I always love Penny Arcade (this series on Gabe making a fake Facebook profile for Tycho, culminating in Tycho’s exquisite revenge, made me laugh so hard I spent a lot of time unsuccessfully attempting to explain it to Anne) but today’s comic presents a situation that’s wonderfully familiar to me.
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I have to keep reminding myself that I can compose offline in ecto. Oh, related to that: I really like ecto, and feel comfortable endorsing it and recommending it to anyone who is looking for a full-featured offline editor for their blog. Anyway, I guess AMC ran Stand By Me on DVD TV last night….
Well, you can’t exactly play with Acquisitions, Incorporated, but you can go on one of our adventures, because Wizards has put Storm Tower, the adventure that Chris Perkins wrote for the D&D/Penny Arcade/PvP/me podcast online.
I’ve spent all my time today catching up with all the things I’ve wanted to put into my blog over the last few weeks, but haven’t had the time or energy to complete. This is the last bit of the Catching Up Trilogy, soon to be a major motion picture starring Jack Black as the…
I don’t own a stopwatch, so I grabbed my iPod Touch (I mean my iPad mini! HA! HA! HA!) and fired up the little stopwatch thingy that comes with it. Here’s what I saw…
This weekend, Anne and I are going to go up to the Rose Bowl and join a few thousand other animal lovers for the Pasadena Humane Society’s annual wiggle waggle walk.
As always, if you buy it via the image above, (or buy anything via this link ) I get shiny gold rocks that I can trade for other awesome Threadless shirts of my own, like this one: It occurs to me now that I haven’t gone on a T-shirt buying rampage in several months. … (You know, when I go to Think Geek, it’s like a suburban mom going to Target or Costco. I go in there for one T-shirt, and I end up leaving with a ton of other stuff I had no intention of buying when I walked through the door.
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Wow, I havn’t laughed at a comic like that in a while. Please don’t turn into Myspace, Facebook.
Wil, I’m getting ready to write an article about the latest development with the late night hosts and the writer’s strike– I’m really curious to know what you think of that. I’m personally not too happy about it.
I feel like such a dork because the first thing that came to my mind was something like:
Is that even accurate? I could swear you just needed to subspace ur particle emitters or something and it would work ! Do your research PA!
The trouble with Tachyon Storms is they hit you just before they actualy happen.
Personally it’s the local gravitational anomolies that are always causing me problems while walking.
You know, if they simply reversed the subspace matrix to align with the negative graviton field, none of this would have happened.
Funny, I was sitting here trying to figure out in my head if the sound was right…
I used to work at Perpetual (on the other game, GnH) and it has been sad to see STO slipping away as well. I had high hopes. 🙁
Amusing how this all works out. I not only worked at Perpetual but I recently had dinner with Wil at the Penny Arcade Child’s Play Charity Auction, after which the Penny Arcade site ran this comic about Perpetual and STO which inspired Wil to blog about it and me to comment on that blog post, thus creating a causality loop that will likely destroy us all.
Sorry about that.
Since reading that Penny Arcade strip, we’ve been blaming everything on the goddamn tachyon storms (my cloning not working, the heat in our lab, and so on).
If I’m honest with myself, it isn’t the tachyon storms so much as the lunch beer.
OK, I’ll be that guy.
I have no idea what’s so funny about the Fisherman’s Mouth or candela-bear-as.
Thank-you Fritz, for being that guy. Coz I’m that guy also (I don’t get the Fisherman’s Mouth comic either), and being that guy loves company, or something like that. 🙂
Can someone do a step by step to explain the funny there please? And I’ll just turn my geek-card in at the door, thanks, as I’m sure someone’s gonna try be ’round to collect it.
Well, Gabe was violating the Number One Rule of Wheaton – he was being a dick to Tycho (see previous days strips wherein Gabe creates a highly questionable fake Facebook profile for Tycho).
Tycho set it up with Kara (the girl in the strip) to say that she had had Fisherman’s Mouth and to be really annoying (in a cutesy girl way, ergo the candela-bear-as) to Gabe, then told Gabe to say HE had Fisherman’s Mouth (a bogus disgusting sounding disease) to Kara, not knowing she’s already been coached by Tycho.
Elegant revenge, really.