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Forgive me for punctuating properly. Perhaps you would benifit from today's comic over at Penny-Arcade.

I believe it's used on penny-arcade.com all the time.

I see they discovered the goblin shrimp, but did they discover this species

ob PA link.

From Nokia publically slamming the GBA, to respected gaming sites giving the N-gage the thumbs down. I mean, the thing's going to cost $299! You can buy a GameCube with GameBoy player AND a GBA for that.

Nokia has no idea what it's doing so far as the N-gage is concerned.

Gabe wrote a glowing review.

Nah, more like this.

Ah, Penny Arcade...

Maybe you meant this? It's one of the funnier ones, I must admit. Reminds me of slashdot all over.

This is was a huge mistake. These people have just poked what will turn out to be a very violent and angry grizzly bear. It is well known that Microsoft loses money on each Xbox sold. Microsoft sells Xboxes at a LOSS(!) in the hopes of getting you into the additional content and features like Live. Why in the world would they want people to buy an Xbox, only to install Linux on it and never again be able to play another Xbox game on it???

People who buy Xboxes to install Linux do not buy more Xbox games!!!

This is a Bad Thing because it is only a matter of time before someone starts using this approach to hack Xbox Live. These Assholes were treated way too kindly in the Penny Arcade Comic. All I can say is I loathe these guys the same way I loathe the bored programmers that ruined Quake 1, Quake 2 and Counterstrike. The actions these zealots have taken will inevitably lead to cheating on Xbox Live, which is a real shame. To me, part of the point of paying for Xbox Live is so that I don't have to deal with the same fecal coated cheaters online- if you're caught, you're banz0red. Why is it that some people can't just rub there 2 486s together and be frigging happy w/ their beowulf cluster?
This is a terrible day for gamers.

penny arcade have one of the funniest cartoons they have ever done on linux on xbox, here, check it out its hilarious!

If I win they will accuse me of cheating, or if they can cheat they will do so in order to beat me.

Obligitory Penny Arcade link in reference to your comment.

Trust me, these guys will go down for the count if Microsoft hires a female lawyer.

Geez, as long as it isn't Linux! Anything's better than that! P.S. Linus Torvalds is a chicken-choker!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-06 -30&res=l

suck it, linux bitches!

I love Nintendo. I really do. I've owned every Nintendo system except for the Virtual Boy.

But consoles like this don't help the problem much.

I wish Nintendo would pull away again and beat Sony. But then I see things like this, and I realize that they're right. I look around me. The kind of people I know who own PS2s by and large, aren't gamers. They're people who play for 5 minutes at a time before going to work in the morning, or who like to Play Grand Theft Auto with all the cheat codes on because they "want to enjoy the game fully".

I look at my library of Gamecube games, and I realize - The Gamecube is rapidly becoming a system for game snobs.

Sony's Playstation really is like MTV. There's a TON of titles there, but seperating the gold from the garbage is real effort.

Besides. Everyone acts like Nintendo is in trouble. Not really. Analists are pretty sure that Nintendo is making a profit on all their console (hardware) sales. They're making a decent chunk of change off fo games too. They're neck and neck in the # 2 spot with Microsoft, but honestly, the business isn't so large that you have to be #1 or you go out of business.

I'd love to see Nintendo be the #1 platform again, but if they're not, well, I can live with that, since they're profitable and they publish great games.

Gotta love the news post for that old comic:

(Our server never quite recovered from beatings sustained at the hands of News.com or Slashdot, the links from whom (while very much appreciated!) acted upon our frail machine like so many jackhammers. I'm told by our server techs that we'd seen over two-hundred thousand unique ip's in under two hours - but even given the caliber of the weapons aimed against us, I feared that the site had attracted the loathsome skr1pt k1dd13, who, fixing his perverse attentions upon our devices, proceeded to fuck them into oblivion.

There's an old PA comic where they mock Scott's love of micropayments here.

In today's PA Tycho clarifies this somewhat by making an interesting point about micropayments: they can only keep you afloat if you get lots of them. And if you're a comic producer getting that much attention, you can probably survive by selling ad space, merchandising, subscriptions etc. So the numbers needed to make micropayments viable are probably similar to the numbers needed to make web comics viable (in a business sense) full stop.

There's an old PA comic where they mock Scott's love of micropayments here.

In today's PA Tycho clarifies this somewhat by making an interesting point about micropayments: they can only keep you afloat if you get lots of them. And if you're a comic producer getting that much attention, you can probably survive by selling ad space, merchandising, subscriptions etc. So the numbers needed to make micropayments viable are probably similar to the numbers needed to make web comics viable (in a business sense) full stop.

here.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-06 -30&res=l

Need to use the whole url to preserve this mother for posterity.

He makes a profit on sales of Halo for the XBox. There, I have cited an individual example thus disproving your statement that he cannot make a profit on anything besides his illegal monopolies. Thus, you are a douchebag. And remember that even if the XBox division is losing money for Microsoft, Microsoft is making profit off of sales of Halo. You're these guys, you will never, ever touch a vagina you fucking faggot. Stop being so gay about everything.

A while ago, the ever-popular Penny Arcade had a comment from Tycho about his hopes for the camera system in the lightcycle part of Tron 2.0, and suggested that the developers take a good look at Armagetron and see if they can come up with something that good.

I duly downloaded said game, and have since become quite addicted. Something it has over other Tron type games I've tried (eg GlTron) is that the closter you get to a wall, the faster you go. This makes for some interesting strategy, and unless Tron 2.0 has something similar, it's not going to replace Armagetron for me.

When you grok this, you won't need to ask that question anymore.

Behold what your fag lords at Penny Arcade actually think of you.

And speaking of Linux...

but true: Typical Slashdotter

But we aren't talking about your average american consumer whores. We are talking about supposed proffesionals in a proffesional environment, where utility and functionality should be far above the importance of the coolness factor.

My first thought when I read the article summary was this: "And this is a bad thing because?..."

Really, this is a GOOD sign.

You're BOTH high! The way to REALLY be cool is to get into gang wars over which console is the best!

Screw that, you can only be cool when wearing a sweet du-rag on a skateboard, ripping it on an N-Gage in front of a Type-R!!! Totally X-treme!!!

Just like every other PA, that is just not in any way funny. It makes absolutely no sense. It just leaves me with the sense that it was supposed to be offensive but the comic is so badly written I can't even tell why.

The same could be said about any given UF comic, except that the PA comic would invariably have better art. Anyway, the reason I linked to that specific comic is because it was a comment on a stunt pulled by Illiad (I also could've linked to this one, which was made when Illiad et al started whoring themselves out with their "UF Media" thing, or I could've linked to this one, which has a cameo by a PvP character and depicts said character beating the crap out of Illiad). Now, let's take a few random strips. Where's the funny? None of those strips are funny. Now, here's some funny Penny Arcade strips chosen mostly at random (by randomly scrolling through the archive drop down list). Most of those are funny. The last one you'd only understand if you were a gamer and had played Daytona USA, but the news post from that strip explains it. Then you see the funny.

User Friendly is like Dilbert, but less funny, and with crappier art, and lame geek storylines that even most geeks find ridiculous. But if you like it, good for you.

Just like every other PA, that is just not in any way funny. It makes absolutely no sense. It just leaves me with the sense that it was supposed to be offensive but the comic is so badly written I can't even tell why.

The same could be said about any given UF comic, except that the PA comic would invariably have better art. Anyway, the reason I linked to that specific comic is because it was a comment on a stunt pulled by Illiad (I also could've linked to this one, which was made when Illiad et al started whoring themselves out with their "UF Media" thing, or I could've linked to this one, which has a cameo by a PvP character and depicts said character beating the crap out of Illiad). Now, let's take a few random strips. Where's the funny? None of those strips are funny. Now, here's some funny Penny Arcade strips chosen mostly at random (by randomly scrolling through the archive drop down list). Most of those are funny. The last one you'd only understand if you were a gamer and had played Daytona USA, but the news post from that strip explains it. Then you see the funny.

User Friendly is like Dilbert, but less funny, and with crappier art, and lame geek storylines that even most geeks find ridiculous. But if you like it, good for you.

Just like every other PA, that is just not in any way funny. It makes absolutely no sense. It just leaves me with the sense that it was supposed to be offensive but the comic is so badly written I can't even tell why.

The same could be said about any given UF comic, except that the PA comic would invariably have better art. Anyway, the reason I linked to that specific comic is because it was a comment on a stunt pulled by Illiad (I also could've linked to this one, which was made when Illiad et al started whoring themselves out with their "UF Media" thing, or I could've linked to this one, which has a cameo by a PvP character and depicts said character beating the crap out of Illiad). Now, let's take a few random strips. Where's the funny? None of those strips are funny. Now, here's some funny Penny Arcade strips chosen mostly at random (by randomly scrolling through the archive drop down list). Most of those are funny. The last one you'd only understand if you were a gamer and had played Daytona USA, but the news post from that strip explains it. Then you see the funny.

User Friendly is like Dilbert, but less funny, and with crappier art, and lame geek storylines that even most geeks find ridiculous. But if you like it, good for you.

Just like every other PA, that is just not in any way funny. It makes absolutely no sense. It just leaves me with the sense that it was supposed to be offensive but the comic is so badly written I can't even tell why.

The same could be said about any given UF comic, except that the PA comic would invariably have better art. Anyway, the reason I linked to that specific comic is because it was a comment on a stunt pulled by Illiad (I also could've linked to this one, which was made when Illiad et al started whoring themselves out with their "UF Media" thing, or I could've linked to this one, which has a cameo by a PvP character and depicts said character beating the crap out of Illiad). Now, let's take a few random strips. Where's the funny? None of those strips are funny. Now, here's some funny Penny Arcade strips chosen mostly at random (by randomly scrolling through the archive drop down list). Most of those are funny. The last one you'd only understand if you were a gamer and had played Daytona USA, but the news post from that strip explains it. Then you see the funny.

User Friendly is like Dilbert, but less funny, and with crappier art, and lame geek storylines that even most geeks find ridiculous. But if you like it, good for you.

Just like every other PA, that is just not in any way funny. It makes absolutely no sense. It just leaves me with the sense that it was supposed to be offensive but the comic is so badly written I can't even tell why.

The same could be said about any given UF comic, except that the PA comic would invariably have better art. Anyway, the reason I linked to that specific comic is because it was a comment on a stunt pulled by Illiad (I also could've linked to this one, which was made when Illiad et al started whoring themselves out with their "UF Media" thing, or I could've linked to this one, which has a cameo by a PvP character and depicts said character beating the crap out of Illiad). Now, let's take a few random strips. Where's the funny? None of those strips are funny. Now, here's some funny Penny Arcade strips chosen mostly at random (by randomly scrolling through the archive drop down list). Most of those are funny. The last one you'd only understand if you were a gamer and had played Daytona USA, but the news post from that strip explains it. Then you see the funny.

User Friendly is like Dilbert, but less funny, and with crappier art, and lame geek storylines that even most geeks find ridiculous. But if you like it, good for you.

Just like every other PA, that is just not in any way funny. It makes absolutely no sense. It just leaves me with the sense that it was supposed to be offensive but the comic is so badly written I can't even tell why.

The same could be said about any given UF comic, except that the PA comic would invariably have better art. Anyway, the reason I linked to that specific comic is because it was a comment on a stunt pulled by Illiad (I also could've linked to this one, which was made when Illiad et al started whoring themselves out with their "UF Media" thing, or I could've linked to this one, which has a cameo by a PvP character and depicts said character beating the crap out of Illiad). Now, let's take a few random strips. Where's the funny? None of those strips are funny. Now, here's some funny Penny Arcade strips chosen mostly at random (by randomly scrolling through the archive drop down list). Most of those are funny. The last one you'd only understand if you were a gamer and had played Daytona USA, but the news post from that strip explains it. Then you see the funny.

User Friendly is like Dilbert, but less funny, and with crappier art, and lame geek storylines that even most geeks find ridiculous. But if you like it, good for you.

I always like the Mean Bean Machine. :-)

The fact is, that I'd play a Star Wars game because I want to be in the movies. I don't give a wamprats ass about building up my character, completing quests and so on. I want to be a Jedi, I want to fly spaceships, I want to travel to exotic planets and so on.

Exactly. Penny Arcade just had an excellent comment about this aspect of SWG. (Scroll down, it's Gabe's second or third post.)

Basically, walking about a swamp blasting beetles, gnats, and womp-rats while stirring music plays does NOTHING for me.

I thought this was fantastically insightful. I've got all the Karma I could ever need, but I'm sure this would be considered Whoring. Either way, this rang true to me.

This was written by Gabe, the artist (not the tracer) a few days ago

Now that the NDA is no longer hanging over my head I thought I would elaborate a bit on why I wonâ(TM)t be purchasing SWG right away.

I do not personally feel like SWG captures the look and feel of the Star Wars universe as well as Iâ(TM)d like it to.

I decided right away that I wanted to be a bounty hunter and so with blaster in hand I began working my way up that particular skill tree. This involved a lot of shooting of rats, bugs and crabs. At one point on Tatooine I was standing next to a mission terminal waiting for my turn to use it when I saw a large wookie run past me firing wildly over his shoulder as a tiny crab no bigger than a dinner plate chased him through town. How sad I thought to myself. I spent countless hours wandering the hillsides in search of new rats and crabs to shoot. Sometimes I would inadvertently stumble upon too large a rat and be forced to high tail it back to town. I placed my character in auto run and pointed him at the nearest town. As I sat there staring at my Trandoshan bounding across the uneven Tatooine landscape with some kind of super rat closing in on him I thought to myself âoeThis is not how I want to play in the Star Wars Universe.â As I sat there watching this rat slowly gaining on my character my mind flashed back to a conversation I had with Tycho months and months ago.

Tycho had talked me into playing my first MMORPG and I told him that if he ever did that again Iâ(TM)d kick him right in his cream and crackers. After an hour or so of hitting spiders with a bat I was ready to write off the entire genre. He said âoeWhat about Star Wars Galaxies?â At the time I told him that Galaxies would be different because it was Star Wars. âoeItâ(TM)s not like theyâ(TM)re gonna make you spend hours hitting Wamprats with a stick.â Oh irony, thou art a harsh mistress.

The more I think about it the more I think that there may very well be nothing wrong with Star Wars Galaxies. This just isnâ(TM)t my kind of game. I think Iâ(TM)m just better off getting my Star Wars fix from games like Jedi Knight and Rogue Squadron. Maybe some day a developer will combine all the best stuff from games like X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter and Jedi Knight into one game that doesnâ(TM)t involve the poking of rats with sticks. Essentially my fantasy has not changed. I still want to play in a fully realized Star Wars universe. I want to fly a ship I own through space smuggling goods and outrunning Imperials. I want to land that ship on the planet of my choosing and do battle with storm troopers and rival smugglers. I want an action game because the Star Wars movies to me are action movies. Thatâ(TM)s why I never liked the Star Wars RTS bullshit. Star Wars for me is not about running around Naboo shooting bugs in order to build up my blaster XP. It is about adventure and I donâ(TM)t feel like SWG delivers that.

Even after youâ(TM)ve reached a level where you can take on larger adversaries the battles still arenâ(TM)t any fun. You click on the thing you want to shoot and then you select from your menu of different attacks. There is no strategy required. You simply choose your best attack and cue it up a couple of times and then wait while your guy shoots the target. If the target comes after you just run away until it stops chasing you and then turn around and repeat the steps above. Stirring Star Wars music plays during a battle and is intended to make the event seem more epic I suppose. The classic arrangement blaring as you take pot shots at a lizard who seems oblivious to your attacks just makes an already absurd situation all the more laughable.

Iâ(TM)m not go

...is right here.

But seriously, props to Scott McCloud.

Gabe of Penny Arcade posted his thoughts, as well as a comic.

Gabe of Penny Arcade posted his thoughts, as well as a comic.

...Watch out for trolls.

Disclaimer, I haven't played the beta at all, simply going on comments from others, and I fully realize gaming forums aren't the BEST place for opinions. I'll probably wait for a buddy to pick it up and check it out then... in the meantime, I'll stick with Dark Age of Camelot.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-01 -31&res=l (c'mon! - that's funny)

http://www.sinfest.net/d/20030624.html

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-01 -26&res=l /t

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-01 -31&res=l (c'mon! - that's funny)

http://www.sinfest.net/d/20030624.html

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-01 -26&res=l /t

And again, something's screwing with it...

Penny Arcade Goodness

It is true! People will pass up steak once a week for crap every day.

I have to wonder how much of it is the economy, but still this post on PA (scroll down) today is pretty cool:

"American Greetings Profits Dip 55.7 Pct.

CLEVELAND (AP) American Greetings Corp., hurt by lower sales and pretax items, reported a 55.7 percent drop in earnings for the first quarter that ended May 31."

This is a rule that we see broken time and time again.

"Diabolicious!"