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"Degrees of separation" or "How I discovered Penny Arcade"
Kherus
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Ok, so I'm a noob to penny arcade. I only "discovered" it this year in fact and the mind boggles at how this is even possible. But the round about way I discovered it, and the round about way I seem to discover most things, is interesting to me and I'm curious as to the stories of how others might have discovered penny arcade in similar round about ways. I'll start off and see if it takes off...
I'm a wannabe writer and I was googling "writing courses" on YouTube. I came across Brandon Sanderson doing a course on it and during this he often mentions Patrick rothfuss, so I started you tubing Patrick rothfuss, and i came across a couple of tabletop Dnd things he was involved with called acquisitions incorporated. I thought, "'man, these other guys are funny as fuck" and googled them. I have since binge watched all their seasons of penny arcade shows, read all their comics, listened to all podcasts and have just joined up to club Pa. All in the space of a few months...so, yeah...the floor opens to all you others. My tag name is Kherus and I'm a arcadaholic.
I'm a wannabe writer and I was googling "writing courses" on YouTube. I came across Brandon Sanderson doing a course on it and during this he often mentions Patrick rothfuss, so I started you tubing Patrick rothfuss, and i came across a couple of tabletop Dnd things he was involved with called acquisitions incorporated. I thought, "'man, these other guys are funny as fuck" and googled them. I have since binge watched all their seasons of penny arcade shows, read all their comics, listened to all podcasts and have just joined up to club Pa. All in the space of a few months...so, yeah...the floor opens to all you others. My tag name is Kherus and I'm a arcadaholic.
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-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Your favorite author/content creator might just be a twitter reference away.
Before I was introduced to the PA comic by a friend in high school, I used to post on the forums of a browser games called Monarchy. They were pretty cool and I talked to a lot of nice and interesting people. I was new to the internet and still super paranoid about strange people wanting to get my info and come rob me or some such. The game eventually shut down (I recently saw that it started back up at some point) and I made my way here. Good times.
There were a few other webcomics we were reading at the time, but I honestly can't remember what they were at this point. I know I ended up reading 8-bit Theater and Bob & George at some point, but I think that was after.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I know that I read every webcomic I could at the time. And that I didn't understand the xkcd Penny Arcade comic, so I wasn't aware of it then... I have no idea???
I know why I joined the forums, the comic edits thread! Which then died shortly afterwards.
ten years later, he left some time ago we still keep in touch and i'm still here?
It was Smash Bros. Brawl pre-release discussions, apparently. Though in my first few weeks I also posted in the thread for the upcoming Street Fighter 4, a Silent Hill thread, a Hotel Dusk thread, a comic thread, and a TV Show thread (where I was actually looking forward to the upcoming Dead Like Me movie, poor naive past-me). Pretty sure it was the Smash Bros thing that got me to start posting (particularly in hoping that Mega Man would be the mythical--and ultimately nonexistent--third 3rd party character).
You remember me!
EDIT: Looks my account was made in 2008, but I lurked without an account for ages as well.
i helped them move a cooler once? that count?
Because he can't play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon because for him the answer is always zero. Or infinity. I'm actually not too clear on my Bacon Mathematics. Pi?
Is Bacon Pie a thing?
First glance I thought that said "cooter" and I was like :eek:
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
No, this way leads to madness.
Six Degrees of seperation was based on a theory by some guys that you could link any person in the world with another by six people or less with how connected we all have gotten.
They just made it into a game with Kevin Bacon because it's so fucking easy with him.
It's too late, because apparently the path to madness is paved in bacon.
Years ago there was a website that was pulling data off IMDB or something and you could type in any actor and it would give you their degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon. I actually found someone who they couldn't match to Kevin Bacon.
Granted, it was by misspelling a different actor's name and pulling up someone who had been in like 3 things or something, but it still happened (the name I got wrong was the actor who played Sloane in Alias, can't remember how I incorrectly typed it to get the other actor though).
I've been a reader since about early 2001 or so
the people on here who know how old I am are probably very surprised by this
truly, you are lost to us.
Godspeed.
I am surprised that you could read in 2001, yes.
so I followed it off and on until 2008 when I ran away from the rest of the internet to hide here
( first a comic reader, then a lurker, then the quivering pile of posting goo you see now)
Watching and waiting for you...
Veering back on topic Mike and Jerry have appeared on PATV with Kris Straub, creator of Candle Cove, which is being adapted by Max Landis, who was in The Stupids with Tom Arnold, who was in We Married Margo with Kevin Bacon.
That would put the entire PA staff at a minimum of 5 degrees, possibly 4 if they were on camera with Kris.
My dark forums backstory is that I've killed my lover (didn't do it) and I am now a fugitive trying to solve the murder (evidence leads to the killer being someone in the forums) and save the world at the same time
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
I'd have a 2 hour class in the morning, then like 4 or 5 hours before another class. I didn't want to go home so I just hung out on campus practicing music, playing ping pong and sitting around in the computer lab. At one point I started reading webcomics and clicking links from one comic to another before I found PA. Enjoyed it, joined the forums and started posting because it was an efficient way to kill time. Still is.
Funny story
I once was invited to smoke weed in a sauna with the dude who made the "Where is the Internet Stored" thread.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
So, like 2001.