Penny Arcade Makes Time 100 196
Precision noticed that Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade fame have made the Time 100. The writeup talks about Child's Play and PAX and lavishes deserved adoration upon the pair. I've always envied their ability to maintain control over their brand and use it for appropriately portioned good and evil ;)
Popularity contest (Score:5, Informative)
Kudos to them, but sadly this was a popularity contest where the likes of Justin Bieber and such were receiving votes.
I'd rather a wide-range, rational panel try to offer their opinions rather than open up a massive internet vote.
Re:As they should! (Score:4, Informative)
Didn't Halo 3's launch weekend generate more revenue than the biggest Hollywood opening weekend of all time?
Video Games are just as influential and big as the movie indudstry.
Re:As they should! (Score:3, Informative)
Well it may be a false comparison, but the video game industry is now larger than the film industry in terms of revenue. The film industry made around 10.5 billion in revenues in 2008, while the video game industry made around 11.5 billion. This is counting movie and game sales and rentals. The film industry may hold more cultural cachet and influence, and more people consider films to be true art, but that is changing as well.
Re:The it's-not-funny-but-we-laugh-anyway loop. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:As they should! (Score:2, Informative)
No, the video game industry is not bigger than the film industry.
Film Industry in the US employs 361,000
http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs038.htm [bls.gov]
All software publishing in the US employs 263,700
http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs051.htm [bls.gov]
Globally video games are worth 40 billion
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/VideoGameSalesOvertakingMusic.aspx [msn.com]
US film revenue is 42 billion, total box office gross is 10-11 billion, but that's only a piece of the US film industry.
http://www.allbusiness.com/media-telecommunications/movies-sound-recording/10512814-1.html [allbusiness.com]
Re:Childs Play (Score:1, Informative)
Let's not forget that it has donated money towards hospital equipment as well.
Re:Childs Play (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Childs Play (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Really, Time? (Score:3, Informative)
He could very well be an intellectual and history buff, who happens to become an emotional demagogue once he's in front of the camera.
In that case, he's a pathological liar [slate.com].
Re:The it's-not-funny-but-we-laugh-anyway loop. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Childs Play (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:The it's-not-funny-but-we-laugh-anyway loop. (Score:4, Informative)
XKCD can be funny a lot of times, but I also find it frequently unbearably smug.
So do I, and so do the authors of http://xkcdexplained.com/ [xkcdexplained.com]
Re:Hypocrisy much? (Score:3, Informative)
I'm bitching about talentless losers who demean others out of jealousy rather than any real critique. That's hardly hypocritical.
It is if you're doing it because you're jealous of them. (^_^)
Re:Childs Play (Score:3, Informative)