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Well it would seem that like many people out there Tyco and Gabe would disagree with you

Really, it is! Just like yesterday's PVP...

Heheh, PA is pretty close to on-topic too.

Similar things have happened to me...

Game reviews are just like movie reviews. It's all about who you trust. For example, when a movie comes out, I read what Chris Hewitt of the Pioneer Press has to say. He generally doesn't whore himself out, and I can translate what he has to say into wether or not I'll like the movie.

On a similar note, I generally trust what the Penny-Arcade crew has to say. Specifically Tycho. Plus, they're generally upfront about who's trying to buy their opinion.

Trolling /. is dead! Maybe you morons should try the morons at some easy places like here, here, here, or here

I once again point to this appropriate web comic.

But remember that the backlight took up the room needed for the headphone jack.

I found this highly amusing. Lighten up everybody, you can return to your regularly scheduled "Linux crypto hackers open-sourced the BSD Microsoft monopoly!" posts tomorrow.

(quote courtesy PA, of course.)

1. A turkey that grows with a stomach full of stuffing.

1) Are you referring to this, by any chance? Oh, wait, that's a chicken. Nevermind.

Tyco writes good commentary and Gabe draws a mean comic.

Hmph. It's pretty obvious why this is posted AC, I know I wouldn't be proud of this :3

Do you realize that you just pointed out that abiword, a word processor, is almost as large as the entirety of koffice?

Do you realize that, as a part of KDE, koffice takes advantage of a lot of backend that doesn't exist for, say, Abiword or OpenOffice.org?

Do you realize that there are actually developers on the GNOME project that have no relation to Sun whatsoever?

By the way, constant use of "Slowlaris" is pretty much as bad as "MS$" or "Winblows". and when I see "M$" ...

I prefer to keep my meager savings in ceramic pots and grass.

You so sure?

When I first saw the title for this story, I thought that the GameBoy Advance SP was being compared to a piece of artillery.

If that had been the case, I would have been very interested in seeing an analysis as to how the two "stand up to each other".

Alas, this is one more GBASP (almost "gasp") that will live to see another day. You'd think that with a new revision of a piece of hardware, they'd get some things right! Unfortunately, they found new ways to fail.

NO HEADPHONE JACK!

The GBA SP was covered in a recent PA strip.

Where did they get this crazy theory on inhibition?

Talking to complete strangers, separated by thousands of miles, enormous landmasses and oceans, does tend to imbue a certain amount of awe and inhibition in people.

Or this one (slight vulgarity).

Remember this?

Don't forget this one.

Hey, I think I played on your server :) Then again, it probably happened on more than one, as I played it for 8 hours a day for the first six months.

My favorite response to the in-game chat was in this strip.

Check this strip out, it's the real Gabe...

Now that is funny, the same thing can be said for the site owners, the comic, their "humor," and their "hard core gamer" readers.

Want proof? Read here.

I doubt most of their fans passed the first grade.

A friend of mine, known as Jfragment on Xbox Live, started the GamerTag Database. It's a site where you can comment on the etiquette of other XbL players, and rate them accordingly.

The site has gotten a surprising amount of attention, considering that it's all done in Jay's spare time It's been featured in Penny Arcade, Forbes, and MSNBC.

So, if some 13-year-old from Prague has been talking trash, you can log in and kinda 'mod him down' :-)

Requisite PA Reference

That is all

-JungleBoy

A more reputable online news service, Penny Arcade, has their own take on voice communication in gaming.

The Strip: "So, Com?" - Enjoy!

A more reputable online news service, Penny Arcade, has their own take on voice communication in gaming.

The Strip: "So, Com?" - Enjoy!

I think Tycho from Penny Arcade had a pretty good take: (emphasis mine)

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"These groups will not hesitate to threaten or injure those who tend to interfere with their operations," Malcolm said.

This is the first statement I have ever read where Manga speechlessness - "..." - is the only valid response.

Statements of this kind gnaw at the sensible mind, they chew on it and try to eat it. I won't even gauge the clumsiness with which these two incongruous concepts are lashed together. If you want to see triple-x, explicit evidence of corporations with their hands up your government's ass, working the their jaws like some malevolent Howdy Doody with chilling ramifications for personal liberty, well, there you go. Peer-to-peer file sharing and Terror? Terror? Do they not have dictionaries there? There's another T word you cocks might like, too - give it a try: it's called "Tenuous." The only people terrorized by peer-to-peer file sharing are vastly potent multinational businesses, gripped by the realization that they sell carriages in a world of bullet trains.
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Given that the design of the Xbox controllers has been so universally reviled, I would think they should be the LAST people to determine what a standard PC controller should be.

Given that the design of the Xbox controllers has been so universally reviled, I would think they should be the LAST people to determine what a standard PC controller should be.

It changes your profit graphs as follows. In any situation where you creat IP, you have a larger fixed startup cost. This is usually a one-time fee (you negotiate X$ for the right to 100,000 copies of a book). Added on to that is the flexible costs of producing and shipping, which are subject to economies of scale.

Unlike most physical goods, the fixed startup cost is enough that it is very hard to get into it. Most companies are in debt to some extent to fund their next project (unless they make it really big, and can keep producing new IP at a rate faster than their old funds are used, such as iD software).

Peter Molyneaux wants gov't support, because Black and White took too long and wasn't bought by enough people. EA may be able to take the write off, since they produce games each year that have profit margins to cover it (NBA Live 200X, etc), but Peter's credibility is ruined, and he can't make more games.

Just because something is cheap to reproduce, doesn't mean it's cost free. Go run a business for a few years in real life, then talk to me about how exactly it's different. Things cost money.

And the problem is the genres, after all (FPS, RTS, RPG, etc.) The genre games are so - generic (yes, it's a cognate) - tthat it's questionable just how many of them the market can support. Or how much innovation (I am getting tired of the word - how about "creativity") that can be found within a genre.

Incidentally, GTA3 is a great game; The Sopranos plus Tarrantino in a video game, and probably going to be remembered for a long time as part of the maturing of the game medium. BMXXXX is just puerile pandering, and I feel deeply sorry for anyone over the age of 18 who gets off on it.

Buford's meaning was, the stick is the solution. You won't have to speak, because dead men don't ask questions.

Truth. :)

Penny Arcade calls their new RSS feed the "News Fucker 3000", which of course is a take off of their hella funny Fruit Fucker 2000.

Penny Arcade calls their new RSS feed the "News Fucker 3000", which of course is a take off of their hella funny Fruit Fucker 2000.

Penny Arcade calls their new RSS feed the "News Fucker 3000", which of course is a take off of their hella funny Fruit Fucker 2000.

Hell, I remember being a beta tester for a game (Total Distortion), because my friend's cousin's husband was one of the lead designers. It was cool for a little while, but I was under no pressure to keep playing. If I'd had to put in 8 hours a day for a month trying to find bugs and the like, I'm sure I would have gone insane. The cute things like the "you are dead" song when you died would have gone from funny to annoying, and it ran pretty slowly on the machine I had back then. It really wasn't that great of a game (which is too bad, because his earlier game, Spaceship Warlock, ROCKED when it first came out).

No, this isn't a comic strip but it is the Penny-arcade 'guy' explaining his life as a video game developer. It's basically a rant, but it's a first hand experience from the tester himself. I now have respect for people who play video games all day and it's written very well.

Here: http://www.penny-arcade.com/porktester.php3

When i wake up in the morning, I crack open the daily newspapaper and.... wait that's not true. Lets start again. When I wake up in the morning I turn on my computer, and check out... webcomics.

Angst Technology, Ctrl Alt Del, Dilbert, Errant Story, Force Monkeys, Fox Trot, goats, Life of Riley, Mac Hall, Megatokyo, Misfire, Penny Arcade!, Sinfest, Something Positive, and finally Wendy.

Then, after my daily webcomic barage (not to say that these all update on a daily basis. Some are good [ like ctrl alt del, and penny arcade ] and update regularly. others... well...) I frequent other sites, for information.

Slashdot of course (not linking it...)
Gamespot
Games workshop,
and
Unconventional Conformity.

Other than that, I have a few sites i goto every so often. Or ones which i check throughout the day. But they become less important than the comics.
-Gharbad

• Machall - best..webcomic...ever (updates: "tues, thurs, sat" but more like when he gets around to it)
• Penny Arcade - a very popular, and very funny gaming comic (M W F)
• Megatokyo - a well drawn comic with a strong story mangaish (M W F)
• Ctrl-Alt-Del - cut and paste, but always funny (Daily)
• Something Positive - kinda cut and paste, but often very funny (daily)
• Real Life - cut and paste, but still a pretty funny gaming comic (mostly daily)
• Calvin and Hobbes - rereleasing C+H online, 10 years delayed...my personal fav (daily)
• Errant Story - a well drawn, story based modernish fantasy comic (updates every other day or so)
• Angst Technology - a game software firm and their antics (updates almost daily)

• (as if you need the link)Slashdot
• CBC News Canadian news from the CBC
• Debian Planet good debian news
• Footnotes GNOME news
• Ars Technica another tech site, often has interesting projects too...
• Anime News Network exactly what the name implies.
• Unconventional Conformity a blog.
• The Weather Network - for my local weather
• 
  
  And well, thats about it. That I check frequently at least. I do like webcomics and strongly suggest that you check out Machall Megatokyo and Errant Story if you don't already though! And then there's also everything2 but its not news and I can't check it daily (or else I would do nothing all day but read!) its too good at just drawing you in. And the anime turnpike to go browsing through Anime fansites...

Tycho over at Penny Arcade got a copy of the game in his grubby mitts about two weeks ago. His comments were positive, with the stipulation that information overload is a problem at first.

Penny-Arcade what? you only visit it once-a-day? sheesh...

Kathleen has finally done it. She's turned Rob into a normal guy. Let this serve as a warning to all you geeks out that, this is what marriage will do. It'll strip you of your desire for case mods, installing Linux on anything with an electronic pulse or ability to see if articles have already been posted! *shudder*

Rob. Put the mouse down, move away from the computer, leave the room, turn the lights off, get your sixpack and ride your lawnmower around the yard (or w/blade, plow driveway.)

I knew this day was coming. I've also noticed Gabe at Penny Arcade has begun to lose his hand to eye coordination, so vital in video games. Next thing you know, he'll be playing strategy games.

Come to think of it, loss of hand to eye coordination is probably as good an excuse as any to convert that old Xbox into a server.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-04 -29&res=l

;-)

"High Definition TV has been successfully captured in its native data stream from an over the air broadcast by a software defined radio that is Free and open source from the GNU Software Defined Radio project."

Huh?

As Penny Arcade pointed out about Magic: Online...

Are you telling me you deny the existence of Power Goblins?

I think that this is a bit more on-topic. Robotic juicers for the home, indeed!

the FF2K is where it's at if you want your juice robotically prepared. there's even a t-shirt of it.

the FF2K is where it's at if you want your juice robotically prepared. there's even a t-shirt of it.