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A couple of people were foolish enough to encourage me yesterday, so now I’m inflicting another one on you.
Control
A wild game filled with wild ideas that features fun puzzles and mind-blowing environments. It has a great atmosphere, and one REALLY annoying flaw with its gameplay.
The Terrible New Thing
Fidget spinners are ruining education! We need to... oh, never mind the fad is over. This is not the first time we've had a dumb moral panic.
The Plot-Driven Door
You know how videogames sometimes do that thing where it's preposterously hard to go through a simple door? This one is really bad.
D&D Campaign
WAY back in 2005, I wrote about a D&D campaign I was running. The campaign is still there, in the bottom-most strata of the archives.
Denuvo and the "Death" of Piracy
Denuvo videogame DRM didn't actually kill piracy, but it did stop it for several months. Here's what we learned from that.
Heh, this one is even better! More humor about fantasy role-playing (vs. gaming in general) and humorous rule awareness!
As a slight tangent, hooray for OOTS returning from Summertime irregularity. Characters thinking like players need never get old.
Bah! I had a quick flash back to our campaign at the very beginning with that. Well actually it summed up most of it.
“I start gutting Gandalf!”
Here’s one way to win that particular campaign.
I’d just like to update Steven Den Beste’s link with the new Dork Tower link to the comic: http://www.dorktower.com/2005/04/15/comics-archive-674/
“Encouragement! Encouragement! Nya ha ha ha! I offer Shamus Young more ENCOURAGEMENT! Ha ha ha ha! Let the heavens bellow their darkest fears and bring forth more comics! Ha ha ha ha!”
…What? No, I do NOT laugh like Mandark. I laugh like that scary guy, you know, what’s his name. Never like Mandark. Stop saying I sound like Mandark!
This reminds me of playing the old 8-bit computer text adventure “The Hobbit”…
> kill gandalf
You attack Gandalf.
Gandalf breaks your skull with one mighty blow.
You are dead. You scored 2%.
Would you like to play again? Y/N
:)
LOL!
I say sack the town or die trying!
I refuse to post anything about not being able to see the webcomic, as I am a unique individual with thoughts of my own.
Wait… doh!
Heh, cliche. What make that especially funny is that most of the cliche’s in LoTR are cliche’s because Tolkien made them up and everyone else adopted them.
Kudo’s for the in joke.
11th!
@RPD: And kudos to you sir, for getting the joke. And making sure everyone knows you got it. And for making everyone who didn’t get it feel dumb. They do feel dumb, right? I hope they feel dumb. What’s the point of being smart, otherwise?
i would want to sack the town too after seeing that innkeeper!
I didn’t think I had earned my geekcard until I saw this site! Lovin it
only 15 comments??? Cmon you guys can do better then that! This comic is much better then 15!
Aragorn
Does 16 make it better? Aragorn could use a bit more dialogue, since he’s the only one around at the end.
very funny!!!! i love it!!!
Absolutely hilarious!!
lol@u klodin XD
Ah, this has to be one of my favorites in the series.
“Just wait. We’ll be back when I hit level 10”
claaaaassic
:)
total cliche
Most every single time I go on a quest it starts out in a tavern, even when we are in the middle of nowhere we find ourselves in some random tavern or inn
2019, still new readers ! (I read The LoR in 1977 for the first time…)
This comic remains the best ever!
If by any chance anyone else reads this, there’s a remastered version now:
https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=55122
Wow. I just realized, Shamus made an even bigger leap than Peter Jackson did. The theatrical cut at least shows Bilbo’s birthday and Gandalf explaining his findings about the ring to Frodo and has a way of putting the Four Hobbits together (even if he skips the 17 year time jump, all the planning that actually went into Frodo trying to inconspicuously depart the Shire, the fact that Merry and Pippin were in on the business the whole time even if they didn’t tell Frodo, the move to Frodo’s fake new house, the Barrow Wights, and Tom Bombadil, to get us to Bree and then get us to Rivendell in a hurry.) Shamus skips over everything before Bree to try to get the party together faster. To be fair, with this group of players, they would have quit the game if it started with Bilbo’s birthday party.
Still love this comic.