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Psion posted:Because everyone's busy reading the comic that really did just update now. Just how gullible do you think these people are? If I hadn't already been  ing on my own regard I'd be feeling pretty stupid right now.
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The Werle posted:Hahahhahahaha! Why doesn't this happen more? Because if it did happen more it'd be terribly unfunny.
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Nov 2, 2007 03:57
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Psion posted:Because everyone's busy reading the comic that really did just update now. 
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Nov 2, 2007 04:06
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The Werle posted:Just how gullible do you think these people are? Well given the posts after the first "It just updated!" post, I'm going to guess "pretty gullible." Personally, I cannot believe Roy finally reconciled with his father in order to give Haley a chance at reviving him
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He's not lying. EDIT: About the comic being up, anyway. 
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Nov 2, 2007 05:02
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God drat Roy's dad is a dick.
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Nov 2, 2007 05:11
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I think the ending is a fakeout. Durkon is marrying Kimiko and Daisuke.
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Nov 2, 2007 05:19
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Halloween Jack posted:I think the ending is a fakeout. Durkon is marrying Kimiko and Daisuke. Exactly what I thought
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Arctic Baldwin posted:Exactly what I thought Yeah, I don't really think they'd just gloss over Haley and Belkar escaping Azure City with Roy's body and joining back up with the Order of the Stick so readily. But Burlew does like to gently caress with people, so who knows? And seriously, could Roy's dad be more of a dick? I have a feeling he won't be allowed to enter the Mountain on pure unbearableness alone, oath or no. How can someone Lawful Good be such an irredeemable gently caress? (Nobody mention Miko, so not going down that road again) Wolfsheim fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Nov 2, 2007 |
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Nov 2, 2007 05:51
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Roy's dad is so loving metal
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Nov 2, 2007 06:48
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Eugene is a piece of work, no doubt about it. Making that agreement after we've found out about Roy's brother and everything makes him a double-douche.
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Oh hey, I think the junk was decorated for the wedding, how nice 
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Manyorcas posted:Oh hey, I think the junk was decorated for the wedding, how nice Yeah, Hinjo has his junk adorned with wedding tackle.
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sansuki posted:Yeah, Hinjo has his junk adorned with wedding tackle. Make sure you get a good, long look at Hinjo's junk.
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Nov 2, 2007 10:14
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Halloween Jack posted:I think the ending is a fakeout. Durkon is marrying Kimiko and Daisuke. Considering that this would be the logical conclusion, I'm betting on a fakeout on this fakeout.
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Nov 2, 2007 10:25
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ZorbaTHut posted:Make sure you get a good, long look at Hinjo's junk. Why, his junk is the biggest I've ever seen!
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Nov 2, 2007 10:27
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I liked it when I was reading through the archives and I didn't have to wait longer than it took my computer to load the next comic to find out about cliffhangers.
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Olanphonia posted:I liked it when I was reading through the archives and I didn't have to wait longer than it took my computer to load the next comic to find out about cliffhangers. That's easy! Take a year long break from Oots and come back and it will all be done! Also I was hoping for something more then sparring between Roy and Eugene, but atleast we got that out of the way
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When I first started reading OotS, there were 10 strips. When I came back, there were 350. That was nice. Now all I need is a time machine.
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Theodorus posted:Considering that this would be the logical conclusion, I'm betting on a fakeout on this fakeout. Seconded. I originally thought it'd be something out of left field like Hinjo and Lien, then I figured it was probably Kimiko and Daigo (PS: it's Daigo), and now I'm figuring it's probably something I wouldn't have thought of.
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I don't know why burlew insists on making some of his characters so one-dimensionally hateable. I don't even know what Eugene's motivations are except being as big a dick as possible.
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Lurdiak posted:I don't know why burlew insists on making some of his characters so one-dimensionally hateable. I don't even know what Eugene's motivations are except being as big a dick as possible. I don't know, man. I know some people that it seems that their motivation in life is to be as big an rear end in a top hat as possible.
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Theodorus posted:Considering that this would be the logical conclusion, I'm betting on a fakeout on this fakeout. It'll be a triple fakeout and Durkon will be marrying nothing due to ocean madness. Assuming Haley and Belkar are still in the city can Roy see them, through the magic cloister thing?
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Lurdiak posted:I don't know why burlew insists on making some of his characters so one-dimensionally hateable. I don't even know what Eugene's motivations are except being as big a dick as possible. With the notable exception of Roy, most of the characters in OotS are stereotypically one-dimensional, and only a few have been given more depth over the course of time. Elan is still as simpleminded as he was in the beginning, Belkar is a halfling-shaped agent of destruction, and V is still Snooty Elf #214. As for Eugene, he's unique in that the only additional depth he's been given is in Start of Darkness. While Sara and Roy attribute Eugene giving up on the Blood Oath to Eugene's personal failings, Start of Darkness makes it clear that he gave up on it because he was afraid of what would happen to Roy and Sara if he failed... although an argument could also be made that that was just the excuse he used at the time.
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Lurdiak posted:I don't know why burlew insists on making some of his characters so one-dimensionally hateable. I don't even know what Eugene's motivations are except being as big a dick as possible. Interestingly enough, the two characters most find completely unlikeable (Miko, Eugene) are supposedly both Lawful Good. If you really hate someone else, who, and why?
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Sock posted:It'll be a triple fakeout and Durkon will be marrying nothing due to ocean madness. Nobody knows, man! You're asking questions that can't be answered!! AAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH
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Lurdiak posted:I don't know why burlew insists on making some of his characters so one-dimensionally hateable. I don't even know what Eugene's motivations are except being as big a dick as possible. A couple of reasons: a) It's a D & D meta joke: While D & D Player characters run the gambit from 12 pages of backstory to Belkar, NPC generally have even less depth. Whenever I've run a game, I can't usually be bothered to name every person you're supposed to come across at some point, (unless you actually want to talk to them), let alone the characters you've made for your background. So, if I ask you what your character's dad is like, and you answer: Unlikable, selfish and arrogant, then I'm going to NPC him that way. Probably to the extreme!!!!1one b) It's possible that Burlew writes him that way, because he doesn't want people to like Eugene, even remotely. People can generally rally behind a character who is an rear end, if they're a funny rear end. If Eugene is one-dimensional, it's probably because we're supposed to be seeing how differently Roy turned out, but more importantly, how funny Eugene's eventual comeuppance will be. c) Tertiary characters in a webcomic sometimes don't get developed all that well. Even in the good ones. I have no doubt that Rich Burlew plans this stuff out meticulously, in fact, I'd wager serious cash on the fact that Eugene might have been an afterthought until the things that post on his board hit the nail on the head a few too many times, in guessing what was coming, meaning that the comic had to be taken in a different direction here and again to keep it fresh. The dude seems to have a problem with people guessing the endings, middles, and beginnings of his plot ideas, and seeing as runs the comic like an on-going game, it's not surprising that the plot sometimes takes a turn for left field. And, speaking from personal experience, when that happens, sometimes Jimmy, the simple minded peasant boy, becomes an NPC Dragon-slayer 12/Running Joke 4, and sometimes characters who weren't meant to see much interaction, like Roy's dad are thrust into the spotlight, even though there's nothing much to either character, at times.
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NutShellBill posted:A couple of reasons: On top of that, Eugene is boned because of his own nature. Sure, he swore the blood oath and that's why he's not getting in to Celestia, but it's his own drat fault for not continuing the fight. He had a lot of chances and, like Roy's mom said, he kept losing interest and moving on to something new. He's sitting at the foot of the mountain unable to climb. It's his own fault and he knows it, so he just acts the part of the crank and points out other peoples' shortcomings to distract him from his own.
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When did Elan get an eyepatch? Edit: Beaten, but I feel slightly less clueless now
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Red_Mage posted:When did Elan get an eyepatch? Obviously between flashback scene 2 and flashback scene 3. 
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Exposition, multiple punchlines/segues, callbacks to previous jokes that are done well, things left unexplained that make me feel like reading the next ones just to figure out what happened, a strip that stands well by itself as well as on a page-by-page basis in a trade... Man, OOTS is a really well-written webcomic.
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I'm guessing he tripped and fell into his rapier. Or he accidentally poked himself in the eye with one of his fingers.
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I'm assuming he just likes it, cause surely Durkon could just Regeneration it right back..
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Nov 4, 2007 14:33
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I bet his eye isn't even gone, he just thinks people living on the high seas need pirate eye patches.
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Since he's got tears coming from the eye-patch, I'm in the Elan thinks eye-patches are stylish boat.
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Gyges posted:Since he's got tears coming from the eye-patch, I'm in the Elan thinks eye-patches are stylish junk. 
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