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The New Comic Thread - New Rule in OP

scsscsscsscs Registered User regular
edited September 2008 in Social Entropy++
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Knob wrote: »
say hello to new administrative policy

the new comic thread has been a little...'iffy', to be polite, for the last couple months

so we're gonna try on these pants
  • Be civil
  • Don't come back every M/W/F just to complain or shit on people posting in this thread
  • Comic Edits are OK, but lets not spend half the thread discussing them.
  • Lets try not to veer too far off topic in this thread, m'kay?

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    FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    the guy on the right is kind of hot. He totally doesn't need to hang out with those two jackoffs

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    Cosmic SombreroCosmic Sombrero Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Funny, but it feels like it was going somewhere and then it doesn't.

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    OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    didn't one of the commander keens have a message from john romero saying 'SHIT I LOVE PIRATES, I PIRATE EVERYTHING MYSELF BUT PLEASE BUY THIS SHAREWARE GAME'

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    scsscsscsscs Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Cosmic Sombrero wrote: »
    Funny, but it feels like it was going somewhere and then it doesn't.

    Part 1 of 3.

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    arod_77arod_77 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    continuity?

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    FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Fiz wrote: »
    the guy on the right is kind of hot. He totally doesn't need to hang out with those two jackoffs

    this was the story of SE++ at pax. outside of these forums, nerds are actually the horrible stereotype

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    arod_77arod_77 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Futore wrote: »
    Fiz wrote: »
    the guy on the right is kind of hot. He totally doesn't need to hang out with those two jackoffs

    this was the story of SE++ at pax. outside of these forums, nerds are actually the horrible stereotype

    except for you the bearded god

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    HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Frame one is hilarious.

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    SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    And then copy protectors discovered the wheel.

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    Things got much more wacky after that.

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    scsscsscsscs Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Don't Copy That Floppy

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    arod_77arod_77 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    scsscs wrote: »
    Don't Copy That Floppy

    My boss was legal counsel for the production of this

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    TenTen Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Swap parties sounds like something really dirty

    Something young teens should not be involved in

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    TrellTrell __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    SabreMau wrote: »
    And then copy protectors discovered the wheel.

    codenm0.jpg

    Things got much more wacky after that.

    what


    is this

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    God fucking damn it scsscs, you beat me to it.

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    TenTen Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Trell wrote: »
    SabreMau wrote: »
    And then copy protectors discovered the wheel.

    codenm0.jpg

    Things got much more wacky after that.

    what


    is this

    You never saw a code wheel? The one I remember most is from Star Control, I tried to find a picture of it but it looks like it's lost forever

    Also the Simcity copy protection which was on low contrast paper so you couldn't photocopy it

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I just barely missed out on code wheels by the time my family got a PC for our home.

    My first computer games other than edutainment stuff was a set of Lucasarts adventure games and SimCity.

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    VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ON PAGES 32, 47, AND 94 OF THE MANUAL WHAT ARE THE SYMBOLS IN THE LOWER LEFTHAND CORNERS

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Q: What is the cruising speed of a Raptor heavy fighter?

    A:
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    monsterrormonsterror HEY ASSBUTT Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Futore wrote: »
    Fiz wrote: »
    the guy on the right is kind of hot. He totally doesn't need to hang out with those two jackoffs

    this was the story of SE++ at pax. outside of these forums, nerds are actually the horrible stereotype

    You are a sexy sir.

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    monsterrormonsterror HEY ASSBUTT Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Rolo wrote: »
    Q: What is the cruising speed of a Raptor heavy fighter?

    A:
    wc1raptorblueprint.gif

    250 kps

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    Bendery It Like BeckhamBendery It Like Beckham Hopeless Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    mechwarrior had some pretty awesome ones

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    FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    monsterror wrote: »
    Futore wrote: »
    Fiz wrote: »
    the guy on the right is kind of hot. He totally doesn't need to hang out with those two jackoffs

    this was the story of SE++ at pax. outside of these forums, nerds are actually the horrible stereotype

    You are a sexy sir.

    says the mystic master of mustache

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    Cosmic SombreroCosmic Sombrero Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I went to go post the new KC Green and then I realized

    oh wait

    I can't.

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I think we could have a thread just about KC Green.

    But I'm not certain.

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    JAEFJAEF Unstoppably Bald Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Sistine Floppy?
    Floppy Chapel?

    Great panel, or greatest panel?

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    SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Ten wrote: »
    Trell wrote: »
    what


    is this

    You never saw a code wheel? The one I remember most is from Star Control, I tried to find a picture of it but it looks like it's lost forever
    Star Control 1 had a code wheel? Never played that one, but I do remember Star Control 2's starmap.

    And then Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade had a Grail Diary that came with the game, with required hints in order to select the proper Grail at the end of the game (and not wither away into a skeleton for a Game Over). Which was really annoying because it was written in really cursive handwriting and, at 9 years old, I couldn't read it very well.

    Many computer games of the '80s were packed with specially created bonus premiums such as this to discourage people from simply pirating the disks from a friend.
    Not to mention that specially created bonus premiums are cool in and of themselves, and should come back in greater numbers. Like with that old Infocom Hitchhiker's Guide game.

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    Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Comic is satisfactory.

    Does it hint at dreaded continuity?

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    Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    God, I miss when games came with totally bitching manuals full of technical schematics, backstory, character bios, and invites for fan clubs and BBS and shit.

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    GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Tube said not to post other webcomics in the new comic thread, Bendery.

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    KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited September 2008
    say hello to new administrative policy

    the new comic thread has been a little...'iffy', to be polite, for the last couple months

    so we're gonna try on these pants
    • Be civil
    • Don't come back every M/W/F just to complain or shit on people posting in this thread
    • Comic Edits are OK, but lets not spend half the thread discussing them.
    • Lets try not to veer too far off topic in this thread, m'kay?

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    Bendery It Like BeckhamBendery It Like Beckham Hopeless Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Oh my bad, fixed

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    VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm gonna go ahead and say that I think those "policies" are going to have to be spelled out a lot more in order to prevent exploitation. As in, what exactly is okay and not in terms of "civil" or "too many comic edits."

    You could add a "don't be dumb" thing in there just to cover all bases. You know. Just as an idea.

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    FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    this comic is close to my heart and i enjoy it

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    Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Speaking of Copy Protection, anybody remember how on X-Wing every time you'd launch the game it would ask you for a "verification code" found in your manual in Star Wars symbols?

    I felt like I was in the CIA or something every time I logged into the game.

    I was too young to appreciate that it wasn't there just to sate my obsession with simulation.

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    FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i don't remember that at all

    was that in regular x-wing or the collector's edition

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    Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Its been like 15 years, man.

    I haven't the foggiest notion.

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    BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator mod
    edited September 2008
    Remember the copy protection from The Bard's Tale series? The used this code wheel with slots to look up keywords. They used similar measures for the early AD&D computer games.

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    lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Bogey wrote: »
    Remember the copy protection from The Bard's Tale series? The used this code wheel with slots to look up keywords. They used similar measures for the early AD&D computer games.

    oh man, are you talking the Gold Box D&D computer games? They had some tedious crap going on with their copy protection, all code wheel and having to translate and looking up words and blagh

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    BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator mod
    edited September 2008
    lostwords wrote: »
    Bogey wrote: »
    Remember the copy protection from The Bard's Tale series? The used this code wheel with slots to look up keywords. They used similar measures for the early AD&D computer games.

    oh man, are you talking the Gold Box D&D computer games? They had some tedious crap going on with their copy protection, all code wheel and having to translate and looking up words and blagh
    Yup, that was them. I miss those games.

    My first RPGs were games from the Ultima series, The Bard's Tale, Space/Kings/Police Quest, and the AD&D gold-box series. :)

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    Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Yeah, I remember the code wheel. I had like home made book of photocopies of every combination.

    For Monkey Island I think?

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