But when do I receive these cookies?
Haven’t had much time for comics because I’ve been doing a ton of freelance lately, the proceeds from most of which I’m putting towards this sweet kickstarter, because it’s everything people (me, at least) say they want to see more of in games and I figure if someone is willing to come along and make it I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is and support it.
Night In The Woods – Kickstarter Trailer from Scott Benson on Vimeo.
On the plus side most of the freelance I’ve been doing is for a cool project in association with some folks on a youtube channel I won’t mention yet that you should be able to enjoy next week, so you have that to look forward to!
Also, big thanks to Xbox-One-Offial over on Tumblr for playing the part of Sten this week and providing that great cookie Clicker screenshot! Other people posted some crazy ridiculous scores too, but this one fit best in the panel I needed, thanks so much to everyone who helped out!
Can’t blame him, Cookie Clicker is a goddamn addictive game.
It really is… and this comic has planted the idea of playing it again inside me… damn it.
I haven’t closed its tab in weeks. ;_;
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
I just got into it, and I can’t stop.
or i didn’t play it hard enough or i don’t have a addictive personality, but i’m not addicted to it
Yup. I deliberately stopped myself playing Cookie Clicker because I knew I would just continue playing it til the pixels fell off of my monitor.
Great comic as usual.
If we ever see Alex Louis Armstrong in a comic, I will be a happy man. :)
Been watching FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood for the first time.
I’m with ya on that one
I can’t believe I looked him up…
Although the Internet would probably explode from too much manliness in one place
Only if the Commander were back to wearing Kamina shades.
I think they would get along famously: 2 military types well-versed in the true meaning of being a man. I don’t even think alchemy needs to get into it. Maybe Armstrong would go to the temp agency for the war-scarred soldiers support group?
I kind of want to see Armstrong teaching Sten about ARTISTIC ALCHEMY! now.
Personally, I’m hoping for Guts from Berserk. I think it’s weird that he hasn’t appeared yet. It seems like something Squid would like. I know she said she wouldn’t do any bishounen dudes, but Guts really isn’t. At all. Also, I think Armstrong is already sort of a parody of this sort. Ah well, we can dream.
Guts can show up after he gets off the boat.
So never?
The accursed boat! Guts has overcome many trials, but I fear he shall be stuck in his wooden prison until the end of time.
Woe!
I watched both Fullmetal Alchemist anime series, and Brotherhood is my favorite of the two. Mentioning Alex though, makes me think it would be funny for Olivia to show up in the comic and toss The Commander around a bit.
…it’s hilarious because i’m playing Cookie Clicker as I read this comic.
::sob::
So was I! Thank god I wasn’t the only one! Burst out laughing when I saw it! XD
Yeah, good ‘ol Cookie Clicker…
-click- -click- -click-
…
*sigh*
I just don’t know how to quit you…
(Lovin’ the comics Coelasquid! Keep up the amazing work! :D )
I thought Sten was over these cookies!
I THOUGHT STEN WAS OVER THESE COOKIES!!! AHHH… I’M ACTING LIKE DEADPOOL!!! AHHH…
Oh well, can’t wait for the Halloween sketch.
Yeah i thought so too! Then again, is it possible that Sten finally adapt to like cookies?
*punched by Sten*
Ohh, that must have hurt.
…Anyone else feeling a little hungry right now?
brb. Gonna do some baking.
Make mine with more chocolate chips, please? ^_^
*munch munch munch* Oh I’m sorry I *munch munch* found out I ran out of *munch* flour, so I *munchy munchy* didn’t make any.
*hit the”No” button*
NOOOOOOOOOO~!! (>_<)
Yesss, cookie clicker taking over lives of even comic characters! :’D Tho I’m not surprised that Sten is playing it.
Pressing… clever.
As someone with my username, I concur.
Why the fuck would you not spend that sextillion. That’s just sleeping money!
But he’s playing the beta version so eh I wouldn’t know
I have Cookie Clicker open in another tab as we speak. And also, at all other times.
PrintScreen or BS :P
Just memorize this phrase, Sten: Burrito Bison.
The Commander will shut up right quick.
Or you’ll get to have a good time mutually razzing each other. Either way is good.
oh man don’t get me started on Burrito Bison. That game’s hella addicting too. >.<
I know, right?
Ugh cookie clicker, you win again…. I have cookie clicker open to in another window
though hats off to you sten you have 3 digits more in your bank than I have all time baked, and a trillion a second umm sten how many quests have you blown off exactly?
Never have supported a kickstarter thing, but this one is making me want to.
Neither have I, but this seemed like a really good start. Especially looking at the page and seeing the philosophy of “We’re going to take this stretch funding and refine what we’re already doing, instead of overreaching with too many extra projects and failing”.
So now they have my $25, and I have a future promise of a game, some wallpapers, and, if the trailer is any indication, a sweet new soundtrack to listen to.
15 seconds into Cookie Clicker and I’m pretty sure this will be a problem. Thanks.
Oh, so you too, you’ve been tricked to look at it because of a webcomic ? ( It was Arg’s fault, in my case…)
Good luck with that. If you’re lucky, you’ll OD in a few days, still liking actual, real cookies.
I was also tricked into playing Cookie Clicker from Arg’s comic. Curse you webcomics!
Oh Sten, you cookie fool. I mean I haven’t even played the game he’s in and I can already tell how hard everyone’s going to bust his balls when this comes out.
Funny, I learned all I need to know about Sten by reading Manly Guys.
The best way to break your addiction to Cookie Clicker is to learn the Developer Tools cheat. I gave myself a trillion cookies and an hour later I no longer felt like playing.
I was also mildly disappointed with myself.
I found about Cookie clicker a couple weeks ago and spent my entire weekend doing it, when I wasn’t manning it I had my oldest boy watching it. My old lady ended up having to call people in for an intervention to drag me away…It got ugly fast.
Cookie Clicker, oh man that thing is pure crack. But shouldn’t Sten look different? I thought he’s the new Arishok in the comics, I mean he’s got the whole Arishok gear and sword now, even grew out his hair longer with a goatee to boot.
No because I draw characters to be as recognizable as possible without pedantically following all the comic and novelization cash-ins.
I seem to be immune to the Cookie Clicker addiction. I tried it for 5 minutes, and I didn’t understand what the fuss was about. Haven’t touched it since.
Tried it for about an hour or so, but got bored, so I just hit Export Save, wrote the passcode, and closed the tab.
OH GOD THIS FRIGGIN GAME! I have it constantly running in the background. My roommate always seems to look at my computer when I am playing the game, and she makes fun of me for it.
One quintillion, three hundred sixty four quadrillion, eight hundred thirty nine trillion, eight hundred thirty billion, eight hundred seventy one million, two hundred fourteen thousand, six hundred.
Now you know what that number is.
For other big numbers See: buying the World’s debt, plankton, hydrogen molecule amounts, the number to use when asked for ‘eternal’ life…carry this on if you have others to add ^^
How about a Mole of Moles? (yes, not only is a ‘mole’ a cute furry little digging-critter {unless it’s naked} but it is also a unit of counting)
“the number to use when asked for ‘eternal’ life”
Err… Infinity? Is there some subtext I’m not getting?
Er, Sten, buddy? At that point in the game, you can pretty much just stop clicking and just leave it on in the background while you do other stuff, or even leave it running and just leave, without any noticeable loss…
Well, unless you get a chain of golden cookies, but that’s so rare as to be useless and pointless to wait for.
now if i did that i would get much less cookies
do you have any idea how long it’s going to be before i can afford anything again
and how much time can i cut that down with by mouse macro clicking
no, at that point in the game letting stuff run in the background means waiting days between upgrades. Playing actively and waiting for golden cookies (which spawn every 2-5 minutes with upgrades) can result in getting huge amounts of cookies in relatively short amounts of time (just one time of getting a x7 production multiplier and x777 clicking multiplier simultaneously will seriously make a difference of multiple days worth of cookies).
The fact that active play was so much more potent at the high end is why I quit. Leaving it open in the background for weeks didn’t seem appealing, but neither did staring at it waiting for golden cookies.
Exactly. When you reach that part of the game where you mostly have it all, it becomes… well… kinda disgusting. You just don’t understand why you play anymore.
Prestige mode (new game +, basically) breathes some life into the game again, and gives some kind of goal instead of just getting MORE cookies.
You won’t trick me back again there, sir/madam/gentlething! I barely survived with my love for cookies the first time, I won’t tempt fate anymore !
Besides, I’m collecting souls now. And my own corpses. Gosh demon’s souls is hard…
Hm… I see Sten is playing the Beta of the factory-dungeon update…
dude it was worth it. i just reset after this comic published and the heavenly chips i got means that it’s only taken me about an hour to get to my first quadrillion and once i buy kitten overseers and get back to my old building and upgrade levels i’ll become mad cookies. i am very glad for leaving it in the background for weeks
also so i can take instant advantage of any updates orteil puts out
That’s a lot of numbers. I suspect cheating may have been involved in that screenshot. The alternative, that you’re about four place values beyond the endgame, is too horrifying to contemplate.
contemplate it
What it is Sten does at the agency?
He clicks the cookies. He’s the cookie clicker.
NO, NO NONONONONONO I AM NOT GOING BACK INTO THAT PORTAL NO WAY NO HOW I DON’T CARE HOW MANY COOKIES THERE ARE OVER THERE.
i think i’m the only one in these comments who don’t get the joke because it’s the first time i hear about a game called “cookie clicker”
I feel highly indentified by this comic. Cookie clicker is some serious addiction.
On a different matter. Now that Pokemon X/Y are out, have you though of drawing a Mega-Mr. Fish related comic?
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!
Cookie Clicker got boring after 10 minutes, so I just pulled up the console and hacked away at it. My current addition is Clicking Bad: http://clickingbad.nullism.com/
I’m nowhere near Sten’s level of CPS. Glad to see there are other cookie addicts out there :D
Heh. Games like this always remeber me of that 80’s game magazine that used as a rating parameter “Addiction”.
What is wrong with me? All I can think of is, “Sten, you can bust my cookies ANYTIME.” complete with eyebrow waggle and exagerated wink.
This ‘Cookie Clicker’ is a real game? o_O
It’s not a game, it’s an addiction.
hahahaha :D
I admit I had to ressort to Game.ruinTheFun() to stop my addiction.
I HAD NEVER HEARD OF THIS GAME TIL NOW. now i cant stop. i hate you. i hate you so much
Now having recurring nightmares about being trapped at a baking fair, unable to leave, unable to eat. THANKS COELASQUID. >:[
Okay, I definitely lol’d good and hard at this one. Great work :3
I have been struggling with my addiction to cookie clicker for almost a month now. I have tried to give it up and move on, but it has turned into more of a gateway game. I have moved on to other clicker games as well. Most notably is my new found addiction to Clicking Bad.
Doing freelance?
Coela I swear, if yer blowin’ yer comics off t’play that fukken cookie clicker game, we’re never gonna let y’ live it down.
… I happily blame you. I almost have all the Halloween cookies from clicker, knee deep in grandmapocalypse goo, and watched three seasons of Archer.
Horrible.. terrible… influence. Oh, and Pam kicks ass.
I have PTS syndrome from all that time I wasted with this… this…. thing. AAAAgh.
It’s funny because in the Dragon Age canon, Sten is now the Arishok. I guess an unwavering loyalty to the Qun and an insatiable love of cookies is what it takes to get into government.
So my question to you is… Have you ever watched Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan? If no, Watch it. If yes, why have no characters appeared in this comic yet?
GOD DAMMIT YOU GUYS I DIDNT EVEN KNOW WhAT COOKIE CLICKER WAS AND NOW IM BLOWING OFF STUDYING FOR EXAMS
It’s funny because I have it running right now. 32 Quadrillion cookies.
I kind of have it open in the next tab…
if you manage your time well there will be time for everything!
I swear this is like the most addictive stuff after flappy bird.