When a webcomic updates but you don't want to make a huge deal out of it, what you do - Page 59

Loyal · 12-14-2011, 09:41 PM

Some people have speculated Sabine - because the IFCC might not want someone like Tarquin with information leading to the Snarl - or one of Draketooth's accomplices - for similar reasons.

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Wizard dude seemed pretty eager to steer the conversation offa that, huh.

Wizard dude (Malack) has been eager to kill Nale for quite some time. Nothing unusual here.

Also, Captain SNES updated again.

Amake · 12-15-2011, 04:41 AM

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For all I know all the ads on that page are 100% tastefully understated invitations to peruse products that any reasonable person would enjoy I'm just saying anyone that does anything that nets Ryan Summers a dollar is basically an accessory to an ongoing crime in progress.

Fortunately I'm sure my accumulated page views has netted the site far less than a dollar.

There's an ad for the comic's own merchandise on top of every page, and on the front page all the way down a regular banner advertising some sort of supposedly inventive online comic book store. Oh and just below the strip I see there's an ad that gets blocked by basic script blocking.

If anyone's curious.

BitVyper · 12-15-2011, 06:25 AM

The thing I find really disgusting about this, and I'm not sure if it's only in relation to women or not, as no fucking way am I reading the whole archive, but the thing I find really disgusting is this: Rayne does this miserable shit, and we see the women frustrated by it, so they are clearly being victimized here, but because they live in Sohmer's ugly little power fantasy, that's where it stops, and then it gets dialed down to just "OH THAT RAYNE!"

Trying to make treating people like this seem harmless, and the people who stand up to say it's wrong just whiny complainers, is exactly how oppression works. LICD comes out in full support of all manner of prejudice, and I find it to be a miserable, sexist, racist (yeah I actually did wind up seeing a couple other bits of it. THANKS A LOT, FIFTH), vomitous pile of shit that isn't worth its own bandwidth. It's the modern era's anti-Tom literature.

Amake · 12-16-2011, 04:10 AM

Meanwhile Something Positive lives up to its name, as apparently Mike got crushed by a bathtub hiding from a superhero stalker in an abandoned building.

I have a bad feeling he's going to survive though. >_>

mauve · 12-16-2011, 05:08 AM

In Gunnerkrigg Court-related news, OH MY GOODNESS 3D SHADOW IS ADORABLE.

Amake · 12-16-2011, 05:24 AM

Haha, I remember back at around this page people were all going "Oh noez Shadow is dying ABLUUUUH" and I was all "Dude what are you even worried for, the damn tooth of Coyote could not cut him, he's obviously just feeling a touch of ontological shock from violently unfolding to a higher dimension of heretofore unimagined perceptions and motion and freedom and man, he's going to have a lot of fun being no longer confined to the surface of things".

And I was right! That'll teach people to stop listening as soon as you mention words like "ontological".

But anyway. I'm not seeing a lot of evidence of Kat's and Annie's supposed not falling in love with each other. Or maybe it's the human emotion called friendship. . .

tacticslion · 12-16-2011, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by BitVyper

The thing I find really disgusting about this, and I'm not sure if it's only in relation to women or not, as no fucking way am I reading the whole archive, but the thing I find really disgusting is this: Rayne does this miserable shit, and we see the women frustrated by it, so they are clearly being victimized here, but because they live in Sohmer's ugly little power fantasy, that's where it stops, and then it gets dialed down to just "OH THAT RAYNE!

This is basically how the entirety of that comic has worked forever. I really don't see the difference in this arc and anything else it's ever done. I gave that comic far, far too much of my time and far too much of a chance to improve. It never has.

Shadow is cute! And Robot is sweet!

Doc McNinja: Chuck's popular today!

Amake · 12-18-2011, 04:14 PM

Order of the Stick didn't update!

But I did get my hands on Start of Darkness, and now I have an observation which seems appropriate for our now apparently all-except-Homestuck-encompassing webcomics thread. Spoiler for page 1: Xykon raises his puppy from the dead.

That's pretty crazy. Animate Dead seems to be the simplest spell for zombie making in all D&D; it's a level four spell. Sorcerers get access to those at level eight. Xykon at the time is four years old. I guess he's either had a really tough toddlerhood or he's some sort of natural born necromancy genius. Cause Sorcerers don't have it easy enough am I right

So that may be why it seems like the heroes have such a hard time keeping up. I like this comic more every year.

BitVyper · 12-18-2011, 04:26 PM

It was probably just a random power outburst, since he's a sorcerer. He wanted something to happen bad enough that he made it happen with his power. Untrained sorcerers especially do that sort of thing occasionally. D&D mechanics are for characters that have trained enough to be able to reproduce the effect reliably, thereby gaining character levels.

Karrrrrrrrrrrresche · 12-18-2011, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by BitVyper

The thing I find really disgusting about this, and I'm not sure if it's only in relation to women or not.

No it's pretty much everybody you can imagine. Women definitely get a massively disproportionate amount of bullshit though.

12-15-2011, 06:25 AM	#583
BitVyper History's Strongest Dilettante Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Arcadia Posts: 6,662	The thing I find really disgusting about this, and I'm not sure if it's only in relation to women or not, as no fucking way am I reading the whole archive, but the thing I find really disgusting is this: Rayne does this miserable shit, and we see the women frustrated by it, so they are clearly being victimized here, but because they live in Sohmer's ugly little power fantasy, that's where it stops, and then it gets dialed down to just "OH THAT RAYNE!" Trying to make treating people like this seem harmless, and the people who stand up to say it's wrong just whiny complainers, is exactly how oppression works. LICD comes out in full support of all manner of prejudice, and I find it to be a miserable, sexist, racist (yeah I actually did wind up seeing a couple other bits of it. THANKS A LOT, FIFTH), vomitous pile of shit that isn't worth its own bandwidth. It's the modern era's anti-Tom literature. __________________ "There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea is asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace; we've got work to do!" Awesome art be here. Last edited by BitVyper; 12-15-2011 at 05:25 PM.

12-16-2011, 04:10 AM	#584
Amake Keeper of the new Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: A place without judgment Posts: 4,506	Meanwhile Something Positive lives up to its name, as apparently Mike got crushed by a bathtub hiding from a superhero stalker in an abandoned building. I have a bad feeling he's going to survive though. >_> __________________ Hope insistent, trust implicit, love inherent, life immersed

12-16-2011, 05:08 AM	#585
mauve So Dreamy Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Someplace magical Posts: 6,863	In Gunnerkrigg Court-related news, OH MY GOODNESS 3D SHADOW IS ADORABLE. __________________ Yoo Hoo!

12-16-2011, 05:24 AM	#586
Amake Keeper of the new Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: A place without judgment Posts: 4,506	Haha, I remember back at around this page people were all going "Oh noez Shadow is dying ABLUUUUH" and I was all "Dude what are you even worried for, the damn tooth of Coyote could not cut him, he's obviously just feeling a touch of ontological shock from violently unfolding to a higher dimension of heretofore unimagined perceptions and motion and freedom and man, he's going to have a lot of fun being no longer confined to the surface of things". And I was right! That'll teach people to stop listening as soon as you mention words like "ontological". But anyway. I'm not seeing a lot of evidence of Kat's and Annie's supposed not falling in love with each other. Or maybe it's the human emotion called friendship. . . __________________ Hope insistent, trust implicit, love inherent, life immersed Last edited by Amake; 12-16-2011 at 05:27 AM.

12-18-2011, 04:14 PM	#588
Amake Keeper of the new Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: A place without judgment Posts: 4,506	Order of the Stick didn't update! But I did get my hands on Start of Darkness, and now I have an observation which seems appropriate for our now apparently all-except-Homestuck-encompassing webcomics thread. Spoiler for page 1: Xykon raises his puppy from the dead. That's pretty crazy. Animate Dead seems to be the simplest spell for zombie making in all D&D; it's a level four spell. Sorcerers get access to those at level eight. Xykon at the time is four years old. I guess he's either had a really tough toddlerhood or he's some sort of natural born necromancy genius. Cause Sorcerers don't have it easy enough am I right So that may be why it seems like the heroes have such a hard time keeping up. I like this comic more every year. __________________ Hope insistent, trust implicit, love inherent, life immersed

12-18-2011, 04:26 PM	#589
BitVyper History's Strongest Dilettante Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Arcadia Posts: 6,662	It was probably just a random power outburst, since he's a sorcerer. He wanted something to happen bad enough that he made it happen with his power. Untrained sorcerers especially do that sort of thing occasionally. D&D mechanics are for characters that have trained enough to be able to reproduce the effect reliably, thereby gaining character levels. __________________ "There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea is asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace; we've got work to do!" Awesome art be here.