Today's Penny Arcade addresses the new Pokemon Go scandal
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WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDSthese people are not drawing comics They're making blog posts
>>740982068He also makes blog posts and they're much wordier
Artstyle really went down the drain with years.
>>740982068Based low intelligence ADHD zoomer.
Pokemon go bald
Tepiglike in appearance.
>>740980086they're not even within the realm of trying anymore, i see
Gabe is a genuinely fantastic artist and writer. Penny Arcade is still funny after 30 years and a near-fatal controversy. That’s very difficult to achieve. Kind of a shame it only survives in PAX nowadays and most PAXxers don’t even read it. I long for the day Anthro New England fills up their convention center and they have to cohabitate with used diapers.
For me personally it's watching Ronnie completely lose his fucking mind ever since he came back from the Great Catfishing
>>740981821A
>>740982180>they
>>740980086How does scanning na object with a phone camera help train a military drone?
>>740980086>could have said Cobra from GI Joe>went for MASK, the show that nobody cares about or remembersBald showing his age.
>>740980086why is his hair half black and half brown
>>740987771he's a doublenigger
>>740987771To hide his bald
>>740985436>tracking and aiming at a "Pokemon" projected in a 3D space to accurately throw "pokeballs" at itReplace the pokemon with children and pokeballs with guided rockets and PMGO players freely created trillions of hours of juicy AI training data
lol
>>740989025perfectly describes /v/
>PA has had a brief resurgence from the Poker Night release from gay zoomers that just learned of its existencehere I thought it was firmly in "Millennial-Dad checking the newspaper" territory
>>740980086you're telling me catching pokemon helps kill russians and iranians?
>>740982180Why do you need AI to eat shrimp?
>>740989228Which others are even still running?I liked Fanboys and VGcatz
>>740991801It's a paradigm shift.
>>740993485>VGCats literally got yoinked off the internet like 3 weeks agoI’m so fucking tired, dude.
>>740980086Stop reading webcomics, you child.
>>740993687W-what?God fucking damn it. Really can't have anything in this fake and gay world. Meanwhile CAD is still alive and well.
German humor is funnier than these
>>740993687Qrd?
>>740993938I was recently trawling the DeviantArt page of an eastern European artist named Senseless Squirrel who got commissioned several times to draw hypnosis fetish comics about Zatanna Zatara from DC, and I laughed my ass off seeing him cite Tim Buckley as one of his influences.
>>740991801Its probably for ai driven supply chain management or something. Like buying bulk orders of product when they are at discount or routing stuff to where its needed automatically. Y'know, the kind of stuff logistics software can already do without the risk of fucking up your supply chain or leaking sensitive information
>>740993981No idea. I’m an outsider to VGC, I’ve just been reading it intermittently recently because I’m what you’d call an oldfur at heart (26), and the website went down again after a recent update, well before I could get caught up with the entire comic, with no explanation. I understand there was a burnout phase a while back where he got mad pornographer’s guilt about running a secret Patreon where he drew smut of his now-dead cats and ended up basically cancelling it.
This guy can't draw hands, backgrounds, hair, shoes, phones, clothes, or birds consistently after how many years?
>>740989113found one
>>740994267he wouldnt be feeling guilt if his smut was any good but its not
>>740982180Why does he call his daughter by a neutral pronoun?
>Mike named his real-life son Gabe after his character in the comic, and features his son Gabe in the comic with his sona named Gabe
>>740980086why does bald have a weird pube spine on his chin ?
>>740993938>punchline = just explaining the jokeBravo Buckley
I do like comic that call out shitty game design.
Jesus Christ, the art just gets worse.Look at their HORRIBLE monkey hands...
>>740980086how did the art get so bad
>>740995647Relax.
>>740980086I bet all the people who defended the female player model update against the incel chuds are really pleased with this
>>740982180"late stage capitalism" is supposed to mean that capitalism is going to collapse any day now, and give way to communism.Course that never actually happens. it's a big cope.
>>740995672IT IS DISGUSTING
>>740988850But that sounds like the game wasn't created with that in mind; instead, they used the available information to train the machine.
>>740994617it was born as a boy, the guy is just playing averages
>>740989025wait, this is actually kind of funny.
>>740995813They were backed by Israel from the beginning
>>740980086iirc they promised not to keep the comic going if it ever turned into Garfield
Baldsville
Man, the comic style has become so ugly
>>740995714Late stage capitalism is the last stage before end stage capitalism, where capitalists literally bleed the world to death. And that's exactly what is supposed to happen.
heh
>>740995714It feels more like liberals are using the term to complain about neoliberalism (EVERYTHING MUST BE SACRIFICED FOR LINE GOING UP) than it actually being indicative of the west being in the late stage of anything. Well, arguably we're getting to the late stage of nignog fatigue in recent weeks.
>>740995595that duck's got a vicious streak a mile wide
>>740980086its funny seeing this guys art devolve in real time, soon it will just be abstract shapes
>>740989025>that can detect gay in very low concentrationsthat is possible, and you don't have to be a content creatorregarding the purple shit, it is most certainly a thing, but it doesn't necessarily make halo gay, it's just one indicator
>>740985245They being the blogposts you dumb shitskin
>>740982180>actually decently insightful post>mixed with acknowledgements of his trooned out songrim
>>740980086How did the artstyle get so fucking ugly? Like why does bald have a toothpick in his chin?
post bald and the little girl
>>740980086at some point you need to give up the ghost with your art
Bring back ACTUALLY funny comics, I say.
>>740994617
>>7409960671776: Adam Smith founds what we today call capitalism, emphasizing the value of specialization and free trade.1825: Capitalism begins to fall. Robert Owen founds New Harmony to prove that collectivism will prevail over capitalism.1827: "Eye of the Storm". New Harmony fails, but this only indicates that the end of capitalism is nearer by the day.1848: End of Capitalism - Marx notes the inevitable failure of capitalism, as the workers of the world will rise up. Now that capitalism is ending, Marx issues his 10 Demands of the Communist Party.1849: Marx temporarily driven out of Cologne, then driven out of Paris, taking refuge in London (where capitalism will begin its downfall).1860: Marx driven out by English socialists, proving the strength of communism.1867: Das Kapital published, sealing the fate of capitalism.1890s: Populist, Socialist, and Progressive movements rise in America to topple capitalism.1917: Communism takes over its first country in Russia. Capitalism enters its death throes.1919: Wilson declares a "new world order" establishing late stage capitalism.1939: The internal tensions of imperialism and capitalism begin to collapse and fragment. Capitalism enters very late stages.1945-1960: Decolonization begins to dismantle capitalism.1962-1979: Detente indicates west unable to contain communism. Capitalism enters its supreme late stage.1989: With the fall of the Berlin Wall, capitalism's internal contradictions accelerate to the point of total collapse. Entering end stage capitalism.1991-2001: The information age and dot com boom create an interconnected world ideal for the global working class to unite, and accelerates capitalism further. Late end stage capitalism.2008: Banking collapse signals the death of capitalism. Fatal end stage capitalism.2011: Occupy Wall Street strikes a death blow to capitalism at its global heart in the US. Late fatal end stage capitalism.Now: Final late fatal end stage capitalism.
>>740982180How many daughters does he have? That part was confusing.
>>740997089gem
>>740997139His daughter Ronia and his male daughter Samantha (formerly Elliot)
>>7409970892030: the Earth is a lifeless husk, finally tortured to death by the rich, powerful, sociopathic, nihilistic sadists who always owned it. They have moved on to another planet to repeat the whole process all over again. They will not stop until they have tortured all of existence to death. They worship the only true god: the death drive, the primal urge to return all life to an inanimate state.
>>740997139I think he's only got sonsOne of them is a transvestite doebelt
>>740997305coal
>>740997020you gonna post a funny comic then?
>>740989025The best things about this comic is that the the performance slider range goes from shit to crap
>>740997278>8 episodes, 1 hour each>this somehow takes two days to watch despite bingingNormalfags always love to exaggerate how much they're hardcore "nerds".
bald
>>740997365Don't make me dig out the D*bson folder.
>>740983562>Gabe is a genuinely fantastic artistyes it takes real talent to take a simple but appealing art style and gradually devolve it and overdesign it into a hideous ugly mess
>>740997463eight hours is a lot.
>>740997585Let’s not blow things out of proportion
>>740993938But "practically raw" is how you're supposed to eat steak...
>>740995714when people bitch about capitalism, I'd really like to hear what parts specifically they have an issue with. Because they seem to be implying that being allowed to own and defend your property is bad, and that you should allow any nigger who wants it to steal it.
>>740993687Kind of saw it coming between no comics getting posted in years, the short lived porn adventures, and whatnot.>>740993485The goat Katie keeps updating Awkward Zombie despite having a life and a real job engineering some bullshit now.
>>740996568Try reading the blogpost to see what that anon was actually reacting to, ya dingus.
>>740997697That, like everything else, was Pigface's fault. Gabe was adamantly anti-drug because he had a brother that was an addict. Once weed became legal Pigface, not content with turning his mentally ill son into a "girl", convinced Gabe to start smoking weed because it was "harmless." Soon his art degenerated into the hideous ugly mess it remains to this day.
>>740997020this was never funny
>>740993485>fanboysGod I miss it. The artist just sticks to Tumblr these days to whine about the typical libshit topics like AI, politics, personal physiological issues, the whole shebang. Such a waste.
>>740993938I think this could've been much funnier if it just cut to the restaurant with a FORECLOSED sign and the owner mumbling something about entitled customers. The metaphor is not so subtle that it needed to be explained.
>>740998685Poor Scott, succumbed to some mental health bullshit I guess. Shame.
>>740998987Yeah, his brother's death really did a number on him. I can sympathize, but Christ almighty, he's just acting like a weird sperg on Tumblr now. I guess he still puts out drawings sometimes but it's weird he just threw out all those years of great comics (and a few not so great ones) to do... nothing.
>>740993485Shortpacked is still around, but that's a /toy/ comic.
>>740999156Is that faggot still making his "pornographiques"?
>>740999185I don't know, I haven't read it in years. Whomp is also back, but for some reason Ronnie turned it into a Star Trek comic.
>>740982180>>740997080When do we reach the point with brimstone and hellfire?
>>740995937>They're dumb indie XBLA/PSN store game came out nearly TWENTY YEARS AGOAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I REMEMBER FUCKING PLAYING THE DEMO AS A FUCKING TWELVE YEAR OLDIt was alright
>>740998160But weed IS harmless. The people who experience adverse effects from it are the same weak willed retards who ruin their lives by getting addicted to gaming or gambling.
>>740999271that was a few stages ago. inbetween there was the bit where the soap dispenser was telling him to kill people
>>740997080So...Who diddled the fucking kid?Wouldn't be the first time a webcomic did some sick shit. I remember Ethan sent a picture of his crotch with some e-girls (14 iirc) name above his little ginger bush way back when.
>>740997089>late_stage_capitalism_final_v5_FINAL.docx
>>740995714because "capitalism" is a lot like "fascism" in that when a leftist uses it the word has literally no meaning anymore because they just spam it to fill as a generic insultits definition will nebulously shift to mean whatever they dislike without ever once ascribing any hard qualities to it because that would show how clueless they areThe corporatocratic shit we live under now is awful but it is also not some universal quality of market economics nor is it solved by giving more power to the puppet government to kill people for wrongthink
>>740980086I can't believe PA is still going on. It feels like such a relic, from a forgotten time
>>740999358Then how come you can ruin your life with it?
>>740997725if you think that then you're not an actual nerd or geekeight hours fucking flies by if you're actually interested in what you're watching/playing, it sure as shit shouldn't take 48 whole hours just to get through
>>740999116Shit was his brother supposed to be the blonde guy? He was the funniest of the trio ;c.FI never saved any webcomics but I remember whenever /v/ would talk about them fanboys and VGcats were always the most liked ones.>OH BOY A BOUNCY HOUSE!
>>740999426If I remember correctly, the kid is schizo
I don't get it.What happened with Pokemon Go?
>>740999808>Push a bunch of intense meds on a kid at a very young age>Tell him he can be a girl>Kid begins talking to soap dispensers
>>740982180we always hated liberals, he's just now starting to realise. The marxist definition of liberal would include both democrat and republican. If you're not anti-capitalist, you're a libtard.
>>741000024Why would you care what Marx defined it as?
>>74098253239yo old fart here, 90% of their comics are them being idle in a random location, having a lengthy dialog with some sort of ""punchline"" at the end.None of this needs to be drawn, if anything it is to hold your attention for a few seconds more than a plain wall of text, so the zoomer argument is retarded too.
>>741000325>Walls of text are too hard>Zoomies need something to hold their attention moreSounds about right.
>>740985245Chuds getting triggered by pronouns again.
>>740989025This is actually funny? How did they do that?
>>740999238He has good taste, that's why.
>>740993938>words words words
>>741000454It's supposed to be a comic you retarded nigger, not a blog.
>>741001175So Watchmen isnt a comic, according to you?
>>740984165When I finally understood that Ronnie is a sincere person and none of his stuff was meant to be ironically comedic I felt as though I had glimpsed Hell
>>741001208Well alot of stuff happens in Watchmen too, Gabe and Tycho are just sitting at home or are taking a walk in almost every comic, the comic part is completely obsolete.
>>741000325It takes under a minute to read seven(7) sentences of the pic. If you aren't an amerimutt, it takes like 15 seconds.Is minute too long of a time for a guy who is soon 40? Its not even if you disagree with it or find it "too wordy", it takes so little time. You writing your cope or lie of a reply took longer than reading.You are fundamentally lazy and embarrassing of a person.
>>741001296to be fair, in the specific instance of OP taking a walk is kind of relevant
>>740999238a man of taste
>>741001296So watchmen isnt a comic, according to you?Because sometimes they sit and drink coffee and there's too many words?
>>741001374It's an exception if anything and lucky I guess, Tycho knows how to draw the two loitering around a bench pretty well by now.
>>741001431Don't bother. He's a retard that gets confused when he has to focus for 10 seconds. Maybe he needs an ai autodub over the comic and subway surfer gameplay on the side.Or make the comic vertical.
>>741001208Comic books and comic strips are different things with different purposes
>>740980086The Ocean Marketting/Paul Christoforo drama was so fun back in the day
>>740985245Singular they has always been a thing. It dates back before the 16th century. Singular they as a PERSONAL pronoun is not a thing. Get upset about the right thing you fucking pseud.
>>741001520And?
>>741001569Comic strips main purpose is to deliver a joke, if you write 10 paragraphs when the same joke could have been delivered in two lines, or with less panels, you're just shit at comics. Also "show don't tell" is the main things you should do in a visual medium.Are you fucking B^U that this needs to be explained to you?
>>741001796I don't see how this is relevant to what I said.
>>741001796Your post could've been delivered with less words.Why didn't you?
>>741001431watchmen has a plot that goes longer than 3 panels
>>741001963It already was and the other guy still doesn't get it.See:>>741001942
>>740980086The art used to be charming in Penny Arcade, this doesn’t even look like the same artist.
>>740997080What a jokester, setting up two identical photo shoots for their twins
>>741001365>>741000454I think you retards are simply not getting the point, it's not that the number of words is too much for people, there is no trade off.Go read a bunch of them, go to the website and scroll backwards for a hundred or so comics, it's horrifying how lazy the whole comic is art and writing wise and how seldom the two guys doing something mundane while having a conversation formula gets broken up for a more visual joke or different setting.Oh and the most important part, nearly none of them are funny
LOL ?
>>740997463I thought the implication is that wife's gonna get wet for Cavill and will want to fuck a lot.
>>740999825IIRC Niantic was an offshoot of the CIA and were funneling the data to them to build a visual mapping system. If the CIA wanted up to date photos of a location they made it a rare pokemon hotspot. Its why places like churches and mosques were always part of the daily quest system.
>>740980086People still play Pokemon Go? That game basically died when they made everyone into Xirs and Xems. I saw NOBODY playing it past that point, when the parks used to be filled with kids running around scanning every object.It's not surprising they were selling the image recognition data but I wonder how much vitamin C they recorded from kids rooms doing that.
>>740996628Someone offered an explanation that it is because it is more interesting for the artist to draw. And that makes sense, particularly with how navel gazing and self-obsessed the PA guys tend to be. "Who cares about what is most pleasant for the audience viewing my work, all that matters is that I feel like I am having more fun drawing it!"
>>740982180the little icon of his face is the most punchable thing I've seen in a long time god damn I just want to physically assault it so bad
>>740982068>>740982532From 2006
>>741005536kek
>>741005536Too bad these fuckers have gone to shit too.
>>740982180Oh, his son is still a troon.
>>740989025>>741000726they engaged with the concept on its own merits rather than reactively shaming it
>>740997278>>740997139This is the most tragic part about all of this, his son exhibited psychotic episodes in the first grade, and the (((psychologists))) who looked at him immediately said "XE NEEDS TO TROON OUT" instead of trying to address the underlying causes of the psychotic episodes. A whole life ruined because of a freak-out in the first grade that didn't even harm anyone.
>>740997089kek it do be like that, don't it >>740999825Pokemon GO was sunk because Niantic was a tiny company who made a pretty average mobile game before Pokemon GO, and felt they could just reskin that with Pokemon and get a few bucks. Fast forward to it becoming a literal global sensation and their tiny team having zero clue what to do with it since they believed they could just release a few skin packs and call it a day. The game began to meander with nothing to do as the team had no real planning on what to do with it. Then fast forward to the OTHER thing that killed it: Meddling from above. Pokemon GO had a pretty unique artstyle even compared to other Pokemon games, and immediately TPCi steps in and DEMANDS the game's graphics be remade in their "Memphis Söylent Nig Jr." artstyle that all of the Gen 9 Pokemon games were in. This not only broke all of the old models that people liked, it made everyone look like a Xim/Xer fridge with no defining sexual characteristics. Whose clothes were hot-swappable between genders. This also defeated any reason anyone would ever buy clothes or skins for this game, so the only late-game Niantic ever planned, which was gathering skins and clothes, was immediately torpedoed and it continues as a husk with a skeleton crew to this day.Suffering from success.
>>740980086Can be reduced to one panel but I'm too lazy to edit.LMAO BOTTOM TEXT
>>741004969I can believe this even if it requires a substantial amount of tinfoil.I can also believe that this is what they used to target places in the middle east. Go take pictures of that command bunker, little boy.
>>740982068You haven't even SEEN words words words webcomics.
>>740993485Awkward Zombie
>>741002374>I don't get them, so they're badBased retard.
>>740991801You're not eating shrimp.You're eating Shrimp+AI.
>>741007393>whatKek
>>740980086Post the version with the loli
>>740989025this is me, I am the canary in the woke mine
>>740995669Daily practice
>>740995669Interns. This current PA isn't even drawn by them and hasn't been for a while. This is the lowest common denominator artstyle they could get away with that allows freshmen to pick up a pen and replicate some part of the comic. Pig-like's weird hair thing used to be way bigger, like bigger than his face, so the art has improved somewhat.
>>740999585The same way you can ruin your life with 4chan addiction.
>>740999156That's ok, 4chan is a /toy/ website, all the other boards exist merely to obfuscate this fact.
>>740999358>But weed IS harmless.baffling post. same level of brain damage as people saying tobacco or alcohol are harmless
>>740980086wtf bros why didn't biden stop this
>>740999238I don't get it. I thought O'Brian was married to a human woman.
>>740996540gaylo
>>740982180>Late-Stage CapitalismStopped and what a faggot
>>740997089Beautiful post.
>>741008316Yes, but Major Kira was pregnant with his second child.
>>741008674>>741008674when what how???
>>741008717You can blame the transporter
>>741008717It's Miles' boyfriend's fault. But don't worry, Keiko was into it.
>>741008751He's the frickin transporter chief, if he can't get it right with his own wife...
>>741008717It was a ""creative"" way to cover for nana vistor being pregnant in real life - keiko was injured after getting pregnant with their second child in a shuttle accident or something, and to save the baby, they transferred it from keiko to kira. Cute way to get around it, but was a little silly. O'brian then became obsessed with comforting Kira because she had his baby, and ended up giving her a lot of massages. Little strange, but better than trying to hide it like they did in other shows>>741008751Surprisingly, this wasn't a transporter accident
>>741006807You're missing the part where the original Pokemon GO Fest was a catastrophe and practically everyone involved in development of the game completely fell out of love with the product they were making, but didn't have a plan B so they just kept chugging alone with all of the passion of a vegan butcher. But poketards literally could not stop giving them money no matter how much they fucked the game up so there was no reason to shut up shop.
>>741008917Doesn't the Star Trek universe have stasis fields and incubation machines? This seems like the equivalent of open heart surgery when all you need is an aspirin.
>>741009023The shuttle/runabout presumably didnt have extensive medical equipment onboard. They present it as a "we had to take action now or lose the baby" kinda deal, so its safe to assume there just wasn't the tech onboard. Makes sense really, shuttles and runabouts were used for away missions primarily, and babies typically weren't going on them
>>741007947Nigga even if people liked the old artstyle more it was ten times simpler
>>740997089>2011: Occupy Wall Street strikes a death blow to capitalism at its global heart in the US. Late fatal end stage capitalism.Ironic that the capitalists were able to use Cultural Marxism to distract the youth and the working class from OWS. Leftists manage to be their own worst enemies again.
>>741009179It makes sense that shuttles don't have any of those on them - but they have teleporters on shuttles?
>>741009393Transporters don't have infinite range. If i remember right they were on the other side of the wormhole, so there wasn't anywhere to transport them to
I'm amazed these guys are still around. Do they have day jobs? It amazed me 20 years ago that a pair of goons making comics could wield that much clout in the video game/nerd shit world.
>>741009570It has been 20 years and you've never heard about PAX?
>>740997020Yes I've seen this shit a million times, where is the rest of these?
>>741009539Thanks for taking the time to explain it, Anon.
>>741009023Cope added that Bajoran women apparently are just riddled with capillaries connecting the baby to the bajor uterus or whatever so whipping it out would make them explode or something.If it had been a decade later they'd have 100% at least fucked and had shitty 2000s era interpersonal drama instead of going "yeah if the situation was different this would have been cool but it's fine"
>>741009680No worries, always glad to discuss DS9
>>741009761In a way, I kinda liked that detail. Sure it was just added so they could rebuff the "why didn't they give the baby back" argument, but its a small thing that makes the Bajorans more alien. Same with the sneezing. Sure they're just people with putty on their nose on the outside, but inside they're not human.
>>741009816speaking of DS9, any good place to watch it? I gave up rewatching a couple years ago after getting tired of hunting episodes across half a dozen sites
>>741010495The most soulful way is on Pluto with ad breaks as originally intended.
>>741010495I just torrent it. Not giving money to Paramount that might be used to further ruin Star Trek. I dont think you can get it higher than DVD quality anywhere
>>740982180>summoned my eldest daughter>they they they they theyJust call her the demon she is.
>>740997278It's kind of funny to me that the dude drawing these explicitly kept enough masculine features that he just looks like a dude with long hair instead of the women he could've been portrayed as.Maybe he couldn't bring himself to completely misrepresent someone's appearance in his art, or maybe it's just that the caricaturist nature was too hard to ignore and the masculine features impossible to downplay.
>>741005084>That game basically died when they made everyone into Xirs and Xems.The funniest part to me was that it was primarily the people using female characters that were bitching about it.They had a ton of normie women playing the walking game with the cute monsters, but it also meant the LGBT pandering update fucked up a bunch of trannies who got a mirror shoved in their face when their female characters suddenly stopped looking female.The irony was thick.
>>740997020This was 2013? I thought it's from like 2005 or some shit
>>740984165Huh. Was that fat girlfriend thing in the comics real and it eas also a catfish irl or aomething?
>>741013127Why are they so cat-like in appearance
>>741013803I think the left one looks more like a rabbit
>>741010441>aOh yeah I'm fine with it, especially as this is a set of shows that had at the time previously asked us to accept deanna troi had a space baby and nobody talked about it after, this made enough sense for me at the time. Even back then I was just mostly greatful it meant no pregnant keiko scenes and thus less potential keiko in general.
>>740980086Why is it so overdrawn now with the face expressions?Why is the hair so big?Why in 2026 is this comic even still around?
>>740999426
every webcomic i can remember from years ago either died without warning or is still runningit's like just finishing the thing is a foreign concept
>>740999426his wife is a fucking cunt.he's a fucking spineless bitch.the kid was medicated as early as possible.never stood a chance.
>>740982180>my daughter>they>themHow many identical twin daughers does this man have and why did he name them all samantha?
>>740999598>eight hours fucking flies by if you're actually interested in what you're watching/playingCan confirm.t. just finished an 8 hour bloons td6 session
>>741001550It's been a recurring fad that keeps going out of use because it's fucking dumb and retarded to have two diametrically opposite meanings attached to the same word.
>>740980086I don't understand how these faggots were once so popular they got their own culture expo.
>>741016047They have a webcomic that has published three days a week since fucking 1998It has not had a single hiatus since a weeklong internet outage in late 1999Think about how many webcomic artists achieve a modicum of success and then fuck off for nine months or forever
>>741016047The early 00s was a more fragmented internet, each site had its own communities. Webcomics however had a widespread appeal (pretty much everyone using the internet in the early 00s was into tech or gaming), and having forums meant a place that anyone and everyone would congregate to. PA, CAD, 8bt, VGCats, PVP, all of these forums were huge for the time. They went from just being "places you'd go to for gaming news" to "places you'd go to because of the community" and eventually "hubs for all kinds of news articles and things to talk about". Keep in mind this was before youtube or any other video sites. There were no social media sites like we know of now, at most you had livejournal, deviantart, and xanga. IRC was still large but only really allowed small groups of 20-50 people at most before it became too big. AIM/ICQ/MSN were more for school kids to talk among each other after they went home for the day. Forums were the best medium for upwards growth.
>>740995595Level scaling has got to be the single most retarded lazy bullshit get-out-of-work excuse ever invented by a (((dev))). There is no sense of progression if the same starter mobs that kicked your ass when you were wearing rags and a deflated balloon dildo sword keeps kicking your ass when you come back kitted out in gear fit to vanquish a god. This is NOT a good thing when one of the core principles of the game genre is progressing by upgrading your gear.ffxiv is the only game I've ever seen that did it right,
>>741016364What other webcomics held that level of consistency (hard mode: while also being good or at least not utter dogshit)? The only ones I can recall are Schlock Mercenary and Girl Genius.
>>741016414>>741016364PAX was the first big gaming convention anyone could go to (you needed press credentials to go to E3, although I think they loosened that up at the end when they were dying)
>>740980086Tengroids will never live the pokemon go shit down, it's completely unsurprising that it was a military psyop to gather data too. Imagine falling for mk ultra for babies.
People make fun of baldy for his WORDSWORDSWORDS but back in the day he could write little pieces of dialog that really popI still think "It's like a tiny god" whenever I upgrade my computer
>>741007393The funniest part will always be how he's padding it with pseudo philosophical nothingburgers in an futile attempt to seem smart.
>>740980086Can I get a quick rundown on his 'daughter' going crazy and talking with a dishwasher episode?
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>>740993938Should've ended on the second panel
>>741016767You mean I can capture pokemon creatures AND serve my country? Where so I sign up?
>>741005804doing a gag a day for decades but still making me exhale pleasantly is something
>>740999238Why did he make O'Brien look like a lesbian.
>Piglike married a hambeast whose dorkiness is so legitimate that they met standing in line for The Phantom Menace and their first date involved her kicking his ass at Soul Calibur (in his defense, he said she was cheap with Sophita), he is still so starstruck by her 25 years later that he can't ever bring himself to depict her as anything but the coolest most beautiful most wonderful person he's ever met even though she just recently got tattoos and dyed her hair turquoise>their kid is some awful Logan Paul-esque zoomer equivalent of a gigachad>Bald married a somewhat hotter at-the-time redhead vegan feminist who he felt was "out of his league," she actively hates video games and constantly emasculates him, she made him take her last name when they wed, he "jokes" often about her being unfaithful or attracted to other men, he once wrote a comic fantasizing about murdering her>their kid trooned outIs there a lesson here?
>>741012959the new one is real. Seems real anyway.The old one was not.
>>741016809wordwordwordwords got gradually ramped up as they finished their secondary education. You'll notice how insecure all of it becomes, as well. Like you can pinpoint the exact moment Bald wanted to become a writer.Getting dragged by that author as being "Not real writers" back in the day at one of those conventions brain-broke baldy.
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>>741017471>Is there a lesson here?Yes, looks fade, being an awkward nerd is eternal and pig is going to enjoy the rest of his life with someone he can spend his hobby with.
>>740980086why does he make his MC excessively arrogant lately.It's always, are you aware of X? and he already knows the problem, the solution and isn't shy of a snarky comment.
>>740993938I got this joke in half a second by glancing at - in order - the raw steak, the man's disappointed expression, straight down to the confused chef, then the words "VIDEO GAMES get away with ... unfinished" And that's all the information needed to put together this joke that's somehow even more undercooked than the steak.
>>741017774feels good
>>741017837>lately
>>741017471>their kid is some awful Logan Paul-esque zoomer equivalent of a gigachadThis is the only bad part of Piglike's life. Having to deal with someone who could piss their money away on a supercar the next day and crash it into a wall. The rest of it sounds like heaven, it's the nerdy teenage romance most of us fantasize about, minus the hambeast part but that's not a dealbreaker for most
>>741016467The only things I can think of that are THAT old and consistent are Flipside and Misfile, though Misfile has 41%'d half of itself and neither are good
>>741017774This comic broke me in that I'm pretty sure I will not find a funnier webcomic page than this one in my lifetime.
>>741018240You should make a three hour youtube video about it
Why is he so bald?
>>740980086Isn't this the plot to Toys?
>>741017471They've got two kids each. Piglike has two sons who both seem to have turned into Logan Paul, Bald has a son and a daughter who both seem to have turned into their mother. In the son's case, physically.
>>740997278the second panel looks like it could just as well be cropped porn
smiledjust now
>>740982180>>740980086>Trooned out sonDamn dude why should anyone listen to what this failure says?
>>740997080Is this the same kid that tried to kill himself because the soap dispenser in his school bathroom told him to?
>>741016364Also pic related.
>>741016872>>741018649here comes the airplanehttps://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/08/01/further-intrusions-of-actual-life
>>740980086If my tireless work can help Israel kill just a single palestainian terrorist teenager then I'll know it wasn't in vain.
>>740980086What the fuck happened to tycho he used to look okay now he looks like a druggie
>>741019082>voices in my head say I should cut my throat>oh no let's get you to a hospital, you're having a psychotic episode>voices in my head say I should cut my dick off>congratulations... daughterthis isn't even a strawman this is just an accurate summary of a thing that happened
>>740982180>He can't understand End-Stage CapitalismThis is why Gen-X Capital L liberals are the fucking worst. Even more worse than fucking MAGA, because at least MAGAt Gen-X'ers are known retards. THESE Gen-X liberals should have a brain and understand words but apparently can't so they need their child to explain Marxism to them.#SAD! #MANYSUCHCASES!
Man, I fucking knew exactly which X-Files episode this strip was about, my random guess was correctI checked the date and sure enough that was the precise episode that aired a few nights before this comic was publishedI have psychic powers
>>741000024BASED Socialist.
>>740999380>"Hmm my kid is hearing soap dispensers talk to him. Maybe I need to get him mental help.">"Woah. My so-, I mean, daughter just came out! She is so heckin valid and I must get her gender affirming care right away!"What drives some men to allow this to happen? Is it the wife? It usually is the wife that taints the well of common sense.
>>741019881>Is it the wife?There are little warning signs that found their way into the comic
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>>741019881Why do you people think every man is conservative by heart?Haven't you seen enough male hippies and commies getting kicked in the face in webms?
>>741021270>Haven't you seen enough male hippies and commies getting kicked in the face in webms?no i will never see enough of those
>>741019881There's a post in this very thread with him explaining that he is "allergic to rules." He was never going to be strong enough to stop whatever is happening around him.
Can we please go back to a time where artists weren't considered intelligent and didn't have their opinions respected? They can make meaningful things about life, but they're clearly unable to understand anything.
>played Poker Night>actually enjoyed what a weird cunt Tycho is>any other occasion>think to myself "what the fuck happened?"And why has the artstyle now look more like the lineart detail to a pilotredsun object?
>>741019881Are we talking like 6 years old? Talking to a soap dispenser imaginary friend is kind of normal, I guess the killing part would be concerning, right? Or could that also just be a kid's imagination? I'm trying to be very charitable here.
>>741018730Based Khoo
If anyone's ever wondered what they actually sound like, here's the authors voicing their charactershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8C_oNalXnU
>>740993938honestly, funny premise but as others are saying too wordy and you could easily get away with cutting the last panel. I do like the revelation that he left, but to trim the last panel seems extra.
>>741004089transgender garbage
>>741009650I thought they stopped that years ago, at least as recent as the whole covid thing
>>741022832pretty much all of penny arcade is either a blogpost with pictures or some sort of amusing "you had to be there" interaction they had poorly translated into a comic format
>>741005536>that last panelHe was pretty spot on there. Who knows what the future for Xbox and PlayStation hold at this point when zoomers are less interested in gaming and everyone else is getting priced out of the hobby.
>>741000024>weKill yourself until you're dead you dumb retarded retard
>>741005536explosm was just a south park ripoff with lazy edgy jokes, now it's still lazy but the joke aren't edgy anymore, just like modern south park
What is is with western artists intentionally making things ugly?
>>740996067Retards dont understand that were not in a capitalistic society anymore, but a corpratist and consumerist one, which can only exist in tandem with eachother. The line is only going up because people keep fucking buying shit they don't need. Capitalism is just trade economy. Capitalism has existed as long as trade has, its not an "evil" system in itself like communism is.
>>740996540It is most certainly not a thing you retardFags dont get to just claim an entire fucking color
>>741022832I guess Gabe is kinda how you would expect it though it should be more shrill like your typical wacky cartoon retard.Tycho just sounds like the guy looks IRL, some weird penguin man, not the slightly angrier straight man of the two.
>>741016467Good old jerkcity....though i won't even really count them as webcomics but just random images stitched together with something that appears to be a plot splinked.Pic related is from today btw.
>>741022832Gabe sounds like more of an autist than I originally clocked him for. Maybe I just lumped him in with ctr alt del's Ethan but manchild? Yes. Slurring speech autist with the stereotypical lisp? Not so much.
>>741017471How does Baldy fucking cope? He has to be aware that he got the short end of the stick in every regard.
>>740997305LmaoLeftards genuinely believe thisIt is literally impossible to destroy this planet short of actual antimatter bombs
>>741025424jerkcity feels like watching a clock and smirking when it says 13:37
>>741025538Is your post going to spin into a side discussion on defining what "destroying the planet" looks like?
>>740997089Brilliant
>>741025424I'm convinced this is run by aliens or prophetic men aping shitty AI generation for over 20 years now.Like you could make random IRC babble make sense as comic if you wanted to.
>>741016482>(you needed press credentials to go to E3, although I think they loosened that up at the end when they were dying)You have that backwards. E3 was originally open to the public. They locked the doors in 2007. I was pretty pissed because I was planning to go for the first time that specific year.
>>741025580literally me, every work day
>>741019720>Gabe tools
>>741025802yeah I don't know about this Xfiles episode so that's where I thought this was going
>>741007393>(he/him)
>>741017357>>741018438Kek
>>740999271Brimstone and hellfire is a Jewish lie, just like the basis of modern society.
>>741017774What ever happened to super mega comics anyway? they were great and I miss them
>>740997863That's not what it means you fucking disingenuous faggot. It means that companies shouldn't be allowed to harvest your data without your consent and then re-sell it to other companies without your approval. It means that corporations shouldn't be allowed to dump chemicals into the river or sell crops that choke out other crops or have pesticides that turn the frogs gay. It means that corporations shouldn't import infinite jeets to depress the local labor market.
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>>741017282That's because you're a retarded cunt.
>>741025721I'm glad I'm not alone on this. If you took random posts from any IRC I've ever been in they'd make more sense than jerkcity
>>741019082this nigga eating rocks
>>740993687>VGCats literally got yoinked off the internet like 3 weeks agoJesus that's surreal, it was only a month or so ago that I looked it up on a whim and was comforted to see it was still about. To think I was actually looking at the last weeks of the site's existence.
>>741019505I mean its clear from reading this he's reached a breaking point
>>740996067>Late stage capitalism is the last stage before end stage capitalism, where capitalists literally bleed the world to death. And that's exactly what is supposed to happen.Nah mate. We're going to go into space and take advantage of an infinite universe. Trying to stop the growth of capitalism out of fear is exactly what the antispirals would do. The human spirit won't give up so easily, we'll find ways to keep growing and expanding without killing ourselves.Row row fight da powah.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwgMxjhXkKoCommunism = antispirals, capitalism = spirals
>>740982180Late-stage capitalism is because from 1800 to 1848 it was the "age of revolutions" in which there was a climate of general unrest and revolutions happened all around Europe. It was this environment that led Marx to believe the impending capitalist revolution would not only happen, but happen soon.Well that didn't happen and after 1850 there was an expansive period in which wages and living conditions improved, that's until the 1920s depression, so they made the "late-stage capitalism" epithet to basically say "okay Marx got it wrong last century but that's because the forces of production were still developing, this time, this depression will be the one and definitive one".Of course it wasn't either, Russians succeeded but the Germans failed (which is the opposite of what orthodox Marxism would've predicted), but other than that nothing happened. That was 100 years ago, now some people have ressusscitated again "late-stage capitalism" for exactly the same reason: to say that "okay everyone else was wrong but this time will be it for sure".
>>741019082>I am here because the hand sanitizer station at my son's school began talking to him last week. I won't tell you everything it said; he might want to be president someday.You're jeopardising that just by telling the world the hand sanitiser spoke to him.
>>741029603Honestly I'd be hesitant to post it just because other kids have the internet.
>>741029410Their mental illness really is something, in that specific way like a furryLike 50 countries tried communism for decades and absolutely all of them utterly went to shitThe only ones who didn't reverse course were Cuba and North Korea and they're nightmare prison camp pariah states nowAnd if you bring that up, it's a coin toss if the reply you get is>it's because the capitalists sabotage themor an incredible, outright schizophrenic>actually North Korea is a utopia with ski resorts and universal healthcare and every bad thing they've ever been accused of is a lie propagated by the CIA, North Korea is actually the richest and freest country on earth and if you doubt that you're a CIA agentand at first you think the motherfucker is baiting but then he goes on for 300 posts like that
>>741029348https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK7B5JkD96A
>>741029410>Well that didn't happen and after 1850 there was an expansive period in which wages and living conditions improvedfunny way to say "capitalist countries had to make massive concessions to the socialists in order to stave off revolution"people reuse the term because we're (especially in america) back in the exact same position where extreme concentration of wealth and a government essentially bought by the wealthy make life increasingly difficult for ordinary people and the system becomes increasingly untenable to continue without socialist reform because capitalism has proven unwilling to restrain itself
>>741001365Americans live rent free in your head
>>741029348>>741030281https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bp68Fg5LJsDamn I need to rewatch it finally
>>741030286>capitalist countries had to make massive concessions to the socialists in order to stave off revolution"We demand the complete murder of the ruling class and the middle class, confiscation of all wealth and an utter abolishment and reorganization of all housing, industry, politics, education and culture... but we'll settle for 10% welfare spending" is some real Art of the Deal shit
>>741030439We don't live rent free anywhere, he undoubtedly lives a third world country that gives him part of my taxpayer gibes just so he'll post online about us occasionally even if it's negative. Must be nice.
>>741030286>funny way to say "capitalist countries had to make massive concessions to the socialists in order to stave off revolution"Not really? Revolutions in 1948 were more about universal suffrage and political liberalism rather than full-blown socialism which was still marginal. Socialism as an organized political movement takes force later.
Does he have dementia? How is he so much worse than 20 years ago?
>>740980086>Pokemon Go>In 2026 Do people really? It was popular for like a couple of years but wasn't that back in like 2021 or something?
>>740995910>>741000726no one believes you you disgusting retarded troon
>>741030730He's arguing that shit like free schooling, minimum wages and workplace safety laws were a way to defuse any brewing Leninist style revolution with pic related
>>740982180>Word salad >Thesaurus on his desk >WORDS WORDS WORDS >I'm a pedo BLAH BLAH Yeah, he's a weirdo, we all know it and have for a long time.
>>741025538Not true. You can bleed it to death, slowly and painfully.
>>741001550>Singular they has always been a thing. It dates back before the 16th century. Singular they as a PERSONAL pronoun is not a thing. Get upset about the right thing you fucking pseud.
>>741030491you're doing the usual cope where you have to pretend anyone who criticizes capitalism is a leninist because you don't actually have a defense for end-stage capitalismin fact in many ways posters on /v/ have the exact same criticisms of it but try to deflect it from the entire system being rotten by claiming it's only because of the jews manipulating it or something>>741030730i am specifically referring to his discussing the period of "increasing wages and living conditions" which were absolutely built on the back of people agitating for things like labor laws, minimum wage, and old age pension
>>741030791It's topical this week because this week was the first time they actually publicly admitted "Oopsie woopsie, we kinda sorta used your data set to train drones to kill people sowwy >_<"Which was something people suspected a long while but was tinfoil hat territory
>>740980086So bald and piglike.
>>741030936Great. Maybe people will stop playing it and it'll die out completely. I always thought it was stupid to begin with.
>>741030875Really misusing that image. They were right to call you a pseud.
>>741030898>the period of "increasing wages and living conditions" >which were absolutely built on the back of people agitating for things like labor laws, minimum wage, and old age pensionHow do we tell him?
>>741030898>i am specifically referring to his discussing the period of "increasing wages and living conditions" which were absolutely built on the back of people agitating for things like labor laws, minimum wage, and old age pensionEh not really, most of the improvements in wages for that period are because of improvements in productivity.This is very clearly seen in child labour, as you can see how the % of child labourers decrease steadily even before the promulgation of laws.Basically, productivity increases explain most of the part in the increases of living standards for this time period, with laws dragging behind.
>>741025234The endgame of consumerism is consuming the entire world. That's why it's called consumerism.
>>741016864You're absolutely right - this comment is much too long and full of psuedo-philosophical nonsense. OH FUCK NOW I'M DOING IT
>>741030983>>741030936It's been interesting to learn about. That Niantic, the creators of Pokemon Go, started as a defense contractor.They came up with this clever gamification to get millions of people to volunteer to map and photograph infrastructure.Drone jamming is an actual problem - that drones become less functional when someone just floods the zone, cutting them off from radio control/GPS/etc.So the solution to this is to give them an internal database, where if they're no longer able to receive any outside input, they can use their internal database of landmarks/photos to determine "where" they are and continueIt all ends up with some conscript dies screaming in a muddy pool of blood because some kid took a picture of the angles of that roof at that address three years ago to catch a CaterpieIt also gets us closer to all dying in a Terminator scenario, that they have an incentive to want to build drones that CAN'T be directly controlled by a human operator
>>741031405imagine when Nintendo starts utilizing this technology against emulator devs
>>741017471Aww, good for Mike. She's not my type but there's something to be said about a man who's still so deeply in love decades later.
>>740989025I like this one
>>741031537>>741031405>Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of Negev belts
>>741031405>Japanese corporations are finally returning to their legacy of committing war crimesbased
>>741030898You already think that your economic model is better off without the state, and mine is exactly the same. You don't have any advantage over any other economic model. Capitalism already contradicts the state, so there's no reason to assume that it wouldn't overthrow the state, violently if necessary, and establish a worldwide order of classless and stateless societies built on property rights. It would be a directly linear progression. All sound economic theory and evidence points towards this being inevitable, and all sound ethics points towards it being good. So what are you doing, trying to flip the course of history the moment things start going right?>>741031197And the moment the pension system is set up, the rust belt turns into an africa-tier nigger containment zone. Luckily the government can keep the failing system running forever.
>>740989025What the...A Bald and Pig-Like comic that's actually... funny?
>>741031405I wonder if you could jam this with a couple of fake eiffel towersAnd I bet that there's at least one conscript who's getting blown to bits in some field because of the exact same data points that got his ass stuffed full of dick ten years ago
>>741030898>end-stage capitalismtwo more weeks
>>740989025I am not amused at all and I'm not even German
>>741033447And then a real Mega Man 10 game out in 2010
>>740997847That's just the tapeworm nibbling at your brain talking
>>741030791You can transfer the Pokemon you catch from Go to Home and over to other games to use for the mainline battle system. It's amazing for catching real legendaries that you can't trust to get legally in GTS or from someone else, or region/game locked Pokemon that are a bitch to get otherwise.After gen 3, they just started pumping out the latest gens of the Pokedex quickly, we have gen 9 Pokemon now, though the patches are piecewise instead of the entire dex so they can dripfeed them with in game events and seasons. What turned me of what the assfuck load of different currencies and materials one needs to aquire>dynamax energy >mega energy (per species)>XL candy for after max base level>gimmighoul coins>I got fucking dizzy. No way in fuck am I going to take panorama photos of locations you ask me to, and I disabled the buddy interactions from actually using my camera at no detriment, but it's still all so... much.
>>741017524Anon, she's his tulpa. Ronnie's completely lost it. He had a brief taste of human connection when someone was pretending to be some Indonesian chick and after 5+ years of being a Twitch jannie for free and eating livestock-grade corn he's trying to Whomp again
>>740999358I had a friend in med school. Really studious guy, excitable, motivated. One day he declared weed is harmless. He never finished his major
>>741033686It was unironically one of the saddest things I ever read when I saw him make a comment that if he can get his cartoonist income back up to matching a minimum wage job, he'd be set
>>741033812It's fine, Whomp comics get funnier the the worse off Ronnie becomes.
>>741000024>marxist definition of liberalWho cares how a leftist defines his fellow leftists?
>>741033645I just flat out never gave it camera access outside of one exception that I turned it off after for.But my oldass phone can't run it anymore so my shiny Genesect is stuck forever...
>>741033812I agree, and it's why I'm still reading even though a lot of his new ones have been pretty shit>>741033874You'd think that but he finally broke. Instead of M-dude thrashing him he just lives in Star Trek now. Presumably because he was watching that on an endless loop while soaking his corn in rainwater in the hope it would soften enough he could eat it without chipping his teeth
>>740995813It was created by some intel company. It was created so they could get people to go out and take pictures of areas they wanted photographed on the ground. They just found another use for the data now.
>>741033891>we define ourselves as kindly or simply, you don't like that>we define you uncharitably, you don't like thatThis is why I stopped watching online "debates", nobody has discussions, its just spicy namecalling and nobody can get past the first step common ground of definition.
>>741033891Liberalism being lefitst is a retarded American invention
>>740989025LOL
>>740997863The part where anything can be justified if it makes money.
>>741034112>>740995813The Pokemon Go concept is disturbing because it STARTED as data collection. Prior incarnations of it existed, like Ingress and Foursquare. The game was never the point.They experienced their greatest success when they were able to secure the Pokemon license and slap that onto their geospatial logging app.Niantic's founder was literally a glownigger first and a game dev second, he barely cares about game dev at all except in service of the former.
>>741034268I myself follow libertarian Lochian ideas of liberalism and all it does is piss everyone off that I'm a fundamentalist who doesn't want to entertain the bull or the elephant wholesale
>>741033645> you can't trust to get legally in GTS or from someone else, or region/game locked Pokemon that are a bitch to get otherwiseJust use a tool to gen the mons. It's not exactly hard.
>>740993485NERF NOW
>>741034445I used to battle competitively and I never wanted to be caught with my pants down at some new hack detection. >At the 2023 Pokémon World Championships, tournament organizers implemented stricter hack checks that disqualified numerous professional players for using modified Pokémon, including a Hacked Hisui region Ursaluna in one notable case. The player, Federico Camporesi, was caught with a modified Ursaluna which was removed from his team, resulting in a game loss, but he was allowed to continue competing with his remaining five legal Pokémon. >Ursaluna and other transfer-only Pokémon (like Urshifu and Landorus) were frequently flagged because they lacked the internal data "flags" indicating they had been properly transferred via Pokémon Home. >Hackers often used programs like PKHeX to generate these Pokémon directly into Scarlet and Violet, leaving missing metadata that officials could detect during complete storage checks rather than just Battle Box inspections. While some competitors argued the checks were inconsistent or unfair, others welcomed the crackdown on illegal teams to preserve competitive integrity.If T Enamorus had any meta appreciation, its usage would be ass since shooting for a 0 speed IV of a Hisuian transfer sounds like utter ass.
posting a few, for fun
>>741034639why are the goblins drawn sexy
>>741022832The 2005 style was perfect. How did they end up with this current dogshit style??
>>740997278Did he really draw his tranny son like that? Hahaha oh fuck
This one annoy me so much
nerfnow seems genuinely mildly(!) funny but I hate male writers using girls as their self inserts
>>741034713Almost every nerfnow comic is like that. They're horny as fuck. Not even the men are safe since the closest thing they have to main characters are genderbent TF2 mercs.
>>741034780>>741034856wait this is actually funny
>>740997847medium rare is not practically rawanyone who wants more than medium rare is compensating for an astoundingly small penis
I really do want better camera and stealth than that.It was ok before, for retropunk or something.But now it's time to find something new, like sending nanodrone to hack the camera, or invisibility cape that are limited because you need cooling to ask your IR signature or something
god this one is so fucking bluntand truegamers were so much wiser in 2003what's become of us? his statement is downright outrageous to any modern game
>>741034856Amnesia: The Bunker did flashlights rightdynamos are more fun than batteries
>>740982180End stage communism is mass starvation btw
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>>741035185>>741035047>>741034990>>741034856>>741034780I'm amazed this is still ongoing. I was certain it was one of those webcomics where the author commited suicide.
>>741035039Overwhelming pressure that prioritized the dumbest of an ever expanding demographic. The irony is oldfags think stronger gatekeeping could've possibly stopped that, but the reality is this was always going to be the case. People blame Oblivion's horse armor for the microtransaction cancer and TF2 for the loot box shit, but the reality is it just would've been something else otherwise. People are stupid. No, even worse, animals. Predictable animals, and we're up against the resources of industry who can hire whatever expertise they need to know just how to pluck your dumb fucking gacha-addicted kid relative or nintendo-obsessed 40 year old nostalgiafaggot cousin's strings.
>>741016462Levelling is a mistake to begin with.Sure it's not illogical to say your character did get physically stronger, but powercreep is a thing and there's only so much fun in killing demi-gods the same way you killed tutorial mob.
>>741010495https://handitv.com/
>>741035704god imagine the sex that happened seconds after that last panel
>>740995714We are in the middle of capitalism collapsing right now. The only thing they got wrong is that it's not communism that comes next, but rather a new horrible affeint to all that is natural and good and that we don't have a word for yet.
>>741034526okay this strip is a little funny
>>741034713That's how the author roll, irony or not.
>>741034973Don't say that out loud, everyone will try to prove you wrong
>>740997863When they talk about no private property in socialist societies, they mean corporation type shit. You can still have your house, though I think bad actors all over social media deliberately keep that unclear so people keep aimlessly bitching and believing the wrong shit. Saying that, yeah you're probably thinking about the fags who tell you that you also shouldn't have private property and to enjoy your commie block, but you can just tell those dipshits to fuck off, they're intrinsically poison to their own movement anyway.
>>740998160Uh, actually, anon, I live in Massachusetts, where the Penny Arcade Expo East is held, and legal marijuana is amazing.
>>741036729>some things that were possible in the past are no longer possible>people that lived in those past times are incapable of understanding thisI wish the accelerationists that are trying to destroy the world would hurry the fuck up.
>>741035557That's just your brain fed by 4chan nihilismThat said, I've seen one webcomic author die of cancer rather recently, and I wonder what happened to whoever draw "Full Frontal Nerdity" and a few other comic. They just stopped in 2024.Guess it's a reminder that author are real people who also grow old.I only fear to never see the ending of some stories.
>>741036729brutal
>>741036729>>741037146For the record, Arbuckle did finally get with that veterinarian, progress!
>>741037354>>741037170>>741036729>Jim Davis is 80 years old>he's been the sole author of Garfield for 48 yearsI wonder what the final strip will be
>>741037354Jim Davis keeping ownership of his series for so long was such a good move. Garfield still loves food, naps, and kicking Odie off the table.
>>740989025>implying content creators so anythingFucking idiots. Content creators just take the finding of others and present it to their audience of e-celeb cock suckers.
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>>741025607Is yours?
>>741037435>maybe mondays aren't so bad after all
>>741037435Remind me the ending of Schlock Mercenary.
>>741037435Nigga he hasn't written a single panel in like a decade
>>741034990Nice comic. Remember that drones were considered mostly science fiction 20 years ago.
this wasn't Scott Adams' final stripbut I choose to believe that it was
>>741036632>You can still have your houseI don’t trust that. You can technically own a home in some communist or socialist systems, but in many cases you don’t own the land underneath it, and that ownership is still more conditional than full private property rights in a liberal market system.And in some communist countries, like North Korea, they don’t even let you do that. You just get assigned a place to live.
>>741038097Lol
>>741038097Hey, that's a fake!
>>741001550but this isn't even a singular they. blogposts is a plural.
>>741035185I'm going to change this filemane to "Elmer_Ring"
>>741038458AI buisness management.png
>>741038814
>>741039151sensible chuckle.gif
>>741016864>>741007393Holy shit. I only just realized this and it should have occured to me sooner, but that paragraph itself reads like an AI prompt that was asked to explain the formula in a way to make it sound brilliant.Retarded fucking jeet asked AI to explain his own proposal of incorporating "AI" in the formula.
>>741001796How cute, you think you're being clever while just regurgitating shit you saw people post here, as a joke, except you're being serious about it.
>>741034639sexo
>>741017471I don't get it. The guy on the right is both bald and pig-like. The guy on the left doesn't really look like a pig, nor is he bald.
>>741034713author is brazilian
>>741015063Don't forget that he's made a whole bunch of "jokes" about being cuckolded too!
>>741034526Honestly that would be a funny thing to happen.
>>741035047armpitta
>>741039696oh so he has real world references for the goblinas
>>741036365Cute seibah butt
>>740997463This, the average One Piece fag does much more intense binging and it's the most normalfag anime there is. There's nothing "hardcore" about binging 8 hours over 2 days.
BALD
>>741035572The only thing that would've truly stopped it would be barriers in the first place like the ones the EU did a couple years back.
>>741025314Similarly, you don't get to choose a despoiler's targetsThe rainbow is dead and the sooner you get over it, the better
>>741039714lel
>>741035704I did a legendary difficulty attempt last year without being a bitch and using conjuration or followers and being strict about leveling is the only way to be able to move forward until you can enchant or alch your way to smacking bitches around. That comic is 100% true.
>>741035424why is he giving the tentacle a handjob
>>740995595Level scaling.............I don't like.
>>741039451>>741040092Thank God I'm not Anthony Burch
>>741040192His arm got turned into the tentacle and he has no control over it.
>>741040092
>>741017471jfc is it even possible to be that bald?
>>741019082>I am here because the hand sanitizer station at my son's school began talking to him last week.His 'son' most likely got raped by classmates and he chose to ignore the signals, trust the doctors and pump him full of medsAwesome parent
>>741040456ikr? he looks like he doesn't even have hair in his nostrils
>>741033645What the fuck are those elemental garfields
>>741025440He was using an absolutely shit headset mic. You can tell by how it sounds. Many of them have some sort of noise reduction that can make sybillant sounds sound lispy. Jerry seems to have a good mic, an electrovoice of some sort based on the sub-1k view tabletop videos on the channel, but he's got a bad sound environment and has it too far away from his mouth.
>>741016767>posting the edit
>>741018240grandma get out is better
hey their Stellar Blade hot take is relevant all over again
>>741027391
Was it Bald's wife who looked suspiciously like a girl in a porn video?
>>741040794>bald, the man who beats it to giraffe necks, deriding others for their taste in smutloel
>>740982180>tfw the penny arcade creator is a bluesky troonsad
>>741040092JEEEESUS
>>741034526>At the end, he summons a meteor and tries to destroy the Hundred Acre Wood
For some reason the upload keeps failing.https://files.catbox.moe/zh6m1y.webmI used to ship these fucking cats.
>>741025314
>>741041791>the good endI am okay with this.
>>740980086>not a joke>over a decade out of touch, "captchas train g00gle carz!!1!"Do these guys still get paid to make these?
>>741041791>For some reason the upload keeps failingWrong codec most likely. While 4chan supports webm, it doesn't support the newe codecs.
>>741042041The "Pokemon Go trains combat drones" story literally broke four days ago
>>741007393>>741039479Have you also noticed the responder is>Taosif Ahsan He/Himaka shit's been fucked for a while now.
>>741042078It's the exact same weebum that's been sitting on my drive since I got it from this board.
>>741030875This
>>741042368This usually means a janny hard banned the checksumThis is done for a lot of images, which is why people just reopen and resave them in Paint to avoid it
>>741042138I'm well informed it isn't real.
>>741017471Lesson is be a simp and you'll end up a cuck.
>>741019082>methMy first inclination is to ask if he's one of those retards that confuses ADHD drugs with methamphetamine, but I've never heard of methylphenidate-based drugs causing hallucinations. What the fuck is wrong with his son>Doesn't have rules in his houseaaaand there it is.
>>741038458>>741038509>>741039151Dilbert was so good before Scott went nuts. The really early ones where Dilbert's mom and the family of dinosaurs were still around were even better. So much soul was lost when the iconic tie was swapped out for business casual.
>>741019082I can't tell if the rock is real or is a metaphor- sorry, I mean a methaphor.
>>741020186>women to men: no-one cares about what you don't like, it's BORING>women to women: the only thing we can do is dislike
>>741042435What total fagets
>>741019082Wtf, was that kid smoking weed or something
>>740980086What the fuck happened to PA's art?Look at gabe's fucking hands, what is that shit
>>740993981Scott is a lazy fuck who is now divorced, broke, tried to an hero at least once, and is probably one push away from another attempt
>>741028551Same. Thankfully I have the original comics saved, even the version of The Comedian with the specific year mention instead of the edited vague one(well, almost all of them. The modern ones from the last version of the site I don't really care about - starting with the meh 'eggman drumpf' one)
>>741042601I hate redditors so much.
>>741019082The boy is hearing voices telling him hurt himself.>A decade laterSo yeah the boy is now my "daughter." We sure beat those voices, didn't we!? Nothing wrong with her now!
>>741031405It was quite obvious, in hindsight. They sold it as 'get outside and bask in the sun' but we really knew deep down why the hell they needed all that mapping data.Feels good not being a normie consoomer that goes into anything pokemon, the last game I played was Emerald and it already bored me enough. When some poor sod gets blasted by a murderous drone at least my hands will be clean.Also, remember how there was a pokestop at some holocaust memorial building and obviously they got REEEEEEEEEEE'd into removing it? Of course, we can't have the drones attack such a place! What a coincidence.
>>741017471>>741017828>>741018063>>741018438>>741025441One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that Piglike was raised Christian and bald is an atheist, and it's like the one thing they are constantly at odds about IRL. I'd wager that has something to do with it
>>741042725It was likely Desoxyn and it can cause auditory hallucinations. Why the fuck they thought this was better than just having ADHD, I have no idea.
>>741044354>atheistHe hasn't jumped ship to paganism like the rest yet?
>>741044441Modern burgerfat parents are fucking insane>kid is questioning some things, not surprising (we all did at some point) but with unfettered internet access this can be more overwhelmingI know! Let's jam him full of shitty meds because the (((pharmas))) say so>kid is morbidly obeseI know! Let's inject him with fucking semaglutide, it will totally not have secondary effects and fuck up someone who hasn't even fully grown yet! All becuase the (((pharmas))) say so
>>741044486I'm more surprised the Godless atheist hasn't killed himself and his entire family yet. I guess being rich really does help.
>>740980086What happened to Penny Arcades art style? It's like a parody of what it was ten years ago.
>>741044801Why would being godless lead to killing their family?
>>741044441Were Ritalin and Concerta too mainstream or something?
>>741045126In this case because his wife is cucking him, his son became a mentally ill tranny and who knows what the deal with the daughter is. If I were him I think I would have gone postal years ago.
As a kid I liked so many shitty webcomics.Does anyone know what's that one webcomic that did flash animations sometimes, and a popular one of his was some characters signing the chocobo song?Frog lily or something?Also there were a bunch of LotR comics and animations, although all I can remember is "anchovies of doooom" or something I don't know
>>741045015I'm kinda glad that the few times they've appeared in actual vidya (mainly rain slick precipice and poker night) represent what most will agree was the comic's style at its best
>>741045127Perhaps they tried them and they didn't work? Desoxyn is not the first choice for ADHD treatment and if it was making him psychotic as well he was likely being overdosed.
>>741045220So the real reason would be his wife cucking him and his son being a tranny, not being godless.
>>741045229Pretty sure you're talking about legendary frog. I still see people reference this pie bit.
>>741045385Correct, the Godless is just a bonus as he doesn't believe in hell.
>>741045318I've been on Concerta for almost 30 years and being off it isn't great, but I think I'd rather deal with pseudo-narcolepsy than constantly being nauseous and hearing voices.
>>741045281>I'm kinda glad that the few times they've appeared in actual vidya (mainly rain slick precipice and poker night) represent what most will agree was the comic's style at its bestI agree, this is where the artsyle of penny arcade kind of peaked. Or, this is the style that I will mostly recognize as Penny Arcade. I need an update on image related.
>>741045437Oh yeah this one. I liked that blue girl
>>741044354Keith (Jerry) admitted to Mike that he's bi and has looked at porn at work, including at men, and Mike got freaked out by it. Keith's sister is a lesbian too. His son being a furry tranny is exactly what I would expect.
>>741045385Not being raised with a system of morals and the core idea that there's something bigger and more important than yourself out there would explain a lot of his poor decisions. More a contributing factor than a direct cause.
>>741040314SHE TOOK THE FUCKING WII-U
>>741045523The 2026 version has been the official style for Penny Arcade for the last few years. It comes off as more self parody of the 2010 incarnations of these designs.
>>741045437There are several lines from arc and kerrigan that have been running in-jokes between me and an ex-housemate for decades now.
>>741041920Fags doing fag shit isn't legitimate
>>741045437>12 year old me waiting for legendary frogs collab collages of the Matrix
>>740997305you fags said this would happen in 2000, then 2010, then 2020, and now 2030, in the next few years you will say it is in 2040
>>740984659L
>>741045220So you cant imagine other people not being as fragile as you, in other words
>>741046412Just because the idea of the technology to 'move to other worlds' is futurist star wars nonsense that real physics does not allow for
>>741041791didn't the VG catz guy go crazy
>>741047186Actually found a rebbit post when I was looking into the site going down. Hearsay says that the dude dropped off the internet pretty much.https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1svxh7r/what_happened_to_vgcatscom/A damn shame.
>>741047392Didn't know he was Bipolar and tried to kill himself. It all makes sense now. Dam shame I really liked his comics when I was a kid.
>>741047680all furries are bipolar
>>741047736No they're mostly autistic.
>>741046106Something else I want to point out is that the UI for the old Penny Arcade site annihilates the current one. It’s not that you can’t do non-skeuomorphic design, it’s just that you have to do it illustrative, so it looks interesting, but it’s just Vine bullshit now. I hope someone makes an unofficial client that actively updates to host every PA comic and uses a ported version of the old site’s new look, maybe with some hand-vectorized assets or whatever. Unofficial Homestuck Collection did it well enough…for a time…
>>741046461D
>>741048284>>741046461>>740984659>>740981821We did it 4chan!
>>741048341>DLAB
>Penny Arcade bald guy gets his son on medical meth for ADHD or other nonsense>The meth makes him hear a soap dispensper tell him he should cut his dick off>Instead of just cutting off the meth and reconsidering the advice of the medical industrial complex, he helps his son become "Samantha"Huh. Nice logic.
