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PA Comic: Friday Sept. 9, 2011
Rankenphile
Passersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
Passersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
One Can Never Be Too Careful
Brenna’s leg has decided that it no longer wants to be a leg, rather, it wants to merely ride around attached to her body while generating infinite pain. This means that the only games I’ve been able to play are Club Penguin, and… that’s it, just Club Penguin, which is only one game. I could go deep on Club Penguin - as deep, perhaps, as the sub in Aqua Grabber after you get all the Cream Soda barrels and the coral opens up and you get the Amethyst from the blowfish - but I won’t. I may punish you with it at some point. But not today.
Gabriel has been up to his navel in Resistance 3, though, and we managed to wring a strip out of it. I was here for the first intense day of play, I can understand well enough why it might be polarizing. There are a lot of games in the guns-which-bob-before-you genre. I’d argue that Insomniac always insures that they have the best guns; they took the mantle from Duke at the inception of the franchise and have more or less held onto it, despite a very strong play from Bulletstorm.
It’s a game that is, in a very real sense, about a mitten. As I’ve said before, with more parents making games, we can (and should) expect that a greater percentage of our games will feature mittens prominently or at the very least feature a mitten component.
I received the strangest question in an interview once: somebody wanted to talk to me about MC Frontalot, who coincidentally has a new album out. They wanted to know why rap about nerd things, or make comics about nerd things, and this all has a corrollary with why make games about parents and children. I scrunched my whole face up, and the region between my eyebrows shifted tectonically from plain to mountain. But he could not see this, so I was forced to express my confusion with the human words.
This was a person writing an article for a newspaper, a device which transmits culture, but he didn’t seem to understand what he was doing! Maybe he was confused because he was taught to “speak” without “voice,” that is, to communicate neutrally. Maybe he found the printing press in the woods, and operates it via dimly understood rituals. But here’s the apparently impenetrable math: people create culture. And they create it by describing the world in terms which are relevant to them. Who does he think makes all this stuff?
All that changed was the hand on the tiller.
(CW)TB out.
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Odd choice on gabe's part to not put any depth into the splatches in the third panel.
I need context
Very well.
Every Zombie thing ever.
Satans..... hints.....
This.
Excellent comic.
it's really a very general joke dealing with a horror cliche.
In the third panel, though, the blood/whatever the other stuff is splatters seem to have been applied atop everything else, with not much depth applied. It'd be unnoticeable, were it not for the yellow spatter on the human's right arm.
I think my personal favourite is this one
You are missing something.
STEAM
And here I even bothered to get the flu vaccine and everything.
I would have to go with
A thousand times this. Broodax is probably the best thing ever.
On the other hand, there's a big difference between asking that kind of question in an interview, and asking it in any other context. It's part of a reporter's job to ask dumb questions. He may have known perfectly well why someone would take an established art form and utilize it in a nerdly context, but he needed Tycho to say it. Better to look ignorant to a source, then to a reader.
It's got split-screen co-op. But I think it's still got a 2 weapon limit.
In gameplay videos I've seen, they appear to have brought back the Ratchet & Clank-style radial menu for choosing your shooter. That may possibly just be for multiplayer, though.