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TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#21026: Aug 26th 2015 at 5:21:45 PM

Pfft. I go through two liters a day! Top THAT!

Actually, don't, we're both going to die of liver failure as it is.

Tiamatty X-Men X-Pert from Now on Twitter Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: Brony
#21027: Aug 26th 2015 at 6:19:20 PM

I've never had coffee. I've never needed coffee. I'm 30 now, and even now, all I need to get me up and going is to get out of bed. Once I'm up, I'm up. It always vexes my mom that I can just roll out of bed and head out the door. Even if I don't get much sleep, I have no real trouble making it through the day. I've even pretty much cut soda out of my diet, though that's mostly out of pure cheapness - tap water's free, so I stick with that.

edited 26th Aug '15 6:19:58 PM by Tiamatty

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billybobfred Cosine! from renamed to wingedcatgirl Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#21028: Aug 26th 2015 at 7:50:54 PM

I occasionally drink coffee with an excessive amount of sugar in an attempt to not fall asleep at work, but I'm not sure it actually does anything for me. I think I'm just dozing off because I'm bored.

I mean, about half the time I'll get tense and unpleasant, but it's pretty rare for me to successfully stave off sleep this way...

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DatLonerGirl Get heckin crabbed from a top secret place Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#21029: Aug 26th 2015 at 8:01:16 PM

Ha ha, the same happens to me. Well, not at work but at school. I think it is also caused by the AC being too cold. I use mints to stay awake, the really strong kind. Just keep popping them till either my eyes burn too much to shut them or class ends. And once I leave the class any signs of sleepiness disappear.

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stevebat Since: Nov, 2009
#21030: Aug 27th 2015 at 4:48:27 AM

As any nurse will tell you, coffee is wonderful on 10s and 12s.

Particularly, any job where it's necessary not to take a hit of caffeine when you get up. but halfway through your shift.

I personally drink a cup or two daily depending on how rough the night before was. Worst case scenario is I get a doubleshot from the vending machine (I swear it's toxic).

What I don't get is people who stay up until 1:00 AM the night before a 6:30 AM workday and then just power through with 5 hour energy.

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Ninety Absolutely no relation to NLK from Land of Quakes and Hills Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
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#21031: Aug 27th 2015 at 4:50:58 AM

...Yeah, I totally never do that.

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stevebat Since: Nov, 2009
#21032: Aug 27th 2015 at 4:58:01 AM

Update

Hey Not stealth isn't human at all.

Looks like some sort of long necked winged reptile.

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Blackie My son is a dumbass Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Abstaining
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32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
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#21034: Aug 27th 2015 at 6:21:25 AM

@21033 I've actually been wondering that myself - what if this thing basically is just an animate cloak, one that happens to be gathering itself to move like a quadriped? I wouldn't even put it in the top five strangest things in the comic if it were.

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Elfive Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#21035: Aug 27th 2015 at 6:22:49 AM

It seems to talk like it's speaking through a bargain bin Universal Translator, so who knows?

FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
PapercutChainsaw Since: Jul, 2010
#21037: Aug 27th 2015 at 9:45:50 PM

More like a Lethifold

edited 27th Aug '15 9:50:45 PM by PapercutChainsaw

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32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
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#21038: Aug 28th 2015 at 6:31:52 AM

@21036 I wouldn't know; I haven't read Harry Potter.

That said, we can now say for sure that it is not an animate cloak.

Also, I have to dig, but I'm fairly certain someone here did call it.

EDIT: Wait, the author rant uses "her"... I was most certainly not expecting lesbian griffins. I will admit, that was completely off my radar.

edited 28th Aug '15 6:33:31 AM by 32_Footsteps

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stevebat Since: Nov, 2009
#21039: Aug 28th 2015 at 6:56:52 AM

That griffon was, in fact, noteworthy

Also damnit shive you were two months too early. Had you just put a little bit more filler this joke would have been two years old.

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MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
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#21040: Aug 28th 2015 at 6:59:03 AM

Dammit I called it and didn't say anything.

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DatLonerGirl Get heckin crabbed from a top secret place Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#21041: Aug 28th 2015 at 7:17:32 AM

AHR, it's been a while!

I also did a double take at the "her wife" thing. But I did a bigger double take at the griffin. Man, I can just imagine Shive giggling to himself when he wrote that page two years ago.

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Ninety Absolutely no relation to NLK from Land of Quakes and Hills Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
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#21042: Aug 28th 2015 at 8:50:09 AM

Then you didn't call it, you thought it :P

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TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#21043: Aug 28th 2015 at 9:18:43 AM

What are we talking about two years ago?

I can never follow what's going on in EGS because it moves so slowly.

DatLonerGirl Get heckin crabbed from a top secret place Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#21044: Aug 28th 2015 at 9:30:12 AM

[up]The first griffin to show up. Which is also around the time Ashley showed up. Oh man, how long have I been reading this comic?

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FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
DatLonerGirl Get heckin crabbed from a top secret place Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#21046: Aug 28th 2015 at 10:05:16 AM

I'm just staring at Shive's waist. So small in comparison...

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TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#21047: Aug 28th 2015 at 1:20:59 PM

I have no objections. Well, okay, I tend not to be a fan of involuntary transformation, but no more so than any other form of slapstick.

edited 28th Aug '15 1:21:43 PM by TheyCallMeTomu

DatLonerGirl Get heckin crabbed from a top secret place Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#21048: Aug 28th 2015 at 2:47:30 PM

[up]...If you tend not to be a fan of involuntary transformation, what got you into this comic?

...Now that I think about it, I am also not a big fan of involuntary transformation. Why did I start reading this?

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MousaThe14 Writer, Artist, Ignored from Northern Virginia Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#21049: Aug 28th 2015 at 5:26:53 PM

I didn't realize I didn't care for Involuntary Transformation until I was in my later teens and better able to conceptualize and bring morality to the idea of consent. I didn't understand that it was an issue when I was much younger, just another aspect of comedy.

Which is part of why I gave up on the Wotch. Which is relevant because we're or not for the Wotch I wouldn't have heard of EGS in the first place.

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Heatth from Brasil Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
#21050: Aug 28th 2015 at 5:37:51 PM

[up][up]Uh, the main focus of the comic is hardly on involuntary transformation. I mean, it happens a fair bit of time, but not that frequently. I think most of the transformation is of the voluntary type, actually. Anyway, even transformation is just one of the elements of the comic. As long you are not averse to the concept, you can enjoy the rest fairly easy. Personally, I don't care for transformation one way or the other, but that is not why I read it.


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