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Penny Arcade Holiday Strip Series #1
While normally we don't do this sort of thing, recent charity work with Child's Play has substantially increased
the bandwidth demands over at Penny Arcade. To assist Gabe & Tycho, and keep their site running slightly faster than a snails-pace, we're co-hosting their seasonal holiday strip series "The Last Christmas". The cover and the first page are attached to this story (future pages in coming days), so read on and enjoy until we hit our bandwidth limits! (Warning: Comic may contain Cthulhu)
I'd buy it for my kids.
I'm a little confused. We read this one page at a time? When does the next page come?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Its slooooooooooow as hell even when hosted on /. ...
I guess its why Slashdot don't offer to mirror sites they're going to link to on the mainpage.
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The article is going a little slow, so heres the text:
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Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday December 17, @18:31
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While normally we don't do this sort of thing, recent charity work with Child's Play has substantially increased the bandwidth over at Penny Arcade. So to help Gabe & Tycho keep the site running slightly faster than snails-pace, we're helping host their seasonal holiday strip series "The Last Christmas". The cover and the first page are attached to this story, so read on and enjoy until we hit our bandwidth limits! (Warning: Comic may contain Cthulhu)
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So Slashdot will host penny-arcade's strip because of bandwidth concerns, but they won't mirror the websites they hammer into the ground?
Umm... Judging by the time this has taken to load...
Did we manage to Slashdot Slashdot?
Freaky!
It doesn't sound like they're paying for bandwidth with it, it sounds like they drive is causing more bandwidth USAGE that they can't afford.
Penny Arcade seems to be down ATM. Could this be because of /. readers seeing the headline and running to it?
Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff that matters only to them
I don't think many people will take it the way you suggest. For those not in the know, penny arcade holds a season long charity called "child's play" that asks for donations for children's hospitals. This is the second year running for it. Child's play has been receiving much more media attention this year, thus driving up the bandwidth needed by the site.
It doesn't sound like they're paying for bandwidth with it, it sounds like they drive is causing more bandwidth USAGE that they can't afford.
Yes, that's my point, the way the editors phrased it conveys the exact opposite of what they meant to. Like I said, I don't think PA did anything wrong, I just think the slashdot crew, if they're going to call themselves "editors", should put some actual editorial effort into their work. When you get paid a nice salary to maybe write a few lines a day, at least do a good job.
Thank God /. gave another plug to Child's Play. It's a great cause and if you forgot about it after the initial ./ announcement, get out there and buy a gift or two for some sick kids who could really use the cheer.
Time's getting short!
Blaze a trail to the New World
How else, exactly, are you intending to represent Him.
What do we call it when /. actually tries to help alleviate bandwidth shortage?
The first sign of the Apocalypse.
The power of Cthulhu compels you! The power of Cthulhu compels you! The power of Cthulhu compels you! (you get the idea, or at least, you will.... mwhahahahaha)
Got Sanity?
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
Slashdot is slowly eating itself tail first. This is the end of times, the internet cannot be far behind! I'm going to go grab my wind up radio and get a shotgun.
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Its
Can God create a slashdot that he himself can not Slashdot?
Devil Ducky
MY peers would get out of jury duty.
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enjoy until we hit our bandwidth limits!
I didn't get to enjoy for very long. stick to text.
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"While normally we don't do this sort of thing, this kid Billy is going to help host their seasonal holiday strip series on his 56.6K modem (Warning: Comic may contain Cthulhu)"
You got modded off topic for mentioning Cthulthu in a story not only about a Cthulthu comic, but containing a picture of Cthulthu on the same page. My hat goes off to you, sir.
Wouldn't it make sence to have the images posted here be the same size, what happens if I want to print out all the images when it's done and put the book together, the cover is far too large for that.
Golden book, eat your heart out.
-- Any comments seen here are not mine, but a mixture of alchohol and lack of sleep.
USE CORAL!
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I mean honestly. Coral is precicesly what this situation was designed for. Penny-Arcade could significantly reduce their bandwidth usage by coralizing the comics. Heck, even Slashdot could get a major speedup on their hosting these christmas pages by using Coral for the links.
Here are the coralized versions of the Slashdot-hosted images... If a few people request them they should get cached and will load like greased lightning:
http://66.35.250.242.nyud.net:8090/cover_book.jpg
http://66.35.250.242.nyud.net:8090/page_1_book.jp
The "R" is for "ReallyFastLoad" it a secret feature *shhhhhhhhhh*
Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
It actually loaded faster for me off of the Penny Arcade site than it did off of slashdot.
I guess slashdot got pennyarcaded.
cover
page 1
-- Boycott Shell
Ask and you shall recieve http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/plush_cthulhu.html .
I think it's like the term FUCK it can be used in either a positive or negative way depending on what the words are proceeding it or following it.
Such as:
Fuck yeah! (positive)
Oh Fuck! (negative)
Therefore we can use the term Slashdotted as follows:
The site is Slashdotted (negative)
We Slashdotted the site (positive)
Or it could just be the end of the world. In either case i'm going to piss myself and curl up into a little ball on the floor.
Ave Molech Setting
PA's run afoul of some nasty twit who's locked up the IP rights to their published output, book-wise, a tangle that came from their first book publishing fiasco. It was something that came up during thier /. interview a while back. Damned shame, too...
Yeah. This is clearly a sellout to the giant Penny Arcade empire. Those evil corporate bastards. Right.
Why don't more people jump on the Coralize bandwagon? i.e. If they won't mirror, why not "Coralize" the links in the stories?
.nyud.net:8090 to the domain you're after, and presto, automagic load balancing.
Just append
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/overview/
for more info.
Alright. So, a couple things happened.
One, the Sony Syndrome "story" is probably over. We're fond of this as an ending place for it, but we your comic masters are mercurial and delight in misdirection. One never really knows. We promise nothing, and you should expect nothing. Nothing!
The second thing is that the Spike event sort of put me off of awards for the time being. Just as a random comment, if your 2004 awards program does not include Metroid Prime 2 or World of Warcraft, it has no authority whatsoever to coronate the king of any genre. I'm not even saying that those games need to win. I'm simply stating that the games exist and are real, news which has not reached them out there on the ragged periphery of taste and intellect. It has been our annual tradition to list the twelve most delicious games of the year here at Penny Arcade, and though the odds of us telling you our favorites are actually quite high doing it the way we've done it for the last few years really sounds awful to me. To both of us, even. So we're not going to do that.
What we are going to do is present a very short children's book concerning a celestial alignment which awakens the doom that lies dead and dreaming in R'lyeh. The first page can be found here. Ia! I'm sure you'll agree that this will be a great deal more fun for everyone involved. It goes until the 27th of December, the Monday after next. This is the cover.
Child's Play: Kiko's Child's Play Shirt is, like his other work, a stunning act of design savvy. He still has a few left in the run, if you'd like to climb aboard. We're coming up on the end of this year's drive, and I have every faith that when we incorporate the gifts from the partner sites last year's high score will be defeated, and we will enter our initials.
Please consider what the games you enjoy could mean to a young person staring down a long-term illness. If you haven't given yet, it's possible you don't know: you're entirely capable of heroism. The barrier to entry is surprisingly low.
(CW)TB out.
mbbac
But then someone told him the poor little bastards have suffered enough
Buy plush Cthulhus online.
This link is highly amusing. Tales of the Plush Cthulhu
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You might also be interested in Hello Cthulhu, which mixes Sanrio cuteness with underworld dread.
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What's the big deal?
The Cthulhu Mythos certainly has Geek appeal. All powerful gods (Yog Sothoth) that exist in multiple dimensions, alien creatures --- like the Mi-Go --- who capture humans, remove their brains, and stuff them into metal receptacles with electronics allowing them to communicate with others.
Read the fiction by H.P. Lovecraft and decide for yourself. A good place to start would be The Dunwich Horror or The Call of Cthulhu. His fiction is readily available. Other authors in the original Mythos circle were Robert Bloch (author of Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian), Frank Belknap Long, and August Derleth.