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Sorry to butt in, but I wondered if anyone would be interested in the complete Achewood in PDF files? I don't know what the rules concerning that might be. I've been lurking here on and off for a few years now, and it looks like the complete canon might not make it after all. Content I have collected: All graphics re-worked and upscaled to 4x size for future-proofing All strips with alt-text, story arcs bookmarked in PDFs All alternate endings, errata Ray's place Subscriber stuff - 2002, '03, '04 including Mother F***ing Vodka Day, complete Nate Small. Hug Hog strip (post wedding) Blogs interleaved in chronological order as they appear on the web Book texts - Prologue, A History of Achewood, Before we were Achewood, Clowns with benefits GOF extra non-strip text - Recipes, Fight history, Profiles in Strength, Glossary Five extra GOF strips/panels from the book Stanford Chaparral pieces 2005's Chicken Recipe strip Facebook in-character posts Twitter in-character posts All GOF posters Both Dark Horse strips - One Dollar Genius (2008) and The Garage Sale (2009) Colour updated strips - Ray gets sort of stoned, Comic Sans et al Spin magazine special 2012 Cornelius interview for Time Magazine, Nov 17, 2009 Mashups and Tributes to Achewood "Griddle of our Sorrowful Mentor" panel. Any takers?
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Zereth posted:Definitely If that's not on my list and someone has it, then I'd be very interested in getting it into the books. ------ Okay, so may the lord have mercy on my soul, here's the books: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o67BcrIKLU15-hejy0amKly1YeXOWiP3?usp=sharing There's 11 books in there, one per year until the sparse activity from '11 onwards made that a fake idea. Feedback welcome.
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Jul 11, 2022 11:05
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Stringent posted:this is awesome. you are awesome. Thanks, that means a lot. I've sat on these for a while, and the cancellation of my Amazon pre-order was the final straw. I am sad, but also happy that finally I'm just gonna put these out there.
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Jul 11, 2022 11:23
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Zereth posted:Oh I don't have it or know where to find it. Yeah that was it. I remember when I subscribed, the guy who was running it for Onstad up and died, but continued to collect subs at like £12 a year. I never got access to those archives either. It's unlikely that archive.org will have them too, as they were behind a paywall. Still, if anyone has any clues... But thanks, I can better direct my searches now.
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Jul 11, 2022 11:32
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I just mostly remember beef and molly taking a road trip.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Best link, posted on deadest gay comedy forums. Ok, nearly choked on my cornflakes at that one 
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Jul 11, 2022 14:22
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Stringent posted:i've gone through three volumes already and you've done a bang up job on this. It gets pretty heavy going from 2004 onwards as the blogs and stuff start to kick in. Glad you're enjoying it.
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Jul 12, 2022 16:32
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theironjef posted:I would also like all that stuff. Feel free to grab it, it's available to all.
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Jul 12, 2022 20:58
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ColdPie posted:You know, this would make a decent book. There are plenty of self-publishing places on the web that will print you a one-off. It's expensive but might be worth doing. I'd not put the whole lot into one volume though - 2004 alone weighs in at what, about 450 pages? The whole thing would be a mammoth tome.
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Jul 13, 2022 10:41
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Halloween Jack posted:There used to be a Great Outdoor Fight wiki, but it's been gone for years. https://web.archive.org/web/20080922002914/http://greatoutdoorfight.com/index.php/Main_Page There's a lot missing but most of it is findable if you skip around the dates a bit. I'm currently collating it all so I can add it in as an addendum to the 2006 volume.
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Jul 14, 2022 22:26
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xiw posted:I have the email updates for this from #71 through #300 or so and some random later ones - i should see what I can do to extract them. A lot o them are just images which are long gone but there are also reasonable chunks. hexwren posted:yeah, I've got the images. also with them are a few small pdfs. lemme see about a way to upload this stuff. it's like six megs. Oh my days. This is excellent and thankyou. I'll find the proper places (probably appropriate years' appendices) and get them into the books. I'll update the thread when done. Any texts from emails, any images. It all goes it if it's official (and some not so official, but segregated from the rest) it's in. Thanks guys!
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Jul 15, 2022 11:44
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I assume everyone here is listening to the Brain Tape podcast? https://pod.link/braintape/
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Jul 18, 2022 13:01
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drrockso20 posted:a sort of Fruitcake with nuts, probably would actually be rather pleasant Describes our congregation quite well. Edit: OMG I don't know who did that but drat that's the most perfect avatar ever! Many thanks! Dunny fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Jul 26, 2022 |
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Jul 26, 2022 08:51
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Jerusalem posted:I did not buy the avatar, but have fun with it, Dunny Oh, I intend to. On vacation next week, will try to get a new set of books up with the new content before I go away. If not, it will be the week after.
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Jul 26, 2022 17:24
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Eau de MacGowan posted:only this thread would understand immediately where my mind went "the top half of his helmet is over by what looks like a little wet pile of pink marshmallows, only we know it's not marshmallows because it has an ear."
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Jul 28, 2022 10:34
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Tiny Timbs posted:Is there any hope that Achewood might be remastered through some ML/vectorizer thing? The comics are looking awfully blurry these days. Not quite what you were asking for but: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o67BcrIKLU15-hejy0amKly1YeXOWiP3?usp=sharing
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Aug 2, 2022 16:14
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garfield hentai posted:Was the "Ray goes to Australia" stuff written for something else and then shoved in the blogs later? I never noticed before the PDF compilations, but while most of the other supplemental material fits in chronologically with the strip this has Ray bouncing back and forth between being home and in Australia (and waiting a month for his flight to take off). There's some other blogs also that don't quite seem to fit, so I'm guessing that Chris had stories on the back burner and uploaded them when he was short on realtime stuff? That said, if there are any corrections that you feel would make more sense then I'm open to re-working the timeline. Also if I've just straight-up gotten stuff wrong then again, speak up.
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Aug 4, 2022 16:09
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ColdPie posted:Just got back from buying five pairs of socks and an SD card. Having a very Roast Beef "me" day. That's 365 pairs of socks and an SD card.
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Sep 15, 2022 12:15
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e-dt posted:oops. i posted my achewood batch here instead of the pyf comic thread <catching up> pyf? what is that? ...oh oh poo poo. now how am I gonna get any work done?
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Oct 2, 2022 14:48
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Zereth posted:I think oh no robot doesn't cover the entire archive. Yeah, it stops well short. I'm manually adding all the text into the books as invisible text boxes so you will be able to search the books though. And I may condense it all into one mammoth volume yet, which will make the search actually useful.
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Oct 6, 2022 01:43
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DACK FAYDEN posted:ohnorobot doesn't go forward past like 08, mid 09, something like that I'm slowly adding all the text as actual text to the PDFs, and when I (eventually) compile the whole thing into one mammoth PDF file, it will be usable for searches.
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Nov 3, 2022 20:29
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Doing some tests; The upscaler that comes with Stable Diffusion is a good jumping off point for 2022 resolution Achewood art - still some tidying up on edges and font replacement, but its quicker than redoing the whole thing with pen curves. Jesus that is good. Much better than what I got with waifu2x. I may have to re-do the entire books with SD now. Crap, but also drat.
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Dec 17, 2022 02:01
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more falafel please posted:oh poo poo where is this pdf. I've been in a "reread and do a deep dive" mode on a bunch of poo poo recently, especially with achewood because of Brain Tape devoting 40 minutes to each solitary strip. oh poo poo sorry missed this. You want this: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o67BcrIKLU15-hejy0amKly1YeXOWiP3?usp=share_link There's stuff in there you ain't seen before guaranteed.
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Jan 13, 2023 01:52
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Scags McDouglas posted:Does anyone happen to remember a written piece done in the character of Nice Pete where he attacks a park ranger? Can't find the Nice Pete bit (if you do, please pass it on - I'm gonna get around to updating the books and would love to include it) but here's lyle's personality test.  I've yet to place this in the books alongside some other new/old stuff, I'll get to it soon, promise.
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Jan 25, 2023 12:08
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Scags McDouglas posted:Oh my GOD YOU SWEET, SEXY BEAUTIFUL MAN. I never thought I would see this again. There is absolutely a Ray version somewhere out there. Go here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o67BcrIKLU15-hejy0amKly1YeXOWiP3?usp=sharing And in the "to_be_included.zip" file is stuff I have (donated by @hexwren with thanks) you will find various stuffs. If anyone can date the stuff in there I can figure out which books to add them into.
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Hey 'chos - The books have been updated with some minor but important layout and typo improvements, so if that's the sort of thing you like, then this is the sort of thing you'll like: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o67BcrIKLU15-hejy0amKly1YeXOWiP3?usp=share_link Still not managed to get the new stuff in, but who knows, maybe this weekend will be the charm. Enjoy
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Youremother posted:Aaaaahhh...a snap of the cap for the cat with the... What Bensington intended to end that rhyme with has haunted me for years. I always quite fancied "rap" for that one. One of my favourites, but drat does it disturb me somewhat: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=08242007 "M-Mom? Mommy? I... I'm in trouble... I made... a... a really bad choice..." I can imagine, as a kid, being really, really worried that this was an outcome that could happen to me, and that - as an adult - I know there's no way back from that, but as a kid you really hope that your mum can save you... Yeah that hits hard.
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Mar 24, 2023 12:17
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Safety Dance posted:I splurged on one of those new e-paper tablets and loaded all of the Achewood PDFs onto it, of course. I've been wondering about nabbing one of these. Which is it? ReMarkable? Or summats else?
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Apr 3, 2023 15:42
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Holy poo poo. Holy poo poo dudes. Ok, I'll be subbing definitely this is a done thing. I'll not be making a new book while this is still live though, that goes without saying.
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May 6, 2023 09:38
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Strange Cares posted:Milk and eggs minder.... undersized wallpapers...gone... like so many tears in the rain... poo poo, I best add them to the books before they (inevitably) get taken down.
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May 6, 2023 14:09
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Nessus posted:He claims to have done several months worth of content and if nothing else I never got to buy merch or whatever, so I am willing to give the sad cat cartoon man nine dollars per month for at least one month. Totally off-topic but drat I like your profile pic/avatar thing. Given your name I'm guessing it's a Pierson's Puppeteer and that you and I may have a fuckload in common sci-fi-wise. Do you have the image in a larger size?
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May 8, 2023 10:24
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There has been some quite lively and spirited discussion on the discord as to the nature of current AI and the application thereof. It's been... fun.
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May 9, 2023 00:31
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I've always thought that Ray sounds like me. Beef also sounds like me but quieter and less confident. Pat sounds like me too. In fact I think there may be a pattern forming here.
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May 16, 2023 18:39
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Strange Cares posted:It’s definitely a nudge towards the door for me. Hopefully Onstad gets the latest idiotic Silicon Valley craze out of his system soon. You know he also made an AI chatbot as well as AI images to insert into the script, yeah? Just how far away is this door of yours?
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Jun 24, 2023 16:41
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Strange Cares posted:It's getting pretty close tbh. It's a shame you feel that way. I saw someone on Ars refer to it as "Schrodinger's AI - Simultaneously incapable of producing anything of value, while taking every job that has any value" It's here and it's not gonna go away no matter how much we resist it. These things never do. I suppose the bright side is that no artist will ever have to debase themselves to the level of furry porn again, it's quite nice that the AI has given us that.
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Jun 25, 2023 09:58
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Strange Cares posted:Yeah without anything to replace it, what you're saying is that you're glad that a lot of artists will no longer be able to support themselves off of their art. A friend of mine is basically only able to pay rent and live a comfortable life because of the extra work they get off of commissions from internet perverts. Apparently no one pays like furries do, and they tend to even tip. As opposed to every other job making art, which is "do work for us for free and eat dirt and then thank us for the privilege, you slime." Yes but the upside is they don't have to make furry porn anymore.
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ovenboy posted:What's the best way of rereading achewood? I went through most of what was there while at a lovely job in -09, but I never checked out the blogs. Is there some smart way of check everything out in chronological order? I've got a boring summer gig. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o67BcrIKLU15-hejy0amKly1YeXOWiP3?usp=drive_link is probably the best way, if I'm totally honest :p
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Jul 6, 2023 19:45
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robot roll call posted:are you ever honest with yourself? I mean, about everything. Only about certain chicken preparations.
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Jul 7, 2023 10:09
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BitterAvatar posted:I love this line so much and I've tried to use it when friends gently caress up and it's just impossible to convey properly Wait, I hosed up?
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Zereth posted:In one of his advice columns, Ray references a real bar in Palo Alto (well, it may have closed since) as being in Achewood. I lived there for a lot of the strip's run, there's a lot of things that match up. Hey where do we reckon the Transfer Station is then? I've often wondered that. It's gotta be near a bay, I think?
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I think the lyrics might suggest that Pat is in some real trouble here.
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