[PA Comic] Friday, January 30, 2015 - Godspeed

Dog · January 2015

[PA Comic] Friday, January 30, 2015 - Godspeed

Godspeed

Godspeed

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/01/30

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armatur3 · January 2015

LOL...Is that a lacoste-style wang?

bwanie · January 2015

that certainly is an embroided penis yes

Kagera · January 2015

Do they still make those polos with the extra large logo for extra douchiness?

AriWerd · January 2015

I LOVE gender-swapped video game princesses attending the hallowed halls of ol' DRC. It's my favorite genre.

spawnoftheED · January 2015

gabe has freckles.

orthancstone · January 2015

armatur3 wrote: »

LOL...Is that a lacoste-style wang?

So glad you pointed that out. I would have missed that.

Finnish_Line · January 2015

Not sure how I feel about the character models changing, BUT I like the art in this.

PBMadCat · January 2015

now Gabe looks like a dweebus

fightinfilipino · January 2015

spawnoftheED wrote: »

gabe has freckles.

i was thinking it was measles. topical.

Dhalgren · January 2015

spawnoftheED wrote: »

gabe has freckles.

Maybe he's trying to slowly turn comic Gabe into real-life Gabe...

Commander Zoom · January 2015

I was quite pleased that the art was relatively tight and clean this time, to the point of Tycho and Gabe being actually, y'know, symmetrical.
(Not a fan of the Kricfalusi-influenced, "so loose and sketchy it's about to fly/ooze right off the page" style.)

ChimneyImp · January 2015

Y'know, you used to have a rather good videogame journalism feature on Penny Arcade.

Hint hint.

RatherDashing89 · January 2015

ChimneyImp wrote: »

Y'know, you used to have a rather good videogame journalism feature on Penny Arcade.

Hint hint.

I miss Checkpoint being on the site too.

L_Mariachi · January 2015

Edge Online just announced that they’re being folded into GamesRadar+.

Also I’m surprised Gabe doesn’t have RPS bookmarked.

tastydonuts · January 2015

Is the "galleries of gender-swapped videogame princesses going to Disney Robot College" line a shot at Kotaku? Because they post something like that at least once a week.

forty · January 2015

tastydonuts wrote: »

Is the "galleries of gender-swapped videogame princesses going to Disney Robot College" line a shot at Kotaku? Because they post something like that at least once a week.

Probably.

Also, in general, that line fulfills the purpose of subtly communicating this point from the newspost:

Something you will derive from this book is a high resolution diagram of what we already suspect to be true: that the incentive structure for online news essentially demands that you troll your readers 24/7.

Zxerol · January 2015

yo kotaku on blast

Nosf · January 2015

Once a week? Last time I checked in, that was a regular feature each morning. Along with other scintillating features like, "Check out this weird shit in Japan, mousepads have boobs!"

Zoku Gojira · January 2015

The most surreal part of this was the casual mention, in the story I read, of their parent company AOL's earnings of $454 million in the last quarter, mostly from "subscription services" including dial-up.... Buh..wuh...WTF?!

How is it even remotely possible to make that kind of money making screechy modem noises at people in this century?

Smrtnik · January 2015

Zoku Gojira wrote: »

The most surreal part of this was the casual mention, in the story I read, of their parent company AOL's earnings of $454 million in the last quarter, mostly from "subscription services" including dial-up.... Buh..wuh...WTF?!

How is it even remotely possible to make that kind of money making screechy modem noises at people in this century?

Because cable companies don't care care about rural customers while telcos have to service then under Title 2.

graven_x · January 2015

Please, Please, Please bring Penny Arcade Report back. We need it now more than ever!

TryCatcher · January 2015

ChimneyImp wrote: »

Y'know, you used to have a rather good videogame journalism feature on Penny Arcade.

Hint hint.

And, unfortunately, it exploded on an huge, unnecesary flamewar.

Oh well.

For game reviews, while there's a market for in-depth written analysis, but watching a YouTuber play the thing so I can judge it is much faster and more reliable. The likes of Kotaku also have their days counted, since there's only so much money that clickbait can get. Behold the future!:

Synra · January 2015

Okay, now the next PA comic needs to have gender swapped gabe and tycho.

KoopahTroopah · January 2015

Gabe's art update looked pretty sweet. I want a wallpaper of the Gabe/Tycho car. Looking forward to Monday's sketch dump!

Also sad to head about Joystiq but I rarely visited. Hope the employees land on their feet.

Hahnsoo1 · January 2015

Synra wrote: »

Okay, now the next PA comic needs to have gender swapped gabe and tycho.

Been done already:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/06/13/gabbie-and-tyche

Commander Zoom · January 2015

yes, what Synra was saying is, we need to have another. More.

Linktm · February 2015

I'd say it's less of a dig at Kotaku and more of a dig at ALL journalism sites nowadays.

SwashbucklerXX · February 2015

Some folks are trying to make a go of a revenue model that allows for higher-quality writing (Kickstarted subscription projects, largely), but in general we need a lot of help from readers. People say they want high-quality articles, but not enough people actually read 'em, and next thing you know the site owners are pushing everybody to write more top ten lists because that's what gets the clicks. It's the same problem in all media, magnified by the fact that game site readers mostly have adblock on but are not receptive to alternative ways to pay for quality coverage. Can't get the good stuff for free.

kaliyama · February 2015

SwashbucklerXX wrote: »

Some folks are trying to make a go of a revenue model that allows for higher-quality writing (Kickstarted subscription projects, largely), but in general we need a lot of help from readers. People say they want high-quality articles, but not enough people actually read 'em, and next thing you know the site owners are pushing everybody to write more top ten lists because that's what gets the clicks. It's the same problem in all media, magnified by the fact that game site readers mostly have adblock on but are not receptive to alternative ways to pay for quality coverage. Can't get the good stuff for free.

Yeah, this is why i've subscribed to the escapist. It was a huge mistake for NYT et al to have tried to go f2p in the last decade. It looks like our new media model is lots of garbage for the masses - huffpo, buzzfeed, forbes/business insider crap - then traditional subscription + ad model for good journalism and analysis - e.g .nyt, wsj, nyrb, the economist.

It's not clear if any games journalism site can convince people to pay to read. I hope so, because we need good coverage. Given that games journalism was always dependent on game-industry dollars, i'm not sure if a subscription-based business model for has ever been demonstrated.

Does anyone have any pieces on what %age of costs gamepro and nintendo power covered with subscription fees?

trident042 · February 2015

You say Kafkaesque, I say Kefkaesque.

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