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"I hope Rich is ok" is the standard line for hoping a new strip gets posted soon. It's a holdover from a time Rich was posting about dealing with health issues, but these days it just means "it's been over a week, what the heck" or "I am not enjoying this current thread of discussion."
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:"I hope Rich is ok" is the standard line for hoping a new strip gets posted soon. It's a holdover from a time Rich was posting about dealing with health issues, but these days it just means "it's been over a week, what the heck" or "I am not enjoying this current thread of discussion." Thanks for keeping me up to date with the thread vernacular. 
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May 5, 2020 02:01
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You will hear it quite often just before and/or during alignment arguments.
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May 5, 2020 02:07
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"I hope Rich is OK" is just like, an ironic thread joke that pokes fun at the gitp forums as well. Since asking about Rich's health gets you their equivalent of a probe because those forums had a big wave of questions about it at one point. I think it's morphed here as a sort of ironic echo.
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May 5, 2020 02:08
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Raenir Salazar posted:"I hope Rich is OK" is just like, an ironic thread joke that pokes fun at the gitp forums as well. Since asking about Rich's health gets you their equivalent of a probe because those forums had a big wave of questions about it at one point. I think it's morphed here as a sort of ironic echo.
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May 5, 2020 02:15
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The joke itself is probably eight or ten years old itself, too.
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May 5, 2020 02:47
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PMush Perfect posted:This is true. There's some speculation about what the issue is, and once upon a time you might have even called it an open secret, but Rich has loudly and continuously requested that people not discuss his private medical issues for... I think a decade now. I got rightly chewed out for talking about what his health issues "probably are" a while back. it's like the mystery of the monster in the dark but the darkness is like in rich's bowels or w/e
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May 5, 2020 03:15
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Imagine if the Monster in the Dark turns out to be a satisfying reveal. With Rich I'm willing to hope
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May 5, 2020 04:34
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Got 'em. Just keep hitting next. Good memories! (Sorry about the confusion)
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May 5, 2020 05:44
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sebmojo posted:it's like the mystery of the monster in the dark but the darkness is like in rich's bowels or w/e The MitD is going to drop the umbrella and it'll be an inflamed colon.
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May 5, 2020 08:32
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Getting caught up on the strip, and I appreciate that the basic potion guy in the last one is a stick-figure version of O'aka from Final Fantasy X. I'll always remember him because there's an exchange with him in FFX where someone actually asks him why he's charging for poo poo, since if the party loses their next fight, O'aka's as good as dead. He says, without missing a beat, "I have faith in your abilities."
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May 6, 2020 01:13
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Wanderer posted:Getting caught up on the strip, and I appreciate that the basic potion guy in the last one is a stick-figure version of O'aka from Final Fantasy X.
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May 6, 2020 01:40
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FMguru posted:There was one JRPG, I forget which, that had the potion seller set up his tent right next to the final save point before the ending boss castle/fight - except all his consumables were free. I know Lunar had your best friend who took over a shop just going "uh yeah the world is in danger, have free stuff."
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May 6, 2020 02:19
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Wanderer posted:Getting caught up on the strip, and I appreciate that the basic potion guy in the last one is a stick-figure version of O'aka from Final Fantasy X. That wasn't O'aka that said that, it was Rin!
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May 6, 2020 08:23
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Tenebrais posted:That wasn't O'aka that said that, it was Rin! Yeah o'aka is in prison for being Australian or something at that point.
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May 6, 2020 16:10
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fool of sound posted:Yeah o'aka is in prison for being Australian or something at that point. he's in prison for helping the main characters, which is clearly a false charge.
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fool of sound posted:Yeah o'aka is in prison for being Australian or something at that point. fair enough.
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May 6, 2020 21:51
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I hope Rich is okay.
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May 14, 2020 00:15
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Rich are you ok?
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May 14, 2020 03:29
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:I hope Rich is okay. It's been so long I feel like it's time we break out the big guns and turn this into a Goblins read-along thread.
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May 14, 2020 04:07
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Usually, long delays mean there’s something big coming that Rich needs to prep for, doesn’t it?
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May 14, 2020 06:47
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PMush Perfect posted:Usually, long delays mean there’s something big coming that Rich needs to prep for, doesn’t it? For example, an urgent hand surgery.
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May 14, 2020 07:03
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It has been a little over two weeks, which is nothing for an OOTS update. The fact that the forums are down (at least for me) is a bit more concerning.
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May 14, 2020 07:04
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PMush Perfect posted:Usually, long delays mean there’s something big coming that Rich needs to prep for, doesn’t it? I can't find it but I believe he's said the early parts of a book and the combat are often the hardest to write, because they require the most thought.
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May 14, 2020 11:50
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Does Rich make a full time living off Oots or does he have another full-time job? I would think the comic is full-time now for how long and popular it is, but maybe I am over estimating the draw.
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May 14, 2020 15:34
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Donkringel posted:Does Rich make a full time living off Oots or does he have another full-time job? I would think the comic is full-time now for how long and popular it is, but maybe I am over estimating the draw. He's been full-time for more than a decade now. The reprinting kickstarter he did alone raised over a million dollars (that he then kind of squandered because he's a weirdo who refuses to just let people give him money).
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May 14, 2020 15:38
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AnoHito posted:The reprinting kickstarter he did alone raised over a million dollars (that he then kind of squandered because he's a weirdo who refuses to just let people give him money). I wouldn't say squandered so much as 'didn't keep a dime for himself', but you're spot on with the rest of it. Speaking of which, did he ever finish that Work-O-Meter or is there still "Patience" drawings to go?
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May 14, 2020 16:59
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If you have to bet on whether the comic or the Kickstarter rewards finish first, it's not clear where the smart money is.
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May 14, 2020 17:02
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Yeah the Kickstarter suffered from terrible stretch goal creep but not in a funny way like star citizen
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May 14, 2020 17:08
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Shugojin posted:Yeah the Kickstarter suffered from terrible stretch goal creep but not in a funny way like star citizen It's also worth mentioning that his was one of the first crowdfunding projects to exist, so there wasn't the body of wisdom saying "don't do a million stretch goals" that exists now.
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May 14, 2020 17:11
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AnoHito posted:because he's a weirdo who refuses to just let people give him money)
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May 14, 2020 17:18
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:It's also worth mentioning that his was one of the first crowdfunding projects to exist, so there wasn't the body of wisdom saying "don't do a million stretch goals" that exists now.
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May 14, 2020 17:36
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PMush Perfect posted:He’s finally softened up on that, and is selling book PDFs and even has a Patreon. I suspect it’s because physical merch sales have been declining over the past few years. I think that and also it's a lot harder to make money on ad revenue now than when he started so just letting people throw him a minimum of $2 /month on Patreon will give him a lot more money than that person's ad views in a month likely would have.
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Shugojin posted:I think that and also it's a lot harder to make money on ad revenue now than when he started so just letting people throw him a minimum of $2 /month on Patreon will give him a lot more money than that person's ad views in a month likely would have. Particularly since at the current pace, most people are only visiting the site 3-4 times a month, as opposed to several times a week as in the early days.
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May 14, 2020 18:07
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 Rich status: okay
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May 15, 2020 14:56
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It worked.  The panel with Minrah and Durkon seems somewhat ominous.
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May 15, 2020 15:11
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Nah, just dwarves being dwarves.
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May 15, 2020 15:15
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They wouldn't spend so much time describing the spell if it wasn't going to backfire somehow right?
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ikanreed posted:They wouldn't spend so much time describing the spell if it wasn't going to backfire somehow right? Could be a Chekhov's gun: the 3e version of Wind Walk lasts 1 hour per level, during which time you can fly at 60mph by changing from gaseous to physical form and back again at will. It's basically "Hey, did everyone ever want to be superheroes all day long?" the spell.
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I appreciate V's extremely good burn.
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