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So I just learned that This is a thing. Why would anyone pay so much to get that kind of a voice cast for loving goblins of all things?
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Jun 23, 2018 13:07
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i refuse to click on whatever that link is you cant make me
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Jun 23, 2018 13:28
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It’s an IMDb page.
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Jun 23, 2018 13:30
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Nuebot posted:So I just learned that This is a thing. Why would anyone pay so much to get that kind of a voice cast for loving goblins of all things? Jim Cummings? Maurice LaMarche? Good lord. Was Frank Welker an unlock they just couldn't reach? I tried reading that comic once. It was not to my taste.
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Jun 23, 2018 13:41
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Jun 23, 2018 13:44
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It's unfortunate reality that even most big name VAs aren't exactly celebrity super stars who can afford to pick and choose just passion projects. Most of them probably just see it like a dub of a mediocre anime, something to put food on the table until they find something good.
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Jun 23, 2018 15:24
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PMush Perfect posted:It's unfortunate reality that even most big name VAs aren't exactly celebrity super stars who can afford to pick and choose just passion projects. Most of them probably just see it like a dub of a mediocre anime, something to put food on the table until they find something good. I think for most of those actors it's more professional ethic than necessity. I mean, they're not mega rich and money is money, which doesn't hurt, but I know Billy West is outspoken about his scorn for actors that think they're too good for a job.
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Jun 23, 2018 17:16
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i feel like id be compromising some nebulous part of my personal morality by working on a goblins thing
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Jun 23, 2018 17:21
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Tollymain posted:i feel like id be compromising some nebulous part of my personal morality by working on a goblins thing Steve Blum already did voice work for Ryan Sohmer's LICD pilot. He'll do anything if the price is right. e: you can probably pull up any of those VAs' pages on IMDB and finds at least one horribly embarrassing thing.
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Jun 23, 2018 17:27
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Apparently LaMarr is the one who got it into gear? I'd love to know what made him leap on it as a passion project.
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Jun 23, 2018 18:14
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Dawgstar posted:Apparently LaMarr is the one who got it into gear? I'd love to know what made him leap on it as a passion project. Maybe he likes the comic?
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Jun 23, 2018 20:46
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Cat Mattress posted:I am embarrassed for all the people not named Tarol in that list. I don't, money's money. I'm willing to bet that 90% of the budget is going into the voice work, however. The Ayshkerbundy posted:Maybe he likes the comic?  Okay I might be willing to shame this a bit.
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Jun 23, 2018 21:54
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The Ayshkerbundy posted:Maybe he likes the comic? Apparently so. I just wonder what drew him to it. Melting lizardmen?
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Jun 23, 2018 21:59
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Dawgstar posted:Apparently so. I just wonder what drew him to it. Melting lizardmen? I started reading it like 10 years ago, maybe, and I vaguely enjoyed it up until the dude with the wooden arm (the first real villain) showed up and it dropped all pretense and just became outright torture porn. I stopped reading it cold turkey after that because it was just so physically and emotionally repulsive. It's an ugly comic on every level. The art style is ugly. The prose and plot is ugly. And the soul of it is ugly too. I can't believe it still has any fans at all, let alone celebrity ones.
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Jun 23, 2018 23:47
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i enjoyed goblins for those few weeks where it looked like thunt was having a schizophrenic meltdown irl
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Jun 24, 2018 00:45
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this broken hill posted:i enjoyed goblins for those few weeks where it looked like thunt was having a schizophrenic meltdown irl Hasn't that just been "the last 8 years" though? 
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Jun 24, 2018 00:54
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Dawgstar posted:Apparently LaMarr is the one who got it into gear? I'd love to know what made him leap on it as a passion project. LaMarr was on Rob Paulsen's VA podcast a few months back and mentioned that Thunt is a friend of his.
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Jun 24, 2018 01:26
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I'm trying to remember who did this short comic I read like a decade ago. I don't know if you'd call it a webcomic so much as a comic someone once posted on the web. A woman wheels into town on a mini camper trailer pulled by a team of goats. She sets up camp in a park outside of town, but some guy living nearby warns her that the town has a burning ban because of a drought. They argue about it for a bit, then he leaves and comes back later to apologize, she offers him a drink and invites him to dance with her by her fire, and then she turns him into a goat cuz she's a witch and that's what witches do. Next morning she wheels on out of town with a new goat leading her camper out. I'm sure the artist is still around and went on to do other great stuff, I'm just trying to remember who it was.
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Jun 24, 2018 02:09
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Dawgstar posted:Apparently so. I just wonder what drew him to it. Melting lizardmen? I mean once you get past minor things like the art and the writing and the plot, the basic concept of "What's life like for the NPCs in an RPG?" is a good basis for a good story to be told by somebody that's not Thunt.
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Jun 24, 2018 03:46
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TwoPair posted:I mean once you get past minor things like the art and the writing and the plot, the basic concept of "What's life like for the NPCs in an RPG?" is a good basis for a good story to be told by somebody that's not Thunt. Jim C. Hines already did that. The Goblin Quest trilogy: Goblin Quest, Goblin Hero, and Goblin War. I think someone even plugged it in an earlier incarnation of this thread as a "Here, read a good take on this concept by an actually talented author" when someone started talking about Goblins.
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Jun 24, 2018 03:55
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If you want a webcomic about goblins, I can think of nothing better than Goblins Goblins, a single-panel comic about two goblins contemplating the horror of their violent and miserable existence.
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Jun 24, 2018 04:13
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I had a girl get really mad at me irl once because I had no sympathy for Thunt and kept referring to Goblins as "the awful melty face torture porn comic". She wrote paragraphs defending him on a facebook post I made laughing at him once about it, fans of that comic are weirdly devoted. Later she kicked me out of the d&d group we were both part of because she wanted to run a game and my new job meant I wasn't able to make it to meetings sometimes which was pretty lovely of her but now I'm in a way better group so it all turned out fine on the end v  v
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Jun 24, 2018 04:33
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Tuxedo Ted posted:I'm trying to remember who did this short comic I read like a decade ago. I don't know if you'd call it a webcomic so much as a comic someone once posted on the web. I remember that comic, but haven't been able to find it now with some googling. My recollection is that the cartoonist was someone well known (my brain says it was the Scott Pilgrim guy, but that doesn't appear to be the case, factually).
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Jun 24, 2018 17:35
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I think he did a different comic with similar goat elements.
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Jun 24, 2018 17:39
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TwoPair posted:I mean once you get past minor things like the art and the writing and the plot, the basic concept of "What's life like for the NPCs in an RPG?" is a good basis for a good story to be told by somebody that's not Thunt. Oh, agreed. That was the pitch that somebody or other used to get me to try the comic in the first place. I felt misled once I'd tried reading it myself.
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Jun 24, 2018 21:19
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Okay, so I actually started reading Astral Aves for the beginning, and now I understand. Nobody in this comic actually understands what they're doing, and the secret to Astra and her friends' success is less that they're Doing It Wrong and more that they refuse to be intimidated by their complete and total ignorance, because the people telling them to stop aren't actually better-informed.
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Jun 24, 2018 23:53
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fritz posted:I remember that comic, but haven't been able to find it now with some googling. My recollection is that the cartoonist was someone well known (my brain says it was the Scott Pilgrim guy, but that doesn't appear to be the case, factually). I'm pretty sure it was O'Malley, but I can't find it either.
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TwoPair posted:I mean once you get past minor things like the art and the writing and the plot, the basic concept of "What's life like for the NPCs in an RPG?" is a good basis for a good story to be told by somebody that's not Thunt. people in BSS love saying this about terrible cliches that were done to death eons ago and proven over endless attempts to only work if the author instantly ditches the premise for something less lame what I'm saying here is read Donjon A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Jun 25, 2018 |
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Jun 25, 2018 04:23
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Woman's World - that was on a hiatus, if you were following - has begun a mini-series First Chapter is here
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Jun 25, 2018 17:46
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Oh awesome! I thought Woman World had ended.
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Jun 25, 2018 18:34
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nine-gear crow posted:It's an ugly comic on every level. The art style is ugly. The prose and plot is ugly. And the soul of it is ugly too. I can't believe it still has any fans at all, let alone celebrity ones. It's one of those long-running niche things from the cretaceous period of webcomics that seems to continue existing mostly out of habit. It helps that it caters to an audience of older tabletop gaming fans that don't explore around for better comics and love bloated rules on dumb magic items they can torture their players with in their D&D games. But now this has me wondering: have of the Goblins kickstarters have managed to deliver a product yet? He's had at least three now hasn't he?
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Jun 25, 2018 18:58
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Oh wow. I haven't looked at Goblins in a long time, since before it started being colored by Cheyenne Wright. And as a die-hard Girl Genius fan these backgrounds and gradients and stuff are giving me some weird vibes. It's familiar....yet different. A real uncanny valley effect.
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Jun 25, 2018 19:49
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Nuns with Guns posted:It's one of those long-running niche things from the cretaceous period of webcomics that seems to continue existing mostly out of habit. It helps that it caters to an audience of older tabletop gaming fans that don't explore around for better comics and love bloated rules on dumb magic items they can torture their players with in their D&D games. I remember the card game turned into a giant cluster. The KS page just currently says 'Goblins: Alternate Realities is the subject of an intellectual property dispute and is currently unavailable.'
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Jun 25, 2018 19:53
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The Goblins boardgame thing, IIRC, is a case of the guy who was behind the kickstarter (not Thunt himself) running with the money instead of delivering. The IP dispute is how Thunt got Kickstarter to close the page because, again, he wasn't the one running it. The kickstarter and then the indiegogo for the animated pilot were likewise handled by some other guy (that Matt King fellow I think) rather than Thunt.
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Jun 25, 2018 21:11
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Is MGDMT finally dying? There was a missed week before the last strip and now another two missed weeks. I know late updates are pretty standard but missing them is fairly rare, and she commented on the last strip...Author's Comments posted:I know it’s been a couple weeks since an update, but honestly, after eight years of doing this with no break the whole house of cards just kind of collapsed on me. I had no ideas, no energy, no time, I just hit a breaking point where I was sick of putting up unfunny filler comics every week and needed to take a break to sleep and play a videogame to make a videogame joke about hahaha.
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Jun 26, 2018 00:27
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From the sounds of it she really needs to go on a sabbatical.
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Jun 26, 2018 02:00
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She has a full-time job in addition, and I'm sure she'd rather work on this than on Bidjagame Jokes: The 46795th Webcomic but it's the latter that brings the Patreon dollar.
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Jun 26, 2018 10:27
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Mildred!!  (Honestly though, all the terminology in that strip was Greek to me)
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Jun 26, 2018 12:17
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howe_sam posted:Mildred!! As a british person: The last 2 years of Pre college education are often called 6th form (Where you do A-Levels), usually as a sort of seperate thing from everything before it. Generally you have a lot less 6th form colleges than schools in an area, hence why it's closing now things are connected
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Hey now, it's not Mildred's fault. The real villain is austerity.
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