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DaveWoo posted:Wow, that's a whole lot of words just to say "no, a double-bluff would be an unnecessary risk on Girard's part". I think it was intended to be a riff on 'players wasting time overthinking something very simple,' but it didn't really work.
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Ah, man, my prediction fell flat! And yet I'm not especially disappointed. Do elvish badgers perform well in sand?
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quote:I think it was intended to respond "in universe" to speculation on the forums. He's done it before. FTFY.
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does anybody understand what is going on in the last panel? I guess they teleported to in front of the gate now?
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bison wings posted:does anybody understand what is going on in the last panel? I guess they teleported to in front of the gate now? I believe that since Roy declined the use of Elan's montage, they went directly to several hours passing and the party NOT finding the gate.
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Yeah, it's a throwback to that old joke where they were waiting for nightfall and since nobody wanted to do anything until then, it instantly became night time.
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Only in this case, we jumped ahead to the point where a search montage is necessary.
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DaveWoo posted:Wow, that's a whole lot of words Basically why I don't read Order of the Stick any more. The guy seems to have forgotten he's doing a comic and wants to put 300 words on every page.
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Gort posted:Basically why I don't read Order of the Stick any more. The guy seems to have forgotten he's doing a comic and wants to put 300 words on every page. How is this even vaguely coherent as a criticism? It's dialogue-heavy, sure. It's a comic strip, not a painting.
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Gort posted:Basically why I don't read Order of the Stick any more. The guy seems to have forgotten he's doing a comic and wants to put 300 words on every page. When has this been any different?
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Gort posted:Basically why I don't read Order of the Stick any more. The guy seems to have forgotten he's doing a comic and wants to put 300 words on every page. Except its always been that way. From the very start, OotS has been a dialogue heavy strip.
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I don't know about you, but I read The Order of the Stick for the art.
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Gort posted:Basically why I don't read Order of the Stick any more. The guy seems to have forgotten he's doing a comic and wants to put 300 words on every page. And yet you're in this thread discussing it. How does that work?
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Gort posted:Basically why I don't read Order of the Stick any more. The guy seems to have forgotten he's doing a comic and wants to put 300 words on every page. Talking is a free action.
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With the amount of time that the author puts in between the release of new comics, I would imagine everyone would have enough time to read a strip even if they only read one sentence per day. So really, quit bitching and leave the thread. Edit: Or just quit bitching. Nosy_G fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Jan 5, 2010 |
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Jan 5, 2010 07:15
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It's the CAD thread leaking; ever since they (or 4chan, I forget who now) decided that Buckley uses too many words, every strip with more than three syllables in it is  .
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You want a webcomic with too many words, check out Subnormality. I swear this guy wants to be writing an illustrated novel instead of a webcomic. Compared to that, OOTS is relatively art-heavy. But personally I don't see the problem - some people lean towards words, some people lean towards text. A reasonable definition for "comic" is "sequential art", and even Subnormality has that. (well, sometimes)
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ZorbaTHut posted:You want a webcomic with too many words, check out Subnormality. I swear this guy wants to be writing an illustrated novel instead of a webcomic. This thread is now Understanding Comics, and we're going to spend 10 pages trying to define what a comic is.
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Neito posted:This thread is now Understanding Comics, and we're going to spend 10 pages trying to define what a comic is. It'll give us something to do while waiting for Burlew to write half a novel for his next so-called "comic". I need like a :smugv: emoticon here, half  and half  , and one doesn't exist.
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Last night I dreamed I had the next OOTS book, i.e. the one in progress now. I woke up and wanted to see what people thought of the presidential debate between V and Belkar. 
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Neito posted:It's the CAD thread leaking; ever since they (or 4chan, I forget who now) decided that Buckley uses too many words, every strip with more than three syllables in it is
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mango sentinel posted:No, seriously, that last comic was a ton of words with a handful of halfhearted digs between characters and no real payoff. The only version of the "is it a double bluff?" that has ever been entertaining and worthwhile was in the Princess Bride. Running through that logic was boring and the whole thing could have been done in 4 panels instead of spreading it over an entire goddamn page where nothing happens. So you've never read this comic before right?
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ZorbaTHut posted:You want a webcomic with too many words, check out Subnormality. I swear this guy wants to be writing an illustrated novel instead of a webcomic. If someone is going to cram this much text into their comic (which in itself I am fine with) they need to understand fonts and leading and that typeface stuff. Because the bubbly hand-write look stuffed into balloons unevenly is a serious pain in the rear end to read so much stuff in.
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Holy crap now that's a lot of text.
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Ashcans posted:If someone is going to cram this much text into their comic (which in itself I am fine with) they need to understand fonts and leading and that typeface stuff. Because the bubbly hand-write look stuffed into balloons unevenly is a serious pain in the rear end to read so much stuff in. If you're having issues reading that, you might benefit from not being so vain as to insist that you don't need glasses.
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Pope Guilty posted:If you're having issues reading that, you might benefit from not being so vain as to insist that you don't need glasses. Perhaps what he's getting at is that the comic is in desperate need of formatting. The eye (mine anyway) tends to get a bit lost somewhere near the middle of those giant unbroken text bubbles.
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Shugojin posted:Perhaps what he's getting at is that the comic is in desperate need of formatting. The eye (mine anyway) tends to get a bit lost somewhere near the middle of those giant unbroken text bubbles. Yeah, that's my main problem with Subnormality as well, large blocks of handwritten capital text wear me down after a while. That's probably why OOTS uses lowercase Comic Sans, I remember being told during teacher training that, for all its faults, it's an easy font to read (and that we should try and get our handwriting to emulate it).
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HKR posted:When has this been any different? Read the first hundred strips. Count the words. Read the last bunch of strips. Count the words. Be enlightened. It sucks now. It didn't used to suck. This is remarkable. I remarked.
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New comic:
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I would have noticed it earlier but I do not normally pay attention to pronouns.
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Assuming that green thing was a scrying attempt, then doesn't this confirm that Mr Scruffy is no ordinary housecat?
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DoctorTristan posted:Assuming that green thing was a scrying attempt, then doesn't this confirm that Mr Scruffy is no ordinary housecat? It's a scrying sensor; as in, the thing a person looks through whilst scrying. Someone's scrying on the party, and Mr. Scruffy is the target, not scrying on someone else. Also, scrying scrying scrying scrying. Now it sounds weird to say.
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Neito posted:It's a scrying sensor; as in, the thing a person looks through whilst scrying. Someone's scrying on the party, and Mr. Scruffy is the target, not scrying on someone else. The point is the Mr. Scruffy noticed the sensor, which definitely implies high intelligence and/or Arcana knowledge. (Scrying sensors aren't normally visible.)
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Ashenai posted:The point is the Mr. Scruffy noticed the sensor, which definitely implies high intelligence and/or Arcana knowledge. (Scrying sensors aren't normally visible.) Oh, yeah. I had thought there was something about cats being able to see scrying things, but I guess not.
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Doesn't Mr Scruffy get a lot of bonuses based on being Belkar's animal companion? Since cats are quite a weak animal and Belkar is quite a high level, couldn't these bonuses explain it?
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Noonsaliwah posted:Doesn't Mr Scruffy get a lot of bonuses based on being Belkar's animal companion? Since cats are quite a weak animal and Belkar is quite a high level, couldn't these bonuses explain it? Animal companion doesn't increase the animal's intelligence. It becomes stronger and more agile. Only familiars gain intelligence. Also, since Belkar is a ranger, the animal companion only advances as 1/2 his ranger level. So, Mr. Scruffy is somewhat stronger, somewhat more durable, and has a few extra combat feats. However, except for a few extra tricks, he's not really any more intelligent.
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Maybe but at the same time Fluffy seemed pretty smart to start with, giving the king "advice" and all. Of course that might be something that everyone who reads the predictions on the official forums has already figured out and I haven't so whatever I guess.
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Dang. The Free City of Doom must be packed to the brim with badasses to exist as a free city between the Empires of Sweat and Tears.
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DrakePegasus posted:Dang. The Free City of Doom must be packed to the brim with badasses to exist as a free city between the Empires of Sweat and Tears. What I want to know is, if there are Empires of Blood, Sweat and Tears, then where's the Empire of Toil?
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