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Penny Arcade - Comic - Vitreous Humor
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Vitreous Humor
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Words to end 2016 by.
Hatchimals seem like basically furbies, but with a much cooler delivery package. Who doesn't love the idea of hatching a mythical creature out of an egg?
This toy is neat to look at and watch hatch, but honestly I bet by the time May rolls around, Hatchimal's will have gone the way of your furby. Then next year they'll sell the 2.0 version with a really annoying advertisement, but it'll only sell about half as good as this years one and they'll never really recapture that "magic."
A quick Google search for Hatchimals did not yield any stories of children being maimed by their Christmas toys.
But the best part about that search is that it pulls up 3 articles from noted publications, not The Onion, or the Beaverton or Cracked, and they all report that parents are claiming the Hatchimals swear real curse words when they "sleep."
I had no interest in one before, but this is the kind of thing that makes owning one of the defective models much more valuable than a proper version, and to certain collectors in 20 years or so, could be rather lucrative.
Steam: TheArcadeBear
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
It seems the guys were on this 4.5 years ago.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/06/29/innovation
i've got a real bone to pick with the universe
might have to pull a Hactar
The only thing I heard on the news was a lot of them just didn't work and a whole lot of kids being disappointed/underwhelmed.
The hatchimals were the hottest kids' toy of Christmas this year. There was some widespread complaint (real or just blown out of proportion) of some number of them being defective. The defect was just that they broke. But I imagine this comic gestated out of all of that somehow.
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
Go away.
Short version: Many batteries were long dead by the time Christmas morning rolled around.
Also, there's another thing with them. Apparently the few people who were actually able to make theirs work found that some of the weird animal cooing noises they make kind of sound like they're saying, "fuck me fuck me" over and over when they're asleep. And while this is definitely reversing-the-record levels of hearing something because you really, really want to hear something, once you hear it, you can't unhear it.
So, yeah, it's a toy you give your child that has a high probability of actually dying while it's being born, and if it manages to survive birth, mumbles sexual things to your child in the night. Eating eyes might have been an improvement.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
*Incredulous look* ... I think you've inadvertently stumbled into the rest of the world's Penny Arcade. If negative occult humor puts you off, you should definitely find your way back to YOUR Penny Arcade. This one is done by some dudes named Mike and Jerry, and has always contained crazy dark humor at times.
A L W A Y S.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Like, how does it differ from neutral occult, or positive occult? Is negative occult attracted to positive occult? If you multiply a negative occult by a negative occult, do you get a positive occult?
Well, occult just implies obscure or secret knowledge and all that, but I think it is in reference to things like blood sacrifice and eyeball eating. If we're getting pedantic, I don't even see anything occult here. Dark humor sci-fi, perhaps, but I get the jist of what he was saying there. I think it was something along the lines of "I'm religious and dark humor offends me, so I'm going to call it occult, bawwwwwww."
I think we're just poking fun at this point. I am
I remember the furby craze. I was in high school and had to line up at Toys R Us at 4am to make sure my mom and sister got one as their Christmas gifts. Naturally, I bought one for myself because I was going through the effort. It was amusing briefly, but ended up under my bed and ignored for a year. Till one night, something odd happened with the battery or something, and the furby just started screaming. It hadn't been touched or looked at in months, and suddenly it was screaming and wriggling. I ended up pulling it out from under the bed and attacking it with a screwdriver to get the batteries out."
This was far more hilarious than the comic was. I laughed so hard I cried. If they were smart they'd steel this idea for another comic.