Casey Finnigan posted:oh drat Neglected Mario Characters still exists, and the website is now extremely bizarre and has all these links to pokerlistings.com
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I have been mentally conditioned over the past 22 years to continue reading Sluggy Freelance until I die, or Pete Abrams dies...please kill me. Years ago, when his daughter was born, I remember thinking "this child will grow up, learn to draw, become a better artist, start, and finish a comic before Sluggy Freelance even remotely begins to wrap up."
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 08:24 |
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The_Franz posted:The Penny Arcade guys had their fair share of controversy, but I don't recall this. Just off the top of my head, there was the dickwolves thing and that horrible job listing that basically read "Wanted: One guy to do three jobs. You will run the entire tech side of our operation and are expected to be on call 24/7. We will constantly remind you that you are our bitch and we're going to pay you very little because we don't care about money. At least that's what we like to tell ourselves while we collect huge salaries and buy Mercedes to compensate for being pantsed in gym class 30 years ago. We do have a ping-pong table in the office though (that you probably won't be allowed to touch)." I wish PAX as a thing would separate from them somehow so I could go and not give them any money
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Powered Descent posted:Flashback time: This made check out Ebaums World for the first time in years and it seems to have become a generic clickbait article site.
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EvilTaytoMan posted:This made check out sites outside SA for the first time in years and it seems to have become a generic clickbait article site.
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EvilTaytoMan posted:This made check out Ebaums World for the first time in years and it seems to have become a generic clickbait article site. Hey, welcome to the site! Don't forget to subscribe to our newsletter! Please disable your adblocker so we can keep bringing you great content! Speaking of Ebaums World, I recently learned about "FuckJerry" and it's like Ebaums World all over again, but far more pervasive.
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 15:31 |
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How many more weeks till SA is the next on the chopping block?
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 15:34 |
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Was there more to the dickwolves thing, beyond being juvenile and unfunny, than I'm remembering?
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 15:41 |
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They vehemently defended their decision in a newspost or two, which is yikes in itself. And then IIRC did the whole Strawberry Shortcake thing around the same time? Funny how they bowed to pressure on that one despite not legally being required to, yet refused to acknowledge that an explicit rape joke may not be in the best taste.
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Queen Combat posted:And then IIRC did the whole Strawberry Shortcake thing around the same time? Those strips were 7 years apart.
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 16:01 |
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Aaahhh all the poo poo blends together.
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 16:09 |
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The best hard core gamer webcomic was Eegra Also I binge-read all of Venus Envy one weekend in 2006 and felt very hosed up about it and forbade myself from ever looking at it again
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 16:19 |
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I still like that Ebaum's follow-on venture was a NYC-style high-end steakhouse. It failed, because it's in a town that can't support NYC-style high-end prices.
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 16:29 |
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Humourless dumb idiots freaked out about jokes. Typical.
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 16:38 |
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oohhboy posted:Humourless dumb idiots freaked out about jokes. Typical. I am not sure which of the 2 sides you are referring to, but yes.
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Lowen SoDium posted:Some stuff happened on twitter that I think has been lost to the ages There were also a number of exhibitors at PAX that just noped out of it explicitly because of how they were handling the whole thing. This is one of those thing where you realize that Rob Khoo sat them down and said "you will lose your livelihood unless you do what I say" and managed to save them from themselves. E:// Gabe was also the guy that made the long post about how he would rather set fire to his life's work than [do thing] once, so yeah he's had a lot of oppositional related temper issues. That last post shows he's started working them out, probably because it's hard to be an angsty manchild when raising an actual child. FilthyImp has a new favorite as of 17:21 on Apr 10, 2019 |
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It's a freak out inception. By half way nobody seems to know what the gently caress it was about or who they are fighting or what they are doing. Just shut up. No matter how funny or not a joke is there will always be someone who will kick up a fuss for *Reasons*. Wait, he was seriously going to draw a dick wolf. Even as a joke that is the wrong time, place and context. That reminds me, was dead baby jokes an early internet thing?
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oohhboy posted:That reminds me, was dead baby jokes an early internet thing? As a kid in 80s, I had the entire series of Blanche Knotts Truly Tasteless Jokes books. Dead baby jokes were a staple of those books.
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What I want to know is why was the creator of Law & Order keeping prisoners in a dungeon in the first place.
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oohhboy posted:That reminds me, was dead baby jokes an early internet thing? These are as old as edgy humor itself. Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:As a kid in 80s, I had the entire series of Blanche Knotts Truly Tasteless Jokes books. Dead baby jokes were a staple of those books. In a Stephen King book published in 1991 a character kills a computer by telling it a dead baby joke.
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 17:22 |
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One of the games in the Civilization series (III? IV?) had a thing where great scientists would be be born at random throughout history and give whichever player got them a bonus to research or something. There was a big list of names of real-life scientists that the game would choose from, so that you might get Marie Curie born in Tenochtitlan in 200 BC, or any combination like that. And some goon played a game where he got Tycho Brahe, and he immediately made a thread full of screenshots and crowed about finding this amazing easter egg and how the people who make Civ must be Penny Arcade fans.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:As a kid in 80s, I had the entire series of Blanche Knotts Truly Tasteless Jokes books. Dead baby jokes were a staple of those books. i got suspended from school for having one of those books on me and my parents let me sleep in and eat trash and watch TV during it because they thought the suspension was so stupid
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Powered Descent posted:One of the games in the Civilization series (III? IV?) had a thing where great scientists would be be born at random throughout history and give whichever player got them a bonus to research or something. There was a big list of names of real-life scientists that the game would choose from, so that you might get Marie Curie born in Tenochtitlan in 200 BC, or any combination like that. Ugh, indeed.
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 17:43 |
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I also remember one of the Penny Arcade assholes saying some pretty transphobic stuff at one point.
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FilthyImp posted:
Yeah, the whole "set fire to my life's work" freakout was in response to the Ocean Marketing guy and that controller mod thing for disabled people, but it happened kind of in the middle of all this. Its long and I won't quote it, but it's a good read. Check it out here and the follow up post here. Gabe talks about bullies in the second post, which ties in to the post he made in 2014 about being a bully himself. Lowen SoDium has a new favorite as of 18:23 on Apr 10, 2019 |
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Yeah, the response to the Dickwolves thing... I mean, people read PA, right? They realize Dickwolves are par for the course, right? PA is a pair of assholes backed by an advertising and merch company built by a very smart business manager, and without Khoo the pair would have crashed and burned a decade and a half ago and probably been mostly forgotten by now.
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Veotax posted:I also remember one of the Penny Arcade assholes saying some pretty transphobic stuff at one point.
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 18:19 |
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2013 from a quick google search. Probably a contributing factor for PAX making a "see, we're all about diversity" push around that time. They introduced a 'safe diversity space' or something that everyone at the time called the Diversity Ghetto, implying that the rest of the show wasn't safe non-cis/hetro/white people. No idea how that turned out, stopped following PAX before that.
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rndmnmbr posted:Yeah, the response to the Dickwolves thing... I mean, people read PA, right? They realize Dickwolves are par for the course, right? PA is a pair of assholes backed by an advertising and merch company built by a very smart business manager, and without Khoo the pair would have crashed and burned a decade and a half ago and probably been mostly forgotten by now. IIRC, the dickwolves thing didn't become an issue until years after the comic was published and the perma-offended crowd stumbled upon it. I was always under the impression that the writer guy was ok, even if he still writes like an overachieving highschooler trying to impress the teacher with paragraphs full of long, obscure words that ultimately say nothing. A while back I looked at PA for the first time in years and the art style now looks... deranged.
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 19:31 |
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I think they've reined it in a little bit recently? The current style looks a bit more classical to me than the weird 2D jug handle noses he used a year or two ago. As for web comics with a story, the only one I'm still reading is Schlock Mercenary, much because it's the only one to not go off the rails with personal/political/dark and serious; it has just remained light military sci-fi with plot arcs. The art has improved massively over the years, too.
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I can't even remember the last time I was into a web comic. I guess various life circumstances pushed me away. Plus a lot of the comics I read ended up being created by complete douchebags. Not to mention that my height of reading webcomics was when I was an edgy teen, and I matured out of the edgy ones and the good ones just kind of fell to the wayside.
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I was at least semi-regularly checking online strips up until Google yanked Reader. After that, I just looked at Maakies when Tony Millionaire would post it on Facebook, then he retired the strip. I tried for a bit to use an RSS reader program, but honestly I just didn't miss looking at comic strips on a computer. There was a webcomic thread on SA that was sort of amusing at one point, and there's a ton of good comics in print at the library if I'm in the mood.
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I still think PBF is hilarious. Terminal Lance is also great, and when idiot elements of his fanbase have said lovely things he's called them out on it without having to be asked.
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My favorite PA controversy is when they posted a job ad saying that the extremely non-competitive pay, 80-hour work weeks, and massive list of stressful job duties was balanced by the fact that they had a free soda fridge in the office or something
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Computer viking posted:As for web comics with a story, the only one I'm still reading is Schlock Mercenary, much because it's the only one to not go off the rails with personal/political/dark and serious; it has just remained light military sci-fi with plot arcs. The art has improved massively over the years, too. Eeeeeh.... I'd say the scope of the story has outgrown the tone and setting. Desperately trying to figure out what killed billions of years worth of super advanced galactic civilizations just before it gets around to doing the same to you / desperately trying to find the remnants of said civilizations when they don't want to be found and definitely don't want to talk to you is a little outside what the comic is best at, silly mercenary hijinks. But then, the comic kinda lost me between the LOTA story and the Gav story. Longshoreman of the Apocalypse was brutally dark, but there was enough levity there to keep things going, especially in LOTA itself. But the next book wasn't enough of a breather, and then Random Access Memorabilia was the same kind of brutal darkness, but it's not funny. I came away from that story beaten and bruised, and there just hasn't been the same magic since. Fallom posted:My favorite PA controversy is when they posted a job ad saying that the extremely non-competitive pay, 80-hour work weeks, and massive list of stressful job duties was balanced by the fact that they had a free soda fridge in the office or something To quote Jerry, they're "hiring new friends". Which has always struck me as "hiring people to pretend to be friends and then working them to death because that's what friends do for each other, right?" But then I'm biased because I've lost both jobs and friends over being hired by them and then not sharing their willingness to gently caress themselves out of money/benefits/time off.
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The_Franz posted:IIRC, the dickwolves thing didn't become an issue until years after the comic was published and the perma-offended crowd stumbled upon it. This wasn't the Tumblratti deciding to get offended over nothing. It absolutely was an issue, but their god-damned inability to just admit they hosed up fanned the flames of that poo poo for years.
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*updates penny-arcade-scandals-timeline.xls*
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Pham Nuwen posted:*updates penny-arcade-scandals-timeline.xls*
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Pham Nuwen posted:*updates penny-arcade-scandals-timeline.xls* That poo poo is in Visio.
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