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I agree.

This comic explains precisely how I feel about Counter-strike.

I think Greg Dean said it best with this strip.

"...if Commodor beats out Apple, then good for them."

Then there is today's strip in Real Life Comics!

What year is it?!

And the "alternative" booth babes!

I clarified: "No, I said I WISH I could figure this thing out!"

The look on his face was priceless. "You fucking bastard!" He'd apparently forgotten about giving me the wish earlier, from one of his characters.

Unclever GM. The classic response there is, of course, "OK. You are now capable of figuring this thing out." To be nice, give them a bonus to intelligence or something. Heh.

Or, of course, the classic response...here. (Check the two previous for better examples).

Real Life Comics' Tony bought one of these beauties ages ago. You can buy them here for around $2,500,000, and I can personally vouch for VillainSupply's extremely consistent customer support. (None at all, ever.)

Greg Dean of Real Life Comics has had a Master Sword replica for years!

In fact, they originally made one of those swords because Greg, the author of Real Life Comics, requested it.

Here's a picture of the one Greg has.

He worked out a deal with SwordsOnline.com to draw The Forge for them, and they paid him in store credit. As I recall, the Buster Sword was the first sword he had them make for him.

His sword collection is pretty ridiculous, but it's awesome all the same. =)

In fact, they originally made one of those swords because Greg, the author of Real Life Comics, requested it.

Here's a picture of the one Greg has.

He worked out a deal with SwordsOnline.com to draw The Forge for them, and they paid him in store credit. As I recall, the Buster Sword was the first sword he had them make for him.

His sword collection is pretty ridiculous, but it's awesome all the same. =)

In fact, they originally made one of those swords because Greg, the author of Real Life Comics, requested it.

Here's a picture of the one Greg has.

He worked out a deal with SwordsOnline.com to draw The Forge for them, and they paid him in store credit. As I recall, the Buster Sword was the first sword he had them make for him.

His sword collection is pretty ridiculous, but it's awesome all the same. =)

And neither did the slashdotting.
Anyone have a mirror of the article?
And is someone going end up in the same boat as Greg Dean?

Luckily, this sort of thing happens with a number of contests. Pepsi will just fix it in future bottles (if any) and go on; not going to affect mp3s-as-commerce at all, really.

http://www.reallifecomics.com/daily.php?strip_id=1 112 - Very relevant comic on the issue of Battlebots on Mars :)

See?

Battletech/Mechwarrior fans, take note. :)

Or, it could be truck!

is that like overcolocking a nuclear warhead?

You like Real Life too?

Who would win in a fight between the Cardboard Tube Samurai and the
Shirt Ninja?? ;)

6) iTunes.

Pointer? No.

Comic strip with a D'ni speaking character? Yes.

Disclaimer: I'm a recurring character in this strip

It would be in a lot of their benefits to use vector files rather than raster. I mean, they develope in vector files anyway. I believe Gabe and Greg both use Illustrator then save as jpg or gif for their websites. Isn't there a vector plugin or something? Heck they could use Flash and make it one freaking frame. Surely it would be smaller.

I check Penny Arcade, Little Gamers, and Real Life Comics an awful lot. Probably too much to be healthy.

Why? Because the web provides me access to humor that is very, VERY specialized. Find comics like these in a Sunday Paper, or a comic shop, or anywhere else.

There's a RealLife game now?

..this story would be about a MMORPG featuring the characters from here? I was really hoping for stats on the Shirt Ninja. -grungebox

Who needs real life when you have Real Life? And no, I don't have anything to do with it, I just like the comic.

oh, and take over the world after you unleash "SARS 2: The Mutation"

I think you should try this

Tough choice... Do I buy that, or Capcom vs. Fucking Everything?

• Machall - best..webcomic...ever (updates: "tues, thurs, sat" but more like when he gets around to it)
• Penny Arcade - a very popular, and very funny gaming comic (M W F)
• Megatokyo - a well drawn comic with a strong story mangaish (M W F)
• Ctrl-Alt-Del - cut and paste, but always funny (Daily)
• Something Positive - kinda cut and paste, but often very funny (daily)
• Real Life - cut and paste, but still a pretty funny gaming comic (mostly daily)
• Calvin and Hobbes - rereleasing C+H online, 10 years delayed...my personal fav (daily)
• Errant Story - a well drawn, story based modernish fantasy comic (updates every other day or so)
• Angst Technology - a game software firm and their antics (updates almost daily)

• (as if you need the link)Slashdot
• CBC News Canadian news from the CBC
• Debian Planet good debian news
• Footnotes GNOME news
• Ars Technica another tech site, often has interesting projects too...
• Anime News Network exactly what the name implies.
• Unconventional Conformity a blog.
• The Weather Network - for my local weather
• 
  
  And well, thats about it. That I check frequently at least. I do like webcomics and strongly suggest that you check out Machall Megatokyo and Errant Story if you don't already though! And then there's also everything2 but its not news and I can't check it daily (or else I would do nothing all day but read!) its too good at just drawing you in. And the anime turnpike to go browsing through Anime fansites...

The book has been in print for 50 years, it's not like people had no way to find out what was going on.
http://www.reallifecomics.com/d/20021218.html

Several years ago, some online comic artists banded together and formed Keenspot (and its sibling network Keenspace). Hosting, forums, artist control of whether pop-up ads (vs. only banner ads) appear for any given comic, optional subscriptions for ad-free reading; good stuff.

Among my favorites there: General Protection Fault, Help Desk, It's Walky (formerly Roomies), Lost and Found, Real Life, and Schlock Mercenary.

Here's some online comics that might be worth checking out:

Sluggy - Students, aliens, ghosts, psychotic rabbits, evil kittens. One of the oldest and niftiest comics online.
User Friendly - Linux, geeks. You get the idea.
Megatokyo - An online manga following Piro and Largo whilst stranded in Tokyo.
Schlock Mercenary - Not too good art, but usually a very good and suitably sci-fi-ish plot.
Clan of the Cats - A modern-day witch cursed to change into a panther. Good artwork.
RPG World - Great art. A parody of almost any role playing game (the console variety) you'd care to play.
Ghost Cat - It's a cat! It's a ghost! It's ghost cat!
Elf Life - Elves, fairies, barbarians, time travel, romance, comedy, and very well drawn as well.
Exploitation Now! - An anime-ish comic with good art and an interesting, if sporadic, plot.
Real Life - It's real life. Except it's not. Reasonably funny.
Penny Arcade - The mother of all gaming comics. Very funny :)
Sephen - A relative newcomer, but wow! Great pencil-work!
8-bit Theater - The grandpappy of all sprite comics. I think. It's funny anyway. Go read :)
Demonology 101 - Fantastic art, fantastic plot! If only it came out more often! Ah well, the world isn't perfect.

Oh, and I can't really get away without mentioning my brother's sprite comic, Pixelated!. It really isn't bad. No, really! :)

I have found that the best way explaination is given with a Real Life Comic where they say the woman is always right.

Here.

• "I Love you" - Goes good with chocolate and roses
• "I'm sorry"
• "Your right"

Ahhhh, its amazing I managed to find it, but here it is.

I want one of these!

• Dilbert
• User Friendly
• Sinfest
• Penny Arcade
• MegaTokyo
• Real Life
• PvP

howbout RealLife?

Is it based on the comic?

-If

Ok some adiitional info about the Alamo Drafthouse.

Orders are taken before the show and during previews.

Staff are very quiet and make as little noise or visual (crouching once the feature presentation has started) distraction as possible.

One of the theater created bumpers before the show is a clip from the 80's version of "The Blob" where a noisy movie patron is blabbing in a normal conversation tone about what is happening on the screen and gets consumed by the blob. At which point giant block letters come on the screen to inform the Drafthouse crowd that if you talk during the the presentaion, "We'll kick your ass out."

The wireless access is very cool for the drafthouse type crowd that typically arrives 30 minutes to an hour before the showing to get their seats and order and wants something to do while waiting for the movie.

People like the guy that was acting all annoyed about being told to close his notebook are just as bad as the people that feel they have the right to leave their phones on audible ring and talk in loud voices like the theater was their own personal living room. Wireless access does not equate to the right to do whatever you want.

As a movie-aholic that frequents the Alamo Drafthouse among many of the other theaters in Austin there are times when I totally feel like this Real Life comicstrip.

If you can't have basic respect for other people trying to watch the movie stay home, please.

PVP is having server problems apparently. Current strips are being posted by Greg Dean over at Real Life.

The Trib picked a few strips as a survey of the field. No such list would get everything good. The links I added were meta-sites and mega-sites, not individual strips.

Having said that, here are some more that might appeal to fellow Slashers:

o Goats: nominally a couple of Web developers, mostly about ... oh, never mind, just read it. PG-13; your mom might not like it.

o Freefall: A captain of a starship (that's only flown once in the history of the strip), his robot sidekick, and his furry engineer. SF meets Dilbert in a kindler, gentler way.

o GPF: life at a software development company with an unfortunate name.

o Help Desk: life at the tech support desk of a software megacompany named Ubersoft (with products such as Nifty Doorways and Tactile Basic).

(The last two recently had a crossover, a pretty common occurence in online strips.)

o Acid Reflux (previously here): vaguely-D&D-ish strip about a young god trying to restore the universe her sister abandoned.

o Mega Tokyo: a couple of American gamers stranded in Japan.

o Real Life: a couple of American gamers who know they're comic strip characters.

o Schlock Mercenary: light SF strip.

All have complete archives back to the first strip, so you can catch up at your leisure. Enjoy!

i think in the future we'll use our minds to control the computers... like this cartoon from Real Life Comics. How productive would it be to write a paper, or code, directly from your head to the page nothing lost in the translation. Aside from the privacy issues (and the technology issues despite what the people at Princeton's Engineering Anomalies Research would tell you).

thats just my opinion, i could be wrong.

i think in the future we'll use our minds to control the computers... like this cartoon from Real Life Comics. How productive would it be to write a paper, or code, directly from your head to the page nothing lost in the translation. Aside from the privacy issues (and the technology issues despite what the people at Princeton's Engineering Anomalies Research would tell you).

thats just my opinion, i could be wrong.

...This is your brain on caffeine.

Any questions?