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And Sluggy Freelance (long, complex, and interesting story arcs, which are hillarious to boot), Penny Arcade (extreme funny), Player vs Player (more fun(ny) with gaming), Sinfest (offensive and funny), and Adventurers (hillarious -- but only if you play console RPG's)! There are so many awesome web comics!

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Penny Arcade?!

Maybe they didn't mention it because Penny Arcade is only funny if you're a (relatively) hardcore gamer..

come on, people! check out PVP, my favorite online comic besides penny-arcade.

For the not-so-faint-of-heart, keenspot has a great "List Of Potentially Offensive Webcomics". Classics such as SpaceMoose, and Celebrity Car Wash figure prominently. Also contains links to the newer low brow comics on the web.

On a completely different note, here are my personal faves: Penny Arcade, Sluggy Freelance, Exploitation Now!, MegaTokyo, Red Meat, HotenDotey, and Jerk City.

I am sure I forgot a couple of my regulars, but these are the major ones.

Don't forget some of my favorites:
Penny Arcade
The Parking Lot is Full
Pope Alien

And many others that just don't pop into mind now.

LOL, that other online comic looks like it was created by a pre-schooler. ;p~

With so many cartoons out there, why do so many of them suck? For starters we have: Dave, Cathy, Family Circus and Spiderman! I mean, if these people just looked around they could find some good cartoons like Penny Arcade, Sluggy Freelance, and some of the stuff on Keenspace, like MacHall. I'm sure there are a bunch of starving comic writers who are dying for syndication while a lot of cartoons that really suck are being published.

The best online comics somehow escaped mention. Without a doubt, Penny Arcade and Friend Bear are the two funniest comics around these days. Userfriendly? That piece of junk was, in my opinion, never funny. Dumb jokes about the same computer shit every week? No, thanks; PA has that category in the bag.

Hell, even CC vs. CC is better than some of this crap :) I never understood why some of this stuff got so popular - maybe I'm spoiled.

Cheers,
levine

don't forget penny arcade!
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Penny Aracade has changed a lot over the past 6 months, and I'm not sure if it's for the best. But the last three have been a return to old values so we'll see what happens. Plus, the entire controversy around their sudden unplugging might make them return to the old good stuff. `8r) Now, if the stupid ads built into their comic didn't freak out firewall constantly... `8r/

Oh, and cause I can: Wang!

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Gonzo Granzeau

Personally I'm resolving this by re-reading every Penny Arcade.

And giving accordingly, I hope.
If you enjoy reading PA, why not show Tycho and Gabe you appreciate the laughs?

-the wunderhorn

They are not socializing the same, and the undoubted result is the loss of things like Slashdot. There are good and bad effects here, and I think this shows how the internet can be negative - people using the internet imagine they are socializing when in fact they are not. This makes society a less sociable place, which has a number of bad effects:

List of how self-involved gaming will cause lawlessness, issolation, recession, apocolypse, and bad rashes.

There is a great online comics scene out there, and some of the best are all about modern gaming. Comics like Penny Arcade and Player vs. Player (PvP) are consistantly funny and high quality. What's more, they give a shared experience, and often foster a community.

In a bit of nostalgia-meets-the-Internet, Gamers have resurected one of the shining examples of bad localization. The folks who translated ZeroWing did an awful job, and the results are so bad they are funny. The phrases recently became popular again, and you'll hear cries of "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" across the Internet.

These same gamers shut off the connection for a while to fire up the photo editor and create some great parodies. Many are posted to message boards to be appreciated by fellow fans. Some of them made a dubbed version, others made a techno soundtrack (search for "Laziest Men On Mars, "All Your Base Are Belong To Us"), and others made a hilarious flash movie.

All this creativity was spawned by this later version of gamers. More that ever, I think creative people are meeting and interacting online, and the new games are, at worst, better versions of television, and, at best, a tool for creating a common experience, so that strangers can meet each other.

All this is a bit off-topic, but I think you are worried over nothing. I'm hoping they do a good job with the new TradeWars, which I remember as fondly as other Slashdotters (...in my day, 2400 baud modems, 1 hour just to download 1 meg of porn, etc...)

If you don't want to be ignored on /. you have to make a strong statement, with no space wasted on quibbling over details. My post was moderated up because it presents an interesting idea in a short enough form to not waste the reader's time with strong enough language to break through the simplistic "standards == good" mindset. Like most successful posts on complicated subjects, it lacks balance and annoys a lot of people.

Readers can control how much balance they get by how many replies they choose to read. You make good points, but try to imagine slashdot as a debate, where people stick to their assigned premise and refuse to be shaken from it regardless of any arguments or whether it's at all a rational viewpoint; offensive things naturally come out of it and nobody means it personally.

It's a strange day when I fully agree with one of my own /. posts. I usually come out of it a bit like this.
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See! This proves it!

"Girls don't even like that kind of stuff, man. They want RAM."

Raptor

This is exactly what the insurance companies want to find out. If they can deny coverage to people with a high probability of becoming terminally ill while young, they can increase their profits. Basically, they want to make sure that you pay many times your coverage before anything gets paid.

"We here at Ripemoff Insurance just want to ensure that the death of a family member does not place financial burden on the surviving members. And we've always really liked fat sacks full of cash money."

"Do you like my hat? It's made of MONEY!"

"Would you like to stay for lunch? I think we're having MONEY!"

(sorry for the blatant Penny Arcade rip-off)

I grew to love them - but Legos were my true passion. In reading UGO's transformer page they had up when the DVD came out (Cant find the url - sorry) it mentioned that after the first season the movie came out and thats when the robots were destroyed. GENUIS! Everyone buys the $8 a pop toys and then they have to have the new ones cause their old toys are dead!
There is this PA tho

Don't even go off of what Daily Radar says...
Sega rumors which have already been shown to be false...
And then, last time it was the "Nintendo is suing us for screenshots" story which as it turns out, they were actually suing the media conglomerate Imagine that owns their site because they were apparently publishing books with trademarked and copyrighted Pokemon drawings all over it.

There is a really funny
Penny-Arcade comic strip that covers the issue pretty well in my mind. :)

Plus, if he can just spend a little time optimizing the DirectX code, then EVERY game benefits. You know that if he finds any new tricks, he'll report on them, and even the free software world will benefit. Check out this link at Dr. Dobb's journal for a taste of what he is doing at Microsoft, and why it is important.

Like he says in the article, the important thing is to do, not to think, and there's a lot of optimization to do at Microsoft.

I think the most obvious route for online comics is to realize that you will get little or no revenue if you try to charge for a comic that isn't already popular. However, if you give it to them for free and then squeeze them later you'll have better luck. Anyone else buy Doom or Quake after playing the shareware versions?

Offer your comic for free. If it's worth paying money for then people will buy merchandise later. Look at the disgusting amount of Garfield or Peanuts crap available just about everywhere. People don't *have* to buy the books, shirts or coffee mugs to read the comic strip in the paper, but they do buy them.

Check out Penny Arcade

They did a great job on a free comic and are now selling out of their t-shirts and recently started taking orders for a hard and soft-cover book. I read it every other day and I'm seriously considering the book.

And don't forget this contribution to the literature on flash intefaces. It's a tad dated, but still as good as ever.

Limit the number of times the data can be read? Shit, that's like turning my HD into a Divx disk, which, as we all know, are hewn cold from the bones of the stillborn !

The problem being, there is no easy legal way to distinguish between a benevolent mod and an evil one. (Sadly, the phrase, "Total dickhead move" is too ambiguous of a term to stand up in court.) This leaves id software's legal department with little choice but to say, "No mods", but only enforce it in the case of truly evil mods.

The same holds true for most of the other cases --I'm sure the makers of Rainbow Six won't mind if I post a screenshot on my little game-review web site. But if I'm the maker of "Counter Terrorist Team Seven!" and I want to start ragging on Rainbow Six's graphics on my site, they would mind.

The major problem with all of this is that it's pretty much up to the companies themselves to determine what's a total dickhead move worth enforcing and what's not, and if you read their minds incorrectly, you can get burned.

Penny Arcade has a paticular comic that some of the posts on this reminded me of ;)

Failure is not an option.

Penny Arcade has a paticular comic that some of the posts on this reminded me of ;)

Failure is not an option.

Penny Arcade has a paticular comic that some of the posts on this reminded me of ;)

Failure is not an option.

Perhaps we can use it for the boiling.

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Verant's attitude is best summed-up by this comic strip. (from 11th of Oct, so yes it's "olds".) Read that day's news for more stuff...

Yeah, but will Dreamcast users? From what I've heard, Sega's online service had some troubles on launch (enough to get a Penny Arcade cartoon). Besides, most on-line games over dialup are laggy and just seem to play poorly (mostly depending on the latency between server/players). Plus, I have to wonder how servers work - do you start up a server on your DC, or do you play off the official Sega.net servers?

It's possible that Sony is actually wise in waiting. As most people have pointed out, this is the initial release of a system. Wait for it to become stable. It's not the launch titles I'm interested in, it's MGS2 and FFX. Some time next year, I might actually find myself getting a PS2. But right now, it's not worth it. It takes time for good games - you have to be patient with new consoles. Especially with the PS2, since it is a very radical change in the way most games run. Whether this helps or hurts it in the long run remains to be seen.

(And, with Sony, you have to wait three or four "versions" before they create one that doesn't break just after the warranty period...)

As a result, the market was quickly flooded with mediocre games and Japanese "Strip" titles ranging from the traditional mah-jongg to (I kid you not) *two* versions of rock-paper-scissors.

Most of these were from production houses that we nicknamed "One-Take Video", for the incredibly shoddy camerawork and the lack of talent beyond "80cm, 55cm, 78cm". And did I really need to know my opponent's blood type? :)

But 3DO's market wasn't destroyed by smut. Poor as the quality may have been, these titles shone like the moon compared to titles like "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties" (an American attempt at erotic gaming), "Virtuoso" (a heavy-metal guitarist picks up sawed-off shotguns and fights aliens from Dimension Dope-Ass), and "Shadow: War Of Succession" (imagine Street Fighter with sub-South-Park graphics where the first player who presses "Kick" wins).

Consumers were confronted with absolutely awful games for an overpriced system. "But wait!" I hear you cry, "Isn't it the *great* titles that get attention?"

It would be, if anyone knew about them. 3DO spent next to nothing on advertising. 3DO's affiliates, partners, and licensees spent even less. Virtually all of 3DO's exposure came from trade shows and industry magazine articles, written by people with no vested interest in the company's success.

So how will the X-Box be different?

Money. Cash money. Fat Sacks Full of Cash Money. Microsoft cannot run out of money. Nothing they can legally do could possibly break them. They currently maintain so many products that will never earn them money that one more isn't even going to show up on the balance sheet.

"Expenditures (in gazillions):"

"Overhead: X-Box 0.034"

So in this humble gamer's opinion, the X-Box is going to lose money for a very long time, embarrassing everyone who looks its way.

-c.
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Unix is no longer an operating system. An operating system is the software that comes with a computer (or OS distribution) that programmers and users need to make themselves productive.

Unix is only a small part of that.

Last I checked an OS is:

"The three main purposes of an operating system are to attempt to schedule computational activities to ensure good performance of the computing system, they provide a convenient environment for the development and execution of programs, and convenience for the user. )

An operating system has four components. These four components are Resource Management, Hardware Control, Application Services and Applications" - Source Nia_Cial at everything2.com

So 1) this author is WAY off 2) even if Unix is defined by his diluted defination he is still WAY OFF!

I got 5-10 "OS" distrubation in the back room. If the "OS" is defined by "additional applications and functions that are required for it to run" then his statement: "Unix is only a small part of that" is way off, this guy is a dumb ass.

SuSE Linux 6.3 - 6 CDs PACKED with "Additional applications"

Freinds "custom" debain build 7 CD PACKED

Solaris 7 - 1 "os" disk and 2 CD's packed with applications (software disk 1 & 2)

Windows 95 b - 1 CD, half of which is taken up by a Weezer MPG movie

Windows 98 SE - 1 CD, half empty

MacOS 7.0 - 1 CD, half empty

So by this authors OWN defination he is complety fscking wrong, by the correct defination he is complely fscking wrong. Who is the fuck that gave him web space to put up this shit?

I am really starting to hate Mac users.

In reference to the iMac --
"MY COMPUTER IS GRAPE" -- penny-arcade.com

They don't really have games like that there, do they?

Perhaps a more apropos strip:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/line.shtml

isn't our society currently 'graying' where more people are aging over 65 than are being born? so there are alot of old people who think the same way bush does right? and how many of these new-fangled 18 year olds are going to vote? i know i am, but i'm voting for nader, which according to everyone is a vote for bush. but i refuse to be intimidated damn you! i will vote for who i want to vote without fear.

clinton has mentioned the digital divide more than once, right? does that mean gore wants to address it? i haven't heard much from him one way or the other. if the internet turns people's hearts dark, i doubt bush wants to increase internet access. and jamie's gonna have a field day when the fuckers come to censor his library ^^;;

bush is an idiot who thinks the net turns us 'dark' right? what's his proof? he was probably reading slashdot with a threshold of -1, the way moderators should be. hm. i wonder how many political candidates are slashdot moderators. as for lieberman, here is the appropriate penny-arcade: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-10 -09

as soon as i get a color printer, that's what i'm putting on my door.

"The sad political truth is that access to the Net, the Web and broadband equals creativity, confidence and opportunity." This is a very serious question: If more people in the middle east had access to the net, do you think the situation currently occuring there would occur more or less often?
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057

Who buys computers with modems anymore?!? There's something kind of ewwwwwwwwwww about a guy using a modem.




Refrag

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-09 -20&res=l

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The name is something like, With Special Guest. It's found right here. An oldie (Quake3 demo?), but a goodie.

Your sig rules! As does Penny Arcade most of the times... :)


Refrag

"Yeah, but it's just a stupid Mac!"

(FWIW I'm currently moving away from collectives such as /. and towards weblog-type things. My favourite source for the unusual and nerd-esq is Penny Arcade. Sure, it's mostly centered around a comic strip, but the journal entry / news that is attached to each strip is a very good read (even though it's a bit computer game centric). Otherwise I'm returning to traditional news vendors -- I have BBC, Fox, ABC (Oz), Salon & Wired all syncing to my TRGpro.)

http://www.penny-a rcade.c om/view.php3?date=2000-09-04&res=l

http://www.penny-arcade .com/view.php3?date=2000-06-02&res=l

Because all of life's problems can be solved through better Web Comics.

I think it's already been done
http://www.penny-arcade.com/v iew.php3?date=2000-08-09

Not really. I'm quite sure a bag of Doritoes won't fare very well, but flour could tolerate some *insidious* pressure. Oils. And once you mooshed those apples up good, you've got precisely what you need for a kick-*** pie.

My .02
Quux26

Even given their comments at E3? It certainly seems to me that 3dfx wants to pursue the Macintosh market.

There was a petition circulating at Accelerate Your Mac pleading with Apple to do what 3dfx was asking: make the Voodoo4 and 5 build-to-order options in the G4 towers. This is possibly more likely now that Apple is angry at ATI.

Theoretically, I suppose that this could be done with the Cube as well, but I wonder about heat concerns.

Check out Penny-Arcade.com for a rousing political cartoon!
Jump to it!

"If I removed everything here that I thought was pointless, there would be like two messages here."

see the comic

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Seems like Gamespy has a bad case of a certian disorder.
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