scarfman | "And we said we didn't think you'd get the option"

Here's a comment I posted on another webforum, in a discussion of the downside of celebrity as portrayed in Megatokyo.

It's kinda the flip side of what demiurgent wrote at Websnark's one-year mark, about the cool kids suddenly thinking you're the cool kid. Unfortunately the wanna-be cool kids start thinking it too, and that can get any and all degrees of unpleasant. I've been there - not on the scale the Websnarkers or anime voice actresses know, of course - and it's only made the worse for me because I know I'm on the other side of it all too often. I worked the green room at the Chicago Worldcon in 1982. Jim Henson was one of the guests. He never showed up in the green room though, and I've always said that that was for the best because I know I would've gushed horribly. My stepdaughter met him - she was a year and a half old at the time (and not my stepdaughter yet) - and that, I suppose, is more important. But did you know Douglas Adams was about six and a half feet tall?

I read Megatokyo for sentimental reasons - it was the receipt of the paperback Chapter 0 for Father's Day that introduced me to the webcomics world and led to the creation of my conventional (as opposed to fanfiction) webcomic - but I did prefer its earlier, funny strips.