💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

[TowinKarz]

Slightly off-topic, but man, I still remember when some people were afraid Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within would single handedly end the reign of live action movies. Oh, how naive they were...

Ironically, the only thing it single-handedly ended was Square.

That was a bit of a mind-jog, as I recall not only were some people convinced traditional filmmaking was doomed, they seriously thought that "live" pornography was doomed as well. Who'd bother actually hiring and photographing real, human models when you could create virtual women that would never age, never have flaws, never tire and never object to whatever you did to them during a "shoot"? There were some proto-SJWs really REALLY concerned about that.... as if computers had finally rendered women useless to society on account of producing a superior centerfold product (in theory, anyway, one trip to DeviantArt is all you need to be convinced otherwise).

Hey, it was a weird time to be alive.

And yet, here we are, with traditional 2D (albeit not cell) animation still around and 3d animation frequently being seen as a lazy out for people who lack the skill or dedication to animate competently. Once the "wow" factor wore off, anyway.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

I still can't get over his patreon whining. I actually feel bad for the real people that give him money.
He makes nothing worth money. Nothing. People donating $1 then going "haha, holy shit, no!" and walking out and getting a refund should be a wake up call.

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[MrsFrizzle]

Oh, my god, grow a spine, Dobbers! Just do your fucking work and either learn from the negative feedback or ignore it.

I wonder if his day job is doing data entry or similar for his dad's business, because the idea of an actual boss putting up with his whining seems hard to imagine.

 

[Adamska]

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And my response to Dobbo will be something like:

Namely because you have stuck through the wrong profession if just a single remark of you being a hack and lazy fuck will make you curl up and sob butter all day.

 

[Melancholic_Cowboy]

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Dammit, Dobson! While I haven't participated in webcomicchat- http://webcomicchat.com/, I've talked with one of the mods who run it. She seems like a very supportive person who is really passionate about doing comics. As for WebComicChat itself, it seems to be a place for other artists to promote their work and nerd out with other comic artists. AND it looks like Dobson is trying to turn it into one of his hugboxes.

 

[tepid]

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Imagine if he took this attitude with an ACTUAL job…

 

[amandahugenkiss]

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And this is what gets me the most when it comes to Dobson. The fact that he chooses to let any and all amounts of negative feedback bring him down hard instead of letting it inspire him. He could choose to work harder, get better and become an artist truly worthy of admiration and commendation, and then stick it to the "nasty ol' haters" by becoming much greater than he was before. As the saying goes, "success is the best revenge" or something similar to that.

Instead he's letting his haters win. No, they won a long time ago and he's just slowly, painfully trudging towards his inevitable failure.

...and I'm saying all this as an amateur artist. Dobson is the perfect anti-role-model. So he's at least got that going for him. To serve as a cautionary tale. To remind young and budding artists to never emulate his mistakes in art and life in general.

 

[The Littlest Shitlord]

Oh, my god, grow a spine, Dobbers! Just do your fucking work and either learn from the negative feedback or ignore it.

I wonder if his day job is doing data entry or similar for his dad's business, because the idea of an actual boss putting up with his whining seems hard to imagine.

I can't imagine it either. I also can't imagine him refraining from whining about his job on Twitter if he actually had one. He's got to be on the dole somehow. He only pretends to have an actual job because he knows how much more he'd be mocked if his actual situation became known.

 

[CrimsonKnight]

I can't imagine it either. I also can't imagine him refraining from whining about his job on Twitter if he actually had one. He's got to be on the dole somehow. He only pretends to have an actual job because he knows how much more he'd be mocked if his actual situation became known.

Co-worker: Hey Dobson, still fighting the "trolls"? Fighting for the rights of women?
Dobson: SHUT UP!!!
Boss: Andrew, you didn't meet your quota this quarter, care to explain?
Dobson: Well, I was having some PTSD from a con. Some jerk sprayed me in the face with water.
Boss: Seriously? That's more of a minor annoyance.
Another co-worker: Not as bad as him beating up a con goer for taking a picture of Power Girl.
Third co-worker: Or him making Miss California look like a bimbo.
Boss: Here's your pink slip, Dobson.
Dobson: (proceeds to blow up his Twitter with how his job was mean to him for asspats)

 

[Gensdupays]

What would Dobson's "price" be, I wonder. I know he'd just half ass it, but what would it take to commission him some of that "sexist crap" he hates so much? I'm surprised no ween has paid money for his totally legit inflation fetish.

 

[Strelok]

Imagine if he took this attitude with an ACTUAL job…

Dobson strikes me as the type to just silently fume at his job, able to avoid any consequences because no matter how much he despises it, he manages to keep his mouth shut untill he gets off the premises, before making up for lost time by whinging twice as hard. If he isn't working retail, he probably does some shitty desk jockey job like data entry, one of he most skilless, soul crushing jobs on the planet, earning about $12-15 an hour, aka less than a school bus driver makes.

The important difference is Twitter trolls and such can't fight back in any meaningful way against him complaining except by mocking him. Which while it hurts his feels, doens't have any real world consequences like unemployment would.

 

[PeteyCoffee]

I'm going to try commissioning Dobson to thoroughly outline this thread and write a short essay on what he's learned.

I'm putting up at least fifty bucks. Anyone else want in?

 

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[John Titor]

I love King of the Hill and my friends and I still make references to it all the time. But is a joke about a show that ended five years ago really something Dobby thinks the masses are clamoring for?

To be fair, he's hopped on the bandwagon of KotH parodies that seem to be frequent lately.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Why is Dobson a bear again? Seems like a really ill fitting representation of himself. I'm thinking mudskipper.

 

[Slurms McCorgi]

Why is Dobson a bear again? Seems like a really ill fitting representation of himself. I'm thinking mudskipper.

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Or maybe an anglerfish.

 

[TheProdigalStunna]

Or maybe an anglerfish.

Not a blowfish?

Too easy?

 

[Smelvin]

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This man is not cut out to live in the adult world. I think he might genuinely need some kind of assistance. Like the kind you get when you're checked into some kind of facility.

 

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Oh come on Dobson, are you serious? Nobody is this laughably lazy, lol. It reminds me of Chris being stressed because of those TROLLS or Mr. Enter taking a break from making videos because he was "traumatized" by a movie he didn't like.

 

[MayMay]

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Days!? Really?

I guess it's personal story territory but there's something I'd done recently, fully coloured which is rare for me (half the time I can't tolerate the sketch result enough to continue) and honestly, I thought maybe I did a good job on it. Except when I put it up, I only got dead silence from almost everywhere. Like even the people that like everything didn't like it. As expected, I was crushed. To think I actually did something well and people actually liked it less than the 7-minute doodle(s)? That stings, it really does.

It kept me from doing any other pics for all of... about an hour?