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Comment from: LurkerWithout posted at February 1, 2007 10:35 PM

Don't work to death. Seriously. No dying! You're all the way across the country and I can't absorb your powers from that far. So live!

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at February 1, 2007 11:15 PM

Dude, I got dibs on his powers! Or at least his facial hair.

Comment from: Thomas Blight posted at February 2, 2007 12:25 AM

His facial hair is his powers.

Comment from: miyaa posted at February 2, 2007 12:47 AM

Note to Eric: Truck stops have the most interesting selection of audiobook literature. One series might well be the Truck Stop's version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy except there's actual sex involved.

Note to High-End Scale Hotels: For a room that cost me $400+, could you possibly find a better cable/movie/internet system other than LogicTech? You'd be better off just paying the local cable's full rate and have a selection of DVDs that guests could rent at night.

Additional note to Eric: Maybe you could borrow Greg Dean's excuse that you sprained your elbow after playing Wii Tennis to your boss?

Note to 32: Dude, it's not the facial hair, it's his mustache, as evidenced The Tick?

Comment from: Matt Blackwell posted at February 2, 2007 2:08 AM

Dude, Ultimate Alliance gets even better. The later levels have stuff that will make even a casual Marvel fan geek out.

Comment from: leons1701 posted at February 2, 2007 5:39 AM

Matt's not kidding.

And you aren't kidding about Order of the Stick either. This is easily the best that series has been, and it was never bad.

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at February 2, 2007 9:52 AM

Miyaa, you forget that it's not just the 'stache. Remember, the mustache was developed because the Russians were working on a beard. So yeah, it is all facial hair (as Blight points out) that has the power.

Also, the proper name of that injury is Nintendonitis of the elbow.

Comment from: Carina Kadow posted at February 2, 2007 11:39 AM

Hoh boy, order of the stick has lately provided me with alot of storybound treasure type O.

The Giant really, really, really knows how to tell a good story.

*waves a little "the giant is my hero" flag*

Comment from: miyaa posted at February 2, 2007 1:07 PM

So, how does that explain why women faun over men with stubles, or five o'clock shadows?

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at February 2, 2007 1:18 PM

They recognize that the full power is about to blossom, so they move close to be ready to harvest it.

Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at February 2, 2007 2:20 PM

Perhaps that explains why in The Lost Room Peter Krause plays a cop who puts on his best suit to take his little daughter to her psych eval persuant to his custody battle and still hasn't shaved for two days.

Comment from: Aerin posted at February 2, 2007 2:29 PM

Peter Krause is like Homer Simpson. Immediately upon shaving, he sprouts two days' worth of stubble, which grows no longer.

Comment from: sun tzu posted at February 2, 2007 2:45 PM

I must confess, I WAS wondering when you were going to snark Order of the Stick. IMO, the last few months have brought that comic out of the "really good" category and well into "outstanding".

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at February 2, 2007 4:03 PM

The guys with insta-stubble, but not much else, deserve pity. That's a symbol of unfocused power, constantly bleeding out but unable to be harnessed.

Of course, I have a decent beard on my own. But I know with my own beard combined with Eric's, I'll have the power to take over the world. And those fools at the Institute dared to call me mad for this beard obsession. I'll show them all!

... Quick, where was that Rogaine foam they just came out with? I need to apply more to my face.

Comment from: LurkerWithout posted at February 2, 2007 10:28 PM

You people stay away from Eric and his sweet, sweet Powers of Dude. Those are mine! I'll cutcha! I swear I'll cutcha!

Comment from: Wistful Dreamer posted at February 3, 2007 12:21 AM

Hmmm. I have always found PvP to bne a bunch of old News Radio plots and broad character types. Not a bunch of depth or character growth, and reused jokes. Is there something in the animated fare that will change my opinion? Have I just not read in too long?

Comment from: Thomas Blight posted at February 3, 2007 11:25 PM

Wistful Dreamer: Yeah, I get that impression too. Everything plays out in a very predictable manner. Characters are flat and lack the ability to develop and grow. I might even take the audacity of saying that PvP is the Garfield of webcomics.

I don't see how the animated shorts would be any more worth my money.

Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at February 4, 2007 11:51 AM

Kris Straub is involved too.

Comment from: Sean Duggan posted at February 5, 2007 3:56 PM

Sadly, I'm close to the perma-stubble category. It takes me about a month and a half to grow maybe an eighth of an inch on my chin and I dare not go for a full beard because it's patchy. I tried once, didn't shave anything, and wound up with a beardline that looked like a bezier curve with a half-dozen control points. I've done a goatee with moustache twice, and it turned out alright in my opinion - the sheer volume conceals the patchiness - but until it hits an inch or so, it's not pretty.

Comment from: quiller posted at February 5, 2007 7:17 PM

While I, on the other hand, have a 5 O'clock shadow that can sand wood. My current beard came from some years back when my girlfriend of the time was actually getting slight burns on her face from my evening stubble, and I was having to shave twice a day. She went on a trip for a week, and when she came back, I had a full beard that was already soft. In another week it was ready for me to start trimming it.

Of course, for me a full beard is ultimate laziness. I trim once a week with an electric trimmer. I couldn't imagine having a goatee as I would have to shave twice a day, and trim the goatee, which is way too much time to be spending on appearance to my way of thinking.

Comment from: J Ryan Beattie posted at February 6, 2007 2:15 AM

I've never had a full beard, but I did sport some rather nice muttonchops for a bit. However, my pride and joy is my handlebar mustache.

My 'stache is as the 'stache of ten, because my heart is pure.

Comment from: Merus posted at February 6, 2007 7:57 PM

"I might even take the audacity of saying that PvP is the Garfield of webcomics."

If you did that, you would miss out on the opportunity to refer to Ctrl+Alt+Del as the Garfield of webcomics.

Comment from: Thomas Blight posted at February 6, 2007 10:06 PM

Merus: Can't there be more than one?

Comment from: J Ryan Beattie posted at February 6, 2007 11:04 PM

No. Haven't you seen Highlander?

Now we just need to get Scott Kurtz to decapitate Tim Buckley.

Comment from: Doug Wykstra posted at February 6, 2007 11:28 PM

Wistful Dreamer: I would call your description of PvP as "A bunch of old News Radio plots" both insightful and original if Kurtz hadn't made several comics circa 2004 where his characters complained that their lives were nothing but a series of rehashed News Radio plots, and that Kurtz was a hack.

Well, given that you seem to be on the same wavelength as Kurtz regarding his work, I suppose it's still insightful.

Comment from: J. Channing Wells posted at February 7, 2007 2:42 PM

Ditto on OOTS; it would be handy to have a couple of Type C extinguishers handy because Rich is both electric and on fire right now.

Hinjo, in particular, is making my heart glad.

Comment from: Wistful Dreamer posted at February 7, 2007 7:27 PM

"Wistful Dreamer: I would call your description of PvP as "A bunch of old News Radio plots" both insightful and original if Kurtz hadn't made several comics circa 2004 where his characters complained that their lives were nothing but a series of rehashed News Radio plots, and that Kurtz was a hack.

Well, given that you seem to be on the same wavelength as Kurtz regarding his work, I suppose it's still insightful."

Oh, of course I'm using his own words. Why wouldn't I? It's a perfect description. And I'm glad he's aware of the limitations of his strip. That, however, does not make it something I care to read.

Comment from: Plaid Phantom posted at February 10, 2007 1:37 AM

Soo...Thursday. Relevant and accurate.

Comment from: kilthmal posted at February 11, 2007 3:58 AM

This rum is making me say... I miss you like Joanie loves Chachi.

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at February 11, 2007 12:18 PM

Call me crazy, but I have a eprsonal rule to never comparer anyone I know even tangentally to Scott Baio or anything he's ever done. I recommend everyone follows this - it's for the best.

Comment from: Sates posted at February 11, 2007 6:12 PM

Remember, the mustache was developed because the Russians were working on a beard. So yeah, it is all facial hair that has the power.

Comment from: Cornan posted at February 13, 2007 3:37 PM

Tharn?

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