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Rich Evans? He's doing just fine
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No, dick lionheart, duh
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Oct 14, 2019 17:38
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Poil posted:I'm morbidly curious but know I will likely regret learning and really thankful no one has said it out loud. I read some of the Reddit discussion: Someone there knew the name of the son that died and if you Google the obituary they suggest a donation to the RAINN foundation in memory of the guy. I didn't want to look up more, but I think that says enough.
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Oct 14, 2019 18:04
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"No way it can be as bad as people say it is, I say, as I hover over the spoiler text and be immediately corrected after I google what that was."
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Oct 14, 2019 18:48
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Just say it
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Oct 14, 2019 19:00
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They read goblins. There is no cure
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Oct 14, 2019 19:23
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The new strip summoning ritual has reached its most dangerous phase.
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Oct 14, 2019 19:50
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Just say it His (step?)son died of SIDS.
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Oct 14, 2019 19:50
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Oh well that's sad.
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Oct 14, 2019 19:58
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Who What Now posted:His (step?)son died of SIDS. ...At 24?
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Oct 14, 2019 20:24
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No there's like four different things that happened. Its all pretty hosed up and I'm going to spoiler it His stepson raped an underage cousin four years ago and when it recently came out committed suicide. Also a new baby died of SIDS and some other relative had cancer. Dude also went hard on the stepson also being a victim because he was autistic during the rambling audio thing he released to his patreon backers. And he's clearly in a terrible place since his wife also has cancer and they're being sued for a lot of money
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Oct 14, 2019 20:30
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That's loving hell
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Oct 14, 2019 20:33
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God, I just want stick figures to be good dads, what is this?
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Oct 14, 2019 20:34
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e:f,bAlBorlantern Corps posted:Just say it Yeah, people being coy is just dragging it out. His memorial page has things like "I am saddened by what has happened, and hopeful he is not in pain anymore." Being in pain implies a long illness or suicide. The 'what has happened' bit sound more like a sudden death than a long illness. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/timonium-md/thor-macht-8878149 Six months ago he was arrested, accused of doing a bad thing. The sort of thing that might get you murdered in prison or drive you to suicide whether you were guilty or not. https://www.nbc12.com/2019/03/11/henrico-man-arrested-accused-having-sex-with-child/ There is no reason to hide it he succumbed to illness. There is no news article about him being murdered or dying in a car accident, so probably suicide.
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Oct 14, 2019 20:38
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Yikes. Why are they being sued?
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Oct 15, 2019 01:14
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Not paying for art, I believe
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Oct 15, 2019 01:19
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Jersus chrrist,Rich better be okay tomorrow. I'm rather thinking we'll get a cut to another group for the next strip
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Oct 15, 2019 01:46
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Theres like a general webcomics thread right? If only Rich had never hosted Erfworld...
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Oct 15, 2019 01:47
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Nothing about what happened is Rich's responsibility. I don't know what their personal relationship was given they were on the same site for a while but presumably if they were at some point friends than this is probably a hard time for Rich as well.
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Oct 15, 2019 02:09
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Johnny Aztec posted:I'm rather thinking we'll get a cut to another group for the next strip And quite possibly a dump of the rest of the book.
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Oct 15, 2019 13:05
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So, any guesses on how many strips 'till the "book ends" one? I'm putting my bet* on 3, including the last. *for absolutely nothing, redeemable everywhere
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Oct 15, 2019 14:42
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Gun Jam posted:So, any guesses on how many strips 'till the "book ends" one? I'm gonna bet the next one is the end.
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Oct 15, 2019 15:14
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3 sounds about right but all in one update.
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Oct 15, 2019 16:57
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Shwqa posted:I'm gonna bet the next one is the end. I'll split the difference and say two.
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Oct 16, 2019 02:56
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Five  edit: trucutru posted:They read goblins. There is no cure gently caress you, this made me go check Goblins and it's loving worse than ever. Fuego Fish fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Oct 16, 2019 |
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Oct 16, 2019 10:49
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I can't even get up the emotion to be disgusted or disturbed by Goblins any more. It's just... yup. That's Goblins.
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Oct 16, 2019 11:43
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I used to read Goblins out of morbid curiosity, and I just caught up with the last twenty or so strips. What the gently caress is going on? Overall story or page by page action, I can't make head nor tail of it. What a truly awful comic.
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Oct 16, 2019 12:14
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Sanford posted:I used to read Goblins out of morbid curiosity, and I just caught up with the last twenty or so strips. Abridged version: the main group of lumpy goblins has been fleeing from this evil Terminator paladin, and ran into a "dungeon crawl" for safety. They've been using the shittily-designed traps and gimmick puzzles to try and defeat this unstoppable plot device. Now, for seemingly no reason at all, said evil paladin has basically revealed to the goblins that he steals the souls of everyone he kills, and can use their alignments instead of his own. Which means the only reason he hasn't fallen as a paladin for the various evil acts he does on a daily basis is because he can somehow fool the god he serves by holding up a decoy lawful good soul. Like Belkar's lead plate joke but played serious and also way dumber. If you're asking "how the gently caress does any of that work" then you've probably put more thought into it than the author.
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Oct 16, 2019 12:30
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There's a seed of a good idea there, using "he steals souls and hides behind them" as the answer to a question, but that question shouldn't be "why is this paladin an evil dick".
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Oct 16, 2019 12:38
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Fuego Fish posted:Five Don't blame me, you were already infected and will continue to read goblins to the bitter end.
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Oct 16, 2019 13:16
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In retrospect Belkar bringing in a lawyer to argue Miko is violating his privacy rights by Detect Eviling him raises some interesting questions. They did do away with that nonsense in 5e right?
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Oct 16, 2019 13:18
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BTW, I haven't read goblins in years, maybe I should check it out. Last time I read there were a couple of mishappen blobs of flesh talking about some poo poo while looking straight into the "camera", as if trying to steal the reader's soul.
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Oct 16, 2019 13:20
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Raenir Salazar posted:In retrospect Belkar bringing in a lawyer to argue Miko is violating his privacy rights by Detect Eviling him raises some interesting questions. They did do away with that nonsense in 5e right? 4e did away with Detect Evil and the nine-point alignment grid (consolidating it down to a Lawful Good - Good - Unaligned - Evil - Chaotic Evil continuum). 5e brought the grid back, but now Detect Evil has been renamed Detect Good and Evil and explicitly only works to detect magical emanations of pure Good or Evil planar energy, rather than being able to detect the alignment of individuals. So like, it can detect a demon's evil aura, or identify a blessed chalice, but it can't tell you anything about an individual's alignment.
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Oct 16, 2019 13:27
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trucutru posted:BTW, I haven't read goblins in years, maybe I should check it out. No, you're caught up
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Oct 16, 2019 13:27
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Android Blues posted:4e did away with Detect Evil and the nine-point alignment grid (consolidating it down to a Lawful Good - Good - Unaligned - Evil - Chaotic Evil continuum). Yeah, it can basically tell you if there's something celestial, fiendish or undead nearby, but no specific information beyond that. So in the case of OotS, it wouldn't have been able to ping Belkar for being evil, but it would have picked up Malack being undead or a disguised Sabine being a fiend, but not what kind of undead/fiend they were, nor would it reveal Sabine's true identity.
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Oct 16, 2019 13:38
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That evil paladin has been around for at least 10 years, what the hell.
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Oct 16, 2019 15:41
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GimmickMan posted:That evil paladin has been around for at least 10 years, what the hell. To be fair, it's such a novel idea that he deserves the spotlight. Next: a good Lich. (original idea, don't steal)
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Oct 16, 2019 16:08
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How did he steal the first soul without falling?
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Oct 16, 2019 16:10
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Nuclear War posted:How did he steal the first soul without falling? He stole one and then became a paladin I guess? I like the gimmick of a paladin big bad that uses evil magic to steal souls that get burnt up to keep him/herself from falling. It's just in the entirely wrong comic to have a chance of being interesting.
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Oct 16, 2019 16:23
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One of the grand ideas behind Goblins is deconstructing the D&D alignment system, of which the evil paladin is the most prominent example. If you think that could only possibly be even stupider than rigid adherence to the system, you have a stronger sense of narrative than Goblins' author.trucutru posted:Next: a good Lich. (original idea, don't steal) Bro, have you heard about this thing called Dungeons & Dragons? It's this fantasy role-playing game which contains approximately every single idea ever conceived somewhere in its recesses. https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Baelnorn_lich
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