Penny Arcade - Comic - Down Deep

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Penny Arcade - Comic - Down Deep

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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dennis

I'm surprised Tycho didn't notice Gabe's just ripping off Veggie Tales.

Tofystedeth

Soilomancers are old news. Hydropontiffs are where it's at.

OctoberRaven

I can see Gabe continuing to make stuff up about this campaign just to keep Tycho off his back.

T: "Here's an entire campaign for you"
G: "For Mouse Guard right?"
T: "Oh... OHHHHHH...." *goes off to write something 20x longer*

PohtHehd

The proper term would not be "soil-omancy" but "soil-o-mancy" or "soil-mancy". "Omancy" isn't a proper morpheme.

Also, soilomancy is being made-up to describe something which is already being described by the not-made-up word geomancy. You might make the argument that soilomancy is a much more specific section of geomancy; one that specifically deals with soils. But, I would call that a pedantic and trivial stance to defend a pretty stupid made-up word.

Vitari

You might be overthinking this

Anon von Zilch

PohtHehd wrote: »

Also, soilomancy is being made-up to describe something which is already being described by the not-made-up word geomancy. You might make the argument that soilomancy is a much more specific section of geomancy; one that specifically deals with soils. But, I would call that a pedantic and trivial stance to defend a pretty stupid made-up word.

I was under the impression that geomancy is about leylines and such rather than about material earth.

Tofystedeth

Anon von Zilch wrote: »

PohtHehd wrote: »

Also, soilomancy is being made-up to describe something which is already being described by the not-made-up word geomancy. You might make the argument that soilomancy is a much more specific section of geomancy; one that specifically deals with soils. But, I would call that a pedantic and trivial stance to defend a pretty stupid made-up word.

I was under the impression that geomancy is about leylines and such rather than about material earth.

Even if it wasn't, geomancy as in the above post is just earthbending.

Soilomancy is about creating nurturing substrates for your farming.

A process that has clearly gone awry in Gabe's campaign.

YoungFrey

Anon von Zilch wrote: »

PohtHehd wrote: »

Also, soilomancy is being made-up to describe something which is already being described by the not-made-up word geomancy. You might make the argument that soilomancy is a much more specific section of geomancy; one that specifically deals with soils. But, I would call that a pedantic and trivial stance to defend a pretty stupid made-up word.

I was under the impression that geomancy is about leylines and such rather than about material earth.

Wikipedia thinks it's about using soil (or other earth) to predict the future.

dennis

PohtHehd wrote: »

The proper term would not be "soil-omancy" but "soil-o-mancy" or "soil-mancy". "Omancy" isn't a proper morpheme.

Also, soilomancy is being made-up to describe something which is already being described by the not-made-up word geomancy. You might make the argument that soilomancy is a much more specific section of geomancy; one that specifically deals with soils. But, I would call that a pedantic and trivial stance to defend a pretty stupid made-up word.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!



(Sorry, that just seemed more appropriate than a reasoned critique.)

FireballDragon

dennis wrote: »

I'm surprised Tycho didn't notice Gabe's just ripping off Veggie Tales.

I was gonna say...

MichaelLC

YoungFrey wrote: »

Anon von Zilch wrote: »

PohtHehd wrote: »

Also, soilomancy is being made-up to describe something which is already being described by the not-made-up word geomancy. You might make the argument that soilomancy is a much more specific section of geomancy; one that specifically deals with soils. But, I would call that a pedantic and trivial stance to defend a pretty stupid made-up word.

I was under the impression that geomancy is about leylines and such rather than about material earth.

Wikipedia thinks it's about using soil (or other earth) to predict the future.

So the TruGreen guy that comes around and says I need more nitrogen to avoid brown spots is a geomancer?

Aldo

MichaelLC wrote: »

YoungFrey wrote: »

Anon von Zilch wrote: »

PohtHehd wrote: »

Also, soilomancy is being made-up to describe something which is already being described by the not-made-up word geomancy. You might make the argument that soilomancy is a much more specific section of geomancy; one that specifically deals with soils. But, I would call that a pedantic and trivial stance to defend a pretty stupid made-up word.

I was under the impression that geomancy is about leylines and such rather than about material earth.

Wikipedia thinks it's about using soil (or other earth) to predict the future.

So the TruGreen guy that comes around and says I need more nitrogen to avoid brown spots is a geomancer?

He is now and he is now the BBEG.

Rius

I read a lot, I mean, a lot of fiction. A lot of funny stuff. And I enjoy none of it so much as I enjoy Jerry's writing.

What a fun trip to the dentist. The right side of my head is an infinite, furrowed perturbation, sown with thousands of abraded teeth. The left side of my head is the anchor that keeps me from leaving the Earth.