The Way of the Metagamer

Comic 1 - Time Saver

1st Apr 2008, 4:00 PM in I Bought It On eBay

"Later on, during the heat death of the universe... OSHI-"

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Author Notes:

16th May 2011, 12:54 PM

00Davo

@Guest: Funny? Partially. It was mostly meant to introduce and demonstrate the mechanic of narrator impersonation, and was possibly humorous as a side-effect.

'tis a rather poor application of functional style, what with these side-effects. Later comics are written more robustly; many offer complete referential transparency, and are thus no longer at all humorous.

@ugh?: Not really sure why it's bothering you, but it's to allow for searching the complete text of each comic. Basically, it makes the search box at the top work.

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au

20th Feb 2010, 6:27 AM

Hamandcheese

Not to be a hater but you pretty much just stoll the joke from Order of the Stick.

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14th May 2011, 10:20 AM

Guest

God damn but was that awful.

Like, just plain bad.

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16th May 2011, 8:45 AM

Guest

Was this supposed to be funny?

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19th May 2011, 5:37 AM

sup

not to be a hater but this is easily the worst thing ive seen all day and i hate you for it. its not funny and the art is so ugly its like someone is pouring bleach into my eyes. learn to draw, learn to write, get off the internet

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as haterz do

21st Dec 2013, 1:25 AM

haterz is

hatin' on ya momma
pop ya momma booty too
doe

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19th May 2011, 5:38 AM

sup

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ugh>

19th Oct 2011, 9:53 AM

ugh?

Why does a comic need a transcript?

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23rd Sep 2013, 2:56 AM

The Chessmaster

Also, if that's not enough reason: A transcript on the page is useful to people who can't see or have major vision problems. Since there are programs to read out what's on the screen to the person in front of the computer, a transcript lets them have the comic anyway.

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21st Dec 2013, 1:23 AM

bigga

thanx i'm as blind as a dingus bat

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Transcript:

Narrator: Once upon a time...
Bob: Hmm, no email.
Bob: Ooh, what's this eBay item?
Bob (voiceover): Ooh, cool.
Bob: Okay, I'll bid on that.
Narrator: A couple of seconds later...
Ding!
Bob: That was quick... Wow, I won!
Bob: Three to five working days for postage!? I can't wait that long! *ahem*
Bob (in narrator voice): Three to five working days later...
Bob: Sweet.

Comic 1 - Time Saver

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Comments:

au

as haterz do

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