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Penny Arcade - Comic - Whackmen

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

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Overkillengine

Somehow I doubt it will stick, just like another time:




"I can quit anytime I want"

ATF_Griff

The best way to quit is to never start.

FireballDragon

"My name is Gabriel, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

StarDrifter

I deactivated mine in 2020. The site is so drenched in illness that there was a tangible sense of healing after just a short time away.

v2micca

So, my apologies in advance. I'm about to spiral into a slightly unhinged analogy. While there is some dispute on the matter, a patent for that is generally regarded as the first automobile was issued in 1886. Twenty years later, Massachusetts and Missouri became the first states to require a drivers license to operate one. By 1919 Michigan joined the club and began requiring drivers licenses as well. That same year, Rhode Island became the first state to require and exam and a license. And so it went, State by state until finally in 1959 South Dakota became the final State in the Union to require a driver's exam to become licensed. My point is that it takes regulation a while to catch up with innovation. Right now, social media feels like that period in the early roaring 20's where the vast majority of the nation could just legally jump behind the wheel of a vehicle with very little oversite into whether or not they would become a public menace, or potentially a threat to public safety.

Lttlefoot

I don’t think people would find social media regulation tolerable, justifiable or constitutional

I don’t mind twitter and reddit where I have pretty good control over what I see. But I dumped Facebook 3 years ago and am happy about that

V1m

Yeah but the driving license system didn't impede hugely rich Gilded Age oligarchs

DarkAcreJack

DarkAcreJack was warned for this.

You wouldn't deadname your trans allies, but you do it with X? I get that people have general contempt for social media, but anyone still using the name "Twitter" in 2024 just looks amusingly spiteful.

RatherDashing89

Yes I in fact would treat a thinking human person with more care and respect than a collection of computer programs/corporate entity whose management is dead set on making it a mockery of itself. Such double standards.

Delzhand

I don't understand how you get from the raw genesis of the thought to the Post Reply button without seeing the dissimilarities between an oppressed minority and a website owned by the world's third richest man

Lttlefoot

The comment has to be a joke. I haven’t heard of anyone calling for the new name to be used. People here were still calling the phone company “Telecom” ten years after the name changed

Djiem

DarkAcreJack wrote: »

You wouldn't deadname your trans allies, but you do it with X? I get that people have general contempt for social media, but anyone still using the name "Twitter" in 2024 just looks amusingly spiteful.

That joke is not funny.

When I say it's not funny, I don't mean to say that it is offensive or transphobic (even though it is transphobic), I mean that it is trite.

Tofystedeth

Lttlefoot wrote: »

The comment has to be a joke. I haven’t heard of anyone calling for the new name to be used. People here were still calling the phone company “Telecom” ten years after the name changed

I've literally only seen it from people who start with the appearance of good faith discussion and after a few pages ended up showing their whole ass.

hibryd7

When they posted "Raid: Shadow Legends", I logged on solely to congratulate Mike on deleting his twitter account, but the forum was strangely active and the topic was FFXIV so I wrote a small article that had nothing to do with twitter instead.

Anyways, as rarely happens, my inaction lead to a more fortuitous opportunity, so....congrats on deleting your twitter account.

I deleted mine several years ago after realizing all I used it for was to get drunk and rave murderous nonsense at children and corporate entities I harbored mild distain for.

Morninglord

Twitter has already deleted itself.

palidine40

Wooo congratulations Mike! It's a hard step, but the hardest is when you try to go look at someone elses tweet later and realize that they recently stopped people from looking around by clicking/surfing, you must be strong, its ok to not look something up directly anymore. Use news articles you trust, if its that important.

Now, the question becomes. Mastodon, and/OR threads?

palidine40

DarkAcreJack wrote: »

You wouldn't deadname your trans allies, but you do it with X? I get that people have general contempt for social media, but anyone still using the name "Twitter" in 2024 just looks amusingly spiteful.

Carrying a flag/torch for something thats not a person. The company is not a person. Stop.

A rebrand isn't the same thing as an emotional self awareness awakening. And to put the same value on it, is quite distasteful. Does this also fit along the other lessons from the twitter owner's beliefs on other things?

V1m

DarkAcreJack wrote: »

You wouldn't deadname your trans allies, but you do it with X? I get that people have general contempt for social media, but anyone still using the name "Twitter" in 2024 just looks amusingly spiteful.

I take that as a compliment!

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Rhesus Positive

Point of note: I wouldn't deadname my trans enemies, either

DarkAcreJack

I had no idea this forum was this uptight.

v2micca

DarkAcreJack wrote: »

I had no idea this forum was this uptight.

You got a warning for making an intentionally provocative statement that trivializes the very real issues of the trans community by conflating them with the ego project of an Apartheid Era nepo-baby. If you really need someone to explain this to you, I guess I should also warn you not to stick your tongue into a live electrical socket.

DJ Eebs

DarkAcreJack wrote: »

You wouldn't deadname your trans allies, but you do it with X? I get that people have general contempt for social media, but anyone still using the name "Twitter" in 2024 just looks amusingly spiteful.

I know that you've already been infracted for this, but let me just state as the admin of this forum: don't invoke transphobia as a fucking gotcha to defend Elon Musk's dipshit business practices.

dennis

We don't play those type of games here.

Rhesus Positive

Even Twitter still calls itself Twitter

I get emails from info@twitter.com with the name X (formerly Twitter)

Jokerman

DarkAcreJack wrote: »

I had no idea this forum was this uptight.

Do you have an idea now, asshole?

The Wolfman

For me, I call it X specifically because in my head, it's the same sort of act as deadnaming somebody. It's a shitty act that *they* do, and I don't want to do what *they* do.

I also just don't care. In an apathetic way. Twitter/X and Musk can eat a dick. But I'm not going to waste extended brain function on them, at least on completely worthless shit like the name. Who exactly am I owning by continuing to call it Twitter? They don't care. And I'm not going to care by expending effort to do it.

Rhesus Positive

It's a company, nobody's being denied anything by calling it Twitter

I can't be the only one that refers to long-running establishments by the name I first knew them as, rather than the name they changed to, right?

Like if a restaurant changes its name in your home town, you'll casually say "hey, let's go to [old name]" when you go back?

MichaelLC

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

It's a company, nobody's being denied anything by calling it Twitter

I can't be the only one that refers to long-running establishments by the name I first knew them as, rather than the name they changed to, right?
?

Nope. Get fucked, Willis.

Edit: for those who don't know, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Tower

dennis

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

It's a company, nobody's being denied anything by calling it Twitter

I can't be the only one that refers to long-running establishments by the name I first knew them as, rather than the name they changed to, right?

Like if a restaurant changes its name in your home town, you'll casually say "hey, let's go to [old name]" when you go back?

I wonder if some of this isn't an age thing. When you've been around long enough, you've had tons of companies doing Dynamic Rebranding and continually Synergizing the Namespace. I spend way less brain function by continuing to call them "twitter" than I would to try to remember to always call them "X".

I have deadnamed a trans friend (thankfully, to a third party), but completely accidentally and was extremely grateful to be corrected immediately. But for a company, this isn't even a discussion unless you're being a troll or an edgelord. Corporations don't have any feelings, and they sure as shit don't care about yours.

If I want to "own" them, I just call them "shitter."

v2micca

MichaelLC wrote: »

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

It's a company, nobody's being denied anything by calling it Twitter

I can't be the only one that refers to long-running establishments by the name I first knew them as, rather than the name they changed to, right?
?

Nope. Get fucked, Willis.

Edit: for those who don't know, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Tower

Oh, but you can have so much fun with this one. Seriously, find a crusty old native Chicagoan, point out the Tower and ask its name, and when the scoff at you and insist its called the Sears tower, look them dead in the eye and say, "Whatcha talkin' bout Willis?"

Djiem

dennis wrote: »

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

It's a company, nobody's being denied anything by calling it Twitter

I can't be the only one that refers to long-running establishments by the name I first knew them as, rather than the name they changed to, right?

Like if a restaurant changes its name in your home town, you'll casually say "hey, let's go to [old name]" when you go back?

I wonder if some of this isn't an age thing. When you've been around long enough, you've had tons of companies doing Dynamic Rebranding and continually Synergizing the Namespace. I spend way less brain function by continuing to call them "twitter" than I would to try to remember to always call them "X".

I have deadnamed a trans friend (thankfully, to a third party), but completely accidentally and was extremely grateful to be corrected immediately. But for a company, this isn't even a discussion unless you're being a troll or an edgelord. Corporations don't have any feelings, and they sure as shit don't care about yours.

If I want to "own" them, I just call them "shitter."

If I wanted to "own" it, I'd have to waste 44 billion dollars.

dennis

Djiem wrote: »

dennis wrote: »

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

It's a company, nobody's being denied anything by calling it Twitter

I can't be the only one that refers to long-running establishments by the name I first knew them as, rather than the name they changed to, right?

Like if a restaurant changes its name in your home town, you'll casually say "hey, let's go to [old name]" when you go back?

I wonder if some of this isn't an age thing. When you've been around long enough, you've had tons of companies doing Dynamic Rebranding and continually Synergizing the Namespace. I spend way less brain function by continuing to call them "twitter" than I would to try to remember to always call them "X".

I have deadnamed a trans friend (thankfully, to a third party), but completely accidentally and was extremely grateful to be corrected immediately. But for a company, this isn't even a discussion unless you're being a troll or an edgelord. Corporations don't have any feelings, and they sure as shit don't care about yours.

If I want to "own" them, I just call them "shitter."

If I wanted to "own" it, I'd have to waste 44 billion dollars.

Less and less with each passing day, though.

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Lttlefoot

What’s Gabe gonna do if the cat goes missing again? https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/04/30/felinity1

Phoenix-D

Lttlefoot wrote: »

What’s Gabe gonna do if the cat goes missing again? https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/04/30/felinity1

Given the date on that comic, if the cat goes missing it's probably time to stock up on zombie apocalypse supplies.