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Penny Arcade 19 Mar 2004

Yes, this the parent is somewhat remotely on topic. i.e. you'd rather have your kid visit homestarrunner.com than penny-arcade.com. That, and at the risk of being modded down, I just love Penny Arcade's Internet Fuckwad Theory and had to share it.

Wow, a chance to post the obligatory Penny Arcade links, be on-topic and reply to this excitingly off-topic thread at the same time...

Wow, a chance to post the obligatory Penny Arcade links, be on-topic and reply to this excitingly off-topic thread at the same time...

He reminds me of gabe

What, Indeed

Maybe bribing and/or blackmailing of reviewers rised a bit after this?

Obligatory Penny Arcade Link

At least you're original.

The NPC's will refuse to take stupid orders

What do you mean you won't walk into that flaming pool of death? I gave you an order!!!

Obligatory Penny Arcade

Nope, we don't have buzzwords. We just have seizures.

Chris Mattern

Have you considered the possibility that she may actually be a robot (cf. this Penny Arcade strip)? That's one of the downsides of these Internet romances.

On the other hand, IMHO, a robot is better than a 40-year old guy who lives with his mother, pretending to be a girl. It might be a fairly cute robot, after all. In any case, my advice is to insist on a face-to-face meeting before you go much further.

Dear Corporate Masters

Ah yes, the plot...

Also, Psycho Mantis is a curse upon us all. He is the king of stupid.

link!

Take a look at Penny Arcade's take on the MMO trading fraud situation.

if advertising gets in the way of an immersive game experience, the sales on the game will be remarkably low once word gets out that instead of inserting a flashbang into a zombie's mouth, you insert a bawls which you shoot to trigger the excessive caffiene to explode. it's the same as it is for any game: say in warcraft 4 there are pizza hut bombadiers who hover from above and drop piping hot pizza onto the enemies' heads to sizzle them in sweet, sweet, melting cheeze. this can, of course be countered by the budwieser medics who pour an intoxicating elixer over the cheese wounds to nullify the heat. actually, having described all this, i want this game! you hear that blizzard? i want my pizza hut bombadiers! i want my budweiser medics! death to the immersive worlds where continuity is king - i want a game that i can't get involved in due to unecessary advertising!
and of course, the requisite penny-arcade link

...of this (unrelated) strip.

(please link the obligated penny arcade reference)

Done.

Fitting Penny Arcade strip. Yet Another Tetris Product.

--trb

Somehow, when I think of the typical slashdot reader: this comic comes to mind.

Yes, you all suck and Microsoft rules!

More like this.

Blockquoth the parent:

Sound like this? :)

I'll see you and raise you...

This one was pretty amusing too...

Obligatory Penny Arcade reference

We all know the iTunes Music store is a pimp for the iPod

Sound like this? :)

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M$

M$

I think the point of this is to shut people up about, "The only reason I haven't switched is because I play games." After that, with more people on Linux, a Linux native version of a new game gets released, and it gains more support. Finally, more and more publishers look at making Linux versions.

Hopefully, this will be set in to action before Longhorn is released (you know, right after Duke Nukem Forever).

One more thing, I believe most games don't use too much anymore of the Windows API than the winmain() function (to run the app in windows). The rest is engine code or DirectX/OpenGL. So I doubt it will be that much of a problem when the day comes.

I'm pretty sure it's still spelled "Windows" and "Microsoft." If they did change the name to "Window$," I'm pretty sure there'd be a Slashdot story on it.

After taking a look at Paketto back when he wrote it up, and now taking a look at his work here, I think I've figured out his MO:

1. Surround self with RFC's for core internet protocols.
2. Ingest large quantities of something very hallucinogenic, yet not very legal.
3. Give the RFC's the Fruit Fucker 2000 "rode hard and put back wet" treatment.
4. Put together a group of proof-of-concept tools that make intelligent people who have worked in networking for years say "Shit, just when I thought I knew this stuff!" Oh, and profit.

Yep, Penny Arcade did a wonderful comic which illustrates that exact point.

Doesn't change that anonymity is one of the cornerstones of a functioning democratic society, however.

You know it makes sense

In fact anyone I've spoken to with a PS2 has brought up the backwards compatability thing. It was even one of my considerations when I got mine, and I didn't have any PS1 titles.. I just knew they'd be out there. Granted, since I bought it I've only taken in 3 or 4 PS1 titles, but I still consider it an advantage. When (I guess it's when now) I buy a PS3, backwards compatability with my PS2 games will be one of the selling points since I've invested $TooMuch on my game library.

If I had an XBox, I wouldn't want to have two devices milling about in my entertainment center, especially two devices the size of XBoxes. And then, on down the line, will Live be an Xbox2 only service? If so what happens to everyone who likes playing the original Halo online?

Funnily enough MS seems to think it can afford to do research that supports what it wants to believe is true. I guess technically they -can- afford to, but not if they want to make money on any future ventures. It's a company wide problem from what I can see that needs to be solved.

And yeah the XBox default controllers are huge.

Obligatory Penny Arcade link:

A Matter of Life and Death

KFG

Seriously though, this needs time to mature.

Um, yeah, mature, M$.

M$

Why do I get the feeling, that the original, huge Xbox controllers are going to be in really high demand?

-Jack Ash

PS: Note that they very tactfully display the camera with the smaller controller-s...

M$

At least you know how to spell Windows.

Don't forget this classic from back in the day...

No offense to Ion or any other fine producer of games out there, but should these kind of patches really be necessary?

I mean honestly, do they HAVE testing? You'd think something like this would be noticed ahead of release.

All I can think of this Penny-Arcade in reference to Splinter Cell.

Wow.
You sure stuck it to them.
With your diabolical PS2 purchase, you stab at M$

Seriously, that's just plain sad.

Thank you, you proved the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

If you don't mind, could you answer a question?

1. When you were faced with a rebuttal, was the first thing that came into your mind?

a. Discuss the ideas presented
b. Have tantrum, then attack the author personally.

Oh good news, got your answer already, it was B. Thanks.

Wow, leave it to the media moguls to take a great idea and just run with it! We all remember how popular Divx players ( this kind, not this kind) were, and those let you watch the movie a whole three times before it wasn't yours any more! These guys know good products when they see them. I imagine a future where the lifespan of the degrading DVD is less than the viewing time of the movie itself, forcing the consumer to buy it twice so they can watch the whole thing! And it won't end with DVDs, no sir! Disposable durable goods are the way of the future. I envision cellular phones that melt in your hand in mid-call, cars that self-destruct after 3000 miles, computers that dissolve into their component atoms when they become obsolete... And then, we will build entire cities from the trash this creates! Our grandchildren won't have to go house-hunting, they'll just mine themselves a 1400 square foot condo near good schools and shopping. What times we're in for!

Trust me, Penny Arcade's DivX machine is the *ONLY* one you want to get.

Penny Arcade for every moment.

Does the same go for Penny Arcade?

I'm not sure, but chicks do look at me funny when I say stuff like "WHY IS THERE A HUGE COCK ON MY DOOR?" and You probably don't even know what France is."

Especially when that's how I introduce myself.

Does the same go for Penny Arcade?

I'm not sure, but chicks do look at me funny when I say stuff like "WHY IS THERE A HUGE COCK ON MY DOOR?" and You probably don't even know what France is."

Especially when that's how I introduce myself.

Oh, Lassie will rescue him. Any dog would. Their top-secret training prevents them from acting in such a way as to reveal the master dog agenda.

I hope you never hit your dog, because if you have, you'll be first up against the wall when the Space Canines land, their space-suited heads hanging out the spaceship windows ...

Which reminds me of a penny arcade strip here . Gotta love Penny Arcade ;)