[PA Comic] Monday, April 27, 2015 - Secondary Innovations

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[PA Comic] Monday, April 27, 2015 - Secondary Innovations

Secondary Innovations

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/04/27

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noxumbra

ignorance is bliss
also "first" I never had a chance to do that before.

GDT1985

Looks like Mike is starting to tinker with Tycho's design a little more, I like it.(except maybe the brown nose)

Praxus1874

Loving the art on this one. The night-time effects are great.

Gaslight

Tycho's face in the third panel is great.

YoungFrey

I quite like how the color is changing as night is falling. Nice touch.

RatherDashing89

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/05/08

DoctorEars

Tychos face all through this strip reminds me how SICK of Gabes shit he must be after existing as characters for so many years.

Desert Leviathan

So... I've been hearing buzz about about "Smart Watches" for ages now, but no one's ever articulated what's actually exciting about them. It displays some stuff from your iPhone, but on a very small screen on your wrist? Is that the whole of it? Or is there something more engaging about this concept that I'm missing, than that it saves you from periodically having to retrieve your phone from your pocket?

Reciprocity11a

I just have to ask:
Samsung, Sony, LG and a few other have had smart watches out for 2 years. Pebble about 3. Yet now that Apple is bringing one out, it's such a big thing? SMDH, I'll just never understand I guess.

RatherDashing89

My boss has one. I guess she uses it to see if the vibrating phone at her hip is worth answering?

YoungFrey

The Hanged Man wrote: »

So... I've been hearing buzz about about "Smart Watches" for ages now, but no one's ever articulated what's actually exciting about them. It displays some stuff from your iPhone, but on a very small screen on your wrist? Is that the whole of it? Or is there something more engaging about this concept that I'm missing, than that it saves you from periodically having to retrieve your phone from your pocket?

One use case is that women are much more likely to not keep their phones in a pocket (I suspect this is the segment buying all the huge phones too). Having a smart watch lets them actually know when they get a notification/call/whatever. I do not know if that segment is enough to drive a new market, but combine that with the Apple Reality Distortion Field™ and maybe it is.

Hargaad of Omnar

RatherDashing89 wrote: »

My boss has one. I guess she uses it to see if the vibrating phone at her hip is worth answering?

It's only a matter of time until Apple releases an alarm clock that wakes you up (like a normal alarm clock) and then tells you if it's even worth getting up at all.
Clock: "Go back to sleep. In fact, just sleep forever while you continue to let the Apple IV consume your life force, leaving you in a catatonic state until you cease to exist; then, and only then, will you be obsolete and we'll upgrade our system to a newer, younger model: your offspring."

More appropriately, I stumbled upon this image, which perfectly illustrates how we're just assembling our own demise:

fightinfilipino

Hargaad of Omnar wrote: »

RatherDashing89 wrote: »

My boss has one. I guess she uses it to see if the vibrating phone at her hip is worth answering?

It's only a matter of time until Apple releases an alarm clock that wakes you up (like a normal alarm clock) and then tells you if it's even worth getting up at all.
Clock: "Go back to sleep. In fact, just sleep forever while you continue to let the Apple IV consume your life force, leaving you in a catatonic state until you cease to exist; then, and only then, will you be obsolete and we'll upgrade our system to a newer, younger model: your offspring."

but we already had this movie

Lucascraft

I've got a smart watch. I primarily use it for the text alerts. It's way easier to glance at your wrist and check a text than it is to fish a phone out of your pocket. Especially at the dinner table, or in the car, or at work, or whenever.

I also have mine sync'd to the "At Bat" app on my iPhone. I get status updates on the scores of games streamed to my phone. My phone buzzes, I can quickly glance at it and see that Eric Hosmer just hit a homerun. Or whatever.

Lastly, I love that you can download and pick your watch-face. There are times when I want to see more info displayed on my watch-face, and times when I want less. Being able to go in and change the display of my watch is super neato.

Darkewolfe

General agreement is there's no compelling "must have" smart watch app yet.

I'm hoping that Apple market dominance provides the userbase for developers to possibly find some useful apps. Which I'll then someday install on an android watch.

PLA

Be James Bond.

lkiuhasdfuiuy

This is how Cardboard tube samurai would look nowadays with Gabe's inhuman mouth style: http://imgur.com/hpdIYAv . I guess the eyes should be edited to look crazier, too.

Linktm

Can we take a moment and discuss how the funniest part of this comic is the deadpan pun in the first panel?

"I've been thinking about the erotic possibilities of the Apple Watch."

"I don't doubt that for a second."

CLASSIC.

The Ninth Guardian

"Cydonian Dick Engine" needs to be a band name so bad.

noblerson

DoctorEars wrote: »

Tychos face all through this strip reminds me how SICK of Gabes shit he must be after existing as characters for so many years.

Lest we forget:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/20

At this point, I think it's a two-way street.

DoctorEars

noblerson wrote: »

Lest we forget:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/20

At this point, I think it's a two-way street.

Hahaha, I forgot about that strip. It probably is a two-way street by this point!

PAX_Skeletor

lkiuhasdfuiuy wrote: »

This is how Cardboard tube samurai would look nowadays with Gabe's inhuman mouth style: http://imgur.com/hpdIYAv . I guess the eyes should be edited to look crazier, too.

Or, you know, CTS might look like this image Mike posted three weeks ago. Looks fine to me.

Greyfell

In all my many years of reading PA I have never once made a post on the forum. This strip inspired me to make an account and I mean the following the nicest, most constructive way possible.

Tycho's new head doesn't look great. He looks like a tumor is slowly siphoning off his cranium's innards, gaining mass until there is only The Growth. He looks like he fell into radioactive waste and is slowly becoming The Leader, after which I assume he will retire from Penny-Arcade to battle The Hulk full time. He looks like someone drew a sassy face on a bong, flipped it over, and put a wig on it.

I love when you guys try new things and overall I think the art is the best it has ever been, especially Gabe and his expressions. But Tycho's new head seems very... off, especially in that second panel.

Just my two cents! Still love the strip!