NPC Comic
A comic about two blue cats who play World of Warcraft, and their gamer human. Written and drawn by Mary Varn.
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you still playing STO? I haven’t seen you mention it in a while, though if memory serves, you bought a lifetime subscription. I have been playing the game, kinda wondered your thoughts, what class you went with and all that
Yeah! Time has been short, but I played some this weekend. I’m an engineer. Still really liking it, though some of the space missions involve too much flying around trying to find an enemy.
Hehe Bink is so cute. So he should be proud! We all like some curves haha.
The bike looks so cool! Almost real lol.
Should be interesting to see how he goes seeing as he can’t reach the handle bars and pedals xD
SQUIRREL!!!
lol. This sounds vaguely familiar…..
Hehe, everyone wave at sweatyapple; we used to work together. And I believe a coworker of ours tried a similar scheme, in which he used the exercise bike while playing WoW. Didn’t power the computer though, so I don’t think he stuck with it. Am I right, sweatyapple?
Oh also, there’s this.
Absolutely. Sitting on a yoga ball while working didn’t help him either. Thx for the link btw. I’ve been doing lots of side missions in ME2 to prolong the game a little while longer, cuz I’m really enjoying it.
yeah…the yoga ball and my bike are collecting dust now
This seems like a bad idea… Bink’s fat legs are too short to reach the peddles! He won’t be able to heal if his monitor is flickering!
And on another note, that squirrel is epic.
hehehehe
Good luck with that scheme. Reminds me of my freshman engineering class, creating a water pump using an old bicycle and a lot of PVC tubing.
I love it! Some webcomics are lame. And others, like this, are Gold. If you’ll forgive the pun (and rather also if you wont)…
I think the bike is a little too big for Bink.
Today’s comic reminded me of this gem from back in the day where some evil geniuses threw together a kludge that tied their running speed on a treadmill to their in-game running in World of Warcraft.
Bottom line? Even the most well-trained marathon runner probably couldn’t move as fast or as often as our digital doppelgangers, and that’s not even taking into account all of the heavy armor and weapons we’re usually carrying around since there isn’t a fatigue mechanic in WoW.
My old fat cat has embraced her size. She only “hunts” toys if we dangle them right in front of her. She’s secure in the knowledge that her staff will provide her with food at the appropriate time.
This reminds me a lot of Ed Begley Jr. and his exercise bike powered toaster. Love it, and hope to make one soon myself!
Ed Begley Jr and his toaster bike were a big inspiration for this.
Ed Begley Jr.?! And the Toaster Bike he invented when he found that time ship in the 1960s in Star Trek: Voyager?
I think I have my Ed Begley’s confused.
The bike is missing chainrings and chain.
If you’re in shape you could probably generate > 120 watts continuously.
You probably will lose a lot in conversion to electricity though.
And the thing I most hate about an exercise bike is that you don’t get any wind, so you end up sweating a lot. Hmm, never considered cat sweat… Can you sell that in game like you can troll sweat?
Alright. NOW I want to see him throw together something that will actually enable him to use this bike at all.
Hey, that’s the first time they don’t squash themselves to the window when they see a squirrel. Did they at last manage to restrict their basic instincts or something ?
Of course, once they get the bike going, and generating electricity, it’s only a small step to the tesla-powered lightning rod to zap the squirrel!
Could we get more comics with teh kittehs please!
Also. I donated for the Wallpaper, I’m glad you catered for my resolution
Thanks for the donation!
Lol nice alt text Mary
Love Chloe’s face in the third panel!
Oh thank goodness. I didn’t want to say anything, but I really missed him being all cute and tiny and almost identical.