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Gwyneth Palpate posted:Enough for the dude to bank two Gs a month from patreon, at any rate. Stuff like that and the dwarf fortress guys really make me regret not finding some nerd niche to exploit. Not that the webcomic guy even remotely compares to the DF guys -- holy poo poo do the DF guys clean up for what they do. $72k/yr split two ways isn't exactly endless riches.
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sebmojo posted:$72k/yr split two ways isn't exactly endless riches. Of course not, but it's three times better than the 24 Gs the webcomic dude is putting back, minus patreon fees. Point was not to compare a washed-out webcomic artist that puts out content once an ice age to dorf fortass, a thing that is cool and good.
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I still read sluggy freelance out of habit. I started reading it in 01 or 02 and joined the forums and met a ton of cool people and even the author once, hell it's even cause of that strip that I picked up heroclix and won 2 world titles at it so I'll stick with it no matter how much of a mess it becomes since it was a big part of my life for awhile. I still have 15 webcomics I check each day, honestly I'm probably going to prune to 10 since Cucumber Quest appears to have given up and I've lost the plot on a couple others. If we want to talk about awesome webcomics still worth reading please go look at Kill Six Billion Demons just for the amazing art alone.
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Sep 28, 2018 12:20
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I was pointedat sluggy Freelance back around '97 or so, when someone on a newsgroup sold me on the original vampire storyline. Fell off it sometime during the 00's. Nothing that I read during my initial webcomic phase is still on my list of comics I follow, even though some of them are still going (I'm kind of astonished that GPF is still running, hadn't thought about that one in years) The only comics I still read from the time around when I found OOTS (which I think possibly during the initial Dungeon of Dorkuan adventure) would be Gunnerkrigg Court and The Perry Bible Fellowship. I used to have daily bookmark folders I would kick open in the morning. Started using RSS and Google Reader in '09 because of a certain comic with a ridiculous update rate, then Feedly, then Comic Rocket, and now Tiny Tiny RSS.
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Sep 28, 2018 13:05
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I really dug Sluggy back in the day. I keep alternating between wanting to catch up and feeling I should let sleeping dogs lie.
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Sep 28, 2018 13:07
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https://xkcd.com/142/ I still like the *idea* of MT (though I haven't caught up in a few years but my understanding is his update schedule has improved) and find most criticisms to be overblown from an era when being a gamer and being an anime fan were mostly disjoint sets and generally lacked rational basis. I think the biggest thing to like about Megatokyo is (from my recollection, I can't speak to recent strips from the last few years) the extent Fred's architect background results in art that is generally always maintains a sense of scale and detail when famous mangaka's at a point just seem to forgo backgrounds entirely.
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Sep 28, 2018 13:49
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Okay but Megatokyo is also another comic where a leading character is a literal object that increases boob size to please men. I haven't read it since like 2006 so maybe Fred did an apology tour akin to Rich's, but lmfao is that webcomic a fuckin mess.
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Any other Sam and Fuzzy fans in here? It's a fairly popular comic but I don't see it come up in any of the webcomic discussions I've run across.maltesh posted:I used to have daily bookmark folders I would kick open in the morning. Started using RSS and Google Reader in '09 because of a certain comic with a ridiculous update rate, then Feedly, then Comic Rocket, and now Tiny Tiny RSS. I don't really understand why people are still manually checking websites when RSS readers exist. I don't even know how many comics I follow these days because I just go to one site and it tells me when any of them update.
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Sep 28, 2018 16:03
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Malpais Legate posted:Okay but Megatokyo is also another comic where a leading character is a literal object that increases boob size to please men. I haven't looked at MT in a decade. Wasn't it building up to the argument that the entity in question should still be treated as a person? Did that go absolutely nowhere?
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Sep 28, 2018 16:21
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I've always relied on Firefox's live bookmarks for checking webcomics and I'll be forever infuriated Google decided RSS isn't worth it.Taciturn Tactician posted:Okay but what does "still going" mean for a comic like megatokyo? Like how many actual pages have come out in the last five years? Ten? In terms of storyline, it's actually resolving things, which is amazing, it's just so dense it takes literal months to complete one hour of comic time. Maybe by next year Miho will be finally done. It's already, like, 70% there? I'm not really willing to knock it on the pacing because Paranatural just finished Max's third day of school after over a year (IIRC) and other plot-centric webcomics aren't much better either. Or many weekly manga, for that matter. It's just how serialization happens. Malpais Legate posted:Okay but Megatokyo is also another comic where a leading character is a literal object that increases boob size to please men.
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Sep 28, 2018 16:27
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Slashrat posted:I haven't looked at MT in a decade. Wasn't it building up to the argument that the entity in question should still be treated as a person? Did that go absolutely nowhere? Source of shame, I've been reading it whenever it updates. Sometime this year self insert guy actually got with the girl he wanted. The sex toy girl is now very confused because she doesn't understand how to make self insert guy have sex with her. Then there's some poo poo with some furries that have shown up but I couldn't tell you what their relevance is. I just open it up every now and then out of habit I guess.
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Sep 28, 2018 16:29
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Quick reminder, you're not obligated to read something. If you feel ashamed then quit and if you don't you don't need to pretend you do.
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Sep 28, 2018 16:37
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Kyte posted:Quick reminder, you're not obligated to read something. At this point, I think the only reason I continue to keep checking Megatokyo is a combination of inertia and sunk cost fallacy. I'm just so goddamn sick of Miho and her stupid drama sucking all the energy out of the story.
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Sep 28, 2018 16:44
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Kyte posted:I've always relied on Firefox's live bookmarks for checking webcomics and I'll be forever infuriated Google decided RSS isn't worth it. The Old Reader is a pretty direct clone of Google Reader's interface as of a couple years before they shut down. It's free to use as long as you don't have too many subscriptions and not terribly expensive after that.
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Sep 28, 2018 16:58
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i may be the only person left alive who uses a client side application as an RSS reader (because it's also my email client)
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Sep 28, 2018 17:02
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I have a lot of downtime at my job to waste with an internet connection. I've read a lot of new webcomics this way, I'm considering going back and rereading some of the garbage I liked as a child. I feel like the l33t-speak jokes from Megatokyo have not aged well. I've reread OotS this way, but it's nice to see how it shifted tonally and in maturity.
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Sep 28, 2018 17:06
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It's also okay to enjoy things that you know are bad.
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Bongo Bill posted:It's also okay to enjoy things that you know are bad. epic this
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Sep 28, 2018 17:39
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Bell_ posted:Dungeons of Daggorath in 1982, though I didn't really play it until 1986. This was one of my first games not on an Atari 2600. I played it on a Tandy color computer 3. I think it was in 1989 or 1990. My parents got it for me when the CC3 was on clearance at Radio Shack. I still remember the ooze in the white level that killed me over and over. Finally learned to basically wipe out everything before going down a level. And to draw maps. Got DD, some wierd mine platformer, a side scroller where you played as a caveman throwing rocks until you put together a laser shooting space suit, and a cool boolean game where you used logic gates and switches to program this set of three robots to escape from a robot city. Learned how to program in BASIC on that CC3. Actually came in really handy when I started doing fun stuff in excel.
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All the webcomics (8-bit theatre, 8 easy bits etc.) I used to read back in the old days have come to an end, but OotS and Captain SNES are still somehow going strong. I keep up with OotS through this thread, but I still have like 3 years of Captain SNES to sort through.
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W.T. Fits posted:At this point, I think the only reason I continue to keep checking Megatokyo is a combination of inertia and sunk cost fallacy. I'm just so goddamn sick of Miho and her stupid drama sucking all the energy out of the story. I forget, which one was Miho? The voice actress or the waitress?
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Sep 28, 2018 20:27
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Hate-Senpai posted:I forget, which one was Miho? The voice actress or the waitress? No, the undead one. Although they actually did get around to explaining her deal and she isn't undead.
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Sep 28, 2018 20:36
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Colonel Cool posted:Anyone who isn't reading Oglaf is messing up. Oglaf started out awesome, now maybe one in ten strips is funny.
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Sep 28, 2018 20:58
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Earnestly posted:8 easy bits
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I feel like the only happy stories in the webcomic making world are the ones where authors have points where they're willing to end their creation at some point. Because otherwise they're tied to their old ideas and writings forever, and one day their creation will be ended involuntarily. Hate-Senpai posted:I forget, which one was Miho? The voice actress or the waitress? I think she was the weird demon child that was haunting Largo and possibly also Piro's ex internet girlfriend. Also the robot's highschool chum.
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Mikl posted:While watching SGDQ this summer, one couch dude says to the speedrunner: "You know, it's funny that you're running a game that's older than you are."
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Lol, yeah I love Ultima 4 and 5, both release several years before my birth. It's a bit surreal sometimes.
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Sep 28, 2018 22:11
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Gynovore posted:Oglaf started out awesome, now maybe one in ten strips is funny. Incorrect. Junior scientist power hour is irregular but good.
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PMush Perfect posted:Okay, coming back to oldchat real quick, this was the one that really hit me. "What? They had a 14-year old... 15-... the runner could be twenty????" Putting it in human terms makes it a lot more real than just abstract numbers. What's really loving wild is that Doom 2 came out only 4 years earlier. We went from Doom 2 graphics to Half-life in less than a presidential cycle. The 90's was like black hole time dilation for video games.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:What's really loving wild is that Doom 2 came out only 4 years earlier. We went from Doom 2 graphics to Half-life in less than a presidential cycle. And then six years to Half-Life 2, which leapt ahead so far it holds up well today. Things shallowed hard after that.
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fool_of_sound posted:Lol, yeah I love Ultima 4 and 5, both release several years before my birth. It's a bit surreal sometimes. Dear Lord, Ultima V. A huge game world, with hundreds of NPCs you could have full conversations with, who had their own daily schedules, and some of them worked for the Big Baddies so you had to be careful who to trust, a complex magic system, 3D dungeons, an underworld as big as the main world... and it came out in '88 and ran on 64K of RAM. It's really depressing how far down the toilet Lord British has slid since then.
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Gynovore posted:Dear Lord, Ultima V. A huge game world, with hundreds of NPCs you could have full conversations with, who had their own daily schedules, and some of them worked for the Big Baddies so you had to be careful who to trust, a complex magic system, 3D dungeons, an underworld as big as the main world... and it came out in '88 and ran on 64K of RAM. Serpent Isle is also really good! But yeah, basically all the big names at Origin had a lot of difficulty moving into more modern games.
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I hope Rich is okay.
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I hope rich changes the entire premise of the comic out of nowhere and the next plot arc is Roy meeting xykon at wrestlemania
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Sep 29, 2018 11:58
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I'd rather Roy exponentially increase his ki by training in the astral time chamber to the point where he had powers as strong as magic
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Al Borland Korn posted:I'd rather Roy exponentially increase his ki by training in the astral time chamber to the point where he had powers as strong as magic Didn't that pretty much happen when he died?
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mandatory lesbian posted:I hope rich changes the entire premise of the comic out of nowhere and the next plot arc is Roy meeting xykon at wrestlemania I've actually been thinking about Xykon's 'power.. is .... power...' line a lot lately
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sebmojo posted:I've actually been thinking about Xykon's 'power.. is .... power...' line a lot lately It's one on the best character moments in the entire strip. I thinke about it a lot too
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Tenebrais posted:Didn't that pretty much happen when he died? No when he died he trained with
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ultrafilter posted:Any other Sam and Fuzzy fans in here? It's a fairly popular comic but I don't see it come up in any of the webcomic discussions I've run across. That said, the official Order of the Stick RSS feed does have some issues, as it doesn't include a Date or an ID field, which can cause issues with some RSS readers, both in ordering posts and identifying posts that have been read. It's one of the reasons I've been using a reddit-generated version of the feed at https://www.reddit.com/r/OOTSFeed/.rss
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