Penny Arcade

Dog · April 2020

Penny Arcade - Comic - The Queeb

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

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Aldo · April 2020

*Googles*

Nawwww. I really hoped those were real.

dennis · April 2020

I'm not sure what we did to deserve the effort Mike put into it, but I appreciate it.

V1m · April 2020

I wonder if The Cat ever did pass the TC/IP module

Grendus · April 2020

I really hate the Quibi ads. They're fucking everywhere.

AstralMuffin · April 2020

One think one can appreciate about all this lockdown thing is all the variety of situations we're getting in the strip

Zilla360 · April 2020

I had never heard of this app so I had to look it up:

Content

List of original programs distributed by Quibi

The company plans to spend $1.1 billion on commissioning original content in its first year, totaling 8,500[10] short-form episodes and including over 175 shows.[11] Quibi's original programming includes:

Chrissy's Court, a Judge Judy-style reality show starring Chrissy Teigen.[12]
Spielberg's After Dark, a horror series written and created by Steven Spielberg. The show is unique on the platform in that it can be viewed only at night.[13]
Kill the Efrons, a survival reality starring Zac Efron and his brother Dylan, where the pair will be sent to remote parts of the world.[14]
Frat Boy Genius, a drama about Snapchat and its founder, Evan Spiegel.[15]
Fierce Queens, a documentary series commissioned by the BBC Natural History Unit, which shows natural history from a female perspective.[16]
Punk’d, a reboot of the celebrity prank show, hosted by Chance The Rapper.

'Kill The Efrons'. I woud actually watch that.

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cL1HisrNc

Truly the show most suited to the dystopian-mid-pandemic-late-stage-capitalist world we all now live (nay, exist) in. /s :rotate: :bzz:

H3Knuckles · April 2020

Zilla360 wrote: »

I had never heard of this app so I had to look it up:
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Content

List of original programs distributed by Quibi

The company plans to spend $1.1 billion on commissioning original content in its first year, totaling 8,500[10] short-form episodes and including over 175 shows.[11] Quibi's original programming includes:

Chrissy's Court, a Judge Judy-style reality show starring Chrissy Teigen.[12]
Spielberg's After Dark, a horror series written and created by Steven Spielberg. The show is unique on the platform in that it can be viewed only at night.[13]
Kill the Efrons, a survival reality starring Zac Efron and his brother Dylan, where the pair will be sent to remote parts of the world.[14]
Frat Boy Genius, a drama about Snapchat and its founder, Evan Spiegel.[15]
Fierce Queens, a documentary series commissioned by the BBC Natural History Unit, which shows natural history from a female perspective.[16]
Punk’d, a reboot of the celebrity prank show, hosted by Chance The Rapper.

Spielberg one could be neat. I liked the old Amazing Stories (haven't seen the new one yet).

Did a double take on 'Fierce Queens'. At first I missed the 'natural' part and thought it'd be a BBC history show focusing on female monarchs, which hey I might watch that. Now I'm just confused. What is gendered about natural history documentaries?

dennis · April 2020

H3Knuckles wrote: »

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Zilla360 wrote: »

I had never heard of this app so I had to look it up:

Content

List of original programs distributed by Quibi

The company plans to spend $1.1 billion on commissioning original content in its first year, totaling 8,500[10] short-form episodes and including over 175 shows.[11] Quibi's original programming includes:

Chrissy's Court, a Judge Judy-style reality show starring Chrissy Teigen.[12]
Spielberg's After Dark, a horror series written and created by Steven Spielberg. The show is unique on the platform in that it can be viewed only at night.[13]
Kill the Efrons, a survival reality starring Zac Efron and his brother Dylan, where the pair will be sent to remote parts of the world.[14]
Frat Boy Genius, a drama about Snapchat and its founder, Evan Spiegel.[15]
Fierce Queens, a documentary series commissioned by the BBC Natural History Unit, which shows natural history from a female perspective.[16]
Punk’d, a reboot of the celebrity prank show, hosted by Chance The Rapper.

Spielberg one could be neat. I liked the old Amazing Stories (haven't seen the new one yet).

Did a double take on 'Fierce Queens'. At first I missed the 'natural' part and thought it'd be a BBC history show focusing on female monarchs, which hey I might watch that. Now I'm just confused. What is gendered about natural history documentaries?

Here's the page with descriptions of each of the episodes: https://quibi.com/shows/fierce-queens-277/

As a long-time nature documentary fan and a feminist, I find this approach... questionable. It certainly seems like it was an idea that came direct from the marketing department.