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>>96884914
Imagine making it all the way to the dying months of 2025 before deciding to do this. At least you can't accuse him of trend chasing.

>asexual
Well, that's certainly a way to make religious celibacy sound gay and modern

>>96884998
It's still chasing if you are doing so at a painfully slow speed.

>>96885002
Religion is heckin' bad and divergent sexualities are wholesome.

I've never heard of being asexual in a way that doesn't seem absolutely miserable and this comic really does nothing to change that.

>>96884914
A lot of strips that Rich puts up are about 30 to 50% pointless, but something still happens
This one is just an entirely pointless gag strip that isn't even fucking funny

>I thought I heard you—one of you—saying it was a pity—umph—a pity I never had—any children … eh? … But I have, you know … I have …” The others smiled without answering, and after a pause Chips began a faint and palpitating chuckle. “Yes—umph—I have,” he added, with quavering merriment. “Thousands of ’em … thousands of ’em… and all boys."
>>96885324
Possible foreshadowing that O-Chul isn't long for this world, though he's likely to be getting one hell of an exit if so.

>>96885002
It's the beholder who's describing it like that, and they literally are asexual. As in, they reproduce asexually through self-fertilization.

This is the first comic in a while that I'd give a 0/10 to.

It isn't funny, and it doesn't advance the plot.

Christ, imagine making a work so bad that it barely even inspires anyone to bother shitting on it. And after decades of wasting your life on it, no less. If I was Rich I'd jump in front of a train.

>asexual
That came out of fucking nowhere. I thought that we were done with the age of bringing your sexuality into everything.

>>96885498
This; it's so bad I refuse to even Thog it.

>>96885180
Gonna have to disagree there, dawg. O-Chul makes it sounds righteous and cool.

>>96885628
Well that`s the thing, innit, a paladin having zero interest in sex? That`s not exactly new or crazy. It's just that calling it Asexual makes it really stupid and gay.

>>96884914
This one was funny.

He's just fucking with the forum people and their dumb theories

>>96884914
>Not funny
>Does not advance the plot
>Largely about that dwarf that no one cares about
A new low.

>>96885483
Yeah I think it was a pun on reproducing asexually that didn't land because the language is so clinical.

>>96884914
so the autistic one-step-from-trooning-out groomed the mitd? hot

>>96886044
I think that's the joke.
I think.

>>96886324
No, the joke is the confusion between 'Asexual' (Does not have sexual interest) and 'Asexual' (Aka a being who does not have a sex and reproduces asexually)

Why is the beholder excited about this? How can anyone possibly find this topic interesting?

>>96885731
It's just so boring.
>>96886438
Beholders are asexual. They reproduce by vomiting out new ones.

>>96886438
chance to compare gooning techniques

>>96886498
I thought beholders dream their children into existence
which I always thought actually sounded appropriately esoteric and intriguing

>>96885692
The core joke of Thog is that Rich could get across the same amount of plot development using fewer words. But when a strip has no plot development whatsoever, there's nothing to Thog.

I'll admit I'm a little relieved; I was so sure that Rich would make O-Chul gay and making him celibate is marginally less cringey

>>96886438
He is a kid and has had little exposure to humans so probably doesn't know much about them and maybe he thought it was neat that he had something in common with someone so different from him. I kind of just wish O-chul just said something like "No, I'm just not looking for anyone right." Being asexual is dumb.

>>96884914
Oy gevalt and just at the start of No Nut November, what a shanda!

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Let’s keep moving, people.

We really didn't need the shark paladin and the female dwarf to join the group. They've been with the party for ten years now and I still don't remember their names.

>>96887882
Lien is kinda cute though

>>96887882
The shark paladin has a nice story in one of the books you're supposed to pay for.

>>96887882
>Writer ran out of ideas for the main characters
>Focuses on expanding side characters
Never a good sign, just get to the gate or encounter Nale or something

>>96888978
As always, this is the sort of thing that flows much more smooth when it's seconds between pages rather than weeks

You know, I probably wouldn't be so bothered by these "literally fucking nothing happens" updates if it weren't ~2 months between updates.

Like I'm legitimately concerned at this point that either Rich or myself will kick it before the story is finished.

>>96889287
It's not like he's George RR Martin. Rich is only 51, and not every update is so far apart from the previous one.

Actually though, I wouldn't be surprised if he whipped this one up quick while he had the idea. It's one of the rare pages that doesn't really seem to touch on anything that matters to the plot, and the bit is topical. Easy to throw together, doesn't need him to selectively look for what threads he wants to pull at and then wrap it up in a joke.

>>96886498
Why did you reply to my question with a statement that doesn't answer it?

>>96889351
"only". the strip has already consumed a significant faction of his life span, and every decade has a higher probability of some catastrophic health problem than the previous.

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upscale.
and wow, this one is remarkably bad.

>>96885437
>umph
What an onomatopoeia

>>96889351
assuming this book is the last one, and that it's about as long as his last couple books (~260 comics), he's on pace to reach the end (comic 1449) on February 10, 2031.

That's using the last 30 or so comics to get the average completion time, but that's steadily been getting worse... Nevertheless, I'm sure someone will still be here, thogging.

>>96889547
He said in one of the Q&As that there will be seven books, even if the seventh one was so long it had to be split into two physical volumes. He also said in the sixth book that Sunny would be an important character "in the first half of the next arc". So we're not even at the halfway point. This shit lasting until 2040 is not implausible.

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>O-Chul's fangirls (and gay fans) right now

>>96889966
It'll last until his Patreon bucks dry up.

>>96889547
>>96889351
i dont know if you guys remember when he updated 3 times a week bc that was 20 years ago
i do wonder what his specific medical problem is that prevents him from working

>>96890253
>i dont know if you guys remember when he updated 3 times a week bc that was 20 years ago
I remember...
>i do wonder what his specific medical problem is that prevents him from working
IBS

>>96884914
>Ok, let's keep moving, people.
>No.

>>96890253
I did not forget this. I've been reading since well before the thumb injury.

His release schedule is far more inconsistent, and oftentimes much more spread out than it used to be. But he still sometimes surprises us by releasing pages relatively close together.

As slow and nothing as OotS is, at least it isn't The Outsider.

>>96884914
*sigh*
It's all so tiresome.

OH HOW HECKIN' BRAVE AND VALID

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Why do these "people" put weakness on a pedestal?

>>96892701
Because humanity somehow got the notion into their heads that the weak deserve to exist and it's been all downhill from there.

>>96892720
>>96892701
At least they won't breed.

>>96890253
Remember when webcomics were a thing and Google was useful?

>>96889471
Thank you, anon.

>>96892701
There's an entire religion around "The meek shall inherit the Earth"

>>96893171
A lot of the people in said religion (and variants thereof) don't honestly believe this though. They're big fakers.

>>96884914
And then everyone clapped

>>96893171
Yeah, when the strong are done with it.

>>96890253
>i do wonder what his specific medical problem is that prevents him from working

it's called Patreonitis

it's where a content creator loses all motivation to work because he knows he'll get paid the same whether he does anything or not

>>96892613
It's a combination pandering and gag-a-day strip when he's nominally making a serious effort to finish sometime in the next decade, and the last one was a tik-tok gag-a-day strip. What with aura-farming months ago and that scurvy opening scars has absolutely been doing the rounds online I wonder if he's just sitting in front of tumblr because he's run out of ideas. The bit that anyone who got scars before gaining access to healing spells has to do surgery to be taken seriously was moderately interesting, but the sex stuff coming from what's ostensibly a child and been largely treated like one is a bit bleak, although I guess given Elan's apparent mental age that's not something Burlew thinks or cares about

>>96894562
>sex stuff coming from what's ostensibly a child and been largely treated like one is a bit bleak
Is it realy? Most children will at some point come up with a question how babies are made. And that old halfling hag surrogate mother does not seem like a person that could be bothere to explain things tactfully, Sunny probably knows whole bunch of age inappropriate things.

Holy Jesus, this is STILL going? I legit thought it would end before I lost my virginity,but I might actually have a shot.

>>96895037
Sure, with a bit of luck your mortician might be necrophiliac, which would still count.

>>96895083
I have to imagine that a mortician is more likely than average to get a stiffy over a stiff. Love what you do and you'll never work a day in your life, y'know?

You'd really have to stretch how human-old Sunny is supposed to be for this to be merely modern and gay and not hmmm and uncomfortable.

>>96884914
It's a little annoying that we wait so long between updates, only to get ones that don't advance the story and aren't even funny.

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>>96895083
>laughs in space elf

>>96895464
Sure, the guy from pathology might be a bit of a weirdo, but he's very dependable and always working hard.

I can confirm. that is how gnomes reproduce

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>>96895670
:(

>>96895670
gnomes reproduce through corprophylic polygamous incest

the only "descendents" in the loosest sense of the term, of any worth, are the result of actions too foul even for this accured place.

>>96885180
it's not really all that bad, it's just not being into something popular.

like, it honestly sounds disgusting. I don't want someone sticking their tongue down my throat or covering my dick in spit or mucus. it just sounds disgusting. Plus, you have to worry about putting a slimy rubber glove over your dick that ruins the expereince, except if you don't do that you can end up with either your dick rotting off, or a screaming shit machine you're legally and financially responsible for for the next 18+ years of your life.

And that's just plain old fucking. don't even get me started on what a pain shit like dating and marriage can be. that's a hard pass.

>>96895723
which book is that? I haven't touched 3.5 in decades, but that font makes it look like one of the campaign setting books

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>>96895752
Races of Faerun

>>96890253
>i do wonder what his specific medical problem is that prevents him from working
GRRMitis, i.e. beign a lazy fat fuck

>>96892701
oppression olympics

>>96885180
Imagine if everyone in your life was super into juggling. Everyone had several sets of balls around the house, it was on every television show, advertisements would talk about how using the product would make your throws more consistent or your arc higher, people would exchange balls as a token of affection, on and on and on with the juggling. High schoolers steal each other's juggling equipment or dare each other to juggle dumber and dumber shit. Adults spend massive amounts of money on fragile juggling balls to show their mastery because if they ever dropped they'd shatter. A whole juggling society.

Now say you understand the mechanics of juggling, you've maybe even tried it a few times, but you don't really enjoy it. It's something to do with your hands but it's not a spiritual experience. You'd feel like a crazy person, that everyone you met treated this act as foundational and an intrinsic part of the human experience, and at most you find it tolerable.

It's not necessarily "bad" that you don't juggle but you're definitely on the back foot all the time, even if the only impact on your day-to-day life is you don't particularly care how high the ceilings are.

>>96895744
If you've never tried kissing or sex, you should. A lot of people think it's gross until they try it, and studies show that sexual arousal suppresses the disgust instinct.

Sex is objectively gross. In heterosexual sex, the man sticks his sweaty crotch object into a woman's orifice the inside of which is mostly physically similar to the inside of a nostril. The eventual goal is for a sticky fluid to leave the man's penis. The whole thing is gross.

And kissing? You jam your lips against each other and move your tongues together and exchange a bunch of saliva. It's gross.

A lot of foreplay is like licking another persons skin? Weird.

But when you're into it, none of that seems gross and all of it (well, most of it) seems awesome.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0044111
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-009-9529-z
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-015-9485-y
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118151

>>96895831

>If you've never tried kissing or sex

I've tried kissing, but it turned out pretty sexless. admittedly, the girl in question wasn't into me, it was our first kiss, and both of us had chapped lips. Ironically, both of us ended up being ace and she became a guy a few years ago. Now I'm stuck in this weird ambiguously gay state where I still prefer women, but have no desire to fuck one and also an ex boyfriend

>>96895892
I'm not trying to say that you're necessarily not asexual, but the fact that your first kiss was horrible might have given you a bad impression. It's like if the first time you had ice cream it was really bad so you decided you didn't like ice cream.

>>96885498
Yeah, I'm usually pretty forgiving, but I can't see a single purpose to this one.
Maybe he'll inspire someone to do something going forward (Probably MitD), but that would be more in the actual strip it happens, instead of one saying he inspires people.

>>96895902
nah, this wasn't what convinced me. it was years later when I finally had an attractive nice, sane girl fall for me that I suddenly realized I had zero interest in any of it. i just wanted proof of my own fuckability, and the minute I got that I didn't want anything else

>>96884914
Eyyyy, Rich getting topical! Watch out everybody, next he'll do a Run-DMC spoof!

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>>96884914
Surprised nobody beat me to it t b h

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>>96896079
FUCK I missed one, how did I manage that? Fixed.

>>96895997
>Run Dungeon Master-C
>It's tricky to roll a die
>To roll a die
>That has four sides
>It's trickay

the jokes write themselves

>>96892904
>>96892720
>>96892701
dont worry
when society colapses intellectual types will kill everyone else
an evening with the crap under the sink would yeild them enough poison gas to take out a neighborhood or 5 each
and most work in labs with way more hazerdous shit.
there wont be any fight or "but muh feelings" because not one of them will look someonee in the eyes. the weak who didnt bother to learn when the knowledge of untold billions was at their fingertips cant stand a chance with the larp ass survival tackticool bullshit they prop up.
every warrior every degenerate every loser and blue collar retard
and then there will be a good and happy world without political blocks or culture.

>>96890016
how could anyone be a fan of any of these non-characters?

>>96896328
no one is
they just cum when you post in servers for fandoms you have no interest in.
its all about you, we follow you everywhere.
its a vital part of human development you see.

>>96894843
Children being curious about sex in real life aren't being written by a fifty year old pedophile, so they're not creepy.

>>96895744
you sound like you're six years old mentally, no wonder you have this attitude

>>96895822
the difference is that intimacy, unlike juggling, really is a fundamental part of being human, and there really is something wrong with you, objectively. analogies don't automatically provide insight.

>>96896357
>>96896347

As someone who was asexual until apparently my brain decided at the ripe age of 22 to turn on the urge to fuck, I have been in both fields and I can say as an asexual I literally missed out on nothing.

If anything being hetero just made it hard annoying to be alone. I honestly wish I could go back to the way I was before. I feel disgusted with how much I need and want sex. How much I want to hold her tight and listen to her ramble on endlessly. It disgusts me in ways I can't even articulate to be so very biological.

Until I get some titties in my face and it all makes sense again.

Going from asexual to horny when you aren't some dipshit teen is the craziest shit. I truly relate to the protagonist in a eldritch horror story who's mind was forcefully opened. The world was instantly different and fascinatingly disgusting and beautiful and it was always there.

>>96896086
Almost there. Needs the beholder saying "sex" before the no

>>96896297
>when society colapses intellectual types will kill everyone else
Enjoying your matcha latte, "comrade"?

>>96896297
>and most work in labs with way more hazerdous shit.
Most intellectual types work in offices and understand how stupid idea it is to try to make chemical weapons with no proper safety equipment or training.

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>asexuals be like

>>96889471
Why is the version on the site lower res?

And wow this was a bad one.

>>96890253
I do remember, that was when I started reading it.

His problem is obviously depression+laziness.

>>96898086
>Why is the version on the site lower res?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/upscale

>>96896467
>TFW 21 and no interest in talking to women (or men for that matter)
Am I in for the rollercoaster next? Maybe all the microplastics do after all is just slow you down.

How did I know /tg/ would be triggered by this comic?

>>96900323
Triggered by what? The lack of humor?

>>96895723
Feet.

>>96900323
>I love waiting 2 weeks for a current-topic unfunny punchline with no plot progression and too many words!

>>96901310
To be fair, if you don't like too many words, why are you reading OotS in the first place?

>>96901634
Sunk cost fallacy, same as everyone else who still reads it.

>>96895831
Honestly, thank god for my baked in instincts.
Intellectually, I recognize sex, food, excretion, and all these things as fucking disgusting and often deeply immoral. If it weren't for the override my brain has to make me do such things, I just wouldn't do any of them.

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>>96901792
this anon gets it

>>96901897
Any system of morality that condemns basic upkeep of biology as immoral is flagellation, not ethics.

>>96901931
I'm sorry anon, but basic biology requires me to kill living and feeling things that want to live as much as I. Even the plants are killing each other. Nothing I can eat but fruit feels no pain, and I can't survive on just fruit.

I have to perform evil acts to survive. We all do. Just because they are required, does not make them not evil. The cruel hand of nature doesn't permit one to be without sin.