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Penny Arcade has some of the best games of the year as well ;)

We're Right part one

We're Right part two

Penny Arcade has some of the best games of the year as well ;)

We're Right part one

We're Right part two

If you feel that the Club is not worth the money, then that is your opinion. That does not negate the fact that it is a service.


Yes, the club is not worth the money because Mandrake has the financial sense of an autistic 11 year old hyped on crack. Their firewall server? Give me a break. Any company that begs for money shouldn't be a company, period. That is exactly what I said, right?

You are a troll for attacking Mandrake and spreading misinformation about them.

I'm not attacking Mandrake, and you are a troll for saying I did. What I'm saying is that likely my donation (That's what it is, Club Mandrake is not a service, it's a donation. Tell me what I get with my Club Mandrake subscription that is of value in a corporate environment.) doesn't do anything, because they'll shut down and it will be a bad investment. You get more service from joining "Club PA" than from Mandrake.

What Mandrake is asking is that you buy from them.
Buy what? Tech support? Sorry, most companies don't deploy linux without experiences admins. Bad tangible good to provide. Oh, my very own local access to RPMS... er... wait, I can get that off the mirrors.

Mandrake is asking that you donate money, and they provide you with virtually nothing in return other than your name on a webpage and install screens.

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! A deal so hot you can't afford not to BUY! . Or something.

John Romero's address?
What kind of woman are you?

John Romero's address?
What kind of woman are you?

John Romero's address?
What kind of woman are you?

John Romero's address?
What kind of woman are you?

John Romero's address?
What kind of woman are you?

John Romero's address?
What kind of woman are you?

Perhaps you're right...

Penny Arcade

Perhaps you're right...

Penny Arcade

What do you mean?

Next you'll be saying that this is strange.

John Romero is secretely a woman.

John Romero is secretely a woman.

John Romero is secretely a woman.

John Romero is secretely a woman.

John Romero is secretely a woman.

John Romero is secretely a woman.

INFIDEL! XML is newer, faster, smarter - XML is better.

Allow me to introduce you to my supervisor.

They also buy Monster Power supplies. :-)

Particularly since Penny Arcade just did a comic on it.

There are huge fucking spiders in Seattle. That sucks.

Personally, I take some degree of offense to the implication in the article that the puzzles in Miyamoto's games are simplistic. How many people here have found every secret in a Mario game without the help of a hint guide? I'm sure a few of you have, but how long did it take? Sure, the main goal of beating Bowzer is pretty easy, but that's one of the geniuses of these games, there are different goals, of varying difficulty, so that all ages can enjoy the game.

# Halo

# Colin McRae Rally 3 - Great looking rally game, not being released on PC any time soon because they want to capitalise on console sales.

A synopsis of the PC vs. console debate can be found here

"News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
This is hardly news. Or stuff that matters. Why beat a dead horse?

I just love beating this dead horse!

A little pointer.

The problem is that most people who review things are the very people who seem to have the most hang ups about that thing. This makes their reviews worthless to the rest of us who simply enjoy watching movies or reading books. So Mr. Moviereviewerman, you think Equilibrium had a "derivative, punch-the-keyboard plot." You think it was "crude, but occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, merely for its sheer ridiculousness." You think that a movie like Equilibrium is just too far below your standards. Well I bet you twenty bucks you have a painting in your house that you bought because it matched your couch, how fucking pedestrian.

That little blurb was taken from here. Mod this lamer down, please.

yeah, I think that Tycho said something like this yesterday, sans the Nemesis wording. He was talking about Equilibrium. At least give the author credit when stealing his work. You fucking cut and paste karma whore.

Seems that you've been a victim of Amazon's "Buy It Now, And We'll Never Send It To You, Ever" technology.

From my parents' home in Wyoming, I stab at thee!

"Come back, damn, you! Mark my words, monkey -- I will click you, and claim my prize!"

Penny-arcade had a decent review of atleast one tablet pc. On 2002-11-27 and 2002-11-28.

Penny-arcade had a decent review of atleast one tablet pc. On 2002-11-27 and 2002-11-28.

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Scroll down to: Drawing on a Tablet PC

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Scroll down to: Drawing on a Tablet PC

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The real solution? A clean layout that showcases the ad well, delivering your ad to an audience who is actually interested, and not insulting the viewer with cheap tricks like animating nausea-inducing flashing colors. Penny Arcade has done this with its layout, and even with a smaller reader base they outperform ads from sites like IGN. To quote:

Here is another little behind the scenes look at the way advertising works on the internet. Game companies want animation. They want a fucking guy to parachute down from the top of your screen and land on the article you're trying to read. They want you to have to interact with their advertisement just so you can see the content you came for. Everyone who uses the internet knows that this kind of shit is just frustrating. Look at sites like IGN, Gamespot, or Gamespy. You can't read an article there without an animated bug crawling across your screen or some flash ad blaring shitty music. When we decided to do advertising we decided that we wouldn't ever run any kind of animated add. Some companies won't advertise with us because of it. Others, it's like pulling teeth to get a non animated ad out of them. They have this idea in their head that the only way their ads will be effective is if they are annoying as fuck.

Some of them are actually shocked when ads at PA out perform animated versions at other sites like IGN. Here we are just a little comic site and we kick their fucking ass. We tell them that if you don't insult people with shitty flash ads, they are much more likely to actually check out your game. I have never once clicked on a flash ad except to mute it or close it and I have a feeling you guys are pretty much the same. They just can't get it through their heads that people don't like to be annoyed by advertising.

I feel like we have a pretty good relationship you and I. Maybe I'm wrong but I feel like we treat you guys pretty well and I think that's why you treat us so well in return. You click on our ads and buy our stuff at an unbelievable rate. Those new Wang Fu shirts sold out in one fucking day. I mean that is some crazy shit. Tycho and I just want to say thanks. We have the best job in the world and we have it because of you guys. It seems like we should hug or something now.

End quote

To me, at least, it seems like current ad companies are ramming their head against this big wall of how to make effective advertising, and their solution seems to be to just ram their head harder against that same wall.

The real solution? A clean layout that showcases the ad well, delivering your ad to an audience who is actually interested, and not insulting the viewer with cheap tricks like animating nausea-inducing flashing colors. Penny Arcade has done this with its layout, and even with a smaller reader base they outperform ads from sites like IGN. To quote:

Here is another little behind the scenes look at the way advertising works on the internet. Game companies want animation. They want a fucking guy to parachute down from the top of your screen and land on the article you're trying to read. They want you to have to interact with their advertisement just so you can see the content you came for. Everyone who uses the internet knows that this kind of shit is just frustrating. Look at sites like IGN, Gamespot, or Gamespy. You can't read an article there without an animated bug crawling across your screen or some flash ad blaring shitty music. When we decided to do advertising we decided that we wouldn't ever run any kind of animated add. Some companies won't advertise with us because of it. Others, it's like pulling teeth to get a non animated ad out of them. They have this idea in their head that the only way their ads will be effective is if they are annoying as fuck.

Some of them are actually shocked when ads at PA out perform animated versions at other sites like IGN. Here we are just a little comic site and we kick their fucking ass. We tell them that if you don't insult people with shitty flash ads, they are much more likely to actually check out your game. I have never once clicked on a flash ad except to mute it or close it and I have a feeling you guys are pretty much the same. They just can't get it through their heads that people don't like to be annoyed by advertising.

I feel like we have a pretty good relationship you and I. Maybe I'm wrong but I feel like we treat you guys pretty well and I think that's why you treat us so well in return. You click on our ads and buy our stuff at an unbelievable rate. Those new Wang Fu shirts sold out in one fucking day. I mean that is some crazy shit. Tycho and I just want to say thanks. We have the best job in the world and we have it because of you guys. It seems like we should hug or something now.

End quote

To me, at least, it seems like current ad companies are ramming their head against this big wall of how to make effective advertising, and their solution seems to be to just ram their head harder against that same wall.

Furthermore, if you annoy your reader/viewer then they won't be inclined to find out more about the product you've got to sell. That's why animated ad, popups, flash ads, etc never, ever get clicked on. At least, not by me.

Gabe from Penny Arcade said in a recent rant/news bulliten something that sums it up nicely:

Here is another little behind the scenes look at the way advertising works on the internet. Game companies want animation. They want a fucking guy to parachute down from the top of your screen and land on the article you're trying to read. They want you to have to interact with their advertisement just so you can see the content you came for. Everyone who uses the internet knows that this kind of shit is just frustrating. Look at sites like IGN, Gamespot, or Gamespy. You can't read an article there without an animated bug crawling across your screen or some flash ad blaring shitty music. When we decided to do advertising we decided that we wouldn't ever run any kind of animated add. Some companies won't advertise with us because of it. Others, it's like pulling teeth to get a non animated ad out of them. They have this idea in their head that the only way their ads will be effective is if they are annoying as fuck.

Some of them are actually shocked when ads at PA out perform animated versions at other sites like IGN. Here we are just a little comic site and we kick their fucking ass. We tell them that if you don't insult people with shitty flash ads, they are much more likely to actually check out your game. I have never once clicked on a flash ad except to mute it or close it and I have a feeling you guys are pretty much the same. They just can't get it through their heads that people don't like to be annoyed by advertising.

Penny Arcade, those guys really are the source of all wisdom...

Furthermore, if you annoy your reader/viewer then they won't be inclined to find out more about the product you've got to sell. That's why animated ad, popups, flash ads, etc never, ever get clicked on. At least, not by me.

Gabe from Penny Arcade said in a recent rant/news bulliten something that sums it up nicely:

Here is another little behind the scenes look at the way advertising works on the internet. Game companies want animation. They want a fucking guy to parachute down from the top of your screen and land on the article you're trying to read. They want you to have to interact with their advertisement just so you can see the content you came for. Everyone who uses the internet knows that this kind of shit is just frustrating. Look at sites like IGN, Gamespot, or Gamespy. You can't read an article there without an animated bug crawling across your screen or some flash ad blaring shitty music. When we decided to do advertising we decided that we wouldn't ever run any kind of animated add. Some companies won't advertise with us because of it. Others, it's like pulling teeth to get a non animated ad out of them. They have this idea in their head that the only way their ads will be effective is if they are annoying as fuck.

Some of them are actually shocked when ads at PA out perform animated versions at other sites like IGN. Here we are just a little comic site and we kick their fucking ass. We tell them that if you don't insult people with shitty flash ads, they are much more likely to actually check out your game. I have never once clicked on a flash ad except to mute it or close it and I have a feeling you guys are pretty much the same. They just can't get it through their heads that people don't like to be annoyed by advertising.

Penny Arcade, those guys really are the source of all wisdom...

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But does anyone else here feel that the kind of people you meet in places like Everquest aren't really worth interacting with?

Kids who play videogames kill people! Ladies, I'm talking to you.

Kids who play videogames kill people! Ladies, I'm talking to you.

Read in order for full effect:
The beginning
and
the end...

Indeed.

Read in order for full effect:
The beginning
and
the end...

Indeed.

maybe they're running their websever on one of those tablets...

Incidentally, they had a demo at my school (University of Michigan) last month, and I must say that the detail captured by the touchscreen is pretty amazing. Gabe from Penny-Arcade has been using it instead of a sketchbook, and the picture speaks for itself. Now, whether it's worth $2300 is a different story.

IMHO, this is yet another technology that could be very cool and convienant, and all it needs a killer app and a critical mass in the marketplace, but it doesn't look likely

You mean like this?