A Penny Arcade strip you like and why

JoshV · 2011-01-11T12:11:23.000Z

liquorice:

Ok so I read through the entire thing a dozen times trying to find what you were talking about.

I actually swore aloud to myself upon discovering it, such was my shock that I had missed it.

What are people taking about?

erikg88 · 2011-01-11T17:10:31.000Z

i had developed the the fifth matter

Dave_Perkins · 2011-01-11T17:11:12.000Z

Why did you write ‘the’ twice?

Mike_O_Malley · 2011-01-11T17:18:09.000Z

The guy stutters, Dave. Don’t embarrass him.

Raife · 2011-01-11T17:33:17.000Z

Open the definite grammatical article bay doors, Dave.

Dave_Perkins · 2011-01-11T17:38:09.000Z

I just want to help him,
guys. I just want to
to help.

Pogo · 2011-01-11T18:14:28.000Z

liquorice:

Ok so I read through the entire thing a dozen times trying to find what you were talking about.

I actually swore aloud to myself upon discovering it, such was my shock that I had missed it.

Yeah, I pointed out an error in an earlier comic and it took a while for some people to see what was wrong with it.

RepoMan · 2011-01-21T10:12:49.000Z

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The awesome sleazy expression on Gabriel’s face in the last panel. I am glad they didn’t draw the incredibly depraved thought bubble over his head.

dermot · 2011-01-21T11:50:38.000Z

Do you reckon they left out ‘of’ in the first panel on purpose?

liquorice · 2011-01-21T15:00:15.000Z

They really need a copy editor.

ReptileHouse · 2011-01-21T15:17:41.000Z

“Not when I’m around.” Great stuff.

JoshV · 2011-01-21T17:14:35.000Z

dermot:

Do you reckon they left out ‘of’ in the first panel on purpose?

Did they stealth fix it, or am I not seeing it?

Gus_Smedstad1 · 2011-01-21T17:18:50.000Z

JoshV:

Did they stealth fix it, or am I not seeing it?

I had to look twice. The phrase (with bolded, missing word): “during one of my porn harvests.”

erikg88 · 2011-01-21T18:18:24.000Z

liquorice:

They really need a copy editor.

To be fair, that’s ~50 words per comic, three times a week. Reading aloud, slowly, that could take upwards of five minutes. Between ping pong and filming for their series, there just aren’t enough hours in the day.

(I love the PATV series, but I wonder: just how unequal is the distribution of labor? Most weeks Mike has to do maybe 1.5 panels per strip – the first panel and then tweaked facial expressions – and Jerry has to write about 1200 words in blog posts on whatever topic he chooses. Then you see these episodes where some quiet guy slept on a cot in a warehouse, and Robert, the workaholic taskmaster, is glad that he’s “got what it takes to get the job done.” Good for Gabe&Tycho, it seems like they’ve set up a nice gig for themselves.)

Sebmojo · 2011-01-21T18:23:29.000Z

erikg88:

To be fair, that’s ~50 words per comic, three times a week. Reading aloud, slowly, that could take upwards of five minutes. Between ping pong and filming for their series, there just aren’t enough hours in the day.

(I love the PATV series, but I wonder: just how unequal is the distribution of labor? Most weeks Mike has to do maybe 1.5 panels per strip – the first panel and then tweaked facial expressions – and Jerry has to write about 1200 words in blog posts on whatever topic he chooses. Then you see these episodes where some quiet guy slept on a cot in a warehouse, and Robert, the workaholic taskmaster, is glad that he’s “got what it takes to get the job done.” Good for Gabe&Tycho, it seems like they’ve set up a nice gig for themselves.)

Yep.

They do a fair bit of other stuff too, commissions and whatnot, but I suspect they work a very comfortable 40 hour week and Robert works a manically full-on 60.

But it works for them, so yay!

Brad_Grenz · 2011-01-21T18:24:43.000Z

I suspect that Mike is prone to transcription errors, because that shit doesn’t happen in either of their posts to the site.

liquorice · 2011-01-22T04:38:24.000Z

Yeah, it is a lot trickier to transcribe than it is to write. The internal spell-checker doesn’t really work in the same way.

Jamie_Madigan · 2011-01-31T13:34:57.000Z

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“They called their motion controller The Move. ‘Handheld Thing’ could actually be its name.”

Ha. That’s pretty damn spot on.

On the other hand, as far as punchlines go, “That shit don’t cost a dollar” is pretty …awkward.

JoshV · 2011-01-31T17:26:08.000Z

Sebmojo:

Yep.

They do a fair bit of other stuff too, commissions and whatnot, but I suspect they work a very comfortable 40 hour week and Robert works a manically full-on 60.

But it works for them, so yay!

40 hours a week? really? What other stuff do they do?

Andrew · 2011-01-31T19:43:46.000Z

They do all of those commissions for various video games that are really boring.