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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    And that's terrible.

    Jedoc on
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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Olivaw wrote: »
    Holy shit

    Nintendogs sold a lot more than I thought it did

    It sold a lot of DSs and in that way, also expanded the market for Nintendo.


    Granted it was the tween girl market, but hey, money is money.

    Lucky Cynic on
  • vrstvrst Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    So much Nintendo on that list

    vrst on
  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    vrst wrote: »
    So much Nintendo on that list

    DOOOOOOMED!

    Lucky Cynic on
  • jwalkjwalk Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Newtron wrote: »
    Also, just because a game is widely sold doesn't mean it is good.
    It doesn't mean you think it's good, maybe. (See also: the Pokemans). But somebody out there is buying them, a lot of people actually, they must think it's good. Either that or there's just a couple of rich guys out there stacking them up in their closet...

    jwalk on
  • HorseshoeHorseshoe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    jwalk wrote: »
    Newtron wrote: »
    Also, just because a game is widely sold doesn't mean it is good.
    It doesn't mean you think it's good, maybe. (See also: the Pokemans). But somebody out there is buying them, a lot of people actually, they must think it's good. Either that or there's just a couple of rich guys out there stacking them up in their closet...

    Newtron, we've already got Defender. The whole thing about people being dumb and buying dumb games because they're too dumb to know what the objective definition of fun is... well, we've got that covered.

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Newtron wrote: »
    Also, just because a game is widely sold doesn't mean it is good.

    Maybe you don't like nintendogs, but it isn't a "Bad" game.

    While true some games are overhyped and can be flavors of the month, to sell over 1 million units even these days is a huge challenge. Sorry sir, but these are the cream of the crop games. These games don't have huge glaring game design flaws, they aren't made of fail. No, they have a special formula that is just fun and works.

    This isn't to say that they are the best games, but they are indeed high quality among the best.

    Lucky Cynic on
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I wish we could get sales figures on how many copies of Nintendogs were purchased by elderly relatives as gifts.

    Jedoc on
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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Koshian wrote: »
    yes, apologetics is a word

    Apologetics is a word, but this is not how it is used. The correct word for the context is "apologist". For example "C.S. Lewis was a Christian apologist" or "Defender is a salad-tossing apologist".

    Butler on
  • NewtronNewtron Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    No, I'm sorry.

    Tetris has Sims beat completely.

    There is almost no system that Tetris is not on. Including phones, pdas, and other shit that people have been known to port tetris to.

    But that's tangent to this whole retarded argument anyway, which is really and truly based upon opinion more than anything else.

    So fuck it.

    Newtron on
  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I love how the last line is "im fucking ur a**", with a screwed up priority on censorship.

    Henroid on
  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Newtron wrote: »
    No, I'm sorry.

    Tetris has Sims beat completely.

    There is almost no system that Tetris is not on. Including phones, pdas, and other shit that people have been known to port tetris to.

    But that's tangent to this whole retarded argument anyway, which is really and truly based upon opinion more than anything else.

    So fuck it.

    Yeah well, solitaire has been on hundreds of millions of PCs.

    Lucky Cynic on
  • FugitiveFugitive Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Tetris is such a dumb game

    I mean, it's got blocks in it, but the red block is literally just a copy of the green block except backwards

    I don't see how anyone could enjoy except 12 year olds who get distracted by shiny colorful things

    Fugitive on
  • Fire TruckFire Truck I love my SELFRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    The G+T thread is absolutely astonished, astonished that making a girl avatar just invites unwanted attention.

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    I am shocked, shocked!

    Fire Truck on
  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited December 2008
    I just played with Home for like 10 minutes and I will probably never touch it again

    Garlic Bread on
  • ZodiakZodiak Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    i m fucking ur a**

    Zodiak on
  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    did you fuck anyone's a**, keef?

    TheySlashThem on
  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    You know, that's one curse I never really understood.

    "Fuckin A!"


    What? Too scared to say ass? Or asshole?

    Lucky Cynic on
  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I've used fuckin' A

    because it's fun to say

    TheySlashThem on
  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I've used fuckin' A

    because it's fun to say

    Yeah, that's more or less my justification too.

    vsove on
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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    You know, that's one curse I never really understood.

    "Fuckin A!"


    What? Too scared to say ass? Or asshole?

    I don't think A stands for ass
    I think it's supposed to mean Fuckin' Aye
    As in "Fuck Yeah!"

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    i enjoyed this comic

    Fallout on
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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I've always understood it as "Fuckin' eh", using 'eh' to agree. Like "yeah eh", it's probably a new zealand thing.

    L|ama on
  • jwalkjwalk Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Fuckin'a right.

    jwalk on
  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    "Hey Bill, you up for some pool later on?"

    "Fuckin' asshole I am!"

    "..."

    Butler on
  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Glorious comic.

    They haven't been appealing to me lately so this is most welcome. Others didn't seem to mind so it's not really important in the grand scheme of things.

    Meiz on
  • McClyMcCly Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Koshian wrote: »
    You know, that's one curse I never really understood.

    "Fuckin A!"


    What? Too scared to say ass? Or asshole?

    I always thought the a stood for awesome

    don't see how "fuckin' asshole" could be a positive exclamation

    it stands for "absolut" like the vodka. it came from a failed ad campaign in the 80s.

    McCly on
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  • TyberiusTyberius Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    BusterK wrote: »
    You know, that's one curse I never really understood.

    "Fuckin A!"


    What? Too scared to say ass? Or asshole?

    I don't think A stands for ass
    I think it's supposed to mean Fuckin' Aye
    As in "Fuck Yeah!"

    I agree and a quote from my favorite scifi movie.
    Aliens wrote:
    Hudson: Let's just butt out and call it even, man! What are we even talking about this for?

    Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

    Hudson: Fuckin' A!

    Tyberius on
  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I've used fuckin' A

    because it's fun to say

    sarukun on
  • Burden of ProofBurden of Proof You three boys picked a beautiful hill to die on. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Has anyone heard of Chad Warden's impression of Home? I can't really make a fair judgment until I hear his take.

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  • FugaFuga Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    This is the best comic.

    Fuga on
  • vrstvrst Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
  • randomguyrandomguy Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Ashcroft wrote: »
    I dunno.. at least Secondlife lets you make things.

    Home is pretty much just a chat room

    SL is ahead of all other virtual worlds for 2 two things. First, it has a really good content creation toolset and two you retain all IP rights over anything you make.

    But on the negative side, it is literally the worst thing on the internet, and everyone that uses it on a regular basis should be ground into a fine paste. Except the people that use Second Life to live out their fantasty of being ground into a fine paste, we'd just have to shoot them.

    Everyone talks about how awful SL is...

    It's just like the internet, you don't find something unless you specifically go looking for it.


    Like single moms and bipolar middle-aged women. On a serious not though, I don't think anyone is saying it is "awful" , but more saying "why is this even needed ?" You are right D&D would require more imagination than this game could ever offer. The creation toolset is just a ripoff of Blender, which most users just use instead. It's not like you are working with 3dsmax or Maya to make abnormal polygonal characters and items. IP rights over anything you make and sell in game is not anything new. There is that one game on the moon where the guy from Miami made a hotel ingame and flipped the real estate back to users. If you wanted to do realitor work, you could have become a realitor. Unless the entire idea of SL is to just live a fake life being what you always wanted to be because in real life a person didn't have enough determination to get there the first time. Oh wait, that is what it is....and it's sad.

    D&D is also an escape for people from life, but it doesn't try to be anything more than a fantasy.

    randomguy on
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  • Green DreamGreen Dream Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Butler wrote: »
    Koshian wrote: »
    yes, apologetics is a word

    Apologetics is a word, but this is not how it is used. The correct word for the context is "apologist". For example "C.S. Lewis was a Christian apologist" or "Defender is a salad-tossing apologist".


    Actually, I think that Tycho is using the word apologetics correctly. The word "apologetics" can refer to formal arguments in defense of something (such as a position or system). So let's re-examine Tycho's quote:

    "There is already a growing school of Home apologetics, fostered by the same Order of Perpetual Masochism that lauded the rumble-free Sixaxis at launch and suggested, hilariously, that Lair and Heavenly Sword were videogames."

    If we read it with "apologetics" in the above sense, he is saying that there is already a growing school of arguments (one can have a school of argumentation in the same way that we can speak of schools of thought) being made in defense of Home - and that this foul and odious school of thinking is fostered by the same Order of Perpetual Masochism that lauded the rumble-free Sixaxis, et cetera.

    It makes perfect sense if we use the word in this way, and I believe that the misunderstanding began when jwalk mistook the word as a noun referring to a person, rather than a noun referring to the arguments of a group of persons: "trust me I'm not one of the "apologetics" ".

    In the context that jwalk used it, it certain should be "apologist" - but Tycho's post is fine as it stands. Perhaps it would have been easier reading if he has spoken directly against the apologists rather than the crude lies they manufacture - but that kind of editorial judgment seems out of place in a news post in which Tycho kept the language at a relatively high level throughout.

    Then again, perhaps you were only talking to jwalk - in which case I sincerely apologize for attempting to correct an already correct statement.

    But then, maybe I'm just a really weird guy - I almost always find the news posts way funnier than the comics (even when the comics - like today's - are fucking hilarious).

    Green Dream on
  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    i liked heavenly sword. i thought it was a perfectly fine game, if a little short - why's Tycho got a bee in his bonnet about it?

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    damn son guess you're right

    Butler on
  • Wandering IdiotWandering Idiot Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with Home that couldn't be fixed by the addition of kung-fu and rocket launchers*. I guess they're trying to keep it mundane in order to appeal to really casual gamers, but I would have thought that ship had sailed (into sharp, jagged rocks) as soon as they allowed ubiquitous voice chat.




    * Actually, things like the horrendous load times would still be a problem, but I won't mention that because I am an artiste and it would ruin the aesthetic flow of my post. (Speaking of load times- Sony! Just get Rockstar to program the engine for you! Hell, have them do the rest while you're at it. GTA4 is a much better "wandering aimlessly about the city" simulator than Home will probably ever be, even minus all the carjacking and violence)

    Wandering Idiot on
  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    i liked heavenly sword. i thought it was a perfectly fine game, if a little short - why's Tycho got a bee in his bonnet about it?

    because it was tremendously short, extremely linear, and really simplistic

    PiptheFair on
  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    guys I think Tycho was just using "apologetics" as some wordplay

    to insist that home apologists (or fanboys in general) are like religious fanatics

    TheySlashThem on
  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    randomguy wrote: »
    Ashcroft wrote: »
    I dunno.. at least Secondlife lets you make things.

    Home is pretty much just a chat room

    SL is ahead of all other virtual worlds for 2 two things. First, it has a really good content creation toolset and two you retain all IP rights over anything you make.

    But on the negative side, it is literally the worst thing on the internet, and everyone that uses it on a regular basis should be ground into a fine paste. Except the people that use Second Life to live out their fantasty of being ground into a fine paste, we'd just have to shoot them.

    Everyone talks about how awful SL is...

    It's just like the internet, you don't find something unless you specifically go looking for it.


    Like single moms and bipolar middle-aged women. On a serious not though, I don't think anyone is saying it is "awful" , but more saying "why is this even needed ?" You are right D&D would require more imagination than this game could ever offer. The creation toolset is just a ripoff of Blender, which most users just use instead. It's not like you are working with 3dsmax or Maya to make abnormal polygonal characters and items. IP rights over anything you make and sell in game is not anything new. There is that one game on the moon where the guy from Miami made a hotel ingame and flipped the real estate back to users. If you wanted to do realitor work, you could have become a realitor. Unless the entire idea of SL is to just live a fake life being what you always wanted to be because in real life a person didn't have enough determination to get there the first time. Oh wait, that is what it is....and it's sad.

    D&D is also an escape for people from life, but it doesn't try to be anything more than a fantasy.

    Way to act like a cock and waste 1min of my life reading this stupid fucking post of yours.

    Lucky Cynic on
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