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Penny Arcade Holiday Strip Series #1
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Fri Dec 17, 2004 01:31 PM
from the tis-the-season-to-writhe-and-scream-fa-la-la-la-la dept.
from the tis-the-season-to-writhe-and-scream-fa-la-la-la-la dept.
While normally we don't do this sort of thing, recent charity work with Child's Play has substantially increased
the bandwidth demands over at Penny Arcade. To assist Gabe & Tycho, and keep their site running slightly faster than a snails-pace, we're co-hosting their seasonal holiday strip series "The Last Christmas". The cover and the first page are attached to this story (future pages in coming days), so read on and enjoy until we hit our bandwidth limits! (Warning: Comic may contain Cthulhu)
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They need to publish this (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Taco says (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.timewarp.org/ | Last Journal: Monday September 30 2002, @08:49AM)
Tycho: "I know! Gabe... you can draw, and I can write, and we can make a Christmas webcomic!"
Gabe: "Yeah! And I have an uncle Taco with a barn! We can host it there!"
Tycho: "..."
Gabe: "Did I say barn? I meant penis."
Gabe: "Website! I meant website!"
--
Evan
No can do (Score:5, Informative)
One page? (Score:2, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Monday November 28 2005, @12:21PM)
Re:One page? (Score:5, Informative)
(http://slashdot.org/~Zonk/ | Last Journal: Wednesday January 24 2007, @08:04PM)
We'll be hosting them here as well until this series is done, though the rest of the strips will be Games sectional only.
ah (Score:1, Troll)
(http://thisnukes4u.net/ | Last Journal: Sunday October 07, @08:45PM)
Bandwith = getting killed? (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://www.biologynews.net/)
I guess its why Slashdot don't offer to mirror sites they're going to link to on the mainpage.
Article text ;) (Score:5, Funny)
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday December 17, @18:31
from the tis-the-season-to-writhe-and-scream-fa-la-la-la-l
While normally we don't do this sort of thing, recent charity work with Child's Play has substantially increased the bandwidth over at Penny Arcade. So to help Gabe & Tycho keep the site running slightly faster than snails-pace, we're helping host their seasonal holiday strip series "The Last Christmas". The cover and the first page are attached to this story, so read on and enjoy until we hit our bandwidth limits! (Warning: Comic may contain Cthulhu)
duplicity? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:duplicity? (Score:5, Insightful)
Self /.ing (Score:1, Funny)
How does *that* work? (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday April 03 2006, @07:23PM)
Did we manage to Slashdot Slashdot?
Freaky!
Re:How does *that* work? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How does *that* work? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How does *that* work? (Score:5, Insightful)
Unfortunately, Slashdot cannot be taken down by the Slashdot effect.
It's a negative feedback system. When the load increases on Slashdot's servers, the number of people who can access the site decreases, decreasing the load on the servers. Eventually, there will be an point where the inflow of new readers equals the outflow of `old' readers.
During this period the throughput will be maximum. Whether throughput==bandwidth depends on the content. The images are hopefully coming from a caching server away from the nonsense that is comment thresholds.
BB
That's no Cthulhu! (Score:1)
I think you are confusing Cthulhu with a giant squid.
Re:That's no Cthulhu! (Score:5, Informative)
(http://slashdot.org/)
How else, exactly, are you intending to represent Him [pk.edu.pl].
/. fucks up again (Score:3, Interesting)
Oh oh.... (Score:2)
A little quick on the draw I see?
Or maybe you hit your limits already? ;)
so what do we call it when... (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Tuesday February 04 2003, @08:22PM)
todhsalsing?
Child's Play (Score:5, Informative)
Time's getting short!
We're here to help! (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Sunday November 11, @09:31AM)
Sheesh. Noone reads the summary and knows the strip is here, they just go clickity-click.
On a related note, where's suprnova.org? All I get from them is a blank page.
It doesn't work (Score:1)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Has Slashdot Slashdotted itself? Is this even possible?
The end of the world (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Its
Until.... (Score:4, Funny)
I didn't get to enjoy for very long. stick to text.
Shouldn't the cover and pages be the same size? (Score:2, Interesting)
Golden book, eat your heart out.
FOR THE LOVE OF CTHULHU! (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://novasearch.net/)
I mean honestly. Coral is precicesly what this situation was designed for. Penny-Arcade could significantly reduce their bandwidth usage by coralizing the comics. Heck, even Slashdot could get a major speedup on their hosting these christmas pages by using Coral for the links.
Here are the coralized versions of the Slashdot-hosted images... If a few people request them they should get cached and will load like greased lightning:
http://66.35.250.242.nyud.net:8090/cover_book.jpg [nyud.net]
http://66.35.250.242.nyud.net:8090/page_1_book.jp
Ctrl+Shift+R I hear makes it load faster (Score:4, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/~curtisk/journal/ | Last Journal: Wednesday March 21 2007, @12:13PM)
The "R" is for "ReallyFastLoad" it a secret feature *shhhhhhhhhh*
I guess it's working (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.louishochman.com/)
I guess slashdot got pennyarcaded.
Mirrored! (Score:2, Informative)
(http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?objekt)
cover [img94.exs.cx]
page 1 [img94.exs.cx]
PVP (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Saturday October 01 2005, @03:15PM)
http://www.pvponline.com/pvp4/
Season's Greetings (Score:1)
It loads faster on penny-arcade.com (Score:1)
Torrent (Score:1)
And putting it on Slashdot, yah, that'll help. (Score:1)
Just mentioning.
(It's a good cause btw, so EVERYBODY DONATE SOMETHING!)
I'll host it too.... (Score:1)
(http://www.voidone.com/)
http://www.pecknology.net/thelastchristmas/ [pecknology.net]
dep
Coralize (Score:5, Informative)
(http://theonion.com/)
Just append
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/overview/ [nyu.edu]
for more info.
For Those Without Slow Dialup Connections (Score:1)
note from gabe and tycho: (Score:2)
(http://phonedifferent.com/)
a merry Cthulhu F'taghn to you all.
Der Newsposten (Score:5, Informative)
Alright. So, a couple things happened.
One, the Sony [penny-arcade.com] Syndrome [penny-arcade.com] "story" is probably over. We're fond of this as an ending place for it, but we your comic masters are mercurial and delight in misdirection. One never really knows. We promise nothing, and you should expect nothing. Nothing!
The second thing is that the Spike event sort of put me off of awards for the time being. Just as a random comment, if your 2004 awards program does not include Metroid Prime 2 or World of Warcraft, it has no authority whatsoever to coronate the king of any genre. I'm not even saying that those games need to win. I'm simply stating that the games exist and are real, news which has not reached them out there on the ragged periphery of taste and intellect. It has been our annual tradition to list the twelve most delicious games of the year here at Penny Arcade, and though the odds of us telling you our favorites are actually quite high doing it the way we've done it for the last few years really sounds awful to me. To both of us, even. So we're not going to do that.
What we are going to do is present a very short children's book concerning a celestial alignment which awakens the doom that lies dead and dreaming in R'lyeh. The first page [penny-arcade.com] can be found here. Ia! I'm sure you'll agree that this will be a great deal more fun for everyone involved. It goes until the 27th of December, the Monday after next. This is the cover [penny-arcade.com].
Child's Play: Kiko's Child's Play Shirt [gameskins.com] is, like his other work, a stunning act of design savvy. He still has a few left [gameskins.com] in the run, if you'd like to climb aboard. We're coming up on the end of this year's drive, and I have every faith that when we incorporate the gifts from the partner sites [penny-arcade.com] last year's high score will be defeated, and we will enter our initials.
Please consider what the games you enjoy could mean to a young person staring down a long-term illness. If you haven't given yet, it's possible you don't know: you're entirely capable of heroism. The barrier to entry is surprisingly low [childsplaycharity.org].
(CW)TB out.
Uh, this is stupid (Score:2)
If you wanted to sustain interest, maybe wait until you have two or even four pages to go begging the attention of millions of slashdot users. Looks like it might have been cool if there was anything of substance by the time
Just in case (Score:1)
No EA? (Score:1)
If I wasn't paying my programmers O.T. and had been amassing loads of cash as a result, I think that I would want to give at least a little something back, no?
"We are all Children of Cthulhu -- especially the ones with lots of tentacles."
There's a Microsoft donation (Score:1, Insightful)
John Romero was going to donate some games (Score:2, Funny)
Plush Santa Cthulhu (kids love 'em) (Score:4, Informative)
Buy plush Cthulhus online. [toyvault.com]
This link is highly amusing. Tales of the Plush Cthulhu [logicalcreativity.com]
How does this help? (Score:2)
Perhaps something else... (Score:2)
Basically any cause that actually does research into curing the maladies that put kids in the hospitals (and adults) could potentially do much more good than Child's Play.
It's a fun cause, and something gamers can relate to... I just think it's a shame that all this attention is being given to something so transitory as a few toys that will break or be outdated in a few short months.
Re:uhh (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:uhh (Score:1)
Re:uhh (Score:3, Informative)
(http://www.supersuckers.com/)
Re:uhh (Score:1)
(http://lanalot.com/)
recent charity work with Child's Play has substantially increased the bandwidth usage over at Penny Aracade.
It makes perfect sense, once you add in the 'usage' word into the mix. Penny Arcade is getting many more hits than usual because of their chairty work. So slashdot is being charitable in return. Tis the season to be sharing (bandwidth)!
Re:CTHULU_29041 took your flag! (Score:5, Funny)
Got Sanity?
Re:CTHULU_29041 took your flag! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:While normally we don't do this sort of thing, (Score:2)
(http://members.xoom.com/H3lldr0p/GMRS.HTML)
Re:Slashdotting... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://tear.sourceforge.net/)
Re:uhh (Score:1)
The fact that Childs Play is hosted on the same server (or behind the same network), is causing more traffic than they are used to, so rather than having both charity customers and PA customers hammering the server
I don't know how you could even see something vaguely seedy in the comment?
Re:uhh (Score:2)
dude, bandwidth COSTS money (Score:1)
Re:"While normally we don't do this sort of thing" (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Along those lines, musically... (Score:1)
(http://www.geocities...wers/7210/index.html)