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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

Rules
  1. πŸ˜‡ Be Nice!

    • Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
  2. 🏘️ 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.
    • Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
    • 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.
  3. 🧬 Keep it Real

    • Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.
  4. πŸ“½οΈ 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!
  5. πŸ“‹ Post Formatting

    • Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author's website.
    • Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
    • When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
      βœ… Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
      ❌ Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/
  6. πŸ“¬ Post Frequency/SPAM

    • Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 πŸ–) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 πŸ–) will be removed.
  7. πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ Internationalization (i18n)

    • Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
      SΓ­, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]
  8. 🍿 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.

  1. Jago
  2. Stonetoss
  3. 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:

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)

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[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hard agree on the not enough aliens. There could be regions of space where as soon as you discover radio, you discover and join the interstellar community. If a region of space is dense and densely populated, maybe via a panspermia event that seeded the region, it could be that as soon as a species discovers radio waves, they become aware of the interstellar chatter, all the signals generated by all their radio-capable neighbors, engaged in a continual conversation spanning light-years and millennia. some worlds transmit introductions and translation guides at intervals, some only transmit noise or encrypted signals. Some transmit for a while and then fall silent. Most of the traffic is for intraplanetary use whose broadcast is incidental, which serves as an autobiographical record for that world, to their neighborhood. The neighborhood watches world conquering empires rise and fall from a distance. They see the worlds that talk themselves into nuclear war and then go quiet. Some resume transmitting after some time. Some individuals or groups maintain correspondences over millennia. Some of these correspondents are worshiped as gods.

Instead we get crickets. 1/10 would rather be in the galactic downtown.

[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Instead we get crickets

If only

[–] cosmos8188@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago

Yep with the state of the earth, crickets are becoming a rarity πŸ˜₯.

True. Space crickets would be a significant upgrade over the silence. Some kind of astrophage-ish spaceborne organism perhaps, that sing in light to communicate with nearby colonies.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are aliens in this galaxy. 8 billion of them.

That's true, and they are cool and all, but I wish there were more.

panspermia event

Sounds like a fun time at the club! 😁

[–] vrek@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

I mean... I can't say he's wrong...

[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 7 points 1 week ago

I also seethe about how spread out everything is ngl.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

It's too big

Fair enough, some people prefer smaller phones

Too many stars

It's overhyped? I didn't know that, but good to know

Not enough aliens

?

Everything's too far away

???

Oh

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I was expecting an explosion joke

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

Dude, have you seen Andromeda reviews ? We got it good.

... I am letting everyone decide if it's about the thing with Kevin Sorbo or Mass Effect, or whatever other one I might not know.