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Yep, they do. It's the obligatory Penny Arcade "New Hotness" strip. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/1/30/

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/7/17/

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2005/10/17/

Perhaps it's the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory at work.

He also seems nice on IRC. He's basically a poseur.

But there really is a difference between meeting someone for a few hours and working with him every day.

teenagers "realize that no one is viewing their profile, so their tweets are pointless".

Wow. I'm totally floored. I would never have guessed that the vast majority of people, more specifically teenagers, don't care when you tweet you're on Main Street and saw a cute girl. Or, in the case of Gabe, taking a shit.

Guess this is another example where not having an MBA is an asset.

M$?

Pong, eh? I know some excellent storyboards for that screenplay.

And we certainly can't discuss classic arcade game adaptations without mentioning the critically acclaimed Frogger trilogy.

What happened to all the wankers who hooted and hollered about boycotting them after that?

Well, we tried, then this happened.

"I'm going poo-poo and Twittering it on my iPhone."

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/

Mm, I've gotta go with Thundarr. Flying mounts is jumping the shark in my opinion.

You mention Howling Fjord. I like Howling Fjord. I liked having a reason to use Levitate. I liked the dangerous terrain. I did quest in Borean Tundra but for reputation and quest rewards. I'd be on my forth character through there except I've been on an achievement spree and neglecting all other characters.

Cold Weather Flying a serious chunk of change? Only if you have no friends, no professions, little to no understanding of the game, and blow any gold you come across on repairs and the auction house.

Flying mounts removes 99% of the dangers you face in the game. Aside from caves and buildings, it's pretty much like this only not instantaneously. Mount up, fly to objective (which will be marked on the map in the new patch), land, kill, loot, mount up, turn in quest.

Shit yeah, ladies, I bring those blue sparks.

In an art form that is as inherently consumerist as video games, it might not all that stupid.

We all know that the end aim of companies is to make the most amount of money possible. Why would they continue to compete for the smaller niche markets of the various types of gamers, when they could all target the mass market by diluting their games till its no more than electronic wanking.

Man, Gabe and Tycho were prescient.

Not so prescient. A Super Mario game developed by Square Enix using a turn-based menu interface has been around since the second quarter of 1996.

You can blame Penny Arcade for giving them ideas. Except their version was more interactive...

Man, Gabe and Tycho were prescient.

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/5/

I would argue that blizzard does this quite well. I don't think this has to do with Vivendi, Blizzard's mother company, either.

People like you said that 20 years ago. Well that was a few decades ago, how many more am I suppose to wait?

Its not all progress.

Also the vast majority of online material I read. I print first.

Why is parent marked as troll and its parent isn't? The original poster is clearly prejudiced against "flaming" Republicans. ArchieBunker is simply pointing out that a little respect will go a long way, without insulting the original poster's political preference.

Archie's just asking jollyreaper not to be such a dickwad. And we're calling Archie a troll for it?

Bastards really need to pull heads out of their asses and cut the crap with "double the price for Europe" politics.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

If the units are moving off the shelves, then they don't "need" to do anything. Here's the pictorial explanation.

Windows has problems, but it also has people paid to be helpful. There's no better motivation for solving a problem, in a helpful fashion, than to be told "Do it or you're out on your ass. Remember Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/

I click on the ads at http://www.penny-arcade.com/ they do a good job with their ads and I want to support their site, not only that, the products they advertise are usually pretty cool.

If you want to be a toolbox

Both MotionPlus and Sonys solution feature more or less classic controllers, but with motion sensing added. Both of them also have heavy focus on wrist movement, while ignoring the rest of the body.

Well, only if you choose to play that way.

I guess you're one of those folks who doesn't hold the wiimote on their head and move their whole torso when WarioWare tells you to.

Obligatory PA Comic

It requires a similar amount of space to play Wii Sports

No, it does not "require" any more space than it takes to flex your wrist, at least if you're a fucking toolbox.

There's a difference between enabling and requiring.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/5/

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/5/

"SirWangALot hits you with his 'Pendulous Apendage of Pendulousnous' for 2 bashing damage, and you are afflicted with 'Point and Laugh Hysterically!' for 10 seconds.

I was immediately reminded of this.

Oh, and obligatory:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/5/

Reach out and touch someone...

oblig. reference: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/08/07/

1) The virtual iPhone dialing keypad is far better than any cellphone hardware keypad even ones with only numbers), because the buttons are much larger.

2) The virtual iPhone keyboard is better that most mobile keyboards, because the keys are larger. It doesn't matter if you have a physical keyboard if the keys are too small to use. This is doubly true when the iPhone keyboard is in landcsape mode where I don't think anything else offers keys as large in a mobile device.

3) The virtual iPhone keyboards are all better because they adapt. A URL keyboard drops the spacebar because you don't need one for URL's. A number only keyboard has much larger number buttons, and so on. Physical keyboards are glacially frozen into some arbitrary shape one guy decided was better at a moment in time.

You can stick with your "real" keyboards, by all means enjoy your new career boiling corpses.

People need to educate the voting public that the 12 year old next to them on the laughing and bragging about how he shot a rifle through someone's head yesterday and made it explode isn't a deraged lunatic.

Oblig.

Well, apparently there is a joystick option, of sorts...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/5/

Yes, but still...

Game Stop can innovate. You don't have to wait long for 2nd hand games...

Game Stop can innovate. You don't have to wait long for 2nd hand games...

That's a definite plus because I imagine the number of people who want something like this greatly dwarfs the number of folks who are technically oriented.

Myself included. When it comes to getting around regional blocks, I just want a program I can open up and forget about.

Most open source tools I know about are intended for *nix only and are distributed (at least by upstream) as source code.

That's a shame because while I am a big supporter of open source, I uses windows primarily.

Otherwise, I should say that while I was thoroughly unimpressed with that Web site, I didn't intend to sound that harsh or to make you feel so much like my criticism was aimed at you and I'm sorry about that. Sometimes I post something and immediately feel like I could have done a much better job of it, and this is one of those times.

Don't think twice about it. I have too often responded harshly on /. when there was no need for it. I believe it is due to the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

I spent the last half hour looking for Jurassic Park 4 because of you. Now, I am disappointed because it was most likely canceled with the death of Michael Crichton.

Jurassic Park 4: Dinosaurmageddon!

Better link for you: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/5/18/

Well, then when you feel lazy, feel free to look like a toolbox. ;)

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/5/18/

* What happens when you have conversation with more than say five people.

It becomes harder to manage, just like an IRC, IM or real-life conversation with more than 5 people. It gets noisy, confusing and you will probably miss quite a bit. Wave isn't magic, it will have limitations just like anything else does. Or perhaps I am wrong and it will have tools to manage this, either way it's a non-point.

* Key Stroke by Key Stroke View Could Be Annoying

Could be useful too. Turn it off if you don't like it. Another non-point.

* Editing Ability Could Get Out of Control

There is a history bar. Presumably there will be a history tab/page. What exactly do you want from Wave? Something that allow the entire playerbase of WoW to interact in a single document or something to allow collaberation between 1-20 people working on a FOSS project, or in a business?

* Too Complicated for the Masses

Email is too complicated for the masses. The Internet is too complicated for the masses. The ones that picked up email and internet will pick up Wave, if they have to.

Essentially, this "look at Wave" made me remember this comic (the bottom one).

I'm afraid ATX supplies won't be needed when the new wireless platform that never needs to be charged is released.

This makes me think of this

There's something about games where people expect to be entertained... no matter the price. It's incredible what people are willing to throw money away on, but games (and sometimes other media) tend to have strange, insanely high expectations.

Shouldn't people expect the same amount of satisfaction out of a 99 cent cheeseburger as they would get out of a 99 cent game? This is definitely a weird phenomenon.

That's like saying an engine is reliable, so the user shouldn't change their oil?

No way. I get what your saying, but marketing for anyproduct is like that. A "mach 5 fusion power gamer"
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/2/ (It's real) razor won't cut you right? wrong. A diamond is worth the jewlery stores sticker price right? wrong.

Most anyone knows that product advertising is sketchy at best, lies most of the time, and outright deception otherwise.

  That's why only hot guys with women crawling all over them drink beer right? Now that there is 25 blades on the razor, one stroke is enough? A cold soldering iron works as advertised? Spektrum TX/RX never lose signal right? Sync understands every word you speek? GPS never leads you down a dead end street? Geico is the cheapest insurance along w/ progressive, allstate, farmers, and everyone else who claims to be the best? You'll retire comfortably in any market with charles schwab?

Sorry but I don't buy it. Yeah some of those products may be best in their class, but they all lead you to believe that the product is something more than what it really is.

Not necessarily sick. Just sufficiently motivated.

I tried vista on a test box at work and I got it to blue screen quite quickly - just logged in and out a few times, dunno what happened. I seem to have a knack of crashing or hanging stuff. When the first imacs came out (the colourful ones), I went to an apple shop and checked a demo unit out, and for some reason it hung on me. I don't think I did anything really unusual. Just clicked about using stuff. I also crashed a demo unit Atari ST. I've crashed someone's Forth webserver on my first test...

Per that paragraph, I think you might have the Gabriel Effect.

The next one is even better: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/1/31/