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[PA Comic] Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - What Is Your Ghost Plan

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image[PA Comic] Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - What Is Your Ghost Plan

What Is Your Ghost Plan

What Is Your Ghost Plan

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/01/28

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  • HeWhoSeesHeWhoSees Registered User regular
    Gabe, you haven't seen a single zombie or vampire outside of video games either, what's your point? XD

  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    HeWhoSees wrote: »
    Gabe, you haven't seen a single zombie or vampire outside of video games either, what's your point? XD

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/08/09/armadeaddon-dark-genesis

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/08/12

    Enlong on
  • DjiemDjiem Registered User regular
    Enlong wrote: »
    HeWhoSees wrote: »
    Gabe, you haven't seen a single zombie or vampire outside of video games either, what's your point? XD

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/08/09/armadeaddon-dark-genesis

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/08/12

    Yeah, but http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/08/24

  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    Djiem wrote: »
    Enlong wrote: »
    HeWhoSees wrote: »
    Gabe, you haven't seen a single zombie or vampire outside of video games either, what's your point? XD

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/08/09/armadeaddon-dark-genesis

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/08/12

    Yeah, but http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/08/24

    Maybe he specifically hasn't seen mirror ghosts.

  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    Djiem wrote: »
    Enlong wrote: »
    HeWhoSees wrote: »
    Gabe, you haven't seen a single zombie or vampire outside of video games either, what's your point? XD

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/08/09/armadeaddon-dark-genesis

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/08/12

    Yeah, but http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/08/24

    I just love the fact that a comic titled "Retcon" was just the victim of a later retcon.

  • Soul SanctumSoul Sanctum Registered User regular
    I've never understood why young people proliferate these hollow memetic games which have virtually no substance or appeal to them.
    I watched a gameplay video of Five Night's at Freddy's and grasped the gist of the entire experience in about 5 minutes. No clue why it's so popular.

  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    Soul Sanctum wrote: »
    I've never understood why young people proliferate these hollow memetic games which have virtually no substance or appeal to them.
    I watched a gameplay video of Five Night's at Freddy's and grasped the gist of the entire experience in about 5 minutes. No clue why it's so popular.

    The young people like their jump scares almost as much as they like being on lawns.

  • ConstrictorConstrictor The Dork Knight SuburbialandRegistered User regular
    Soul Sanctum wrote: »
    I've never understood why young people proliferate these hollow memetic games which have virtually no substance or appeal to them.
    I watched a gameplay video of Five Night's at Freddy's and grasped the gist of the entire experience in about 5 minutes. No clue why it's so popular.

    I feel the same way. Watched a let's play of it and then I watched the game theory episode on it (seriously awesome go watch it right now if you haven't yet), and I am officially done with it and don't need to play it myself.

    My kids are intrigued by it though. (7 and 10 years old)

  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    Well, watching let's plays for this game is, or so I've heard, is a bat-milk-from-the-fridge situation. You've seen all the content, so there remains little that the game can do in its standard context.

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    I spent some time playing FNAF today, it's a really fun diversion. It's certainly true that the gameplay is limited, but then the game itself is short enough that it doesn't really matter.

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    It's a game with an interesting premise, but it's honestly boring as fuck to watch since the real thrust of the game is the anxiety and tension.

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    "Greasy terror" is a really evocative phrase. I can feel that sensation when I read it.

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    I like how Gabe's pupils are so far to the sides on his eyes in the 2nd panel that it looks like they're sans pupils. Like he's possesed or something.

    Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    The appeal to FNAF for me is the feeling of vulnerability since you can't move. You just have to manage your resources well and learn how to deal with the monster animatronics. Half the scary stuff works because you don't know how to deal with them and you can't run away if you make a mistake.

  • OddfishOddfish On opposite weeks In odd numbered monthsRegistered User regular
    The last PAX I went to, Scott and Kris did a panel which consisted of a good ten minute discussion regarding Kris's peculiar fear of ghosts and the equally unusual measures to which he went to prevent the invasion of spectral entities into his very corporeal world. His methods included storing his shoes upside down, having no two mirrors facing each other in the house and no mirrors facing doors to state a few. I thought this was a funny "ha ha' joke moment. As it turns out it is apparently a real thing. I love that there are people who believe in this stuff. It means the imagination hasn't been killed yet.

  • Dark Raven XDark Raven X Laugh hard, run fast, be kindRegistered User regular
    Speaking of past strips - any word on a new print volume? Last one is Passion's Howl from March 2013, which covered the 2008 strips.

    Oh brilliant
  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.
    Lisa: That’s specious reasoning, Dad.
    Homer: Thank you, dear.
    Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
    Homer: Oh, how does it work?
    Lisa: It doesn’t work.
    Homer: Uh-huh.
    Lisa: It’s just a stupid rock.
    Homer: Uh-huh.
    Lisa: But I don’t see any tigers around, do you?
    [Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
    Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
    [Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange]

  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.
    Lisa: That’s specious reasoning, Dad.
    Homer: Thank you, dear.
    Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
    Homer: Oh, how does it work?
    Lisa: It doesn’t work.
    Homer: Uh-huh.
    Lisa: It’s just a stupid rock.
    Homer: Uh-huh.
    Lisa: But I don’t see any tigers around, do you?
    [Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
    Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
    [Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange]

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    Why does that guy shave his chest but not his armpits?

  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    edited February 2015
    TychoCelchuuu wrote: »
    Why does that guy shave his chest but not his armpits?

    My guess is basically an uneasy comprise between the aesthetics of ideology and the aesthetics of vanity. Shaved the chest to better show off his chiseled torso, but left his armpits because, um... something something natural, something something Mother Earth, something something organic fair-trade free-range GMO-free Prius.

    Gaslight on
  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Naturally hairless chest

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