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Best explanation of what Twitter is that you'll ever find.

HIS MOM IS A CLASSY LADY!

I'm not picking it up immediately, of course. I'll be getting it for xmas. That may not inflate their early sales figures, but they've got a sale lined up.

I'm not picking it up immediately, of course. I'll be getting it for xmas. That may not inflate their early sales figures, but they've got a sale lined up.

Links are occasionally helpful.

Alright, poop is coming out

Words, Pictures, AND VIDEO can travel through the INTERPIPES?! We need tighter goverment control over the Interpipes Spiggots, to cut off the flow of unapproved megabites and megahurtz. Get the feeling that goverment gets their technology "know-how" from cheesy movies like http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16/ ?

I can't wait for Bioshock 2. This is one of the rare games where I simply couldn't play as evil, because it was just too gut-wrenching awful to hurt those little sisters, twisted as they may be by the Rapture genetic re-engineering. This game is basically the "Good" end of my gaming spectrum, opposing every Star Wars game I've ever played where I inevitably end up as a dark force warped being of Snidely Whiplash villainy. http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/7/23/

Not to stereotype Slashdot readers or anything, but I notice nobody sees any difference between sunlight and electric light. If you go outdoors during the day, you may be surprised to find daylight has many ambient properties not provided by your basement's fluorescent bulb (warmth, happy feelings, etc).

It's not my fault your world orbits a ball of fire.

Your star burns! I require frozen treats.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/02/09/ [penny-arcade.com]

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http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/02/09/

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Actually, having RTFA, I stand corrected.

I never paid much attention to they hype and went mostly by the criterion that I'd even buy Pee if it's Will Wright's anyway. Also, that it's just a game anyway.

According to TFA, though, it sounds like EA's bulshitters... err... marketers have been shooting their mouth all over the place about how the game is an accurate representation of evolution, and how there's interest from colleges to use it to teach science. And while the former borders on fraud, the latter makes me cringe. As others have said, it's really an ID game, with some evolution language thrown in. The very idea of selling that as accurate science is ridiculous enough, but hyping it as a way to _teach_ evolution... is irresponsible at best.

*Sigh* It's times like these that I see Bill Hicks's point about marketing...

I have the Power!
TZ

Your mom is a [CLASSY LADY]!

Your mom is a classy lady!

is a classy lady."

Exactly.

I never considered buying PA gear until they made this a hoodie. If you don't know a thing about Warhammer, don't talk about it.

I think Raven would disagree with you.

This says it better than I can.

A kid with a GameBoy, huh?

No one wants to honor your warranties, no one wants to price what they sell you accordingly.

I don't seem to have a problem with companies honoring warranties. The only issue I ever had with warranties was something that was not covered.

Which is not what you specifically stated. You said that you had problems with manufacturers not covering an item that you thought was under warranty. (I took a wild guess and assumed you had read the length of warranty and didn't try to screw over the manufacturer by sending it in out of warranty.)

So what is it? Either they're not honoring their warranties, or are you trying to send them under warranty when the term has expired, or you voided it?

"We price things differently in different markets based on what will move the product" is bullshit

Google says, No results found for "We price things differently in different markets based on what will move the product".

I have no idea what you're talking about.

So wait, companies don't price things differently for other markets? Then why are copies of Valves games so fucking cheap in countries like Taiwan, or wherever, where people can't afford a $50 game, but can maybe afford a $5 or $10 game? Why was there controversy over people from not those regions not having the ability to play those games, or worse, when they typed in the product key properly?

The fact is, companies do do that. Australians complain all the time about the price of some items costing far more than they should in their country. You guys in the UK do it from time to time too. Though it probably wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for VAT being added to everything (just from a cursory glance at a random UK PC parts store).

they have no other choice but to pay said price.

Uhuh...

Let's see... you could... steal the stuff you want. (Good luck not getting caught at some point.) You could not buy the stuff you want. (Have fun not owning anything but wanting more than nothing.) Or you could pay the prices, feel slightly ripped off, yet have the item you want. (You piss and moan about prices, but swallow it.)

It's no wonder that every time I play any game online with you lot, you're all cranky and whiny

Because people you meet in online games are a accurate representation of what they are in real life. Next you're going to claim that a sample of online gamers from the United Kingdom are a good sample of all kinds of British people.

Bubble bursting time; the anecdotal counter point of yours only proves my point. You can't honestly say you've never ran into a good many of people who didn't talk some sort of shit when they didn't feel comfortable in their nvironment. Online anything isn't any different.

Take those 13 year snot bags you hear over their mic of any platform, all they do is talk shit. They do it because they can get away with it. If they couldn't, they wouldn't. When they're not doing it to some random stranger, they're doing it elsewhere. And that coarse language carries on into their daily routine when they're out in public too.

So really, in the end, you can infer a good many things from a sufficient sample size. No one ever said it applied to everyone. But seriously, you guys in the UK do whine a lot when you're online. If you don't like the fact that I'm saying this, then do something to stop the people around you from sounding like a whiny cunt every time something happens.

Learn to troll properly, this is Sparta^H^H^H^H^Hlashdot, not Youtube.

Please, if I wanted to troll you, I'd have done it by now. It's always the typical douche-bag that mentions trolling when someone says something they don't agree with, even if it was a somewhat spirited debate. Get over yourself.

No one wants to honor your warranties, no one wants to price what they sell you accordingly.

I don't seem to have a problem with companies honoring warranties. The only issue I ever had with warranties was something that was not covered.

"We price things differently in different markets based on what will move the product" is bullshit

Google says, No results found for "We price things differently in different markets based on what will move the product".

I have no idea what you're talking about.

they have no other choice but to pay said price.

Uhuh...

It's no wonder that every time I play any game online with you lot, you're all cranky and whiny

Because people you meet in online games are a accurate representation of what they are in real life. Next you're going to claim that a sample of online gamers from the United Kingdom are a good sample of all kinds of British people.

Learn to troll properly, this is Sparta^H^H^H^H^Hlashdot, not Youtube.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/30/nightmare-at-twenty-thousand-feet/

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/30/

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/30/

I can't believe no one has posted this yet.

why you're not allowed to use phones on airplanes

Pilots are afraid of magic.

And so they sould be, since they emit pilot killer rays

Indeed. Almost all of my multiplayer experience of Diablo II was with LAN play for three reasons:

1) Characters you created on the LAN stayed as long as you had the files. None of this "if you don't play for 30 days we delete your character" BS.

2) US West Battle.Net was unreasonably lagged and buggy. LAN play worked fine.

3) Playing with the Battle.Net kiddies makes one want to bang his head on his desk. Seriously, it made me wish they all had Gabe's iChoke-u installed. I wanted to choke them all. Fortunately you could password-protect a game.

Yes, mass exodus ! Here is an artist depiction of the future of ISO

And I'd be willing to bet Nintendo will have a way to access the camera from games, leading to all sorts of frivolity and goofiness along the way (members of the peanut gallery are now calling for my head). So I say, bring it on.

I just can't wait until all terrified local news outlets discover that scary pedophiles can now molest The Children with video chat as well as simple text!

No, no! It's patchouli!

(...obligatory...)

Not that I'm a Final Fantasy fan anymore -- I grew out of that phase during Final Fantasy III/6j -- but I still feel obliged to say...

SUCK IT.

100 percent of the people who didn't finish reading Moby Dick don't think about fate and destiny versus chance. They haven't read the ending to care. At every point in the book, you as a reader have the choice to stop reading. At every point in the game, you as the player have the choice to stop playing. Failure in a game creates struggle where none would otherwise exist; only art critics choose to ignore the obvious intent of the designer. Your death in Shadow of the Colossus is not some statement about the implausible odds of success. By adding that challenge, it serves to place you in the lead character's role. You are a warrior, who's risked death in combat against beings of colossal scale, and you innately understand the gravity of it all.

A set of rules does not define or exclude art, there's no human element. But two people playing by a set of rules introduces humanity, and the actions they take may say something about themselves or ourselves. Portal is basically super duper excellent, and art. Despite you being the only human in the game, there is engaging dialog that serves to manipulate your own emotions, and that power comes from the struggle you undertook.

Of course, the ethics of video games is so overwhelmingly violent and the plot so irrelevant that people just skip the plot entirely.

Well, there is precedent.

Did the writing improve, or were the cutscenes really that bad? I like a good story, but Penny Arcade led me to believe that the first one was seriously lacking in that department: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/1/30/

No, as long as your negaself on Earth Minus One can pick up the computer upgrades you'll need for you...

I prefer the explanation from this Penny Arcade strip.

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/5/9/ Classic!

Too bad, I had visions of this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/12/20/

When I look at the BluRay section - I see movies like "SuperBad" and the latest chick flicks

Who the fuck cares about these on BLURAY?

All those answers and more are available right here behind the magic link:

Penny Arcade answers your question

Just so you kno, a lot of those "WoW conventions" were pretty much invented by other games. World of Warcraft is simply the latest (and most successful to date) in a line of MMO titles that have evolved from common ancestry. Everquest used to be the game of choice. In Asian markets, Lineage had WoW-like numbers far before Blizzard had an MMO offering. And the first large-scale commercial MMO of significance here in the US was Ultima Online. And of course, all these games borrowed liberally from online text-only MUDs.

In a somewhat humorous twist, Blizzard is somewhat notorious for.. shall we say.. liberally borrowing concepts from the Warhammer universe. Not slamming Blizzard, they make awesome stuff, but please be aware the genre did not start with WoW.

Penny Arcade summed it up best, of course: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/

This came up weeks ago.

The article on the comparison between Diablo III design and fan "improved" colours:

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/08/04/diablo-iii-designer-turns-tables

and Penny-Arcade's take on the "protest":

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/6/

It took about 3 posts before someone shows up and says this. Penny Arcade has already covered this to death

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/

Just turn around and walk away.

Someone has to do it.

Don't say another Goddamn word.

As always, Penny Arcade has already made fun of you.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/9/15/

Life imitates art... http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/3/26/

Read the introduction to The Silmarillion. That's all Christopher was doing. Collecting his father's early stories and trying to figure out what was closest to canon. The early stories have discrepancies in them that make them mesh poorly. It was a monumental task to figure out each story and put them into the most coherent framework.

But Christopher took the time out and figured it all out and came up with the most coherent version of the early work and made what wound up being my favorite book in the whole Tolkien series. Without him, we never would have heard about the Music of Arda, or Feanor, or any of it.

He wrote nothing, changed nothing, and brought more of his father's work to the world. He has my eternal gratitude.

Now, let's contrast that with Brian Herbert. Spoilers ahead.

I got through House Atreides. And halfway through House Harkonnen before I gave up in disgust. They're not even as good as fan fiction. They're simply dismal. Having RM Mohaim be the mother of Jessica? Get serious. You know you're in deep shit if you're stealing plot ideas from George Lucas.

And the writing itself is simply awful. It's like he took a dartboard with his father's wonderful mythology on it and threw darts at it. The characters have zero depth and sound like they're doing Dune impressions. He goes too far out of the way to have everyone use words from the original works.

It's really awful. Penny Arcade said it best.