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    Dwarf in the Playground
     
    GnomeWizardGuy

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    Default Re: When did you start reading OOTS and Why?

    Err ... I have frankly no clue when I first read OOTS.

    It must have been before 2008 obviously. I definitely didnt immediately join the forum. More like years after I first read the comic. It seems the last time I was active here was 2011, really.

    I'm fairly sure OOTS was in still in the first dungeon and it was only like 30 strips when I first read it ? That means it would have been 2004. That sounds very possible. But I'm not 100% sure.

    I just reread the whole thing and its so funny how many things I had forgotten.
    Time will tell. Or not.

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    Pixie in the Playground
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    Default Re: When did you start reading OOTS and Why?

    Wow, how long did take you to reread all of it? I'm tempted, but I know I might be sucked in and forego all other commitments...

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    Imp

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    Default Re: When did you start reading OOTS and Why?

    I started reading it in March of 2020. So basically, at strip 1197. A friend recommended it to me. At first, I was kind of put off by the comic's first few strips. They were a little crude (both in terms of what I thought about the general humor and the art style), and I was beginning to ask "Oh, what do you see in this comic?" But as I got further, my reaction went from my previous one to "Oh, I see exactly what you see in this comic."

    Basically, OOTS good. I like it a lot. (I want to post my art that I made for it soon, but I'll have to make a few more posts for that.)
    Shh! I'm hiding.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Debré View Post
    Wow, how long did take you to reread all of it? I'm tempted, but I know I might be sucked in and forego all other commitments...
    Well, there are 1223 strips currently. If you assume one minute per strip, it'll likely take you 24 hours. I'd expect 36 hours is more likely, though.

    I started during the Thieves' Guild's assault on Old Blind Pete's home, and followed a link from Turn Signals on a Land Raider. (I'm not certain that's the correct site. The forward and back links don't work properly, and there's funny page title.)
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    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    Beholder

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    Default Re: When did you start reading OOTS and Why?

    I don't know what the current strip was when I started reading, since I started from the beginning, but it was sometime toward the end of Don't Split the Party - I clearly remember my excitement seeing Sandsedge when the strip picked back up in 673, but I can't remember any big waits before that.

    As for why: wiki crawling on TVTropes. Which I was first introduced to via a link on the Homestar Runner wiki back in '09 or so, when I was just starting high school. So I kind of got here via Homestar Runner. And OotS got me into D&D, so I guess you could say Homestar Runner is in some ways responsible for helping me find my favorite hobby.

    Quote Originally Posted by Debré View Post
    Wow, how long did take you to reread all of it? I'm tempted, but I know I might be sucked in and forego all other commitments...
    I can answer this, since I reread the whole thing recently: it took most of my free time for about a week and a half. So not as long as I expected.
    Last edited by quinron; 2021-01-25 at 10:01 PM.

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    Pixie in the Playground
     
    Chimera

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ginasius View Post
    The Internet has changed a lot since 2000 and this comic is one of the small good things that remain the same. I love OOTS for that, but not only for that. I love and admire that Rich is so close to completing from so humble beginnings this magnum opus that we've been following for so many years. In those days I was also very involved in the fandom surrounding another not so humble magnum opus, A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin, which a few years later became a TV series and a big hype, and that phenomenon left me (and many other people) with a taste of failed expectations that I'm pretty sure this comic isn't going to give me.
    Although I am "only" in my mid-thirties now, I can very much relate to this. For me, the years from 1995 (ish?) to 2000, where I discovered the web as a 12(?)-year-old on the mac of my father, and then proceeded to ask Altavista about everything I could think of - and then came Google and Netscape went bankrupt some time there - it was like a magic world full of interesting people. I recently played Hypnospace Outlaw and discovered that others feel this too, because that game managed to recreate the exact reason I did not care much for school but hung around in chat rooms and tried to build my own homepage back then. And I had a similar problem with A Song of Ice and Fire - I nearly ran out of the room when I first saw the TV version of the dragon queen and her porn barbarians..
    And OOTS has been one wonderful internet thing that does not go away like the others.

    I discovered the comic via another forum, where the strip was shared whenever it came out. The first thing I read was the comic where elan takes the belt of gender changing in the last panel, I remember this because someone in that forum wondered when would we see that again. Then, I really got into reading it when Miko showed up and the Order stayed in the tavern with the King of Nowhere. Then, I started re-reading the whole comic and stuck with it ever since. The first real OOTS-laughing fit for me was the Shadowdancer: "Hey, check it out, a shadow!" To this day, I love that scene, a bit perhaps like the one in The Lego Movie, where the guy can finally build his spaceship.

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    Firbolg in the Playground
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    Default Re: When did you start reading OOTS and Why?

    I must have been 9 when I started reading the comic. I remember that the latest comic page when I got entirely caught up up was 504, god, 13 years ago. My older brother was the one who introduced me, by means of petty bribery per every page I read, until I got so engrossed that I wouldn't wait for him to be around—at which point he declared that doing so invalidated his obligation.

    I think it's been one of the biggest constants in my life, not to mention the large impact it has had in that time. I think I was the first person to curse in 4th grade because I was getting some vocabulary from the comics too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Korsentus View Post
    Although I am "only" in my mid-thirties now, I can very much relate to this. For me, the years from 1995 (ish?) to 2000, where I discovered the web as a 12(?)-year-old on the mac of my father, and then proceeded to ask Altavista about everything I could think of - and then came Google and Netscape went bankrupt some time there - it was like a magic world full of interesting people. I recently played Hypnospace Outlaw and discovered that others feel this too, because that game managed to recreate the exact reason I did not care much for school but hung around in chat rooms and tried to build my own homepage back then. And I had a similar problem with A Song of Ice and Fire - I nearly ran out of the room when I first saw the TV version of the dragon queen and her porn barbarians..
    And OOTS has been one wonderful internet thing that does not go away like the others.

    I discovered the comic via another forum, where the strip was shared whenever it came out. The first thing I read was the comic where elan takes the belt of gender changing in the last panel, I remember this because someone in that forum wondered when would we see that again. Then, I really got into reading it when Miko showed up and the Order stayed in the tavern with the King of Nowhere. Then, I started re-reading the whole comic and stuck with it ever since. The first real OOTS-laughing fit for me was the Shadowdancer: "Hey, check it out, a shadow!" To this day, I love that scene, a bit perhaps like the one in The Lego Movie, where the guy can finally build his spaceship.
    I don't need to see people who are only in their mid-thirties putting quotes around the "only", thank you very much!!!


    Quote Originally Posted by MoonCat View Post
    I think I was the first person to curse in 4th grade because I was getting some vocabulary from the comics too.
    I used to basically never curse but around the time I rewatched "The Wire" I started cursing more, though it may have been more of a correlation than a causation. lol

    I still don't curse in front of other people in life but I curse a lot in the one Discord where I'm active, though I've been thinking lately about reverting to my old habits. It's interesting how we pick up different influences, or don't, from the things in our life.
    Last edited by pearl jam; 2021-01-26 at 05:13 PM.

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