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
good post. fuck business.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
Booming post, might forward to people I know in other creative fields (e.g. architecture) that also have a lot of small, 'cool' firms that are moving lots and lots of money around but effectively rely on underpaid or unpaid labor, specifically in order to stay cool (e.g. by sinking tons of non-billable hours into hip unpaid design competitions).
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/lazer_hugs/status/405453146371026946/photo/1
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
http://penny-arcade.com/2014/01/01/resolutions
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 January 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
And a summary:
http://m.joystiq.com/2014/01/02/pax-separates-from-penny-arcade-in-co-founders-new-year-resolut/?post=1&icid=joystiq_home_latest_art
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Thursday, 2 January 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
i'm sure the fact that it was impacting business was just a happy coincidence
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 January 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
bully for you
― am0n, Thursday, 2 January 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
http://hw1.pa-cdn.com/pa/assets/img/adfree/img_Gabe.png
― am0n, Thursday, 2 January 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
all witedude posters on ilx should have to have some kind of icon next to their dn so we know who they are. like maybe a pale smiley face or something.
― Mordy , Thursday, January 2, 2014 7:32 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 January 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
At last, a back-pedalling non-apology done for business reasons that makes Microsoft's back-pedalling non-apology done for business reasons look almost saintly. What a way to start 2014.
― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Thursday, 2 January 2014 23:15 (ten years ago) link
in reference to peter molyneux's stance on the pay-to-play dungeon keeper
He might want to consider the material that constitutes the bulk of his domicile, I’m just saying. Even a cursory assessment reveals that it’s brittle and optically transparent.
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 February 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
dude has never met a metaphor he can't unpack further for less effect
why do you keep reading PA, lol
― Nhex, Monday, 10 February 2014 20:55 (ten years ago) link
i have a problem
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 February 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
even a cursory assessment reveals that it's brittle and optically transparent
i smiled
http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-K4fk67g/0/1050x10000/i-K4fk67g-1050x10000.jpg
― Mordy, Monday, 12 May 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
I just played through that first Penny Arcade game from back in 2008. It uses the Torque engine, looks a lot like indies of the time like the early Telltale games like Sam and Max Season 1 and Tales of Monkey Island. Paper Mario's a good RPG system to rip off, though.
I would pay money to watch Forks play this game and go into conniptions at how bad so much of it is. So much stuff in there that they clearly thought was funny just by sheer presence, like mimes, hobos and excessive swearing.
― Nhex, Sunday, 25 May 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
How much money are we talking here
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 May 2014 06:13 (ten years ago) link
They have this weird thing about mimes being evil which is very 1987 comedy
http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-7hMkQf3/0/1050x10000/i-7hMkQf3-1050x10000.jpghttp://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/06/13/gabbie-and-tychewhat this strip was really missing was the opportunity for these guys to explore being women because i think they've definitely shown the proper level of sophistication and empathy to pull that offHA PULL THAT OFF GET IT
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 June 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link