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Penny Arcade Holiday Strip Series #2

Posted by Zonk on Mon Dec 20, '04 02:25 PM
from the bleach-their-bones-and-watch-them-gleam-fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la dept.

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.

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, @02:36PM (#11139407)

That looks like my ex-girlfriend...
- Re:Whoah by Destoo (Score:3) Tuesday December 21, @11:43AM
  - Re:Whoah by Destoo (Score:2) Tuesday December 21, @01:44PM
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- Re:Whoah by UrgleHoth (Score:1) Tuesday December 21, @06:36PM
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Well gee
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by Holi (250190) on Monday December 20, @02:51PM (#11139582)

Since you posted the comic to slashdot why would I bother to go to penny-arcade.
- Re:Well gee by Methuseus (Score:2) Monday December 20, @02:52PM
  - Re:Well gee by Holi (Score:1) Monday December 20, @02:59PM
    - Re:Well gee
      (Score:5, Informative)
      
      by Temporal (96070) on Monday December 20, @03:04PM (#11139715)
      (Last Journal: Friday July 04, @03:37PM)
      
      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.
      
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      - Re:Well gee by smoondog (Score:2) Monday December 20, @10:29PM
    - Re:Well gee
      (Score:4, Informative)
      
      by fireduck (197000) on Monday December 20, @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.
      
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      - Re:Well gee by Wandering Wombat (Score:1) Tuesday December 21, @12:16PM
    - it's cool by Bishop (Score:1) Monday December 20, @03:06PM
South Park
(Score:2)

by spencerogden (49254) <spencer@spencerogden.com> on Monday December 20, @02:53PM (#11139606)
(http://spencerogden.com/)

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!
- Re:South Park by elmegil (Score:2) Monday December 20, @03:11PM
  - Re:South Park by kLaNk (Score:1) Monday December 20, @07:08PM
- Cthulhu and Open Source by dreadclown (Score:1) Wednesday December 22, @05:14AM
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The Newspost
(Score:5, Interesting)

by feidaykin (158035) on Monday December 20, @03:12PM (#11139808)
(http://home.centurytel.net/mraymer | Last Journal: Tuesday May 03, @06:13AM)

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!
- Re:The Newspost by e2mtt (Score:1) Monday December 20, @05:10PM
  - Re:The Newspost by SetupWeasel (Score:2) Tuesday December 21, @12:17AM
    - Re:The Newspost by LastToKnow (Score:3) Tuesday December 21, @02:17AM
      - Re:The Newspost by SetupWeasel (Score:2) Tuesday December 21, @11:41AM
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  - Re:The Newspost by SetupWeasel (Score:2) Tuesday December 21, @12:48AM
    - Re:The Newspost by jackbird (Score:2) Friday December 24, @03:14PM
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Mirror
(Score:1, Offtopic)

by Andy_R (114137) on Monday December 20, @03:14PM (#11139822)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Friday October 01, @07:19AM)

Here's a Mirror [heatheringtons.com.au]
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Does this really let up the load?
(Score:2)

by metroid composite (710698) on Monday December 20, @03:42PM (#11140177)
(http://www.rpgdl.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday December 19, @11:35PM)

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....
- Re:Does this really let up the load? by Wampus Aurelius (Score:2) Monday December 20, @04:02PM
- Re:Does this really let up the load? by hemebond (Score:2) Monday December 20, @06:10PM
Nice comic and all, but...
(Score:1)

by fondue (244902) on Monday December 20, @06:17PM (#11141756)

Um, what does this have to do with games again?
- Re:Nice comic and all, but... by Synkronos (Score:1) Tuesday December 21, @03:34AM
Re:You might need to update your webcomic more if,
(Score:1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 20, @03:25PM (#11139957)

They have new comics monday, wednesday and friday but with the bandwith hit they have been taking with the Child's Play charity Slashdot is hosting the comics to allievate some of the load.

Maybe you should know what the hell is going on before you decide to hit that Reply button.

[ Parent ]
Re:The Grammar could use a little work...
(Score:2)

by UWC (664779) on Monday December 20, @04:00PM (#11140379)

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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- Re:The Grammar could use a little work... by Cabriel (Score:1) Monday December 20, @05:09PM
  - Re:The Grammar could use a little work... by Atrax (Score:2) Monday December 20, @06:18PM
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Re:You might need to update your webcomic more if,
(Score:1)

by RalphBNumbers (655475) on Monday December 20, @10:45PM (#11143922)

meh, some people have no sense of humor (plenty of mod points though)

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Re:OH BOY, CANT WAIT TILL THE NEXT PAGE!
(Score:2)

by Destoo (530123) <destoo@[ ]il.com ['gma' in gap]> on Tuesday December 21, @01:29PM (#11149958)
(http://destoo.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday October 19, @08:07AM)

That's TWO pages at a time.

Left and right.. 1-2, 3-4..

I bet we'll get 5-6 on friday or something...

O.. Spirit of Continuity..

Anyone know how many pages they plan for this drama?

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