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Who What Now posted:Isn't Rich only in his 40s? Why would anyone think he was gonna die any time soon? It can happen at any time realistically  That said Erfworld died because of a lawsuit, the arrest of his stepson, and the suicide of said stepson. I feel like Rich isn't going to have that happen
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The series will likely be over in 3-5 years.
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Dec 7, 2019 19:03
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Maybe Rich will publish/kickstart that D&D campaign world he submitted if he ever got the rights back and publish companion novels for it.
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Dec 7, 2019 19:15
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Eifert Posting posted:The series will likely be over in 3-5 years. Internet says he's 45 years old so I can see the ending dragging on for 20 more years before he decides he's ripe for retirement. Then again, maybe he'll go the Stan Lee route and keep writing until the grave. I don't think he'd finish OOTS and then start another story, he must realize he doesn't have that much time left. 20-30 years might be enough to introduce the protagonists and a fraction of antagonists!
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Dec 7, 2019 21:44
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Or he could write shorter stories instead of sprawling epics.
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Dec 7, 2019 21:56
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Writing is a helluva drug, you can't just cut the dosage after so many years of writing an epic!
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Dec 7, 2019 21:59
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Many artists don't really retire, they just scale down their output. If Rich finishes OotS before his 50th birthday, he can easily embark on another major work that will take 15-20 years to complete, and after that go into retirement and maybe spend his time leisurely drawing one of his undoubtedly many ideas that personally appeals to him but would be unlikely to find commercial success. What I'm saying is, I'm looking forward to Sentient Movie Theater Snacks #1 around 2040 or so.
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bigpolar posted:Sadly, at this point, I think that the odds of Rich surviving long enough to get to reveal the mystery of The Monster in the Dark are about on par with G. R. R. Martin living long enough to finish A Song of Ice and Fire. Isn't wheel of Time some garbage libertarian wankfest?
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mandatory lesbian posted:Isn't wheel of Time some garbage libertarian wankfest? p sure you're thinking Goodkind, not Jordan
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Dec 7, 2019 22:24
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mandatory lesbian posted:Isn't wheel of Time some garbage libertarian wankfest? A lot of stuff aimed at youth/young adults is weird as hell. That doesn't make the fans less sad when the author dies.
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Dec 7, 2019 22:43
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I mean, it can’t be any worse than “actually the pacifists are evil, and the protagonists are perfectly justified in slaughtering them”.
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Dec 7, 2019 22:46
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mandatory lesbian posted:Isn't wheel of Time some garbage libertarian wankfest? You're thinking Sword of Truth.
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Dec 7, 2019 22:48
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Sword of Truth is definitely garbage lolbertarian+racist warhawk wankfest. Naked Empire, published in 2003, contains a passage about the main character heroically slaughtering anti-war protesters, which tells you everything you need to know about Terry Goodkind. Wheel of Time, based on a cursory glance at its Wikipedia page, doesn't seem to be openly Problematic.
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Dec 7, 2019 22:53
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Wheel of Time has an explicit gender binary metaphysics, which is definitely something to grapple with. Not at all libertarian though. It has a show that's filming now, and their not lily white casting has been pretty cool. There was negative push back, but also thoughtful reactions like this.
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Dec 7, 2019 23:39
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I just want the oots protagonists in a Paranoia short. I can't decide if Elan would be terrible or a god.
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Paranoia, at least the rules I saw would make durkon happiness officer, belkar loyalty officer, Haley communications, v hygiene, Roy equipment, and elan leader by default.
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MikeJF posted:Questionable, it reads more like the monster is just making a biblical reference rather than naming himself. Speaking to Dr Frankenstein: "Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed." Yeah, he quotes the devil from Paradise Lost enough (I think his final line in the book is from there, even?) that he might as well be named Satan.
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Cat Mattress posted:Wheel of Time, based on a cursory glance at its Wikipedia page, doesn't seem to be openly Problematic. I've been half-expecting somebody at Salon to go into the weird gender issues of Wheel of Time for at least the last 10 years. A lot of the women in WoT are comically domineering, including all five central characters' eventual romantic partners. There are a lot of onscreen marriages and relationships in "Randland" with complicated power dynamics. Then again, it's all surprisingly PG-rated in the end, particularly in a genre that's as frequently horny as modern high fantasy. I don't think anybody in WoT gets chained to a wall and kinkily tortured until something like the eighth book.
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If Rich decides to do another comic post-OotS, which do you guys think is more likely? A) OotS II: The Sequel Comic B) A non-OotS related comic that's still stick-figures making DnD jokes C) A non-stick DnD comic D) A non-DND stick comic E) A completely different genre and art-style altogether I'm thinking either C or E. Rich has shown he can draw non-stick-figures.
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Dec 8, 2019 01:26
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I expect he'd be pretty tired of self-aware fantasy stick figures by then and looking to do something else.
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Dec 8, 2019 02:03
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Like on one hand I could see him continuing to do the sort do thing he's familiar with, and on the other hand, he probably sick of alignmentchat even more than we are.
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GimmickMan posted:Yeah, he quotes the devil from Paradise Lost enough (I think his final line in the book is from there, even?) that he might as well be named Satan. Actually this is his final line: 
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Wanderer posted:I've been half-expecting somebody at Salon to go into the weird gender issues of Wheel of Time for at least the last 10 years. A lot of the women in WoT are comically domineering, including all five central characters' eventual romantic partners. There are a lot of onscreen marriages and relationships in "Randland" with complicated power dynamics. That sexual torture was pretty PG as well, and having read ASoIaF I am extremely glad for it.
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fool_of_sound posted:You're thinking Sword of Truth. Ah yeah, you are quite correct. There's too many dang fantasy series out there!
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Roland Jones posted:I'm not going to link it because I wrote it years ago so the writing quality is really bad, and also I don't remember the number anyway, but it was basically a memetic... Well, originally a video tape, but it was "infectious"; when played on a device, any future media it played would be infected with it as well, and could thus also spread it, so, thanks to a VHS-DVD player, it jumped to discs as well. And later audio recordings of it while it was played on a different device. And art created by people who had been exposed to it, which they seemed compelled to do. And video footage of said art, as an unfortunate security guard who happened to be watching the monitors when a piece of it was unintentionally exposed to a camera found out. was this the 'choked and died' one? GreyjoyBastard posted:p sure you're thinking Goodkind, not Jordan "Goodkind is neither."
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Wanderer posted:I've been half-expecting somebody at Salon to go into the weird gender issues of Wheel of Time for at least the last 10 years. A lot of the women in WoT are comically domineering, including all five central characters' eventual romantic partners. There are a lot of onscreen marriages and relationships in "Randland" with complicated power dynamics. I mean, he calls lesbians "pillow friends"
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Parahexavoctal posted:was this the 'choked and died' one? Nope. Never stated what the thing did, outside of replicating itself and apparently compelling some people to help spread it. It was implied to probably be bad, since this was written back when SCP was still a horror thing, but I figured that it didn't really need to be explicit that it committed horrible murder or whatever for it to be spooky and probably worth keeping locked up.
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Who What Now posted:Actually this is his final line: This is amazing. Thank you.
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Someone linked this thread and after reading it I'm like "how the gently caress does anyone believe this is a real thing that happened?" https://twitter.com/TabletopLoot/status/1203817349595435008?s=19 This is the most made up story I've seen in a while. It's somebody writing fanfiction about themselves
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John Wick of Dogs posted:This is the most made up story I've seen in a while. It's somebody writing fanfiction about themselves And that girl? She grew up to be Albert Einstein.
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There are a couple of people in the replies making the obvious "You could hear a pin drop" "Everybody clapped" jokes. I would reply the same but it was a personal friend who retweeted it and I don't want to belittle them. I don't know how she reads this and believes it, she's literally a tenured professor of literature
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John Wick of Dogs posted:There are a couple of people in the replies making the obvious "You could hear a pin drop" "Everybody clapped" jokes. I would reply the same but it was a personal friend who retweeted it and I don't want to belittle them. I don't know how she reads this and believes it, she's literally a tenured professor of literature If you're not used to the internet, the idea that people might make up elaborate fictional stories showcasing their own heroism isn't an intuitive one. The vast majority of people in real life don't behave that way.
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Me: "Excuse me, is your Constitution 18? Then you have 14 hit points" Girl: ... Girl's Dad: Who the gently caress are you and why are you talking to my daughter? Me: I have some books she may be interested in, in my car. Here let me give her something from my pockets Dad(draws gun): Get the gently caress away from my family!
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While you studied the blade I formed d&d parties.
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John Wick of Dogs posted:There are a couple of people in the replies making the obvious "You could hear a pin drop" "Everybody clapped" jokes. I would reply the same but it was a personal friend who retweeted it and I don't want to belittle them. I don't know how she reads this and believes it, she's literally a tenured professor of literature It's funny that you hold professors to some sort of higher standard when most of them are just as dog poo poo stupid as the rest of us (except in their incredibly narrow field of expertise)
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Dec 10, 2019 20:53
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literature professors ought to be good at critically evaluating text. that is literally their field of expertise
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Earnestly posted:drat, got the newest OotS book in the mail yesterday. That was quick. Rich must have finished the comic over a month ago. This just reminded me to buy the PDF. And - is he ever going to make Snips and Snails a PDF? Or did he and I missed it? EDIT: OHGOD Roy with hands is not right. sfwarlock fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Dec 12, 2019 |
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V. Illych L. posted:literature professors ought to be good at critically evaluating text. that is literally their field of expertise I mean come on we know that most of em are just in it for the fantastic money and the endless power.
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Snips and Snails was advertised as an "Ookadook Exclusive." So while I'm sure he'll figure out some way to re-release its content in the future, it won't be in exactly the same collection.
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