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Why Penny Arcade matters.
mitEj
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I wrote this on Saturday while at PAX this year.
Thought I would share with you all
I was talking with some people at the Penny Arcade Expo this year, and one of them pointed out how he did not get the big deal with penny arcade. This helped me to put in order some thoughts that had already been running through my head. Here they are.
Penny Arcade and the people who are behind it are not amazing for the comic they do, A comic I love I might want to point out. They are not amazing for the in depth and thought provoking posts that accompany those comics, though they are fantastic windows into the minds of men that have their finger on the pulse of the gaming community and industry.
Penny Arcade is amazing because of what they have done with their fame and the money that they have acquired through the production of some of the funniest and most twisted game related on-line comics out there. Instead of using this to aggrandize themselves and fatten their mad rolls of bills, they have created one of the best charities that I have ever had the honor of participating in. Its name is Child's Play and through this work these hopelessly geek-ridden men have given hope and joy to thousands of children throughout the world, children who are in some fairly painful and dark places joy and light thrust upon them. Not only that but these men have given us geeks a path through wich we too can join in and give the same joy that we ourselves have clung to too small children that need it with a desperate passion. If this is all they had ever done with what they have earned they would be heroes deserving of a great deal of praise, but they did more.
For those of us who share their passion for the electronic universe of games these men created a get together, small at first that has grown into an epic gathering of geek and nerd kind from all across the land. A place where you can walk blissfully down the street and hear men and women talking about games openly in bars surrounded by people joining in a bacchanalian celebration of all thing GEEK. When I stepped off of my plain I felt something special in the air, an energy of ten thousand glowing hand-helds. I had reached the geek Mecca and I was in a place that felt very much like home.
All of this these men of on-line comics have given us and more, and through it all they have stayed humble nay self deprecating. They wield far more power than any man should and it has not turned them into dicks, instead it showed others the good men they truly are.
Mike and Jerry are not just guys that make me laugh, they are men who inspire me. Fathers, Writers, Artists, Game designers, Philanthropists, and guys who throw one hell of a party. I hope that I can one day be half the men that they have grown into.
Thank you Gabe and Tycho. You have moved me and the exuberance that I taste is Not insubstantial
Thought I would share with you all
I was talking with some people at the Penny Arcade Expo this year, and one of them pointed out how he did not get the big deal with penny arcade. This helped me to put in order some thoughts that had already been running through my head. Here they are.
Penny Arcade and the people who are behind it are not amazing for the comic they do, A comic I love I might want to point out. They are not amazing for the in depth and thought provoking posts that accompany those comics, though they are fantastic windows into the minds of men that have their finger on the pulse of the gaming community and industry.
Penny Arcade is amazing because of what they have done with their fame and the money that they have acquired through the production of some of the funniest and most twisted game related on-line comics out there. Instead of using this to aggrandize themselves and fatten their mad rolls of bills, they have created one of the best charities that I have ever had the honor of participating in. Its name is Child's Play and through this work these hopelessly geek-ridden men have given hope and joy to thousands of children throughout the world, children who are in some fairly painful and dark places joy and light thrust upon them. Not only that but these men have given us geeks a path through wich we too can join in and give the same joy that we ourselves have clung to too small children that need it with a desperate passion. If this is all they had ever done with what they have earned they would be heroes deserving of a great deal of praise, but they did more.
For those of us who share their passion for the electronic universe of games these men created a get together, small at first that has grown into an epic gathering of geek and nerd kind from all across the land. A place where you can walk blissfully down the street and hear men and women talking about games openly in bars surrounded by people joining in a bacchanalian celebration of all thing GEEK. When I stepped off of my plain I felt something special in the air, an energy of ten thousand glowing hand-helds. I had reached the geek Mecca and I was in a place that felt very much like home.
All of this these men of on-line comics have given us and more, and through it all they have stayed humble nay self deprecating. They wield far more power than any man should and it has not turned them into dicks, instead it showed others the good men they truly are.
Mike and Jerry are not just guys that make me laugh, they are men who inspire me. Fathers, Writers, Artists, Game designers, Philanthropists, and guys who throw one hell of a party. I hope that I can one day be half the men that they have grown into.
Thank you Gabe and Tycho. You have moved me and the exuberance that I taste is Not insubstantial
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That should be easy. Unless you are Siamese twins.
PA is great because it's a couple dudes who like games, want to share that with people, and don't really have any further aspirations than that. PA isn't a stepping stone to something else.
That's really about it.
Having said that, I think these forums are some of the best on the internet in terms of both the content and how they're run. That's moreso due to it's members and moderators though and not so much the people behind its namesake.
Huh.
Child's Play is awesome, though.
In this case they are publicly assholes.
Mike and Jerry aren't really any different than us, they just got lucky. Thankfully they've done good things with their oodles and oodles of cash for 9 panels a week.
I host a podcast about movies.