penny arcade: c/d

- 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?

Speaking of offensive:- You need to have a crazy-person level of attention to detail.

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, 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

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...

- You should have no problems working in a creative and potentially offensive environment.

really sticking to their guns eh

http://cwbuecheler.tumblr.com/post/68163195864/on-penny-arcade-exploitation-and-the-myth-of-the

good post. fuck business.

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).

https://twitter.com/lazer_hugs/status/405453146371026946/photo/1

http://penny-arcade.com/2014/01/01/resolutions

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

i'm sure the fact that it was impacting business was just a happy coincidence

bully for you

http://hw1.pa-cdn.com/pa/assets/img/adfree/img_Gabe.png

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

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.

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.

dude has never met a metaphor he can't unpack further for less effect

why do you keep reading PA, lol

i have a problem

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

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.

How much money are we talking here

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.jpg
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/06/13/gabbie-and-tyche
what 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 off
HA PULL THAT OFF GET IT

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-z6pJHXF/0/1050x10000/i-z6pJHXF-1050x10000.jpg

did these guys ever run a hashtag gamergate comic/op-ed

against all odds, they steered clear of the whole damn thing

too deep on the collusion side anyway

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.

yeah, that seems fairly cretinous frankly

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 threats
no #gamergate tag or mention explicitly

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.

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.

What are the gg moderates like? Isn't the whole thing about demanding "transparency" vis a vis women's sexual history? Seems pretty irredeemable.

"overmuch" is a pretty classic poetaster word

Moderates demand transparency vis a vis literally who's sexual history.

xp lol did not realize "poetaster" was a real word

http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda05/Walkthrough/09/9_Poe4_Large.jpg

is that guy a poetaster? idk. poetasters are ppl gesturing to an ill-absorbed concept of literary value for an audience who also have a badly-defined concept of literary value. i think w tycho smth even worse is happening

Jesse Thorn of "Jordan, Jesse, Go" finally tells the story of what happened when the PA guys came on their podcast and we're dicks to everybody, then complained about it at length online.

I can't believe there are five PAX events a year.

I also have a hard time believing I ever stanned for these guys

I went to a couple days of the "main" one my first year in Seattle. It was crowded, like all fan cons, with the added unpleasantness of being darkened, extra-loud, and a for-profit enterprise run by unpleasant jerks.

It kind of seems like Child's Play was a calculated ploy by their business manager to give them a humanistic veneer. By kind of I mean I am totally convinced that's how it came about.

I mean, great, it raises millions of dollars (that incidentally all pretty much go right into the game industry, and not, for the sake of argument, into medical research, or helping defray patients' hospital bills), but it also seems like it's there so they can pat themselves on the back whenever they and their fanbase act like total dicks to random people

Could also just be that I'm even more cynical now and just don't have the energy for people who are too chickenshit to pick a side on anything that actually matters

^

I started getting emails, and forum trolls, and tweets - calling me every kind of awful name, talking about how shitty my work was, all kinds of awful stuff. It was literally the most unpleasant period of my online life. It went on for weeks. I was totally shocked that people wouldn’t look at a comic like the one they made and think, “Geez, what kind of unprofessional dick would do this?”

total Trump vibes