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[PA Comic] Monday, August 12, 2013 - Backstab

GethGeth LegionPerseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
edited August 2013 in The Penny Arcade Hub

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    the true betrayal is having Tycho read Fifty Shades of Grey

  • FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    Tycho is masochist. He knows that it's painful and he knows that it's trash, but it's like a trainwreck, he can't look away.

    "The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
    -Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    Tycho with his glass of whiskey, his comfy chair and his trashy literature. A truer gentleman there never was.

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    the true betrayal is having Tycho read Fifty Shades of Grey

    I didn't even notice that until you mentioned it.

    Maybe it's a coping mechanism to get over the Somali torture?

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • OrphaneOrphane rivers of red that run to seaRegistered User regular
    I almost thought you could have tossed in a Rikimaru joke with that strip name.

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  • ultraexactzzultraexactzz BLEASCHMNN Registered User regular
    I got the biggest laugh out of seeing Tycho reading Fifty Shades of Grey.

    Oh come on, we've all done that at least once, right? To see what all the fuss was about?

    ......right?

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Aegeri wrote: »
    Shorty wrote: »
    the true betrayal is having Tycho read Fifty Shades of Grey

    I read this book and it's sequel out aloud to my wife.

    I could barely get through it.

    Gilbert Gottfried is the only audiobook narrator you need.
    Potentially NSFW for reading excerpts from Fifty Shades of Grey

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    I imagine that Tycho's reading a special version of Fifty Shades where the characters are replaced by animals.

    Also my assistant, who is super into those books, tells me that they have finished casting for a Fifty Shades movie... How? Isn't it just bdsm porn? How're you going to play that in a non-porno theater, and do PeeWee Herman slap houses still exist?

    Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
  • PsykomaPsykoma Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    Gilbert Gottfried's got nothing on Charles Dance

    (also nsfw)

    Psykoma on
  • Finnish_LineFinnish_Line Registered User regular
    Great strip.

    But they're missing the word "to" in the 2nd panel, bottom speech bubble.

  • animal companionanimal companion xenomortis Registered User regular
    i like this one. it seems to represent a return to form in some ways. reminds me of the pacing of older stuff:

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Skull2185 wrote: »
    I imagine that Tycho's reading a special version of Fifty Shades where the characters are replaced by animals.

    There's a horse version, Fifty Shades of Dray.

    And the sealife version, Fifty Shades of Ray.

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • animal companionanimal companion xenomortis Registered User regular
    fifty snakes of grey

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  • GyralGyral Registered User regular
    And the inevitable sequel staring Bob Barker, Fifty Shades of Spay.

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  • jaxjaggywiresjaxjaggywires Sneaking up behind youRegistered User regular
    51 Shades of Grey: The Lost Hue

  • Music-chanMusic-chan Registered User regular
    ha! The book he's reading was my favourite part. A joke inside a joke. I just had to comment on it.

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    Called it.
    forty wrote: »
    Errr, what's going on here? Was this supposed to be Monday's comic or something? Will the Tychpo be fixed before it becomes a real comic?
    And "apparently not," to my last question.

    forty on
  • miaAusamiaAusa GOD Gamer Of Daters ValhallaRegistered User regular
    Tycho in his chair is classy , ahh the endless struggle of which game to play with and who great comic : D

  • MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    I got the biggest laugh out of seeing Tycho reading Fifty Shades of Grey.

    Oh come on, we've all done that at least once, right? To see what all the fuss was about?

    ......right?

    No, see I have the Internet.

  • BolerBoler Registered User regular
    MichaelLC wrote: »

    Did this have to happen.

    Surprised that more people haven't been talking about their MOBA preference, is it still a controversial topic or are people ok with liking one over another yet?

  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    We had a brief kerfuffle in the fake post of this comic, in which I questioned what crazy person might leave LoL for DOTA2, at which point a DOTA2 advocate suggested anyone realizing that DOTA2 was the better game would do so.

    There's just no real joy in it, though.

    What is this I don't even.
  • Finnish_LineFinnish_Line Registered User regular
    Great strip.

    But they're missing the word "to" in the 2nd panel, bottom speech bubble.

    Still not fixed.

    Do I have to point it out on Twitter or something?

  • Full RetardFull Retard Registered User new member
    I'm happy to see Dota getting some attention from Penny Arcade.

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Great strip.

    But they're missing the word "to" in the 2nd panel, bottom speech bubble.

    Still not fixed.

    Do I have to point it out on Twitter or something?
    Many Tychpos are eternal.

  • benit59benit59 Registered User regular
    I thought the timing of this comic was interesting. Even though I have had the beta for well over two years, I just picked up DOTA 2 about 2 weeks before The International started. I'm really enjoying the game now and prefer it over League of Legends, which I played for quite a long time.

    I thought the Grand Finals at TI3 this last weekend was spellbinding. This game is red-hot right now.

  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Boler wrote: »
    MichaelLC wrote: »

    Did this have to happen.

    Yeah, see it was a joke about trying something once just to see what all the fuss is about and getting sucked in.

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