Penny Arcade - Comic - It’s Actually Cool

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Penny Arcade - Comic - It’s Actually Cool

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

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Johnny17

Remember the garden work simulator from Simpsons? It's all reality now.

Anon von Zilch

Torilla tavataan.

HerculePyro

I have sunk an inordinate amount of time into House Flipper and its various DLCs, so I guess yes, that would be kind of nice.

AngelHedgie

Johnny17 wrote: »

Remember the garden work simulator from Simpsons? It's all reality now.

It's an entire genre of games (fittingly called "dad games") It turns out that this sort of stuff is a good way to lose oneself in a sort of pseudomeditative state.

NemuriBaku

You could customize your vacuum with various brushes, motors, and bags while staying within the power budget of an outlet in the era and place. There could be events: Maybe the neighbor announced their baby's gender with enough glitter and high explosives to constitute a war crime. Maybe a popular brand of boxed red wine has a structural defect. The highest difficulties are College Dorm and Portland.

Bropocalypse

I think the reason these games are stimulating is because chores are hard but in simulation are easy. So it feels good to do them with the click of a button.

T-Danger

Having worked in a career where I've had to occasionally clean things off with a power sprayer, I know that is does feel oddly satisfying to clean off muck with a precision spray, especially something covered in dirt. I can appreciate a game that lets you recreate that without the effort or expense.

jberry

I'll charge that if you reclaim my hardwood by adjusting its length—I shag erotically.

[emoji : musical notes]
I'm just a modren guy—
Of course I've had it in the era before

Tofystedeth

T-Danger wrote: »

Having worked in a career where I've had to occasionally clean things off with a power sprayer, I know that is does feel oddly satisfying to clean off muck with a precision spray, especially something covered in dirt. I can appreciate a game that lets you recreate that without the effort or expense.

Yeah, I can totally see that, like when you have a really dusty car window and you wipe and it just makes this really stark division where everything is clean in one sweep. It makes you feel like you accomplished something, powerful.

homogenized

Thinking about it, real life power spray cleaning is kinda like a light-gun game: the spray is the weapon, the dirt patches are the targets, the delicate instruments are the non-combatants that penalize you if you hit them.

ani_game_bum

Oh, Gabe. The lessons we have forgotten...

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/20

Ringo

Games about vacuum cleaners can be fun!

https://youtu.be/4A-6FcEes1A

Quid

Power washing is admittedly quite satisfying. My wife loves power washing the deck and promptly claimed the chore for herself after doing it for the first time.

NemuriBaku

The power washing subreddit has over a million members.

palidine40

Whenever you pick Shag Carpeting for the level's mode, you get free a Dirk Diggler you have to work around while he's in the middle of working.

Grahamf

ngl i'd play a vaccuum simulator game. it could have janky physics like Katamari games or it could be a puzzle game where you are a roomba and have to navigate difficult floors to clean everything.

Iiro

Yay! Finland mentioned!