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)
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:uhh (Score:3, Informative)
Child's Play (Score:5, Informative)
Time's getting short!
Re:That's no Cthulhu! (Score:5, Informative)
How else, exactly, are you intending to represent Him [pk.edu.pl].
Re:FOR THE LOVE OF CTHULHU! (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Mirrored! (Score:2, Informative)
cover [img94.exs.cx]
page 1 [img94.exs.cx]
Re:That's no Cthulhu! (Score:2, Informative)
No can do (Score:5, Informative)
Coralize (Score:5, Informative)
Just append
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/overview/ [nyu.edu]
for more info.
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.
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.
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:/. 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: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 Mythos circle were Robert Bloch (author of Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian), Frank Belknap Long, and August Derleth.
Re:No can do (Score:2, Informative)
It should be a nice hardcover board book, like Goodnight Moon. After 1 page I already know it will be a lasting classic.