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Penny Arcade On NPR

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-hear dept.

This morning on the NPR shuffle podcast, they included a segment about Penny Arcade. Seems only fair since NPR did Achewood a few months ago. If they just get XKCD on there, then the universe can rest.

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  1. Grats! by Lifyre · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I love seeing Tycho and Gabe (Jerry and Mike if you will) getting the recognition they deserve. Penny Arcade has broken ground in success and shown how it is possible to build a business model providing a primarily free product. The key is having a product people want. I just wish the great works they've done such as Child's Play and PAX had gotten more than just a mention. Perhaps some people who listen to NPR will branch out and look at the seedy underworld of online comics now.

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    I'll meet you at the intersection of "Should be" and "Reality"
    1. Re:Grats! by Drakkenmensch · · Score: 5, Insightful

      These guys don't get half the recognition they deserve. They've built from scratch a gigantic charity organization that gives thousands of kids a ray of sunshine in a time of their life that would otherwise be dark and bleak. That alone needs to be given the props they deserve to get, and that's not even scratching the surface here. It's most probably because of the success of PAX that E3 is rethinking its closed-doors invitation-only no-booth-bunnies rebranding failure. (That, and the stockholders weren't too crazy about their latest idea, the "First 1000 attendees get gouged with an icepick" promotion)

  2. Re:Posted Anonymously for Obvious Reasons. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obligatory

  3. Re:Link? by rk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, and while we're on the topic of mysteries, can any of you guys tell me what this "Linux" thing is you all keep talking about? It keeps getting mentioned, and I hoped I'd be able to figure it out from context, but I've had no luck so far.

    You can live under rocks? Why doesn't anybody tell me these things!?