You know how you can tell an article is well written?
When its core subjects are a bunch of things I didn't read, didn't watch, didn't buy, and generally didn't pay attention in my younger years, but I still find it interesting and engaging enough to read about all the way to the meme at the end. They say a room full of monkeys can write Shakespeare. I say, why settle for a room full of monkeys when a single ape is more than capable of the same?
This was a fun read, Thank you. I feel like Thomas Jefferson must have felt greeting Merriweather Lewis when he and the Corps of Didcovery came back from trekking across the entire country, traversing dangers , taking copious notes, bringing samples ….. to let Jefferson know what the heck was out there in the great unknown. Thank you kindly for taking that journey for the rest of us.
Thanks for following up on my suggestion! It was a thorough and fascinating piece as usual.
There was a time when I was on board for everything Penny Arcade did. I bought the collections, I played the games. And then I slowly realized that the comic strip just... wasn't that funny any more. So I ended up bailing out, and now the whole thing feels like a fever dream.
Was it ever funny? Did it actually suck? Or was I just in the grips of a backlash generated by disillusionment? It's good to get some outside perspective on PA, and see that there is indeed some strange alchemy there.
Two more things:
1. The dickwolves strip, from what I recall, was the only mildly interesting strip for weeks leading up to that point, and for weeks afterwards. I want to say they went off their meds for a bit as an experiment, and the dickwolves strip was the result.
2. Just for the record, Time Magazine was trash for midwits by at least 2006, IMHO.
You have a good eye for these geek culture topics but fam I gotta be real witchu that they would be way more poastable if they weren't Over 9000 words. Just an opinion from some guy.
I think my only definite interaction with Penny Arcade (apart from the still inescapable phenomenon of people posting their strips on forums and imageboards) was in the very niche 2012 RTS game Airmech, in which Gabe and Tycho appeared as pilots.
The House of Mouse's attempts to freeze creatives out of licensing rights, esp. on legacy products, is probably a big reason of why their jerry-rigged superfreighter of nearly every popular ip in existence hasn't yet sunk. Residuals and royalties can eat up a very significant chunk of profit from a media product, so it's a savvy business decision on their part (if entirely morally bankrupt) to only pay them if absolutely forced to.
RIP Rooster Teeth. Halo fanboys really did get the short end of the stick; they were on top of the world by the time Halo 3 came out, and now that empire is naught but dust and disrespect. Thus the wheel of fortune turns.
You know how you can tell an article is well written?
When its core subjects are a bunch of things I didn't read, didn't watch, didn't buy, and generally didn't pay attention in my younger years, but I still find it interesting and engaging enough to read about all the way to the meme at the end. They say a room full of monkeys can write Shakespeare. I say, why settle for a room full of monkeys when a single ape is more than capable of the same?
Thanks for despoiling the fond memories I have of Rooster Teeth, ya shisno.
This was a fun read, Thank you. I feel like Thomas Jefferson must have felt greeting Merriweather Lewis when he and the Corps of Didcovery came back from trekking across the entire country, traversing dangers , taking copious notes, bringing samples ….. to let Jefferson know what the heck was out there in the great unknown. Thank you kindly for taking that journey for the rest of us.
Thanks for following up on my suggestion! It was a thorough and fascinating piece as usual.
There was a time when I was on board for everything Penny Arcade did. I bought the collections, I played the games. And then I slowly realized that the comic strip just... wasn't that funny any more. So I ended up bailing out, and now the whole thing feels like a fever dream.
Was it ever funny? Did it actually suck? Or was I just in the grips of a backlash generated by disillusionment? It's good to get some outside perspective on PA, and see that there is indeed some strange alchemy there.
Two more things:
1. The dickwolves strip, from what I recall, was the only mildly interesting strip for weeks leading up to that point, and for weeks afterwards. I want to say they went off their meds for a bit as an experiment, and the dickwolves strip was the result.
2. Just for the record, Time Magazine was trash for midwits by at least 2006, IMHO.
You have a good eye for these geek culture topics but fam I gotta be real witchu that they would be way more poastable if they weren't Over 9000 words. Just an opinion from some guy.
I think my only definite interaction with Penny Arcade (apart from the still inescapable phenomenon of people posting their strips on forums and imageboards) was in the very niche 2012 RTS game Airmech, in which Gabe and Tycho appeared as pilots.
The House of Mouse's attempts to freeze creatives out of licensing rights, esp. on legacy products, is probably a big reason of why their jerry-rigged superfreighter of nearly every popular ip in existence hasn't yet sunk. Residuals and royalties can eat up a very significant chunk of profit from a media product, so it's a savvy business decision on their part (if entirely morally bankrupt) to only pay them if absolutely forced to.
RIP Rooster Teeth. Halo fanboys really did get the short end of the stick; they were on top of the world by the time Halo 3 came out, and now that empire is naught but dust and disrespect. Thus the wheel of fortune turns.
What a wild trip down memory lane.