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Windwaker was so excessively cartoony that I think most people over ten years old would be embarassed to be seen playing it by their peers.

or their unnecessarily cartoony, and cute, thus offending 2/3 of their user base

So that's why it sold something like a mere 1.5 million copies in the US, then?

I think i've lost track of how many times i've linked to this comic, but it's appropriate yet again:

Playing a game with "cartoony" graphics has no bearing on someone as a mature person, so get over it!

Looks like the the AT&T Customer Service Droid strikes again... Along with their patent on spam-filter circumvention it is safe to say AT&T holds the #1 market share in raping the public.

As of today, Penny Arcade had a newspost from Tycho that takes a paragraph at the bottom to disparage Real and plug RealAlternative like so many Slashdotters have already done here.

On a pretty much unrelated topic, I thought it might also be interesting to point out that none of the major media players, as far as I can tell, suffer from the buffering which has been the butt of so many (!) jokes in this topic already. All of them have some feature (under different names, of course) that allows them to build up their playback buffers as fast as the Internet connection will allow, which basically gives you minutes of buffer after only a short period of time. Borders on progressive download, I guess. That and RealPlayer 10 has a feature that allows you to cache a user-specified amount of the past stream, even for live streams.

Perhaps I'm too quick to consider forgiving Real for their privacy issues, but as far as playback quality goes (both in terms of streaming and codecs), bashing Real for being bad at that would be just plain misinformed.

Thats not true at all. You can't uninstall evil

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We know we've really reached the future when we can build a tank with a hot chick inside.

Oh ok not that game, but it very similar game

they will have an 8,000 square foot booth at E3

That Tim really does have to kill a dog to have an orgasm..

Another poke from PA today. With posting comics every other day, they're falling behind!

Try one... or try another. -------------

Try one... or try another. -------------

I think Infinium should be more worried about what the SPCA will have to say about this.

Penny-Arcade attacked them over this (infinitum); the strip can be seen here. The CEO also states this to which Penny-Arcade responded with "So Tim thinks we did that comic strip to get more traffic driven to our site. That's a nice thought Tim but you're way off. You see unlike Infinium Labs and your doomed console, Penny Arcade is successful. How can I say this without sounding like an asshole? Penny Arcade has more readers in a given second than your site will ever have even if it were to sit and rot on the internet until time ends and the universe implodes. Hmmm, I guess I can't. Tim also says we called him to let him know it's all in fun. This again is bullshit. I don't care if he likes the comic or not. I've certainly never called the guy and I have no intention of doing so. Bottom line, the guy is a lying huckster. I guess he figured he could post that on his forum and we'd never see it. This proves he has no concept of how huge PA is. Penny Arcade isn't just a comic and a news post Tim, PA is a community and we have agents everywhere. Chances are they're watching you even now." These guys love to get into this kind of stuff.

Penny-Arcade attacked them over this (infinitum); the strip can be seen here. The CEO also states this to which Penny-Arcade responded with "So Tim thinks we did that comic strip to get more traffic driven to our site. That's a nice thought Tim but you're way off. You see unlike Infinium Labs and your doomed console, Penny Arcade is successful. How can I say this without sounding like an asshole? Penny Arcade has more readers in a given second than your site will ever have even if it were to sit and rot on the internet until time ends and the universe implodes. Hmmm, I guess I can't. Tim also says we called him to let him know it's all in fun. This again is bullshit. I don't care if he likes the comic or not. I've certainly never called the guy and I have no intention of doing so. Bottom line, the guy is a lying huckster. I guess he figured he could post that on his forum and we'd never see it. This proves he has no concept of how huge PA is. Penny Arcade isn't just a comic and a news post Tim, PA is a community and we have agents everywhere. Chances are they're watching you even now." These guys love to get into this kind of stuff.

Wow, you wouldn't happen to be one of thoese "witty" "writers" for this "comic" series would you?

L0l t3h funnnnnnnnnnny 5+++++++++ insighfuinforjgaytive!!!111!!!1!!!!!!11!!!

Dance? What like the urbercon robot?

Don't forget today's...

Just what I've always wanted... a dancing robot!

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Link that actually works after they change the comic....

Do you mean the Magic 8 ball?

Or the Magic Hate ball?

Here's Gabe's post. Complete with the link to the Alexa stats. You see that one spike in infiniumlabs.com's hits, the one that's just about double the next biggest spike they ever had? Yeah, you guessed it, that's the day the dog-killing comic went up and PA linked to them.

Penny arcade difficult to say as they removed the Tart As A Double Entendre comic in responce to an objection by American Greetings, but came back with the quite subtle Read It Before They Take Legal Action retort.

Penny arcade difficult to say as they removed the Tart As A Double Entendre comic in responce to an objection by American Greetings, but came back with the quite subtle Read It Before They Take Legal Action retort.

Unfortunately, they haven't responded to Gabe and Tycho's Accusations

However, this Penny Arcade comic was able to highlight some of Infinium's lies (under the heading Let the Dog go!).

Exactly! It's horribly underhanded of Infinium to deprive Tycho and Gabe of their well-earned libel lawsuit. It's high time that they stopped beating up little kids for pocket change and moved on to a better target.

P.S. - I heard that Timothy Roberts can't send cease-and-desist letters without consulting the HAPPY FUN BALL.

That's because they (according to Tim) had a deal worked out before hand.

Personally, I think the whole thing is just one big crock, but at least they give me an excuse to cook some popcorn and watch some Jerry Springer style action.

People talking about Penny Arcade are leaving out the funniest bit. The best part of the Penny Arcade comic is the response from Roberts (or whatever the Infinium guys' name is). He claimed in a forum post that the penny-arcade comic was a response that they put all console designers through as a part of an initiation process and that they were hungry for bandwidth. Kind of funny when talking about a site that gets millions of hits a month. Read the post and the site's response at their site.

I would LOVE to see what Gabe and Tyco would do. Probably ream them a new A$$.

These guys are trying pretty hard and haven't got one yet.

If you're going to steal someone else's joke, you could at least give credit. A Penny Saved

Darl McBride is a fucker, and I personally challenge him to TRY and sue me you asshole. You are a liar. You are a coward. You are involved in criminal activity. You are an ugly bastard. You are completely corrupt and dispicable. And I can't wait until you get your come uppance. You stupid illegitmate fuckhole.