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Choc posted:I am now praying to banjo that Rich puts up a "get me to a clear million dollars and I will write a whole new OOTS 1000 plus page epic in same art style and with the same characters and stuff after the current gate arc ends" Why would you even want that? When the story is done, it's done; I'd much rather see him use that time/energy to write a new story with fresh new characters.
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Cabbit posted:To be absolutely fair, not everything is templates and one of the major themes of Homestuck is repetition and predestination. Having a lot of reused models and art plays into that (and is a handy excuse). If you really want, we could get into an argument over Belkar's current alignment.
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Or for a halfway approach, a full-length Order of the Scribble prequel story. Viability of the idea depends on how much of it will be revealed during the events of regular OotS.
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Technogeek posted:If you really want, we could get into an argument over Belkar's current alignment. Let's just bring Miko and full alignment discussion back so as to utterly destroy the notion that this thread is dominated by groupthink.
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Vorgen posted:... Presentation is a big part of producing art. You can't just crap out a few paintings and then lean them up against a wall and expect people to like it. You gotta frame them and light them and stick them in a gallery before you can expect any interest... I hope to god you are never an art dealer.
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Feb 3, 2012 20:25
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He could probably ask a million dollars in exchange for V's gender.
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Soylentbits posted:He could probably ask a million dollars in exchange for V's gender. He really should put "500k, I will send out an email to everyone who donated with V's gender" and then send out to half "male" and to half "female" and then just sit back.
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Feb 3, 2012 21:40
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"Donate a million and I will claim Belkar's alignment is True Neutral"
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Ashenai posted:Why would you even want that? When the story is done, it's done; I'd much rather see him use that time/energy to write a new story with fresh new characters. I really like the characters and the world they live in. I would love to see more adventures. You sound like someone saying "why do we want the Lord of the rings? we have the Hobbit!"
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Choc posted:I really like the characters and the world they live in. I would love to see more adventures. You sound like someone saying "why do we want the Lord of the rings? we have the Hobbit!" The only main character the Hobbit and LOTR have in common is Gandalf. (With small parts by Bilbo and Elrond.) You sound like someone saying "There should be a sequel! And it should be Bilbo, Gandalf and the dwarf going on an adventure to kill another dragon." EDIT: Oh right, I did forget Gollum. Still, he has a fairly small role in Hobbit. Megazver fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Feb 3, 2012 |
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Excuse me, I believe you will find that the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings are merely two parts in Tolkien's unfinished The Saga of Smeagol.
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DrakePegasus posted:[/vaarsuvius] People wait on bated breath for every update. This isn't surprising at all. But hosed if it isn't heartwarming. Alchenar posted:It's worth noting that the Oots style is bit more than 'stick figures': compare the very first strip to the very latest one and you can see that Rich has put real (sometimes subtle) work into getting as much out of stick figures as possible. Edit: the writing's not tricky to decode, either. You take seemingly archetypical characters that you'd see in a bad D&D self-insert webcomic, and then you subvert that by giving them real character, real motivations, real strengths and real flaws. Tarquin wasn't just fun because he knew all that "how to be a supervillain" stuff, he was fun because his whole "you get to live like a king for twenty years" bit gave him a plausible, realistic motivation for his sort of character that gets overlooked in this sort of fiction...and in doing so, he helped define Xykon and Redcloak through the contrast. Sure, if you despise genre fiction, you won't get much out of it. But who cares? Nomenklatura fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Feb 3, 2012 |
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Nomenklatura posted:Yeah, no poo poo. It's pretty easy to see that the look of OotS is a deliberate choice, and not a demonstration of artistic limitation. hosed if I know why people are moaning about it in the webcomics thread. There are legitimate criticisms. Like it's pretty terrible at conveying any sort of dynamic movement: people prance around with legs fully extended like they're all ballerinas, heads tend to be rigidly aligned with the spine regardless of just being hit in the head by a giant demon, etc. For a comic that features fighting as often as OotS does, it's a bit of a disappointment. I suppose you could say it's oddly appropriate given that it's represented a turn-based RPG, but that doesn't make it good.
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Sick of charity. Want comic now.
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Nilbop posted:Sick of charity. Want comic now. Ahem, use the force, Luke. I hope nothing bad prevented Burlew from doing a update. I hope he is OK.
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Dilb posted:There are legitimate criticisms. Like it's pretty terrible at conveying any sort of dynamic movement: people prance around with legs fully extended like they're all ballerinas, heads tend to be rigidly aligned with the spine regardless of just being hit in the head by a giant demon, etc. For a comic that features fighting as often as OotS does, it's a bit of a disappointment. Again, I don't think this reflects any sort of artistic limitations on his part. It's a choice. It's right there in the title: Order of the Stick. And there's nothing wrong with making that choice.
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Cuchulain posted:Wait a second. You know that everything is MSPA is templates, right? How could you say that's a fault when you like MSPA. Either way, for me both comics are easily in my top five, so it's not an issue either way for me. Just saying.
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Affi posted:He really should put "500k, I will send out an email to everyone who donated with V's gender" and then send out to half "male" and to half "female" and then just sit back. Ye gods, that would be beautiful. 
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Has Rich ever said if he knows V's sex? That is, whether he has decided on the answer and just won't say it, or hasn't actually decided yet?
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NihilCredo posted:Has Rich ever said if he knows V's sex? That is, whether he has decided on the answer and just won't say it, or hasn't actually decided yet? Yeah he knows. Apparently he told a friend of his before he decided to keep it ambiguous in the comic, and that friend has kept the secret.
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NihilCredo posted:Has Rich ever said if he knows V's sex? That is, whether he has decided on the answer and just won't say it, or hasn't actually decided yet? I'm pretty sure he assumed V's gender was obvious to everyone, but after seeing a lot of speculation and questions about it on his forums, decided to make a gag out of it.
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Huh. Well, if the idea wasn't already there from the start, that takes away a hell of a lot of the uncertainty I had on the matter. (Apologies if I'm getting too close to reopening the debate. I haven't really discussed OotS in forums before, but I imagine the öld guard" must be sick and tired of talking about that.)
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NihilCredo posted:Huh. Well, if the idea wasn't already there from the start, that takes away a hell of a lot of the uncertainty I had on the matter. Nah, V's gender is kind of a non-issue, really. There's points for both sides, but in the end, who really cares? Even if Rich came out and gave a definitive answer, it wouldn't change anything. Now stuff like the Monster in the Darkness, or the Snarl planet, those are far more interesting mysteries.
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He's turned V's gender into a running gag and I'd be kinda disappointed with any resolution, myself.
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So I just checked the Kickstarter and less than a day after it was announced, we've crossed the threshold for the coloring book. At this rate, this thing is going to blow the $500k mark out of the water.
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The kickstarter rewards are extremely confusing now. I wish I could find a bundle of just war and xps and don't split the party along with snips snails and dragon tails, since I have the other four books. The closest I've found is just the full story bundle, but that's $200+ dollars and I'm not willing to pay that much just to get the three books I'm missing.
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HKR posted:The kickstarter rewards are extremely confusing now. I wish I could find a bundle of just war and xps and don't split the party along with snips snails and dragon tails, since I have the other four books. The closest I've found is just the full story bundle, but that's $200+ dollars and I'm not willing to pay that much just to get the three books I'm missing.
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Pretty sure you can still BUY the books once they're made, even if you don't donate a cent.
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Javid posted:Pretty sure you can still BUY the books once they're made, even if you don't donate a cent.
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HKR posted:The kickstarter rewards are extremely confusing now. I wish I could find a bundle of just war and xps and don't split the party along with snips snails and dragon tails, since I have the other four books. The closest I've found is just the full story bundle, but that's $200+ dollars and I'm not willing to pay that much just to get the three books I'm missing. The original rewards were confusing, and he can't take them down. But there should now be "pick 2" and "pick 3" rewards, which cover what you want. Except Dragon Tails might not be on there at all, just get that one from the store.
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No, they're taxed. I'm not sure how, but they are. The Comedy Button guys mentioned that they havent used most of theirs yet since they want to pay the taxes first. Even if they count as gifts, you can only have $500 worth of exempted gifts, I believe.
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When its being used for pre-orders like this is primarily, it should only tax on the profit, not the entire value.
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Endless Mike posted:No, they're taxed. I'm not sure how, but they are. The Comedy Button guys mentioned that they havent used most of theirs yet since they want to pay the taxes first. Plus, saying "give me this much money and you get a book" isn't exactly a gift arrangement, it's money in exchange for a product.
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Hopefully the answer he goes with is 'a tax lawyer costs a tiny fraction of half a million dollars'.
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Just bumped my pledge up to the $25 option. The $10 dollar one was already a great deal, but the coloring book kinda pushed me over the edge. Magnet, coloring book, art print, note pad, stickers, and all the PDF stories? Plus a chance for more poo poo on the way? gently caress, man.
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Just pledged $29. I've been meaning to get Start of Darkness for a while now, kinda glad I waited so long considering all I'm getting with it.
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V's gender should be the very last thing in the last panel of the comic. "Now I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife."
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Cuchulain posted:V's gender should be the very last thing in the last panel of the comic. But they adopted, that doesn't answer anything! 
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