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Penny Arcade Holiday Strip Series #2

Posted by Zonk on Mon Dec 20, 2004 02:25 PM
from the bleach-their-bones-and-watch-them-gleam-fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la dept.
It's funny. Laugh. Entertainment Games
We're happy to bring you more work from Gabe and Tycho, the co-authors of Penny Arcade and organizers of the Child's Play charity. This week the Holiday strip series continues with Page 2 of the story.
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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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  • Whoah (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 20 2004, @02:36PM (#11139407)
    That looks like my ex-girlfriend...

    • Re:Whoah (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Destoo (530123)
      Funny because it's what it's meant to be.

      Cthulhu is HP Lovecraft's representation of the female organs.

      He always was a party animal.
        • you're right.. silly homepage. I should make something out of it.

          And the theory is not mine.
          It was related to us by a litterature teacher in a sci-fi/horro around 1990. He probably mentionned seafood but I have no recollection of it. But I do remember that HP, in a letter, did mention something to that effect. Along the lines of : when you have read everything that has ever been written about sex at age 10 and about love at age 12, these things don't make any sense anymore.

          Then again, I might be wrong.

  • Well gee (Score:1, Offtopic)

    by Holi (250190)
    Since you posted the comic to slashdot why would I bother to go to penny-arcade.
    • well, you may be interested in the first couple pages of it... as you can see these are pages 3 and 4.
      • Actually I check penny-arcade every day, I just think the comic shouldn't be posted to slashdot. But if it's ok with Tycho and Gabe then it would be ok with me. I just wonder if it's ok with them.

        • Re:Well gee (Score:5, Informative)

          by Temporal (96070) on Monday December 20 2004, @03:04PM (#11139715) Journal
          Gabe personally thanked Slashdot in his post to PA's front page last Friday. Apparently the whole idea here is that Slashdot is "mirroring" these because PA's bandwidth has gone to shit recently and there's a lot of overlap in readership, or something. Personally I think the idea is pretty silly, but, yes, Gabe and Tycho approve.

        • Re:Well gee (Score:4, Informative)

          by fireduck (197000) on Monday December 20 2004, @03:04PM (#11139716)
          click that second link in the story, the one that links to the previous slashdot story with pages 1 and 2. you'll notice the blurb points out that slashdot is helping alleviate some of PA's bandwith demand by hosting the cartoons here as well.
  • Reminds me of the last South Park, Dr. Seuss rhyming, evil creatures,etc. It always amuses me how Cthulu and the rest are so well known in open source circles, but just get blanks looks from most computer geeks, let alone normal people!
    • I think you undergeneralize. Cthulu is well known in gaming geek circles, period. Just because there's a significant OSS -> Gaming overlap is no reason to claim "most computer geeks" don't know the Ancient Ones.

  • The Newspost (Score:5, Interesting)

    by feidaykin (158035) on Monday December 20 2004, @03:12PM (#11139808) Homepage Journal
    Tycho comments on the whole death of suprnova thing, and one of things he says is:

    There are conversations to be had about the morality of file sharing, but until those stern words are able to project a "morality field" that causes those in their radius to behave honorably such dialogues fall into the "adorable but irrelevant" category.

    Wow. I think he just summed up an entire form of slashdot subculture... in a single sentence. That's awesome!

      • However, quite often the sentence will require multiple readings to grasp the full meaning. He is an amazing writer.

        Not to blast Tycho, but good writing is easy to understand. An "amazing writer" does not hand you a scrambled Rubik's Cube and ask you to solve it.
        • I disagree. I rather like Tycho's writing style; it reminds me of Douglas Adams and others who take the time to play with the language and create sentences that not only get the point across, but are a joy to parse.
        • An "amazing writer" does not hand you a scrambled Rubik's Cube and ask you to solve it.

          Well put. I couldn't agree more. I love Penny Arcade, but Tycho's writing is self-indulgent and oblique. Sometimes I think he checks every adjective for a possible thesaurus substitute.

          It reminds me of the witty banter that characters zip back and forth in shows like Dawson's Creek and Gilmore Girls-- SAT words get blasted around at 6 per minute, and they barely pause to think before rattling off a seemingly brillia
            • Regardless of how many "levels" a story has, you should be able to understand each individual sentence. Depth is not brought about by confusion.

              I've read Tolstoy (an "amazing writer"), Douglas Adams (ditto), as well as college physics textbooks (NOT amazing for the most part). The great writers convey their thoughts nearly effortlessly. Physics textbooks, more often than not, force you to read sentences and paragraphs over and over to gain any meaning at all.

              Tycho isn't the worst I've seen, but the partic
        • Yes, I agree. That sentence is horrible. There are many big words and not much content.

          Tycho's sentence:
          There are conversations to be had about the morality of file sharing, but until those stern words are able to project a "morality field" that causes those in their radius to behave honorably such dialogues fall into the "adorable but irrelevant" category.

          This reads to me as follows: "Untill people listen to them, discussions about the morality of file sharing are pointless."

          He tries to say more, but
          • Yes, I agree. That sentence is horrible. There are many big words and not much content.

            Which 'big words' were tripping you up? With the cutoff at 6 letters you get:

            conversations
            morality
            sharing
            project
            honorab ly
            dialogues
            adorable
            irrelevant
            category

            are those really that hard?

  • Y'know, I realize that these articles are here to try and help keep PA from being slashdotted by the charity links and all that, but these slashdot articles are reminding me that I'm a month behind in the PA comics, and that I ought to go browsing right now....

    Wonder if the /. mirroring is actually helping their server overload....

    • Wonder if the /. mirroring is actually helping their server overload....

      I think it's actually making the server load worse. Slashdotters who don't normally go to PA are mindlessly clicking on the links Pavlovian style despite the fact that the comic is right there. And PA readers are clicking on the link to RTFA from Tycho. Today and Friday PA has been waaaaaaay slower than usual.
    • Probably not. Penny-Arcade would be better of coding their site properly. They could cut their bandwidth in half. Then there's the number of requests they make to the database. Yeesh.
    • If you've read much of Tycho's writing, you'll realize that the only reason English grammar is compromised in the strip is for the sake of rhyme. And just in case you're also a Composition Nazi, I apologize (Or would you prefer I use "apologise," as you tend to hold Americans' collective grasp of English in such contempt?) for using the passive "is compromised."

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