A Penny Arcade strip you like and why

Bahimiron · 2011-10-31T10:22:25.000Z

Is Tycho dressed as a Droid?

sinnick · 2011-10-31T10:33:24.000Z

I thought he was dressed as HAL.

Black_Isis · 2011-10-31T10:33:35.000Z

I thought he was HAL…

Edit: Dammit, how did I get beaten by half a second!?

Pogo · 2011-10-31T10:33:57.000Z

Yeah I don’t think I get it, unless Tycho’s outfit is supposed to imply that his other half is something obscene or something.

salwon · 2011-10-31T10:34:05.000Z

HAL-9000, I assume. (Edit: curses!)

And I disagree strongly with the assessment of the 3rd panel of the Batman comic. The joke is great, but why the hell is Batman making that stupid face? Awful.

Bahimiron · 2011-10-31T10:40:57.000Z

sinnick:

I thought he was dressed as HAL.

Ah. That makes a lot more sense.

Pogo:

Yeah I don’t think I get it, unless Tycho’s outfit is supposed to imply that his other half is something obscene or something.

Gabe’s wife’s outfit implies that Gabe is dressed as a sexy nurse.

JoshV · 2011-10-31T11:47:02.000Z

Pogo:

Yeah I don’t think I get it, unless Tycho’s outfit is supposed to imply that his other half is something obscene or something.

Yeah, at first I didn’t quite get it, mostly because I can’t tell their wives apart. Re-reading it, it’s trying to imply that since she’s the pirate, that she is gabe’s wife and gabe is the sexy nurse.

(shoulda drawn Tycho’s wife as well, or is he married? I thought they both were, but can’t remember)

Pogo · 2011-10-31T11:58:20.000Z

I think maybe my misunderstanding is based on idiocy. I’m not sure why I thought it was Gabe that was in the pirate outfit with a wig and fake breasts talking about himself in the third person. I think it may have to do with Gabe and his wife having the same exact expression in the first two panels… so I thought the crossdressing was being shown explicitly.

Zylon · 2011-10-31T12:21:37.000Z

I swore to god that I would not inflict myself on this thread anymore, but watching you guys brain-sprain over really, really simple gags like this has shed new light on my comprehension of PA’s target audience.

So thanks… I think.

ArmandoPenblade · 2011-10-31T12:32:46.000Z

Come on guys, she clearly has a red nose, which Gabe DOESN’T have.

Which reminds me of a massive fight Scott Kurtz (PVP author/artist) had with his twitter followers over red noses. Apparently they thought they looked Goddamned retarded, and he thought they were all uncultured slobs incapable of appreciating the rich artistic history of red noses.

Ah, there we go.

MattKeil · 2011-10-31T13:32:45.000Z

Pogo:

I think maybe my misunderstanding is based on idiocy. I’m not sure why I thought it was Gabe that was in the pirate outfit with a wig and fake breasts talking about himself in the third person. I think it may have to do with Gabe and his wife having the same exact expression in the first two panels… so I thought the crossdressing was being shown explicitly.

What in the…

Look, I’m no great fan of Gabe’s art these days, but their head and face shapes are totally different, her entire body shape is clearly female, and she’s noticeably smaller and shorter than Tycho, whereas in the previous panel (and every strip in the series) Gabe is the same size as him. While it took me a second to realize “oh, that’s Gabe’s wife,” it would never, ever occur to me to think that was Gabe in…what, female pirate drag?

Is this the secret running gag of this thread now? Intentionally not getting the most basic stuff imaginable? Did I totally fall for a meta troll? I’m going to go ahead and believe that, because the alternative is really kind of disturbing.

Sebmojo · 2011-10-31T13:36:03.000Z

MattKeil:

Is this the secret running gag of this thread now? Intentionally not getting the most basic stuff imaginable? Did I totally fall for a meta troll? I’m going to go ahead and believe that, because the alternative is really kind of disturbing.

Indeed.

TimJames · 2011-10-31T13:38:46.000Z

JM:

Don’t look at her legs!

I looked at her legs.

Sebmojo · 2011-10-31T13:40:33.000Z

Sebmojo:

I think it’s completely unclear and that makes it rubbish.

I mean, who’s John Vechey? Why the mansion - is he rich or something? What’s PopCap? What’s Bejeweled? Who are all those men? Why have they got real jewels? What’s a ‘match’? Why the trapdoor? Why the garden? Why? What is the darkness? Who is the dude in the blue? And the other guy? What’s Childs Play? WHAT?

It’s an endless cavalcade of befuddlement!

Rimbo:

and what the heck are those boxes around each of the drawings and why are there three of that guy

Sebmojo:

NONE OF IT MAKES SENSE AND THAT MAKES ME ANGRY.

MattKeil!!:

I understood it perfectly without reading the newspost, but that may just be because I’m aware of one of the most successful game companies of the last decade.

Bahimiron:

My assumption is that Sebmojo may have been making fun of some other people in the thread.

MattKeil!!!:

Is this the secret running gag of this thread now? Intentionally not getting the most basic stuff imaginable? Did I totally fall for a meta troll? I’m going to go ahead and believe that, because the alternative is really kind of disturbing.

So that makes you the meta meta troll?

MattKeil · 2011-10-31T13:42:29.000Z

Sebmojo:

So that makes you the meta meta troll?

Are you seriously comparing what you didn’t get to what Pogo didn’t get? You (possibly) lacked information (which, admittedly, was readily available elsewhere, but still) that was not part of the strip itself. Pogo is making insane mental leaps about what character is (clearly not) depicted in the second panel. One is not like the other.

Of course, maybe now you’re claiming that you were being funny all along.

Good job.

Bahimiron · 2011-10-31T13:51:57.000Z

I think he was pretty clearly making a funny. It may or may not have been funny, but that was the intent. I mean ‘what’s a match’? C’mon. Even you admitted at the time (though Sebmojo did not quote it) that with this thread sarcasm was hard to tell with people being so ludicrous. (I believe at the time someone was complaining that the strip wasn’t a multimedia experience that actually involved Tycho calling you to explain the gag.)

Pogo · 2011-10-31T14:03:46.000Z

MattKeil:

What in the…

Look, I’m no great fan of Gabe’s art these days, but their head and face shapes are totally different, her entire body shape is clearly female, and she’s noticeably smaller and shorter than Tycho, whereas in the previous panel (and every strip in the series) Gabe is the same size as him. While it took me a second to realize “oh, that’s Gabe’s wife,” it would never, ever occur to me to think that was Gabe in…what, female pirate drag?

Is this the secret running gag of this thread now? Intentionally not getting the most basic stuff imaginable? Did I totally fall for a meta troll? I’m going to go ahead and believe that, because the alternative is really kind of disturbing.

I was just trying to understand where my confusion came from after initially skimming the comic and not getting it. There wasn’t much else to respond to, so there’s no reason to be a douche.

If you scan almost directly from Gabe’s face to her face, they’re not “totally different.” My assumption that the crossdressing happens in the second panel explicitly was pretty stupid, but resulted in a wig being imaginable. I didn’t bother looking at the body shape.

Rasputin · 2011-10-31T14:14:01.000Z

But she explicitly states that Gabriel is on his way.

jerri_blank · 2011-10-31T14:17:50.000Z

I’m one of the dumbest posters on Qt3, and I got it right away. And I agree - the facial expression in the third panel is a bad choice. They’d have been better off just having two panels, ending with the wife showing up as the pirate.

Sebmojo · 2011-10-31T14:21:07.000Z

MattKeil:

Are you seriously comparing what you didn’t get to what Pogo didn’t get? You (possibly) lacked information (which, admittedly, was readily available elsewhere, but still) that was not part of the strip itself. Pogo is making insane mental leaps about what character is (clearly not) depicted in the second panel. One is not like the other.

Of course, maybe now you’re claiming that you were being funny all along.

Good job.

HE’S STILL DOING IT