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Don't just give people the same TShirt they can buy at Thinkgeek or that comes with your distro.

Ha, maybe you could get the guys at Penny-Arcade to do one. I can see it now; Cardboard Tube Linux Samurai.

nokia apparently thinks its consumers are morons:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/jackass.gif

Yeah, but this version is so much more poignant (in one frame, no less)...

For the link-phobic:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-05 -19&res=l

Their earlier opinion at E3.

I think there's one more somewhere.

Andy

Actually, it wasn't on-topic. If you read the news page for that strip, you'd see they were making a comment on the "N-Gage Special Forces" promotional crew more than the system itself.

Their take on the N-Gage: http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20030822l. gif

Especially Tycho and Gabe over at Penny Arcade...

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-08 -22&res=l

You mean like a McGriddle?

Read the Newspost, too.

Before you go off on the "mindless drone linking PA again" tangets, I noticed this before the PA folks did, and they just happened to make a comment about it. Check out IGN.com's front page. They've whored themslves out worse than the Gamespy folks did to N-Gage and Infinium.

Forget AOL.

What the heck is up with IGN and Macdonalds?

You hate zombies too?!

The damn elves took my rupees!

I wish I could make a living smashing pottery and shit. Those dudes at the beach the metal detectors are thinking like my man Link, but I hear they don't generally do so well...

I thought they meant the child of Gabe and Kara from Penny Arcade . Which is odd. Mainly because they don't appear to have children yet.

Today's Penny Arcade offers a great perspective on this story.

Another PA quote for you:

"Guns don't kill people, kids who play video games kill people". Irony? It's like iron isn't it?

You could easily replace "Acclaim" with "Eidos" and this strip would still make perfect sense now.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-07 -09&res=l replace acclaim with eidos.

You know, I really hate to say this, but: you still have to pay for stuff.

Regarding the GBA nescessity for FF:CC, I think Penny Arcade said it best in their strip.

This s a much better strip about the phantom....

The iRiver players (I'm a happy owner of the IMP-400) has at least 180 seconds of shake-buffer. I've never had a problem with shaking.

Yeah, and it's probably pretty well padded with cash too?

How the heck did I end up doing advocacy for a games discussion site? It's not my thing at all. Some things are better than humour.

Go visit e-sheep instead.

How the heck did I end up doing advocacy for a games discussion site? It's not my thing at all. Some things are better than humour.

Go visit e-sheep instead.

"That would be awesome!" (art by Tycho)

Yeah but Penny Arcade is *still* frequently very funny even if you're not a gaming nut.

Yeah but Penny Arcade is *still* frequently very funny even if you're not a gaming nut.

Yeah but Penny Arcade is *still* frequently very funny even if you're not a gaming nut.

Yeah but Penny Arcade is *still* frequently very funny even if you're not a gaming nut.

Personally I preffer to flip through my comic books, rather than clicking. That isn't to say I don't like online comic strips, such as Penny-Arcade but that is a strip. The act of fliping back and forth, feeling the paper and smelling a fresh book, noting the differance between new books and old ones. I enjoy it, maybe it's just me.

As long as it's legible, the text blaoons are sort of invisible to me after so many years of reading comics of all kinds. I read the text without thinking that I am reading text.

I don't know about that... Penny Arcade always uses fonts, and I don't consider it any huge travesty, but I think hand-lettering does give the comic a certain personality. It's kind of a subtle thing, and it's certainly not the most important part of the comic, but it's nice to see different artists' lettering styles. Some of the big sound-effect type text can be kinda neat, too. I have to say, though, I'd rather see a nice, readable font than chicken scractch.

It would be in a lot of their benefits to use vector files rather than raster. I mean, they develope in vector files anyway. I believe Gabe and Greg both use Illustrator then save as jpg or gif for their websites. Isn't there a vector plugin or something? Heck they could use Flash and make it one freaking frame. Surely it would be smaller.

Tycho also had an interesting news post on the Phantom subject (about half-way down the page, titled "Oh, Right"), as well as Gabe's response directly below.

For an example of such a poor quality comic, go here.

Just see how many times the rely on the lame "u r t3h ghay" lines.

Farbeit for the Penny Arcade guys to spur a little investigative journalism, but read the post entitled "Oh, Right" from this page.

Penny Arcade had something to say about people who Astroturf the ngage...

As for the Phantom...

Penny Arcade had something to say about people who Astroturf the ngage...

As for the Phantom...

Concentrating on the work of Scott McLoud it also mentions geek favourites Dilbert and The Matrix, among others.

Is this an unintentional spelling error of Scott's last name, or an intentional jab at what some people think of his ideals?

I check Penny Arcade, Little Gamers, and Real Life Comics an awful lot. Probably too much to be healthy.

Why? Because the web provides me access to humor that is very, VERY specialized. Find comics like these in a Sunday Paper, or a comic shop, or anywhere else.

I believe this may be the link you want . But seriously, do you realise how much of a cretin the whole M$ thing makes you look? Every time I consider trying Linux again, I see some bullcrap like "M$" or "Windoze" or "Micro$oft". Not only does it suggest an opposition to actually making money, do I really want to use an OS whose most vocal advocates are incapable of making a rational argument as to why I should move to it?

With electric cattle prods?

Here's a newer one:
Penny Arcade

I don't see a corresponding "basic point" here. Is the author trying to tell us that games can take over our lives? Maybe, but that doesn't seem to be a major social problem in today's society; for every one gamer who allows games to take over his or her life, there are many who treat gaming as a fun and relaxing hobby. While some people do treat this as a problem, the identification of this writer as the P-I's videogames columnist seems to rule that possiblity out. Still, the article seems to be written by a person who is somewhat afraid of computers, but wants to write something on the "gaming culture." There's no point that it tries to make; the only humor is weak and solely derived from hyperbole. Social satire should be funny and have a point; this posesses neither of those characteristics.

As for the analogy with Bonsai Kitten, there's very little similarity. BK is a troll, designed to shock people into an emotional response. I see no evidence of this being similar; if it were going for shock value, it would probably describe gamers as somewhat similar to this. If this is a troll, it's a fairly weak one: it doesn't appeal to any emotions, but rather simply makes you want to point out the author's errors and move on.

While one does get the sense that the author is trying to be funny and perhaps a bit controversial, there's no content that makes me laugh or think. Instead, I get the same feeling you might get from a comedian whose jokes aren't getting a response. I think, "what a moron!" and move on; not the response that either a humorist or troll would look for. It doesn't matter whether you rate the article on humor value, shock value, or informative content: it fails on all three counts.

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Game journalism is people who cant write, interviewing people who cant talk, for an audience that cant read.

So go to people who can draw, instead.

I don't play video games much (well, ok, less than 4 hours a day), but these two have a wicked sense of humor.

even more funny is that today's comic also talks about this.

The marketing for these things promises to be intensely annoying.

There's only one solution...

Funny, Penny Arcade had a similar opinion.

You think you don't need to pay for things? Good luck with that.