[PA Comic] Friday, January 18, 2013 - Sportz

Geth

Sportz
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/01/18

SquirrelGOD

Aaron Rodgers is certainly a wizard.

Falx

Football is really just an RTS game.

wiper

Shouldn't it be "then football"?

-Tal

fake nerd guys

Falx

Yeah, gabe already fixed it, he said on Twitter, but it might take a while to update.

Comedy Reflux

Are more spelling errors slipping through or am I just reading the updates quicker than I used to?

Alsadius

At risk of losing nerd cred, the *offensive* line are the quarterback's tanks - the defensive line is the line of the defending team.

TIFunkalicious

I've caught some strange flak for watching sports (not here). I would never guessed in my younger pimply marching band WoW playing years that I would be put down by a girl in cosplay for being a 'jockey sportswatcher'

I take watching my NBA and LoL streams at pretty much the same interest level

EvilBadman

Alsadius wrote: »

At risk of losing nerd cred, the *offensive* line are the quarterback's tanks - the defensive line is the line of the defending team.

I concur with this assessment.

jothki

The problem with football as a competitive sport is that the balance is all screwed up. Some teams are clearly better than others, and all updates seem to do is just shuffle players around randomly rather than trying to fix the underlying issues.

Black_Heart

This comic has blown my mind.

VeggieH8R

I'm pretty sure the Seahawks were using l33t hax the last few weeks to get into the playoffs.
The Patriots are using a broken as hell quarterback.
And the Jets are buggy as fuck.

Henroid

jothki wrote: »

The problem with football as a competitive sport is that the balance is all screwed up. Some teams are clearly better than others, and all updates seem to do is just shuffle players around randomly rather than trying to fix the underlying issues.

Spoken like a true nerd. :P

MUNI

Oh, Gabe.

Gabe, Gabe, Gabe.....

PreciousBodilyFluids

This is disgusting.

All my high school life I got mocked mercilessly by those damn nerds for being way into sports. Always "Haha PreciousBodilyFluids enjoys playing with balls" and insinuating that only big dumbos liked sports. Football was my only escape from the hell that was high school.

And now these nerds think they can participate in my sporting culture? Think again. These nerds are not real football fans. They never cried for the sport. They never bled for the sport. They don't belong here.

Quid

PreciousBodilyFluids wrote: »

This is disgusting.

All my high school life I got mocked mercilessly by those damn nerds for being way into sports. Always "Haha PreciousBodilyFluids enjoys playing with balls" and insinuating that only big dumbos liked sports. Football was my only escape from the hell that was high school.

And now these nerds think they can participate in my sporting culture? Think again. These nerds are not real football fans. They never cried for the sport. They never bled for the sport. They don't belong here.

Fucking nerds going to conventions and playing D&D while I worked at the sports bar and grill. They have no idea what it was like in 2003 to have Mavericks and Spurs fans show up in jerseys, howling in fury and righteousness, threatening each other with butter knives and bread baskets. I had to survive that madness.

Zxerol

i fuckin love you guys

zerzhul

I love this comic so much.

KalTorak

Know that thou curséd sports fans are unclean within my sight; thou hath tasted of the forbidden balls, and for this betrayal of the pure Word of Nerd, I hereby CAST THEE OUT!

Sgt.Big_Bubbaloola

KalTorak wrote: »

Know that thou curséd sports fans are unclean within my sight; thou hath tasted of the forbidden balls, and for this betrayal of the pure Word of Nerd, I hereby CAST THEE OUT!

Oh crap, he's getting all biblical again. Someone go calm him down before he starts whipping up the rest of the lurkers and they storm PA Towers with their torches and pitchforks.

Tube

I blame Chris Kluwe for this

kingworks

It's a fine line some of us walk.

I used to describe myself as a 'casual fan' of football so as to avoid any serious discussion of stats or names I don't recognize with one group vs. a total lack of interest and suspicion from the other.

JamieOD

It works in the opposite manner too. I finally understood DOTA when I found comparisons to ice hockey. 5 vs 5, action constantly goes back and forth between both sides, getting killed gives your opponents Power Play advantages, etc.

Delzhand

JamieOD wrote: »

It works in the opposite manner too. I finally understood DOTA when I found comparisons to ice hockey. 5 vs 5, action constantly goes back and forth between both sides, getting killed gives your opponents Power Play advantages, etc.

Wow, you know what? I think any moba would be greatly improved by a game mode that lasts a fixed amount of time, and scoring is based on how many times you can carry an object into the enemy fountain!

AtomicKitten

I can hear the commentary in my mind...

"Theres the snap... he falls back--a rogue stealthed past the tanks and... oooh! fireball to the groin, thats gonna leave a nasty mark. Healer down! HES RUNNING FOR IT! Polymorph! Time Warp! is that... YES IT IS, HE JUST SUMMONED A DRAGON! While the adventurers subdue the dragon and we mop up the blood, here's a word from our sponsor, Leomud's Secret Sports Bar."

I want this game.

Gaslight

This feels kind of like a re-hash of an older comic, but that older comic is one of my favorites, so I'm OK with it.

drazen

I concur that the OL, not DL, are the tanks, but what's that make the kickers? Bards?

Hevach

drazen wrote: »

I concur that the OL, not DL, are the tanks, but what's that make the kickers? Bards?

Cleric. Nobody really wants to be one, they're just kind of standing there most of the time, but if they get killed you might as well pack up and go home.

Pony

One of those Fake Gamer Guys...

Fastr

Alsadius wrote: »

At risk of losing nerd cred, the *offensive* line are the quarterback's tanks - the defensive line is the line of the defending team.

I came here just to bring that up actually. I'm proud to me a mixture of nerd and sports guy

Henroid

Hevach wrote: »

drazen wrote: »

I concur that the OL, not DL, are the tanks, but what's that make the kickers? Bards?

Cleric. Nobody really wants to be one, they're just kind of standing there most of the time, but if they get killed you might as well pack up and go home.

I almost want to ask what turnovers, downs, and onside kicks are analogous to. You guys are good at this.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

I like football I guess.

Henroid

A Dabble Of Thelonius wrote: »

I like football I guess.

Bill_Peschel

If that's the Eagles on the screen behind him, then that IS filth Gabe's watching.

LostinJersey

Alsadius wrote: »

At risk of losing nerd cred, the *offensive* line are the quarterback's tanks - the defensive line is the line of the defending team.

Came here to post exactly this.

Chris FOM

Gaslight wrote: »

This feels kind of like a re-hash of an older comic, but that older comic is one of my favorites, so I'm OK with it.

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I think I like this one more. I think it's because I prefer gob-smacked Tycho to Gabe-berating Tycho. Although "Ah. Your silence is my answer" along with Gabe's accompanying facial expression is pretty damn good too.

Nightslyr

Bill_Peschel wrote: »

If that's the Eagles on the screen behind him, then that IS filth Gabe's watching.

It was the Seattle Seahawks.

Goose!

Bill_Peschel wrote: »

If that's the Eagles on the screen behind him, then that IS filth Gabe's watching.

Its the Seahawks. Only Erica is a filthy Eagles fan.

Henroid

All I have to add is that Eagles fans seem to be the most notorious for being violent and otherwise belligerent. I dunno how much more or less than that is compared to other teams but it's ridiculous, the shit I hear coming out of the city of brotherly love.

Anyway, the true filth in the NFL are 49ers fans.

Hevach

Henroid wrote: »

Hevach wrote: »

drazen wrote: »

I concur that the OL, not DL, are the tanks, but what's that make the kickers? Bards?

Cleric. Nobody really wants to be one, they're just kind of standing there most of the time, but if they get killed you might as well pack up and go home.

I almost want to ask what turnovers, downs, and onside kicks are analogous to. You guys are good at this.

Disarm, turns, attack of opportunity.

When you actually get into rules the analogy starts to break down and ceases to be as funny.