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jng2058 posted:Yeah, that's great, but if no one actually checks the site, then none of you are reading the strip ever again. Absurd Alhazred posted:You know you can just sign up for the RSS feed, right? 
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Eh, if there's no new strips for a week I'll just start reading the comic from #1. By the time I catch up, there's a new strip!
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Jan 15, 2021 21:37
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Can you recite the trial closing arguments by memory yet.
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RSS counts as checking the site. 
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jng2058 posted:RSS counts as checking the site. With RSS you get an app to check the site for you. 
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I have never used an rss feed, how do they even work? Arcane magic to me
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HisMajestyBOB posted:I subscribed to the Patreon, so I get an email every time he posts about a new strip. The true gentleman's RSS
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mandatory lesbian posted:I have never used an rss feed, how do they even work? Arcane magic to me From a user perspective you install a reader as an extension for your browser or an independent program and you click/copy paste RSS feed links. The app/extension alerts you whenever it checks and finds a new post and gives you a summary and/or a URL to look at the full post. Behind the scenes the feed is just an updating XML file with a listing of the latest updates from that website, and your app/extension just reads that file in the frequency you told it to.
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GimmickMan posted:Can you recite the trial closing arguments by memory yet. "Your Honor, League of Legends"
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Absurd Alhazred posted:From a user perspective you install a reader as an extension for your browser or an independent program and you click/copy paste RSS feed links. The app/extension alerts you whenever it checks and finds a new post and gives you a summary and/or a URL to look at the full post. Behind the scenes the feed is just an updating XML file with a listing of the latest updates from that website, and your app/extension just reads that file in the frequency you told it to.
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They're definitely not as widely used as they were back then, but I'm not sure what people think has replaced them. RSS is a very good solution to the problem it solves.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:With RSS you get an app to check the site for you. Sure, but all the... Zulily Zoetrope posted:I get my updates from posts in this thread, like any sane adult. ...folks don't do that. They wait for someone who checks the site, whether by email, bookmark, or yes RSS to do it for them then post about it here. And if no one does that because we've all become "sane adults" then we'll never read a new strip because no one will ever check the drat site.
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XkyRauh posted:I was under the impression that RSS feeds really hit their stride and heyday back in the early 2000s and have been less and less relevant since then. Admittedly, I still use them, but I've seen other goons mocking RSS feeds as antiquated. I was getting frustrated with how Twitter and Facebook were getting me content, so a few months ago I installed an RSS extension and started adding blogs I liked to it. It's really gotten me reading more stuff that I like when it comes out. Better than having a list of blogs/websites I have to remind myself to check in case they have anything new going on there. It works. 
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This derail represents the unnatural and disgusting depths this thread goes when it can't feed its addiction.
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RSS chat > alignment arguments
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Is this a Goblins summoning ritual.
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Goblins Goblins (a much better comic about sad goblins than Goblins) updated.
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jng2058 posted:Sure, but all the... "Sane adult" was an attempt at comedic hyperbole. In reality, the vast majority of OotS readers do not, in fact, follow a thread in the BSS subforum of something awful dot com.
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jng2058 posted:Sure, but all the... It's Something Awful though, we can be quite sure in the assumption that someone who ISN'T a sane adult is around in the thread.
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ikanreed posted:This derail represents the unnatural and disgusting depths this thread goes when it can't feed its addiction. Time to start a Goblins readthrough.
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It has been so long since we've had an update that I will entertain the possibility.
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My favorite thing is when someone gets bored and posts some random poo poo, which causes a bunch of other people to check the thread because they see new posts and figure a comic is up, and then they post and I see 20 new posts so surely there must be a new comic up because of all the new posts, but there isn’t a new comic at all. Also I’ve fallen for this at least once a month for the last 14 years.
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Kadath posted:My favorite thing is when someone gets bored and posts some random poo poo, which causes a bunch of other people to check the thread because they see new posts and figure a comic is up, and then they post and I see 20 new posts so surely there must be a new comic up because of all the new posts, but there isn’t a new comic at all. Would this be a chaotic evil or lawful evil phenomenon?
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Kadath posted:My favorite thing is when someone gets bored and posts some random poo poo, which causes a bunch of other people to check the thread because they see new posts and figure a comic is up, and then they post and I see 20 new posts so surely there must be a new comic up because of all the new posts, but there isn’t a new comic at all. 100% just happened to me. In fact, I went and checked my RSS feed to see if there was an update so I could read the new comic before looking at this thread. RSS feeds are good, and Google Reader was the only good social network. I still have friends I keep in touch with via The Old Reader RSS feed.
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I straight up no longer expect an update anymore, which has on multiple occasions screwed me over when I look to see what the new discussion is and whoops, it is in fact an update.
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XkyRauh posted:I was under the impression that RSS feeds really hit their stride and heyday back in the early 2000s and have been less and less relevant since then. Admittedly, I still use them, but I've seen other goons mocking RSS feeds as antiquated. There are actually sites starting to pop up that don't support RSS at all but they generally suck so this isn't yet a problem.
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His spiel on doing whatever to avoid the big fire below.
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Maybe a picture flipping between him with the crown and not; with bad rear end and really bad rear end
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Bell_ posted:Maybe a picture flipping between him with the crown and not; with bad rear end and really bad rear end
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Or, I think I just had an evilgasm
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I think his coffee wisdom from Start of Darkness was the one that resonated the most with me.
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I have a soft spot for "Man, clerics are just the worst" though it doesn't work as well as the others out of context
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I still think about the "power is power" speech. Applied it in my life, even.
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Xykon's joy when he discovers a new gimmick he can do with zombies is great, too, or "sacrificing minions: is there any problem it CAN'T solve?"
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:I still think about the "power is power" speech. Applied it in my life, even. it explains a lot about 2020 tbh
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