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Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



I got the "bitches better take their oval office pills" one.

There is a god, and he loves this worst thread, posted on ugliest forum.

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Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



3:30am readin achewood and drinkin whiskey

Hey there Jackie D, tuck me in and be my breakfast

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011





October 12, 2007 :stare:

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



World War Mammories posted:

poo poo'S just BARF you DIDN'T HONOR!

I'm an unfunded hapless nuisance! Hee!

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



ullerrm posted:

Yeah, that arc has tiny flakes of gold in a pile of crap.

Ray Goes To Rehab is the turning point in the strip that leads directly into the downward spiral of Onstad running out of funny and turning his attention towards craft weed soda startups.

Unsurprisingly it starts off right after some filler that showed up to distract everyone from the abrupt ending of Teodor Gets Raped In Nice Pete's Van.

Kazinsal fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Apr 29, 2023

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



As long as it's not Achewood like the post-Nice Pete High School era I'll throw Onstad some canadian tire money.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



kidcoelacanth posted:

boy this AI poo poo sure is a loving bummer

Someone punched in WHAT'S THE BEST THING YOU GOT and it couldn't come up with anything sufficiently Ray.

Shameful.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



I'm thinking about starting a craft soda syrup line. Do you have any advice? —Not Chris Onstad

RayBot posted:

Dear Chris,
A craft soda syrup line? What the hell is that? Is that some gay sex thing? (I’m kidding—I know what that is.) I can tell you one thing: if you want to get into the craft soda syrup business, you are not going to do it by writing to me! Get out there and meet some soda syrup customers and see if you can convince them to buy some of your syrup. Unless you have a background in soda syrup (i.e. work experience in a soda fountain from your childhood), I am not going to advise you on how to go about starting a soda syrup business. Also, even though you identify yourself as Chris, I have no idea if that is your real name. It’s kind of a weird thing to do, to give an assumed name that could be your real name. Anyhow, I kind of lost interest in your question after I made the observation about your name/real name thing.

Started off unexpectedly strong (in a hella 2006 Achewood way), got boring.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Tiny Timbs posted:

I’ve been wondering why people just instantly start getting insanely aggro over even the most innocuous uses of the new AI tools. I guess it’s a twitter thing?

AI generated art was ripping off real artists and was doing stuff that made people VERY angry about the possibility of artists receiving fewer commissions because of it. Then it turned out that AI will never actually be able to convincingly estimate how many fingers are on a human hand, but people kept being mad anyways.

The real current potential Problem with AI is it potentially plagiarizing things without the user knowing -- GitHub's AI code system has received multiple articles about how it'll just straight up regurgitate code from projects without adhering to their licenses, and the users have no idea until someone notices and goes "uh, hey mate, you've made a fuckup here". It's also being leveraged by companies to replace human talent, which both sucks for creative people and is going to result in hilariously expensive lawsuits over aforementioned plagiarism issues.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



I think once we start seeing rashes of people getting expelled from their graduate programs for ChatGPTing purple prose into their theses (almost certainly AI related theses, at that) we'll start to see a downturn in AI bullshit.

In the meantime, we've got legions of dipshit techbros on one side and, apparently, the crispy stellas guy on the other.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



more falafel please posted:

The comic is starting up again because it's hard to send a kid to college when you've had 2 jobs totaling 18 months in your life and merch/soda syrup isn't cutting it anymore

Good news is, he's already gotten at least two semesters' worth in the first 72 hours.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Anyways congrats to Onstad for getting your poo poo together and getting back on the ol Achewood horse. Havin' a crispy stella in your honor.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Ah, old Colonel Ephraim.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Javid posted:

To me, Todd sounds exactly like Ziggy Sobotka

I'm not going to be able to read Achewood the same way ever again.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



more falafel please posted:

It unironically rules that I can walk to The Weed Store and buy a large selection of products from knowledgeable and extremely stoned salespeople then walk out with a bag that stops just short of saying THERE'S WEED IN THIS

Or, here in Canada, happily says "THERE'S WEED IN THIS : )" knowing that nobody can do poo poo about it

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Safety Dance posted:

Are you implying Sondra loved Ted Kaczynski?

Kaczynski ate his cheese. Girls like a boy who eats cheese.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



It's just straight chilled Ketel One with an olive in it to maintain the appearance of class.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



moot the hopple posted:

Adding vaporized to the spreadsheet of Todd's van's troubles

surprised onstad hasn't gotten deep into the thc vape hole before now

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



haven't given onstad my fourteen fifty canadian yet but it sounds like it's going exactly the way we all expected with a month and a half of funnies followed by degeneration into AI derived garbage

will check back in in another six weeks

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



moot the hopple posted:

Teodor naked will always get a laugh out of me.

"You're hung like a cranberry, and it bugs me." is one of those sentences that'll be in my head until the day I die.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Schwarzwald posted:

You say that but in like 48 out of 50 states Taco Bell isn't in competition with anyone for Mexican fast food.

Imagine how bad it is up here in Canada :negative:

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



IIRC, the soul-selling wasn't the catalyst for Ray becoming ultra-rich, it was him scoring a daguerrotype porno off eBay and taking it to Antiques Roadshow.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



moot the hopple posted:

And in different sizes in case he needs to coordinate with his boys like he had this exact situation in mind which is extra funny

I mean, if I were Ray level rich and had a history of having one or more of the homies living in my poolhouse, then yeah, I’d do the same

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Nessus posted:

Teodor was saying Donald Trump was a corny bullshit man long before he staggered his way to his current incubus-like state. It is possible he might have briefly fallen for Musk's public image, but I'm confident he would not have become one of those people.

Also, he will never have enough money to purchase a Tesla.

hush Teodor don't wake up that wino

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



A.o.D. posted:

Better than creating a whole fleet reimbursement system for an alliance. I'm so glad I won 13 years ago.

As someone who currently runs a reimbursement system for an alliance, please loving kill me I yearn for the sweet release of death

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



would it be morally acceptable to adopt a shy little cat and name him roast beef

because I am considering it

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



It and the Ray Has DTs And Nearly Actually Dies arc are probably the two lowest points that Achewood ever hit.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Next dramatic arc: Showbiz Gets The DTs (Nobody Notices)

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



similarly whenever someone at a party breaks out a bottle of mezcal I immediately think "Dude you don't like Gusano Rojo, what you like is that you're holding something the police will fight you for"

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Basically everything from High School and Ray Gets The DTs onwards is pretty much unreadable.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Deathlove posted:

Really hated that new font.

I think it's the same font just rendered differently, probably due to Onstad using a different image editor/workflow. I can get Blue Highway to look preeeeeetty close to how it does in classic Achewood using Photoshop 2024 but sometimes the kerning is just a tad off, and I can't get the italics to slant exactly right.

I was fiddling around with that a bit to try to upscale some panels to much higher resolution, since I kind of want to get canvas prints of the "drat, this is a thing, isn't it? / our every move is the new tradition" panels as I am sorely lacking in esoteric nerd wall art.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011




I had to.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



That strip always sticks out to me for the "I thought that poo poo was just old mayo!" "That don't exactly explain why you tried to eat it" exchange.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Phy posted:

As an aside the internet delivered to me a png so finely calibrated to my tastes it's a wonder I ain't commission it. I give you David Thorpe Roasting Docevil's Wack rear end Shoes, as performed by Ray And Beef:



Onstad can retire again

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Zefiel posted:

^^^ I'm glad I chose it as my forum thingie

I don't even think there was any negative reaction to set it off, dude just wussed out after the comic had been out a couple hours, and then learned how thirsty the internet was for ROCK HARD CAT COCK, yeah.

That's pretty Onstad, yeah.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Antivehicular posted:

There are a few "Beef is uncomfortable with Molly's Lady Things" strips that even at the time read kind of harsh and disdainful. Unfortunately, some of them are also funny. (The Bead Store is extremely funny and also extremely a strip about "women be makin' you go shopping for her boring stupid lady stuff," for example)

SUPPORT EUTHANASIA FOR DUDES WHO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO THE BEAD SHOP

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



moot the hopple posted:

It's only a matter of time before Pat unleashes his true form



Thinking about it now, it occurs to me that when Pat comes out, Ray's immediate response straight to his face is basically "so what's it like being a bottom"

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Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Antivehicular posted:

I had forgotten that the strip launches into the Nice Pete High School arc immediately after wrapping up Philippe Goes Home. There's some kind of metaphor there

The whiplash of "home is the grand illusion" going into "teodor gets raped in a van" and then abruptly into "ray nearly dies from delirium tremens" is the kind of thing that is so harsh that I'm glad Onstad didn't decide to paint the ceiling with his grey matter in the early 2010s.

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