You are completely correct and I meant webcomics.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
my main issue with PA (outside of how ugly the strip looks) is how stupidly wordy the writing is. like it shouldn't take 400 words in 3 panels to get to a dumb punchline in because you want to shoehorn in all these dumb obscure references
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
my main issue with PA is that is sucks
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
grrr I hate typos
always thought these guys sucked. this story just confirms they are Prima Donnas too.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:14 (seven years ago) link
I'm not versed enough in webcomics to name examples but I'd be shocked if there were not tons and tons of more obscure, bloggish sorts of strips that feature some kind of aging/appearance change for the author analogue. Again, not to say PA's under any obligation to do that, just that it's a choice to maintain the stylized hepcat looks for their protagonists, and maybe that choice tells us something about what kind of strip it is and what they see as its role.
IIRC though the one dude signs (signed?) his unbelievably long, self-indulgent text posts as Tycho, and a variety of strips have involved in-strip Gabe as cartoonist, with Tycho dictating content to him or whatever. They're author stand-ins and that's a part of their personal brand identity etc.
― walk back to the halftime long, billy lynn, billy lynn (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 04:38 (seven years ago) link
Also DJP otm
― walk back to the halftime long, billy lynn, billy lynn (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 04:43 (seven years ago) link
not versed enough in webcomics to name examples but I'd be shocked if there were not tons and tons of more obscure, bloggish sorts of strips that feature some kind of aging/appearance change for the author analogue
James Kochalka's hair thinned out in American Elf but I don't follow a lot of webcomics either
― sad, hombres (sic), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 05:30 (seven years ago) link
so this is a real PA comic
https://photos.smugmug.com/Comics/Pa-comics/n-xmQS5/i-VbLTTth/0/2100x20000/i-VbLTTth-2100x20000.jpg
wtf has been happening with the character's faces, they're becoming more grotesque and aesthetically revolting over time
― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WIYhqGkhZiw/R7DA8alPFUI/AAAAAAAAADY/ydBhRlqhLo4/S1600-R/oops.png
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
the lack of self-awareness it must take for the penny arcade guy to write "incoherent rhetorical salad bar" about something anyone else has written or said is staggering
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
I'm not sure how you post that particular strip and have the first question be "what's going on with the faces"
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
lol i was gonna say... the content was much more stupefying
― Nhex, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
oh I didn't actually read it
― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
wise move
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
you could literally replace every word in there with "WAAAAH WAAAAAH WAAAH I'M A BIG FUCKING BABY" and it would have the exact same rhetorical impact
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
this showy smart voice of extremely online nerds "incoherent rhetorical salad bar" is so distinctive, it pervades their scene which is almost total sealed from the rest of the world, ppl like this penny arcade and that very popular music vlogger who everyone was mad at for also being a nazis are their alternate reality reddit.com intellectual giants, its so weird and bad, prob mostly teens tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2017/10/23/second-opinion
his little blogpost which goes with the comic.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
this showy smart voice of extremely online nerds "incoherent rhetorical salad bar" is so distinctive
yes
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
I try not to spend a hundred percent of my time thinking about the shambling chaos that gnaws at the periphery, but it’s hard not to notice the symptoms.
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
Look - we’re chasing the best writers out of this industry.
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
lol
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
I mean ... I do think EA sucks, and probably would have played that Star Wars game.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
i opened this thread to figure out why ppl were mad at this comic on twitter the other day, some anti trans thing? i tried lord
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
ok now that I know what he's mad about, I don't disagree. (Didn't EA basically poach Hennig from Naughty Dog for this game?) but why make a comic in that form at all? just the blog post would be enough
― Nhex, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
the guy who made them rich quit last year so I assume the PA corporate culture is in serious decline
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
people dislike them because one of the dudes is incapable of taking any criticism and doubles down instinctively
I think one of the initial things was a comic with a rape joke, which was dumb. When someone clued them in that maybe they're not set up to navigate such things, I think they doubled down with RAPE IS GREAT
― mh, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
I am very sorry for typing that