system where you never need to delete any emails, what with the 2+ Gigs of storage space for your account, which continually rises, you can even see it going up. Anyway, if you want to be invited really badly, you can email me at pregnaloons@gmail.com, see, it does exist, then I’ll think about inviting you if you ask me nicely, and if you haven’t already got one, and telling you all this is pointless…
But be warned, only so many people can be invited, but once you have your own account, you can invite 50 other people, there, now you know how many people I can invite, and I am loathe to waste them on unknowns, so get in quick!
June 24th, 2005 at 10:14 am
if you decide to use google ads on a webcomic, make sure you put the ad bar RIGHT underneath your navigation links. One of the other comics I read gets a lot of accidently clicks on their bar from me when I’m trying to speedwalk through their archives.
/grumbles about poor site design and lack of navigation bars at the top and bottom of archives/
June 24th, 2005 at 10:29 am
Paul - That might be intentional. Those “accidental clicks” count towards that person’s total.
b
June 24th, 2005 at 10:43 am
Yeah, I know. Doesn’t stop the grumbling though
Still up in the air about whether I want to include google ads on my webcomic. Not that it matters right now (fracking keenspace is down…). I’m sure the revenue has the potential to be good, but it just seems to contribute to unneeded clutter on the frontpage and distract from the reason people came to the site (that being the comic.)
June 24th, 2005 at 10:58 am
You’re not allowed to dicuss how much you make, or tell people to click your ads, or draw unwarranted attention to them, like say a flashing red arrow pointing at them or something. So be careful with that.
You CAN put images above your ads, and that helps out a lot.
Also, the better the content you have, they’ll serve up better ads pertaining to actual things in your strips… like the first Burger King Strip has burger king guy ads… that’s pretty cool. Google rocks.
June 24th, 2005 at 1:02 pm
Another fun Friday everybody? How’s that bastard Willy G doing???
Only 8 mo’ motherfucking hours to go before I can go home and wallow in self pity!!! Hooray!
Just kidding about the self pity thing, Im actually going to go home and have phone sex with my girlfriend from Atlanta.
June 24th, 2005 at 9:40 pm
I will try and send you a Cornish Pasty. If I send it priority, you should still be able to eat it when it gets to your end of the continent.