100 Reasons to buy the books in print. Go!

[derfenrirwolv]

1) The desktop doesn't reach to the bathroom

2) Laptops don't work well in the tub

3) Being able to support your insane theories with non existent bonus strips.

4) Realizing someone is full of it when they start supporting their theories with non existent insane bonus strips.

5) Being able to show something to the school shrink to show you're not crazy if you start talking about selling your soul to an interdisciplinary interplanar cooperative.

6) Making the world safe for dwarves by killing more trees

[Optimystik]

7) - 100) Rich's commentary.

[Gift Jeraff]

8) That ink-y scent

9) The funny preface

10) Completionism

Also, what do you mean "non existent bonus strips"? :smallconfused: The bonus strips are supposed to be canon, AFAIK.

[ClockShock]

7) - 100) Rich's commentary.

And i believe we're done. Good job lads, good job

[derfenrirwolv]

Also, what do you mean "non existent bonus strips"? The bonus strips are supposed to be canon, AFAIK

When someone says that a bonus strip implies something that it in no way, shape, or form implied.

[CrimsonAngel]

Gift~ When people claim there is a bonus strp of whatever, but that is not the case.

[bsparrow]

Pfft, yeah, Rich's Commentary is awesome, but where's the fun in just listing that? :smallbiggrin:

11) Supporting your friendly neighborhood webcomic artist.

12) Airplane rides.

13) Helping to get the 1% of the population who still don't own computers addicted.

[Math_Mage]

Also, what do you mean "non existent bonus strips"? :smallconfused: The bonus strips are supposed to be canon, AFAIK.

He's talking about the ones that supposedly get made up by crackpots to support their insane theories.

14) Rich Burlew deserves money.
15) Maybe if he has enough money he can hire Elagune to do the whole thing as manga.

[Crystalline]

16) Useful as a weapon to hit people over the head with.
[Can't do that with a desktop computer can you?]

17) Less chance of being electrocuted.

18) Proving to those around you that what you have been talking about in Order of the Stick actually exists in a viable form and not 'a webcomic of some kind'

19) When the power goes out and you get in an argument over which strip contained the funniest joke

[Yendor]

20) Does 1d6 bludgeoning damage.

[Atcote]

To 16: Oh yes you can.

21. Proving that you have physic abilities (on par to that of a future psychic) by being one of the few people to find it in store in Australia.

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

22. Links make lousy birthday gifts.

23. Wireless networking doesn't work when the microwave is on.

24. Server maintenance.

25. You forgot to pay the electric bill.

26. You can't type the URL with boxing gloves.

27. You can take it with you on your morning jog.

28. You can take it with you on your evening jog.

29. It's still cheaper than a new laptop.

30. It's still usable if you spill coffee on it.

31. If you spill coffee on it, you should still buy another one, but you can keep one in your room and one at work as a coffee coaster.

32. The internet doesn't fit on a bookshelf.

33. You can use it to detect or attract like-minded members of the opposite sex.

34. You can use it to detect or attract like-minded members of the same sex.

35. Peer pressure.

36. Because you just read a thread full of reasons to buy the book and now you're like, "well shoot, I guess I should probably go buy the book then, huh?"

[DukeGod]

37 - To use a Evan's Spike Tentacle Forced Intrusion in someone during your game session and use the book saying that if it uses D&D,it is D&D and bottom line!

38 - Doing 37 with a Killer DM so you got some + 5 Adamantium Cojones!

39 - Throwing the book at the DM after he kills you for disrespect and get out with your dignity(and preferably the book as well...)

40 - Yelling KAPAW!!!! our KASHAW!!! from the very deep of your lungs after hitting someone with the book

41 - Spending that "College savings" money your dad decide to give you...on something useful of course,don't forget to buy some Mugs,T-Shirts and Water Bottles as well...afer all he actually was saving since your birth there will be lots of money there!

[ClockShock]

26. You can't type the URL with boxing gloves.


42 - You can't type the URL with Guns for Hands

[waterpenguin43]

43- You can read it in class.
44- You can stimulate the economy
45- Rich might be forced to stop making the webcomic without enough money, he might need a job

[veti]

46. A display of OOTS books looks nifty. A display of "http://www.giantitp.com" just looks geeky.

47. Websites come, websites go, but what's on my shelves is there to stay.

[Thursday]

48) The endless(!) fun that can be had trying to predict and pre-empt the inevitable Royal mail postal strikes.

[Gift Jeraff]

49) In the event that the Internet is completely wiped off the face of the Earth yet some books manage to survive, people from the future can get a better understanding of geeks from our time period.

50) :roach: swatter

51) In case you run out of paper products...

[nepphi]

52) Fills in spaces on your bookshelf

[Turkish Delight]

53) Books will not animate and devour your entire family alive.

54) In event your entire family is devoured alive, you have one less thing to suspect of commiting the deed, as you know it certainly could not have been the books

[Ranger Mattos]

55. Because :belkar: will kill you if you don't.

[Draconi Redfir]

56: so you can make your freinds understand the jokes you tell them

57: becuse Redcloak is in it

58: if you dont, some shmuck out there will buy it and use it as toilet paper

59: becuse money will be worthless when the apocolipse hits, but books and other literiture will be woth all the food in the world.

60: beleive it or not, it will make you seem less nerdy.

[Gift Jeraff]

61) Not aiding in the Rise of the Machines. Well, not as directly.

[Turkish Delight]

62) Cake and grief counseling will be made available with every purchase of 100 items or more.
63) By assembling the fifth letter used in every other eight strips starting from comic #54 into a sentence, you can find a hidden message informing you of Belkar's favorite color.
64) The paper used for the books has not been proven to be responsible in any way for horrid red welts, loss of bladder control, internal bleeding and eventual agonizing death. All relation is incidental.

[Gift Jeraff]

65) Paperweight

66) Stool (as a complete collection)

[SaintRidley]

42 - You can't type the URL with Guns for Hands

Oh no! Poor Roland!

67) nice tablepiece

68) Straight panel lines

[lio45]

68) It fits in that space on your bookshelf

52) Fills in spaces on your bookshelf

45- Rich might be forced to stop making the webcomic without enough money, he might need a job

14) Rich Burlew deserves money.

11) Supporting your friendly neighborhood webcomic artist.

If you guys actually want 100 reasons, stopping at #100 won't do... 105 at least, and by the time we get there, it's probably going to have to be ~110.

[jlvm4]

#69: Nice easily readable text
#70: Easy reference for 'wait, that sounds familiar. Didn't they.....'

[rewinn]

71) You might spot hidden clues revealed by riffling rapidly through the pages

72) You can join in forum threads debating the hidden clues revealed by riffling rapidly through the pages

73) After getting The Giant to sign your copy, you can glean yet more secrets from his signature

74) Folding certain pages as per Mad Magazine back covers might reveal still yet more secrets

[Turkish Delight]

75) Bonus strip informs readers where Jimmy Hoffa is buried
76) If read backwards in book format, all strips are completely written in Swahili and turn the story from a parody of fantasy roleplaying into a scathing critique of European colonialism, man's inhumanity to man, and excessively fuzzy hats in tropical climates

[Katana_Geldar]

77)Getting other people to be fans. This is why my books are rather battered.

78) Bragging rights at the gaming table.

[drengnikrafe]

79) You can cut out the pictures of the characters from the book in high quality, and paste them all over your walls. You can also arrange the dialoge perfectly, so it turns out Haley loved you the entire time, and not that blonde-haired useless party member who's always trapsing around, playing his music, thinking he's all high and mighty. SHE'S MINE, I TELL YOU! MINE!!!
...
And then you can buy a new book, since the old one is in pieces.

80) Because it's weird to cuddle up with a computer as you fall asleep. It's slightly less weird to cuddle up with a book. At least there are sayings about books.

[Liwen]

81) Owning books as always been known has a sign of intelligence.

82) The leap of pure happiness you get from receiving the books at home or spotting it in a store.

83) The backcover is always fun to read.

84) if you hold it on you heart, that assassin who about to make you his B**** with a sniper rifle has 0.0001% less chance of causing a fatal wound to the heart has he fires. Holding the entire collection reduces this chance to about 25%!

85) Owning the books give you +10 rep points with the geek community, nerd assembly and Japan Cosplay Union.

[Turkish Delight]

86) For every dollar spent on his books, Mr. Burlew will put forward a dollar of his own towards the 'Buy Rich Burlew a Yacht' foundation

87) For every dollar not spent on his books, Mr. Burlew will eat a kitten.

[DukeGod]

88) Books cause 10d6 damage against insects,although computers also do they receive a large bunch of damage themselves in the process...too bad form them

89) Books got Slow Fall with any distance so they don't break when falling,different from computers that brake from very low

90) And finally,the book got the Ultimate Attack,being the most optimzed thing in the world,each of its pages can cause a Slashing attack capable of doing 1d6 damage,although they do so randomly.IF they decide to attack all together however...and paper is made from trees...DURKON IS RIGHT!!!!!DEATH TO THE TREEEEEEES!!!

[lio45]

Here's a serious one, for a change (don't think it's been mentioned before).

91) Long term, buying the books is the environmentally friendly choice if, like me, you like OotS enough to go back through the archive once in a while.

(Saving all the comics to your hard drive sure is greener than loading them up online every time you want an older comic, so that would be second best to owning the books. The books, once they're produced, can be read any number of times with no impact -- as long as you read them during the day, of course! Be green: buy the books, cut your consumption of online OotS comics, and... while at it, leave this forum and don't come back unless it's important! :smallwink:)

[Deme]

92: The silly recap pages

93: It increases your Geek Cred by 1d20 + Fangirl/boy modifier points.

[Cizak]

94) You can punch the characters you don't like in the face without risking damaging your computer screen.

[Quincunx]

95) Support your Friendly Local Gaming Store, so that you will continue to HAVE a FLGS.

96) Support your Not Local, But A Keen Place To Visit While Vacationing Gaming Store, if you lack a FLGS and want to help others keep their own.

97) The covers are tesselated for YOUR convenience!

98) Superior to newspaper comics since they don't leave ink smudges on your hands. Silly Putty tests will be forthcoming.

[Comet]

99) Because buying the books gives you reason to go :elan: "I'm participating!"

100) Because you can

[Liwen]

Well we got our 100 reasons. What shall we do with this thread now? Should I fetch a lock?

[derfenrirwolv]

Why? Lets let it go as high as it can.

[lio45]

Well we got our 100 reasons. What shall we do with this thread now? Should I fetch a lock?

No, you got no more than ~95 reasons (see post #27).

[Asta Kask]

101) Because otherwise your sons will be like Belkar and your daughters will be like Samantha.

[Turkish Delight]

101) There is no reason 101. Or rather, if there is, it is something man was not meant to know, and further questions are imprudent. Should we as a species ever probe too far, disregarding all signs of danger in our hubris, and discover the true nature of reason 101, we shall all be driven into raving madness by the revelation.

[drengnikrafe]

102) Because people rallied together and found 100 reasons to buy the books over about 26 hours. Fanatical support is generally a good thing.

[monomer]

103) Because there are more than 100 reasons to buy the books

[jtpete86]

For Number 64- -yes it has. My bad.:smallcool:

[lio45]

101) Because otherwise your sons will be like Belkar and your daughters will be like Samantha.

It would be very cool to have a daughter with magic powers... guess I'm not buying the books, then.

[Ranger Mattos]

104) :durkon: Destroy the trees!!!1!

[Forbiddenwar]

105) Good for at a friends to play D&D and awaiting the arrival of the key cleric, who is almost always late
:smallamused:

[Raimun]

106) Makes existence meaningful!

[Optimystik]

It would be very cool to have a daughter with magic powers... guess I'm not buying the books, then.

Not if she had a personality like Samantha's to go with them :smallyuk:

[Totally Guy]

107) High Definition.

[silversaraph]

108) No need to re-re-replace your F5 key.

[Zerg Cookie]

109. You can use bonus strips to win arguements with roommates about Led Zeppelin lyrics.
Flawless victory. :smalltongue:

[Studoku]

110. Meeting up with a girl I only knew on Facebook to lend her the prequel books turned into a date.:smallsmile:

[Asta Kask]

111. *puppy eyes*

[Aramir21]

#112: For every second you don't own the books; O-Chul grows angrier.

[rewinn]

94) You can punch the characters you don't like in the face without risking damaging your computer screen.
94.1) Except O-Chul. Any form of attack on O-Chul risks grave damage to yourself and all your possessions, even your computer screen physically located in another room.

[Mystic Muse]

#113 the prequellly goodiness

[El Llamita]

#114 Because more than one hundred reasons to buy them have been documented.


BTW 101 is a double.

[PallElendro]

#115 It has a nice thing that the end of the book, a cool amount of the same person at the beginning, and has cool blank pages in some parts.

[Hephaestus]

While not specifically about the Order of the Stick books, all of the reasons listed here (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525272) also apply.

[Draconi Redfir]

116: so you can still enjoy your favorite webcomic when the internet goes down.

[drengnikrafe]

102) Because people rallied together and found 100 reasons to buy the books over about 26 hours. Fanatical support is generally a good thing.


103) Because there are more than 100 reasons to buy the books


#114 Because more than one hundred reasons to buy them have been documented.

Hmm... I'm sensing a trend here....

[derfenrirwolv]

Hmm... I'm sensing a trend here....


117) the books will help you develop a 6th sense to detect the glaringly obvious! :smalltongue:

[Elphir]

118) Reading about O-Chul's courage will give you enough strength to save your loved ones during the zombie invasion.

[Asta Kask]

119) Because they're there!

[Acero]

120) Because you have no choice


MUAHAHAHAHAHA

[Draconi Redfir]

121: becuse its not just a book. its also a sheild! spare toilet paper! a paperweight! a thick poster! a calender! a laptop computer! and a whole mess of other things. call the number below and get an extra book FREE just pay extra shipping!