A Penny Arcade strip you like and why

Quitch · 2011-11-18T11:22:54.000Z

Gus_Smedstad:

That’s still consistent with Sebmojo’s point. There are strips that are generally consistently good enough that there’s a daily discussion of the strip on the related forum.

I wasn’t responding to his point I was responding to yours.

sinnick · 2011-11-18T11:43:11.000Z

I guess we should probably post this here.

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Bahimiron · 2011-11-18T12:02:17.000Z

As someone who installed his own Afterburner, I’ve always appreciated this one.

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MonkeyPunky · 2011-11-18T12:16:38.000Z

I totally forgot about the Afterburner, that was such an awesome upgrade. I think I ended up with some amount of trapped lint or something but not enough to attempt redoing it.

RepoMan · 2011-11-18T12:37:51.000Z

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That’s just fucking funny. I LOL’ed, for realz.

Editer · 2011-11-18T14:09:26.000Z

And see, that why the Penny Arcade is/isn’t still funny argument is moot. I enjoyed the others this week, but thought today’s was lame. OMG, people have different tastes!

Sebmojo · 2011-11-18T19:12:20.000Z

RepoMan:

That’s just fucking funny. I LOL’ed, for realz.

Gabe’s wide-eyed hopeful expression in the last panel is great.

Though I wasn’t keen on it on first viewing, it’s grown on me.

inactive_user · 2011-11-19T16:53:51.000Z

That is outstanding.

Tim_N · 2011-11-19T17:02:03.000Z

sinnick:

I guess we should probably post this here.

It makes it look like Gabe is aging along with Mike’s talent.

Abilio_Carvalho · 2011-11-23T03:35:57.000Z

for me it’s not the eyes, it’s the biting the lip.

theborbes · 2011-11-24T18:35:43.000Z

Editer:

The strip is as good as it was in the past. It’s just been around so long that people are used to it. And they have rose-colored memories of the good/bad ratio of past strips.

It’s like when people think ST:TNG was a good show, because they only think back to the 20-ish good episodes.

While I won’t even try to say that every episode of tng was amazing, you sir are bat shit crazy if you think that TNG was not a “good show”. Absolutely crazy!

As for people bitching about the art style, I think it’s little more than trolling - isn’t there a seperate thread for bitching about penny arcade? You’re stomping on our parade and whatnot

Editer · 2011-11-24T23:54:35.000Z

theborbes:

While I won’t even try to say that every episode of tng was amazing, you sir are bat shit crazy if you think that TNG was not a “good show”. Absolutely crazy!

Worf devolving into a giant lizard and Hugh the Friendly Borg would like a word with you.

PS: Luxwana Troi

MattKeil · 2011-11-25T00:55:42.000Z

theborbes:

While I won’t even try to say that every episode of tng was amazing, you sir are bat shit crazy if you think that TNG was not a “good show”. Absolutely crazy!

Gotta agree here. There are probably only about 20 TNG episodes that really stand out as top quality Star Trek, but there are probably only about 20 TNG episodes that I wouldn’t stop to watch if I caught them on rerun while flipping channels. Even when it was originally airing, it was very rare that I didn’t enjoy the majority of a season’s episodes, even if they weren’t always particularly memorable.

As for people bitching about the art style, I think it’s little more than trolling

No, I assure you that at least some of us legitimately dislike the direction the art has taken in the last couple of years.

extarbags · 2011-11-25T07:13:27.000Z

Editer:

The strip is as good as it was in the past. It’s just been around so long that people are used to it. And they have rose-colored memories of the good/bad ratio of past strips.

It’s like when people think ST:TNG was a good show, because they only think back to the 20-ish good episodes.

Nah, I’m pretty sure PA used to score higher than zero good strips per year back in the old days.

sinnick · 2011-11-25T08:41:14.000Z

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Eat your words, curmudgeons! Today’s is a Good Strip™!

Sebmojo · 2011-11-25T10:36:35.000Z

extarbags:

Nah, I’m pretty sure PA used to score higher than zero good strips per year back in the old days.

There were plenty of good strips this year.

Sebmojo · 2011-11-25T10:38:08.000Z

sinnick:

Eat your words, curmudgeons! Today’s is a Good Strip™!

“Let’s take a step back.”

That one made me LOL.

Actually - Gabe’s ‘well duh’ expression in panel 3.

belgerog · 2011-11-25T10:40:49.000Z

sinnick:

Eat your words, curmudgeons! Today’s is a Good Strip™!

Coincidentally you can’t see their crotch.

theborbes · 2011-11-26T07:15:16.000Z

Editer:

Worf devolving into a giant lizard and Hugh the Friendly Borg would like a word with you.

PS: Luxwana Troi

I really love the “devolution” episode, so I’d love a word with it. The friendly Borg episode, maybe not great in execution but a good sci fi concept, and a good concept is all I need for good sci fi. So yeah, TNG is awesome. Let’s start a new thread to debate.

And ok, you may have a legitimate dislike for how the art style has evolved. The convenient part of my message you didn’t quote was that there is a thread for people talking about why they dislike PA.

You’re not starting a dialogue when you bitch about the art. You’ll say “I don’t like it” and another will say “I do” and that’s where the conversation ends because it’s entirely subjective. So we end up having the same people complaining again and again, not really contributing to any useful discussion and annoying those of us who do like the art or (like me) don’t feel strongly either way. Go to the other thread

Zylon · 2011-11-26T09:22:28.000Z

Larval threadcops are so adorable.