it still kind blows my mind that those two were able to make an extremely decent living off of penny arcade
also see jonathan coulton
― dayo, Thursday, 3 February 2011 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait I didn't realize until now one of these cartoon characters is named after my favorite alloy-nosed 16th c science guy! Real 16th c TB, you are my bro.
― totally small truffles (Abbbottt), Thursday, 3 February 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
S - It's really popular I just feel like it is something that would go horribly wrong irl and be really cringe inducing. I'm just busting yr balls btw. If it were free I probably would have gone with but I wasn't going to pay for it.
― ENBB, Thursday, 3 February 2011 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i know u are!
it was pretty cringe-y at times--like, this is what happens to a certain subset of high school drama girls
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 February 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha I'm sure
― ENBB, Thursday, 3 February 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
have gotten mixed reviews of The Slutcracker from friends who have gone, i was never curious enough myself
― ciderpress, Thursday, 3 February 2011 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i may be going to PAX but i don't really know what one does at such an event other than wander around and marvel at how many people are even more nerdy than yourself
― ciderpress, Thursday, 3 February 2011 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
ciderpress you need to fap with us sometime
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 February 2011 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't read Penny Arcade. I didn't think the comic was offensive, but the way they handled the aftermath was absolutely pathetic.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 3 February 2011 06:36 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah thats p much how i feel - comic didnt bother me (tho i am sympathetic to those who were offended), but being dickheads about people objecting is nagl
― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 3 February 2011 06:50 (thirteen years ago) link
its hard to believe a couple of giant nerds wld be sensitive to criticism
― cloudy predecessor (Lamp), Thursday, 3 February 2011 06:52 (thirteen years ago) link
xxxp yeah i'd like to, i'll keep an eye on the boston thread for the next one
― ciderpress, Thursday, 3 February 2011 06:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"feminazi sluts" - people really say things like this?! oh internetpaws
― zappi, Thursday, 3 February 2011 06:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img148.exs.cx/img148/5624/2stupid6qf.jpghttp://img205.exs.cx/img205/1160/animehistory200309160hp.gif
― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 3 February 2011 06:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img202.exs.cx/img202/231/206qb.jpg
― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 3 February 2011 06:57 (thirteen years ago) link
must be interesting to them to be confronted with evidence that so many of their fans are total cretins, i guess
― thomp, Thursday, 3 February 2011 10:53 (thirteen years ago) link
mike krahulik is like a far less humorous american karl pilkington
― El Tomboto, Friday, 4 February 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
they really did not handle this well at all.
― Nhex, Friday, 4 February 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah 'lol rape survivors' jokes just don't seem like the best PR strategy? imo?
― totally small truffles (Abbbottt), Friday, 4 February 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
penny arcade... expo?
― goole, Friday, 4 February 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
^ my thoughts exactly!!?
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 February 2011 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
PAX is just a big all-purpose gaming convention now afaik, the name is because it began as a smaller event related to the comic
― ciderpress, Friday, 4 February 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2011/2/2/matter-dickwolves/
The other reason I didn’t speak about it is because I didn’t want to draw unwanted attention to the sources of complaint. Apparently, there are people who imagine they’re doing us some kind of a favor being jackasses and saying terrible things to critics of the site. Well, I’m a big boy, and I can handle my own shit. If you’re a reader, and not somebody just out for a scrap, if you love me at all you’ll put an end to that kind of bullshit. When someone believes something about you that isn’t true, the optimal strategy isn’t to prove to them time and time again that they were actually right all along - that you may be dismissed out of hand, that you have no merit. I assume that’s the opposite of what you want.Can we all agree that threatening to kill someone’s wife and children, as happened yesterday, has no place in any fucking society? This is why I had to say something: because people who imagine themselves to be “agents” of each side have now graduated to threats of actual, physical violence.I don’t expect to mollify anyone with this - I think we’re long past that. When I look at the state of play now, dialectically, I don’t even recognize it: in the absence of my participation, in the abdication of my responsibility to communicate, the entire dialogue is based on a sequence of assumptions about each party so long that it’s impossible to untangle. It’s entirely possible that we will have lost readership, or worse, we’ll acquire a unique new demographic hungry for rape material that will be profoundly disappointed by jokes about tabletop wargames or treatises on forks. As I said, so much of this happened because I assumed that a genuine dialogue was impossible. Maybe I was wrong. It’s certainly happened before.But I am who I am, in the end; the comics I make are the result of my damage. I can’t put it any more succinctly than that.
http://jessicaisms.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/homer_facepalm.jpg
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
http://penny-arcade.smugmug.com/photos/i-DbLmtbR/0/M/i-DbLmtbR-M.jpghttp://penny-arcade.smugmug.com/photos/i-zGMm3KD/0/O/i-zGMm3KD.jpg"""""""""""drawing from life"""""""""""""""""there aren't enough quotation marks in the world
― Don't attack when he is black. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 November 2011 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
Aren't these guys, like, 50-years-old now?
― The Lamb Lies Down On Cavill Avenue (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 07:20 (twelve years ago) link
They're born in 76/77, so 34/35 - which makes sense for them being early twenties when they started.
there aren't enough quotation marks in the world
... possibly because he didn't say it?
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
if you don't see the implication
― Don't attack when he is black. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
idgi
― dayo, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
what's the implication? that he used a model? it's not like he's doing photo realism and tracing it off the photograph...
― Mordy, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
thoughts in this order:1. sweet I have the same build I should work as a swordmaiden/art model2. ewww I would have to be around the dickwolves dudes nevermind
― Loud music stressed out sad Shadow (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
3. I would get to be immortalized without thigh biscuits4. my immortalized version would have some surely costly congenital deformity of the hips and spine
― Loud music stressed out sad Shadow (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
I do like that drawing thoit's like if Bill Watterson had a run at Red Sonja (in a plotline wherein R.S. was hindered by a congenital deformity of the hips and spine)
― Loud music stressed out sad Shadow (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like there is a grody but kind of hilarious tradition of drawing hottt sword ladies with way too much unnecessary business at the waist, like having four different sub-hourglass curves going on where they never happen in reality. AND that employing this tradition is really fun. It's what I was thinking about when I drew this pic (NSFW).
― Loud music stressed out sad Shadow (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
implication is that it's a lousy rendition of the photo that's stylized in such a way that it betrays a lack of understanding of basic anatomy. it's not good life drawing.
― Don't attack when he is black. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
maybe she's in a desert and we are seeing her through a shimmering heat wave
― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
dude has put an impossible eight inch gap between her thighs.
― Don't attack when he is black. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
thigh gap is a thing
― dayo, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
what... is the context for all of this?
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
i fucking hate this shit
― goole, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
i don't even know where this cartoon is from (not from the daily comic -- i'm gonna guess from some PR material they did for a company?), but i like PA's aesthetic style. generally i'd add, 'if you can even call it that' but in a world where xkcd is the most popular web comic on the planet i'm glad that they've at least made an effort beyond just drawing all their characters as hipster stick figures.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
lol how do you get "hipster" out of xckd's stick figures
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/mtv_generation.png
― Mordy, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
i guess its the hat that tipped me off
― Mordy, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
can i just say that google image search for "fedora" is hilariously weird
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
I wish hipsters wore Buster Keaton hats!
― Loud music stressed out sad Shadow (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
BLEEP BLOOP
I MEAN WHATS AFTER GENERATION Z DO WE JUST START OVER AT GENERATION A
― ah, how quaint (Matt P), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
i asked microsoft excel & they said generation aa
― Alderaan Duran (Will M.), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
This is the context - somebody did an app of a bunch of 'artists poses', Mike did a drawing of one one of them and thought he might as well put it up on the site because - well basically because there is no downside to doing so, people who like his style like his style and will attempt to give him money for it, it's a pretty sweet position to be in.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
no argument there
― Don't attack when he is black. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
from the guys that brought you dickwolves:http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-M4NZ5Tk/0/L/i-M4NZ5Tk-X3.jpg
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 December 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link