penny arcade: c/d

I still like their stuff, and Gabe's art skills are better in general, but I do think they've lost a bit of the energy/wit they used to have. Success tends to do that, though. Definitely good enough to stay in my webcomics RSS folder with the other dozens.

please to inform of the dozens

also:
http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/f/fa/Penny_retard.jpg

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/e/e6/WHY_AM_I_SO_BALD_PART_2.jpg

i don't know why but i still laugh at WHY I AM SO BALD

i dont know why either

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"

This exchange btwn T and G: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/8/10/

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

ambien sex thread is o_O

oh wow

classy

http://debacle.tumblr.com/post/3041940865/the-pratfall-of-penny-arcade-a-timeline

dude on my fb posted that. i'd like to gently tell all involved that their problem is that they read penny arcade

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.

Retweeted by teamrape and 4 others.

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

pfft why would u even know the name of a burlesque show - suspect

http://twitpic.com/3vczpu

absolutely amazing that's still continuing

i attended as a cultural anthropologist if u must know

but it will be a cold day in hell before i go to a "gaming convention"

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.

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.

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

that's.....impressive?

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

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.

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.

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

hahaha I'm sure

have gotten mixed reviews of The Slutcracker from friends who have gone, i was never curious enough myself

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 you need to fap with us sometime

I don't read Penny Arcade. I didn't think the comic was offensive, but the way they handled the aftermath was absolutely pathetic.

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

its hard to believe a couple of giant nerds wld be sensitive to criticism

xxxp yeah i'd like to, i'll keep an eye on the boston thread for the next one

"feminazi sluts" - people really say things like this?! oh internetpaws

http://img148.exs.cx/img148/5624/2stupid6qf.jpg
http://img205.exs.cx/img205/1160/animehistory200309160hp.gif

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must be interesting to them to be confronted with evidence that so many of their fans are total cretins, i guess

mike krahulik is like a far less humorous american karl pilkington

they really did not handle this well at all.

yeah 'lol rape survivors' jokes just don't seem like the best PR strategy? imo?

penny arcade... expo?

^ my thoughts exactly!!?

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

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.

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