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my dad posted:It was never a TVTropes reference. I think he meant that TVTropes used that panel as a reference for the article on "lampshading the joke"
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my dad posted:It was never a TVTropes reference. NihilCredo posted:I think he meant that TVTropes used that panel as a reference for the article on "lampshading the joke"
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girl dick energy posted:Went through the effort of digging this back up again. Admittedly part of that after the first is because how much I ended up disliking Celia after the thieves guild bit.
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girl dick energy posted:Went through the effort of digging this back up again. Your honor, League of Legends.
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Feb 28, 2024 15:52
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NihilCredo posted:I think he meant that TVTropes used that panel as a reference for the article on "lampshading the joke" Correct.
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Schwarzwald posted:Your honor, League of Legends. Death.
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I remember catching up to the comic when Vaarsuvius was freeing O-Chul. I went to check and that was 15 years ago 
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I've been aware of OOTS since sometime in the first book but nothing there grabbed my attention. Someone linked to #322 at some point, and reading forward from there I was hooked. The latest comic at that point was #607 or so.
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I believe I first found OotS through the 8-Bit Theater guest strip he did, and have been following it ever since. As for when I first started posting this thread (I'm pretty sure I lurked for a while before joining in on the discussion):W.T. Fits posted:My guess is that he's been optimized as a purely combat-focused character, and therefore didn't bother with maxing his ranks in Search since it wouldn't have been relevant for his build. Or he traded out Trapfinding for some alternate class feature, so he can't even search for traps even if he had ranks in Search. This was back during Blood Runs in the Family, when they had the dominated kobold search the pyramid's steps for traps. Huh, that was really twelve years ago? Feels almost like yesterday. 
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I don't remember when I started reading, but I believe I caught up to current somewhere in Blood Runs in the Family. I first posted in the thread back in 2014, after #938.
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Mar 2, 2024 07:19
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I think the very first strip I saw might have been #67, the one where Nale falls off the bridge he broke and is hanging by his fingertips. So I didn't have a lot of catching up to do  .I remember clicking on OotS because it was always hanging out near the top of that one webcomic popularity ranking site. Hadn't really played any DnD at the time, though when I went to university my best friend I made there was a huge fan and he introduced me to DnD and other tabletop RPG systems.
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The first strip I saw was Elan+Thog in prison (#387), but the not-Nale/nail/etc speech was such a bunch of gibberish to me at the time, that I bounced off it. I think I came back to the comic during the between-book hiatus after Don't Split The Party.
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RL friends pointed me to this strip and that was def sometime in the mid-oughts. I remember someone asking me if I'd gotten up to the jokes about Belkar's lead sheet yet.
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I think I just saw this thread and hopped on when V was busy making some very poor decisions while having a sick haircut.
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I usually stay out of the first strip conversation, because I can never really remember. But this morning I epiphanated, and realized that most of the mid-aughts webcomics I follow were found from the GitP forums, so this comic recommendation had to come from somewhere else, and there was only one place that made sense: The guest comic Rich did for 8-bit Theater. Since that was in the archive but not deep in the archive at the time, I am pretty sure I started reading OotS around strip 200.
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My first strip was during the thumb incident so it's burned into my brain.
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I started reading somewhere in the early 300s but I don't remember exactly when. They hadn't left Azure City yet.
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Funnily enough, the newest strip when I started reading was 482, Leaving Azure City (got updated midway). That was 17 years ago? sheesh.
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When I started reading people were still debating Miko's alignment lol EDIT: just checked and my very first post itt is from 2007 and is about erfworld being bad, double lol
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Wolfsheim posted:When I started reading people were still debating Miko's alignment lol
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Wolfsheim posted:When I started reading people were still debating Miko's alignment lol Got to be gratifying to see both of these arguments definitively and unambiguously settled in the years since.
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I used to really like Miko and was sad she didn't join the party. These days I get why she was so lovely and why she had to end up like she did narrative wise, but still kind of wish she had joined the party just to see her go through character development kicking and screaming.
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isasphere posted:I used to really like Miko and was sad she didn't join the party. These days I get why she was so lovely and why she had to end up like she did narrative wise, but still kind of wish she had joined the party just to see her go through character development kicking and screaming. Then again, perhaps not. Redemption is a rare and special thing, after all. It is not for everyone.
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I think I started reading with maybe the strip where language-impaired Haley was unwittingly being romanced by Nale...? Somewhere around the Azure City events, not long before my low-effort OP made about when Miko killed Shojo. Now, why did you start reading? Can you remember? I can't. It was probably linked in a general webcomics thread here on the forums for me...?
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Yeah, there was a minute in the early 2000’s where I went down a webcomics rabbit hole and started reading everything from Questionable Content and Something Positive (cringeworthy but not actively offensive) to Dominic Deegan and Ctrl-Alt-Del (big oof on both counts). This remains the lone survivor of those days.
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Thaddius the Large posted:Yeah, there was a minute in the early 2000’s where I went down a webcomics rabbit hole and started reading everything from Questionable Content and Something Positive (cringeworthy but not actively offensive) to Dominic Deegan and Ctrl-Alt-Del (big oof on both counts). This remains the lone survivor of those days. Yeah same though never Deegan
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I started reading in 08 because I was a college freshman and was kinda late getting into webcomics so I was binging a whole bunch like 8-Bit Theatre, Penny Arcade etc and OotS was just one of those.
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The comic was recommended to me because I used to draw dumb little stick figures on chalkboards in high school, and somebody said hey there's a webcomic where it's all stick figures. At the time I was aware of D&D but mostly understood that it was a web comic tied to nerdy game mechanics like all the other stuff out there at the time. I think by the time I caught up, Thog had just killed the Earth elemental in the first dungeon. I read off and on ever since, but really started checking updates regularly when I joined SA.
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SuperKlaus posted:I think I started reading with maybe the strip where language-impaired Haley was unwittingly being romanced by Nale...? Somewhere around the Azure City events, not long before my low-effort OP made about when Miko killed Shojo. I used to read like dozens if not hundreds of webcomics and I picked it up along the way. I've read most things people have heard of, even garbage like Least I Could Do.
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SuperKlaus posted:I think I started reading with maybe the strip where language-impaired Haley was unwittingly being romanced by Nale...? Somewhere around the Azure City events, not long before my low-effort OP made about when Miko killed Shojo. A link from Nodwick
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For me I think it very well may have been this thread or a precursor. I was in a bad headspace in September 2007 leaving a job I wasn’t thrilled by to move back home across country to move in with my fiancé and playing out my last two weeks at the job. With little on my plate I binged OOTS for most of the day. Then I went with an RSS feed of the site for updates versus checking it every day. Then it dawned on me that goons here would post updates so I didn’t bring over that feed when I swapped computers. Now I just kind of lurk this thread and read as they come. My desire for ritualistic posts questioning Rich’s health has waned over the years. But so has my memory- what were the KS bonus stories? Cliffport PD, Ochuul and Dim Sun?? I know I read Ochuul’s backstory with how the sapphire guild was uhh not kind to Goblins. But not sure I read the rest or if they even exist.
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I found OOTS when Erfworld was at the same site, then realized I liked OOTS better
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The X-man cometh posted:I found OOTS when Erfworld was at the same site, then realized I liked OOTS better I still have good memories of Erfworld, really homes in on what I like about Isekai. I petered off once it transitioned to splitting between text updates and art, which is understandable why they'd do that but I wasn't in my phase yet where I liked VNs. If anything in retrospect that seemed like a missed opportunity, albeit this was way before VNs really found their market here. That probably would've let them have the best of both worlds.
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I started reading because I had/have a near-crippling webcomic addiction that it took boxing up my computer a few years ago to supress, and even know I go to the ones the address of which I can remember. I'm pretty uncritical, so I'll hang on to something forever, just realizing one day that it's been a long time since I worked up the enthusiasm to go look at the thing I like, or think I like.
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I used to read a bunch of webcomics out of sheer inertia more than anything but almost universally they reach a point where I just nope out. OotS is like the only one that hasn't reached that point. (and I'm usually pretty strong with Inertia. I read Questionable Content for way longer than I liked it until it became exclusively about robots loving.)
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I read a lot of webcomics when I was younger, especially before being able to read manga online was as big as a thing. So when I hit the various hiatus points or points where the webcomic was more or less up to date my interest and engagement waned. Although there's a few I'm planning on revisiting and seeing where they at, that I had fond memories of and enjoyed but lost track of. I'm just kinda "saving" them for a rainy day.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Although there's a few I'm planning on revisiting and seeing where they at, that I had fond memories of and enjoyed but lost track of. I'm just kinda "saving" them for a rainy day. You're probably happier now than you would be if you revisited those old webcomics. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss.
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ultrafilter posted:You're probably happier now than you would be if you revisited those old webcomics. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss. Eh not really, I revisited a couple and was pleasantly surprised. Some have aged better honestly.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Eh not really, I revisited a couple and was pleasantly surprised. Some have aged better honestly. Do you have any personal recs of those that aged better? Edit: For the General Webcomics thread if this would be off-topic here?
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Post the good webcomics here or we'll have nothing to do but argue about alignment.
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