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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #60 on: October 10, 2009, 08:27:15 pm »
I found Achewood via www.cardhouse.com linking to the Strip Club strips, with Ray putting the dollars under his eyelids.

I then read the entire back catalog.  I also lurked and posted a couple times on the Dumbrella boards (under the name Thumbwrestler).  But maaaan, I generally can't stand internet comments or message boards, so I quickly bored with Dumbrellaboards.

Later I found Touamb via a Google search for some Achewood dialogue.  I lurked for a bit, and then registered, but not as my usual internet moniker.  I created a unique one based on my first/last name since I had BAD BLOOD and INTERNET FISTICUFFS with Bobby Isosceles elsewhere.  Interaction with him made me realize that I had been a cock to him unfairly. 

Everything after that is sweet man hugs.

For him.  Not you.  Don't be gross.
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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #61 on: October 10, 2009, 09:31:08 pm »
I know I'm a little late to the welcoming party; but welcome to the assbar diaspora, all and sundry!

I know that I discovered Achewood in '02 (Beef goes to the moon). As to how I found it exactly, I'm not sure. It may have been linked from another webcomic (QC?), as I was on quite a webcomic tear at that point. Hell, it may have been the result of a google "webcomic" search for all I know. Anyway, it definitely tickled me in all of the right places. I found touamb shortly thereafter, but never worked up the gumption/effort to join until 2006.

It's been a bed of roses ever since.
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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #62 on: October 10, 2009, 11:57:41 pm »
Matt from Mac Hall was an Achewood fan back in the days of the GOF.  He linked to Achewood.com when the monster trucks made an appearance.  I figured some sort of messageboard had to be devoted to such coolness.  Been here since.  Matt and Ian have since moved to San Francisco (from Bowling Green University where MacDonald Hall was the setting for their original webcomic) and now produce Three Panel Soul.
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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #63 on: October 11, 2009, 12:44:02 am »
I am/was a fan of both of those comics.
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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #64 on: October 11, 2009, 01:34:45 am »
Quote from: pmcd9 on October 10, 2009, 02:16:32 pm
I too found Achewood via Lileks. 

Thank you thank you THANK YOU to all of you who posted that you found Achewood through Lileks!  I have seriously been racking my brain trying to remember how I stumbled upon this circus of the damned to begin with, after becoming friends on assetbar with greenkoolayd, who just started reading in May.  I was all like, hah, I rock, I've been reading since '02 or early '03, but then I stopped short...how did I find it?  HOW DID I FIND
ACHEWOOD??? It's been bugging me for nearly a month!  And now, the lightbulb has gone on, and I can sleep again.  *whew!*
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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #65 on: October 11, 2009, 01:39:38 am »
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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #66 on: October 11, 2009, 01:41:29 am »
Quote from: bluemoon72 on October 11, 2009, 01:34:45 am
Thank you thank you THANK YOU to all of you who posted that you found Achewood through Lileks!  I have seriously been racking my brain trying to remember how I stumbled upon this circus of the damned to begin with, after becoming friends on assetbar with greenkoolayd, who just started reading in May.  I was all like, hah, I rock, I've been reading since '02 or early '03, but then I stopped short...how did I find it?  HOW DID I FIND
ACHEWOOD??? It's been bugging me for nearly a month!  And now, the lightbulb has gone on, and I can sleep again.  *whew!*

TOUAMB: Curing insomnia in noobs since 2009.
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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #67 on: October 11, 2009, 03:54:43 am »
A friend of mine pointed Achewood out to me and then, after the archive binge, I internet-searched for related or ancillary sites.

And found this place.

God. What a boring secret origin.
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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #68 on: October 11, 2009, 05:26:33 am »
"top 10 webcomics" on cracked.com
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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #69 on: October 11, 2009, 09:30:39 am »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on October 11, 2009, 03:54:43 am
A friend of mine pointed Achewood out to me and then, after the archive binge, I internet-searched for related or ancillary sites.

And found this place.

God. What a boring secret origin.

I have the exact same story and based on the time we joined it happened at like the exact same time.

And our usernames deal with mets.  And we are not the same person, does that make it better?
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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #70 on: October 11, 2009, 09:32:32 am »
I think I found it through Websnark, I think. Not really sure.

More interestingly, how do people find TOUAMB now that there's no link off achewood itself?
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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #71 on: October 11, 2009, 10:52:27 am »
I first found achewood based on this Penny Arcade post.  What's weird is that I didn't like it much at the time due to Onstad's disdain for punctuation at the time, but it still intrigued me enough to make the comics bookmark list.

The Dumbrella boards never really clicked with me, so I never registered, and then suddenly the boards were all gone, and I was like, "where did they go?"  Then, later, I finally googled it when Onstad never posted a new link to boards and decided to hang around.  I lurked for a while -- my first post was basically eulogizing my cat, which in retrospect is kind of weird.

That said, I tend to only post here when my internet orbit intersects with this site's orbit, which appears to happen right around when Football does.  Hmm.

(Edited because Paul was right and 2002 was a long time ago)
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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #72 on: October 11, 2009, 03:38:31 pm »
Quote from: Doc on October 11, 2009, 09:32:32 am
how do people find TOUAMB now that there's no link off achewood itself?

There has never been a link on Achewood to TOUAMB.
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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #73 on: October 11, 2009, 09:13:59 pm »
it was linked from some other comic, and at first I didn't like it...
I think I read through the archives twice (!?) before I got into it.
At first my best friend also read it, but he got bored of it.
If/when I read through again I'll probably remember what was the first strip I read.

I do remember that I had registered for TOUAMB like a year before I started posting, and that when I got rid of my old email address I lost the password to my TOUAMB account. So I had to wait until some sort of shindig where Jough cleaned out a bunch of old users? I don't remember exactly how this happened.

I used to read a lot of webcomics, but these days I only read achewood.
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Re: Introductions are in Order (Cheers Style)
« Reply #74 on: October 12, 2009, 12:04:59 am »
Quote from: pmcd9 on October 11, 2009, 03:38:31 pm
There has never been a link on Achewood to TOUAMB.

Onstad told me about it on AIM, back in the days before he registered for an account here ("monotremes love an oil salad") and before he moved on to A Cap for secret man love.
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