There are things we do when we’re bored that most won’t admit. I for instance, will watch anything on cable. I’ve had this bad habit for so long, that I’ve developed a movie opinion/barometer that goes in the other direction. I enjoy bad film, Troll 2, The Critters Franchise, Shaolin Death Squad, The Blob, Killer Tomatoes, Blacula, and Space Truckers just to name a few. Now I don’t recommend these to you dear reader. I warn you away from them. I feel like I’m on the front lines of terrible film, as this is a selfless stance I take, I’d only want the most stout of heart renaissance men and women of bad film tastes there with me.
Jeremy my long time friend who agreed to have is image in the comic, marches to a beat of a different drummer. And I know you’re thinking ‘those solid gold pants, obviously that drummer plays in an orchestra for the local musical theater.’ This is not the case. Jeremy is my gamer friend. I play video games. I love them. They were like an extra grandparent spoiling me rotten with all the 8 bit pixels I could handle. So when I say Jeremy is my gamer friend, well, go play an FPS that you really like with him. He’s not going to change, your love of the game however will. You’ll die a little inside and start saying that you’re an average INSERT YOUR FPS HERE Player. Not only does he play a ton of games, he plays them better than you. Perhaps at some point we’ll have the Jeremy gaming challenge as some sort of site promotion.
This brings me to two points. When bored at work, Jeremy will play anything. We played Tribal Wars for months. I’m not going to link it, it’s a time sink. It’s a long term web based strategy game. We got incredibly bored with it and sent all of our soldiers in a wide scale attack against a “tribe” that was bigger than us, then quit. Then we played Ikarium, which is the same exact game, with a few more whistles and better drawn, if not more cartoony art. I’m not going to link it again, time sink(Adsense might though). We’ve since moved on to many different games, every once in awhile we’d see each other on a new one, and have the other forward a URL. Then Jeremy played Celebrity Pedigree. This was the first game I didn’t want the link for. I’m only linking it because I should hope you’re able to control yourself, but you really need to see how awful it is. The girl that plays this has bling stickers on her pink cell phone. We made a conscious decision to not include the art based on the game because frankly I didn’t think you’d believe it without the links. And before you question me on the long blond locks on Brad Pitbull, that’s a take on him from Legends of the Fall–what a dreamboat.
Point numero dos. Jeremy is a competitive son of a bitch. Like many gamers, games that he finds difficult are obviously suffering from a design flaw or too large a luck factor. In fact the only games that I have seen him not play to win are board games. In those, if you wrong him, he will spend the rest of the game screwing you so hard you’re in second to last place right behind him. It always adds a more interesting dynamic than the game designers ever expected possible. The other day he was at his computer looking up the most retardedly overpowered class combinations for a DnD game, that he isn’t in yet. Ladies and Gentlemen my pal Jeremy.
-Matt
Edit: Special Thanks to Stephan and the guys over at http://www.l4dmods.com/ for posting an article about us. I’m posting this two days in a row so it gets proper attention. If you’re an L4D fan give it a peak they’re developing a 14 Player Survivor Mode over there amongst many other innovative Mods Etc.
“The other day he was at his computer looking up the most retardedly overpowered class combinations for a DnD game, that he isn’t in yet”
I was making a new character for a friend’s DnD campaign so we have some kind of melee champ so the other day I sat down and made a level 2 goliath barbarian with a fleshseekers great axe +1 that can do upwards of like 110 damage in one turn assuming I crit and roll max on all my bonus dice :/
It’s like this comic is about me
hi5 jeremy
This made me giggle
Wait, when did Matt get a Blackberry?
I was laughing out loud at Doggie Devito. Very funny stuff especially since the sell icon is a Meat Grinder. Now I know how they can pull off $1 Burgers on the value meal.
@ Rodney, I’m scared that there are two of you out there.
@Jon I’ve already made the purchase in my head and was writing that comic originally further down the time line. I’ll work on setting up a donation link so you can help me get one quicker.
@AFRowe It’s a little subtle but I think my favorite gag in this one is the Hand Icon. Don just threw that in there.
I think I missed the hand icon. Maybe I thought it was beating the dog or something which is funny but it was overshadowed by the humping icon and the meat grinder. Now if the fist was to jerk off the dog and sell those stud fees on ebay I am laughing all over again. Props for the artwork on that cell because he fully captured the empty brain but happy dog moment that can’t foresee the end is near.
“The girl that plays this has bling stickers on her pink cell phone”
pink cell phone? yes.
bling stickers? no.
this game was found on bored.com and played during work hours.
and, i did beat jeremy.
I meant the figurative girl, however I’m glad you liked the comic. Come Christmas I’ll remind Jeremy that your phone has no bling stickers.
I think we all have that friend, and it's taking every ounce of friendship not to link him to the game, as I know he will have to "beat" it. There will be no fun, but he will also make Brad Pitbull.
You MUST watch the Tremors collection of movies – otherwise you are just missing out!