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Penny Arcade - Comic - Turn, Turn, Turn
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Turn, Turn, Turn
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Thank you Jereford.
Seriously why wouldn't it be lead? Now I have to know more to find out!
and why did (apparently mostly American) copy editors/typesetters only get confused starting in the 1970s?
As identified by Tycho, it's the physical manifestation of the Beast spoken of in Revelations.
Law and Order ≠ Justice
One of the first times my journalism degree has proven itself useful.
What makes you think they're falling?
Maybe they're just hovering.
Yeah, due to them all being at the same level, they might just be orbiting the pile of trash gamepieces Gabe is holding. Because they emit their own dark gravity.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/bury-the-lede-versus-lead
"Spelling the word as lede helped copyeditors, typesetters, and others in the business distinguish it from its homograph lead (pronounced \led\ ), which also happened to refer to the thin strip of metal separating lines of type (as in a Linotype machine). Since both uses were likely to come up frequently in a newspaper office, there was a benefit to spelling the two words distinctly. "
so since we don't use Linotype any more, it should actually be spelled correctly, "lead".
The big things that were sticking out were for the video game-part, where you could get a giant action-figure of your character and use it as a controller.
At least the website for the cards seems to finally be online.
It's interesting that it seems built to be played multi-player right out of the box. The rotating cards thing to track duration of buffs reminds me a little bit of the old City of Heroes CCG. I kind of like the idea of the power of some of these buffs changing depending on it's current orientation? Seems decent, although I'm a little surprised there isn't a digital version of the card game as well.
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Put it like this: When a story breaks about, say, an earthquake happening, the main points to put in the ingress would be things like how destructive it was, if people are killed or missing, stuff like that.
But if the ingress instead talks about the statistics of how often the area is hit with earthquakes, and -then- the story itself talks about the number of casualties and so on, then they would have buried the lede.
Or in video game terms: If there was a new Legend of Zelda game coming out that was essentially going to be a Zelda game in the veins of Majora's Mask (objectively the best game in the entire series), then that's what you want to open the story with, right?
But if the story instead opened with an ingress talking about how they're further perfected the music to fit the action going on in the game, then they would have buried the lede.
I hope that makes things clearer for you.
A word might be culturally or technologically obsolete, but that doesn't erase the word from existence.
Heck, we still call automobiles "cars" which is short for "carriage" which was shortened from "horseless carriage" which is how the first automobiles were differentiated from carriages that were drawn by horses. My point being, you can't call Jerry out for using an older word, because our language is still full of old obsolete words and phrases. It's fine.
And "lede" is great.
and thanks @Hawk one , I guess that made it clearer? I still don't think Gabe lede in with irrelevant facts and then hit Tycho with the meat of the story/game, unless Tycho feels the spinning numbers are the really important part?
it's exactly the opposite of "car" actually. car is the common, modern usage. it would be more like calling a car a "horseless carriage".
or calling a refridgerator an "ice box".
yes- words are defined by their usage, their common modern day usage.
modern day usage of "horseless carriage" or "icebox" = none.
of course Tycho's use of "lede" is fine. we all know he a word... guy, and likes to use unusual words, and that's great. it's fantastic. we love it. don't change a thing.
just know that in modern journalism - at least among those not "nostalgic for the passing of the linotype era." - it's "lead".
as in "don't bury the lead".
http://grammarist.com/usage/lead-lede/
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/bury-the-lede-versus-lead
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lede
I see journalists write "lede" all the time.
He said "as spoken of in Revelations". The book in the Bible is called Revelations. As in more than one, a whole book full of them in fact.
Tycho: No no no. It's probably just a discussion about my word usage and their meanings. No one cares about games or art or these things you cherish.
Gabe views thread: motherfucker!
(ed. note: it's probably a good thing I don't write comic strips for a living)
Not according to Wikipedia. It's "The Book of Revelation". But yeah, people do say "Revelations" all the time. And there isn't any reason why the "Revelations" Tycho is talking have to be the ones from the Christian New Testament.
Er, your source there says it wasn't common in the past like believed and that it is common now. And given Merriam-Webster sources passages from NPR and A.V. club it seems modern outlets like lede just fine.
Well, except that that's where the Beast is from. It's a common mistake, but it is wrong.
"He said "as spoken of in Revelations". The book in the Bible is called Revelations. As in more than one, a whole book full of them in fact."
I can't believe how hard it is for you people to actually Google something or pick up a Bible. It's like everyone in the U.S. thinks they know what's in the Bible but almost none of them have actually picked one up, ever. God humans are f***ing stupid.
Could be worse, I thought it was spelled "Relevations" well into my teens. Granted, English isnt my first language, but still.
Well that can't be right, as we see people from our era all the time in Futurama. Fry, for example.
I know, it's almost like people respond to stuff on the internet without doing the appropriate level of research.
Insanity, frogs raining from the sky, cats sleeping with dogs. Wouldn't surprise me if the Beast from Revelations shows up!
They said on one of the DVD commentaries that one of the conceits was that The Simpsons was fake, and Futurama was "real". Which is why they find Simpson's merch when they go to the Big Ball of Garbage. It would explain the skin tones too.
I just assumed that everyone in the Simpsonsverse have jaundice or something
On (I think) another of the DVD commentaries Groening said that he liked the idea of making people think that the colour balance on their TV was off
Although this might be one of those things that just is, and Groening has a number of explanations for the yellow skin
even not looking at the skin tone of the Simpsons, the first few seasons when it was still animated by hand in the US, the colors of everything looked off, especially on that big CRT tv we had back in the 80's.