I'm not a fanboy. I respect Terk for the work he puts into it and the time and quality it has.

And what you said makes perfect sense; I overlooked the "other chaotic fighting anims" as well.

But we've come to a conclusion: that even the mainstream animators, or all animators entirely, are not as original as we perceive them to be.

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I'm not a fanboy. I respect Terk for the work he puts into it and the time and quality it has.

And what you said makes perfect sense; I overlooked the "other chaotic fighting anims" as well.

But we've come to a conclusion: that even the mainstream animators, or all animators entirely, are not as original as we perceive them to be.

You can't honestly say that it's impossible to be original because that would require you to completely invent your own species of whatever that has never been thought of before or has any similar characteristics as any other alien species that has been thought of. Since the point of StickPage is to host stick figure animation, preferably the violent ones, every animation is doomed to meet your standards of originality because they all must have a few key elements in common. That's fine. If you honestly try to make an argument with those, then you're kind of retarded and basing your whole argument on a technicality, and that isn't the point. Here's a good example of something Terkoiz could do, but hasn't yet because he lacks originality, humor, and plot development: A stickman waits in line for a hotdog. After his long wait and he gets to the front, someone else cuts in front of him and buys the last hotdog. Then comes the throwdown. Imrpov with some condiment shenanigans and you're already on the right path to have the most original, and comically violent animation on StickPage. It's like that episode of Spongebob with the annual fry cook games where Spongebob and Patrick compete against each other.

This honestly sounds like my entire thought process when I watch animations around here:


With the most emphasis on the whole first few moments of the animation matter the most. I've watched several sponsored animations and closed them out early because I didn't like how they started. It took me a while to see a lot of terkoiz's work until I got into an argument with someone about my view on IRC the other day, but other than that I usually end up getting bored and go off to do something else shortly after they start. I think his Diablo animation several years ago was the most recent one that I didn't have to force myself to sit through.

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But we've come to a conclusion: that even the mainstream animators, or all animators entirely, are not as original as we perceive them to be.

which is another way of saying "this forum is an echo chamber inhabited by kids who are completely incapable of recognizing the artistic merits of their own work or anyone else's"