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[PA Comic] Monday, December 29, 2014 - Wastoid

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    Dang.

  • RatherDashing89RatherDashing89 Registered User regular
    That must have been one heck of a vasectomy to get him Vicodin.

  • Blackie62Blackie62 Registered User regular
    God, I miss House M.D.

  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Blackie62 wrote: »
    God, I miss House M.D.

    I just watched the final season about a week ago. I had never finished the show so I decided it was time to see how it ends. I actually really enjoyed the final season. The new doctors they added were a good new mix.

    Also...

    Odette Annable
    :D:D:D:D:D

  • GDT1985GDT1985 Registered User regular
    Unless this is a stylistic choice, has Mike ever not finished a comic before?

  • HeWhoSeesHeWhoSees Registered User regular
    RatherDashing89 wrote: »
    That must have been one heck of a vasectomy to get him Vicodin.

    Or rather, one heck of a vasectomy to GIVE him a sore throat. That does raise the question of how such an extreme painkiller would be needed for something like a sore throat. It must have been a REALLY sore throat.

  • BremenBremen Registered User regular
    GDT1985 wrote: »
    Unless this is a stylistic choice, has Mike ever not finished a comic before?

    I like to think it was done deliberately to sell the idea of him as a drug addict.

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    I feel awful for laughing at this.

  • GDT1985GDT1985 Registered User regular
    Bremen wrote: »
    GDT1985 wrote: »
    Unless this is a stylistic choice, has Mike ever not finished a comic before?

    I like to think it was done deliberately to sell the idea of him as a drug addict.

    That is what I thought. Maybe they have done a DLC for this one.

  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    Tycho's description of how he lost the resolve to quit playing Inquisition sounds exactly like me with The Fade in the first Dragon Age. Well, I mean, the big difference is, he says everybody else likes whatever mission he's talking about, and I don't think anybody liked The Fade. I had heard enough about it before I got there, enough recollections accompanied by grimaces and groans, that I was determined to get through it just so that The Fade itself would not be the thing that "beat me" and made me quit playing. So I finished it, and then realized that my reserve of good will for the game had been exhausted in the accomplishment.

    Gaslight on
  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    I think I had what Mike had, although I've just been suffering through it without the aid of prescription drugs.

  • Finnish_LineFinnish_Line Registered User regular
    Bremen wrote: »
    GDT1985 wrote: »
    Unless this is a stylistic choice, has Mike ever not finished a comic before?

    I like to think it was done deliberately to sell the idea of him as a drug addict.


    He sold his colors. For more drugs.

  • MusicMusic Registered User regular
    Gaslight wrote: »
    Tycho's description of how he lost the resolve to quit playing Inquisition sounds exactly like me with The Fade in the first Dragon Age. Well, I mean, he says everybody else likes whatever mission he's talking about, and I don't think anybody liked The Fade. I had heard enough about it before I got there, enough recollections accompanied by grimaces and groans, that I was determined to get through it just so that The Fade itself would not be the thing that "beat me" and made me quit playing. So I finished it, and then realized that my reserve of good will for the game had been exhausted in the accomplishment.

    Which mission in DA:I was Tycho talking about?

  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    Music wrote: »
    Gaslight wrote: »
    Tycho's description of how he lost the resolve to quit playing Inquisition sounds exactly like me with The Fade in the first Dragon Age. Well, I mean, he says everybody else likes whatever mission he's talking about, and I don't think anybody liked The Fade. I had heard enough about it before I got there, enough recollections accompanied by grimaces and groans, that I was determined to get through it just so that The Fade itself would not be the thing that "beat me" and made me quit playing. So I finished it, and then realized that my reserve of good will for the game had been exhausted in the accomplishment.

    Which mission in DA:I was Tycho talking about?

    I don't know. He doesn't specify in the post and I haven't played the game so I am in no position to guess.

  • ZenbryoZenbryo Registered User regular
    Yeah I pretty much came here to see what mission he was talking about. Anyone got a guess on that?

  • mjrusso45mjrusso45 Registered User regular
    Zenbryo wrote: »
    Yeah I pretty much came here to see what mission he was talking about. Anyone got a guess on that?

    I was thinking maybe "The Ball" in Orlais. I forget the actual mission name.

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    mjrusso45 wrote: »
    Zenbryo wrote: »
    Yeah I pretty much came here to see what mission he was talking about. Anyone got a guess on that?

    I was thinking maybe "The Ball" in Orlais. I forget the actual mission name.

    Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts, and yeah, that's what I was thinking too. It is functionally quite different from any other mission in the game. I loved it, but I can understand why other people wouldn't. Some folk on the boards have mentioned that it's actually stress inducing, with the timers involved.

    Still I hope he picks it back up after that, there's some cool stuff after!

    "excuse my French
    But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    Cambiata wrote: »
    mjrusso45 wrote: »
    Zenbryo wrote: »
    Yeah I pretty much came here to see what mission he was talking about. Anyone got a guess on that?

    I was thinking maybe "The Ball" in Orlais. I forget the actual mission name.

    Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts, and yeah, that's what I was thinking too. It is functionally quite different from any other mission in the game. I loved it, but I can understand why other people wouldn't. Some folk on the boards have mentioned that it's actually stress inducing, with the timers involved.

    Still I hope he picks it back up after that, there's some cool stuff after!

    if it is that one, he's probably doing something asinine and pointless like trying to collect all the coins or something

    Dragon Age Inquisition is like, negative reinforcement for completionists

    it's a game that seems like it's trying to punish you for taking a mentality that you must COLLECT ALL THE THINGS, by making some of those tasks both arduous and detrimental to a fun gameplay experience and in some cases physically impossible to do

    I don't know if they're trying to run some kind of Fallout-esque Vault-Tec experiment on gamer mentalities or what here.

    Pony on
  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    I hope they use it as justification to switch the next Dragon Age inventory system over to something closer to ME3.

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Gabe, cut your hair.

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  • SkyEyeSkyEye Registered User regular
    What is with Mike seemingly always getting sick sometime around the New Year? There's this podcast, the Olive Garden food poisoning, and then this.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    GDT1985 wrote: »
    Unless this is a stylistic choice, has Mike ever not finished a comic before?

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    The E3 ones from years back are the same way.

    http://www.pipefour.org/pa/search.php?q=e3&sort=0&thumbs=on&search[]=title&search[]=body&search[]=notes

    Hey Satan!
  • GDT1985GDT1985 Registered User regular
    I don't think the ones that he sketched during E3 count, of course he wouldn't be able to finish them. According to his post about Arts & Crafts he is just too sick to color, which is understandable.

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    mjrusso45 wrote: »
    Zenbryo wrote: »
    Yeah I pretty much came here to see what mission he was talking about. Anyone got a guess on that?

    I was thinking maybe "The Ball" in Orlais. I forget the actual mission name.

    Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts, and yeah, that's what I was thinking too. It is functionally quite different from any other mission in the game. I loved it, but I can understand why other people wouldn't. Some folk on the boards have mentioned that it's actually stress inducing, with the timers involved.

    Still I hope he picks it back up after that, there's some cool stuff after!

    if it is that one, he's probably doing something asinine and pointless like trying to collect all the coins or something

    Dragon Age Inquisition is like, negative reinforcement for completionists

    it's a game that seems like it's trying to punish you for taking a mentality that you must COLLECT ALL THE THINGS, by making some of those tasks both arduous and detrimental to a fun gameplay experience and in some cases physically impossible to do

    I don't know if they're trying to run some kind of Fallout-esque Vault-Tec experiment on gamer mentalities or what here.
    Or it might just be bad design.

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