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Another example of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory in action.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

Penny Arcade. Next you'll be saying Bill Gates personally drew the comic, huh?

I heard from Penny arcade some rather negative things about Lair.

"What's the button to watch your best friend die, get hooked on drugs, and then return to a country that hates you?"
"I'm not sure there is a... Oh, it's 'Q'."

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/17

Your cat could not. Cats have problems with network protocols.

Obligatory penny-arcade reference. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/09/07/

Here and here. Regardless, if you dry up on producing machines, I'm sure you'll eventually sell them.

Here and here. Regardless, if you dry up on producing machines, I'm sure you'll eventually sell them.

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/09/29

Well, from a government viewpoint, this is a very scary scenario.
Lately, almost all western governments (especially the US and UK) have intensified their surveillance (spying on it's citizens), the EU has even handed down legislation that needs to be implemented by all it's member states where at least 6 months of communication data for all citizens is recorded... and allowing for free open access, where there is no way of knowing what person might have accessed what information is a surveillance nightmare. If there is one thing governments hate, it's anonymity.

Then again, anonymity does not always bring out the best in people, as Penny Arcade has shown us.

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

What is this Zune you speak of?

I found one!

The text in your comic reminds me of this one

"A US-ian's"

What's that? I think you meant "American" and were too stupid and self-important to type it


I'm not stupid and self important; just self-important. And there are plenty of people who live in a continent called North or South America who would be offended by me implicitly grouping them with people like you (I'm assuming you're a US-ian, but I've no way of finding out as you don't wish to stand over your words. Perhaps you're also one of these.)

Being wrong doesn't make you clever, it makes you wrong. And in this case, you sound incredibly fucking stupid too.

And you sound incredibly uptight and angry. You should learn to relax. Don't take things so seriously; you might live a bit longer. It'd be a shame to deprive the World of one second of your delightful, life-enhancing presence.

I commented on the physics of the most recent Die Hard having problems detracting from my enjoyment of the movie

I commented on the physics of the most recent Die Hard having problems detracting from my enjoyment of the movie

I'll wait till it's reviewed on Penny Arcade.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/19

Gabe and Tycho saw it coming the whole time. Here's 2 approriate comics

Part 1
Part 2

Gabe and Tycho saw it coming the whole time. Here's 2 approriate comics

Part 1
Part 2

There were many great uses of Comic Sans before it became synonymous with lack of imagination.

Here's a great example of it being used properly

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/23

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/05/12/

Maybe Spore would be on time if he'd stop wasting all this time at parties and benefits! :)

I doubt it's the warranties, since this is almost certainly driven by the game developers rather than Microsoft...More likely, it's just recognition by the developers of certain highly anticipated titles that gamers are willing to pay for demos in the aforementioned magazines and considering this an unexploited revenue stream. The sad part is, they're probably right.

People buy Xbox Magazine just for the demos?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2002/20020722h. gif

Ha, Windoze. Cos it's sleeping, rite?

JFC.

Yes, but this article has nothing to do with any of that. All they've done is made a new download system for big files. Big whooping deal. Adobe did that a few years back, and you didn't see any Slashdot article about how evil it was. So did Valve and Blizzard and tons of other companies.

Microsoft bashing is fine-- when Microsoft actually does something bad. When they release a minor support utility, it's just stupid. And it makes everyone involved look like this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2002/20020722h. gif

It's pathetic.

Others have pointed out your straw man, but nobody has pointed you to this, so I thought I might.

It's a high-traffic imageboard with a subforum, usually referred to just as /b/, devoted to (depending on your views) maximum hilarity or the Things Man Was Not Meant To See.

A large chunk of /b/'s populace exemplifies the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, due to the fact that it is so very hard to get punched in the face online, and think it's funny to descend on people en masse to cause them trouble.

Basically, /b/ is to the Internet what the Internet often is to RL.

Not to mention that this is wll known theory worked out by Gabe and Tycho; Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience == Total fuckwad.

Nothing new here people, move on.

FOX have discovered The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Congratulations and LULZ to them.

Penny Arcade disagrees.

The old Divx video player is one major example of a product that deserved to die off in the marketplace. Moreover, it certainly deserved to have its name taken by a popular video encoding format. And made into a bit character in a penny arcade.

Ryan Fenton

Awww heck, why not just use pokemon?

Really, this one's for you

Your mistake was in thinking that a slashdot user has interest in debate.

They do not. They exist to confirm the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, and to spew their beliefs.

They do not come to gain insight or understanding. Your optimism is misplaced.

FPS storylines are generally static.
RTS storylines, however, are dynamic as hell.

A market looking for action and entertainment, not a foray into the depths of the human experience. Games don't even try to be high art, and I don't think they should.

A relevant comic.

Abuse on wikipedia is systemic and ridiculous. The number of people who have been through it are numerous. The number of reliable, credentialed academics who've been abused, voluminous. The number of times they have covered up their abuses, the number of sheer scandals. (note that they've deleted all of the Essjay material, to cover up and try to hide what he pulled; a long-running scam to abuse and mistreat and demean Catholics).

Wikipedia administrators regularly abuse their power - in any way possible. The caste system of wikipedia is set up this way; gather thousands of mindless edits (and they keep pushing the boundary upwards, for fear that someone might get in and try to fix the system from within). Decry anyone who rightly points out that the system is broken and needs fixing as a "troll."

Abuse and attack; ban and call them a "troll" later; lie about the results of "CheckUser", lie about what a user said and what a metric really means, attack attack and do your best to smear anyone who says anything at all.

This is the method by which wikipedia administrators exist; this is the methodology by which the caste system is enforced. It used to be, way back when, that users were encouraged to seek out another administrator if one was giving them grief for redress: now the policy is against "wheel warring", and no administrator is allowed to undo the action of another for fear of being accused of such, and administrative policies have been changed to enforce this.

In the Wikipedia system, the administrators are the pigs of animal farm - "more equal than others."

Jason Scott put it very well indeed.
So did Jerry Holkins: "a kind of quantum encyclopedia, where genuine data both exists and doesn't exist depending on the precise moment I rely upon your discordant fucking mob for my information."

However, the core of it is worse than that. Wikipedia is not merely controlled by "consensus": it is actively controlled by cliques whose goal is to bias the hell out of articles and keep them in their biased mode. They operate by getting their friends, members of their clique, elevated to admin status and then patrolling these articles, ostensibly for "trolls" but really for anyone who might try to un-bias them. They abuse these newcomers, make false accusations against them, hurl insults and then have their friend ban the newcomer for fighting back. They abuse the prohibitions on "multiple reversions" like a game; instead of a real consensus, all you have to have is one more guy than the opposing viewpoint and you completely control the damn article - and since you have a sympathetic admin on your side, you can have them block the new user for "edit warring", which comes in real handy when you have your buddy bring them to the drumhead trial system called "Arbcom" and say "see he should be banned he's got X blocks already."

Wikipedia is beyond broken - at its best, it is a worthless pile of crap with some whipped cream sprayed on top to try to make it look presentable. At its worst it is a classic case of letting the inmates run the asylum, of the Lord of the Flies syndrome; the worst abusers of the system are those who are "highly-ranked" and "respected" administrators, who operate by fiat, who can and regularly do abuse anyone else without mercy.

The caste system is mercilessly enforced by the admins - without it, they would not have nearly so much power. The whole point of being an administrator of wikipedia is not to make the encyclopedia better but rather to protect your friends, protect your clique, rise in

If the patent thing doesn't work out, I've got a few "positions" she could fill!

Bow wow chicka chicka bow wow!

-- Anonymous Fuckwad

You know what playing that way makes your kids, right?

I'll simply point out that others have noted that Microsoft products induce loyalty by making you work for it .

Actually, you do not have to do that, but really, you want to do it.

You can play that way. But it makes you a fucking toolbox.

And then we can finally accomplish our goal of building virtual cities in the shape of a giant wang.

Sorry to go offtopic... http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16

The only thing more pathetic than a PC user is a PC user trying to be a Mac user. We have a name for you people: switcheurs.