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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fineus on May 23, 2003, 12:15:21 pm
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(http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20030523l.gif)
'Nuff said, classic.
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You spelled Samurai wrong.
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:lol:
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I don't get it...:nervous:
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce
I don't get it...:nervous:
Neither do I. Are we missing something?
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce
I don't get it...:nervous:
Just nod :nod: like I do and tell thunder that you get it
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:nod:
I get it Thunder:D
Like this?:nervous:
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Originally posted by Darkage
:nod:
I get it Thunder:D
Like this?:nervous:
yeah just like that
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[color=66ff00]Heathen!
Head over to Penny arcade and read all of the comics from the start. Brilliant artwork and good writing. The CTS is one of Gabriel's creations. Some of those strips are fantastic, laugh out loud funny. :)
www.penny-arcade.com
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:lol:
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Neither do I. Are we missing something?
You're not missing anything, its just not funny.
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That'd explain it, then.
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I also don't get it. :wtf:
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i prefer real life (http://www.reallifecomics.com/)
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Gah, you people need to read more web comics... there's a backstory to the cardboard tube etc.. that I kinda presumed people were up to date with after all this time.
Clearly not.
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Sorry, Thunder, we must have better things to do with our time.
'Though I don't know what they could possibly be....
:p
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I read this (http://www.machall.com). :yes:
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If you like Machall then check out AppleGeeks... same writer IIRC.
http://www.applegeeks.com/
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Speaking of webcomics, am I the only one to think that the quality of Megatokyo has dropped severely since Largo left?
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
Speaking of webcomics, am I the only one to think that the quality of Megatokyo has dropped severely since Largo left?
[color=66ff00]The overall mood of the comic has changed but it's still fantastic IMHO, I like the way Fred is taking it.[/color]
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I'm just saying the plot quality seems to vary from day to day.
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I guess I'll stick with my regular paper Calvin 'n' Hobbes comics... :)
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(http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20030124l.jpg)
:rolleyes:
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Hehe, I can see the plot for that now!
"The blocks are still coming, and they're destroying the cities. Nukes won't help. But what we have noticed is a rare phenomena. If they are placed in line, the flash and vanish. What I propose we do is gather the best bricklayers in the country!" A scientist said amongst a secret NASA and jointchiefs meeting.
"I know just the one." A thin man with glasses raised his hand and said.
CUT TO:
L.A Central building complex
COLIN FARELL, sweatly swabs some cement on some bricks and placing another one on. We zoom out to see that he's high up on a building, and a nice pan reveals the rest of the city.
"Hey Buck, don't you worry that your line of work is a dying breed?" A huge overwheighted man (John Goodman) said walking by him. He sat down and started to eat his lunch.
"Maybe so, Mack, but someones gotta do it." COLIN smiles and wipes some more sweat off.
We see a glint in the sky and a army helecopter flies towards the camera.
Alot of stuff happens.... Blah blah.
CUT TO:
NASA OFFICE
"More bricks are falling every day. And they're building up. No one seems to be able to get rid of them fast enough. We need you with a special unit of mathematicians to figre out their postions and get rid of them before the world gets covered..." The Nasa official said grimly. A small simulation of different shaped bricks falling ontop of the city is seen behind him on a tv screen. COLIN shakes his head.
"Man. Those mathematicians might know the answer to the a square root of negative one, but they know **** of brick laying. Its an art. You can't just ask anyone to do it..."
"What do you suggest?"
COLIN looks up the official with a bit of reluctance.
"All they gotta do is lay the bricks?"
"Thats all."
"Then I'll need my team."
"You got it."
More **** happens. We see the whole training of the brick laying, and then finally them attacking the next onslaught of falling bricks. Then in a fit of no luck, none of the bricks seem to line up and there is one final brick to lay which could connect all the bricks. But someone has to stay behind and under the brick in order to make sure its in place. COLIN decides to do it and saves the world.
uuuhm... Yeah... I got a bit carried away...:blah:
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:lol: :yes:
Oddly enough, I'd pay the $6.50 to see that :D
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Gah, you people need to read more web comics... there's a backstory to the cardboard tube etc.. that I kinda presumed people were up to date with after all this time.
Clearly not.
(http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2002/20021030l.gif)
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I would enjoy Penny Arcade a lot more if the two main characters weren't utterly repellent assholes.
PvP fills my "gamer geek" webtoon quota quite nicely, thank you.
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indeed
(http://www.pvponline.com/archive/2003/pvp20030525.gif)
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Of course they're repellent assholes. We gamers aren't on average the most socially well-adjusted types, ya know? PA probably is so popular because it speaks to all sorts of bright, witty, but immature and jerky people- exactly what the typical gamer would be. It's kinda funny that, from all the evidence, they've gone through the effort to put up an elaborate pretense of being their characters, and yet are nothing like him (according to the one picture they hosted and hid, "Tycho" is pushing fifty, the whole name thing, etc.), but apparently it's a pretense that sells, and there you go.
And PvP is not a gaming-geek comic. Just because Calvin and Hobbes is set in Washington (or one of those northern states, forget which) doesn't mean that it's all about state politics in the North. PvP is about characters who happen to work in a gaming magazine, and yet the artist does a pretty damn good job of shying away from anything that has to do with games, magazines, technology (except for pulling out some rusty old Mac vs. PC jokes occasionally- wow, how tech-savvy and clever and hip and whatever. He might as well be making cracks about how the interface in Windows 95 seems to be a BSoD.), or anything else not directly related to some kind of melodramatic soap-opera plotline. Which is okay, I guess (if I wanted that sort of thing I'd read Apartment 3-G instead of using it as a spraypaint mask), it just has nothing to do with gaming, or indeed anything else- feeble protests of the writer aside.
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
I would enjoy Penny Arcade a lot more if the two main characters weren't utterly repellent assholes.
PvP fills my "gamer geek" webtoon quota quite nicely, thank you.
Philistine.
Consistently PvP is one of the worst of the "big name" web comics out there. It is only outdone by User Friendly for raw anal-feeding suck-ass crapitude.
Such is my opinion. It is much like yours, except its not wrong.
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I don't really mind reading any of them to kill a bit of time but sometimes I think people take them way too seriously for their own good. Plus Calvin and Hobbes pretty much ruined any other comic for me completely when I discovered it.
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Try Sinfest then. :devil:
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Sinfest's good, but it's basically got maybe three jokes, so you can't read it for too long...
Now certain minor comics, on the other hand...
(http://yahtzee.keenspace.com//comics/yaht20011011.gif) (http://yahtzee.keenspace.com/)
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Gah, you people need to read more web comics... there's a backstory to the cardboard tube etc.. that I kinda presumed people were up to date with after all this time.
Clearly not.
More webcomics?! You must be ****ing joking. I probably hit more webcomics per day than most of you have seen in your lifetimes. And Penny Arcade is NOT one of them.
Unfortuantly, through third party sources, I've got some idea of what the title of this thread was refering too, and I still didn't find it funny or interesting.
This, however, is:
http://animehistory.keenspace.com/comics/animehistory20030409.jpg
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Originally posted by Eishtmo
I probably hit more webcomics per day than most of you have seen in your lifetimes.
If this has become something to boast about, I am officially off to the clocktower with a FAL.:p
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
If this has become something to boast about, I am officially off to the clocktower with a FAL.:p
[color=66ff00]You know it's always bothered me that your chosen handle so closely resembles 'Strychnine'.
Considering the nefarious nature of said substance I find this similarity quite apt. ;)
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i've noticed that also....
they've named it after him:p
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
You know it's always bothered me that your chosen handle so closely resembles 'Strychnine'.
Your own name is just about as close to "Megalomaniac". Should that bother us too?
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
Your own name is just about as close to "Megalomaniac". Should that bother us too?
[color=66ff00]Admit it, you had to stretch for that one.
...and no, it shouldn't bother you. :drevil:
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
If this has become something to boast about, I am officially off to the clocktower with a FAL.:p
Very true. Scary.
Wait, there's something scarier. (http://www.onlinecomics.net/)
No, I haven't read them all.
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are you sure?