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
http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-z6pJHXF/0/1050x10000/i-z6pJHXF-1050x10000.jpg
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 November 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
did these guys ever run a hashtag gamergate comic/op-ed
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 15 November 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link
against all odds, they steered clear of the whole damn thing
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 November 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
too deep on the collusion side anyway
― Nhex, Saturday, 15 November 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, given their prominence, saying nothing is very very conspicuous. I guess the best you could hope for is that maybe they wanted to say something non-asinine but figured they would only muddy the waters given their horrible and divisive track record. That same track record also suggests other possible interpretations though.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 15 November 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
yeah, that seems fairly cretinous frankly
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 15 November 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/10/15/star-gourds
pretty badly worded (big surprise) but at least he's taking the sensible position of being against death threatsno #gamergate tag or mention explicitly
― Nhex, Saturday, 15 November 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
Ehhhhhhhh, yeah, that's something but it's also very clearly 'i side with the GG moderates and their legitimate gripes with the journalists' which is super fucking lame.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 15 November 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
Whatever is required for you to have done yesterday correctly, I hope you succeeded; if it required that you do something with a hat, I pray that the hat did not resist overmuch and that your effects upon the hat were profound and lasting. If you engaged in the standard predation-upon-birds or the various Unbirds they have on offer these days, I pray that your “gains” were not diminished overmuch by the revelry. If it was just Thursday, I hope that it was as noteworthy or nominal, dependent entirely on your aims.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
What are the gg moderates like? Isn't the whole thing about demanding "transparency" vis a vis women's sexual history? Seems pretty irredeemable.
― Treeship, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
"overmuch" is a pretty classic poetaster word
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 30 November 2014 01:01 (nine years ago) link