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Penny Arcade - Comic - Let Them Eat Brands
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Let Them Eat Brands
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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I'd suggest that sand is just processed dirt.
What we really need is some nice tasty pond scum.
Finding out that Mr. Beast is doing a food thing while embroiled in legal troubles over the drink thing is just wild.
The post had me thinking of "Almost Pizza":
"I don't want the world, I just want your half"
They could have never foreseen them selling expensive almost-but-not-legally-considered Food to parents that can barely afford to feed their kids as-is, just because the kids know the guy on the box on the internet.
Yeah I gotta be real, part of the massive fail here is parents basing any food purchases off of a child's parasocial relationships. Just buy a pack of whole wheat soft flatbread, a block of mozz, a pack of pepperoni, and a bottle or can of pizza sauce, and you can make a "lunchable" that is probably way healthier, and probably cheaper. Might involve a couple minutes per day portioning out the ingredients and packing them for use as a lunch and interacting with the children beyond tossing a box of processed slop at them. The absolute horror.
I was a latchkey kid with a single parent and they easily managed that much until I was old enough to be taught how to cook. And my family had to drive out of county to find an actual grocery store, so I'm not exactly receptive to "food desert" excuses either.
Basically, PA is completely severing its support of the forum, and they're planning for how to keep the lights on going forward.
The reason I post here is that one topic being bandied about is that if there is any "The Penny Arcade Hub" in the new reality, it might just be a single thread in some other forum, where discussion of every comic and newspost are just mixed together.
I know a lot of the people here are only here, so I figure it's worth pointing it out to them in case they want to weigh in. I'm not talking about spamming the thread, but letting them know how you feel. Hell, maybe I'm the only one that feels like that'd basically be the death of me visiting the forum regularly.
In any case, here's the thread:
https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/252414/the-future-of-the-penny-arcade-forum#latest
Fiction may not have foreseen it but the industry sure as fuck did.
Dry marshmallow cereal: $1
Dry marshmallow cereal with cartoon leprechaun from the Commercial: $1.50
Dry marshmallow cereal with the Ghost Busters: $2.25
Yeah, I don't think you can really transplant a community. You can create a new one, but that's something different. I'll miss this space if it goes away. A single thread just won't be the same.