Penny Arcade Holiday Strip Series #2

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Penny Arcade Holiday Strip Series #2

Posted by Zonk on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:25AM from the bleach-their-bones-and-watch-them-gleam-fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la dept.

We're happy to bring you more work from Gabe and Tycho, the co-authors of Penny Arcade and organizers of the Child's Play charity. This week the Holiday strip series continues with Page 2 of the story.

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Whoah by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-20 07:36 · Score: 3, Funny

That looks like my ex-girlfriend...
1. Re:Whoah by Destoo · 2004-12-21 04:43 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  Funny because it's what it's meant to be.
  
  Cthulhu is HP Lovecraft's representation of the female organs.
  
  He always was a party animal.
  
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  Nouvelles de jeux et technologies en français. TC
Re:Well gee by Temporal · 2004-12-20 08:04 · Score: 4, Informative

Gabe personally thanked Slashdot in his post to PA's front page last Friday. Apparently the whole idea here is that Slashdot is "mirroring" these because PA's bandwidth has gone to shit recently and there's a lot of overlap in readership, or something. Personally I think the idea is pretty silly, but, yes, Gabe and Tycho approve.
Re:Well gee by fireduck · 2004-12-20 08:04 · Score: 3, Informative

click that second link in the story, the one that links to the previous slashdot story with pages 1 and 2. you'll notice the blurb points out that slashdot is helping alleviate some of PA's bandwith demand by hosting the cartoons here as well.
The Newspost by feidaykin · 2004-12-20 08:12 · Score: 4, Interesting

Tycho comments on the whole death of suprnova thing, and one of things he says is:
There are conversations to be had about the morality of file sharing, but until those stern words are able to project a "morality field" that causes those in their radius to behave honorably such dialogues fall into the "adorable but irrelevant" category.
Wow. I think he just summed up an entire form of slashdot subculture... in a single sentence. That's awesome!

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"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
1. Re:The Newspost by LastToKnow · 2004-12-20 19:17 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  I disagree. I rather like Tycho's writing style; it reminds me of Douglas Adams and others who take the time to play with the language and create sentences that not only get the point across, but are a joy to parse.
Re:Does this really let up the load? by hemebond · 2004-12-20 11:10 · Score: 2, Interesting

Probably not. Penny-Arcade would be better of coding their site properly. They could cut their bandwidth in half. Then there's the number of requests they make to the database. Yeesh.