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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:It seems like this gets mentioned any time Megatokyo gets discussed, and it truly boggles me considering that Rodney left thirteen years ago. quote:Although that said it also boggles me that Megatokyo is still going at all.
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Nov 18, 2015 23:39
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Megatokyo is the punchline.
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Nov 18, 2015 23:52
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Brought To You By posted:I want it to end if only because I'm committed to seeing it through all the way. You have a sickness.
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Nov 19, 2015 00:02
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HorseRenoir posted:I wonder how successful that comic would have been today if the author didn't have such a lovely work ethic. I think it would've been over years ago. Either because (the more obvious answer) Fred would've brought the story to whatever conclusion he originally had planned(if he ever had a plan, I don't know, I've only read like, 20 pages of the comic, tops, and it seemed like a real clusterfuck but whatever moving on), or he would've succumbed, like so many other webcomic authors do, to burnout. He would've realized his story wasn't working out the way he liked or decided to move on to something else or just plain gotten bored with it and just quit had he been working at a steady pace. But going at a glacial pace lets him effectively be (massive finger-quotes here) "a writer" instead of "not really doing anything for months". I don't want to say updating at a snail's pace is actively making him fool himself into thinking his story's going somewhere but... no actually that's exactly what I'm doing.
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Nov 19, 2015 00:06
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Brought To You By posted:I want it to end if only because I'm committed to seeing it through all the way. The later chapters are fine if you read them all in one go, but god help you if you actually read each page You should have picked something milder, like Sluggy Freelance or General Protection Fault.
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A Gnarlacious Bro posted:What were the jokes like The basic setup is two Americans, Piro and Largo (who are in no way surrogates for the writers Fred and Rodney) going to Japan for reasons I forget. Except the world operates on videogame logic so the first thing they do when they get there is beat a ninja at Mortal Kombat because someone forgot their passport. It started off as a more gag-a-day comic with Largo being this insane l33t speaking person who seems to be one of the few people who treats Godzilla destroying the downtown area as more than a minor inconvenience. And Piro who is this moody, wishy washy artist who likes Visual Novels way too much and acts as the straight man for the duo. There is continuity to the series but it's not until the second or third chapter where Rodney leaves and the jokes get toned down and things get played straight more often. Pavlov posted:You have a sickness. 
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Brought To You By posted:And Piro who is this moody, wishy washy artist who likes Visual Novels way too much and acts as the straight man for the duo. I assume this is the one who consistently fails to score with the sexbot
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Brought To You By posted:Honestly not the best. Like HorseRenoir points out, Megatokyo was one of the earlier webcomics that was aimed at the geek/otaku crowd. Aside from helping to break new ground it's pretty mediocre all around. To the best of my memory, the two were visiting E3 in the first storyline, and then got on the wrong plane while trying to get home. That's how they ended up in Japan. Renaissance Robot posted:I assume this is the one who consistently fails to score with the sexbot I stopped reading years ago, but I know Piro never tried to get with Ping. She was never a romantic interest.
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Sorry for turning this thread into the Megatokyo memorial but it's super interesting to me because I knew many people in the 2000-2007 period who were SO into it. It's like a time capsule of a certain American otaku identity. Like, even the creator drama.
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Nov 19, 2015 00:37
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Nov 19, 2015 00:40
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What would shake you up more, though; a time when Megatokyo is done or when Order of the Stick is?
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Gamerofthegame posted:What would shake you up more, though; a time when Megatokyo is done or when Order of the Stick is? Sluggy freelance ending.
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Nov 19, 2015 01:54
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Tunicate posted:Sluggy freelance ending.
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Nov 19, 2015 01:58
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FactsAreUseless posted:It is currently in the 3-year Sluggy Freelance endgame. Like, in-story years?
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Order of the Stick is allegedly towards the end of the story, though given the author's health problems who knows when it will actually end. Also it doesn't suck as hard as Megatokyo so there's that
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It's going to feel weird as poo poo to me when both OOTS and Dr. McNinja are finished. They're the last two story-form webcomics I follow with any regularity, and two of the only handful I read these days at all. Compared to back in like 2002 when I read half of Keenspot's lineup and a bunch of independent ones as well. (Forever missing Checkerboard Nightmare.)
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Nov 19, 2015 03:12
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FactsAreUseless posted:It is currently in the 3-year Sluggy Freelance endgame. hasn't it been in that for a few years already? also, has artist said what he's going to do after it ends?
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Nov 19, 2015 05:27
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Hogge Wild posted:hasn't it been in that for a few years already? Vanish off the face of the planet
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Nov 19, 2015 05:29
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Hogge Wild posted:hasn't it been in that for a few years already? Work for hire
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majormonotone posted:Order of the Stick is allegedly towards the end of the story, though given the author's health problems who knows when it will actually end. Also it doesn't suck as hard as Megatokyo so there's that Yeah, iirc it's in the middle (maybe 3/4ths through?) of the 2nd to last book right now.
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Nov 19, 2015 06:50
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Resume 1998 - 2015 Sluggy Freelance.
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Nov 19, 2015 06:51
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This is your decennial reminder that the web comic Help Desk is still going.
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majormonotone posted:Also it doesn't suck as hard as Megatokyo so there's that Have you ever seen a page of OotS?
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Nov 19, 2015 12:19
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Can we have a separate thread for piddling crap that you're only still reading out of inertia? Three webcomics threads - the good, the bad and the tedious.
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Nov 19, 2015 12:24
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qntm posted:This is your decennial reminder that the web comic Help Desk is still going. From the associated patreon: "Take a comic book, remove all pictures, add eight to ten thousand words, repeat monthly. That is the basic idea of Curveball"
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Nov 19, 2015 12:28
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Spark That Bled posted:never tried Classic weeb.
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Hogge Wild posted:hasn't it been in that for a few years already?
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Mind over Matter posted:It's going to feel weird as poo poo to me when both OOTS and Dr. McNinja are finished. They're the last two story-form webcomics I follow with any regularity, and two of the only handful I read these days at all. Compared to back in like 2002 when I read half of Keenspot's lineup and a bunch of independent ones as well. (Forever missing Checkerboard Nightmare.) Have you tried Gunnerkrigg Court?
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qntm posted:This is your decennial reminder that the web comic Help Desk is still going. ...This is User Friendly. When did he rename it? Glad to know somethings never change though.
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Matlock Birthmark posted:...This is User Friendly. When did he rename it? Didn't he get in trouble for stealing jokes or something?
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Matlock Birthmark posted:...This is User Friendly. When did he rename it? Nope, different comics by different people in different art styles. (I'll be generous and not put scare quotes around art.) Help Desk is more passive-aggressive, though; look at that "endorsement" sidebar. Tunicate posted:Didn't he get in trouble for stealing jokes or something? I don't think so, I don't remember seeing any joke in User Friendly. Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Nov 19, 2015 |
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Nov 19, 2015 19:48
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Can we have a separate thread for piddling crap that you're only still reading out of inertia? Well there are no good webcomics so this is the tedious thread.
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anti-magic posted:Well there are no good webcomics so this is the tedious thread. Lookout. This guy thinks he is better than comics on the Internet. Thanks for your cool post dude. Maybe you can enjoy some giant media conglomerate approved entertainment. I heard of this cool thing called "Star Wars" might be up your alley, friend.
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neogeo0823 posted:Have you tried Gunnerkrigg Court? I have not! I've heard of it but never read it. I'm absolutely not saying there are no other good comics out there. Just that I don't read very many anymore. Speaking of which, Help Desk is one of those I read over a decade ago and it's surreal to see it still going.
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Cat Mattress posted:Nope, different comics by different people in different art styles. (I'll be generous and not put scare quotes around art.) Huh....honestly couldn't tell from looking back a few strips.
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Let's all start reading Sluggy Freelance ironically, then get really into it unironically, and appreciate the adventures of Torg, Zoe, Riff, Gwynn, Bun-Bun, Sasha, Kiki, Aylee, and everyone else in this nifty comic.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Let's all start reading Sluggy Freelance ironically, then get really into it unironically, and appreciate the adventures of Torg, Zoe, Riff, Gwynn, Bun-Bun, Sasha, Kiki, Aylee, and everyone else in this nifty comic. Real Talk, back when it was still current and not a fairly early part of a multi decade comic, I actually really loved the That Which Redeems storyline for everything it did and tried to do. Never felt as engrossed with anything that came after it and all of the Bun-Bun stuff was just annoying. I have not read it in maybe a decade, but I'm sure it still holds up!
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Burkion posted:Real Talk, back when it was still current and not a fairly early part of a multi decade comic, I actually really loved the That Which Redeems storyline for everything it did and tried to do. Never felt as engrossed with anything that came after it and all of the Bun-Bun stuff was just annoying.  Every now and again Sluggy did some really cool things in between general silliness and outdated parodies.
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Brought To You By posted:It's really obvious that without someone to reign it in. Fred just layers on the drama which get's pretty silly after a while. The worst part of Megatokyo is I keep hoping Fred will turn it around. Like....he'll reach a state of self awareness and suddenly have an interesting story about weeaboos. I think that's part of why people praise the early part of the comic, the last time I went through the early strips I kept thinking, "This had the potential to be good."
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