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And Philippe is the part of Onstad that is 5. Yes! Hi!
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Christ, I miss Assetbar. I was just re-reading the archives and I got to the part after uncle Culpepper is revealed to be Liebot, where the bots are driving around showing their asses, and I remembered having an extended discussion in the assetbar comments about whether this was how Liebot celebrated any given extended lie that he pulled off, if it were a hallucination in his dying robot brain, or if it were some kind of unrelated gag strip like Onstad does now and then. That community was one of the best parts of Achewood. Gone now. Like so many worthwhile things, it was not supportable under capitalism, or the new Web. Such a loss.
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Strange Cares posted:Christ, I miss Assetbar. I was just re-reading the archives and I got to the part after uncle Culpepper is revealed to be Liebot, where the bots are driving around showing their asses, and I remembered having an extended discussion in the assetbar comments about whether this was how Liebot celebrated any given extended lie that he pulled off, if it were a hallucination in his dying robot brain, or if it were some kind of unrelated gag strip like Onstad does now and then. That community was one of the best parts of Achewood. what is the saddest thing?
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Ok Comboomer posted:what is the saddest thing? The day that a web forum closes, and each member says their goodbyes, as their comments, one by one, disappear, each saying they will see each other around the internet even as they know it to be a lie. (StrangeCares chubbied this comment)
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If it's any consolation, as long as SA stays up you'll always have the latest copy of the spiel about Onstad not writing about Molly enough to look forward to.
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paradoxGentleman posted:Roast Beef is probably the one Achewood character who I could see not really having a problem with LGBTQ+ people. There was that one strip where Lyle was quie happy to find a job ad for "making recently transitioned MTF individuals more comfortable wit their new bodies". I could never work out if that was phobic or not.
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Gnoman posted:There was that one strip where Lyle was quie happy to find a job ad for "making recently transitioned MTF individuals more comfortable wit their new bodies". I could never work out if that was phobic or not. We have pretty canonical evidence on how several of the characters handle people close to them coming out of the closet, though only really in depth for Ray* and Pat† * Fairly well-meaning but kind of weird † Like a huge goddamn rear end in a top hat
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Gnoman posted:There was that one strip where Lyle was quie happy to find a job ad for "making recently transitioned MTF individuals more comfortable wit their new bodies". I could never work out if that was phobic or not. More Lyle-phobic than anything imo.
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Gnoman posted:There was that one strip where Lyle was quie happy to find a job ad for "making recently transitioned MTF individuals more comfortable wit their new bodies". I could never work out if that was phobic or not. Lyle could be way into it, honestly. None of the porn he reads ever seems to have any gender assignations. Completely Ruined Junk magazine! Just looking at a pornograpic image! Sure he owned Breast Attack on gently caress Mountain but maybe he could just swing however, right? After all thanks to his trading card we do know he used to be both an rear end and a breast man, but is currently just into "holes". I guess he does know some women that will gently caress in exchange for a ride in a car. I think the dude seriously only thinks as far as "who will not get mad at me for barfing on them during". theironjef fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Dec 14, 2020 |
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theironjef posted:I think the dude seriously only thinks as far as "who will not get mad at me for barfing on them during". Lyle and Hiram are playing different games.
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Strange Cares posted:Christ, I miss Assetbar. I was just re-reading the archives and I got to the part after uncle Culpepper is revealed to be Liebot, where the bots are driving around showing their asses, and I remembered having an extended discussion in the assetbar comments about whether this was how Liebot celebrated any given extended lie that he pulled off, if it were a hallucination in his dying robot brain, or if it were some kind of unrelated gag strip like Onstad does now and then. That community was one of the best parts of Achewood. two assetbar posts i wish i'd saved: one that thoroughly and mercilessly ripped apart teodor's first menu for beef's wedding, summarizing that the dishes weren't just needlessly pretentious, they were also lovely fusion cuisine that would have barely been edible one for the tex-mex waiter strip that detailed the barely repressed homicidal fury that goes through such a person's mind as they wish for you to have a *tap tap* "nice day!"
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Phy posted:Lyle and Hiram are playing different games. Whoa insane
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Oxxidation posted:one that thoroughly and mercilessly ripped apart teodor's first menu for beef's wedding, summarizing that the dishes weren't just needlessly pretentious, they were also lovely fusion cuisine that would have barely been edible
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Oxxidation posted:one for the tex-mex waiter strip that detailed the barely repressed homicidal fury that goes through such a person's mind as they wish for you to have a *tap tap* "nice day!" Oh God anyone that has waited tables felt that strip so hard.
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Jai in the Sky/Darin' Aaron Magoo is probably my favorite minor Achewood character, close contest with Milklin.
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Oxxidation posted:one that thoroughly and mercilessly ripped apart teodor's first menu for beef's wedding, summarizing that the dishes weren't just needlessly pretentious, they were also lovely fusion cuisine that would have barely been edible This? quote:Okay, since I'm a reasonably know-it-all-rear end in a top hat about food, and I haven't done many good deeds, I'll throw my view on what the gently caress these things are. First off: the locations. It's a thing among pretentious restaurants that they tell you where the food comes from, as though you know good locations from bad. Second: the quoting. It's a thing that people 'reinvent' concepts in food by using something in a totally abnormal technique. I'll explain it in three. There are Assetbar archives here, though I can't account for how complete they are.
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Erebus posted:This? This legitimately feels like a christmas miracle to me. I'm so happy, you have no idea.
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Erebus posted:This? high point of my day right here
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Erebus posted:This? Oh sweet I finally get to find my favorite comment ever from The Strip where Pat gets jostled by an AIBO  Sadly there's no avatars so the joke loses a bit but saucy_jack had a Vlad avatar hence the response.
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Erebus posted:This? Proscuitto also takes 3 - 6 months to cure depending on whether you're using sodium nitrite, so I hope Teodor had a good duck proscuitto wholesaler in mind.
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Duck prosciutto is kind of a cheat, you can do it in a week: https://ruhlman.com/2009/03/18/duck-prosciutto/
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LYYYYLE! New day! NEW...D A A A Y!
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Norman Rockwell's gettin' his easel outta the car.
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This feels very Achewood: https://twitter.com/katherinespiers/status/1339780506045403136 
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that is, more or less, why it's called an Old Fashioned
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The idea of a 'year abroad' in New Jersey makes me laugh https://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=11212007
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I wonder if Lyle genuinely thought that this was what the Hardy Boys fanbase wanted, or if he's only capable of seeing the world through this lense. E: I've never read an Hardy Boy book but my understanding is that they're basically mystery novels for kids, right? Kind of like Goosebumps is horror for kids
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paradoxGentleman posted:E: I've never read an Hardy Boy book but my understanding is that they're basically mystery novels for kids, right? Kind of like Goosebumps is horror for kids Mystery/adventure, yeah.
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Set in the super-whitewashed version of early 20th-century America that never existed but that ancient people like to get nostalgic about. I feel like there was almost certainly some kind of blackface situation featured in there somewhere.
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There was a second run of more modern ones in maybe the 80s-90s? Still for kids but they would occasionally fight like terrorists instead of bandits wearing prison stripes.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:There was a second run of more modern ones in maybe the 80s-90s? Still for kids but they would occasionally fight like terrorists instead of bandits wearing prison stripes. Yeah, there have been a bunch of "now we're modern!" or "now we're less racist!" spin-off series. I'm not sure about this part of their Wiki description, though: 
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I remember one where one brother was a sysop on a dial up BBS. Another where they're being chased by terrorists while they escape in an armored vehicle and the one brother frets about maybe killing someone with cover fire. Then ones where they talk about their friends jalopy is weird.
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withak posted:Set in the super-whitewashed version of early 20th-century America that never existed but that ancient people like to get nostalgic about. I feel like there was almost certainly some kind of blackface situation featured in there somewhere. Oh it's way worse than that. The original novels were written to be more representative of the era, featuring lots of minority characters (and more violence and varied types of crimes and sometimes sympathetic criminals) but the characters got called slurs and acted like offensive stereotypes a lot. So in the 50s, the publishing house decided to remove the racism in reprints.... by making every character white. They also removed the violence and the nuanced criminals, turning all of them into scheming robbers who don't have weapons and are easily foiled by unarmed children.
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Safety Dance posted:Norman Rockwell's gettin' his easel outta the car. Ok, now I will look up the alt text and see how close I was... The alt text is: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) drives the 2005 Mitsubishi Montero. So I was off for the year and the precise wording and the added "here's the joke" bit with Rockwell's birth and death. But I got the car right, because those are the things that stay in my head.
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CannonFodder posted:Norman Rockwell's car is a 2002 Mitsubishi Montero. Man, this is one beautiful post. Bless the little baby angel who is in charge of posts like this.
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Lurdiak posted:Oh it's way worse than that. The original novels were written to be more representative of the era, featuring lots of minority characters (and more violence and varied types of crimes and sometimes sympathetic criminals) but the characters got called slurs and acted like offensive stereotypes a lot. So in the 50s, the publishing house decided to remove the racism in reprints.... by making every character white. They also removed the violence and the nuanced criminals, turning all of them into scheming robbers who don't have weapons and are easily foiled by unarmed children. edit: goddamn yeah these sound great: quote:In these early titles, the boys are cynical about human nature, an attitude apparently justified when the police, whom they have repeatedly helped, throw them into jail on slim evidence in The Great Airport Mystery (1930).[45] The police and authority figures in general come off poorly in these books, so much so that at one point Edward Stratemeyer wrote McFarlane to reprimand him for "grievous lack of respect for officers of the law."[46] DACK FAYDEN fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Dec 21, 2020 |
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