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Penny Arcade Speaks at MIT
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ScuttleMonkey
on Tue Jan 24, 2006 05:41 AM
from the little-dose-of-humor dept.
from the little-dose-of-humor dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade recently gave a talk at MIT. One attendee recorded the event and has made available a transcript of the talk, in which the guys talk about the comic and various related topics. The Penny Arcade crew always puts on a good show with their own brand of witty humor and disarming personalities and this is certainly no exception. If you have never seen them talk in person it may lose a little in the translation from speech to text, but still a funny read in any case."
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In the absence of a hyperlink... (Score:5, Informative)
C'mon guys, its easy <a href="...">...</a>
Re:In the absence of a hyperlink... (Score:4, Funny)
It's really strange, but when I click on that link I always get an Ellipsis.
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Re:In the absence of a hyperlink... (Score:2)
A perfect example of when Taco's rules-of-hyperlinking don't work.
I know I shouldn't feed the cowards but you, sir or madam, are a dumbfuck.
He said that you shouldn't link to a site AND to an article on the same site. This is a link to an article on a different site, and the story is about Penny Arcade, so linking PA would have been entirely reasonable. Go back and read what he wrote.
PA -spoke- at MIT... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:PA -spoke- at MIT... (Score:5, Funny)
This is all part of Taco's new system, whereby dupes are avoided by delaying the breaking of stories by several months. That way, ScuttleMonkey's short term memory loss won't be an issue!
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Re:PA -spoke- at MIT... (Score:2, Offtopic)
I'm no javascript programmer, but it should be able to handle that fairly easily.
Re:PA -spoke- at MIT... (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:PA -spoke- at MIT... (Score:2, Informative)
Coming soon ... (Score:3, Funny)
Book launch more the point (Score:5, Interesting)
I've wanted to do this for a loooong time... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I've wanted to do this for a loooong time... (Score:5, Funny)
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Related comic strip (Score:2, Informative)
Tycho really DOES talk like that... (Score:2, Informative)
Am I ... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Am I ... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Am I ... (Score:2)
Re:Am I ... (Score:2)
Since when.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Penny for your thoughts? (Score:4, Funny)
You'll be pleased to know that you haven't broken your streak yet.
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Re:The funniest thing about penny-arcade EVER is.. (Score:5, Informative)
Links to pictures:
"Tycho" [wikipedia.org] (a.k.a. Jerry Holkins)
"Gabe" [wikipedia.org] (a.k.a. Mike Krahulik)
Couldn't find pictures of better halves though.
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Re:The funniest thing about penny-arcade EVER is.. (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Don't look!!! (Score:2, Funny)
I thought that came pre-ruined.
Re:The funniest thing about penny-arcade EVER is.. (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Regular Guy + Anonymity + Audience (Score:2)