Describe the plot of OOTS, badly.

[Fyraltari]

Now I feel old.

I mean, it only had a few dozen thousands seats in my country, so it's not like somebody your age from around here would have been likely to get it either.

[Darth Paul]

I mean, it only had a few dozen thousands seats in my country, so it's not like somebody your age from around here would have been likely to get it either.

I didn't get it by virtue of never having seen that particular poster/ad campaign/etc. even though I was alive back then. It never made much impression on me for some reason. Certainly not as much as it did on Silent Bob, anyway.

And I can't quite picture Molly Ringwald as Haley, for some reason.

[Squire Doodad]

I see you and raise with...

"Posthumously. By saying the right four words to the right being at the right time for all the wrong reasons. When the gift horse comes calling, don't look it in the mouth. Yes - for you, at least. Yes. Of those two given locations, Xykon will be within 1000 feet of Girard's Gate first. Try gingko bilboa."

"Try gingko bilboa" is going to be one of those great quotes

[CheesePirate]

I can't quite picture Molly Ringwald as Haley

The thread title did say "badly".

[Darth Paul]

The thread title did say "badly".

Touche

[Emanick]

I didn't get it by virtue of never having seen that particular poster/ad campaign/etc. even though I was alive back then. It never made much impression on me for some reason. Certainly not as much as it did on Silent Bob, anyway.

And I can't quite picture Molly Ringwald as Haley, for some reason.

It made a reasonably strong impression on me, enough so that I recognized the reference without ever having seen the poster in question.

I guess my gym teachers would have been pleased. I probably never would have seen the movie if my gym teachers in high school hadn't canceled gym class for the day so that they could show us this movie instead.

In fairness, I suppose having your students sit still and watch a movie is still healthier than taking them out to get ice cream, which is something they also did when it was warm enough.

[Ruck]

And I can't quite picture Molly Ringwald as Haley, for some reason.

Haley doesn't seem like the prom-queen type, but they're both redheads, so you gotta stretch it sometimes.

Meanwhile, Roy as the jock and Belkar as Judd Nelson is perfect. "You know what my old man gave me for Christmas this year? A carton of cigarettes! 'Smoke up, son! Life's short!' ...So I stabbed him. What do you know, he was right!"

[Mariele]

Caught the reference immediately, thank you for bringing this into my life.

[Blue Dragon]

"This group of weird heroes have to save the world and will live through amazing adventures! Every Wednesday, at 16:00, after 'Adventure Cartoons', on channel 3!"

[Wizard_Lizard]

It made a reasonably strong impression on me, enough so that I recognized the reference without ever having seen the poster in question.

I guess my gym teachers would have been pleased. I probably never would have seen the movie if my gym teachers in high school hadn't canceled gym class for the day so that they could show us this movie instead.

In fairness, I suppose having your students sit still and watch a movie is still healthier than taking them out to get ice cream, which is something they also did when it was warm enough.

I... What... I just... am incredulous.. My experience with gym teachers has been... Ice cream?? Really???

[WanderingMist]

It made a reasonably strong impression on me, enough so that I recognized the reference without ever having seen the poster in question.

I guess my gym teachers would have been pleased. I probably never would have seen the movie if my gym teachers in high school hadn't canceled gym class for the day so that they could show us this movie instead.

In fairness, I suppose having your students sit still and watch a movie is still healthier than taking them out to get ice cream, which is something they also did when it was warm enough.

I thought it was Breakfast Club, but wasn't sure, as I've never seen the movie so the only thing I had to go off were references in other media. I presume Belkar is actually in a trenchcoat and standing on Durkon.

[Emanick]

I... What... I just... am incredulous.. My experience with gym teachers has been... Ice cream?? Really???

Yeah, my gym teachers were weird. Lots of the time we would just be told to wander around the gym and do whatever - play volleyball, run on the treadmill, etc., while they watched. Sometimes they would ask some of the girls to drive to Dunkin' Donuts to pick them up some coffee or donuts.

When the Great Recession hit the city budget and the School Committee had to figure out which teachers to cut, I showed up to its meetings and recommended that they cut some of the gym teachers, since they appeared to actually do very little. That did not go well for me in class the next day.

[Wizard_Lizard]

Yeah, my gym teachers were weird. Lots of the time we would just be told to wander around the gym and do whatever - play volleyball, run on the treadmill, etc., while they watched. Sometimes they would ask some of the girls to drive to Dunkin' Donuts to pick them up some coffee or donuts.

When the Great Recession hit the city budget and the School Committee had to figure out which teachers to cut, I showed up to its meetings and recommended that they cut some of the gym teachers, since they appeared to actually do very little. That did not go well for me in class the next day.

Not to derail this thread any longer but... gosh.. I wish my PE teachers had been like that... maybe then I wouldn't have dropped it at the first available opportunity.

[Robots]

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Also, question: Did you draw this?

(Heheh, I like how Horrifyingly Realistic Haley Starstandish has the lime green Boots of Speed.)

[arimareiji]

Some guy had interesting points to make about how D&D is played, and found a perfect way to combine it with his lifelong dream of getting thousands of people to waste hours of time arguing with each other -- about metaphors for reality that don't, in fact, exist.

The Giant, quietly singing to himself in an amused tone as he walks away from each comic:
🎶 They see me trollin', they hatin'...

(/joke, not serious)

[CheesePirate]

Also, question: Did you draw this?

Guilty as charged, I'm so sorry.

(Heheh, I like how Horrifyingly Realistic Haley Starstandish has the lime green Boots of Speed.)

Yay, I was hoping someone would notice those!

I presume Belkar is actually in a trenchcoat and standing on Durkon.

I like this theory

[gellerche]

A group of six characters (sometimes less when one's dead) work together (unless they're antagonizing each other) as a team (except for when they're split up) to save the world (and get treasure!)

[Robots]

Guilty as charged, I'm so sorry.

Don't apologize for greatness.

[denthor]

Order of the Stick

A guide to screwed up family issues.

See comic # 171 for proof of concept

[Jay R]

Years ago, I wrote the following. It's based on the plot at that time, rather than what has happened since, but it's still my answer.

This is the thief who likes to hoard,
That loves the bard with the puppet Lord,
That admires the fighter with the green-hilted sword,
That employs the Wizard, whose bird is ignored,
That has the gender unexplored
That intrigues the Halfling, usually bored,
That slew a mountain of the goblin horde,
That follows the cleric,
That serves the lich,
That seeks the gate,
That guards the snarl,
That lives in the prison the gods built.

[denthor]

Years ago, I wrote the following. It's based on the plot at that time, rather than what has happened since, but it's still my answer.

This is the thief who likes to hoard,
That loves the bard with the puppet Lord,
That admires the fighter with the green-hilted sword,
That employs the Wizard, whose bird is ignored,
That has the gender unexplored
That intrigues the Halfling, usually bored,
That slew a mountain of the goblin horde,
That follows the cleric,
That serves the lich,
That seeks the gate,
That guards the snarl,
That lives in the prison the gods built.

I remember when you first wrote that. I type it out for someone who had read the comic books I no longer worked with.

That was around 2003. 18 years ago?

[Wizard_Lizard]

I remember when you first wrote that. I type it out for someone who had read the comic books I no longer worked with.

That was around 2003. 18 years ago?

2003??? Dang that feels nuts, that means that that poem is older than me lol.

[pearl jam]

2003??? Dang that feels nuts, that means that that poem is older than me lol.

the comic was first published in september of 2003, but the snarl wasn't introduced until january of 2006, so the poem would have to have been written at some point after that.

[Precure]

I think this is the original post, no?

https://forums.giantitp.com/showsing...6&postcount=46

[denthor]

I think this is the original post, no?

https://forums.giantitp.com/showsing...6&postcount=46

Appears to be 2012 OK 9 years ago. Wow my life has changed so much.

I thank you for the research.

[Precure]

There is also a version with Durkon in the same thread.

[Caesar]

{scrubbed} So long, Rich. Sad to see you took the same road as the crowd.

[skim172]

{scrub the post, scrub the quote} So long, Rich. Sad to see you took the same road as the crowd.

My eyes just rolled so hard that I've gone blind.

[understatement]

My eyes just rolled so hard that I've gone blind.

I mean, yeah, what's up with these comments lately? Three recent comics really set out the fireworks.

Anyways,

plucky, mismanaged band accidentally and purposefully destroy world fundamentals while chasing after or being chased by freelance skeletal employer and evil green bureaucrat.

[Ruck]

{scrubbed} So long, Rich. Sad to see you took the same road as the crowd.

Sorry that realizing that Rich was, in fact, writing the story he said he was writing all along triggered you so much.

I mean, yeah, what's up with these comments lately? Three recent comics really set out the fireworks.

The heroes acknowledged racism.