You can now pre-register your username on Coin Return. Check out the instructions
here.Penny Arcade - Comic - Descenders

Penny Arcade - Comic - Descenders
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
Read the full story here
+2
Posts
I mean, this particular dealer (Nexon) has been in the same trap-house under the same moniker for quite some time.
I mean, what if there's cake down there?
There might be a shovel. That would be great for digging yourself back out.
Yeah, more of that premium "don't play this game, because it's not really fun but just a time sink" shilling.
My thoughts as well. They have made two full comics about it now. My god, Gabe is practically demanding that Tycho go install the game. (At least, that is how Tycho is interpreting it)
https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2024/07/15/tales-from-the-first-descendant
Yeah, that's a rousing endorsement of a game. Maybe we're having a definitional problem here.
And then at the end:
You call this a sales pitch? You think he's pretending to be a satisfied customer?
I think "shill" must have lost all meaning for some people. Irregardless, I could care less.
Something to the affect of, "We're often accused of 'seling out', while they would never do it. Not selling out and not having anything to sell are different things."
This piece is like roughly 80% straight-up shilling and maybe 20% not totally shilling but still sort of shilling and definitely not somehow magically unshilling the larger portion.
You're resting all this weight on the statement that the game isn't for everyone. ...No game is for everyone. It's a nothing statement.
I guess we're all shills now. I just shilled chicken fingers to my wife. I'm off to go shill some of my favorite native plants on reddit now. Maybe later I'll shill the book I just finished over on the Debate and Discourse book thread.
I shill this post.
It was not
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/02/26/the-name-of-the-strip
Jesus jumped up christ
Sounds like one of many, yes.
It's a hell of a euphemism.
"Bae, get down to the street corner and monetize that premium hole with some microtransactions."
Weird shill to die on
Careful, they might spend any check you give them on more gacha.
Edit: Or should I say.....some premium hole.
In so many ways.
It's shill-a-minute over here.
This rousing endorsement left me shill-shocked.