i think this is the game in question: http://happyplaytime.com
― Mordy , Friday, 21 June 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
i love how people who get called out on shit are always like "man, twitter sucks!"
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Friday, 21 June 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
the PAX Australia panel is like a giant version of that
― eris bueller (lukas), Friday, 21 June 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/06/22/going-one-step-further
― Mordy , Saturday, 22 June 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
I’ve spent the last few days trying to apologize to people I hurt. I’ve been doing it via email and I’ve given out my phone number a lot. I realize I was wrong and I’m genuinely sorry. I also realize I can’t possibly apologize on the phone to each and every person I hurt. I’m going to keep trying, but I’ve also decided to personally make a donation to the Trevor Project of $20,000.00. I also plan to keep interacting with people on a personal level and I understand that will be an ongoing process. In the meantime I’m hoping this donation will do some real good for a group that desperately needs it.-Gabe
-Gabe
― Mordy , Saturday, 22 June 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
Good first step. Now stop being a douche in general.
― polyphonic, Saturday, 22 June 2013 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
To be fair, that is a good and reasonable response.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 23 June 2013 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-NCzgQDx/0/950x10000/i-NCzgQDx-950x10000.jpgcomic is titled "larvae"i have no idea why i keep checking these guys' site
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 June 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
there's a real vibe of "Video games remind me to love my child" in some of these comics that their kids are gonna be unpacking in therapy for years to come
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 June 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's one of those sites that my fingers learned the muscle memory of checking, close to 15 years ago, and it's just hard to turn off that reflex sometimes.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 24 June 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
tbf, they sometimes turn me on to games i'm unaware of
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 June 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
I don't like webcomics where you not only have to read the comic, but also read a long blog post before the comic makes any sense. PA is increasing like that.
"Video games remind me to love my child"
I get this feeling along the lines of "I'm a parent who loves their children, so if I'm a dick sometimes you have to give me a free pass".
― Wide Area Network King (snoball), Monday, 24 June 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, that too
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 June 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
call me crazy but i think they genuinely love their children and are just affected by video games more strongly than other media like film?
i'm not really sure why i keep defending these guys to be honest, but i guess i still see them as being often foolish but with their heart in the right place generally?
― Nhex, Monday, 24 June 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
i have to like stop writing sentences, like a question?
why?
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 June 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
I was driving in the car yesterday with my son who is currently 8. It was just the two of us and the song Same Love by Macklemore came on the radio. I like the song but I looked over and saw that Gabe was being really quiet. He was obviously thinking. You can always tell when an eight year old is working through something in their head. I listened to the lyrics and thought “wow here it comes. He’s gonna ask about what it means to be gay and I gotta have an answer ready,”So I started working through my response in my head. “son” I’d say “sometimes boys love girls and girls love boys. But sometimes boys love boys and girls love girls. That’s what being gay means and there’s nothing wrong with it that’s just how some people are born. Some people might tell you that being gay is bad but that’s not true. In fact there are people we love, friends and even people in our family who are gay.” I felt like that was a pretty solid start. Obviously I’d need to go into the concept of gay marriage and try and explain why certain people don’t like it. I’d need to talk about religion and how that colors certain people’s views. I figured I would play by ear after that and field any follow up questions as they came. Sure enough he said “can I ask you something Dad?”“Sure buddy” I respondedHe turns to me and asks “do you think Master Chief could beat a Kaiju all by himself?”Please be eight forever son.
So I started working through my response in my head. “son” I’d say “sometimes boys love girls and girls love boys. But sometimes boys love boys and girls love girls. That’s what being gay means and there’s nothing wrong with it that’s just how some people are born. Some people might tell you that being gay is bad but that’s not true. In fact there are people we love, friends and even people in our family who are gay.” I felt like that was a pretty solid start. Obviously I’d need to go into the concept of gay marriage and try and explain why certain people don’t like it. I’d need to talk about religion and how that colors certain people’s views. I figured I would play by ear after that and field any follow up questions as they came. Sure enough he said “can I ask you something Dad?”
“Sure buddy” I responded
He turns to me and asks “do you think Master Chief could beat a Kaiju all by himself?”
Please be eight forever son.
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 August 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
Please be eight forever son because while I'll make a big deal about telling everyone else how ok I am with the concept of people being gay, there's still part of me that for some reason would prefer you not to need to know about it until you're older?
― JimD, Monday, 26 August 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://elizabethsampat.com/quit-fucking-going-to-pax-already-what-is-wrong-with-you/
i actually did consider going to Pax East but... naaaaaaaaaah
― Nhex, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
jimd otm. as far as i'm concerned that little anecdote is straight up homophobic.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
these guys are truly shitty individuals
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:18 PM
― am0n, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
All otm. Eff these guys.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
So I started working through my response in my head. “son” I’d say "I am disappoint."
― am0n, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
The problem is at a much higher level, though, so diddling what appears to be a bunch of nodulated clusters of disagreement looks useful but isn’t. They don’t form the lattice of the structure, they’re placed there after the fact to give the whole enterprise a patina of coherency. This isn’t me saying this about him, this is me saying this about most of our awesome philosophies. They are wild west movie sets. We are attempting to make pearls from grit.
― there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 October 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
yawn
― polyphonic, Monday, 28 October 2013 21:01 (ten years ago) link
you really love these guys
― Nhex, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 03:17 (ten years ago) link
God, they've just gotten so bad, at every level. The cartoons long stopped having any sense of timing or rhythm and became just a series of stiff caricatures and showpieces of dude's latest coloring widgets, while the writing similarly ossified and basically nothing that's ever been pasted of their bloggery and general 'personas' has made them look good, at all. Should seriously have quit years and years ago.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 03:48 (ten years ago) link
yeah, even i had enough in the last couple of years and finally quit. it's hard to kick something you've been reading for a whole decade
― Nhex, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 04:18 (ten years ago) link
what was ever good about it? there are so many comics out there you could read.
― (emphasis Treeship's) (Treeship), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 04:32 (ten years ago) link
it was around back in the days where they were few enough webcomics where i read just about everything. and it was good enough for the gaming yuks for some time
tbh i still like Gabe's style, but the effort and jokes are long gone
― Nhex, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 04:35 (ten years ago) link
They could be pretty funny back in the day. I always liked http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/01/19
― jmm, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 04:39 (ten years ago) link
explain what that paragraph means in english plz
― there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 05:30 (ten years ago) link
They are overreacting to a smelly bowel movement.
― a dessicated quasi-tsunami of gut-busting cosmic - tech (DJP), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
Wait I can't read, what paragraph are you taking about?
― a dessicated quasi-tsunami of gut-busting cosmic - tech (DJP), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
"diddling what appears to be a bunch of nodulated clusters of disagreement looks useful but isn’t."
― there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link
he's just saying very obnoxiously that him and Gabe have had this argument about what is a game vs. a non-game (about The Stanley Parable) a million times and going over it again in detail is meaningless
this point was made in the week's strip already, so this news post is even more unnecessary
― Nhex, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:24 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i'm being facetious of course. it's just the layers of bad writing are reaching pathological levels. who reads that paragraph and considers the point well made?
― there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 03:47 (ten years ago) link
true that
― Nhex, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 04:21 (ten years ago) link
fuck me, imagine finding that strip funny in any way
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 08:18 (ten years ago) link
what was ever good about it? there are so many comics out there you could read. --(emphasis Treeship's) (Treeship)
Warming up to this kid.
― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
http://readchallenger.com/2013/10/read-team-gold-force-4-now/
― there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
these fucking guyshttp://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/9887522
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 10:45 (ten years ago) link
its a step up from when they asked people to pay them thousands of dollars to be an unpaid intern for PA
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 11:06 (ten years ago) link
my fav bit is "Annual Salary: Negotiable, but you should know up front we’re not a terribly money-motivated group. We’re more likely to spend less money on salary and invest that on making your day-to-day life at work better." i.e. we'd rather invest in our office than you, sucker.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
- You should have no problems working in a creative and potentially offensive environment.
Let's say you get this job and find the environment offensive (for any of the many, many reasons working for PA might be offensive). Presumably this line in the job spec wouldn't be sufficient to prevent you taking legal action if you thought the situation merited it, right?
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 11:37 (ten years ago) link
Speaking of offensive:- You need to have a crazy-person level of attention to detail.
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 11:41 (ten years ago) link
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:12 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
Instead of paying you what you're worth we're gonna make sure the office is always stocked with Bawls and all 15 colors of Mountain Dew
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 12:41 (ten years ago) link
Like those companies who think that spending a pittance on having a few beers in the fridge somehow makes up for the bad managers, lousy pay, excessive hours, unpaid overtime, shitty working conditions, abusive customers...
― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
really sticking to their guns eh
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
http://cwbuecheler.tumblr.com/post/68163195864/on-penny-arcade-exploitation-and-the-myth-of-the
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link