Chat thread

Post by **Dissension** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 3:22 pm

It was very minor, something like a 2.8 or 3.2. Hardly worth mentioning, I've been through stronger. Ebly is fine; he was snarking about the earthquake on Facebook, earlier.

Buckdida · Post by **Buckdida** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 4:10 pm

I saw that. Apparently, the tsunami of new Facebook statuses was more threatening than the actual quake.

Personally, despite basically living in quake danger capitol of the world (Woo major fault line!) I've yet to feel any hard quakes. My memories of earthquake drills are just as common as the fire drills... Bwahaha, I even remember one time where we tried to exit though one staircase, and a person was standing outside the door holding a sign saying, "COLLAPSED OVERHANG." We had to go another way, of course.

PhoenixAsper · Post by **PhoenixAsper** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 4:21 pm

Now I'm waiting for someone to edit the Grape and Peanut "explosion" card to say just that

.

Seriously, that's a little amusing.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:37 pm

It was hilarious. As they said, lots of snarky comments ensured. It wasn't just me, trust me. The whole of facebook (and twitter, since when I googled it about a minute or so after it happened, twitter feeds were going positively maaaad) was abuzz with jokes on it and yeah, about half an hour after it there were more than 100 groups talking about how they survived it or died in it... or how their turban unraveled because of it or how adelaide brings all the quakes to the yard or whatever other facebook meme you want.

Apparently it really was a meteor, but it's probably giong to be talked about in the news. In the end, it really showed just how much of Adelaide is at home on their computers on a Friday night...

Post by **Dissension** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:48 pm

You goggled it and comments ensured, huh?

*laughs hysterically*

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:53 pm

Dissension wrote:You goggled it and comments ensured, huh?

*laughs hysterically*

I should have said insured, it would have been funnier

Post by **Dissension** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:56 pm

I don't actually have a witty comeback for that, but I'm replying to it anyway. So there!

...

*flails around*

Esquire Fox · Post by **Esquire Fox** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:36 pm

Trouble in the land down under. Sounds exciting.
So how do you deal with the erm... snakes and big spiders

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Slippery-Q · Post by **Slippery-Q** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:51 pm

Aussies..

Vadiant · Post by **Vadiant** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 10:24 am

I thought they had Men at Work to deal with the snakes and spiders in the Land Down Under. ... I could be wrong, though.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:20 pm

That would be funnier if anyone actually liked men at work

ever

just saying, bro

on a more serious note, we don't, really. it's best to leave snakes and spiders alone and let 'em do their own thing. they're not so bad.
and don't get scared of the bird-eating ones either, they really aren't dangerous. it's freaky like you would NOT believe because they SQUEAL if you attack them, but that's pretty much reason to never ever ever attack them!

Post by **Dissension** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:38 pm

Unless you like that sort of thing, anyway. *winks suspiciously*

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:46 pm

Dissension wrote:Unless you like that sort of thing, anyway. *winks suspiciously*

Bird-eating spiders are about the size of a person's forearm and are surprisingly common in rural regions of Australia. Also they are loud.

No, we do not like that sort of thing. D':

Slippery-Q · Post by **Slippery-Q** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:50 pm

I love that sort of thing.

Post by **Dissension** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 2:23 pm

*buries Slippy under a pile of bird-eating spiders*

ReCreate · Post by **ReCreate** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 2:59 pm

Dissension wrote:*buries Slippy under a pile of slippy-eating spiders*

I think you meant that. Bird eating spiders eat birds.

Slippery-Q · Post by **Slippery-Q** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 3:08 pm

Man, Slippy gets all the luck. :<

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 3:34 pm

Ebly wrote:Bird-eating spiders are about the size of a person's forearm and are surprisingly common in rural regions of Australia.

Now I know where I don't vacation.

Vadiant · Post by **Vadiant** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:06 pm

Ebly wrote:That would be funnier if anyone actually liked men at work

ever

just saying, bro

Humor is relative! ... I mean, more like a distant relative in my case. Like, 4th cousin twice removed. But that's beside the point.

Point being: stay far, far away from any insect or arachnid large enough to eat a bird. ... If anything, the fact that they squeal makes them even less appealing!

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 10:52 pm

Well as I said, they are basically safe, just freaky as I'm a loaf of bread with no raisins

Kyderra · Post by **Kyderra** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:43 am

Ebly wrote:Well as I said, they are basically safe, just freaky as ****

You just know that thing has a HP bar, and it needs at least 4 hits a a melee weapon to be killed.
roll 2d4

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 3:25 am

you roll a 2
your dewey decimal point attack bounces harmlessly off
the spider squeals menacingly and shoots web at you. you are ensnared!

(Seriously though, they take multiple hits with a broom. Only one with a rifle, though.)

machchunk · Post by **machchunk** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 3:31 pm

[01:07:39 pm] <Jancey> I'm not happy about it either ;_; I was reading through Ctrl+Alt+Del again

I'm not happy about it either ;_; I was reading through Ctrl+Alt+Del again

I was reading through Ctrl+Alt+Del again

reading through Ctrl+Alt+Del again

reading Ctrl+Alt+Del

A curse upon your home I say

ReCreate · Post by **ReCreate** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:04 pm

I read vgcats... Are you going to shoot me?

machchunk · Post by **machchunk** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:24 pm

VGCats is pretty bad too although Scott does put some effort into his art and doesn't attempt character development which I know he would suck at

Buckdida · Post by **Buckdida** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:37 pm

machchunk wrote:VGCats is pretty bad too although Scott does put some effort into his art and doesn't attempt character development which I know he would suck at

...why would you add character development in a comic with no story at all? Seems pointless. But yeah, the comics can be hit or miss at times. But at least less hit or miss than Ctrl+Alt+Del... I'd say both comics are okay/goodish.

ReCreate · Post by **ReCreate** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:39 pm

machchunk wrote:VGCats is pretty bad too although Scott does put some effort into his art and doesn't attempt character development which I know he would suck at

Yeah, There's absolutely no storyline what-so-ever. The only one with even a bit of a storyline would be Ctrl+Alt+Del. There's a bit of a background behind all the characters. Ethan now owns the game store(game heaven iirc?), Zeke... Etc

machchunk · Post by **machchunk** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:45 pm

Buckdida wrote:
machchunk wrote: doesn't attempt character development
...why would you add character development in a comic with no story at all?

I was using that as a reason it's better than CAD, since CAD tries character development and it's horrible.

ReCreate wrote:There's a bit of a background behind all the characters. Ethan now owns the game store(game heaven iirc?), Zeke... Etc

You forgot the miscarriage

44R0NM10 · Post by **44R0NM10** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:48 pm

thought I'd say it, thanks to this negative feedback I'm reading Ctrl+Alt+Del and I was already reading VGcats...and I'm quite enjoying it to be honest. You guys are great in an argument by the way!

machchunk · Post by **machchunk** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:51 pm

44R0NM10 wrote:You guys are great in an argument by the way!

Uh this is just a conversation.

44R0NM10 · Post by **44R0NM10** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:55 pm

machchunk wrote:
44R0NM10 wrote:You guys are great in an argument by the way!
Uh this is just a conversation.

Erm...upon reading that and looking back...oops. My mistake.

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:13 pm

Scott will shut VGC down in 2020, so you should look forward to his remaining updates. Both of them.

ReCreate · Post by **ReCreate** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:29 pm

Scott updates about 1 times a month. So by then there should be about 240 more comics by then.

And housepets should have about 3130 more comics by then(assuming rick doesn't miss any updates)

You forgot the miscarriage

Elaborate?

machchunk · Post by **machchunk** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:55 pm

ReCreate wrote:
You forgot the miscarriage
Elaborate?

And then he has the gall to say this in his newspost:

Tim Buckley wrote:A miscarriage is definitely not a joke, and I have no intention of making light of it. And it can be a tough and emotional thing for couples to go through, speaking from personal experience. And I know that it's often much harder on the woman than on the man. However, I also know that it doesn't necessarily turn you into a sad, depressed sack of tears for the rest of your life. People can move past it, and heal.

uuuuuuuuuugh

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:14 am

this is a gaming comic. *miscarriage* *brushes it off rudely in his newspost*

he doesn't deserve to have "Buck" in his name

funnily that when that exact comic came out i stopped ever reading it. ever.
i don't know why i did for so long

ReCreate wrote:1 times

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:30 am

ReCreate wrote:Scott updates about 1 times a month.

During the last three months, yes.

The intervals between his updates grow longer and some day he will have a schedule similar to the reappearance of Halley's Comet.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:12 am

Liam wrote:
ReCreate wrote:Scott updates about 1 times a month.
During the last three months, yes.

The intervals between his updates grow longer and some day he will have a schedule similar to the reappearance of Halley's Comet.

And then, long after his death, he'll somehow post another comic on the Neptunian new year

Kyderra · Post by **Kyderra** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 10:04 am

I was wondering why so manny disliked the Ctrl+alt+del comic.
I don't like it ether, i never laugh at the jokes, but thats no reason to Flame it.

and then I found this:
http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/ctrl-alt-del
Warning: website contains "adult" language
and it all makes a bit of sense, but this website is just stretching it.

or even better:
Yatzee going out of his was to make a Video about the web comic, rather then a game
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... -Webcomics
Warning: this is the same warning as above, but with a video rather then text "obviously"

Kyderra · Post by **Kyderra** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:07 am

http://snuzzy.com/red-pandas-adorable-ancient-animals/

daaaaw

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:03 pm

Cuteness... overload... GAAAAAAAHHHH!!!

I also love the web browser they made.