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Thread: Blood Runs in the Family??
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2014-08-26, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)Orc in the Playground
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Blood Runs in the Family??
The Order of the Stick shout out page on tvtropes.org has that as the name of the next book. Where was that announced? Or are they just making it up?
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2014-08-26, 03:33 PM (ISO 8601)Barbarian in the Playground
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Re: Blood Runs in the Family??
It's on the calendar, I believe.
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Originally Posted by FidgetySquirrel
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2014-08-26, 03:46 PM (ISO 8601)Barbarian in the Playground
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Yes, it is on the calendar. Also, some people don't want that name spoiled until their is an official announcement for it.
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2014-08-26, 05:00 PM (ISO 8601)Bugbear in the Playground
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You're kidding, right? Please be. Originally Posted by Codyage
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Sorry for my accent.
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2014-08-27, 08:36 AM (ISO 8601)Troll in the Playground
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I haven't actually seen anyone who said "Hey, don't tell me what the new book is called". However, it is possible that some people feel that way. Originally Posted by Quild
To answer the OP's question: It hasn't been announced, and will probably only be announced once the book is ready, which will be hopefully by the end of the year. The calendar says what books the various pieces of art come from, which is how people know the name.
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2014-08-27, 09:28 AM (ISO 8601)Ogre in the Playground
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Haven't anyone seen myself, though better safe than sorry. Originally Posted by Jaxzan Proditor
Since it isn't announced yet I personally will not use that term (and use just Book 5), since it is in a weird unannounced limbo
, but basically it is public knowledge.
I know that Porthos did spoiler that for his threads quite a long time, though recently he stopped that: Originally Posted by Porthos
Annnnd, I officially give up on white-texting BRitF.
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2014-08-27, 09:44 AM (ISO 8601)Firbolg in the Playground
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Re: Blood Runs in the Family??
I didn't use spoilers for the title during the Ultimate OOTS Book Tournament, and there were no posts complaining
Originally Posted by This didn't happen
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2014-08-27, 10:02 AM (ISO 8601)Titan in the Playground
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I have no idea why anybody would want the title of all things kept secret from them until after the book. Its one thing if its actually got a spoiler in the title (like if Rich decided to call a book Xykon's defeat for some inexplicable reason), but the only thing the title reveals is that there will be blood (which is not unique to this book) and there will be family (again, not particularly unique. I don't think theres been a book yet that hasn't had family issues directly or indirectly).
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2014-08-27, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)Troll in the Playground
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Huh,so that's the name for it. interesting.
And yes, the whole "spoiler" thing is starting to get kind of extreme.
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So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2014-08-27, 10:47 AM (ISO 8601)Bugbear in the Playground
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No, it's always been this absurd.
As for the book being out by Christmas, it's extremely unlikely. He's stated that he not only has to reletter the entire book, but he also has to do all the bonus material, which hadn't even been started when the last strip of the book went up. I would not expect it until sometime in 2015. And this wouldn't be the first time. War and XPs came out a year after the book ended.
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2014-08-27, 03:43 PM (ISO 8601)Dwarf in the Playground
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Re: Blood Runs in the Family??
Spoiler: The Order of the Stick is a webcomic.
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2014-08-27, 03:56 PM (ISO 8601)Barbarian in the Playground
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Oh you are just not pleasant. Originally Posted by ThatNickGuy
My Steam profile! Originally Posted by FidgetySquirrel
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2014-08-27, 07:45 PM (ISO 8601)Bugbear in the Playground
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What?? Next you'll be telling me Roy's a single-class fighter, or that Haley loves Elan! Originally Posted by ThatNickGuy
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2014-08-27, 09:24 PM (ISO 8601)Bugbear in the Playground
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Minecraft already spoiled the Haley thing. That's why I threw all my computers and devices with Minecraft installed off a cliff.
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2014-08-28, 06:10 AM (ISO 8601)Titan in the Playground
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What!? Do you know how many cute fuzzy animals can die from spoiler reading?! Originally Posted by oppyu
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2014-08-28, 08:32 AM (ISO 8601)Orc in the Playground
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It was if millions of voices suddenly cried out, then all was silent.
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2014-08-28, 08:33 AM (ISO 8601)Troll in the Playground
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2014-08-28, 10:03 AM (ISO 8601)Orc in the Playground
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Actually,
. But of course i could be wrong there.Spoilerthe best way to make sure most people read what you write is to put it into a spoiler.
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2014-08-28, 10:05 AM (ISO 8601)Bugbear in the Playground
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Are we doing recursive spoilers now? Originally Posted by Jaxzan Proditor
Spoiler: Not A SpoilerSpoiler: No, Really, This Isn't A Spoiler - Honest!Spoiler: You Gotta Believe Me, This Is Totally Not A Spoiler!Surprise! This is actually a spoiler!
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2014-08-28, 10:58 AM (ISO 8601)Troll in the Playground
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It's ruined for me now! Ruinnnneddddd!!!! Originally Posted by ThatNickGuy
Spoiler
So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2014-08-28, 05:18 PM (ISO 8601)Titan in the Playground
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What? How dare you? You have totally ruined forever my enjoyment of reading this comic on the World-Wide Web, because now I have become aware that it is merely a lowly "web" "comic"!!!!!!! Originally Posted by ThatNickGuy
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2014-08-28, 05:35 PM (ISO 8601)Ogre in the Playground
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Wow, I was expecting the spoiler nesting to be much more vicious than that. Originally Posted by Emperordaniel
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Can't find the strip you're looking for? Head on over to OOTS Strip Summaries! Originally Posted by The Giant
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2014-08-28, 07:51 PM (ISO 8601)Bugbear in the Playground
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2014-08-28, 08:10 PM (ISO 8601)Titan in the Playground
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Clickable link to open all spoilers automatically FTW. Originally Posted by ORione
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2014-08-28, 09:26 PM (ISO 8601)Troll in the Playground
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2014-08-28, 10:45 PM (ISO 8601)Ogre in the Playground
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Much better, thanks. Originally Posted by ORione
I am: Neutral Good: -2 chaos, -21 evil and 15 balance!
Originally Posted by Dalek Kommander
Can't find the strip you're looking for? Head on over to OOTS Strip Summaries! Originally Posted by The Giant
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2014-08-28, 11:01 PM (ISO 8601)Troll in the Playground
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Ooh, when you open them all up it looks kind of like a ziggurat. Originally Posted by ORione
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Why "because the plot said so" is not a good answer.
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2014-08-30, 01:24 PM (ISO 8601)Dwarf in the Playground
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I've found that anime episode titles can be very bad about this, though the ones that are sometimes reveal the title of the next episode at the end of the current one, to make for a memorable cliffhanger. For example, imagine Roy fighting a golem, and then it knocks his sword away right before the episode ends. The next one would likely repeat the final moments of the previous one, then the intro plays, then a box pops up: "Episode 36: Mourning the great leader!" Well, darn. Spoileriffic series will at this point kill Roy. Other series will kill a different leader character (such as having Hinjo come to Roy's rescue but die instead) or possibly introduce a new faction in the plot who have just lost their king or something. Dragonball Z in particular used to have spoileriffic episode titles, often turning the last episode's cliffhanger - "will Goku/Vegeta/whoever prevail against this new foe?" - into an obvious "no, they won't". Originally Posted by Keltest
I always go via the archive when I check for new Order of the Stick pages, so I always see the titles of the strips first. The titles are usually just jokes, but a few are related to the plot, so luckily Rich is good at avoiding direct spoilers. Titles such as "A Dragon's Victory" in particular made for some mixed feelings followed by subverted expectations.
SpoilerIt's the one where Spliced V shapechanges to a dragon to rip the Black Dragon apart.
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2014-08-30, 03:26 PM (ISO 8601)Barbarian in the Playground
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Re: Blood Runs in the Family??
That did get really bad in DBZ, as I recall. I just looked, and in the first season, there are 3 episodes in a ROW that say "_____ dies/says farewell!"
I think that literally every big event (as far as I bothered checking) is in the episode title. ... Damn, there's a crack in my rose-tinted glasses.
Of course, that may be why it doesn't bother me as much. As long as it's not a two-year wait between episodes, of course.
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My Steam profile! Originally Posted by FidgetySquirrel
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2014-08-30, 08:14 PM (ISO 8601)Troll in the Playground
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The Giant has actually said that he views the titles as mostly a bonus to the actual strip, which is why they aren't in the actual pages and why so many of them are jokes or meta commentary. Originally Posted by Katuko
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