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SardonicTyrant posted:I should mention I have also been faithfully reading Schlock Mercenary for a decade as well, and I lost track of what is actually going on years ago. If nothing else I respect Howard Tayler for his workman's ethic and he does a reasonable job of acquitting himself on Writing Excuse, so you are forgiven.
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SardonicTyrant posted:I should mention I have also been faithfully reading Schlock Mercenary for a decade as well, and I lost track of what is actually going on years ago.
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Dawgstar posted:It's... it's mostly talking heads with some backgrounds. I mean, it's pretty funny, although frankly at this point I think the most egregious thing of all about Dark Science is that I still have no idea what it's about.
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SardonicTyrant posted:I should mention I have also been faithfully reading Schlock Mercenary for a decade as well, and I lost track of what is actually going on years ago. This is me, too. I enjoy the comic for the consistency even though at times it can be hard to tell just how many plot threads are currently active, and what the stakes are for each.
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Slashrat posted:This is me, too. I enjoy the comic for the consistency even though at times it can be hard to tell just how many plot threads are currently active You can't count a fluid
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Howard Taylor is also one of, like...actually I can’t think of any other major genre fiction Mormon authors who have not let their faith take over their work somehow.
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Mors Rattus posted:Howard Taylor is also one of, like...actually I can’t think of any other major genre fiction Mormon authors who have not let their faith take over their work somehow. Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells, Tayler's other Writing Excuses regular hosts have also managed to keep their religion in check when writing about various topics. Early WE episodes though have been a clearing house of "oh... dear" guest authors who've turned out to be awful people who they've quietly disowned (Larry Corriea, hello).
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SardonicTyrant posted:I should mention I have also been faithfully reading Schlock Mercenary for a decade as well, and I lost track of what is actually going on years ago. Nah, Schlock Mercenary's ability to explain what the gently caress is happening stopped being adequate for the scale of the story some arcs after Longshoreman of the Apocalypse. Still read it every day, mind you.
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VanSandman posted:Nah, Schlock Mercenary's ability to explain what the gently caress is happening stopped being adequate for the scale of the story some arcs after Longshoreman of the Apocalypse. Oh, good, I’m not the only one who’s completely lost the plot...
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pseudorandom name posted:Oh, good, I’m not the only one who’s completely lost the plot... Shlock's plot: some things happen. Someone realizes a new worst case scenario they didn't anticipate. That thing happens.
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The gist of it that I'm holding onto currently is that galactic extinction seems to have been occurring over multiple cycles now, either at the hands of the Dark Matter entities in Andromeda or simply because galactic society's capacity to kill itself exceeds its ability to control as it gets closer to the singularity. A few societies seem to have cheated this in past cycles by sealing themselves into simulations inside star-powered dyson shell computers and scrubbing all evidence of their existence from the galaxy. ..and the current cycle has just recently mastered two key technologies marking the singularity (long guns and immortality), so a history graduate turned fast-food worker has been tasked with figuring out how to leverage a mercenary company to prevent extinction this time around. Oh, and dinosaurs on Earth apparently formed a society capable of radio transmissions by the time they were wiped out by an asteroid accidentally redirected toward it by somebody's computer-star passing through the solar system.
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Cat Mattress posted:I did not see that twist coming!
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PMush Perfect posted:Stop humoring Bravest. Strong agree. Especially as he wanders from comic to comic plying his uninspired edits.
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https://twitter.com/benshootsthings/status/1077230167158870016 Merry Christmahanakwanzika, everyone! EDIT: Dang, how do you embed tweets again? neogeo0823 fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Dec 25, 2018 |
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neogeo0823 posted:https://twitter.com/benshootsthings/status/1077230167158870016 Ahem, it's called Winter-een-mas.
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TwoPair posted:Ahem, it's called Winter-een-mas. Man my parents sure were furious with me for wearing my Church of Gaming vestments and mitre to Midnight Mass last year, but after the scene I made during the liturgy I think they've learned to respect my religion
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TwoPair posted:Ahem, it's called Winter-een-mas. gently caress, now I am ashamed. Have this rare SFW Oglaf as absolution: 
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That's from Eegra, there's more to it. https://twitter.com/univbee/status/1077236580383899653?s=19
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I got another longshot request for a forgotten comic. It's pretty short-form and might be from a 24-hour comic day. The artist shows a semi-autobiographical scene from his childhood while on a vacation, having a pretty bad time. I think his parents were having an argument on the car ride over or were just in a bad mood about something he did. It's all pretty vague in the way things are when you're young and don't completely understand the world your parents live in, but you still know that things are bad. Late at night he wanders out to the beach to blow off some steam and he meets another kid on vacation. They talk and play for a bit before she up and runs off into the night while he tries to catch up. Last page is her turning around and standing small against a pitch black page to sorta break the fourth wall and say something like "You're gonna spend the rest of your life looking for me" directly to the person drawing the comic. It doesn't pull back to show the artist or anything, I think, it just ends there. Anybody know what I'm talking about?
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I think that's XKCD.
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Rand Brittain posted:I think that's XKCD. This jogged some memories but I don't think it was what they were talking about 
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TwoPair posted:QC is webcomic Garfield. Pretty much everybody read it at some point before getting tired of it, it's never offensive enough for anyone to take it out of their bookmarks, and, and every now and then you get maybe a chuckle from it. Also JJ basically never misses an update, throwing up a sketch or something on days he doesn't get a full page up.
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You're right, I too would prefer fifteen years of music hipster jokes from a man pushing 40.
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PMush Perfect posted:You're right, I too would prefer fifteen years of music hipster jokes from a man pushing 40. Couldn't be worse than zany monkeycheese robots.
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Zany monkey-cheese robots was like the very first arc of QC. JJ must have eventually realised that was the one interesting part of his setting and made the comic focus on them more.
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A merry christmas to all of you grumps. I grew up reading this thread, and as such, it shaped me, and of course, I disagree with most of you... but I met some lovely people here too! So happy saturnus and christbrith and don't let hate mutate your perspective. Love y'all!!
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FactsAreUseless posted:Except Garfield never went fully insane, abandoning its premise in favor of a very confusing science fiction story presumably focused on Odie. I guess the indie music jokes disappeared at some point?
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SardonicTyrant posted:Even I remember the original plot of the comic ; it was about Guy wanting to bone Girl With Issues. Now the pilot's advanced, and people are boning other people with issues. oh dang. repping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHOPTVBFpgM
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Cat Mattress posted:Couldn't be worse than zany monkeycheese robots.
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i suspect part of the wackiness is sorta meant to be like a nonhorrifying take on ais that can come out the creation process w minds heavily alien to ours but i cheerfully admit that i may be reading this deeper than the author
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the way you all complain about jeph jaques kind of confirms his brilliance to me. I've never read his comic, but I respect ever it he is doing. apparently people care.
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hell astro course posted:the way you all complain about jeph jaques kind of confirms his brilliance to me. I've never read his comic, but I respect ever it he is doing. apparently people care. Merry Christmas and a happy goon year
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FactsAreUseless posted:Except Garfield never went fully insane, abandoning its premise in favor of a very confusing science fiction story presumably focused on Odie. i have bad news for you
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