Comic 1000- why?

[binyamin20]

I read alot of posts about how oots will end, and they mention comic 1000. Why would oots end specificaly at 1000?

[Cizak]

Um, comic #100 was a loong time ago :smallconfused:

[binyamin20]

Oh crap
a typo!
Edit: fixed!

[Cizak]

There's still one left :smalltongue:

[binyamin20]

There's still one left :smalltongue:

Hey, were trying to have a coherent thread, not be english teachers!

[Comet]

It's either going to be one thousand or one million, since no one likes comics that don't end on grand milestone numbers.
And there's no way this comic could endure for a million pages.

[Azukar]

Well it is a big round number... I don't honestly think Rich would wrap it all up in that space of time, but who knows.

[Nimrod's Son]

Since Rich has said that the end of DStP marks roughly the halfway point of the story, it's going to go on for a way after a thousand strips.

If it is going to end on a nice round number (and there's nothing to suggest that it is, but hey), then #1500 looks a lot more likely.

[lothos]

Personally, I think of 1024 as a round number, more than 1000.... that aside we know Rich said that the 4th Book - "Don't split the party" (DSTP) was the middle book, implying there would be 7 books in total of collected strips (Start of Darkness and On the Origins of PCs don't count as collected strips).

He also said that didn't mean we were halfway through the numbered strips, that there were likely to be more ahead than behind as each book has more strips (so far) than the previous one.

Since DSTP starts on strip 485 and ends at strip 672 (being 187 strips + bonuses), we might reasonably expect the last 3 books (book 5, book 6 and book 7) to have say an average of 200 to 220 strips each, I'd tend to assume somewhere around 650 strips more than 672... maybe somewhere in the region of the last strip being 1300 or so ?

Personally, I suspect Rich won't try and shoehorn the story in to ending on a round number or significant number like strip 1234 or something. Instead, I think he will just let the best interests of the story development and pacing determine what number the strip ends on.

[Prowl]

Whatever number it does end on, there will be people here claiming significance to it. There probably won't be.

[Morph Bark]

Whatever number it does end on, there will be people here claiming significance to it. There probably won't be.

We should figure out what number might have the least significance of all. Somehow, that will make it the most significant. :smallamused:

[Swordpriest]

People say a lot of things on here. It doesn't mean they have any basis in fact, though.

There are far too few comics between now and #1000 to wrap up all the plot stuff that's left. People just said it because it's a big shiny number and they didn't think. As simple as that, methinks.

[factotum]

maybe somewhere in the region of the last strip being 1300 or so ?

Well, it obviously has to end on 1337, in that case... :smallwink:

[Androgeus]

We should figure out what number might have the least significance of all. Somehow, that will make it the most significant. :smallamused:

there's no such thing as an uninteresting number, because if there was then there would be a smallest uninteresting number, which is interesting hence contradiction.

[Eloel]

Well, it obviously has to end on 1337, in that case... :smallwink:

It'll probably end at 1336, when it's least expected :smallcool:


there's no such thing as an uninteresting number, because if there was then there would be a smallest uninteresting number, which is interesting hence contradiction.

That reminds me of the

"Smallest number that can not be defined in less than thirteen words."

Yea, it doesn't exist.

[Kislath]

I'll just be happy if it makes it to the right & proper ending instead of just mysteriously stopping unfinished.
( Wormy, anyone? )

[Morph Bark]

there's no such thing as an uninteresting number, because if there was then there would be a smallest uninteresting number, which is interesting hence contradiction.

Exactly. :smallwink:

Alternatively: Well duh, what did you think I meant?

[RaggedAngel]

I'll just be happy if it makes it to the right & proper ending instead of just mysteriously stopping unfinished.
( Wormy, anyone? )

That's something I don't think we have to worry about (knock on wood). OotS has a much stronger grounding than most webcomics.

[grimbold]

also remember that a couple of in-story days can be a hundred strips
eg Azire city siege
i suspect the final fight w/ xykon will be at least as long

[RaggedAngel]

i suspect the final fight w/ xykon will be at least as long

While I am looking forward to the final battle, I hope it isn't hundreds of strips.

This is OotS, not Dragonball Z.

[Porthos]

This is OotS, not Dragonball Z.

Are you sure about that? (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0485.html) :smalltongue:

[Dr.Epic]

I read alot of posts about how oots will end, and they mention comic 1000. Why would oots end specificaly at 1000?

It's 1,000. It's a big important number and I guess it would signify something if it was the last. Personally, I don't see it happening. There are way to many plots going on for it to be over in less than 300 strips. If the characters only had one Gate left: maybe. But with two Gates and the characters not even near one of them, I really, really, really doubt it.

[Jimorian]

We at least know the strip can't go past #9,999 because the URLs for each comic contain 4 digits, and it would be absolutely positively impossible to change without ripping apart the very fabric of space/time and causing the entire interweb to crash.

[Han Solo]

It'll probably end at 1336, when it's least expected :smallcool:


I do believe you meant to say, "When it's 1337 expected"

New here, hello all.

[Dr.Epic]

Are you sure about that? (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0485.html) :smalltongue:

Long epic battle scenes fall under LotR category. Long, drawn out mono e mono duels his lost of dialogue fall under DBZ category.

[The_Weirdo]

It's gonna end at 1264.

[Dr.Epic]

I say the comic will be over at strip 2525

...if man is still alive.

[Onyavar]

We at least know the strip can't go past #9,999 because the URLs for each comic contain 4 digits, and it would be absolutely positively impossible to change without ripping apart the very fabric of space/time and causing the entire interweb to crash.

That's what I was to express: The fact that there are four digits in the comic's url is mysteriously foreshadowing that there will be at least one more than 999 strips.

[Procyonpi]

Rich gave up on trying to coordinate events to round strips numbers a long time ago (after strip 200, IIRC). If I had to take a guess, OOTS will end somewhere well after strip 1000, but before 2000.

[Liwen]

We at least know the strip can't go past #9,999 because the URLs for each comic contain 4 digits, and it would be absolutely positively impossible to change without ripping apart the very fabric of space/time and causing the entire interweb to crash.

Somehow I think this explanation is lacking in understanding of how the fabric of space/time and interweb works... I'd like the opinion of web programmer and a physician please.:smalltongue:

[Liwen]

Warning, incoming links to a very addictive website. Do not click the links if you have to study for an upcoming test or are schedule to work within the next two weeks, are pregnant or your oven is on.


That's something I don't think we have to worry about .......... [cut out, but I didn't need the rest of it for the joke]

You just had to say it (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouJustHadToSayIt)

Now we are all doomed (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong)

[Fable Wright]

Well, at least you warned us about it...

Also, the question is not when it will end- but what happens after that.

[Ancalagon]

Given the comic is already at 760 and the story seems to be going towards the end but is far from it (two gates remaining + the plot leading there) there seems to be no way the end is going to be (as soon as) #1000.

I think it's perfectly safe to ignore all speculation in that direction.


Also, the question is not when it will end- but what happens after that.

Hum... how about: "It will be over"? Like all projects that are finished at one point (be it movies, books, webstuff, plays in the theatre, my life, your life...).

[Fable Wright]

Hum... how about: "It will be over"? Like all projects that are finished at one point (be it movies, books, webstuff, plays in the theatre, my life, your life...).

Yes, but what will happen to the forum? Will it die? Will there be a new comic? What?

[mootoall]

Personally, I think of 1024 as a round number, more than 1000....


I see what you did thar :smallwink:

[The Glyphstone]

I do believe you meant to say, "When it's 1337 expected"

New here, hello all.

www.instantrimshot.com

Bravo, good sir, bravo. :)

[cho_j]

Eh, given the Giant's previous treatment of big round numbers (talking specifically about the 100's), I don't think he'll try to make it end on any particular strip number. Every so often something big DOES happen on a milestone number, like with strips 50 and 400, but just as often we get a strip 100, a joke about the milestone and expectations surrounding it. IMO, the Giant's gonna tell his story so it ends RIGHT, not numerically well.

[rewinn]

I read alot of posts about how oots will end, and they mention comic 1000. Why would oots end specificaly at 1000?

OOTS never ends; all that may happen is the storyteller stops telling the story.

[Ancalagon]

Yes, but what will happen to the forum? Will it die? Will there be a new comic? What?

Probably, yes. It will fade away over time. First slowly, then quicker and quicker... then, one day, it will be dead and gone. Like Arwen in the 4th age of Middle-Earth.

It also depends on if Rich starts a new successful project but all in all, the OotS-Forum will be there for years, but fade and eventually vanish. It's how life works: the only certainty with all things is that they end.

[Alysar]

You know the comic COULD go past 9999. All Rich has to do is reprogram the site to allow it. He has the general plot worked out, not the number of comics it will take. He probably just assumed that 4 digits would be enough.

In fact, didn't it used to be 3 digits?

[Yuki Akuma]

Somehow I think this explanation is lacking in understanding of how the fabric of space/time and interweb works... I'd like the opinion of web programmer and a physician please.:smalltongue:

(Psst: a physician is a doctor. You mean physicist.)

[rewinn]

You know the comic COULD go past 9999. All Rich has to do is reprogram the site to allow it. He has the general plot worked out, not the number of comics it will take. He probably just assumed that 4 digits would be enough.

In fact, didn't it used to be 3 digits?

Everyone knows that the number after 9999 is 999A. We've seen forshadowing of OOTS' use of Hex (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0175.html).

[Nimrod's Son]

You know the comic COULD go past 9999. All Rich has to do is reprogram the site to allow it. He has the general plot worked out, not the number of comics it will take. He probably just assumed that 4 digits would be enough.
Four digits WILL be enough. Obviously he could reprogram the site to allow for more, but he'd already stated before the seven hundredth strip that we'd reached the midpoint and were going to start wrapping things up from that point on.

So it's going to end somewhere around the 1300-1500 mark. Why would he need an extra digit? You really think the story's going to end up, like, eight times longer than he's planned for?

[ADHD]

There will be OVER 9000 STRIP!!

[Alysar]

So it's going to end somewhere around the 1300-1500 mark. Why would he need an extra digit? You really think the story's going to end up, like, eight times longer than he's planned for?


We can hope, can't we?

[hamishspence]

In Don't Split The Party, it's stated that the midpoint of the story is in that book- after that, there will be less books than there were to date.

However, it also stated that slightly more than half the strips, may be still to come from that point.

So, after DStP, we can expect three more books- but probably not four. And we can expect a bit more than 1000 strips- going by the reference to "half-way" it might be expected to be 1400 or so.

[Ronan]

Well, my 2 cents says that I don't WANT it to end so soon, but have frankly, no idea when it will end. How about never :smallbiggrin:?

After the snarl is beat, we can have an alternative universe oots, for instance. Perhaps Belkar's undead adventures (or hell, abyss or something)

[Jay R]

Personally, I think of 1024 as a round number....

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 1024 is a SQUARE number.

Rich has demonstrated his deep concern for the doing something special and climactic for strips involving round numbers here (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0100.html) and here (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0600.html).

[MikelaC1]

There will be OVER 9000 STRIP!!

If Rich were to continue to make comics at the rate he does now, it would take him over 70 years to reach the 9000 mark. Rich may be many things, but I seriously doubt he is an undead.

[Squiggly-Thing]

It'll end at comic 1,000,000,000,000!:smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin:

[137beth]

People say a lot of things on here. It doesn't mean they have any basis in fact, though.

There are far too few comics between now and #1000 to wrap up all the plot stuff that's left. People just said it because it's a big shiny number and they didn't think. As simple as that, methinks.

Yes. There's no reason to aim to end the series at 1000 strips. Heck, The Giant even joked about how nothing big happened in 100 or 600, specifically to make fun of that kind of comment.

[Bleak Ink]

Personally I'm kinda hoping the "end" will be revealed before I'm dead, but besides that I see no point in having a set time to try and halt things; let the story flow as it will, and the Giant will cease the online strips where he sees fit- but I doubt, for sake of probability, that such a number will be perfectly round.

A tale has no end, and OotS is no exception. Sentimentally, these will always be beloved stories to me, and I'm sure we'll all keep the spirit alive long after the online updates have ceased. :smalltongue:

[Raging Gene Ray]

I read alot of posts about how oots will end, and they mention comic 1000. Why would oots end specificaly at 1000?

The same reason civilization ended in the year 2000: it's a big, round number.

Biiiiiiig and roooouuuund. Think about that for a while, and if you still don't think it will end at 1000, then you are unprepared for the end.

[PsychedelicBard]

Trust me, it won't end. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots9999.html)

[arpin]

I vote for 1299:

1.Since the newest comic (#765), I have been suspicious of the number 634. #1299 will be exactly 634 strips after Roy's resurrection.

2.It's an apt ending, right before #1300

[Morph Bark]

Trust me, it won't end. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots9999.html)

Ha! Now that's a good one. I didn't know of that one yet. Awesome. :smallbiggrin: