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can't believe they get so worked up over an old game like that (warcraft2), i mean, those must have been released in what; '93? The original (without the networking play) was still a dos game! i don't know where this is all going to, i'm getting real sick and tired of all this lawyer crap. what is next? close down all the tetris, pacman, breakout, space invaders, civilization ... clones? why don't they 'attack' Lords of Everquest, that is basicly a rip-off of WC3 ! even penny arcade made a joke about it. this game could really have an impact on Blizzards sales, (certainly now they are getting the expansion ready for WC3).

It must be depressing when you talk about what you do and everyone just thinks you're smoking crack :-)

Actually, I remember a LOT of people discovering Puzzle Bobble Online back when Tycho (of Penny Arcade fame) introduced so many people onto the (Japanese, I think) server, they had to shut it down and create English-only and Japanese-only servers for it.
Very fun game, but not as fast as Snood, which is (in my opinion) one of the nice things about Snood.

You are correct, sir.

Already been asked : )

Yup - here's the comic in which he commented on it. And here's his original news post from E3 (scroll down a bit) where he goes into even more detail about just why he thinks it will fail.

Yup - here's the comic in which he commented on it. And here's his original news post from E3 (scroll down a bit) where he goes into even more detail about just why he thinks it will fail.

I think Gabe's post pretty much sums it all up.

Heh. The possibilities for some dirty, dirty fun with an interactive version of these comics are endless... but, could you actually make a game out of it? Fighting off evil insects? Helping cats in peril?

Seems like there are a lot of comics, actually, that have really cool concepts, but would be hard to translate into a game. Ironically, I think my favorite webcomic would be particularly difficult (though, if I recall correctly, somebody's already making a CTS side-scroller...)

It's at #17. So I figured I'd post the obligitory Penny Arcade reference to BMX XXX

Even my friend Jon, who's a pr0n fiend, said he would never think about buying that game.

Kiko and I hit this booth early as we were both interested to check out Nokiaâ(TM)s new handheld. Immediately upon picking one up, we each made a face like we tasted bile. It just feels terrible in your hands. The buttons are placed too close together and there are too many of them. I didnâ(TM)t know which of the hojillion buttons I had to push just to start the game. Once Tony Hawk started I made another face. The screen is super washed out and itâ(TM)s oriented in a really strange way. We both put them down after only a few minutes and left the booth in a hurry to go wash our hands. That night Pork and Tycho told us they really enjoyed their experience with the handheld so Kiko and I made it a point to go back the next day and give it another try. After our second encounter with the foul beasts we were still unimpressed. As a game system it fails because of its awkward design and poor screen. I mean you have to turn your phone off and remove the battery in order to change the game. That is stupid. The buttons while good for a phone suck for a handheld. They are placed way to close together and you end up hitting multiple buttons far too often. The pad felt cheap and the screen looked really washed out. It fails as a phone because of its odd size and shape. It just isnâ(TM)t comfortable. When Tycho told me it was going to cost $300 I actually laughed out loud. I almost feel bad for Nokia. The N-Gage is going to fail miserably. They may sell a few to cell phone customers who like the gimmick of playing games on their phone but they will never be able to sell it to actual gamers. They have also taken a page out of Blockbusters book and decided to insult me with their advertising.

Allow me to (try to) redeem my fellow FreeBSD users in your eyes. The reason Java is not included in the base install is that the base install is intended to be just that; a minimal set of closely linked packages that are required to make the system work. This includes the kernel, a shell, things like ls, rm etc and a few other bits of userspace. Everything else is (or should be) in the ports / packages collection.

It is perfectly possible to run a system run a happy system without Java. In fact, I am firmly of the opinion that Java should never be compiled. Java source code (when well written) can be crystal clear to read and beautifully structured, however it has a tendency to be painfully slow when run, detracting from the attraction of the language - a problem easily solved by removing the compiler, and leaving users to gaze in awe at the code (no one actually uses software do they? Oh, they do? Hmmm. Never mind).

This minimalist philosophy allows for a very clean userspace (ever installed 5GB of Linux and then wondered if you can delete some of it?) and enables the external packages to be maintained externally of the development of the official releases. It also allows you to do a complete install of the system from

A few notes about the FreeBSD package management system:

FreeBSD allows you to install programs from source (ports) or binary (packages). The terms 'port' and 'package' are often used interchangably, and either is used as a generic term for both, which can be confusing. The two systems are very similat, and can be mixed (I install more or less everything from ports, but installed the binary package of OpenOffice, since I didn't want to wait 2 days before using it...). In fact, you can build the binary packages from the ports, if you so choose. The ports collection is basically a hierarchy of directorys containing Makefiles, which contain instructions about where to fetch the source from, how to modify it to work on FreeBSD (if required) and how to install it. The cvsup utililty can be used to keep your copy of the ports collection up to date, and an example cvsup file is provided for this purpose. I run cvsup in a cron job, which keeps me synchronised. The previous poster stated that you could install perl by doing

cd /usr/ports/perl5
make install

portinstall perl

The Java saga is a little longer, however. Sun have very strange license agreements for distribution of Java, which basically means that you have to download the source code yourself from sun, and then run the installer, which applies FreeBSD-specific patches to it and installs. Hopefully this will be sorted out soon.

Are all FreeBSD users elitist assholes? This cartoon (drawn, I must add by someone who has never met me) would indicate so in my case... I can't speak for the rest of the community, because I have had little contact with them. I am informed that they are more likely to tell you to RTFM than Linux people, but in my experience this is bacause you are far more likely to find the answer in FreeBSD documentation (there is a lot. No, really a lot. It's also very well written and concise) that you are with Linux. If you don't believe me read the handbook, which contains the answer to every question I've ever had about FreeBSD (which I now use as my main workstation and am far more comfortable with than Linux, despite less exposure).

Oh, and the headphone adapter. What the hell is up with that?
Don't you read Penny-Arcade? ;-)

Was I the only one who saw 'fruit machine' and thought of this?

Wrong. XBox Live Boot Camp. They brought (amongst other people) Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade. Check it

so did http://penny-arcade.com -- maybe I should submit a story under games.

Wait; Stuff that matters, nevermind, I am going back to sleep.

insert funny penny-arcade comic strip here

Penny Arcade's critique of the iPod?

It sounds a nice, sensitive, emotional film following the Devil finding his true feelings. Gabe and Tyco did it best: here

I think Penny Arcade said it best.

A Penny Saved

Save your money, work on the cheap, you can get the same or more accomplished and have a lot more cash to blow on the weekends.

Cite your sources

It's no big deal really, but come on, PA would love the ad impressions frankly they deserve it.

sheephead

I found today's PA comic kind of funny and rather fitting. I love my MP3 player, but it is a Rio500 w/128 MB of storage. I haven't seen the need to plunk down the cash for one of these big dogs yet.

This sums up everything I remember about 3DO recently. I mean, I do find it rather remarkable that they held on for so long after that console with their name on kind of didn't do so well ... but between then and now, have they done anything interesting? Remarkable? Something that makes this death tragic? This is not a rhetorical question, I really wanna know.

this may be of interest

Penny Arcade says it best =)

let's not forget about Gabe and Tycho's best of. :)

Mike

let's not forget about Gabe and Tycho's best of. :)

Mike

just here

Here.

Until I see some evidence that somebody has actually *seen* or *touched* this wonder console that does everything, it's pretty much my take, too.

Chris Mattern

The only other timeline I've enjoyed so much was PA's post-Columbine timeline, including the Columbine mod for Half-Life.

Funny stuff for those who can lighten up.

After I read the article, I went Counter-hack.net and read the IRC transcript from the "interview" with [myg0t]g0d and it kind of reminded me of this.

All Cheaters are Fuckheads, but not all fuckheads are cheaters.

(Read that like Ballmer would.)

The problem for Nintendo is and always has been lack of quality titles from 3rd party developers. Their in-house games are high quality, but you can't support a console on one must-have game every 4 months.

"Here's another one: 'More brains, and bring back Hawaiian Fridays'"

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-05 -03&res=l

"Microsoft isn't being aggressive enough."

There's only so much you can cut before you hit bone, even if you're Microsoft. Some would say that they had already hit bone at the $200 mark.

"Right now, Xbox's biggest edge is their online play capability."

How big of an edge is that, though? Is it something that's here to stay, or more of a fad that will burn out in a year or two? Let us not forget the wisdom of Penny Arcade when it comes to playing on-line.

Penny Arcade did a comic along those lines.

good romero-as-hot-chick jokes:
here, here, here

good romero-as-hot-chick jokes:
here, here, here

good romero-as-hot-chick jokes:
here, here, here

And now I (im)patiently await monday's obligatory Penny Arcade cartoon about this as Gabe is a little nuts about the little yellow dart there.

Kleedrac

How about "You get to bone John Romero?

(Hey, at least its a video game reference :P

You probably don't see why anyone complains about the original XBox controllers either :-)

Penny Arcade for one, although this is something that many people might have said.

Only folks like Microsoft complain about a Slashdotting. It has something to do with eating thier own dog food, hating Unix and hating Slashdot.

Wow...with the way you manage to make everything you write an anti-Microsoft screed, I bet you're a ton of fun to be around.

Get a life.

...could it be?!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-04 -25&res=l

Well, if slashdot posted a direct link to the donations page...

Perhaps because of strips like this.

*chuckle*

Maybe it's something that's been pointed out several times, but I thought this one was great.

I can't believe they didn't make a shirt outta that.
Also, this one is classic.

Maybe it's something that's been pointed out several times, but I thought this one was great.

I can't believe they didn't make a shirt outta that.
Also, this one is classic.