Penny Arcade - Comic - Actual, Factual

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Penny Arcade - Comic - Actual, Factual

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

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dennis

Good on Mike for managing to actually stay off this time. I know a lot of people were skeptical that it would stick.

V1m

He finally took his hand out of the Pain Amplifier?

v2micca

How I imagine the brain-storming session for this comic went:

Tycho: We should do a comic about how social media sucks.
Gabe: Okay, you have an idea for a joke, gag, or punchline?
Tycho: Meh, I was thinking of making a Tolkien reference.
Gabe: Okay, do we have a joke or a gag in there somewhere.....
Tycho: Dude, I don't know, just draw a palantir lit up with the eye of Sauron or something and work back from there.

Grendus

Honestly, I imagine that the conversation in this comic happened more or less verbatim IRL, probably after Jerry raged about seeing some "not-so-fun fact" on Xitter. "Oh hey, another fun fact about active genocides. That's not a fun fact, that's the kind of fact you get out of a Palantir..." And boom, Mike's off to the sketchbook.

Golden Yak

I think they've gone back to the palantir well too often.

V1m

It is easy to gaze into the palanatir; not so easy to gaze away.

Johnny17

I miss the early days of the internet when every forum was a cushy colon.

Lttlefoot

Sauron can't watch all of us at once

dennis

Golden Yak wrote: »

I think they've gone back to the palantir well too often.

It's grown palantiresome.

Rhesus Positive

Golden Yak wrote: »

I think they've gone back to the palantir well too often.

I guess they really want us all to buy palantirs

Overkillengine

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

I guess they really want us all to buy palantirs

Palantirs as a service. 250 token cost per Fun Fact.

$10.99 will get you 200 Fun Fact Tokens, or $50.99 for the "best value" barrel of 1100 Fun Fact tokens to maximize your sense of pride and accomplishment!

Djiem

Palantir: Now with ads!

dennis

This is why I got Palantir Premium. If you scry more than a few facts a month it's totally worth it.

Tofystedeth

Palantir Premium used to be worth it, but like everything they enshittified it. It went from a genuinely useful service for knowing what was going on around the world to a corrupting influence overnight and with the stealth ToS change there's no recourse for users.

Lucascraft

I use adblock on my palantir.

dennis

Mmm, actually urukBlock Origin is the way to go.

Hevach

Me in my head: "Wait is this one of those new AI gadgets? Some live service product like the Car Thing I haven't heard about? Am I missing the joke?"

Me posting in this thread: "Haha yes fellow not old people that is a funny joke that I get indeed!"


I hate living in the future. I was promised a robotic dog, not a robotic idiot that tells me the wrong things.

Overkillengine

Hevach wrote: »

I hate living in the future. I was promised a robotic dog, not a robotic idiot that tells me the wrong things.

Well, there are robot dogs. Unfortunately they may run pitbull.exe and have guns.

https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-news/defence/us-army-experimenting-with-weaponised-q-ugv-for-infantry

Our tech sector seems to have a great many people hellbent on making the 1984 movie Runaway into a documentary.

Lttlefoot

Lord of the Rings came out 70 years ago (minus a few days), it's not a youth thing