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PA Comic: Monday, February 20th - Firebird
Sterica
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Most enthusiast gamers “get” Angry Birds almost immediately, and move on. For those outside our order - that is to say, the vast majority of bipedal sentients - the ubiquitous Angry Birds is one of the first opportunities to understand what their children are always on about re: vijamagames. It’s ridiculously easy to get and subsequently play, made so by the fact that even my grandparents carry around portable touchscreen computers with perpetual access to the dataverse. This is something even a life ass-deep in science fiction did not prepare me for.
These games also introduce these neophytes to the concept of downloadable content, free and paid, which only feeds the demon furnace of their addiction. They don’t know they’re on something “soft,” they aren’t aware that they’re at the bottom of the roller coaster. They’re just doing something fun, at a chronojuncture where “something fun” often has a digital component.
It was weird! Playing videogames used to be weird. There was a point where spending your time in this way had strictly Morlock connotations. My mom used to worry about what she called my “spirit man,” my spirit man, simply because I kept my curtains closed for weeks at a time in an effort to maintain proper monitor contrast! Maybe it was more the isolation and esoteric knowledge requirements of early gaming that brought with them the attendant subterranean cache, as opposed to the strict form. And now, with a game on a phone, you could conceivably play it anywhere. You aren’t limited exclusively to the bulbous cap of some deep mushroom.
Rovio announced Angry Birds Space, which seems like a strange place to host their customary revels, because inertia. But they’re the ones who have the Earth lodged in their jagged beak, and I’m the one whose job it is to talk about what they do. So, maybe they win this round.
I’ll be gone on Wednesday, and we wrote the strip ahead, but I’ve got a guest to take care of you post-wise. See you Friday. Or earlier, if you will be at Disneyland also.
(CW)TB out.
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I wasn't really being serious. The cash cow milking of Angry Birds annoys me slightly, and I think it's been more successful than it deserves on its merits, but I don't particularly care that much.
instead we can be like
this comic is funny
also Angry Birds is pretty great
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Agreed.
EXCEPT FOR SEASON'S GREETINGS LEVEL 1-17!
FUCK THAT LEVEL. THREE STARRING THAT LEVEL IS BULLSHIT AND I'M AN IDIOT FOR DOING IT.
FUCK YOU 1-17!
At any rate, by the time it happened to run into a star, it would be well ready for it all to end... nowait.. that's the sad music is affecting me...
Yeah, but as evidence in panel 5, the bird dies before ever burning up in the grip of a star.
He did last a while, though!
Anyway, love panel 2.
I was thinking more along the lines of all the merchandise and other crap that was/is everywhere. Does your dog really need an Angry Birds chew toy? Do you really want to have a hardshell back for your iPad/iPhone that's Angry Birds?
I think a lot of the big console games go a little overboard with their merch, but Angry Birds is out of proportion.
Also, I don't own Angry Birds: Seasons yet. Is it worth it?
Jubal Early-Bird
They should make as much money out of it as they can. That's what a business is.
Yes, I think so! Many of the levels are quite difficult. If you're gonna skip a version, skip Angry Birds: Rio
Plus it seems like original IP franchises are a rarity these days. It's nice to see one succeed; it can only mean more attention and potential investment for other games and franchises, now that Angry Birds has shown that it's a viable business.
But if the public wants to buy squeaky toys for their dog and t-shirts and DLC from you, then grab that brass ring!
Just saw Angry Birds fruit snacks in the drug store yesterday.
Nor against most things they commercialize, I mean sure it may be hip to say "But I liked it before." Tough, it's business.
With exceptions like what Margarazzi said.;
A+++++ would read again.
I would like to take a moment to appreciate this nicely deployed reference.
Yes.
That was good.
This ^
I'm loving the brand bar at the top of the page. But I feel like the rest of the site is so cluttered. That huge box that scrolls through recent updates is too big, and the PA Report at the bottom seems out place, and makes the page messier. I understand they need to give you this stuff upfront but I wish it was maybe a little more streamlined.
Also, the comic was great.
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was so going to post this.
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Actually it can't not hit a star, eventually. Space is full of stars. Even if it missed every star in the universe, it would eventually be pulled back again towards the center of the universe and probably hit a star. If not it would swing around for another try.. then another.. then another.. ad infinitum. Eventually it would hit a star. It's full of stars.