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Eel hovercraft posted:The final panel in this is just brilliant. I personally liked the Ziploc'ed prime rib left to sit in the tub at 120°F for five days dish that Ray was going to serve. 
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Android Blues posted:e: also, wow, read the blogs! Some are weaker/less in-depth than others but most of them are magnificently well-written, interlink with the strips which were released at the same time, and feature fully developed independent storylines for each character. Big reccs in particular are Ray, Lyle and Cornelius. I will never not love Teodor's tale of Ray, Lyle, and the Cowboy Office. Once while drunk and bored at a party I slapped a sign reading "COWBOY OFFICE" on the front door of my friend's house, written in magic marker and held in place with duct tape. I promptly forgot about this. Several hours later, as everyone slept, my friend's girlfriend's parents drove up to the house (which was 70+ miles from their home), frantic because they could not reach her; turned out it was because cell phone reception in that house was lovely. Only the next day did I wonder what her parents must have thought, driving up to the house worried sick about their little girl that they couldn't get ahold of for hours, and seeing "COWBOY OFFICE" slathered across the door. Thanks for that, Onstad. Rev. Bleech_ fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Mar 7, 2013 |
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I love when the blogs will cross with each other and the comic. This is of course most noticeable with Beef and Molly, but I love things like reading Teodor and Cornelius;s sides of the cooking show breakdown, and things like that. I wish Todd had a blog, but Todd is illiterate.
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Mar 7, 2013 01:30
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I personally liked the Ziploc'ed prime rib left to sit in the tub at 120°F for five days dish that Ray was going to serve. I thought that was an accurate description of sous vide.
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Sigma-X posted:I thought that was an accurate description of sous vide. Sous vide goes for 72 hours, max, and that's in a highly climate-controlled environment to prevent botulism formation. Ray probably just plonked the thing in his bathtub on Monday and forgot about it until Friday.
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Mar 7, 2013 12:50
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Seriously, that thing looks gelatinous.
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I'm not a chef or anything like that myself, so I looked up sous vide on Wikipedia; and while I was probably wrong about assuming that Ray just put it in his tub, I'm still going to defer to Cornelius' concerns about the anaerobic bacteria having formed a soccer team after five days, and the risks associated with catching motor neurone disease. 
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projecthalaxy posted:I love when the blogs will cross with each other and the comic. This is of course most noticeable with Beef and Molly, but I love things like reading Teodor and Cornelius;s sides of the cooking show breakdown, and things like that. I wish Todd had a blog, but Todd is illiterate. This actually kind of irritated me and was the main reason I never sat down to systematically read all of the blogs (though I've read individual blogs and occasional blog arcs). It kind of made me wish there was a "blog timeline" or something.
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   THESE KNIVES! Fallout: New Vegas DLC 'Dead Money', in the gas-filled kitchen
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
These kinves cut every night for you These knives long to cut you again The slicing's on them, yeah And they will never be free, no, my baby, no no You gave an edge to them, yeah An' you dulled it, an' you chipped it, oh no These knives watched you cut their world to an end This blade could not accept and pretend The dicing's on them, yeah And they will never be free, no, no, no You gave an edge to them, yeah An' you dulled it, an' you chipped it, babe These knives are cuttin' These knives have cut a lot of loaves But they're never gonna cut another one like they did with you These knives are cuttin' These knives have cut a lot of steaks But they're never gonna cut another one like they did with you These knives are cuttin' These knives have cut a lot of onions But they're never gonna cut another one like they did with you These knives cut every night for you These blades, these blades long to cut you, cut you again These knives are cuttin' These knives have cut a lot of loaves But they're never gonna cut another one like they did with you These knives are cuttin' These knives have cut a lot of steaks But they're never gonna cut another one like they did with you These knives are cuttin' These knives have cut a lot of onions But they're never gonna cut another one like they did with you These knives are cuttin' These knives have cut a lot of fillets But they're never gonna cut another one like they did with you Baby, baby, baby, baby Don't ya know these knives are cuttin' every night I need you back in my heart...
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Whatever happened to Teodor's internet girlfriend anyway?
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I just sort of assumed she realized she was internet-dating a talking teddy bear and cut contact. I mean we have all been there.
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Just Offscreen posted:I just sort of assumed she realized she was internet-dating a talking teddy bear and cut contact. I mean we have all been there. Teodor's been there himself, just on the other side.
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It's a simple theme to the alt-texts, but sometimes the best alt-texts are the ones where Onstad explains the joke. Like this one right here.
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Happy Hippo posted:It's a simple theme to the alt-texts, but sometimes the best alt-texts are the ones where Onstad explains the joke. Like this one right here. Definitely. It's like being taken aside by a translator who works with people who don't have time for comics like this.
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Happy Hippo posted:It's a simple theme to the alt-texts, but sometimes the best alt-texts are the ones where Onstad explains the joke. Like this one right here. Agreed.
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Kinda in the same vein, but http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10192005
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The small otter has resigned himself unto inevitable death.
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One of my favorite single lines is when Teodor says Ray smells like "farted-in vinegar".
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Fister Roboto posted:One of my favorite single lines is when Teodor says Ray smells like "farted-in vinegar". Golden times, man.
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That same arc has my favorite single panel embodiment of Lyle (minus a bottle of Jackie D) in one note. http://achewood.com/index.php?date=03252004 I keep meaning to use "You're an idiot," as my closing whenever I write a letter to someone, but it always escapes me when the time comes.
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Lyle's penmanship is impressive considering how bad his spelling is in the blogs. Maybe he dictated the note to Cornelius.
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qntm posted:Lyle's penmanship is impressive considering how bad his spelling is in the blogs.
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qntm posted:Lyle's penmanship is impressive considering how bad his spelling is in the blogs. Lyle actually types perfectly when he's trapped in the girl's school while visiting Scotland.
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qntm posted:Lyle's penmanship is impressive considering how bad his spelling is in the blogs. Man it's like you didn't even read the alt-text. Shameful.
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Penguingo posted:Man it's like you didn't even read the alt-text. Shameful. The comic is even a clickable link to the one you posted. Onstad really wanted you to know just how good Lyle is at fancy letters. E: is there a way to get at the blogs in chronological order? I can do such things as "click" "links" and type words into a box but your newer internetisms escape me some times Phy fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Mar 17, 2013 |
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Youremother posted:Lyle actually types perfectly when he's trapped in the girl's school while visiting Scotland. He hasn't had a drink in four days. Lyle is hell of erudite when he's sober.
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Short as it may be, Lyle's brief stint into sobriety and his endeavor to subtly improve the quality of life of a religious, all girl school, where he is imprisoned and trying to escape, via cooking is one of my most favorites bits of writing I've ever read in my life.
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Calaveron posted:Short as it may be, Lyle's brief stint into sobriety and his endeavor to subtly improve the quality of life of a religious, all girl school, where he is imprisoned and trying to escape, via cooking is one of my most favorites bits of writing I've ever read in my life. That is beautiful and I'm so sad I don't recall reading it before. Falling down the Achewood hole led me to this gem: Pat calls Roast Beef on the moon
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Is there a way to view alt texts if you're on a mobile device? It's driving me nuts not seeing that little extra bit.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Is there a way to view alt texts if you're on a mobile device? It's driving me nuts not seeing that little extra bit. Maybe there is some kind of accessibility setting that reads it aloud to you? That is what alt text is really for.
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Jet Jaguar posted:That is beautiful and I'm so sad I don't recall reading it before. A reminder from The Cure's Robert Smith that showering is SO not Goth.
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Phy posted:The comic is even a clickable link to the one you posted. Onstad really wanted you to know just how good Lyle is at fancy letters. What, how did I do this
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Jerusalem posted:A reminder from The Cure's Robert Smith that showering is SO not Goth. This is perfect. The driftwood will remind him about eternity.
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Better insult: Left-Coast Power-wimp, or Candy-rear end Word-styled Hero?
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Neither, you neck-breathin' earth gypsy.
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Ray's well-intended, awkward apologies to Teodor is one of the minor running gags that make Achewood so great.
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I think what bugs me with the animated ones is the character designs are based more on the earlier comics than the later ones. The cats have much bigger mouths in the animation than they do in the later comics.
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FirstPersonShitter posted:I think what bugs me with the animated ones is the character designs are based more on the earlier comics than the later ones. The cats have much bigger mouths in the animation than they do in the later comics. That's probably for the animation's sake, and not a conscious effort to design it like the earlier strips.
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Also we should keep in mind that we've only seen the earliest (and so far only, of course) Achewood animation there is. It is as rough as it will ever be so if it gets picked up it'll probably change. Think The Simpsons season 1 compared to season 3.
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