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** Osmosis from cultural etiquette, one imagines. Whenever any form of media apologizes for something, they tend to use we. "We apologize for the inconvenience," "We understand your concerns," "We hope to serve you in the future." It's one of those things that people say without thinking too much about the meaning of the individual words.
** It's funnier that way?
** It's called the ''[
*** Or sometimes the [[BOFH|Bastard]] 'we'. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/14/bofh_2006_episode_23/ It's like the Royal 'we' but far more dangerous].
*** It could also be a carryover from other forms of media, where it is very rare for only one person to be doing everything, and the "We apologise for the inconvenience" would be referring to the writers/producers/directors as a group apologizing.
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** Jumping the [[Penny Arcade]] bandwagon, I suppose?
*** The misstep is jumping on the [[Penny Arcade]] bandwagon but failing to be compelling.
* Why doesn't ANYONE EVER use some kind of hardcoded format (like [
** The freely-editable HTML of [[Comic Fury]] allows for relation attributes - that's why [[The Way of the Metagamer]] has them.
* Why do most webcomic authors, when they have their comic go through [[Cerebus Syndrome]], decide that a main character or two ''has'' to die to create drama? I'll admit that it ''can'' work sometimes, but more often then not the character that gets killed tends to go out [[Dropped a Bridge
** [[Death Is Dramatic]], but webcomic writers [[Sturgeon's Law|tend to]] [[You Suck|suck]] at [[Idiot Plot|writing.]]
* I can understand Manga doing it--they have the excuse of not wanting to mirror the comic and Japanese is very different from English. However, I swear I've seen at least one English-written Manga style webcomic that was written right to left.
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