What drew you to 8-Bit Theatre?

[Swez]

I learnt of it at GameFAQs.com, which is a gaming forum n stuff site if anyone cares. There were a couple of threads and quotes everywhere so I decided to check it out.

[Amara]

Strange... I honestly cannot remember how I discovered this particular webcomic. I am aware that it took place in early May, and that it was quite late at night. I was unable to sleep and cruising about on the internet in search of amusement.

I also recall that I fell asleep at the keyboard several hours later and missed work the next day. Irrelevant but ironic.

[micker1985]

What initially drew me to eight bit theater was a group of my friends printing out a huge document in my high school's computer lab. I quickly found out what was up and they caught me up on the series and I found it very funny and entertaining, seems as good a reason as any to be drawn into something. I put it as one of my start pages for mozilla firefox and I've been a regular reader ever since.

[talse]

It was 3 years ago, on my first visit to chicago for educational purposes one of the guys in the dorm was wandering about newgrounds. he wouldn't tell me the site name so i couldn't find it for about a month, mind you, i was 13 at the time, and when i found it, i stumbled upon the flash animations rather quickly and found them to be funny of the highest calibur. i pounced on the opurtunity to read the comics, i think it was around fall of that year that i started running through the archives.

i remember it very vividly because i was not in circumstances that permitted laughter (as such i was much more inclined to do so) because i was watching "birth of a nation" as an extra credit assignment for american history. such a long, boring movie, but such a funny time consuming comic! win win for 8th grade me!

[PCD]

Well, I was talking with some other nerds online about the ever-awesome doushinji of Bleedman (http://bleedman.snafu-comics.com/archive.php), and one of them had no idea what we were talking about. "Huh. Well, I just stick to Nuklear Power." I, in return, had no idea what he was referring to as the conversation went to, 'Oh yea, that rocks.' I asked WTF? and they sent me a link. In fact, I remember it being just before Episode 500 came out. Lucky me.

Anyway, I spent a little bit of time reading, I thought it was kinda funny, then forgot about it. A few months later, I came back due to the fact that I had absolutely nothing to do (besides homework, but screw that), and started rereading. Over the next few days I spent hours and hours catching up. My interest increased drastically before long, and I was obsessed by the end. Then it started to fade a little again... Then I started fanarting, and my obsession level is currently higher than ever.

[Bloodravyn]

What drew me to 8-Bit Theatre... hm. Well, first off the friend scenario of, "Look! This is the funniest thing ever!" and me going, "Oh my god! This is so freakin awesome!" and then I went home only to stay up a whole day straight reading from 1 to 200 something when there was only about that back then. Now this is much farther as you know and all I have to say is congrads to the ones that make it possible.

[Amake]

I was going to ask, "does anyone actually read these things?" and then I found this post:

Originally Posted by Jonsgirl

One day I come home from work, and I found my husband in front of the computer. Dead. Minus his head.
The autopsy found the he had actually laughed so hard that his head popped off. So, out of sheer morbid curiosity, I looked up what he had been reading at the time of his demise. Guess what it was? Yup.
Now I read the site in the hopes that one day I, too, will laugh until my head pops and I can join my husband in the great RPG in the sky.

Which got 0 reactions, so I guess that answers it. >_>

Me, I followed up a rumor I heard about a sect where the members sacrificed their lives to some kind of humor god. They all died laughing, like the victims of the Joker's nerve gas. There was some violent interrogations - some might call it torture - and gunfights with four-armed gremlins. My lover took a bullet for me, and I swore on his grave that I'd get to the bottom of this matter or die trying. The scum of the city had never seen anyone quite like me, as I tore through the underworld in my frienzied search, and eventually they realized they couldn't run or hide or fight me off, and they gave the the URL.

Alright, it was just a friend who told me and I entered the race at strip 220 or so.

[Sivart]

I was drawn to 8bit theatre nigh 3 years ago. I was pointed here by my questmaster, (the dm) on a little MuD (kinda like d&d, cept totally diffrent) maybe it wasn't the dm, whatever, they have cool easter egg type refrences to 8bit, whatever. Anyhow, tehy pointed me here. (if your intrested, www.ivalicemud.com) However, right now, they be down. After i got up to the episode where WM got BM's lil note on the airship, i had finally reached hte point where Brian hadn't updated yet, so i .. erm.. not know.. ok, fine, i got bored! Then i forgot about it for a while, but last month got re-intrested, started reading on the 26, (having forgotten the entire story arc) and finally caught back up totally on tuesday after the last update! Hooray! :bmage:

[RedNinja#77]

My brother introduced me to 8-bit. Now I'm obsessed.

[Brian_Link]

I guess this is an appropriate first message. AKA I'm a n00b here.
My friends were screwing around searched Dungeons and Dragons at newgrounds. IU became obsessed. For some strange reason though I'm the only one who reads these 0_o