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Thaddius the Large posted:Something Positive, Megatokyo, Penny Arcade, and Questionable Content have been around about that long, they still updating? I haven’t checked the webcomics thread in years, just spitballing names here, and lord knows I’m not going to bother quickly googling to find out. questionable content is the best from that list and it's about as good as it ever was, in the sense of being mostly alright with occasional spikes of being vaguely interesting or particularly stupid i will give it credit for looking significantly better than it did when it started at least, which you cant really say for megatokyo and PA dmboogie fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Dec 4, 2019 |
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Sorry, I just caught that they were asking about OLD webcomics, didn’t parse anything about them being GOOD. Edit: should’ve included Dominic Deegan, that would’ve cleared things up real quick
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Dec 4, 2019 01:36
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ikanreed posted:But none of those are any good. I like Something Positive. Penny Arcade started out funny, but ran out of steam around '11 or '12 or so, it's pretty much coasting along since then. Megatokyo was never funny, no idea how it lasted that long.
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Dec 4, 2019 01:59
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GPF comics is still somehow kicking along. So is Sinfest. There was hope for Real Life Comics, but he re-hiatused.
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Dec 4, 2019 02:20
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I like Megatokyo and it has plenty of good points to it; especially if you're into anime and manga because it incorporates a lot of the elements fans of the medium like. One of the things I like is how consistent the art is in regards to scale stemming from Fred's architecture background; so backgrounds are generally pretty visually interesting. MT had a successful kickstarter and makes a decent 2,000$ a month on patreon so it has its niche.
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sfwarlock posted:GPF comics is still somehow kicking along. So is Sinfest. Sinfest wound up swerving into being hardcore TERF and SWERF, though.
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Megatokyo and Sinfest kinda both abandoned what they were at the beginning. Penny Arcade doesn't really have enough continuity to make a deep cut callback mean anything. Questionable Content is kinda both.sfwarlock posted:GPF comics is still somehow kicking along. God, for the longest time I was convinced that GPF wasn't still running and those comics on its website are just reruns somehow, but no, it looks like it's about the same as it ever was. It's basically following the Sluggy Freelance path of webcomics where it's basically just a soap opera and relying on readers who are hooked on the characters and regularity.
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Dec 4, 2019 03:27
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sfwarlock posted:GPF comics is still somehow kicking along. So is Sinfest. Didn't the guy behind Real Life Comics rip some people off in some way?
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Raenir Salazar posted:MT had a successful kickstarter and makes a decent 2,000$ a month on patreon so it has its niche.
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Just had a horrific though, what if the monster never gets revealed. That would be such a masterful troll, Rich wouldn’t do that, or would he...? 
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Dec 4, 2019 10:46
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It turns out the monster was all the arguments we had along the way.
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Avalerion posted:Just had a horrific though, what if the monster never gets revealed. That would be such a masterful troll, Rich wouldn’t do that, or would he...? If he didn't play around with the occasional hint, I'd assume that it was just a joke and would never actually be revealed. But since he has given hints, it's a safe assumption that there will be an eventual reveal.
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Dec 4, 2019 15:12
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I think he said it in some forum post or another that the monster is a specific creature, and it will be revealed before the end of the comic.
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Dec 4, 2019 16:11
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He also said that it's guessable with the hints he's given. He didn't want to pull a homebrew thing out of his rear end.
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Dec 4, 2019 16:45
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nimby posted:He also said that it's guessable with the hints he's given. He didn't want to pull a homebrew thing out of his rear end. Have the GitP forums figured out what it is yet?
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Dec 4, 2019 16:51
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The most powerful monster is Man
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Dec 4, 2019 16:51
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The Monster is... man. Either that or the friends we made along the way. Actually, he's the Monster in the Dark's Monster. The Monster in the Dark is the scientist's name.
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Dec 4, 2019 16:52
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The monster in the dark is Belkar. I will not be taking questions.
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Phenotype posted:Have the GitP forums figured out what it is yet? They’ve narrowed it down to three likely options but all of them have at least slight wrinkles in being a perfect match.
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Dec 4, 2019 17:06
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What are they?
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Dec 4, 2019 17:10
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Monster in the dark, 'til the comic ends, it's a monster in the dark, and it'll doom friends. We're waltzing the wonder of what it is; pages go by, Ocho's there and gone.
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Dec 4, 2019 17:30
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ultrafilter posted:What are they? Nightmare Beast, Protean, and the Uvuudaum. I find the Protean most convincing, personally. They’ve got a whole series of threads devoted to discussing it on the forum if you want to read into their theorizing.
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Dec 4, 2019 17:35
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Holy moly, they have thirteen MitD discussion threads over there. Respect that many of the thread titles are pretty funny, though.
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Dec 4, 2019 18:03
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MitD VIII: Everything we know about MITD (but were afraid Tarrasque) is probably my favorite.
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Dec 4, 2019 18:10
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I am kinda sad that we never got any tarrasque appearances in comic since it's so iconic
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Dec 4, 2019 18:18
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ikanreed posted:I am kinda sad that we never got any tarrasque appearances in comic since it's so iconic Isn't that a licensing problem? I.e. like Beholders and Mindflayers they weren't part of the Open Game License and thus are copyrighted.
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SlothfulCobra posted:God, for the longest time I was convinced that GPF wasn't still running and those comics on its website are just reruns somehow, but no, it looks like it's about the same as it ever was. Perhaps a confusion with User Friendly? Bunch of nerds at a tech company with a talking slime mold vs. bunch of nerds at a tech company with a talking dust bunny. e X posted:Isn't that a licensing problem? I.e. like Beholders and Mindflayers they weren't part of the Open Game License and thus are copyrighted. I don't think an extra 'r' could have prevented the Tarrasque from being in the public domain, so it is is in the SRD.
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Dec 4, 2019 19:32
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A protean would fit with his whole journey of not being what Xykon expects him to be and instead being his own thing
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e X posted:Isn't that a licensing problem? I.e. like Beholders and Mindflayers they weren't part of the Open Game License and thus are copyrighted. I know that at very least Mindflayers have been in the comic, because one saw Roy has a perfectly cooked turkey dinner. That might have been during the short time OotS ran in Dragon Magazine, tho.
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Dec 4, 2019 19:43
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'Mindflayer' isn't copyrighted. Illithid is. Mindflayers show up in a bunch of the early final fantasy games with that name for a reason.
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Calaveron posted:A protean would fit with his whole journey of not being what Xykon expects him to be and instead being his own thing Xykon knows what the MidT is, right? It was Xykon who gave him the umbrella.
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Gynovore posted:Xykon knows what the MidT is, right? It was Xykon who gave him the umbrella. Not what I meant
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Calaveron posted:Not what I meant No you see we went up a level!
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reignofevil posted:No you see we went up a level! This discussion has gone down a level.
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Too many eyes though. Unless the middle eye opens up in adulthood or something.
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I thought the leading theory on the MITD is that it's a Zodar from Spelljammer?
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Calaveron posted:A protean would fit with his whole journey of not being what Xykon expects him to be and instead being his own thing Somehow for rules reasons alone I like the Nightmare Beast, but for narrative reasons, yeah, this is best. So I'm putting my vote on protean.
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fool_of_sound posted:'Mindflayer' isn't copyrighted. Illithid is. Mindflayers show up in a bunch of the early final fantasy games with that name for a reason. I initially thought that this was why they got to call the bad guy in season 2 and 3 of Stranger Things "the Mindflayer" and not got sued. But then again they called the villain in season 1 "The Demogorgan*" and he must be copyrighted. * = This annoyed me so much. Demogorgan is his/their name. Not a monster type. Imagine the Frankenstein's Monster debate if people called him The Frankenstein.
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