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Penny Arcade - Comic - Our Tender Jarls

DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
edited June 2021 in The Penny Arcade Hub
imagePenny Arcade - Comic - Our Tender Jarls

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

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  • noxumbranoxumbra Registered User regular
    I want that last panel as a t-shirt

  • dennisdennis aka bingley Registered User regular
    Unrealistic. Dumpsters are too good for facebook gaming.

  • NemuriBakuNemuriBaku Registered User regular
    This is the first time I have heard of Facebook Gaming, which somehow makes me get the reference even more.

  • lwt1973lwt1973 King of Thieves SyndicationRegistered User regular
    That's still a thing? Huh.

    "He's sulking in his tent like Achilles! It's the Iliad?...from Homer?! READ A BOOK!!" -Handy
  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    dennis wrote: »
    Unrealistic. Dumpsters are too good for facebook gaming.

    That's why it's just a Trash-Co waste disposal unit

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • BropocalypseBropocalypse Registered User regular
    Facebook Gaming was doomed from the start, simply because Facebook's core demographic is the older family members of gamers, the ones who think they play too many games.

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited June 2021
    Why is the logo reversed on the t-shirt in the last panel?

    EDIT: I mean, it's obvious that it's a partial copy-pasta/horizontal flip of the second panel. But it seems like a detail that Mike should have caught.

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  • dennisdennis aka bingley Registered User regular
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    Why is the logo reversed on the t-shirt in the last panel?

    EDIT: I mean, it's obvious that it's a partial copy-pasta/horizontal flip of the second panel. But it seems like a detail that Mike should have caught.

    Maybe he did, but since he was mocking facebook gaming, he put in only the level of care it deserved.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I remember a streamer was talking about facebook was trying to buy some more people to play on their platform, but like youtube the big issue is there is no easily searchable way to find people streaming. Also unlike say youtube or twitch don't you have to be signed on to facebook to watch streams?

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • ZobirisZobiris NS, CanadaRegistered User regular
    I read this one with a random Justin Roiland character voice.

  • dennisdennis aka bingley Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Also unlike say youtube or twitch don't you have to be signed on to facebook to watch streams?

    Probably unanswerable.

  • AstralMuffinAstralMuffin Registered User regular
    " [...] you get full value for subs, yes, provided they are purchased on desktop.
    This means, in essence, that when your grandma subs to your channel you'll extract the full value"

    Well now I feel personally attacked! People really don't watch stuff in their PCs? Like when they work or something? Am I so disconnected from reality?

  • dennisdennis aka bingley Registered User regular
    edited June 2021
    AstralMuffin wrote: »
    " [...] you get full value for subs, yes, provided they are purchased on desktop.
    This means, in essence, that when your grandma subs to your channel you'll extract the full value"

    Well now I feel personally attacked! People really don't watch stuff in their PCs? Like when they work or something? Am I so disconnected from reality?

    It's hyperbole with a grain of truth, as much humor is. Streamers want the big numbers. Hundreds of thousands, preferably millions of viewers. The mass market is not desktops/laptops; it's phones and tablets. Especially with the youths, which is a prime bigtime streamer target.

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  • NemuriBakuNemuriBaku Registered User regular
    edited June 2021
    Jayne: Let's see... 100% of nuthin'...[url][/url]

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  • BropocalypseBropocalypse Registered User regular
    dennis wrote: »
    AstralMuffin wrote: »
    " [...] you get full value for subs, yes, provided they are purchased on desktop.
    This means, in essence, that when your grandma subs to your channel you'll extract the full value"

    Well now I feel personally attacked! People really don't watch stuff in their PCs? Like when they work or something? Am I so disconnected from reality?

    It's hyperbole with a grain of truth, as much humor is. Streamers want the big numbers. Hundreds of thousands, preferably millions of viewers. The mass market is not desktops/laptops; it's phones and tablets. Especially with the youths, which is a prime bigtime streamer target.

    It might also be because young folk don't gravitate towards FB

  • dennisdennis aka bingley Registered User regular
    Bropocalypse wrote: »
    dennis wrote: »
    AstralMuffin wrote: »
    " [...] you get full value for subs, yes, provided they are purchased on desktop.
    This means, in essence, that when your grandma subs to your channel you'll extract the full value"

    Well now I feel personally attacked! People really don't watch stuff in their PCs? Like when they work or something? Am I so disconnected from reality?

    It's hyperbole with a grain of truth, as much humor is. Streamers want the big numbers. Hundreds of thousands, preferably millions of viewers. The mass market is not desktops/laptops; it's phones and tablets. Especially with the youths, which is a prime bigtime streamer target.

    It might also be because young folk don't gravitate towards FB

    I don't understand the connection to the point. In any case, most people will be using facebook with phones or ipads, not desktops. Even most people in my generation (mid-40s) do that.

  • MarcinMNMarcinMN Registered User regular
    edited June 2021
    dennis wrote: »
    Bropocalypse wrote: »
    dennis wrote: »
    AstralMuffin wrote: »
    " [...] you get full value for subs, yes, provided they are purchased on desktop.
    This means, in essence, that when your grandma subs to your channel you'll extract the full value"

    Well now I feel personally attacked! People really don't watch stuff in their PCs? Like when they work or something? Am I so disconnected from reality?

    It's hyperbole with a grain of truth, as much humor is. Streamers want the big numbers. Hundreds of thousands, preferably millions of viewers. The mass market is not desktops/laptops; it's phones and tablets. Especially with the youths, which is a prime bigtime streamer target.

    It might also be because young folk don't gravitate towards FB

    I don't understand the connection to the point. In any case, most people will be using facebook with phones or ipads, not desktops. Even most people in my generation (mid-40s) do that.

    I'm 46 and I go both ways. I'm writing this on my PC right now. In the evening, when I'm home, I'm likely looking at FB on my PC, but I will look at it on my phone when I'm not at home. If I want to type anything I try to get to my PC if at all possible. I hate typing things on my little phone keyboard.

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    "It's just as I've always said. We are being digested by an amoral universe."

    -Tycho Brahe
  • dennisdennis aka bingley Registered User regular
    MarcinMN wrote: »
    dennis wrote: »
    Bropocalypse wrote: »
    dennis wrote: »
    AstralMuffin wrote: »
    " [...] you get full value for subs, yes, provided they are purchased on desktop.
    This means, in essence, that when your grandma subs to your channel you'll extract the full value"

    Well now I feel personally attacked! People really don't watch stuff in their PCs? Like when they work or something? Am I so disconnected from reality?

    It's hyperbole with a grain of truth, as much humor is. Streamers want the big numbers. Hundreds of thousands, preferably millions of viewers. The mass market is not desktops/laptops; it's phones and tablets. Especially with the youths, which is a prime bigtime streamer target.

    It might also be because young folk don't gravitate towards FB

    I don't understand the connection to the point. In any case, most people will be using facebook with phones or ipads, not desktops. Even most people in my generation (mid-40s) do that.

    I'm 46 and I go both ways. I'm writing this on my PC right now. In the evening, when I'm home, I'm likely looking at FB on my PC, but I will look at it on my phone when I'm not at home. If I want to type anything I try to get to my PC if at all possible. I hate typing things on my little phone keyboard.

    Yeah, I'm speaking about the large majority of my peers I see using facebook (or most other social media and just plain old websites). I use a desktop or laptop about 95% of the time. But I recognize I'm in the minority.

  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    Facebook gaming is huge in other countries, for example Mexico.

    Several streamers make insane amounts of money there.

  • lwt1973lwt1973 King of Thieves SyndicationRegistered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    But like youtube the big issue is there is no easily searchable way to find people streaming.

    Agreed. Official Hearthstone tournaments are on YouTube because YouTube paid Blizz to be the sole streaming platform but I never go there because it's hard to find unless I'm searching specifically for it. Blizz's numbers for HS viewers fell off a cliff when they switched from Twitch to YouTube.

    "He's sulking in his tent like Achilles! It's the Iliad?...from Homer?! READ A BOOK!!" -Handy
  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    I think similar happened for Overwatch League, but I don't know how much of that is discoverability vs OWL being years old in an industry that thrives on new hotness.

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