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SardonicTyrant posted:It's more of a visual grovel right now. a graphic grovel
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Rand Brittain posted:I'm okay with it just being a plain novel. That'd be good if Balder were able to be consistent and focused.
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Aug 19, 2019 04:49
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But how many bitcoins could a paperback mine?
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Okay, now I'm interested. The illustration of Sugar is even kind of effective, but I think they'd probably do better to give up on pictures.)
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Aug 25, 2019 04:00
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Latest page looks like a rejected David Dees piece.
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Aug 29, 2019 19:11
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Okay, at this point, Erfworld actually seems to be able to crank out regular comic updates in a style that's upgraded from "bad" to "interestingly weird." I'm eager to see where this leads.
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Rand Brittain posted:Okay, at this point, Erfworld actually seems to be able to crank out regular comic updates in a style that's upgraded from "bad" to "interestingly weird." I'm eager to see where this leads. I wanted to disagree with this but ***most*** of the stuff in the panels is actually not horrible to view now and even interesting in a way. But it also doesn't look like Erfworld either. Of course it hasn't in a while and hasn't felt like Erfworld in even longer. Edit: I viewed it on a mobile device however so your milage may vary on something higher resolution.
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Yeah, this actually looks like an artistic style now, instead of just a disaster. Kind of reminds me of Telltale, especially Walking Dead and Tales from the Borderlands.
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Yea I am hopeful too. This is just Rob doing the models right?
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I see they're going for the "Everything you've been told up until now was a lie" school of Unreliable narration. This doesn't work when 1, we've been told barely anything about the world and 2, there was no reason beyond character rants to doubt the temples as anything but a complex outgrowth of linking magic disciplines to make a side's nerve center behave like a unit.
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I don't really feel like "the world of Erfworld is horseshit and the holy scriptures are unreliable" is new information.
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Sep 21, 2019 13:47
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Lol this last update. Clown mines.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Lol this last update. Explosive or extractive?
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Joe Slowboat posted:Explosive or extractive? Yes.
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I'm not gonna say I love the new art, but... It works. It's certainly not terrible.
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New art aside, has the story actually progressed at all? Is there any point in reading the comic again? Legitimate question
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I hadn't looked at Erfworld in a long while (since they announced the 3D thing in fact) but seeing this thread gets bumped got me curious enough to go take a look and they're now at "Book 5 - Prologue 35". 35 pages of prologue. I have self-contained hardcover comic books that are shorter than that.
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Daduzi posted:New art aside, has the story actually progressed at all? Is there any point in reading the comic again? Legitimate question Current updates are about the world that came before Erfworld, Uffworld, and how it proves Erfworld sucks. This is supposed to convince the awakened tower of a hidden side that war is dumb. None of this has been directly tied to Gobwin Knob or any of the story's "major" characters, but might maybe someday be related to how Parson ends all war everywhere eventually.
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aegof posted:Current updates are about the world that came before Erfworld, Uffworld, and how it proves Erfworld sucks. This is supposed to convince the awakened tower of a hidden side that war is dumb. I was thinking about maybe checking out the book 5 stuff but this has pretty well killed any enthusiasm I might've had for that
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ninjewtsu posted:I was thinking about maybe checking out the book 5 stuff but this has pretty well killed any enthusiasm I might've had for that I wish I had anything positive to say about it. The nicest I can manage is, "some people are still paying him for it."
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I'm probably more tolerant of "stuff not related to any main characters" than most posters in this thread but 35 pages of that does not sound good "Its also telling the story of the world before erfworld" however, is what really makes me recoil from the idea of reading more. That kind of stuff just being info dumped through unrelated characters no one cares about (especially since it sounds kind of dumb) is a real bummer
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"What if everything you believed was a lie?" You're the one who told me everything I'm supposed to believe, so were you just wasting my time or what?
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I mean, this seems pretty obvious to me in terms of being a take on "the Titans tried making a world where everybody was nice once and it didn't work." Why it didn't work, we don't know.
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Has it been a year since we saw Parson and co? I feel like I was bitching about how long the prologue would take about a year ago. Edit: Oh I could have checked. 6 pages ago, Dec 1st. 10 months of prologue. My whining about pacing was apparently very optimistic. Donkringel fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Oct 7, 2019 |
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Donkringel posted:Dec 1st. 10 months of prologue.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:meanwhile, it took more than one year (104 comics) between Wanda getting captured and escaping, a development that happened over less than two in-universe days.
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I'm glad we weren't watching the main cast and the incredibly convoluted situation they were in while the new art's considerable growing pains were being worked through. The upside of spending so many pages on these absolute nobodies is that since I don't care about them at all, even after all this time, I don't particularly care how badly their appearance gets mangled while Rob practices his 3D modeling skills on The Kingdom Of Only Two People On The Entire Island, Who Are Apparently Never In The Same Room. The downside, however, is that now he's trying to dump critical plot details, and I'm not very engaged with a kingdom that's basically just been Exposition Island, where nothing really happens except explaining and analyzing side plot elements in detail. A flashback to an entirely different cast of two people, neither of whom have ever been mentioned before, set untold generations ago, just makes that problem even worse.
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Apparently Erfworld is completely dead due to a tragedy happening in Balder's family.
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Erfworld dead, so what
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Well, it's better than the sketchy, inconsistent dragging-on it's been doing for all these months. Shame for all the Kickstarter backers who donated upwards of $11,000 for limited-edition account icons just this summer to keep the comic going, though! And the people who spent who knows how long mining bitcoins for him! And so on! No surprise he made sure to lock the forums, wiki, and so on to only a specific subset of superfans.
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Reddit posted:Information I am willing to allow to be shared here:
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA thats loving amazing 
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Well that's sad. I was hoping that there may have been a turn around.
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Rich Burlew, author of Order of the Stick posted:Hey all. Asking Burlew to remove the comic from his site makes sense, but to lock a forum thread?
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I think it’s for the best, and “I don’t want you gossiping about Balder and his family on my forum” is a good line to draw. Those forums are weird on a good day, and it’ll only get weirder if there’s no actual content to discuss in a comic-specific thread. What’s really weird is Balder pulling the entirety of the comic from the internet. Has a reason been given?
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i mean the most likely thing is either linda died/the cancer came back in untreatable form. which sucks. the whole "purging the entire comic from the internet wholesale, but MAYBE continuing to make some pages, someday, to be privately shared only with my biggest fans" is deeply, deeply weird, but also kind of classic balder. it's pretty much par for the course in terms of his craziness and overreaction to criticism. "This decision was driven be criticism of erfworld and Rob's decisions" raises my eyebrows halfway to the moon. i remember him going into full panic mode about a Terrible, Horrible, Awful Bad Thing earlier this year which was heavily rumored to be "an old artist he stiffed on payments sued him for the money" so i'm wondering how much of this is genuine tragedy and how much is just him realizing how much he's backed himself into a corner and basically throwing down a smoke bomb. e: apparently unrelated entirely to linda's cancer or the ongoing legal trouble so yeah, this is just a SMOKE BOMB DAD LOST MY IPOD fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Oct 13, 2019 |
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Wait, he'll still charge "on time" subscribers for a comic if he happens to post one on time, but if a "rain or shine" subscriber changes their subscription to "on time", he'll remove their "heartstrings" status which allows them to actually view comics? I'm only 90% sure I follow all that, but I'm pretty sure it describes a situation in whi ch a number of people might be charged "for" a comic being released that they aren't allowed to see. I suspect I can see why this guy has a troubled relationship with criticism. Ditocoaf fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Oct 13, 2019 |
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blastron posted:What’s really weird is Balder pulling the entirety of the comic from the internet. Has a reason been given? https://archives.erfworld.com/ Like it says in the statement, the archives are still available. It seems like only potential new updates will be private. Also, it will be removed from giantitp, for some reason.
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The only reason it was still on GITP was free advertising, so that part is at least internally consistent if he's serious about shutting it down. Also, just lmao at all this. If he's actually got some real poo poo going down then my condolences and all that, but what a way to functionally end this ridiculous saga of a comic.
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I'm actually a bit sad. As bad as the first bits of computer art were they were actually starting to get to the point of being acceptable within the last couple of updates. I was entirely ready to eat crow if it had continued to improve for a few more months. I am also quite worried about Linda as I've got a sneaking suspicion that her health might be part of it though I do not have any proof and the letter did bear both names. This whole thing with the heartstrings and the payment system is quite odd and possibly scummy? It was a bit hard to get a read on what the plan is there. Also if the landing page is permanent I doubt many new folks will find the archives on accident - which is too bad as Book 1 was a legitimately good story and even Book 2 had its moments.
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