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[PATV] Monday, October 15, 2012 - CheckPoint Season 2, Ep. 24: Trouble on the Farm

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edited October 2012 in The Penny Arcade Hub

image[PATV] Monday, October 15, 2012 - CheckPoint Season 2, Ep. 24: Trouble on the Farm

Zynga is doing so poorly, they might be better off if they didn't exist.

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  • AnTyxAnTyx Registered User regular
    TECHNO NAVEL SHOT FTW! :D

  • FalxFalx Registered User regular
    I hope this doesn't turn into another one of those threads.

    Anyway, is it bad that I'm sharing in the perverse pleasure of Zynga reaping what they've been sowing?

    No. No it's not.



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  • Badasaurus RexBadasaurus Rex Registered User new member
    Master Chief is a ginger. Revenge from all of the ginger nerds who got teased at school and grew up to run stuffs.

  • poeticmatterpoeticmatter Registered User regular
    No mention of the biggest eSports event to date?

  • renegade101renegade101 Registered User new member
    Do you always keep that mickey in your pocket? :D

  • Ratstail91Ratstail91 Registered User regular
    OMG Kathleen's belly!

  • rembrandtqeinsteinrembrandtqeinstein Registered User regular
    ah zynga, perhaps their demise is the harbinger of the fall of facebook

    the thing about their fall is the executives and their scummy spammer ceo made piles of money, so even if they go away you can expect imitators for years, siphoning off the casual gaming dollar

    but that is nothing new, shovelware has been around since gaming first existed

    also the zinger at the end about star wars was gold, IMO angry birds is slumming it or even worse taking pity on the star wars IP

  • jackaljackal Fuck Yes. That is an orderly anal warehouse. Registered User regular
    Six balloons? You call six balloons a celebration why I ought to.... oh shots. We cool.

  • rcattrcatt Registered User regular
    Solid episode. Good job on the prognostication!

  • ShadowenShadowen Snores in the morning LoserdomRegistered User regular
    Is...was...when Graham was discussing seizure warnings, were there some green flickering frames inserted?

  • rembrandtqeinsteinrembrandtqeinstein Registered User regular
    edited October 2012
    I also saw the green frames and thought my video player was acting up

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  • SelanSelan Registered User new member
    I think Graham's name should come come before Kathleen's in the opening credits. I think he wants it more and it's good to shake things up abit!

  • marauderzmymarauderzmy Registered User new member
    In my XBOX360 RE6 manual it does mention about the speed mixing of herbs (RB + X) though it's unclear about how it works. And also setting targets for your partner (LT + B) So which manual were you guys reading that didn't mention it?

  • DevantDevant Registered User regular
    So, saying seizure warning, apparently counts as a seizure warning?

  • UndeadpoolUndeadpool Registered User regular
    My RE6 360 game didn't include a manual. Like...at all...the copyright and warnings were just on the inside cover of the shell.

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    the "OMG LADYPARTS" comments in this and the previous thread make me think that today's comic is both apt and well-timed.

  • z121231211z121231211 Registered User new member
    "It cries of desperation, though frankly I can't tell which of the two is slumming it the most." -Yahtzee, 2008

    Between Star Wars and Soul Calibur

  • OverEZOverEZ Registered User new member
    First I saw Graham's pale belly on Loading Ready Run then minutes later I see Kathleen's pale belly here. Is it "show your belly week" for the LLR crew or just a tragic coincidence? Either way, get some sun guys.

  • TuskusTuskus Registered User regular
    A bunch of game developers from companies that were bought out by Zynga are going to be out of a job. That sure is funny.

  • PinPrickNachoMancyPinPrickNachoMancy Registered User regular
    What is with the flickering green crap like 1:30 or so in?

  • PinPrickNachoMancyPinPrickNachoMancy Registered User regular
    Do not listen to OverEZ. Pale bellies are the best bellies. The sun is your enemy.

  • thenameless685thenameless685 Registered User regular
    Yeah i prefer pale looking girls over taned ones

  • faitsfaits a panda eating cake seattleRegistered User regular
    My copy of RE6 didn't include a manual either. The little clips inside the case were being used, but it was to hold an advertisement for resident evil: damnation (now available on blu ray and dvd!)

    The herb mixing thing is a tooltip that can show up on loading screens, but this is the first I've heard about laying down to recover stamina faster.

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  • MygafferMygaffer Registered User regular
    What was up with the flashes of green?

  • Blackie62Blackie62 Registered User regular
    OverEZ wrote: »
    First I saw Graham's pale belly on Loading Ready Run then minutes later I see Kathleen's pale belly here. Is it "show your belly week" for the LLR crew or just a tragic coincidence? Either way, get some sun guys.

    They're Canadian, they aren't on speaking terms with the sun.

  • ran88dom99ran88dom99 Registered User regular
    Tuskus wrote: »
    A bunch of game developers from companies that were bought out by Zynga are going to be out of a job. That sure is funny.
    Can you say kickstarter?

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  • VaregaVarega Registered User regular
    Good episode. Sucks for the companies that were bought out by Zynga, hopefully they can find new jobs.

    League of Legends:Varega
  • wwwmcfarwwwmcfar Registered User new member
    Who else is incredibly turned on by Kathleen’s bare midriff at the end?

  • AltarboyAltarboy Registered User new member
    So I could buy a majority share of Zynga, sell the hard assets at a profit, and rid Facebook of annoying little games?
    I just don't have the moral flexibility to do it, Objectivism fails me.

  • DarkironDarkiron Registered User regular
    that midriff..

  • telpscoreitelpscorei Registered User new member
    Wait... Master Chief is red haired, blue eyed, with fading freckles? Did anyone else suddenly picture Walter Kovacs underneath the helmet?

  • telpscoreitelpscorei Registered User new member
    Wait... Master Chief is red haired, blue eyed, with fading freckles? Did anyone else suddenly picture Walter Kovacs underneath the helmet?

  • MydnyghtZMydnyghtZ Registered User new member
    So what about the 6 balloons, jackal? At least this time, they were still inflated. And no spiders, too!

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    wwwmcfar wrote: »
    Who else is incredibly turned on by Kathleen’s bare midriff at the end?

    You can keep this kind of creepy bullshit to yourself in future.

  • SaredSared Registered User regular
    Laughed good and hard at the ending; good timing and delivery!

  • lordlundarlordlundar Registered User regular
    Blackie62 wrote: »
    OverEZ wrote: »
    First I saw Graham's pale belly on Loading Ready Run then minutes later I see Kathleen's pale belly here. Is it "show your belly week" for the LLR crew or just a tragic coincidence? Either way, get some sun guys.

    They're Canadian, they aren't on speaking terms with the sun.

    As a Canadian and one sick of all the crappy Canadian stereotypes...
    I laughed hard with this one.

  • DedwrekkaDedwrekka Metal Hell adjacentRegistered User regular
    This comment thread is why this (http://xkcd.com/322/) needs to be a real thing.

  • likalarukulikalaruku Registered User regular
    I think I have a gay crush on Kathleen.

    I play Zynga games once in a while when I'm bored with MMOs, Minecraft, & pricey single player games. They're pleasantly addictive for a full week while other Facebook games get boring in 2 days. They're just incompetent on the business end. They can improve other people's games, but they seem to have a problem with kleptomania. Not buying cash items doesn't effect gameplay, but it does drain the wallets of people with obsessive compulsive collecting & hoarding.

  • likalarukulikalaruku Registered User regular
    Do we really need to hate on casual games? They're aimed at jobless middle-aged housewives who are too inept to work outside the home.

  • FalxFalx Registered User regular
    likalaruku wrote: »
    Do we really need to hate on casual games? They're aimed at jobless middle-aged housewives who are too inept to work outside the home.

    We love casual games.

    Zynga however, sucks like woah.



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