i dont know why either
― ho hum i'm having a fantasy (Lamp), Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I still like the art, but the writing is almost always oscillating like a meth head duct-taped to a chair between "meh" and "bleh"
― kingfish, Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
This exchange btwn T and G: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/8/10/
― "I'm smiling. Because that's what i do. I'm always smiling." (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
tempted to change ilx name to "the dude who thinks it's okay to have sex with unconscious women";
aware this is probably a bad idea
― thomp, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
ambien sex thread is o_O
― W i l l, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wow
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
classy
― chillbigail ate a chill banana (Abbott), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
http://debacle.tumblr.com/post/3041940865/the-pratfall-of-penny-arcade-a-timeline
― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 3 February 2011 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
dude on my fb posted that. i'd like to gently tell all involved that their problem is that they read penny arcade
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 February 2011 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
HoodedMiracle twitter account contacts Courtney Stanton, demanding proof that she is a rape survivor. When none is forthcoming, HoodedMiracle begins telling others that she lied about it, and that she’s only causing a ruckus to make money on the Dickwolves Survivors Guild t-shirt.
DickWolvington twitter account engages in same.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 3 February 2011 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Retweeted by teamrape and 4 others.
― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 3 February 2011 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty sure she was involved in last years production of popular local burlesque show "the slutcracker."
people have interests i will never understand, among them burlesque and "gaming conventions," whatever the fuck those are
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 February 2011 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
pfft why would u even know the name of a burlesque show - suspect
― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 3 February 2011 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitpic.com/3vczpu
absolutely amazing that's still continuing
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 February 2011 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i attended as a cultural anthropologist if u must know
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 February 2011 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
but it will be a cold day in hell before i go to a "gaming convention"
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 February 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha oh Sean you went to the Slutcracker? I was asked to go by two different friends this year but there was just no way.
― ENBB, Thursday, 3 February 2011 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
eh L and i had talked abt going for a couple years every time we passed the sville theater in december. was basically a satisfying curiosity thing.
i had no idea what to expect but it was weirdly incoherent and i would never go again.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 February 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
eh its prob like going to a big lan party or competitive gaming event or something - i know a girl who's been to a few PAXes and she loves em, only has one forearm so she cradles the controller against the stump and controls everything w/one hand
― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 3 February 2011 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
that's.....impressive?
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 February 2011 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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