The New Comic Thread for Wednesday 8/10/11

TheLawinator

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ok that tycho-leona

that fucking tycho-leona

Blake T

Is this about another game I only know next to nothing about?

(guessing DotA?)

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league of legends

so you are pretty close

SabreMau

Would have expected Tycho to look more like Harridan.

Blake T

I know even less about league of legends.

Adus

I think if you kill another player's hero you get some money, so the issue here is that some people will grief by just dying to the other team therefore giving them lots of money as well as being useless to the team they're already on. So yeah.

Darric

Killing another hero nets you a lot of experience, which is basically the most valuable commodity in these games. "Feeding" is when you die a lot, giving the enemy team a lot of experience - early game feeding leads to one sided games that it's generally hard to fight back from.

Griefing is silly.

SabreMau

Ok, browsing through this, I'm presuming Tycho is Leona, but which character is Gabe playing?

The Truffle Shuffle

Gabe is Wukong, the Monkey King.

Garthor

Blake T wrote:

Is this about another game I only know next to nothing about?

(guessing DotA?)

Honestly, most of the joke comes across without knowing anything about the genre. It's just the first panel that doesn't make much sense, since you need to know what "feeding" is to get the buffet comment. Though, that's mentioned in the second panel so maybe it'd make sense in hindsight.

facetious

This comic is relevant to my irritations.

facetious

Also can I just shout out the title? I love puns. Puns about '30s Leading Men even more so.

Especially leading men that had a tendency to be cast in roles that would facilitate him dressing in white tie and tails. And top hats.

JAEF

This comic is superb.

Oddfish

Yeah, I'd say 70% of the LoL community is good at that little side game.

Or maybe that's the game for them. The whole game. All of it.

That would explain so much.

L|ama

if you can't laugh at terrible nerds getting incredibly angry about inconsequential shit then league of legends probably isn't the game for you

ack

lets lol

Dee Kae

Problem is he's Wukong.

And he isn't playing HoN.

That's the big issue.

ack

i played HoN again for the first time in forever

i miss single draft but dats about it

Ringo

Garthor wrote:

Blake T wrote:

Is this about another game I only know next to nothing about?

(guessing DotA?)

Honestly, most of the joke comes across without knowing anything about the genre. It's just the first panel that doesn't make much sense, since you need to know what "feeding" is to get the buffet comment. Though, that's mentioned in the second panel so maybe it'd make sense in hindsight.

Lanes also have no context outside of driving, bowling, and apparently LoL

but the word "griefers" gives enough context to make panel 3 funny, so it's okay!

Ferrus

Is LoL like the new WoW? Everyone and their mom plays it and there are a lot of retards?

PikaPuff

5v5 match, where players start at level one and try to gain experience to level up, and gold to buy equipment, as they fight they way into and destroy the other team's base.

minions spawn from each team's base and follow three paths: top lane, middle lane, and bottom lane. so this is where the 5v5 usually happens. 2v2 top, 1v1 mid, and 2v2 bottom. you can walk around wherever, but this is usually how it's fought, since you can kill those other team's minions in those lanes for experience and gold.

killing players of the other team also grants you experience and gold. if someone keeps dieing to the other team, it's as if they are feeding them experience and gold. so they are called feeders.

Delzhand

I thought this was going to be about yesterday's Federal Reserve report and how it caused stocks to surge, and I was like 'wait, are they seriously making a political comic', and then I read it and was trying to figure out what the fuck it had to do with money.

RonTheDM

I liked that, after that one patch, if you fed yourself enough you'd be worth less than a creep to kill. (and the max gold for breaking a streak was downed from 1000 to 500)

Trololol split push meta go.

Riot Games, great at balance.

Henroid

Why I don't play LoL or DotA.

RonTheDM

They're great games 40-90% of the time, which is about as often as most other multiplayer games where you play against other people. Co-op games tend a bit higher, maybe into the 65-95% range to me. I'm sure it's different for everyone, so ...

Feeders gonna feed. At the level of matchmaking I am in in LoL or in HoN I would be very surprised to run into anybody intentionally feeding, which is to say nothing of people who don't intend to feed but feed because they suck really, really hard.

Speed Racer

wait if feeding is letting your opponent kill you to fuck over your own team how do you feed yourself

unless you're feeding yourself (to someone else)

RonTheDM

Speed Racer wrote:

wait if feeding is letting your opponent kill you to fuck over your own team how do you feed yourself

unless you're feeding yourself (to someone else)

Yeah, you just wander into the enemies and die. For killing you, they get gold (which tapers off unless said feeder gets a kill) and sweet, delicious experience.

It's a nuisance, and a good reason to have concede votes (and kick votes! but LoL doesn't have those)

Balefuego

this is a birthday comic

for me

Langly

Man 40 to 90 percent is a pretty huge margin.

Less than half to almost always great games!

Hunter

Langly wrote:

Man 40 to 90 percent is a pretty huge margin.

Less than half to almost always great games!

When your margin of error is 50%, it's time to rethink your experiment.

Peewi

I had kinda forgotten about all the comics that has Gabe and Tycho as game characters. When was the last time there was one of those?

Speed Racer

Peewi wrote:

I had kinda forgotten about all the comics that has Gabe and Tycho as game characters. When was the last time there was one of those?

June.

Fuga

yeah when did lol become so popular

SabreMau

But sometimes they're actually portrayed as their characters, not as Gabe and Tycho dressed up to look like their characters. Like this one:

RonTheDM

Langly wrote:

Man 40 to 90 percent is a pretty huge margin.

Less than half to almost always great games!

Depends on the day, I guess.

Some days you lose a few games in a row and they're kinda crappy games.

Some days you win almost all of them or have a really good time overall.

It's erratic and that's part of the nature of it. It isn't a guaranteed good time but it can be a good time. The 'percentage' was a personal measure of the function of fun had in the course of playing such games. As I said, PvP-esque games tend to have wide variance (getting spawncamped in RTCW? 10% fun, Dropping an airstrike on 18 dudes in RTCW? 100% fun! etc.)

Kagera

This is the game with the 8 year old character neckbeards have made creepy erotic fanart of right?

see317

Kagera wrote:

This is a game with an 8 year old character neckbeards have made creepy erotic fanart of right?

Fixed that for you.

kingworks

Hey there pretty lady - oh my g ... y-your face, what happened to your face!?

EDIT: What I mean to say is that it took me a while to realize that was Tycho in drag. Now a I feel a little ... confused.

Peewi

Speed Racer wrote:

Peewi wrote:

I had kinda forgotten about all the comics that has Gabe and Tycho as game characters. When was the last time there was one of those?

June.

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-B2C3Rr8/0/L/i-B2C3Rr8-L.jpg

I guess maybe I'm just bad at remembering.

Eddy

kingworks wrote:

Hey there pretty lady - oh my g ... y-your face, what happened to your face!?

EDIT: What I mean to say is that it took me a while to realize that was Tycho in drag. Now a I feel a little ... confused.

Well that's not really Tycho in drag, per se

That's his head on a woman's body

I'm not sure what to call that ... Ranma1/2itis?