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Duly noted, but I don’t think anyone would mind, Dad. We’re pretty used to your antics and it would be cool given the circumstances.
From The Archives:
Bowlercoaster
Two minutes of fun at the expense of a badly-run theme park.
Stolen Pixels
A screencap comic that poked fun at videogames and the industry. The comic has ended, but there's plenty of archives for you to binge on.
Starcraft 2: Rush Analysis
I write a program to simulate different strategies in Starcraft 2, to see how they compare.
Seven Springs
The true story of three strange days in 1989, when the last months of my adolescence ran out and the first few sparks of adulthood appeared.
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.
Small typo in the first balloon, “Saurman”.
Noticed it too, but thought maybe it was intentional? Players usually have a hard time remembering names like Saruman, which was definitely made up by the DM at the last moment.
It IS in the original, after all
There’s definitely a joke later where Aragorn thinks Saruman was also Sauron. This may or may not be part of it.
Nope, it was intentional. A commentary on how players don’t actually remember the DM’s high-fantasy names, but also part of the standard “So is this Saruman or Sauron we’re talking about now?”
The two similar-named top villains are the one point I can recall in the LotR commentaries when there was an active grumble about the source material; “wouldn’t do it that way today” or some such.
The jokes are what make the webcomic, but I love how Shamus was able to get such great screen grabs. Just a tremendous match between the line and the visual in panel 5.
This one really does hit differently.