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[Negative Everything : Foamy The Squirrel]

Comparing old Foamy with new Foamy is fascinating. In the 2000s, people were too happy and complacent because the hive mind told them to be. In the 2020s, people just complain about everything without even trying to understand what they're complaining about, resulting in Foamy complaining about complaining, essentially. It's suffice to say that I prefer Foamy's newer rants. I remember when I looked up things on the Internet for FUN, and not have to mentally prepare for disappointment and disillusion in the human race just because I decided to look up stuff on the Sonic 2 beta. That said, I think you can avoid a lot of this toxicity just by learning to ignore the comments (yes, including this one). Trolls have always existed, but now websites can only make money and stay afloat if both the creators and the users deliberately feed these trolls by creating their own toxic, controversial hot-takes just to generate discussion. The easiest way we can all stop this is to not give the trolls that have taken over the Internet the attention and validation they so desperately crave.

[I Buried His Poop - Theo Von]

I’m going to want to fact-check that bit in the beginning about skinny-people poop making obese people lose weight. Ehh, who cares?

[Flash-chan Runs Away]

I forgot how cute your artstyle is. I think I used Flash maybe once in an 8th grade class that I didn't fully understand what it even was until I was in it, but I fully respect its legacy of making animation accessible to anyone who isn't a large animation studio while also being useful for a lot of big cartoons, like Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, in the early days of digital animation. Without it, I probably wouldn't be in the posh situation I'm in now where I only pay for the physical hardware (my laptop) and have my pick of the litter of free/open source software like Blender and Krita. Unfortunately, I can also relate to the pain Flash fanatics suffered when Adobe got ahold of it and slowly turned it into the buggy mess Adobe Animate is today while ALSO forcing modern Flash/Animate users to pay for it on a monthly basis forever with no real benefit to doing so. I just found out yesterday that my once-beloved 3D sculpting/painting app Forger sold its soul to the Devil (Maxon of Cinema 4D fame, basically) and my "classic" version of the app will no longer be updated and I will have to subscribe to the new "freemium" version from Maxon if I want to continue using it, although so far that "freemium" version is just as unstable, if not worse, than the original independently-made version. This loss is somewhat neutered by the fact that I now have "only pay for once" alternatives like Nomad Sculpt and the new 3D painting tools in Procreate, but a large corporation like Maxon and Adobe buying smaller software only to make it completely inaccessible to small artists and studios is still a tragic loss, nonetheless. Sorry for the excessively long review again, but the recent situation with things like Substance Painter being bought out by Adobe, too and Maxon immediately destroying the once-promising Forger iOS app gets me pretty heated and all I can hope for is that Open-Source software (outside of Audacity, unfortunately) can at least avoid the temptation of getting bought out and continue to provide ways for people to at least learn digital art and animation without spending an arm and a leg on a monthly basis.

[Flesh Color (Spooky)]

I too become increasingly-poorly-drawn the more scared I am.

[Eternals]

I just really like how tiny the sun’s face is compared to the rest of him.

[Skin Color]

Okay, to be fair, I always used the Brown Crayola marker and tried to make it work somehow on even light skin, since Red, Orange, Pink and Yellow just felt too off for me. And I was lucky if I ever even got a pack of markers with Pink.

Delfrig responds:

Yeah, I hear you. Peach was the only thing remotely close to a skin tone if you were lucky enough to get it. I'd try brown, but it was always too dark and it'd blend with the black outlines.

[The Nightmare before Halloween]

I assumed the thing that scared these women the most was a doctor saying that being 400+ lbs cannot be considered “healthy” by any stretch of the imagination. Or an “Out of Order” sign on the elevator. I’m sorry, I’m having way too much with this comment while simultaneously ensuring I’ll never have the option of dating 2/3rds of American women.

[In A Blue Balloon]

Fantastic, atmospheric and creative animation! The mix of 2D and 3D in certain key scenes was great as well! Also, what is the meaning of the graffiti saying “BIG FATS?”

AntonM responds:

notorious tagger big fats, his name can be seen all across town

[Halloween at Connor's Café]

Weird, but fun and still good.

[Time Paradox]

The animation could be more polished, but I still liked how you managed to make Big Boss look like Bluto from Popeye.