[PA Comic] Friday, September 7, 2012 - Cuspin’

Geth

Cuspin’
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/09/07

Henroid

The growth in PC technology is pretty goddamn outstanding, yeah.

I wish other industries were allowed the same growth potential.

RMS Oceanic

I still want my jetpack dammit.

However he raises a good point. The future is awesome.

Black_Heart

Hoverboards are a standard benchmark of a civilization's technological advancement though.

RoboJ1M

(stupid internet)

RoboJ1M

My first boradband internet connection was NTL/Virgin's NEW ULTRAMAAAAX SUPER ONE MEG CONNECTION OF POWER.
My Mobile Phone is now faster than this.

That's what really gets me when it comes to the whole, "Are We In Teh Future?"

(Not to mention the processor in the phone is many time faster than that PC was)

(And my current connection is only 5 meg but hey ho, you can get two orders of magnitude faster, just not in my flat. Across the road, yes, but now here. Maybe not so WORLD OF TOMORROW after all)

Dark Raven X

D'aww. I love this one. I imagine it's gonna get some scorn, but yeah.

Yeah.

Inkyblots

I didn't even play baldur's gate much back in the day but this comic made me feel good inside.

Henroid

RoboJ1M wrote: »

My first boradband internet connection was NTL/Virgin's NEW ULTRAMAAAAX SUPER ONE MEG CONNECTION OF POWER.
My Mobile Phone is now faster than this.

That's what really gets me when it comes to the whole, "Are We In Teh Future?"

(Not to mention the processor in the phone is many time faster than that PC was)

(And my current connection is only 5 meg but hey ho, you can get two orders of magnitude faster, just not in my flat. Across the road, yes, but now here. Maybe not so WORLD OF TOMORROW after all)

There's a lot of places where being a mile or two outside a city limit will suddenly just cut off all broadband access. Like where I fucking live.

Evermourn

Mmmm, kind of a lazy comic, just goes from A to B. Does anyone else think Tycho looks odd in the last panel? His arms and posture look like they are from a different character compared to in the first panel.

ChinMusic

Gabe and Tycho only seem to do ordinary things when casually discussing games now. They should do more shit like emerging from alien cocoons and climbing on a big fat guy.

Maz-

It's not 2015 yet, we've still got 2 1/2 years till hoverboards and flying cars.
Get to it, science people.

Halen

There is some weird shit going on. The spaceship from close encounters is landing behind them.

Falx

Whatever Gabe is drinking, the colors make me think of corn soup rather than a drink.

Kagera

My first computer had a modem with a speed of 2600 baud. You'll be forgiven for not knowing what baud is since no one even uses the term anymore.

Train Dodger

I remember my old HP Pavilion with the Athlon Thunderbird processor in it, and how cool I thought it was back around 2000ish (cut me some slack; I was ten years old). I also had a Creative Zen Jukebox with a 6-gig HDD for an MP3 player, and I thought it was amazing.

Now, I have a 4th-gen 64 GB iPod Touch that grinds both of those into dust and pisses on their graves. It has a freakin' gyroscope and accelerometer in it. With the right app, you can actually use it as a level. And a pocket reference guide. And a map. And an Ebook reader. And a handheld game platform. And a web browser. And a 720p HD Camcorder. And a barcode scanner. And a stopwatch/alarm. And as a digital audio workstation. And to control your desktop machine remotely with Splashtop. Oh, and it also plays music. All your music. Hours, days, even weeks of it.

We already have tricorders, and we didn't even notice.

Just the other day, I heard about scientists using the principle of optogenetics to change the behavior of animals by sending pulses of light through fiber-optic probes embedded in their brains after modifying their cells to respond to stimulation by photons.

We don't need no hoverboards or jetpacks. We are living in the future already.

Darkewolfe

Wait...

What platform is getting Baldur's Gate again, assumedly in wireless form? Is it a tablet?

Enlong

Apparently, PC, OSX, Android, and iPad.

Komrad

Did anyone else immediately pre-purchase the new Baldur?

Lord_Asmodeus

I'll probably be pre-ordering it later today or tomorrow but...

what the fuck is Beamdog? O_o

admanb

Lord_Asmodeus wrote: »

I'll probably be pre-ordering it later today or tomorrow but...

what the fuck is Beamdog? O_o

Game industry vets, some former Bioware/Black Isle, that happened to have the connections and competence it takes to re-release an old game on tablets. :P

Aurich

Can I.. get it on my PC? I am still comparing games I play today to the kind of epic adventures I had in Baldur's Gate.

Candymancer

We may have to wait a few more years for hoverboards. But when we DO get them they'll have wireless internet.

Then they'll be banned because people died looking at cats instead of where they were going.

Framling

I have maintained for a while now that there's an alternate universe out there with flying cars and space colonies, and they're all bitching about how their phones still have cords and computers are still huge.

Xaquin

I drove up to Walgreens the other day and noticed they installed a car charging station. I felt like I was living in the future.

Smrtnik

Xaquin wrote: »

I drove up to Walgreens the other day and noticed they installed a car charging station. I felt like I was living in the future.

that's pretty cool, where is that? I'd assume a big city probably.

Groosenat0r

I look back at my youth and remember my old ancient relic with Windows 98 and the days of AOL... Good Lord how far we have come...

WUA

Yep, internet sure did get better. Meanwhile this is barely even a comic strip. It's more of a monologue.

ChinMusic wrote: »

Gabe and Tycho only seem to do ordinary things when casually discussing games now. They should do more shit like emerging from alien cocoons and climbing on a big fat guy.

This. If the artwork is just going to be meaningless fluff there to justify calling a monologue a comic, at least make it amusing fluff.

Tube

It's possible that not every comic is aimed specifically at you.

-Tal

yo I may be reading too much into this

but I'm pretty sure Gabe and Tycho doing some good old normal grilling is an intentional contrast to the crazy future tech they are talking about

DVG

I remember when I was a kid I was convinced I could invent the hoverboard because I realized my legos with magnets on them would repel when they were faced away from each other.

-Tal

what's the deal with all the classic futuristic stuff being about transporation

hoverboards, flying cars, spaceships, teleportation

Smrtnik

Transportation is a giant enabler for other stuff. Movement of goods and people shrinks the world. Think about what the invention of the steam engine, the railroad, or the airplane did for the world. Heck, just think of the US highway system when it was built in the 50s. Now, project such revolutionary changes to future tech.

Xaquin

Smrtnik wrote: »

Xaquin wrote: »

I drove up to Walgreens the other day and noticed they installed a car charging station. I felt like I was living in the future.

that's pretty cool, where is that? I'd assume a big city probably.

BFE Southern Maryland actually. They're actually all over the place now. (well, I can think of 5 in a 15 mile radius anyway)

Opty

Basically a lot of future gazing from the past was people extrapolating a recent jump in technology and then continuing that slope into the future and it's transportation focused because that's where a lot focus went in the middle of the century. The space race, interstate highways, jumbo jets, advances in car technology, etc. Things like television and telephony moved forward at a glacial pace comparitively.

Chris FOM

I like the comic, but where's Tycho's daystar protection? There is a distinct lack of helmets here.