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HisMajestyBOB posted:Are... are your kids going to die at age 18? Climate Change is a hell of a thing
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 23:13 |
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ikanreed posted:Haha yep I didn't find it until I was in college and binging on NWN2, but... yep. I seem to remember I hopped on just as they were starting the book that became Blood Runs In The Family.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 23:27 |
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The first then-current page I remember is Xykon looking over the big shot of the hobgoblin citty, and the words "I think I just had an evilgasm." Looking back, that page came out in 2005. I have been reading this comic for fifteen loving years.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 23:32 |
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I started reading it just before the big showdown with Xykon at the end of the first dungeon. I'm not even kidding when I say I can remember which pages were "current" during significant moments of my life.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 23:35 |
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I vividly remember getting to the villager setting up their swindles aimed at adventurers, clicking the next button, and nothing happening.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 00:03 |
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I started reading in 10th grade after a referral from Nodwick. The hex forest was the newest strip
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 00:12 |
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I started right around #605.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 01:39 |
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Early double figures for me, maybe even before the linear guild arrived?
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 01:59 |
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I started right around the start of the battle for Azure City. The panel where Redcloak fires titanium elementals. I don't remember what link I followed to get there.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 02:05 |
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I was like... 534 or something? right when Haley, Belkar, and Celia escape Azure City.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 02:07 |
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Soup du Jour posted:I was like... 534 or something? right when Haley, Belkar, and Celia escape Azure City. I think that's when I hopped on, too. It's been at least 10 years for me and that kind of hurts to think about.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 02:11 |
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Malpais Legate posted:I think that's when I hopped on, too. It's been at least 10 years for me and that kind of hurts to think about. It was early 2008, so things are worse than you thought
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 02:17 |
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I probably started reading the comic earlier, but the first time I remember being current was during the Evil V storyline
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 02:20 |
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The first gate still wasn't blown up when I started reading and now I feel old World Famous W fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Feb 12, 2020 |
# ? Feb 12, 2020 02:24 |
Yeah, I forget where exactly I first found out about it, but I remember that the most recent strip was the one where Roy finally got resurrected.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 02:27 |
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PMush Perfect posted:The first then-current page I remember is Xykon looking over the big shot of the hobgoblin citty, and the words "I think I just had an evilgasm." Looking back, that page came out in 2005. I have been reading this comic for fifteen loving years. You've been following it for 15 years. Can't have been reading it for 15 because there's enough months without updates that you could probably scratch 5 of those years off the total.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 02:30 |
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I was in middle school when I started reading. They were rescuing Elan from the bandits.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 03:08 |
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I think the first page I read was Nale!!!! Nale!!!! Nale!!!! or at least that's the page that I ended up bookmarking when I finally accepted that the comic was worth reading and added it to my queue, since there's no real home page link. For a while I was grumpy that this dumb vector stick figure comic was so high in the top webcomics list over some other dumb poo poo I was reading.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 03:14 |
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I remember the current story when I started reading was the trial in Azure City, right before the Snarl backstory started up. I stopped checking the site regularly during either Don’t Split the Party or early Blood Runs in the Family. Then a couple years ago, I got into my first actual consistent D&D campaign and decided to check up on the comic again and caught up right before Durkon got resurrected.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 03:23 |
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God I wish I remember what my first strip was. It had to have been, not long after the first dungeon if not the first itself.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 03:27 |
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I was re-reading some and in #411 "The Power Behind the Throne" Hinjo says "Those breaches varied widely in size, from the largest breach in the Redmountain Hills..." The breach in the desert was quite large (Colossal?), but this last one is even bigger. I don't think it could be hidden either in the statue or behind one of the doors. Maybe the entire hill is hollow and there's some way to open it up?
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 04:26 |
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Lol, I started right at the comic where Roy gets his sword. I remember that Durkon had that line, "you weren't this excited when I turned you back into a man." That caught the interest of egg_irl 10 year old me, and suddenly I was hooked. Turns out that Order of the Stick wasn't a fun, fantasy, transgender romp. Funny that.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 04:33 |
Late first book. It was after the betrayal by Nale and the Linear Guild, before they got to the battle at the Gate.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 04:55 |
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Mniot posted:I was re-reading some and in #411 "The Power Behind the Throne" Hinjo says "Those breaches varied widely in size, from the largest breach in the Redmountain Hills..." The breech that exists now, doesn't mean that's how large it was Pre-Gates. Azure City and the Desert one was probably helped along by the explosion of the gates (which were imbued with various magics to help shore up reality.)
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 05:04 |
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My first strip was #602. I don't remember how far the comic was then, because I only read a few strips and went back to the start, but I think by the time I caught up, I was just about at the end of book 4.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 05:38 |
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Mniot posted:I was re-reading some and in #411 "The Power Behind the Throne" Hinjo says "Those breaches varied widely in size, from the largest breach in the Redmountain Hills..." Redmountain Hills was the first one. Durokan.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 06:24 |
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nimby posted:You've been following it for 15 years. Can't have been reading it for 15 because there's enough months without updates that you could probably scratch 5 of those years off the total.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 08:45 |
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PMush Perfect posted:Lol if you think I don't end up rereading the entire comic every time someone links a page.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 08:52 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/richburlew/status/411128674981654528?lang=en I went on for $20 a month as an act of passive aggressive patronage
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 08:53 |
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I don't even remember where the comic was at when I first started reading, but it was somewhere in the back half of book 2. I think it was during the whole hotel caper.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 09:04 |
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sebmojo posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/richburlew/status/411128674981654528?lang=en
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 09:05 |
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I'm not 100% sure which strip was my first, but I know for a fact that I came aboard after the initial dungeon crawl was over, because I remember being able to marathon it straight through to the Xykon fight in my first sitting.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 09:19 |
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PMush Perfect posted:Rich is the only webcomic artist I've ever seen who is so doggedly insistent on not giving people more ways to give him money. (First the book PDFs, then Patreon.) There was over a decade where the only ways to support the comic were the physical books and the merch. I know hindsight is 20/20, but I think that might have been part of why the Kickstarter blew up so quickly. People had been hankering for a way to show their support, and then he gave them carte blanche to do it, and let himself get caught up in needing to "earn" this sudden influx of money. (Plus, this was the early days of Kickstarter, before stretch goal bloat was a well-documented trap.) i think that ended up costing him money, lol (sad lol)
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 09:39 |
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My first comic was blue
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 09:50 |
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PMush Perfect posted:The first then-current page I remember is Xykon looking over the big shot of the hobgoblin citty, and the words "I think I just had an evilgasm." Looking back, that page came out in 2005. I have been reading this comic for fifteen loving years.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 11:04 |
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PMush Perfect posted:Rich is the only webcomic artist I've ever seen who is so doggedly insistent on not giving people more ways to give him money. (First the book PDFs, then Patreon.) There was over a decade where the only ways to support the comic were the physical books and the merch. I know hindsight is 20/20, but I think that might have been part of why the Kickstarter blew up so quickly. People had been hankering for a way to show their support, and then he gave them carte blanche to do it, and let himself get caught up in needing to "earn" this sudden influx of money. (Plus, this was the early days of Kickstarter, before stretch goal bloat was a well-documented trap.) Rich is stubborn. This is a good thing for us since a less stubborn man would have given up on his silly stick figure comic within the first decade. But at least after seventeen years, deteriorating health, a potentially life-changing injury and two massive IT failures he is finally allowing people to give him money in exchange for his work.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 11:31 |
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Wish I remembered more clearly when I started reading this, now that it's been a part of my life for so long. I know it was somewhere during No Cure For the Paladin Blues, it had to have been after the Inn (because I remember binging that arc in one sitting) but before the start of War and XPs as that was in early 2006 and I remember playing D&D with someone whose PC was blond Vaarsuvius late 2005 who I rolled my eyes at constantly. Probably before the Snarl reveal, as that part feels fresher than the blur of events leading up to that. This comic is not yet as old as I was when I started reading it, but it's almost there. I've dropped every other webcomic from those days (or they've ended), but Rich continues to deliver and I don't mind giving him my money now that I'm an adult. It's been a ride.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 13:27 |
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sebmojo posted:Early double figures for me, maybe even before the linear guild arrived? I read it around around the time that there were a dozen or so strips and went, "Ugh, another lovely gaming webcomic," and then ignored it until around the last few strips of the Azure City arc. I don't think my original impression was wrong, either.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 13:28 |
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I started reading before they beat up Xykon the first time. I remember following a link from 8-Bit Theater, I think.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 13:54 |
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VanSandman posted:I started reading before they beat up Xykon the first time. I remember following a link from 8-Bit Theater, I think. Yeah, I think I learned about Order of the Stick from 8-Bit Theater too.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 14:20 |