[PA Comic] Friday, January 10, 2014 - Palantir

Geth

Palantir
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/01/10

Abacus

And people ask me why I despise webcams, specially on consoles.

Man in the Mists

The optimistic part of me would like to say something:

Maybe this type of people watching will out-reality Reality TV, causing the whole genre to collapse.

Henroid

I wonder how much of this is performance art.

Zilla360

Henroid wrote: »

I wonder how much of this is performance art.

It's the human zoo-niverse.

http://www.ustream.tv/search?q=THE+PLAYROOM&type=live

klemming

I wonder how long it'll be before one of these feeds is actually used as evidence in a criminal case.

KalTorak

how are these streams not just wall-to-wall penises?

Kagera

KalTorak wrote: »

how are these streams not just wall-to-wall penises?

Hey.

There are vaginas out there with webcams too.

Sexist.

zepherin

When I first read the comic. My first thought was that it was a shirtless guy with a machete and bong yelling at his pregnant rum drinking wife.

Which I thought was a pretty good reason to yell at her.

Quid

Having given up cable I actually could see myself watching this.

KalTorak

Kagera wrote: »

KalTorak wrote: »

how are these streams not just wall-to-wall penises?

Hey.

There are vaginas out there with webcams too.

Sexist.

Vaginas? On the internet?

Don't be absurd, Carruthers.

Diplominator

I didn't think this was all that funny until I read the title. The title completes it perfectly.

Hevach

Zilla360 wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

I wonder how much of this is performance art.

It's the human zoo-niverse.

http://www.ustream.tv/search?q=THE+PLAYROOM&type=live

I'm sorely disappointed by the gap between the comic and reality after looking at that link. Best thing I found was a stream called "Me and my wife" curiously devoid of a wife, in which a clearly stoned out of his mind guy randomly says things like, "No, man, you can't have sex with my wife man.... I had shorts on yesterday what you talking about man."

JackdawGin

If our society has proven anything it's that the best programs for viewership involve human trainwrecks.

Nocren

Whenever I go to my friends' places and we end up playing online, I always have to remind them to unplug their kinects and they look at me all weird.

Then I remind them that the mic is very sensitive and picks up every word someone says, and either (depending on the friend) there's 1) No mute or 2) you have a 6 year old daughter in the room.

Plus from experience, it creates some bad feedback/reverb/echo for the other players which just damn annoying.

I can only image if the camera was on as well...

calamityjamie

@Hevatch Give it a few hours, peak time is... well, it's a thing.

miaAusa

gabe is going stream crazy but i love it those streams can be fascinating to see what's going on they can be rather whacko too, i am loving the face in the 3rd panel

likalaruku

Wife: I'm out of Sprite. I need it for my rum. Stop playing games & go to the store."
Husband: "The gas station down the street has 7Up."
Wife: "BLASPHEMY!!!"

mare_imbrium

I don't have a ps4 so forgive an ignorant question. These people are sharing this stuff on purpose, yes? I mean, it isn't some kind of exploit or something for unsecured playstation cameras?

Zilla360

mare_imbrium wrote: »

I don't have a ps4 so forgive an ignorant question. These people are sharing this stuff on purpose, yes? I mean, it isn't some kind of exploit or something for unsecured playstation cameras?

@mare_imbrium Yes, it's on purpose.

Zilla360