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Bongo Bill posted:Just don't look up how long ago your favorite video game was released. I already know.  Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind. 2002. 16 years. More than half my life. Just like this comic that I didn't start reading until 2010 or so.
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If memory serves, I caught up right as Thog and Elan burst into the hotel room in Azure City. Which was, by the way, a hell of a first impression. Edit: 2006. I did my reading! Twelve years of it! In Azkaban! girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Sep 27, 2018 |
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Sep 27, 2018 23:24
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I had my own lovely geocities hosted sprite comic because of 8bit and now I'm feeling ancient again.
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Sep 27, 2018 23:31
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Bongo Bill posted:Just don't look up how long ago your favorite video game was released. Dungeons of Daggorath in 1982, though I didn't really play it until 1986. I loved it then for its atmosphere and (for me) difficulty, and love it now for all the features they could squeeze into four kilobytes.
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Sep 27, 2018 23:34
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i think the first time I caught up was in the Azure City rebellion arc?? I was definitely in like, middle school though. After that I kept forgetting about the comic for a couple years, then binging the entire thing again, then forgetting about it over and over until the present day when I found this thread so I actually had some notification of when new strips went up it's been a long journey, but I'm glad it's been a part of my life, no matter how intermittently. 
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Sep 27, 2018 23:40
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:Too late. I'm playing Master of Orion lately, a game that was released in 1993. It's a great game. I like playing friendly diplomatic Darloks.
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Sep 27, 2018 23:43
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World Famous W posted:I had my own lovely geocities hosted sprite comic because of 8bit and now I'm feeling ancient again. Didn't we all? The real question is, how many other people's shitcomics did your author avatar appear in?
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Sep 27, 2018 23:50
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Only one. And only cause I made a custom sprite (recolored sonic, ha) for them.
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Sep 27, 2018 23:57
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Bongo Bill posted:Just don't look up how long ago your favorite video game was released. It was Dragon Quest and it was before I was born but not by a lot.
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Sep 27, 2018 23:59
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Facebook Aunt posted:It's a great game. I like playing friendly diplomatic Darloks. I guess that's easier than trying to play Silicoids like the Psilons. And, yeah, I haven't played a 4X game that has the sheer replayability of MOO.
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Sep 28, 2018 00:08
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Lucas Archer posted:Sluggy Freelance is still going? I stopped reading when there was some weird space sailing plot line with bun bun as a pirate or some bullshit. Every now and then I look up some summaries to satisfy my curiosity on how he ridiculously he answered various plotlines (like what Oasis is, which he did recently Organically Augmented Stealth Incendiary Satellite is an AI housed on a satellite which remote controls vat grown bodies for pinpoint targeting of the satellite's beam weapon (her 'pyromancy')  )
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Sep 28, 2018 00:15
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Fun facts about Sluggy Freelance: recently, Pete Abrams' daughter drew a filler arc for the webcomic that's older than her.
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Sep 28, 2018 00:53
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So many of the webcomics I used to follow ended. Either the artist wanted to move on to something better or they felt like their work reached a reasonable stopping point. Sometimes the creator disappeared off the face of the planet (sometimes for the better). After I moved to a different point in my life, I was no longer obsessively looking for more content to consume. And then after you're putting less time into reading your webcomics, you may fall behind on the ones you're not too keen on, which means the next time you revisit them, you've got a backlog to read, and so you start staying away to keep from having that trouble. I still have affection for El Goonish Shive, but that's a whole lot to go back and read, K6BD looks amazing, but that's a whole heck of a lot to go through. Lucas Archer posted:Sluggy Freelance is still going? I stopped reading when there was some weird space sailing plot line with bun bun as a pirate or some bullshit. That was one of my favorite arcs. I also really liked that 4U city arc. Sluggy can be really interesting or fun when it's free to move about and invent weird settings, but when it goes back to the main cast to manage and collate all the decades of plotlines it's such a confusing arbitrary mess, and the drama never works. The comic keeps trying to take these old silly little stories and construct a serious drama out of them, and every time it's stupid.
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Sep 28, 2018 01:30
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i remember the timeless space arc being fun, yeah i think your assessment is on the money; individual story arcs can be good, or well 'good' but together as a whole it's an overgrown mess
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Sep 28, 2018 01:33
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ClanBob got weird with the Gnosticism-powered Anime super-fights and the inability to tell the difference between parody and straight-faced cringiness, but that dumb comic will always hold a place in my memory. I found ClanBob through an ad on 8BT, I found Fark.com through an ad on ClanBob, and I found SA through a post on Fark. The nostalgia is kinda hitting me right now. Oh poo poo, speaking of nostalgia: wthcomics.com edit: Just remembered Megatokyo. Pull up, brain! Pull up! Abort! D1Sergo fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Sep 28, 2018 |
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Sep 28, 2018 01:43
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:I guess that's easier than trying to play Silicoids like the Psilons. And, yeah, I haven't played a 4X game that has the sheer replayability of MOO. MOO was great, but MOO2 was 10x better. So, so many wasted afternoons.
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Sep 28, 2018 01:43
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Bell_ posted:Dungeons of Daggorath in 1982, though I didn't really play it until 1986. Okay come on, no one's favorite game, in the year 2018, is Dungeons of Daggorath. I just checked out a quick Let's Play and holy poo poo, that's not even a timeless classic like Tetris or something, it's a standard first-person dungeon-crawler RPG from a time before graphics or sound were invented. I'm sure your nostalgia is kicking really hard when you look at it, but be real. It's like saying your favorite car is the Model T, like they haven't improved literally every single aspect of it in the last 35 years.
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Phenotype posted:Okay come on, no one's favorite game, in the year 2018, is Dungeons of Daggorath. I just checked out a quick Let's Play and holy poo poo, that's not even a timeless classic like Tetris or something, it's a standard first-person dungeon-crawler RPG from a time before graphics or sound were invented. I'm sure your nostalgia is kicking really hard when you look at it, but be real. It's like saying your favorite car is the Model T, like they haven't improved literally every single aspect of it in the last 35 years. Nethack is still playable in 2018. (I agree about Dungeons of Daggorath, though. It was marginally playable back then, now it's poop.)
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Sep 28, 2018 01:52
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D1Sergo posted:edit: Just remembered Megatokyo. Pull up, brain! Pull up! Abort! It's still going on, and it still hasn't escaped the black hole of plot that is the sad dying goth mary sue girl.
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Sep 28, 2018 01:55
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Something Positive is still going too, apparently.
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Sep 28, 2018 01:58
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D1Sergo posted:ClanBob got weird with the Gnosticism-powered Anime super-fights and the inability to tell the difference between parody and straight-faced cringiness, but that dumb comic will always hold a place in my memory. I found ClanBob through an ad on 8BT, I found Fark.com through an ad on ClanBob, and I found SA through a post on Fark. The nostalgia is kinda hitting me right now. megatokyo is still going and despite occurring in our universe supposedly not enough time has passed for 9/11 to have happened
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Sep 28, 2018 02:11
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Gynovore posted:Nethack is still playable in 2018. (I agree about Dungeons of Daggorath, though. It was marginally playable back then, now it's poop.) Oh yeah, but Nethack is ridiculously deep and does a lot with what it has (ascii!). That's why I mentioned timeless classics like Tetris! Some games just nailed their mechanics really early on. Dungeon-crawler CRPGs were not on that list though.
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Sep 28, 2018 02:18
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Sky Shadowing posted:God drat it thread I saw a lot of new posts and thought there was a new comic but instead you all just made me feel old! drat you! To make you feel old. I'm pretty sure I started reading the comic and this thread, before Azure City I'm pretty sure. I forget when exactly but that sounds right. Bongo Bill posted:Just don't look up how long ago your favorite video game was released. October 28, 1998 Take a guess. You have a real blatant hint a little to the left of this post. It came out when I was 11, and it's nearly two decades old now jesus.
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Sep 28, 2018 02:22
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Shugojin posted:megatokyo is still going
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Sep 28, 2018 02:31
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D1Sergo posted:
I bet like 2 days have passed in that stupid comic since I last looked at it in like 2004 Shugojin posted:megatokyo is still going and despite occurring in our universe supposedly not enough time has passed for 9/11 to have happened e: I knew it!
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Sep 28, 2018 03:31
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Has the self-insert dude gotten the girl yet? I bet not.
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Sep 28, 2018 03:34
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Megatokyo still existing is fascinating. I had assumed it had Dead Piro Day'd itself into oblivion.
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Sep 28, 2018 03:36
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Next you are going to tell me Brian Clevinger has quietly been keeping 8-Bit Theater running.
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Sep 28, 2018 03:40
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Nope, 8-Bit Theater actually had a real ending and Clevinger's gone on to be a comic book author and stuff.
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Sep 28, 2018 03:43
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he also puts up the comics online after they've been in print a while: https://www.atomic-robo.com
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Sep 28, 2018 04:00
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Most all my old webcomics either ended (Queen of Wands, Absurd Notions, Ozy and Millie) or should have before they went off the rails. (GPF, Sinfest, S*P, Sluggy, Megatokyo, QC) Surprised Real Life Comics just came back, though.
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Sep 28, 2018 04:02
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Manuel Calavera posted:To make you feel old. I'm pretty sure I started reading the comic and this thread, before Azure City I'm pretty sure. I forget when exactly but that sounds right. Don’t feel bad, I still replay Baldur’s Gate regularly
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Sep 28, 2018 04:07
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Cat Mattress posted:Fun facts about Sluggy Freelance: recently, Pete Abrams' daughter drew a filler arc for the webcomic that's older than her. That's remarkably wholesome, actually.
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Sep 28, 2018 06:12
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I still reread Sluggy Freelance every five years or so. It used to take me about a week and now its between two and three. I won't argue the quality of it because what a huge mess but it's kind of a habit at this point.
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Sep 28, 2018 07:01
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Anyone who isn't reading Oglaf is messing up.
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Sep 28, 2018 09:10
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Potsticker posted:Megatokyo still existing is fascinating. I had assumed it had Dead Piro Day'd itself into oblivion. Megatokyo is amazing, because the tagline on the main page is still "Relax, we understand j00", a joke written 18 years ago by a person who quit the comic 17 years ago underneath a banner that was last updated 8 years ago, and yet, it persists....
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Sep 28, 2018 10:03
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Megatokyo is amazing, because the tagline on the main page is still "Relax, we understand j00", a joke written 18 years ago by a person who quit the comic 17 years ago underneath a banner that was last updated 8 years ago, and yet, it persists.... Honestly that doesn't surprise me, especially going around checking old comics and seeing how little either site design has changed or even things like cast pages which haven't been updated in 10+ years.
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Sep 28, 2018 10:06
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Bongo Bill posted:Just don't look up how long ago your favorite video game was released. While watching SGDQ this summer, one couch dude says to the speedrunner: "You know, it's funny that you're running a game that's older than you are." Game: Half-Life (released 1998). A game which I remember eagerly waiting for, and playing on release day. Made me feel SUPER old.
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Sep 28, 2018 10:47
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Shugojin posted:megatokyo is still going and despite occurring in our universe supposedly not enough time has passed for 9/11 to have happened Okay but what does "still going" mean for a comic like megatokyo? Like how many actual pages have come out in the last five years? Ten?
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Okay but what does "still going" mean for a comic like megatokyo? Like how many actual pages have come out in the last five years? Ten? Enough for the dude to bank two Gs a month from patreon, at any rate. Stuff like that and the dwarf fortress guys really make me regret not finding some nerd niche to exploit. Not that the webcomic guy even remotely compares to the DF guys -- holy poo poo do the DF guys clean up for what they do.
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