PA Comic: Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 - Hmm

Robert Khoo

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/01/20

RMS Oceanic

"And what's the deal with OPEN?"

The dialogue reminded me of Seinfeld, yes. Good that they're raising awareness further.

ThreeCubed

So Tycho died in that lake, then? Well.

ThreeCubed

e: That did not just happen. YOU SAW NOTHING

Dark Raven X

Gabe's Hardballs aims to maintain the journalistic integrity of Too Fucking Late With Tycho.

taggedjc

Why is the Penny Arcade news a comic behind? The news right now is showing "Anticipation" which is supposed to be for Wednesday's comic, and even suggests that Extra Credits had a new episode today, when that was back on Wednesday. And I noticed on Wednesday that it was showing Monday's News, and so on...

RMS Oceanic

The comic and news aren't always synchronised. Sometimes you get these delays. It will probably be up by tonight.

taggedjc

Weird. I was certain that the news only updated today from Monday's news, so it was two days late. I'll keep an eye on it.

Ivar

Usually the comic comes up first, and then the newspost some time later

Goatmon

RMS Oceanic wrote:

The comic and news aren't always synchronised. Sometimes you get these delays. It will probably be up by tonight.

Seems like the newspost is at least a few hours behind most comic updates.

MagnumCT

I was for it before I was against it.

Skull2185

Ha ha, I just noticed that Gabe's show notes are just drawings of dicks.

Turambar

My balls are certainly hard

faits

Turambar wrote:

My balls are certainly hard

You might want to see an oncologist about that.

Penumbra

Skull2185 wrote:

Ha ha, I just noticed that Gabe's show notes are just drawings of dicks.

That was a great touch.

Underwhelming

Individually, my body parts are against SOPA. As a group, I really like toaster strudels.

Also, I really hate SOPA.

Skull2185

Oh my god, apple toaster strudels are like toaster orgasms.

jackal

I'm ironically in favor of SOPA. I'm unironically in favor of various toaster pastries.

Omega_Chervil

I was doing a little bit of looking around, and I think I might've found an explanation for the dichotomy. Apparently this guy is the current president of the ESA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gallagher_%28US_politician%29 His stance on DNS and his past positions would be enough to make me concerned, even if his stance on SOPA/PIPA didn't.

MisterEnsues

That mouth. That fucking mouth.

Henroid

Like I've been saying for a while, until EA and other individual companies who oppose this shit put dollars into FIGHTING it, the gesture of saying they're against it is meaningless because they collectively have a hard-on for it.

lunist

MisterEnsues wrote:

That mouth. That fucking mouth.

I know, right?! The sheer anatomy of it boggles the mind.

Knara

lunist wrote:

MisterEnsues wrote:

That mouth. That fucking mouth.

I know, right?! The sheer anatomy of it boggles the mind.

Works for me, though, since it visually expresses the insincerity of what the character is saying.

Warped655

Underwhelming wrote:

Individually, my body parts are against SOPA. As a group, I really like toaster strudels.

Also, I really hate SOPA.

Do you like Pillsburied Death Strudels? muhaha.

(look up hatefarm, few people read it so I figured no one would get the reference unless I pointed it out... which I'll admit defeats the point but whatever)

Gaslight

Knara wrote:

lunist wrote:

MisterEnsues wrote:

That mouth. That fucking mouth.

I know, right?! The sheer anatomy of it boggles the mind.

Works for me, though, since it visually expresses the insincerity of what the character is saying.

It's sort of like the puckered sarcasm lips Scott Adams uses in Dilbert.

King Riptor

The idea that the ESA just assumed their individual founders would be cool with alienating their entire user base is fantastic.

Jars

dick jokes are something that will never get old

Seakow

"Hardballs with Gabriel" made me laugh WAY more then it should have.

Checksix

Heh, I love Gabes notes but I have to say I'm concerned with Mike's constant dong drawing.

Durkhanus

Checksix wrote:

Heh, I love Gabes notes but I have to say I'm concerned with Mike's constant dong drawing.

Why?

faits

Durkhanus wrote:

Checksix wrote:

Heh, I love Gabes notes but I have to say I'm concerned with Mike's constant dong drawing.

Why?

Some kind of wangophobia, one can only imagine.

Ivar

Checksix wrote:

Heh, I love Gabes notes but I have to say I'm concerned with Mike's constant dong drawing.

You need to face your fears.

:winky:

gekkobear

Ok, I read Harry Reid's reason for delaying. They're going to reach a compromise on PIPA later? Hooray?

I suspect that means they'll pass it once this current publicity dies down; not that they'll actually take due process under thew law into account in trying to ram this legislation through?

Love to see Congress doing they're best to clarify what punishment and property takings that are going to be legal for being suspected of a crime in the future. Trials and due process and proof and all that have to be problematic for the government. At least with SOPA and PIPA they're ignoring that bother. They'll be like the EPA in that respect (if you missed Alito's comments on the recent EPA hearing before the SCOTUS and you follow politics, it was interesting).