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Penny Arcade Holiday Strip Series #1 308
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)
![*](http://images.slashdot.org/articles/04/12/cover_book.jpg)
They need to publish this (Score:5, Funny)
Taco says (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Taco says (Score:5, Funny)
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)
Re:No can do (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No can do (Score:2, Informative)
Recently a new guy joined the team, who left PWC to sort out their business plan, so they're doing a lot better at that kind of thing.
One page? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:One page? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:One page? (Score:5, Informative)
We'll be hosting them here as well until this series is done, though the rest of the strips will be Games sectional only.
Re:One page? (Score:2)
Re:One page? (Score:2)
Re:One page? (Score:3, Informative)
Page 1 - 12/17 (Fri)
Page 2 - 12/20 (Mon)
Page 3 - 12/22 (Wed)
Page 4 - 12/24 (Fri)
Page 5 - 12/27 (Mon)
The sad part is that they appear to have abandoned the Sony Style storyline, of which episode 3 should've been up today.
Re:One page? (Score:2)
Now, on topic, a quick Q: What deal did you make with the PA boys for this repost? Just for fun ("Slashdot has comics!") or did cash/advertising revenue exchange hands?
Re:One page? (Score:3, Funny)
Depends on how many days it takes the first one to load.
Think XA - "Extreme Authoring" (Score:2)
It's just like "Extreme Programming" -- release early, release often.
And just as with XP, the result is often so minimal as to be absolutely useless except to indicate that yes, some miniscule level of progress is occurring on a week-to-week basis.
For those who don't live for the sheer unmitigated adrenaline rush of reading one new sentence a week, my advice is to wait for the damn thing to be finished.
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Re:One page? (Score:2)
Re:Why is Parent Insightful? (Score:2)
Bandwith = getting killed? (Score:3, Insightful)
I guess its why Slashdot don't offer to mirror sites they're going to link to on the mainpage.
Re:Bandwith = getting killed? (Score:3, Funny)
good times good times
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)
Brilliant! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Brilliant! (Score:2, Redundant)
If this trend continues, this post will be rated (1,Funny).
Oh, Drat!
duplicity? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:duplicity? (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't see what the difference is about Penny Arcade. I'm kind of guessing
Re:duplicity? (Score:2)
Re:duplicity? (Score:5, Insightful)
How does *that* work? (Score:5, Funny)
Did we manage to Slashdot Slashdot?
Freaky!
Re:How does *that* work? (Score:2)
YOU BASTARDS!
Re:How does *that* work? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How does *that* work? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How does *that* work? (Score:3, Funny)
by the Fruit Fucker 5000
Re:How does *that* work? (Score:2)
Re:How does *that* work? (Score:3, Funny)
"This just in... Slashdot's wang is flacid and ill-used."
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
Re:Cliche here... (Score:2)
Re:Cliche here... (Score:2)
/. fucks up again (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:/. fucks up again (Score:3, Interesting)
Well, I saw the headline and remembered "oh yeah, it's friday", fired up Safari (I was on firefox for it's adblockedness) and went to my bookmark bar's comix folder and selected "open in tabs", as is my custom.
That opens all my bookmarked webcomics in tabs, simulteniously, with one click: Very cool.
So, yes.
P.S. Safari has much better tab browsing and navigation than other browsers, but they have it deactivated by default. Go figure.
P.P.S. I l
Re:/. fucks up again (Score:3, Informative)
P.S. Opera has as good if not better tab browsing than other browsers, and they have it activated by default. Go figure.
P.P.S. Ever notice that even with The Almighty, there were (at least) four gospels?
Re:/. fucks up again (Score:2)
Can you kill tabs without having them in the foreground? Haven't used it in a while, but I don't remember tabs having individual close-tab buttons like Safari has and Firefox/Mozilla doesn't...
And Opera doesn't have adblocking, does it? Maybe I should download the latest, but, I'm set in my ways : )
Re:/. fucks up again (Score:2)
Re:/. fucks up again (Score:2)
Really? How?
And btw, one of Safari's hotness is the "close tab" button (x) for each tab, so you can close the ones that are slashdotted without having to go look at the "it's not working" message, since the lil' icon told me so already. Nifty.
Re:/. fucks up again (Score:2)
Well, I can't do it, middle-click does the same damn thing as left click. Is it one of those "but not if the middle button is a wheel" things?
*nix users will need to go into about:config and disable "middlemouse.contentLoadURL" first
Yeaaaaah... er, you count OSX as a *nix or not?
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)
todhsalsing?
Re:so what do we call it when... (Score:2, Funny)
The first sign of the Apocalypse.
Re:so what do we call it when... (Score:2)
The first was when they implicitly acknowledged that there such a thing as a slashdotting in the first place.
Re:so what do we call it when... (Score:3, Funny)
Such as:
Fuck yeah! (positive)
Oh Fuck! (negative)
Therefore we can use the term Slashdotted as follows:
The site is Slashdotted (negative)
We Slashdotted the site (positive)
Or it could just be the end of the world. In either case i'm going to piss myself and curl up into a little ball on the floor.
How about - Slashgotting (Score:2)
Child's Play (Score:5, Informative)
Time's getting short!
Re:Child's Play (Score:3, Interesting)
HO HO HO HO HO!!! (no pun intended)
The end of the world (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Shouldn't the cover and pages be the same size? (Score:2)
Yeah, cause that means you would have to scale the cover image. Oh, Discordia! All is lost!
m-
FOR THE LOVE OF CTHULHU! (Score:3, Insightful)
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
Re:FOR THE LOVE OF CTHULHU! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:FOR THE LOVE OF CTHULHU! (Score:2)
However, from what I recall they are planning to set up some sort of virtualhosting network-wide to get access to port 80.
Re:FOR THE LOVE OF CTHULHU! (Score:2)
Re:FOR THE LOVE OF CTHULHU! (Score:2)
The problem is explained in detail here:
http://coral.scs.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/wiki.php/Main/
Ctrl+Shift+R I hear makes it load faster (Score:4, Funny)
The "R" is for "ReallyFastLoad" it a secret feature *shhhhhhhhhh*
Meanwhile, back in the /. server room. (Score:2)
Something around here smells like burning plastic and metal...
Re:Ctrl+Shift+R I hear makes it load faster (Score:2)
Good plan!
-Adam
I guess it's working (Score:5, Funny)
I guess slashdot got pennyarcaded.
Mirrored! (Score:2, Informative)
cover [img94.exs.cx]
page 1 [img94.exs.cx]
Mod up! (Score:2)
I think they can write the strip faster than any of us can load it!
Coralize (Score:5, Informative)
Just append
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/overview/ [nyu.edu]
for more info.
note from gabe and tycho: (Score:2)
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
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]
Re:uhh (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:uhh (Score:2, Insightful)
Yes, that's my point, the way the editors phrased it conveys the exact opposite of what they meant to. Like I said, I don't think PA did anything wrong, I just think the slashdot crew, if they're going to call themselves "editors", should put some actual editorial effort into their work. When you get paid a nice salary to maybe write a few lines a day, at least do
Re:uhh (Score:3, Informative)
Re:uhh (Score:2)
Re:dude, bandwidth COSTS money (Score:2)
The article would have only been correct if they got a free T1 for doing Child's Play.
Re:That's no Cthulhu! (Score:5, Informative)
How else, exactly, are you intending to represent Him [pk.edu.pl].
Re:That's no Cthulhu! (Score:3, Funny)
You might also be interested in Hello Cthulhu [hello-cthulhu.com], which mixes Sanrio cuteness with underworld dread.
Re:That's no Cthulhu! (Score:2)
That's not, IMNSHO, the expected reaction when seeing Cthulhu...
Regards,
--
*Art
Re:That's no Cthulhu! (Score:2, Informative)
What's the deal with Cthulhu! (Score:2)
Re:What's the deal with Cthulhu! (Score:2)
As far as cthulu is concerned, I think it's a combination of the literature (which is by H.P. Lovecraft and a few others) along with the Role-playing game, A Call of Cthulu. I think it's that we all can sympathize with a creature who has been long locked away in the darkened depths, communing with gods out of the outer dark, waiting for them
Re:What's the deal with Cthulhu! (Score:2)
Lovecraft is great literature. I liked it very much, I don't read it anymore, because it scared the shit out of me, and I have my limits.
I am reading now Lautreamont , "Les Chants de Maldoror", it's has some extreme horror, but it's more beautiful. There is a society of people in my country (Uruguay) "obsessed" with Lautreamont and his character, Maldoror.
Good books and characters make that happen, even if people only know them
Re:What's the deal with Cthulhu! (Score:3, Informative)
The Cthulhu Mythos certainly has Geek appeal. All powerful gods (Yog Sothoth) that exist in multiple dimensions, alien creatures --- like the Mi-Go --- who capture humans, remove their brains, and stuff them into metal receptacles with electronics allowing them to communicate with others.
Read the fiction by H.P. Lovecraft and decide for yourself. A good place to start would be The Dunwich Horror or The Call of Cthulhu. His fiction is readily [arkhamhouse.com] available [amazon.com]. Other authors in the original
Re:CTHULU_29041 took your flag! (Score:5, Funny)
Got Sanity?
Re:CTHULU_29041 took your flag! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:CTHULU_29041 took your flag! (Score:2)
Heh. Just more reason people should meta-moderate. It's really odd how people abuse the system for no known reason. Unless, of course, the moderator doesn't know what "off topic" really means.
Re:OT (fer real this time) (Score:2)
Yeah. I'm guilty of this too.
I wish there were a feedback option when you get meta moderated. Like, "agree" or "disagree" with it, so that when I agree that my moderation was indeed unfair I could say so, and when it's someone
Re:CTHULU_29041 took your flag! (Score:2)
Re:While normally we don't do this sort of thing, (Score:2)
Re:Slashdotting... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slashdotting... (Score:2)
I thought about this, and I said:
> How many Slashdots would God slashdot
> if a Slashdot God slashed dots?
> (As many slashdots as Slashdot would,
> If we slashdotted Slashdot's God.)
And in response, thus spake the Usenet Oracle:
} Oh no. Not this again.
} ** ZOT **
Not god (Score:2)
Re:Slashdotting... (Score:2)
Can God create a site with so much bandwidth that even He can't Slashdot it?
Re:Slashdotting... (Score:2)
Re:Slashdotting... (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"While normally we don't do this sort of thing" (Score:2, Funny)
Re:ah (Score:2)