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Bloody Hedgehog posted: Dodgeball posted:Having Roast Beef not be depressed is like having Garfield not like lasagna. I don't want him to not be depressed anymore, I just wish he wasn't as depressed as he was when was living with Grandma K. And anyway, Garfield will always like lasagna because he has to constantly stick to the status quo to keep the strip blandly appealing to all markets. I hope Onstad was aiming for a bit more than that. 
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Here's the thing about depression, though: You can't "cure" it. It's like malaria. The fever might come and go but the disease stays. The best you can do is hope to find ways to stave off the worst of it, so you can function like a real live person instead of lying on the floor all day with toast in your mouth. Roast Beef knows this, and relies on routine methods which are vaguely reliable at best. (IF YOU ONLY DO ONE THING TODAY YOU NEED TO EAT SOME GOD DAMNED PEANUT BUTTER) The only one who is really trying to help Roast Beef is Molly, and I suspect Beef only lets her because making him happy makes her happy and nothing brings a couple together like codependency. But Molly doesn't understand the full measure of Beef's depression. (Phillipe doesn't, either, but he's five and going to the supermarket is super easy for him.) Ideally Molly would love to cure Beef, but there's never going to be a day when the cat wakes up and is magically Not Depressed. poo poo just doesn't happen that way.
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Yeah, trust me, I do know how depression works. Like I said, I don't need for him to be "cured" or whatever. It is possible for depressed people to become slightly less depressed.
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I think Beef's in a better state of mind than he was living with Grandma K. There are strips where he isn't all mopey and depressed; he has his days like everyone else. If Onstad ever starts up again (for reals) I hope he does an arc where Grandma K dies and Beef has to address his mixed emotions on the subject. I also want a robot-centric arc, and I want to see what Little Nephew is up to.
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rotinaj posted:I want more god damned flowcharts. There you go: This is the Future of Achewood flowchart.  It's more depressing than any Roast Beef flowchart could possibly be 
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rotinaj posted:I want more god damned flowcharts. YES! HI!  Also that Magreaux Dog freaked me out the first time I saw it. Just terrifyingly wrong.
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Jerusalem posted:YES! HI! That is why I want more Achewood flowcharts.
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Dodgeball posted:Many pages back, we started casting people to play characters. Did we ever get good suggestions for [...] Nice Pete  If CO didn't base Pete's recent look on Nick Cave there's something offkilter with the world 
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It. It is uncanny.
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Zefiel posted:Someone mentioned it earlier, the cop out of the Williams-Sonoma arc with Cartilage Head, while interesting, was kind of the same thing all over again, down to the picture of 'I proved myself a coward' at the end. I think it does stand on its own, but maybe not against the astringent standards of originality Achewood set in the past (The Lonis Edison arc, for example, I mean, Ray walking back from Mexico)... wait, that arc abused the poo poo out of magical Mexican realism, which already had been abused. (Nephew in Wales). Lonis Edison was way before Little Nephew in Wales, though.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
Consider that while listening to this song P.S - I love this song.
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Jerusalem posted:Consider that while listening to this song While considering Nice Pete, I would think the more relvant Cave and the Bad Seeds tune (off the same album no less, I suppose it is called Murder Ballads) is this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssw909H8xE&fmt=34
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Jerusalem posted:Consider that while listening to this song heh, I thought of that as soon as I saw the Nick Cave photo. Great song.
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The home page got changed so that it produces a random comic with each refresh. At first I was ultra-excited about seemingly stumbling onto a new update, until I realized.
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Locus posted:The home page got changed so that it produces a random comic with each refresh. At first I was ultra-excited about seemingly stumbling onto a new update, until I realized. I guess looking at the same comic for five months at a time does grate on a fellow but this solution 
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You can't browse back to the one he did in... February? Was it February? either. The latest one available is the (ugh) 2011 Predictions one from January.
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Jul 11, 2011 14:30
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Proving once again that revisionist history is and always has been the best history
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Jul 11, 2011 15:05
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We have always been at war with Pat's Subway. The Nick Cave/Nice Pete resemblance is absolutely amazing and perfectly fitting, by the way.
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I went to the site to see what random comic had come up and it was the beginning to the Great Outdoor Fight arc. I miss old Achewood. 
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:You can't browse back to the one he did in... February? Was it February? either. The latest one available is the (ugh) 2011 Predictions one from January. You can still get it through the RSS. This is a pretty neat idea for inactive webcomics in general, the randomized frontpage thing.
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csammis posted:Proving once again that revisionist history is and always has been the best history To be honest, I'd be embarrassed of that strip, too.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
Many moons ago when Chris Onstad was hanging out in some thread here answering questions I asked him that exact thing. He said that Nice Pete was indeed based on Nick Cave, among other crazy people. This was back before Achewood jumped the shark.
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The Haggis Line posted:Many moons ago when Chris Onstad was hanging out in some thread here answering questions I asked him that exact thing. He said that Nice Pete was indeed based on Nick Cave, among other crazy people. This was back before Achewood jumped the shark. I wouldn't say that Achewood ever jumped any shark. Sure, that last strip was not very good but just because every strip isn't a grand slam it doesn't mean that the strip sucks. Achewood just... stopped.
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Ugh, alt-text for the random comic that popped up was "DONATE".
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csammis posted:Proving once again that revisionist history is and always has been the best history So if shithead actually manages to relaunch Achewood and consistently update it again, I wonder if the quiet return of the shop/merch will follow with no resolution to the paid orders/paid preorders that people lost real money on. He might get away with it since the last year has been sparse on the Achewood front. Update two or three times a week while bringing back the quality it had in years past, get a new fanbase that doesn't know or care about the baggage of the past and its back to business. His shameless whoring for donations is fine and well. Him just quietly taking a chunk of cash from a bunch of fans who paid for real products never to be delivered is unforgivable. Stealing is not donating.
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Random achewood. Fun little arc. Sigh. http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04012008
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glug posted:Random achewood. Fun little arc. Sigh. Oh my God I had completely forgotten this entire arc, thank you for reminding me of it.
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if you dont use your computer solely for looking up chaps and lads from history then I dont even know
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The following storyline where Ray is unsure if he's on the receiving end of a "friend's arrest" is another neat little storyline I forgot.
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I wonder what the hell "while we gird the new generation of Achewood" means. Is he writing a whole bunch of strips? Is he handing the reins to another writer? Speculation, abound! Also, on a whim, I decided to google "Cartilage Head" for some kind of summary on his character, appearances, et cetera. One of the first results was a page from the Achewood Wiki, but it was full of spam. Checking the history, it was spam for over 500 edits, dating back from 2009. For over two years, random spambots have rewritten Cartilage Head's wiki page with alternating links to brazilian teens, penis growth medicine, and random links such as to "extreme dildo movie" and "milkshake myspace.com". So sad.
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Achewood: Extreme Dildo Generation: The College Years
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Fren posted:I wonder what the hell "while we gird the new generation of Achewood" means. Is he writing a whole bunch of strips? Is he handing the reins to another writer? Speculation, abound! The Achewood Wiki is still infested with over the top spam? last time I checked it was back in 2009!
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http://achewood.com/index.php?date=06042002 I miss you Achewood, but you still make me laugh and I'm glad we have a random page now. 
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Does this remind you guys of anything? http://pzrservices.typepad.com/vintageadvertising/2007/03/vintage_ad_for__3.html
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I got a question about FLAVOR BURGERS. I'm having trouble getting the cheese to crust properly on the outside of the patty. Should I be cooking on low first, then high? Should I be using a specific type of pan? I'm using a cast iron.
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Capsaicin posted:I got a question about FLAVOR BURGERS. Keep it pretty high, and don't gently caress with it. Leave it to cook on one side, flip it, leave it. If you keep flipping and moving it around it wont get a crust.
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Capsaicin posted:I got a question about FLAVOR BURGERS. Just made these again, today. Been using non-stick, but I see no reason why cast iron won't work. Cast iron takes a while to heat up, but the trade off is that it stays hot as hell for a long time. Out of curiosity, and I don't know if it makes a difference, are you using aged cheddar, or the more malleable, softer kind?
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Anyone have any more recipes they would like to share? I loved the ones already posted, as in they're funny as hell.
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