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Mystic Mongol posted:Short version: Durkon didn't fight, V failed all their concentration checks against the stormy weather, and the rest of them were chumps. V actually just sucked in the fight. He can't take a hit or hit anything.
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It is very possible that they just rolled really low and she really high
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Zoe posted:Long version: drat you all for making me dig this up. So basically Burlew deserves the OotS forums.
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Hypocrisy posted:So basically Burlew deserves the OotS forums. Let's not say things we can't take back. I wouldn't wish those forums on my worst enemy.
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Feb 16, 2015 18:35
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Shugojin posted:I imagine if you could harness the OotS forums' turbospergs to do research on real-world rules, regulations, and precedents you could get a pretty good (if insufferable and smelly) legal team No, you'd just get TV
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Shugojin posted:I imagine if you could harness the OotS forums' turbospergs to do research on real-world rules, regulations, and precedents you could get a pretty good (if insufferable and smelly) legal team I think that's how you get Freemen on the Land.
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Feb 16, 2015 21:08
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Superstring posted:Let's not say things we can't take back. I wouldn't wish those forums on my worst enemy. this thread gives the oots forum a run for its money sometimes
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Zoe posted:After he wrote out how Miko beat the Order, I clearly remember people picking apart his explanation and pointing out how it couldn't have worked that way because [obscure D&D rules only nerds know] and then getting kind of angry at the 'cop out' and railroading of the plot. (Though it's not like OotS is a tabletop game or even a choose your own adventure so your guess is as good as mine how 'railroading' even works...) Wasn't the plot being railroaded literally the entire point of that joke?
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Yup! Though this part makes me chuckle every time: quote:• Elan casts an illusion of what he pictures Lord Shojo to look like, to try to get Miko to back off. It is, not surprisingly, ineffective.
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Haschel Cedricson posted:Wasn't the plot being railroaded literally the entire point of that joke? The trouble is that Rich is an evolved form of the exact kind of sperg he's arguing with, and he both knows and hates that.
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DoctorTristan posted:Yup! I always thought that, reading between the lines, he did something with that illusion that pissed her off so much she had to take him out right after the most powerful member of the group. sebmojo posted:The trouble is that Rich is an evolved form of the exact kind of sperg he's arguing with, and he both knows and hates that. That's really unfair to Burlew on a lot of levels. For one thing, there's a huge difference between being a creator who demands that level of detail of himself, and being a fan who demands it of someone else. (Likewise, he understands that while it might be important to know some of those details, they essentially amount to trivia---cool to share for anyone who was curious, but not worth showing in the strip itself.)
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Carrasco posted:That's really unfair to Burlew on a lot of levels. For one thing, there's a huge difference between being a creator who demands that level of detail of himself, and being a fan who demands it of someone else. (Likewise, he understands that while it might be important to know some of those details, they essentially amount to trivia---cool to share for anyone who was curious, but not worth showing in the strip itself.) What I'm saying is he understands the urge to COLOUR IN BETWEEN ALL OF THE LINES because he's a huge loving nerd because come on of course he is. But because he's a genuinely good craftsman he knows that urge is contrary to good art and that the huge loving nerds demanding he do so are asking him to make a thing they claim to love, worse.
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Random Stranger posted:I think that's how you get Freemen on the Land. That is probably one of the best descriptions of the Freeman on the Land movement. Sure it leaves out the sections of fraudsters and the desperate people who want to believe in it because they are in trouble, but otherwise it's a fantastically accurate description.
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Hypocrisy posted:So basically Burlew deserves the OotS forums.
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Bell_ posted:Which webcomics have communities that aren't either toxic shitholes or filled with morons that need every goddamned thing explained to them? perry bible fellowship
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Random Stranger posted:Nearly 50% of them aren't! Only two of them are, as I'm not counting Durkula.
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Bell_ posted:Which webcomics have communities that aren't either toxic shitholes or filled with morons that need every goddamned thing explained to them? the webcomics which are finished and don't have anyone talking about them anymore
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Bell_ posted:Which webcomics have communities that aren't either toxic shitholes or filled with morons that need every goddamned thing explained to them? Ctrl+Alt+Del, probably, though that's probably because the only people who actually read it do it to make fun of it and its writer, apart from a handful of souls who actually like it, which itself indicates that they're incapable of analyzing anything. And nobody who makes fun of it posts on CAD's actual forums, thus, no toxicity there.
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Ursine Asylum posted:the webcomics which are finished and don't have anyone talking about them anymore The trouble with webcomic communities is that they are full of the sort of people who want to join a webcomic community.
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A.o.D. posted:Only two of them are, as I'm not counting Durkula. Haley, V or Roy?
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Angela Christine posted:The trouble with webcomic communities is that they are full of the sort of people who want to join a webcomic community. Definitely way worse than communities built around a site about making fun of people on the internet.
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Endless Mike posted:Definitely way worse than communities built around a site about making fun of people on the internet.
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Zore posted:Haley, V or Roy? Of those three only V has a real empathy problem. Haley's a bit bit pragmatic when dealing with her enemies, but she'd rather help than hurt people. Roy's definitely on the side of the angels, he's just really tired of dealing with everyone's poo poo.
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A Kickstarter backer email just went out saying that the Therkla story is done and should be going out shortly. I got curious and went to the KS page to check- Saturday is the three-year anniversary of the Kickstarter finishing.
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Pope Guilty posted:A Kickstarter backer email just went out saying that the Therkla story is done and should be going out shortly. I got curious and went to the KS page to check- Saturday is the three-year anniversary of the Kickstarter finishing. I just read it. It was pretty good. Not great.
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Pope Guilty posted:A Kickstarter backer email just went out saying that the Therkla story is done and should be going out shortly. I got curious and went to the KS page to check- Saturday is the three-year anniversary of the Kickstarter finishing. Three years, three PDF stories finished.We should know how the paladin got his scar in 2020.
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ConfusedUs posted:I just read it. It was pretty good. Not great. I liked it a lot, actually. A few good jokes, an unexpected ending, if a bit just-so. A good bit of characterization on one character I previously didn't like, and on another that didn't get much in the main strip. A Good Bonus Comic.
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Sky Shadowing posted:Ctrl+Alt+Del, probably, though that's probably because the only people who actually read it do it to make fun of it and its writer, apart from a handful of souls who actually like it, which itself indicates that they're incapable of analyzing anything. And nobody who makes fun of it posts on CAD's actual forums, thus, no toxicity there.  Thou doth protest too much.
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Hmm, well that worked. I always thought Sangwaan needed more screen time, and making the story nearly as much about her as Therkla? That was a nice touch. Considering how Meh I was about a Therkla story in the first place, this one was a pretty good effort.
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Who was Saangwan again? I didn't contribute to the kickstarter and thus won't be reading the comic but don't want to be bothered to look him or her up either.
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Cliff Racer posted:Who was Saangwan again? I didn't contribute to the kickstarter and thus won't be reading the comic but don't want to be bothered to look him or her up either. The blind seer who uses True Seeing to reveal Xykon and his invisble dracolich at the siege of Azure City just before she's bitten and thrown off the battlements by the dracolich. I really liked the story. Therkla was kind of one-note and this added some welcome depth to her. And, of course, reminded us of what a monster Kubota was.
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Can someone spoil the plot? Pretty please? I don't care much about Therkla (IMO most of the other subjects picked for the KS comics were pretty dumb too) but the inclusion of that person you're all spoilering sounds interesting.
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Cat Mattress posted:Three years, three PDF stories finished.We should know how the paladin got his scar in 2020.
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Zoe posted:Can someone spoil the plot? Pretty please? I don't care much about Therkla (IMO most of the other subjects picked for the KS comics were pretty dumb too) but the inclusion of that person you're all spoilering sounds interesting. Therkla is sent on a mission to steal something, but ends up getting sucked into a zelda-style fetch quest chain. Along the way she meets Saangwan and the two hit it off. Therkla finishes the night better off than she started, and with a new (first ever?) friend. Who promptly dies on the last page to Xykon's invisible dragon, whoops.
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Just read the story. I quite liked it, and I was never fond of Therkla before. Brought me around.
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MikeJF posted:Just read the story. I quite liked it, and I was never fond of Therkla before. Brought me around. Well, I mean, it's been how many years since that arc finished up? My point is people can move past it, and heal.
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It was pretty clever how Therkla worked out she was functionally immortal for the rest of the night, due to Sangwaan agreeing they should meet up for drinks later in the week. Also Sangwaan's death was pretty drat ironic.
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Brony Hunter posted:Also Sangwaan's death was pretty drat ironic. I know I didn't see it coming...
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