Can everyone just stop pretending Penny Arcade is some sort of neutral entity?

[Fragamemnon]

If anything, I'd think the Xbox market would be the conservatives, mainly based on hearing all the good ol' Southern boy talk on XBL.

that's more the frat-boy style target market and lack of any real enforcement for bad behavior than anything else. On the PC you only occasionally see that kind of awfulness in most games because usually it means a perma-ban from the server admin.

I honestly never made the nintendo fan = conservative connection. I just assumed that most of them didn't/couldn't vote.

[JustinP]

Tycho brings up valid points. What is the problem?

well they spent a sizable paragraph trolling sony's past instead of talking about e3.  bringing up details of the ps3 launch serves no purpose other than to trash the ps3.  it has little to do with the topic at hand -- e3.  it'd be like if they spent a paragraph talking about the RROD for no apparent reason.  

not really saying it's a problem though.  a lot of people who disagree like to put words in my mouth and accuse me of thinking that PA shouldn't be allowed to say it or whatever.  i'm not saying they shouldn't be able to say any of this and i defend their right to say it -- but don't be a fucking idiot and scream "tin foil hat LOLOLOL" when someone brings up a criticism of PA.  

the hypocrisy shown here and on GAF is that you all throw "tin foil hat"-trolls at anyone who points out a PA bias, but then turn around and call Shane an sfag etc.  it is no different.  

haha, the funny thing is you getting butthurt over what PA says

a lot of people here gets butthurt over what shane says.  no different.  what's funny is this double standard a lot of fegs have.  

[Crushed]

i'm not saying they shouldn't be able to say any of this and i defend their right to say it --  

stick a fork in this thread, it's done

[Joe Molotov]

the hypocrisy shown here and on GAF is that you all throw "tin foil hat"-trolls at anyone who points out a PA bias, but then turn around and call Shane an sfag etc.  it is no different. 

Oh no, Penny Arcade is biased towards Microsoft! Castle Vidcons is biased towards Nintendo! Ctrl-Alt-Delete is biased towards baby killing! When Obama is elected, hopefully he'll bring us back to the glory days of unbiased webcomic journalism and free us from the oppression of opinions.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I've noticed the Nintendo fans = Republicans connection, too. My theory was that it had to do with the way Democrats let reality define their beliefs, and Republicans let beliefs define their reality. Nintendo says that such-and-such is awesome, and Nintendo fans fall right in step. We have always been at war with Eurasia.

[JustinP]

i'm not saying they shouldn't be able to say any of this and i defend their right to say it --  

stick a fork in this thread, it's done

are you saying i'm contradicting myself?  if so, point out where i've said "PA shouldn't talk bad about sony" or whatever.  because i've never said anything like that. 

if you want the thread to die, stop making posts, you dolt.  there's like 8 useless posts in here about how the thread should die. 

[cool breeze]

Penny Arcade sucks, so who gives a shit about what they say? They put out a game that was crap.  They serve as proof that nerds on the internet can bitch all they want, but when it comes time to put up, they can't deliver.  That is their contribution to society.

 

[Van Cruncheon]

how is this comic letting ms off? it pretty much nailed the bullshit all three conferences.

[Crushed]

are you saying i'm contradicting myself?  if so, point out where i've said "PA shouldn't talk bad about sony" or whatever.  because i've never said anything like that. 

if you want the thread to die, stop making posts, you dolt.  there's like 8 useless posts in here about how the thread should die. 

nah it really had to do with the incredible pretentiousness of that part and how stupid it was to frame such a famous statement in the context of CRYING ABOUT A VIDEO GAME WEBCOMIC MAKING FUN OF VIDEO GAMES

[demi]

I don't know how to reply to a guy who is crying over what PA says but says they can say it and he defends their right to

IS that like a paradox or something?

[Joe Molotov]

Nintendo says that such-and-such is awesome, and Nintendo fans fall right in step. We have always been at war with Eurasia.

Achievements are great, we love rumble?

[y2kev]

I've noticed the Nintendo fans = Republicans connection, too. My theory was that it had to do with the way Democrats let reality define their beliefs, and Republicans let beliefs define their reality. Nintendo says that such-and-such is awesome, and Nintendo fans fall right in step. We have always been at war with Eurasia.

dr gakman posted about how stupid "evolutionists" are on gaf the other day

i've had it explained to me as such: nintendo's games and marketing define, reinforce, and support their uber-structured, traditional gender and familial roles.

[Vizzys]

how is this comic letting ms off? it pretty much nailed the bullshit all three conferences.

this is about pa being teh biased

but this is definitely not a conspiracy theory about ms pulling pa's strings, definitely

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Keep this fucking distinguished mentally-challenged shit on GAF.

[Crushed]

Keep this fucking distinguished mentally-challenged shit on GAF.

they all got banned on gaf for doing this shit, so they're coming over here :'(

[Fragamemnon]

nintendo's games and marketing define, reinforce, and support their uber-structured, traditional gender and familial roles.

this is a very interesting observation that i hadn't thought much about. somewhat insidious, but yeah Japanese culture is strong with those roles and it's not suprising that they are reflected in the company's business approach, especially given just how conservative a company Nintendo really is.

[JustinP]

I don't know how to reply to a guy who is crying over what PA says but says they can say it and he defends their right to

IS that like a paradox or something?

right, like you have never disagreed with the opinion expressed on the internet.  you and everyone else here is perfectly innocent of EVER calling someone on the internet biased or an sfag etc.  next time i see someone crying about something shane says (like, all the time on this forum), i'll remind them of how they have a tin foil hat on and do nothing but cry about what was said.  i'll remind them of how utterly pitiful they are for even devoting a minute of their time to CRYING ABOUT THE OPINION OF A VIDEO GAME JOURNALIST ABOUT A VIDEO GAME.  

get the fuck over yourselves.  if you call this "crying," you fucks unload rivers of bitter fucking tears all over the place every time you bitch about something on this forum.  

[demi]

are you going to cry if i call you an sfag?

[Crushed]

I don't know how to reply to a guy who is crying over what PA says but says they can say it and he defends their right to

IS that like a paradox or something?

right, like you have never disagreed with the opinion expressed on the internet.  you and everyone else here is perfectly innocent of EVER calling someone on the internet biased or an sfag etc.  next time i see someone crying about something shane says (like, all the time on this forum), i'll remind them of how they have a tin foil hat on and do nothing but cry about what was said.  i'll remind them of how utterly pitiful they are for even devoting a minute of their time to CRYING ABOUT THE OPINION OF A VIDEO GAME JOURNALIST ABOUT A VIDEO GAME.  

get the fuck over yourselves.  if you call this "crying," you fucks unload rivers of bitter fucking tears all over the place every time you bitch about something on this forum.  

go fuck your mom

[Bocsius]

Would somebody let Crushed back onto GAF? Please?

[Brehvolution]

Keep this fucking distinguished mentally-challenged shit on GAF.

they all got banned on gaf for doing this shit

I think it's the other way around.

[Crushed]

http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=22926.msg579652#msg579652

meltdown started

[duckman2000]

Would somebody let Crushed back onto GAF? Please?

Oh come on now, he's just acting the part of monument to hypocrisy. How many pages did that distant war against Amir0x and the unwashed administration of his promised land stretch for?

[Tigerriot]

how is this comic letting ms off? it pretty much nailed the bullshit all three conferences.

Someone already pointed it out for you, but I'll repeat.  They spent a while talking about Sony's silly controller problems from the launch of the PS3.  WTF does that have to do with anything?  He didn't seem to bring up the RROD, which is a problem of EPIC proportions.  But somehow that controller issue really felt like an itch he had to scratch.  Give me a fucking break.  The dude is a paid internet troll.

[Joe Molotov]

I don't know how to reply to a guy who is crying over what PA says but says they can say it and he defends their right to

IS that like a paradox or something?

right, like you have never disagreed with the opinion expressed on the internet.  you and everyone else here is perfectly innocent of EVER calling someone on the internet biased or an sfag etc.  next time i see someone crying about something shane says (like, all the time on this forum), i'll remind them of how they have a tin foil hat on and do nothing but cry about what was said.  i'll remind them of how utterly pitiful they are for even devoting a minute of their time to CRYING ABOUT THE OPINION OF A VIDEO GAME JOURNALIST ABOUT A VIDEO GAME. 

get the fuck over yourselves.  if you call this "crying," you fucks unload rivers of bitter fucking tears all over the place every time you bitch about something on this forum. 

Someone read this post and then put it on YTMND, plz.

[Crushed]

Would somebody let Crushed back onto GAF? Please?

Oh come on now, he's just acting the part of monument to hypocrisy.

how the hell are you two reading my posts, you're both supposed to be ignoring me  

[Vizzys]

is duckman2000 batshit insane or a masterful troll

I cant tell what is real anymore

[duckman2000]

There's a nice little "Show" button next to the post. The more you know.

[duckman2000]

is duckman2000 batshit insane or a masterful troll

I cant tell what is real anymore

What did I do now?

[Crushed]

There's a nice little "Show" button next to the post. The more you know.

I know that, but I dismissed the possibility. After all, it would kinda mean you WANT to see my posts, and then decide to reply to them, thus ignoring the whole point of the ignore list anyway.  

[JustinP]

http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=22926.msg579652#msg579652

meltdown started

i said i'd do it and i did it.  you do the same shit you preach against in this thread.  crying about what someone said about a video game.  you're just pitiful.  

[Crushed]

http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=22926.msg579652#msg579652

meltdown started

i said i'd do it and i did it.  you do the same shit you preach against in this thread.  crying about what someone said about a video game.  you're just pitiful.  

man you're already back from fucking your mom? that was quick

[duckman2000]

I know that, but I dismissed the possibility. After all, it would kinda mean you WANT to see my posts, and then decide to reply to them, thus ignoring the whole point of the ignore list anyway. 

Because I can ignore you at will. Right now, I find you utterly amusing, so I'm reading your posts. Wicked system, huh?

[y2kev]

[JustinP]

http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=22926.msg579652#msg579652

meltdown started

i said i'd do it and i did it.  you do the same shit you preach against in this thread.  crying about what someone said about a video game.  you're just pitiful.  

man you're already back from fucking your mom? that was quick

yeah i blew my load before even getting through all her fat.  she grounded me and everything.  you totally owned me dude.   

[duckman2000]

(Image removed from quote.)

The hell is that from?

[cool breeze]

Someone lock this thread.

[Crushed]

yeah i blew my load before even getting through all her fat.  she grounded me and everything.  you totally owned me dude.   

pretty much

so, you still crying about penny arcade

[JustinP]

(Image removed from quote.)

The hell is that from?

wave race reggie chopped into that mom talking about shit.  from nintendo's presser

[patrickula]

Considering practically the whole world was too fucking chivalrous to tell the fucking truth about just how god fucking awful the RROD problems really are

Yes, the red ring has been criminally unacknowledged on the internet... it's so obscure that there's a widely recognized acronym for it

Bailing out of this shit thread now, though I'll keep watching 

[Crushed]

day-o

me say day me say day me say day-o


daylight come and we wan go home

[cool breeze]

You can kill enemies with rats you throw at them in Crysis Warhead.  Console problems 

[Bocsius]

dfyb, continue your meltdown, please. However, if you could kindly stop quoting gafferboy, that would be great. Defeats the ignore list, you see. Not that "ignore" hides the fact that dude is making every fourth post...

[duckman2000]

Considering practically the whole world was too fucking chivalrous to tell the fucking truth about just how god fucking awful the RROD problems really are

Yes, the red ring has been criminally unacknowledged on the internet... it's so obscure that there's a widely recognized acronym for it

Bailing out of this shit thread now, though I'll keep watching 

It was though, that much is true. When my first console RROD, any mention of that was met with accusations of me spreading "FUD" and whatnot. It took a long time before that washed away and it was generally accepted as a genuine flaw. Don't make me tell the story of BenjaminBirdie and the Great Conspiracy of Ad Revenue again.

[duckman2000]

dfyb, continue your meltdown, please. However, if you could kindly stop quoting gafferboy, that would be great. Defeats the ignore list, you see. Not that "ignore" hides the fact that dude is making every fourth post...

Now THAT is skill

[JustinP]

dfyb, continue your meltdown, please. However, if you could kindly stop quoting gafferboy, that would be great. Defeats the ignore list, you see. Not that "ignore" hides the fact that dude is making every fourth post...

i've never really used ignore lists until i joined this forum.  i think crushed will be #2. 

[Fragamemnon]

You can kill enemies with rats you throw at them in Crysis Warhead.  Console problems 

not nearly enough love in general for crysis warhead on the internet. It seems they ditched the idea of telling some crazy story and said "hey look, we have bitching physics and environment interactivity! let's make a sanboxy game where ther players can just do all sorts of crazy shit to large numbers of chinamen, they'll love it."

Which, of course, we totally will.  

[Tigerriot]

Considering practically the whole world was too fucking chivalrous to tell the fucking truth about just how god fucking awful the RROD problems really are

Yes, the red ring has been criminally unacknowledged on the internet... it's so obscure that there's a widely recognized acronym for it

Bailing out of this shit thread now, though I'll keep watching 

Let me explain for you Xbot.  The RROD problem became widely discussed once Microsoft admitted it was a problem.  For the 18 months prior to that occuring, reporting on the RROD problem was ridiculously sparse considering the magnitude of the problems, and how much evidence there was to back it up.

[duckman2000]

Honestly, I haven't seen anything of Warhead. Is there good footage to be had somewhere?

[Crushed]

oh boy i've got such incredible people ignoring me as altogetherhaze, foc, tiggeriot, some dude i've never heard of who's trying to call me out because he's gay for me for some reason, and now dyfb

great success, plebeians don't deserve to view my glory unbridled

You can kill enemies with rats you throw at them in Crysis Warhead.  Console problems 

I spent God knows how long messing with the turtles, crabs, and sandpipers in Crysis. I accidentally killed a turtle while trying to take him out to sea, so I jumped up a mountain and made him a tomb out of metal canisters that I threw back down.

Crytek

not nearly enough love in general for crysis warhead on the internet. It seems they ditched the idea of telling some crazy story and said "hey look, we have bitching physics and environment interactivity! let's make a sanboxy game where ther players can just do all sorts of crazy shit to large numbers of chinamen, they'll love it."

Which, of course, we totally will. 

I don't think Koreans like to be called chinamen.

[Brehvolution]

Considering practically the whole world was too fucking chivalrous to tell the fucking truth about just how god fucking awful the RROD problems really are

Yes, the red ring has been criminally unacknowledged on the internet... it's so obscure that there's a widely recognized acronym for it

Bailing out of this shit thread now, though I'll keep watching 

Let me explain for you Xbot.  The RROD problem became widely discussed once Microsoft admitted it was a problem.  For the 18 months prior to that occuring, reporting on the RROD problem was ridiculously sparse considering the magnitude of the problems, and how much evidence there was to back it up.

Don't forget the accusations of owner abuse.

[Joe Molotov]

Considering practically the whole world was too fucking chivalrous to tell the fucking truth about just how god fucking awful the RROD problems really are

Yes, the red ring has been criminally unacknowledged on the internet... it's so obscure that there's a widely recognized acronym for it

Bailing out of this shit thread now, though I'll keep watching 

Let me explain for you Xbot.  The RROD problem became widely discussed once Microsoft admitted it was a problem.  For the 18 months prior to that occuring, reporting on the RROD problem was ridiculously sparse considering the magnitude of the problems, and how much evidence there was to back it up.

Well dang, Microsoft should have just not admitted it was a problem. THEN NO ONE WOULD HAVE EVER KNOWN! 

[cool breeze]

not nearly enough love in general for crysis warhead on the internet. It seems they ditched the idea of telling some crazy story and said "hey look, we have bitching physics and environment interactivity! let's make a sanboxy game where ther players can just do all sorts of crazy shit to large numbers of chinamen, they'll love it."

Which, of course, we totally will. 

It looks phenomenal.  They also ditched the high/low/whatever settings in favor of gamer/enthusiast/poopsocker settings to make sure it will run on your PC.  They are making sure any computer under $1000 (their testing rig is $600) can run this game high enough to look beautiful and blow away everything else and run smooth.  There are still higher settings, but those are for the enthusiast and poopsock crowd.

I spent God knows how long messing with the turtles, crabs, and sandpipers in Crysis. I accidentally killed a turtle while trying to take him out to sea, so I jumped up a mountain and made him a tomb out of metal canisters that I threw back down.

Crytek

I can't believe you killed a turtle.  They are some masterful animals.  Murder rats by hitting them against a korean guy's face.

[APF]

How can this cartoon in any way be legal? Do you think we can get together a class-action suit, or at the very least storm their embassy and demand they change the Constitution? How can this outrage stand?

[duckman2000]

not nearly enough love in general for crysis warhead on the internet. It seems they ditched the idea of telling some crazy story and said "hey look, we have bitching physics and environment interactivity! let's make a sanboxy game where ther players can just do all sorts of crazy shit to large numbers of chinamen, they'll love it."

Which, of course, we totally will. 

It looks phenomenal.  They also ditched the high/low/whatever settings in favor of gamer/enthusiast/poopsocker settings to make sure it will run on your PC.  They are making sure any computer under $1000 (their testing rig is $600) can run this game high enough to look beautiful and blow away everything else and run smooth.  There are still higher settings, but those are for the enthusiast and poopsock crowd.

Well now, wasn't that a claim made in regards to Crysis too?

[Bocsius]

Let me explain for you Xbot.  The RROD problem became widely discussed once Microsoft admitted it was a problem.  For the 18 months prior to that occuring, reporting on the RROD problem was ridiculously sparse considering the magnitude of the problems, and how much evidence there was to back it up.

Let's not rewrite history, dude. Sure, there were some loudmouth Xtards who would deny, lambast, and otherwise run interference on RROD discussion. But it was out there essentially from day one and grew into a generally accepted fact of life on Xbox 360 long, long before Microsoft ever took that 1 billion dollar charge. "Ya know, things break."

[Flannel Boy]

I've noticed the Nintendo fans = Republicans connection, too. My theory was that it had to do with the way Democrats let reality define their beliefs, and Republicans let beliefs define their reality. Nintendo says that such-and-such is awesome, and Nintendo fans fall right in step. We have always been at war with Eurasia.

That's pretty self-serving; everyone's reality is shaped by their pre-existing beliefs. Conservatives are simply less likely to discard those beliefs in the face of challenging evidence. After all, conservatism, an amorphous ideology, is simply a form of traditionalism, which seeks to maintain the status quo while being very suspicious of change.*  

It is this traditionalism, along with a strong desire to identify with an in-group, that keeps conservatives loyal to Nintendo. Nintendo was making console games long before MS or Sony, when nfags were impressionable children. Nintendo is tradition.


*I am not including other right-wing ideologies, such as fascism, right-wing libertarianism, or elitism.

[MrAngryFace]

I think I prefer insecure Nintendo fans to insecure Sony fans.

[cool breeze]

The claim for Crysis came after it was released.  They got it to run on a $900 PC.  As you can tell by using the power of math, $600 is quite a bit less than $900.  Add into it that this game actually looks better than Crysis and you have yourself bow fucking bow bow material.

[Fragamemnon]

I don't think Koreans like to be called chinamen.

good thing I'm not talking to koreans then (I was making a generalization there. Of course Koreans aren't Chinese, nor would they like to be called something like that. However, this is EB and we don't really do the PC thing here as long as we don't piss people off. )