💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

[Sanae Kochiya]

A few questions regarding those button comics:
1. Why even bother wasting your time and money going to a con if all you're going to do is quietly walk around all by yourself?
2. If you have social anxiety or whatever why would you even go somewhere you are well aware that you'll have thousands of people surrounding you?

1) Autism.
2) Entitled autism.

 

[Von Clausewitz]

A few questions regarding those button comics:
1. Why even bother wasting your time and money going to a con if all you're going to do is quietly walk around all by yourself?
2. If you have social anxiety or whatever why would you even go somewhere you are well aware that you'll have thousands of people surrounding you?

Long answer:
Because Dobsons behavior of hitting himself with a hammer and shouting "Feel sorry for me!" isn't just limited to social media.

Short Answer:

 

[Florence]

(Trump probably doesn't know how to retweet probably. Guess that mexico's fault too)

Given that Trump was tricked into retweeting a photo of Fred and Rosemary West, it's pretty likely.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Not only would Dobson be screaming internally but he'll insist on being the star of the show.

When he leaves for the restroom people won't even notice he's gone from the booth.

 

[CrimsonKnight]

Just getting back from a con and slowly catching up. No matter what comic it is, Dobson comes across as a smug bastard.

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

Just getting back from a con and slowly catching up. No matter what comic it is, Dobson comes across as a smug bastard.

I take it you wore the green button?

 

[Chan the Wizard]

I wonder if Dobby even goes to cons at all. Obviously not as an artist anymore, but just for fun.

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

I wonder if Dobby even goes to cons at all. Obviously not as an artist anymore, but just for fun.

Given his limited income, his tendency to alienate everyone, his self-importance, and his PTSD of water sprayers, it's unlikely he is capable of nor does he want to go out to cons. He couldn't stand going to a con and not being the center of attention, but at the same time he doesn't want the attention because he knows that there's no Block button irl.

 

[HU 096]

Just read those new comics of Derpson's.

I know the comics are meant to be funny (using that last word extremely loosely here), but he just wants his cake and to eat it too was the vibe I got out of 'em.

 

[Gothicserpent]

 

[Spellskite]

I've been going to various cons in the twin cities area for a couple years now, and I've never encountered Dobson at one. Pretty sure that he stopped going after that tryhard sprayed him.

 

[AnOminous]

I've been going to various cons in the twin cities area for a couple years now, and I've never encountered Dobson at one. Pretty sure that he stopped going after that tryhard sprayed him.

Tryhard or not, that guy owned him and it has paid off in PTSD milk every since.

 

[DracoRincewind]

2. If you have social anxiety or whatever why would you even go somewhere you are well aware that you'll have thousands of people surrounding you?

For anyone other than Dobson, going out and actively trying to talk to people is the best way to combat social anxiety.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Nobody has to even lift a finger to deconstruct Tom's ego. In fact I wouldn't have taken much time out of the day just to rustle his jimmies.

 

[JU 199]

Another retweet about the trump-gamergate connection.

 

[PacSol]

Personally, I can enjoy a convention even if all I do is walk around, enjoying the sights and the atmosphere, so I can kinda see the point of the buttons.

But only kinda. In my experience as a non-cosplayer, non-artist, and non-panelist, people really only go out of their way to talk to you if they know you or you're browsing their table at the dealer room or the artist alley (in which case, duh, they're trying to make a sale here). This feels like a solution to a non-problem at best, and needlessly complicating simple shit at worst. I understand that people with autism have trouble with social cues, but...

Wait a sec. If the autistic person is the one with issues with social cues, why're they the one wearing the button?

 

[Von Clausewitz]

Wait a sec. If the autistic person is the one with issues with social cues, why're they the one wearing the button?

Because they also have problems giving them.

 

[JU 199]

"There is a creature alive today who has survived millions of years of evolution without change, without passion, and without logic. It lives to fail – a endless failing machine. It will attack and block anything. It is as if God created the devil and gave him … flaws."

 

[Strelok]

Another retweet about the trump-gamergate connection.
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But doesn't the left do this as well? And the center. It's politics 101, more old people vote than young people, so things young people do are bad and scary.

 

[Zvantastika]

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Sorry, I don't know what happened there.