Order of the Stick (OotS), by Rich Burlew, is a comic that I used to be kinda into, but no longer. It’s pretty funny, and it has the geek factor of being based on Dungeons & Dragons in a self-aware way.

But I finally lost interest due to the lack of regular updates. A while back, I was part of a discussion with Lore when he was getting Bad Gods together, and he was trying to decide whether to update three times a week, or once a week with three items at a time. I said, people like frequent updates more. Others disagreed, saying that people like predictable updates more, and once a week was fine, as long as it’s there when you think it’s going to be there.

I’ve since changed my opinion to agree with them, not in small part because I realized how frustrated I got with the lack of OotS updates. Originally the note at the top of the pages said “updates Monday, Wednesday, and Friday”, but that would kinda slide to Monday at 11pm, then maybe Tuesday, then maybe a double-comic on Wednesday, etc., etc. I got involved with the OotS forums for the sole reason of debating this point…and, oy, well, I’ll get to the heart of that in a minute, but for now I’ll say someone pointed out that he had only missed a few updates, and we were still getting nearly the same number of comics we would if he were on the schedule. That’s true, but…something just feels wrong about not getting them when we’re told we will.

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