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Zulily Zoetrope posted:smdh if you don't immediately recognize that as a line from the strip "Halfling Baby Steps Are Very Small." oh i remember it, just couldn't lay my hands on it straight away - thanks  I'm doing a full reread with my daughter, she's giving me observations as she goes it's neat, like the parallels between V and Redcloak. we calculated the strip probably has 7-8 years to go, based on being ~200 strips from the end.
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Jan 28, 2024 22:42
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I am 37.
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I am 30.
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I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN!
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:How old is this comic's primary demographic now? My son loves the books and our average age is 22.
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My age is an unholy number and you shall not wrest it from me
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Shaking lemur butt posted:My age is an unholy number and you shall not wrest it from me my child is half the age i was when i started reading oots
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:How old is this comic's primary demographic now? I am 38, and started reading the comic my freshman year of college when I was home on Christmas break in 2004.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:smdh if you don't immediately recognize that as a line from the strip "Halfling Baby Steps Are Very Small." I'm increasingly convinced the Oracle is in fact lying, about Belkar's last breath being literal instead of figurative. That's such an emotional strip too, so good.
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Shaking lemur butt posted:My age is an unholy number and you shall not wrest it from me
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Drakyn posted:So you're six hundred and sixty six? Maybe they're 69 and just saving us from two pages of "nice" replies.
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Nice. e: Nice of them to save us from all those replies, that is!
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I'm 42 and that is a comedy number too.
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W.T. Fits posted:I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN! Drakyn posted:So you're six hundred and sixty six? Well I know what album's next on my playlist.
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Jan 29, 2024 14:42
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I’m 33 and when I first started reading Order of the Stick, the most recent strip was Xykon’s evilgasm. I was intimidated by the size of the comic’s backlog, as I’d never read a serialized webcomic before.
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The X-man cometh posted:I'm 42 and that is a comedy number too. I, too, am a hoopy frood
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I'm 34 and the first time I read OOTS they were at the trial in Azure City, and I was so certain the comic was close to reaching its conclusion.
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The fun thing about OOTS is that you can give it to teens who only got into D&D in 5e and it still hooks them, even when the mechanics jokes don't quite work. The Age can go down!
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I started reading while they were still in the first dungeon. I even bought one of the strip shirts. I think it was for this strip, just something about the goblin randomly being hit after the fact always made me giggle.
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I clicked through to the next strip and it’s the one where Haley does a bunch of gymnastics looking for a trap while the men in the party watch and the joke is “the girl is hot”. Those were such different times…
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So the strip's been going for around 21 years, and if it goes 7 or 8 years more that means even most of the oldest readers will have been reading it for half their lives.
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:So the strip's been going for around 21 years, and if it goes 7 or 8 years more that means even most of the oldest readers will have been reading it for half their lives. I have been reading this comic for a significant majority of my life?? 
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riderchop posted:how old is Rich this year He's 50 in September.
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I can't remember when I started reading this but like. I want to say "Oh yeah I didn't start reading it until much later on" but when I think about how much my life has changed in the time I've been reading this yeah uh wow. 2007? 2008? Even conservatively I've been reading this comic for about 40% of my life what the gently caress.
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I hope everyone having an existential crisis over the longevity of webcomics and the inevitable passage of time is okay 
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Thanks for reminding me of the inexorable forward march of time, my own mortality, and that I've been reading this comic for over half my lifetime already.
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As long as the comic ends before I do, I'm happy. The pace Rich was working at was literally killing him, so I'd prefer to have a drawn out comic and a living author rather than a dead author and a prematurely ended comic.
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The Bee posted:I hope everyone having an existential crisis over the longevity of webcomics and the inevitable passage of time is okay My life has been a positive experience and I'm happy about most of the effects I've had on those around me in that time. Sure, I might die before belkar does, but my corpse won't know that.
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I have no actual reason to believe this, but I don't doubt for even a second that Rich will see this thing through to the end. I also think the end of OOTS will coincide with the end of his career. I mean only he can say, of course, but this just feels to me like one of those projects that you do, and then you lay down your pen forever and go off to look at some incredibly moving landscape while the music swells dramatically and satisfyingly.
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oobey posted:I have no actual reason to believe this, but I don't doubt for even a second that Rich will see this thing through to the end. I just hope it's within the next decade. This isn't an exaggeration. Ten years ago we were finishing up Elan's Family Troubles.
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oobey posted:I have no actual reason to believe this, but I don't doubt for even a second that Rich will see this thing through to the end. This is basically what happened with Howard Tayler when he got done with Schlock Mercenary, afaik. Immediately afterward, he teased a spin-off project, but shortly afterward announced that he realized how much he actually enjoyed not posting a comic strip daily after having done so every day for 20 years, so he decided to go on indefinite vacation instead. Rich might not have been posting pages at the same pace, for understandable reasons, but I could totally see him coming to the same conclusion when it's all done.
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OPAONI posted:I just hope it's within the next decade. He's doing a strip every two weeks, and we are 100 pages into the last book which will probably be 300 strips or so, I figure another eight years.
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Order of the Stick is one of those rare comics where even if it never actually finishes, I still won't regret my time spent with it. But, Rich being Rich, the only way the comic isn't getting done sooner or later is if health issues render him literally incapable of producing content.
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How much Kickstarter content does he have left to finish? I wonder if production on the main comic will pick back up once the backlog is cleared.
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girl dick energy posted:Order of the Stick is one of those rare comics where even if it never actually finishes, I still won't regret my time spent with it. OoTS is up there with Berserk for me in that an ending would be good, but what we got stands up on its own well enough and has had enough moments of being genuinely good fiction that if Rich said he was dropping OotS tomorrow I'd give him my thanks, wish him well and offer to buy a pdf of the incomplete chunk of this final book as a last token of support. So please Mr. Burlew, take 8 years if you need to, or 16, or more, as long as you continue to take care of your health, and you're satisfied with what you're making.
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GimmickMan posted:OoTS is up there with Berserk for me in that an ending would be good, but what we got stands up on its own well enough and has had enough moments of being genuinely good fiction that if Rich said he was dropping OotS tomorrow I'd give him my thanks, wish him well and offer to buy a pdf of the incomplete chunk of this final book as a last token of support. Much like Berserk, we could get another writer to finish OoTS. The creators of Goblins or The Legacy of Dominic Deegan would probably jump at the chance. Is the Moon Over June creator busy?
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DeadBonesBrook posted:Much like Berserk, we could get another writer to finish OoTS. The creators of Goblins or The Legacy of Dominic Deegan would probably jump at the chance. Man it’s been years since people constantly linked Goblins, I feel like I just lost The Game
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