[PA Comic] Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - The Lying Game

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[PA Comic] Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - The Lying Game

The Lying Game

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/01/21

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Pinesmoke

This comic is better if you view the shadows under Gabe and Tycho's noses as very tiny Hitler mustaches.

Mr_Grinch

Pinesmoke wrote: »

This comic is better if you view the shadows under Gabe and Tycho's noses as very tiny Hitler mustaches.

If you listen to the latest podcast that was actually the intention, it's something of an "in-joke".

Deathtongue

Wow, I would've never pegged Tycho as a playah-hateah. But here we are.

Pinesmoke

Mr_Grinch wrote: »

If you listen to the latest podcast that was actually the intention, it's something of an "in-joke".

So Hitler really IS everywhere. And they said I was "paranoid."

Robonun

Gabe needs to blow some cash and get that rabbitty overbite fixed. Just sayin'.

eldercore

The Lying Game is one of my guilty pleasures TV shows.

GDT1985

Mr_Grinch wrote: »

Pinesmoke wrote: »

This comic is better if you view the shadows under Gabe and Tycho's noses as very tiny Hitler mustaches.

If you listen to the latest podcast that was actually the intention, it's something of an "in-joke".

What podcast would that be? The last one I have is "Fulmination Re: Culmination" In which they discuss Spartan Bro-Downs.

Mr_Grinch

GDT1985 wrote: »

Mr_Grinch wrote: »

Pinesmoke wrote: »

This comic is better if you view the shadows under Gabe and Tycho's noses as very tiny Hitler mustaches.

If you listen to the latest podcast that was actually the intention, it's something of an "in-joke".

What podcast would that be? The last one I have is "Fulmination Re: Culmination" In which they discuss Spartan Bro-Downs.

It was a lie.

You guys would suck at Fibbage.

GDT1985

I thought as much, I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss a podcast.

sandalwood

Nice facial expressions in this one!

Talyn Rahl

I would play this game, but I don't want all my friends to hate me... More than they already do.

darkmayo

This game sounds like an electronic version of Balderdash, except much simpler.

PsycheRach

Hahaha, the lying game. Sounds hilarious.

Pony

the problem with these kinds of games

or board games like Battlestar Galactica

is if you play them too often with the same group of people they come to identify one specific person

in this case Gabe but in my case uh

me

as being too good at deception and they just reflexively distrust anything they say and it sorta ruins the game

Dark Raven X

I love Gabe's mouth in this strip.

That's the mouth of a goddamned fucking liar.

BlackDove

I don't understand the mouth in the second panel. Also Tycho's eyes in the first. Or eye. Half-closed.

Inquisitor

Pony wrote: »

the problem with these kinds of games

or board games like Battlestar Galactica

is if you play them too often with the same group of people they come to identify one specific person

in this case Gabe but in my case uh

me

as being too good at deception and they just reflexively distrust anything they say and it sorta ruins the game

As that person in my group is just makes the game hilarious when I am a good guy and a rush when I am a bad guy.

But I am more about the journey than the destination when it comes to boardgames, I guess.

forty

Pony wrote: »

the problem with these kinds of games

The bigger problem with these kinds of games (i.e., Trivia) is the people who have played them enough that the questions start repeating for them.

Cambiata

I love Gabe's new squashier-stretchier drawing style. He'll probably reign it in over time to be something more polished but I much prefer it this way.

HeWhoSees

Regarding the associated .txt, I'm afraid I can't really come to any PAX at this time in my life, but the closes fit among options given is "The Perpetually Unsatisfied", but it really only applies to myself.

darkmayo

Pony wrote: »

the problem with these kinds of games

or board games like Battlestar Galactica

is if you play them too often with the same group of people they come to identify one specific person

in this case Gabe but in my case uh

me

as being too good at deception and they just reflexively distrust anything they say and it sorta ruins the game

Yea same issue with Balderdash, my dad for example gets to long winded on his lies which stand out from every single actual answer in the game so you know just by how long it was that it is a lie.

Zomro

Pony wrote: »

the problem with these kinds of games

or board games like Battlestar Galactica

is if you play them too often with the same group of people they come to identify one specific person

in this case Gabe but in my case uh

me

as being too good at deception and they just reflexively distrust anything they say and it sorta ruins the game

But that's when the games start to get really fun! You have to use their immediate distrust of you to your advantage.

Example, my brother is pretty bad at being a spy when we play Resistance. People catch on to him really fast. But, he learned really quickly that people are going to distrust him. So now, whenever he pulls the spy card in Resistance, he picks one of the loyal players and starts acting really friendly with them, which shifts suspicions away from his fellow spies.

At a certain point it just becomes a hilariously convoluted spy story "Well, I knew that you know that I know that you know..."

trident042

I only got around to Fibbage a month ago, along with the other Jackbox games, but it unveiled that I am the high-functioning sociopath among my friends.

I've known it all along, but now I think they're starting to catch on.