Nerd Boy, episodes 135-143
Where's bug? Winter break? No computer access? How am I supposed to know
when the week-end is?
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YES! Finally, the beta _
version of Ragnarok! `O |_)
I GET TO PLAY A MAGE! |_(-_[__]
______ | |b| | ____________________
MANDY! MANDY! If this is about a game again,
, , I'll kill you. Slowly.
\OO --~
q//- -<<.
______ b ___________________ || ____________
THE RAGN.. eh.
`OO --~
__ \\ -<<.
_______ -- bb,,_____ || _______
That was
clo.. ehhrm.
`OO ``~
\\ -<<.
jg_____ bb || _______
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I changed this one as per llizard's request, thereby disproving her "you
never listen to me" theory.
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I thought Ragnarok would be
fun, but I just sit around
waiting for the maps to `OO ..~
finish loading... (( .<<.
____ b b _______ || _____
My computer just freezes every
time I leave a zone, and it `OO ..~
starts swapping like crazy! -||- .<<.
______ bb ___ || _____
I can't understand why! Lorf For what? I stopped
knows I have plenty of RAM! , listening, sorry...
Can you think of a reason? `OO ..~
.||' .<<.
______ bb ___ || _____
I talk about computers, and What?
you just shut down. It never ,
fails. Why do you do that!? `OO ..~
.||. .<<.
jg______ bb ___ || _____
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In case you're wondering, "Lorf" was originally a typo of "Lord", but I
thought "Lorf" was funnier.
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Everything is soooo weeeeird!!!
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'----' `._ _/
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\ \ Quit playing around
__ \ | and help me find my ___/
.'' | | grandmother's medication! /
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' / / | ___ /_/
/ / | "--' /
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jg /
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One of my least favourite "strips". I thought it was poor filler material,
but some people seem to like it. It's an interesting style, anyway.
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Look! I bought a baseball
signed by some famous player!
It was only a thousand dollars
, or so... Cool, huh? Huh?
~.. OO
.>>. o)).
______ || ________ d d _____
~.. OO
.>>. o||.
______________________ || ____ dd ______________________________
That's But... -Real- men buy
stupid. , this kind of thing.
`~.. OO
.>>. o||.
___ || ____ dd _____
Real -idiots- buy There's a difference?
that kind of thing... ,
`--~ OO
<< o||.
jg_____ /| _________ dd _____________
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As you can see, I still love the "beat", the short pause used for comical
effect. I think it's cool that it works in this medium.
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I don't know... About What about it?
this whole Christmas _ ,
deal, I mean... `~.. (_| O
>> [__]_.)_|
|\ | |d| |
It just seems pointless sometimes. Hmmm. Yeah...
One measly day to make up for all _ , You're right.
the crap during the year? `~.. (_| O
.>>. [__]_ /_|
_________________ || | |d| | ______________
No, no! You're supposed to talk Oh... Um...
at length about the spirit of _ , Er...
Christmas and restore my `~.. (_| O
faith in all of mankind! .>>. [__]_ )_|
|| __ | |d| |
_
~.. (_| O
.>>. [__]_ )_|
____________________________ || __ | |d| | ______________________
I'll just go rent _
"Scrooge"... `--~ (_| O
<< [__]_.)_|
jg /| | |d| |
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And there it is again; the "beat". It's like in that movie when that guru
told that Jim Carrey that the secret to making people laugh is silence. They
don't call 'em gurus for nothing, people!
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I'm going to the *It's cold. Wear
store to buy some , a scarf.*
milk. BRB... `OO ==~ *meep*
.||. |-[[
bb ' ||
. - Great. Head --
` - , wind. ' . ---
___OO , ___ '
__ .//. . `
_______________ b b ____________________________________ '
___ ' -And- on the --
__ . ' , way back...
' -- . OO___ ,
' ` - .\\. .
____________________________________ (|d d _____________
Sure is windy
out there... *meep*
, ,
___OO ==~
.||. .[[.
jg_______ bb ___________ || ______
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Probably one of the very few possible graphical jokes in this format.
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| <darkmoon> Hi nb! | new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()) |
| <koolkitten4311> asl | ); |
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| |_(._[__] | |_(._[__] * |
| | |b| | | | |b| | * |
X----------------------X----------------------------------------------X
X---------- MAKING MUSIC ----------X------- LISTENING TO MUSIC -------X
| *buh-DSHT-daka-DSHT* | *Alive in the Superunknown!* |
| _ *dididweee didwee* | _ *First they steal |
| O |_) *pa-tang-kang* | O |_) your mind and |
| |_(._[__] | |_\ _[__] then they steal |
| | |b| | | | |b| | your...* |
X----------------------------------X----------------------------------X
X-------- READING BOOKS --------X----------- PLAYING GAMES -----------X
| "Twelve years ago, I saw your | |
| face in a dream, and it has | Take *blammo!* *blam* |
| haunted_me ever since." | that! _ *Mein Leben!* |
| O |_) | `O |_) *blam* *blam blam* |
| |_( _[__] | |_(._[__] *BLAM BLAM BLAM* |
| | |b| | | | |b| | |
X-------------------------------X-------------------------------------X
You've been using that thing a
_ , whole day! It's not healthy!
O |_) ..~ You need some variation!
|_(._[__] .<<.
jg | |b| | ||
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Someone (I won't say any names because the person is apparently insane) has
actually printed this one and stuck it on a wall. Although I'm extremely
flattered, I also think the person in question might go nuts and start
stalking me if I make just one too many filler strips...
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-)(- Ah-HA!
/\ *push* ,
/'o\ ..~ OO
/o_`_\ _&_.<<. -||.
|| |_|_| \\ dd
-)(- Nerd Boy! What are I could ask you the very
/\ you doing? It's 2 am! , same question, but if
/'o\ `~.. OO you must know, I was
/o_`_\_&_ .>>. .||. waiting for Santa.
_______ || |_|_| ______ || ____________ dd _________________
-)(- I told you already! Oh yeah? Then how did you
/\ He's not real! , get that present?
/'o\ `~-- OO -Prayer-?
/o_`_\_&_ .>>. -||.
__ || |_|_| ____ || __________ dd ______
-)(- I bought it! Oh, shop, eh? How
/\ In a shop! , -convenient-.
/'o\ `~.. OO
/o_`_\_&_ ->>- .||.
jg || |_|_| || dd
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This one is rather amusing, I think, probably because it reminds me of an
amusing Simpsons episode, in which case the Nerd Boy strip is funny by
association. Yes, I know it doesn't work that way.
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|| | | | | | MERRY X-MAS! | | | | | ||
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|| | / .' .' `. `. \ | ||
|| / .' _.-' _.' Woah. `._ `-._ `. \ ||
|| .'.'.-'__.-' Deja vu. `-.__`-.`.`. ||
|| | | \ `. ___ ,,, , __ __ .' / | | ||
|| | | | \ ()~~) --/ ~.. OO ~~# ==~ ..' / | | | ||
|| | | | | .||. .\\ .>>.||. .|(. [[ .( ). | | | | ||
||_|_|__|___|___||______>\_____||_db____||__||___||___|___|__|_|_||
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Why did jg reuse It's Christmas, *plink!*
a panel? Isn't that , give him __
cheating? `OO ..~ a break. #.. vv ==~
|| .<<. .)|' `[[.
____ bb ___ || ____________________ || __ || ___
And isn't Christmas The author is from *That explains
tomorrow? Why are we , Sweden. They do , a -lot-.*
celebrating now? `OO ..~ things a bit ==~ *meep*
|| .<<. differently... v[[.
jg_____ bb ___ || _______________________ || ___
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Deja vu indeed. Funny, now that I wrote it, it looks like I was making a
reference to the Usenet archive in the strip. Let's say that I was.
- Joaquim
(too lazy to open his Sent folder and
get his sig from an old message and
put it in the blaaah blaah blah. I'll
do that later, probably the day after
tomorrow or something. Good night.)
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