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Hempuli posted:Does anyone have a link to a webcomic that starts with a man saying 'Hello!' to the reader, hitting rock bottom in his life and being saved by a ramen shop owner? I think the name might've been just Hello!, and the setup built to a family drama featuring ramen business and fighting thugs with barstools. I had the comic bookmarked for a long time but the site died, and later on I lost the bookmark. I think it was Great!!!. Was that one of Evan Dahm's comics? Or maybe by kiwisbybeat?
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Hempuli posted:Does anyone have a link to a webcomic that starts with a man saying 'Hello!' to the reader, hitting rock bottom in his life and being saved by a ramen shop owner? I think the name might've been just Hello!, and the setup built to a family drama featuring ramen business and fighting thugs with barstools. I had the comic bookmarked for a long time but the site died, and later on I lost the bookmark. You are probably thinking of Great, by the dearly departed (I heard somewhere that he died but I’m not sure) Ryan Armand
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May 21, 2023 01:58
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Thank you both! I remembered the website being kiwisbybeat, but didn't dare bring it up in case I was confusing the name with something else (especially since Kiwi Blitz exists). Glad to see the comic is still around, at least in some form.tinaun posted:by the dearly departed (I heard somewhere that he died but I’m not sure) Ryan Armand 
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May 21, 2023 02:17
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oh no, I loved minus
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tinaun posted:You are probably thinking of Great, by the dearly departed (I heard somewhere that he died but I’m not sure) Ryan Armand And now I've read all of it and loved it.
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May 21, 2023 08:28
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a fan put an archive together https://kiwisbybeat.net/ im so stupid ppl linked to it right on this page. im blown away by this. what a find!
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May 21, 2023 08:34
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Hempuli posted:Does anyone have a link to a webcomic that starts with a man saying 'Hello!' to the reader, hitting rock bottom in his life and being saved by a ramen shop owner? I think the name might've been just Hello!, and the setup built to a family drama featuring ramen business and fighting thugs with barstools. I had the comic bookmarked for a long time but the site died, and later on I lost the bookmark. The comic is Great!, its author disappeared (Minus was another popular one of his), but there someone archived a lot of his comics somewhere, let me see if I can dig that up. Also I have the book of the first half of Great and need to brag about that while I'm here. Okay one sec... EDIT: the archive I had bookmarked is dead, but apparently fans bought the old actual domain the author (Ryan Armand) used, and have everything hosted there now. Weird! https://kiwisbybeat.net/ but yeah Great is definitely the comic you were thinking of, it's one of my favorites edit again: jesus christ I was so excited to have recognized someone's description of a partly-remembered comic, that I didn't notice that was the end of a page not the most recent post. I've just duplicated everyone else's work here. I'm a fool. But I'm still happy to have been reminded of Ryan Armand's work, so all's well. Ditocoaf fucked around with this message at 10:28 on May 21, 2023 |
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May 21, 2023 10:15
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The last anyone seems to have heard from him is four years ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/webcomics/comments/8mqpnd/ryan_armand_still_seems_to_be_missing_without_a/ea351a8 How odd, for someone so prominent. I hope he is okay.
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it'd be funny if they ended up being the new Nancy author
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speaking of surprises regarding authors I hadn't heard of in a while, woah, the Dresden Codak author transitioned a while back! good for her! guess it's Lesbian fiction now. at least that's how she tags it on her tumblr now. still don't like that comic much and the Vibe author swore off comics and is doing gamedev now Ramie fucked around with this message at 04:11 on May 25, 2023 |
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I'm trying to figure out if it's intentional that the protagonists of A Girl and Her Fed have become the worst people in the world since the timeskip. It's been such a slow burn, combined with a change in artists, that it was hard for me to figure out the intention behind it, but the fact that Hope is the only person drinking wine at this table is starting to move me a little closer to "it's on purpose that she's awful these days."
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http://nobodyscores.loosenutstudio.com/index.php?id=101 Excuse me Sara but how the gently caress did you know about COVID this comic is from 2006
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https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5059 Got at least a sensible chuckle out of me.
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Wilde Life: heck yeah love this. This lady has some serious impulse control issues.
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I’m extremely hype for Wilde Life Cliff shaking his fist at Oscar because “you seduced and/or hooked up with some crazy lady trying to kill you AGAIN? God drat it”. Honestly though Birdie has been mostly sympathetic to me. Her core issue is she made ONE really bad impulse decision and everything else since then has been panic and self loathing from the increasingly insane circumstances the one bad decision created.
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this game trailer is relevant to the thread. idk if it's been posted before https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256936923/movie_max_vp9.webm?t=1683548438 a demo is available now just ahead of Steam Next Fest... I might play it... it's by the developer of Teslagrad, and World to the West The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Jun 13, 2023 |
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I had no idea what I was meant to be looking at til they revealed the character's face. :v
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the game is Girl Genius - Adventures in Castle Heterodyne if you were like me and had to solve the riddle of the sphinx
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Synthbuttrange posted:I had no idea what I was meant to be looking at til they revealed the character's face. :v it doesn't look super high budget but it is a legit indie developer. i was surprised. but it's a pairing that makes a lot of sense since Teslaglad is also a very clockworky steam-powery game i don't post super much in webcomics threads anymore but i figured at least a couple of people would know girl genius, maybe even still read it
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im quite tickled by it and had no idea. good for them!
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Synthbuttrange posted:I had no idea what I was meant to be looking at til they revealed the character's face. :v
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Synthbuttrange posted:I had no idea what I was meant to be looking at til they revealed the character's face. :v Which happens about five seconds in, so what's the issue? (I did see the trilobite in the first shot and thought "is that...?", but I wasn't sure.)
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lovely video buffering meant I didnt see that so it wasnt til a minute in hahah
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what's even the point if you're not even going to adapt the art style, boycotting until they add at least 6x more gauges and poo poo and make the facial features float around like the blobs in a lava lamp
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Those bastards are putting us back in the castle!
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Return to Castle Namekstein
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Some nice webcomic shoutouts in the last screen
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Gnome de plume posted:Some nice webcomic shoutouts in the last screen Foglio does that in the strip too. Mechanicsburg is plastered with adverts for Gunnerkrigg Court and the like.
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Wild life: fuckin' lol
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Splicer posted:Wild life: fuckin' lol It's great. The comic can have some patches that are pretty slow burn, but overall it definitely slaps.
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"I haven't EATEN yet because of this!" As someone who was a teenage boy in the distant past, there is no statement more severe.
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This is probably my favorite Wilde Life story in a while. Spooky folklore poo poo, good character drama, A+ punchline absolutely howling.
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oscar’s gonna have to buy so much McDonald’s to get out of this jam
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Captain Oblivious posted:absolutely howling. OK, who bought Cliff an account?
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Wilde Life truly rules. This story starts with bird lady seeming like such a mysterious, dangerous person. Nope, she's just some person with executive dysfunction who is in way, way over her head.
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habeasdorkus posted:It looks fun! Early report from 90 minutes of playtime with the Adventures in Castle Heterodyne demo - short answer, it looks like a solid, fun game. It's a third-person action/puzzler game, I guess you'd call it a Metroidvania, since there's a hub, a fast-travel system, and upgrades to allow you to move around and reach new areas. Controls are pretty simple, movement, sprint, and a dodge-roll. Sprinting and rolling use up stamina, which recharges fairly quickly, but it prevents constant spamming of the roll which makes you invulnerable. You have 5 hearts to start and likely more, and you can carry around a special coffee (healing potion) which has 5 charges of 2 hearts (and that's a thing you can upgrade). At certain points you can refill your coffee for a fee of 10 screws. There are resources in the game, screws (very common), gears (moderately common), power sources (rare) and some other things I haven't got names for yet (quite rare or special). Smashing scrap piles, enemy clanks, and breakable containers drop some resources (and the containers respawn). Your first weapon is a fancy wrench (also upgradable), but there are clearly other weapons which will become available later. You can perform a 3-hit combo, with the last hit dealing extra damage and maybe having a slight AoE to it. It's easy enough when there are few foes, but when you are faced with a bunch at once, it can be tricky. I got just past the "arena", which has a bunch of optional challenges you can do to earn resources, although many are locked and the required time is quite tight for the others. Sometimes to open paths, you need to send out one of Agatha's little Dingbots through small cracks in the wall to find switches and get to certain machines which control important mechanisms. These are the puzzle parts. You need to rotate a key-like mechanism to point to one or more "tumblers", while avoiding the key touching some rotating electrical shockers. Touching an electrical shocker will turn on a failure light. You need to unlock all the puzzle tumblers to unlock one of the main tumblers. Get zapped too many times and you have to start over. Even the third one of these mechanisms starts having multiple mini-tumblers needed to be unlocked to unlock just one of the main ones. The dingbot can also find its own tools to use, such as a propeller to fly up vents blowing air up, or drills to burrow into dirt to get past barricades or enemies. You can swap between Agatha and the dingbot by pressing a button, and holding it as the bot will recall it to Agatha (by seemingly destroying it). I've also found a couple of hidden secrets which reward paying attention and puzzling things out. One of which was uncovered by whacking an exploding chick-bot at the right angle to fly into some debris and explode, clearing the path. Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Jun 19, 2023 |
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Really loving this Wilde Life denouement of passively roasting Oscar. Cliff might as well be adding an “lol lmao” at the end.
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I read through Wilde Life's backlog a couple days ago and it's alright, I guess. It's a bit weird back to back how every not-gay woman of similar age to Oscar craves his instant-oatmeal rear end. Maybe I'd appreciate it more if he more regularly dressed/behaved like dreamy teen heartthrob Hank Hill:
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