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Hardware Review
So what happens when a SOFTWARE engineer tries to review hardware? This. This happens.
Overthinking Zombies
Let's ruin everyone's fun by listing all the ways in which zombies can't work, couldn't happen, and don't make sense.
Blistering Stupidity of Fallout 3
Yeah, this game is a classic. But the story is idiotic, incoherent, thematically confused, and patronizing.
Stop Asking Me to Play Dark Souls!
An unhinged rant where I maybe slightly over-reacted to the water torture of Souls evangelism.
Mass Effect 3 Ending Deconstruction
Did you dislike the ending to the Mass Effect trilogy? Here's my list of where it failed logically, thematically, and tonally.
New reader this morning, added to favorites. Thanks for doing these! They’re great!
New reader and instant fan. Love the comic!
(I also really dig your WP theme. Is it wholly custom made?)
Yes, my theme is custom. Glad you like it. :)
For what it’s worth: I have a halloween motif going right now. I’ll probably switch back to the normal color scheme on November 1st.
I love the use of the dice for the comments. I’d love to use that for my company site once it’s up (it’ll be WordPress-powered); is that something you’d share? Email me.
Not as extreme as past ones, and well so since it’s a Halloween one! Much merry to you too :)
Thank you again, Shamus. Happy Halloween from one Irish gamer to another.
BTW, if we ever meet up at a con, the first round’s on me.
“Yeah, I knew Shamus back when he only had 100 readers a day…heck, he was smaller than Steven, back then! Who knew he was destined to become the Glenn Reynolds of Middle-Earth?”
— me, October 2007.
Truly fantastic, thank you for so many laughs. I can’t wait to read the next instalment. Episode seven was genius and as for Dave and his unlucky dice rolls, well my name is Dave and I DO roll badly, I swear it’s true. Keep up the brilliant work.
Cheers
Dave :-)
Great stuff! My favorite is still the one where Leggo Lass joins.
Meow!
Just found this site. Class. “Was that supposed to be in-character?” I laughed so loud I woke up the cat.
Seven Keepers of the Ring… There are nine… Nine Keepers of the Ring maybe? DX
This one is so simple and yet so to the point. This is not just vintage D&D talk; this is true for any group of people trying to name themselves.
Haha, why Halloween and not Helloween?
Love it. You forget the lovely lady, Legolas in your title.
Just arrived. Wonderful!! Bookmarked and will return and return …
Excellent work Shamus, laughed till I hurt! 25 years of DM-ing and I’ve come across just about every situation you describe, ya nailed em perfectly!
New Zealander, resident in CA.
I’m utterly amazed that writing “Gay” over some DM speak made me laugh until I literally pissed myself.
Dude, this is our game exactly Lou. I’m so glad you told me about this site. Its like keith/keith again.
Heh. Reminds me when our party named ourselves “The Magnificent Seven and a Halfling”
I love this comic… I’m re-reading it and I still laugh at the jokes.
Also, this is great D&D promotion. I was already curious about the game, and now I’m getting frustrated at not finding a D&D group in my city…
“Just call me ‘The Dude’, or ‘Duder’, y’know…”
-The Big Lebowski
I’d have opted for “Force Nine from Rivendell”.
After a few episodes where I was fairly quiet, I laughed VERY LOUDLY here.
been there, done that…
… Seven … Nine … reminds me of “Seven of Nine” ;-)
Not always, but a good amount of the time, when I and my friends played, we were anything but “a group” .. more like ” a bunch of people going in the same direction to fulfill the same quest and maybe help out each other when we needed it.”
This is kind of out there, but is the “Seven Keepers of the Ring” a reference to three of the band Helloween’s more successful albums? It’s the only thing close that I know of…
– Keeper of the Seven Keys I & II
– Master of the Rings
my connotation to this name would have been the band Therion’s song “Seven Secrets of the Sphinx”.
Great site, I love the campaign retrospectives!
This is so like the group I used to play with. Now, to get another group started. Small towns.
Im afraid my little yaoi-twisted mind immeadiatly thought ‘the bunch of ringers’
Lawl^^ Anime fans here… Awesome comic dude! I sorta played D&D on my PC. Alone though XD Anyways very good!
I laughed so hard I think I left wet spots on my chair!
http://www.bestactever.com/2008/11/02/mudkips-mudkips-everybody-lieks-mudkips/
I’m partial to “The Legion of the Ring” myself.
“The Bunch of Guys of the Ring”
LOL
This is the strip I always remember. Definitely my favorite.
I’m also partial to “The Legion of the Ring.” It just sounds stomp-on-your-throat tough.
It sounds badass, sure, but then you remember that a legion is typically composed of several thousand men, and half a dozen guys calling themselves a legion starts to seem a bit silly.