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Comic: The Tragedy Of The Commons | New Comic: The Tragedy Of The Commons | |
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News: The Tragedy Of The Commons | Tycho: I love this kind of stuff. For those of you not familiar with the story, “a dude made an image of his electronic Starbucks Card availa... | |
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News: Dad Stuff | Gabe: I know you don’t come to this website for news about my spawn but I can’t help but share this. My eldest son Gabe is almost seven... | |
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News: The trenches! | Gabe: Its been a long time coming but we have finally launched our new comic The Trenches. This comic is a collaboration between Tycho and I along ... | |
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Comic: Fed Astaire | New Comic: Fed Astaire | |
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News: Fed Astaire | Tycho: The communities of DOTA, HoN, and LoL are notorious, even among gamer communities, for being noxious hellholes. It’s rare that I actua... | |
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News: New Site Design | Tycho: It's ready to be tested under load - you can find it at beta.penny-arcade.com, and any bugs or issues you have with it can be mailed to ... | |
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News: Fruit Ninja | Gabe: My friend Brian over at Kotaku posted a nice preview of Fruit Ninja for Kinect. In it he mentions the fact that the game will notify you when... | |
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News: PAXDev Badge Delivery Deadline | Tycho: August Tenth - so, Wednesday? - is the last day to buy your ticket and have it sent to you. Otherwise, you'll have to pick it up at th... | |
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Comic: Sound And Fury | New Comic: Sound And Fury | |
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News: Sound And Fury | Tycho: What is true, absolutely true, is that Blizzard does not allow people to play Diablo III while they are not connected live to their servers.... | |
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Comic: Kickball, Sport Of Kings | New Comic: Kickball, Sport Of Kings | |
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News: Kickball, Sport Of Kings | Tycho: We held a bachelor party for Levin night before last, a bachelor party that began with drunken kickball and culminated in drunken drinking. ... | |
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News: Humble Indie Bundle | Tycho: bundlin' bundlin' bundlin' WHA That's my evocative intro groove; I pray that you have been sufficiently tantalized. The HIB is back fo... | |
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Comic: The Only Way To Be Sure | New Comic: The Only Way To Be Sure | |
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News: The Only Way To Be Sure | Tycho: When I was tooling around the ‘Con a couple weeks ago, I managed to scam my way into a BioWare thingy where (much to my surprise) six ... | |
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News: Live Drawing starting at 1:30 PST | Gabe: Watch live video from Penny Arcade on www.justin.tv | |
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News: Acquisitions Inc. | Gabe: Are you ready for more Acquisitions Inc.? I certainly hope so because we are getting the band back together for PAX prime. That’s right... | |
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Comic: The Fire | New Comic: The Fire | |
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News: The Fire | Tycho: I’ve made no secret of my struggles to integrate the Nintendo 3DS into the contours of an entire life. The machine is literally my son... | |
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News: Gabeart Show | Gabe: We’ve posted another of my live drawing sessions on PATV. We listened to the feedback we got last time and now you can watch it in real... | |
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Comic: Accountability | New Comic: Accountability | |
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News: Accountability | Tycho: The nasty bit about Summer of Arcade is its density; I’m in no way finished with Bastion, and now they want me to play Lord for some n... | |
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Comic: The Pondiferous | New Comic: The Pondiferous | |
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News: The Pondiferous | Tycho: It’s not for everybody, I understand that; but if you’re gonna cosplay, man, fucking do it. Go for the brass ring. That’s ... | |
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News: Live Streaming | Gabe: Watch live video from Penny Arcade on www.justin.tv | |
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News: Comic Con Panel | Gabe: Another Comic Con has come and gone. I think that makes ten years in a row for us now. Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth and bought... | |
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Comic: The New Shit | New Comic: The New Shit | |
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News: The New Shit | Tycho: I am not very good at social networking. Twitter is the extent of the phenomenon that I’ve been able to integrate, and badly. I’... | |
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Comic: Annservice, Part Four | New Comic: Annservice, Part Four | |
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News: Annservice, Part Four | Tycho: Now you know why the series is called Annservice. I begged Gabriel to end the series this way, because I felt confident it would be awesome,... | |
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Comic: Annservice, Part Three | New Comic: Annservice, Part Three | |
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News: Annservice, Part Three | Tycho: Tonight is Preview Night at the San Diego Comic Con, a very particular sort of environ, the very moment when the scab is ripped off the show... | |
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Comic: Annservice, Part Two | New Comic: Annservice, Part Two | |
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News: Annservice, Part Two | Tycho: Opinions may differ; in fact, that's kind of their thing. But Ann’s effortless aura transforms the strip into something else, and the ... | |
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Comic: Annservice, Part One | New Comic: Annservice, Part One | |
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News: Annservice, Part One | Tycho: Occasionally, when must leave town for this reason or that, we leverage base causality to ease the process. We thought it might be novel to ... | |
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Comic: The Learning Environment | New Comic: The Learning Environment | |
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News: The Learning Environment | Tycho: We were trying out the multiplayer in Twisted Pixel’s Ms. Splosion Man on Monday, finding what we saw there considerably more clever t... | |
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News: Windows Phone 7 | Gabe: I’m not going to lie to you guys, I sometimes use my minor Internet celebrity to get cool shit. Recently I was able to acquire tickets ... | |
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News: On Hegemony | Tycho: I may have spoken too soon. And when I say "may have," I mean "did absolutely." (CW)TB | |
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News: San Diego Comic Con: Booth 1334 | Tycho: Erika, Brian, and Khoo will be rocking the booth with us, booth 1334, as suggested above. We also have a panel (which I'm just le... | |
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News: Drawing Today's Comic Live! | Gabe: Free Live streaming by Ustream | |
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News: Drawing Wednesday's Comic Live! | Gabe: Free Live streaming by Ustream | |
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Comic: The Fruit Of Another | New Comic: The Fruit Of Another | |
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News: The Fruit Of Another | Tycho: It’s true. For some reason I cannot entirely grasp, Gabriel is using a Windows Phone. I have discussed this need of his for novelty, h... | |
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News: ROI...Roy? | Gabe: I was never a DOTA player and so I don’t know to what extent LOL is or is not like that game. Coming into LOL it was hard for me to und... | |
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News: Savage New Brutals | Tycho: DOTA’s strange heritage - that is to say, its origin as a non-profit knot of distributed design - has allowed this type of game to rep... | |
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Comic: Savage New Brutals | New Comic: Savage New Brutals | |
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News: Blam DVD | Gabe: Just two quick things: - I want to remind everyone that tomorrow is the last day to pre-order the Blam DVD and get all the cool bonus stuff.&... | |
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Comic: Damn My Frail Human Body | New Comic: Damn My Frail Human Body | |
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News: Damn My Frail Human Body | Tycho: After doing the “calibration phase” for UFC Trainer, it ranked Gabriel at the beginner level. But Beginner for a mixed martial a... | |
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News: Gabe Art on PATV | Gabe: Recently I’ve been getting back into streaming while I draw the comic strip. I’ve messed around with a few different services and... | |
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Comic: The Fourth | New Comic: The Fourth | |
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News: The Fourth | Tycho: We're in Spokane for the Fourth of July, and presumably sometime after, as we wait for a break in the Bloodstorms to make our escape. It's s... | |
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Comic: Unflinching Realism | New Comic: Unflinching Realism | |
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News: Unflinching Realism | Tycho: I wonder what the mix would be like at a convention devoted exclusively to Call of Duty. I got so good at muting the people who play that ga... | |
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News: Alienware | Gabe: I’ve had a few people ask about the Alienware laptop in the strip. Some people want to know if I have one and if so, do I like it. A co... | |
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News: Mario Marathon 4 = $110,000 | Tycho: It's true: you can see for yourself! Well, technically, it's $112,099.73, but who's counting? Me. I am counting. An incred... | |
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Comic: League Of Psychotic Murderers | New Comic: League Of Psychotic Murderers | |
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News: League Of Psychotic Murderers | Tycho: League of Legends is still a thing, that rare creature whose appeal slices through so many distinct strata that it can build consensus even ... | |
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News: PAXDev Early Bird Reg. Ends On Friday | Tycho: It really does! Friday is the last day to register. We just added a bunch more sessions to the almighty Schedule, too, for your ... | |
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News: D&D Fortune Cards | Gabe: (my emmisary table from Geek Chic) I jumped back behind the DM screen last night and had a great time. I mentioned before that our obsession ... | |
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News: Bungie Auction for Child's Play! | Tycho: There is really the most incredible offering of Bungie treasure going on now on eBay, in a sequence of unstoppable charitable auctions.... | |
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Comic: Free To Pay | New Comic: Free To Pay | |
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News: Free To Pay | Tycho: I read on Krizz Kaliko that Microsoft was ”rumored” to be approaching developers about Free To Play games on their service. But ... | |
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News: Mario Marathon | Tycho: They're cranking away over there for Child's Play, beavering for real, and I got to show them some love. "Love" (in this case) being a... | |
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News: Pre-Order some stuff | Gabe: We’ve got two items available for pre-order on our store right now and each one sports a a little bonus for purchasing early. The first... | |
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Comic: The Enervator | New Comic: The Enervator | |
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News: The Enervator | Tycho: When something arrives at the office for Gabriel there is a sort of dance that accompanies it, a small one, a festival in miniature to which... | |
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News: Game with our Fame | Gabe: Tycho and I will be the fame in tomorrow’s Game with Fame event on Xbox Live. We will be playing Magic The Gathering: Duels of the Plan... | |
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News: SW:TOR | Gabe: So I was actually able to get into the current friends and family beta for Star Wars: The Old Republic. It wasn’t too hard since techni... | |
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News: Co-Opt | Tycho: We grabbed the demo for Dungeon Siege III, because demo. Plus, we have the requisite neurotransmitters a game like this might stimulate. We ... | |
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Comic: Co-Opt | New Comic: Co-Opt | |
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Comic: Doot Dee Doo | New Comic: Doot Dee Doo | |
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News: Doot Dee Doo | Tycho: People are constantly trying to figure out what kind of “hat” LulzSec is wearing, specifically the color of this hat, which is a... | |
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News: Child's Play: Mario Marathon 4! | Tycho: I thought this trailer was pretty slick: (CW)TB | |
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Comic: This Week's Villain | New Comic: This Week's Villain | |
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News: This Week's Villain | Tycho: We spent some time in Child of Eden’s incredible fourth archive yesterday morning, Passion, and I don’t know if it’s a spo... | |
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News: Today Is The Last Day For Panel Submissions | Tycho: Today is the cutoff date for panel submissions! PAX Dev submissions go here, and PAX Prime submissions go here. (CW)TB | |
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News: Book 7 | Gabe: Our new book is available for pre-order right now on our store. Obviously you can buy the book wherever you like but we wanted to provide a l... | |
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Comic: Reprise | New Comic: Reprise | |
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News: Reprise | Tycho: American McGee’s back, and Alice along with him; it seemed like an incredible opportunity to relive the days of yore. I mentioned that... | |
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News: PAX Dev, PAX Prime Panel Submissions | Tycho: The cutoff date for panel submissions to either convention is the fifteenth of this month. PAX Dev submissions go here, and PAX Prime ... | |
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Comic: The Hippothalamus | New Comic: The Hippothalamus | |
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News: The Hippothalamus | Tycho: Also a true story. Well, a true story about an imaginary thing perhaps. The hippo was small, lying on its side, and its long tongue wrapped ... | |
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News: No | Tycho: Not really. (CW)TB | |
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Comic: Unbeatable Value | New Comic: Unbeatable Value | |
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News: Unbeatable Value | Tycho: We’ve begun a League of Legends phase almost two years late. I don’t know what’s happening over here; it’s not like ... | |
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Comic: Third Rate | New Comic: Third Rate | |
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News: Third Rate | Tycho: Seeing first-run movies - without slurping them from the Web as a succession of isolated datoids - is something that doesn’t really ha... | |
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Comic: Rein It In, Maybe | New Comic: Rein It In, Maybe | |
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News: Rein It In, Maybe | Tycho: Seizing on the incredible density of industry folk just before E3, Jamie constructed the First Annual Child’s Play Invitational Golf T... | |
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News: The New Kid! | Gabe: If you follow my twitter than you already know the exciting news. If not, then get your ass ready for some exciting news! Yesterday it was an... | |
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Comic: Now With More Death | New Comic: Now With More Death | |
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News: Now With More Death | Tycho: We were tremendous fans of the original Darksiders, and wanted a sequel very much, with the knowledge that we would never get one more or le... | |
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News: Hunted | Gabe: Tycho and I have been playing through L.A. Noire here at the office. Initially we were both blown away by the technology and the story. After... | |
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News: Sorry About The Links | Tycho: We've got a new backend on the way, and our current backend is jealous. It inserts backslashes in places that backslashes aren't requi... | |
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Comic: Archaeology | New Comic: Archaeology | |
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News: Archaeology | Tycho: Gamestop is prepared to honor your prehistoric Duke Nukem receipts, printed (as was common at that time) upon strips of chewed papyrus. Assu... | |
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Comic: Inquiring Minds | New Comic: Inquiring Minds | |
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News: Inquiring Minds | Tycho: If I actually had stopped the car, no doubt this scenario would have come to pass. Occasionally, I make good decisions! Good might be a stre... | |
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News: Simultaneous Execution | Tycho: I was thinking about this a lot today, and if I recall correctly Laser Squid Nemesis managed combat in this way as well. Tha... | |
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News: A bunch of stuff | Gabe: Our print on demand service has been busted for a couple of months now. The fix for this is coming but it is being worked into a whole new ba... | |
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Comic: Page 234, Table 29-A | New Comic: Page 234, Table 29-A | |
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News: Page 234, Table 29-A | Tycho: Sometimes, I’m proud to say it: “This strip is a transcript of an actual conversation!” has a kind of eureka element, a fo... | |
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News: Rift | Gabe: A few weeks ago I decided to give Rift a try and I’ve been having a lot of fun. I’m playing it casually by myself whenever I have... | |
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Comic: Witchin' | New Comic: Witchin' | |
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News: Witchin' | Tycho: I installed The Witcher 2 on the PC we have in the office here so that Gabriel could see with his own eyes some of the things I’ve bee... | |
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News: Shoes | Gabe: If you wear shoes and you like Penny Arcade then you are the target demographic for our new product. The Penny Arcade shoe is a shoe that you... | |
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Comic: Dickstarter | New Comic: Dickstarter | |
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News: Dickstarter | Tycho: What happens with Kickstarter typically is that a person will have an idea for a new wrist-strap or a proto-scarf or an Indie RPG port ... | |
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News: Yes, I Am Aware | Tycho: What "topping" means in a sexual context. Feel free to consider my knowledge of kink terminology "robust," if not "encyclopedic." ... | |
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Comic: It's Sweeping The Nation | New Comic: It's Sweeping The Nation | |
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News: It's Sweeping The Nation | Tycho: We were way too late for planking, didn’t have a chance to get in on that pastime, but fear not. We’ve got a head-start on the n... | |
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News: The Scott and Kris Show | Gabe: I’m sure that many of you are familiar with the exploits of our friends Kris and Scott. Their individual comics are decent, their Blami... | |
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Comic: The Maw | New Comic: The Maw | |
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News: The Maw | Tycho: The truth is that I am the one with the Dentist problem; I haven’t been to the dentist since just before the first Precipice game. The... | |
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Comic: His Dark Thesis | New Comic: His Dark Thesis | |
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News: His Dark Thesis | Tycho: The hostility and madness of a PC tech support forum recalls the iniquity of a prison asylum. Specifically, the one from The Silence Of The ... | |
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Comic: Heal Thyself | New Comic: Heal Thyself | |
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News: Heal Thyself | Tycho: Typically games based on the interplay of classes restrict your weapon choices, but this is something they chose not to do with Brink. Weapo... | |
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News: Scholarship, Enforcers, PAX 10! | Tycho: Here is everything else i needed to tell you today: - We would like to give you ten thousand dollars to help with the incredible debt you ar... | |
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Comic: The Threshold Protocol | New Comic: The Threshold Protocol | |
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News: The Threshold Protocol | Tycho: Gabriel and I will be attending a bachelor party so intense that I am told the B and the P should be capitalized. I am also told that its sh... | |
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Comic: A Gentlemen's Evening | New Comic: A Gentlemen's Evening | |
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News: A Gentlemen's Evening | Tycho: I can still mount a token resistance, usually, but the reality is that seeing movies is a way to sit in a dark room and eat sugar for two fu... | |
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News: New PATV: Checkpoint | Tycho: LoadingReadyRun - Yes! The Desert Bus people! - debut their new show on PATV today, a news digest vehicle they call Checkpoint. ... | |
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Comic: Dire Circumstances | New Comic: Dire Circumstances | |
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News: Dire Circumstances | Tycho: Crisis averted! Hopefully. Two things. - Like all other conscious beings, we have constantly fantasized about operating our own gaming shop.... | |
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Comic: Part The Rusted Chains | New Comic: Part The Rusted Chains | |
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News: Part The Rusted Chains | Tycho: Gabriel has a hunger for DeviantArt, and maybe even deviant art, or at any rate an appetite for the art of deviants; I have been made to abs... | |
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Comic: The Value Proposition | New Comic: The Value Proposition | |
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News: The Value Proposition | Tycho: Having committed themselves to in absolute terms to the replication of Blizzard’s back catalogue, it’s no wonder that Gameloft&n... | |
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News: Solve It (Etc.) | Tycho: I saw a review of an XBLIG called Solve It over at Joystiq, a game with a tile-laying mechanic where the tiles represent a kind of "program.... | |
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News: We have two new shirts! | Gabe: It only does pre-orders: Rex Ready, time traveling secret agent dinosaur! -Gabe out | |
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News: Even Newer Penny Arcade Television! | Tycho: I always see things a couple weeks in advance, so I never know where the series is at on the live servers - but here is an actually new epis... | |
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News: PAXDev Panel Submissions | Tycho: If you are a developer, just, like... developin' all the time, and you'd like to submit a panel for the conference, this is where you ... | |
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Comic: Editorializin' | New Comic: Editorializin' | |
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News: Editorializin' | Tycho: We have yet again distilled the news according to the old ways. This is that. I was quite sad to hear that the planned arrival of The Witche... | |
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News: It Only Does Preorders! | Gabe: -Gabe out | |
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Comic: The Song Of Something Something | New Comic: The Song Of Something Something | |
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News: The Song Of Something Something | Tycho: People have different thresholds regarding spoilification, something we deal with in many comics, today’s included - but the way these... | |
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News: It Only Doesn't | Tycho: We put up today’s comic on Friday because it was inconceivable to conceive of thinking that they still wouldn’t have their shit ... | |
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News: Here's Monday's Comic Early | Tycho: (just in case they get the service back up). | |
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News: Child's PLay Charity Golf Tourney | Gabe: I’ve had a few questions about the Child’s Play Charity Golf Tournament that I wanted to go ahead and cover here in a quick post.... | |
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Comic: The Mantle | New Comic: The Mantle | |
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News: The Mantle | Tycho: If you played Bulletstorm, specifically on the 360, you have probably checked out Gears of War already. I'm fairly critical of Gears precise... | |
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Comic: It Only Doesn't | New Comic: It Only Doesn't | |
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News: Child's Play Golf Tournament! | Gabe: So it’s no secret that I am a huge golf nerd. When I was a kid I played Washington Junior golf and then ended up on the golf team in hi... | |
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Comic: On Kombat | New Comic: On Kombat | |
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News: On Kombat | Tycho: Robert considers Mortal Kombat his "game," in the way that some might consider Empire State Of Mind their "jam." He's been busy repairing th... | |
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News: Book 7 Cover! | Gabe: I just wrapped this up. -Gabe out | |
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News: Merch News | Gabe: Our Keep Calm and Respawn shirt has quickly become our most popular shirt ever. We’ve also created a series of prints based on the same... | |
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Comic: The End Times | New Comic: The End Times | |
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News: The End Times | Tycho: The Wii2 rumors are getting pretty dense up in this piece. Microsoft proved that you can get pretty far dropping a new platform before every... | |
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News: PAX Prime & PAX Dev | Tycho: Registration for PAX Prime just opened, PAX is that videogame convention we do sometimes, and it tends to sell out so now is as good a time ... | |
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News: I Need 50 CCs Of Bubblegum Kush | Tycho: Every time a shop closes near our office, within the space of a week it is transformed into a dispensary. Italian Soccer Bar? Dispensary. Cu... | |
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Comic: I Need 50 CCs Of Bubblegum Kush | New Comic: I Need 50 CCs Of Bubblegum Kush | |
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Comic: A Quaint And Curious Volume | New Comic: A Quaint And Curious Volume | |
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News: A Quaint And Curious Volume | Tycho: There is a new Kindle in town, the "Kindle With Special Offers," which I would definitely have named something else. I might also have price... | |
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News: Spiral Knights | Tycho: That's the game I was talking about before. I actually thought I was mentioning it too much, that's how obsessed I am with it, everywh... | |
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News: The Wise Man's Fear | Gabe: People have been asking me what I thought of this book for a while. Minor spoilers ahead I guess. I loved The Name of The Wind so much that I... | |
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Comic: When Larry Met Mary | New Comic: When Larry Met Mary | |
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News: When Larry Met Mary | Tycho: We called up Pat Rothfuss, who was wasting away at some kind of romance convention, to show him our new strip before it went up. It wa... | |
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Comic: The Opposite Of Riches | New Comic: The Opposite Of Riches | |
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News: The Opposite Of Riches | Tycho: Gabriel just returned from something called a "Great Wolf Lodge," which sounds like a half-way house for troubled young lycanthropes. But it... | |
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Comic: Another Round | New Comic: Another Round | |
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News: Another Round | Tycho: They've almost pushed him entirely away; somehow, they have discovered the ragged boundary of his masochism. It's been true for a long time ... | |
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Comic: Rex Ready: The Return Of Rex Ready | New Comic: Rex Ready: The Return Of Rex Ready | |
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News: Rex Ready: The Return Of Rex Ready | Tycho: For some reason, and perhaps this is something you can explain to me, PAX events are dense with requests to bring back Rex Ready - even thou... | |
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Comic: Baste Me With Your Corrosive Saliva | New Comic: Baste Me With Your Corrosive Saliva | |
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News: Baste Me With Your Corrosive Saliva | Tycho: The dialogue that surrounds Dragon Age 2 is at least as interesting as the dialogue contained within it. It's ongoing, and you can't lose an... | |
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News: Awesome Lookouts News! | Gabe: Pretty much since the day it came out people have been begging us for more Lookouts stuff. It is without a doubt the most popular side projec... | |
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Comic: The Pricking of My Thumbs | New Comic: The Pricking of My Thumbs | |
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News: The Pricking Of My Thumbs | Tycho: Gabriel cut his thumb to the bone yesterday, the box knife just cut until it stopped, and then he had to go to the doctor where they pried o... | |
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Comic: The Evernight | New Comic: The Evernight | |
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News: The Evernight | Tycho: The side of the 3DS box really does have a frightening harangue on it. I would go so far as to say that it stops just shy of being Dark Prop... | |
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Comic: Compare And Contrast | New Comic: Compare And Contrast | |
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News: Compare And Contrast | Tycho: We continue to be shocked by the increasingly ridiculous, often ingenious purposes human beings are putting the Kinect sensor toward. I don'... | |
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News: One Of Many Possible Responses | Tycho: Duke Nukem is no doubt, and no argument, an organism which is guaranteed (indeed, engineered) to be offensive. So, if we get offended.... | |
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Comic: One Of Many Possible Responses | New Comic: One Of Many Possible Responses | |
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Comic: Punching Down | New Comic: Punching Down | |
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News: Punching Down | Tycho: Having rolled from fever to fever all weekend to find myself deposited here, before a blank editor, is startling to say the least. The last ... | |
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News: Dragon Age2 (in case you missed it) | Gabe: I posted this yesterday but it was way down at the bottom of the page so you might not have seen it. All Three pages of our Dragon Age ... | |
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News: Slam Bolt Scrappers | Tycho: Eitan Glinert from Fire Hose Games came by the office right before PAX, and it was nice to see him. We were overjoyed to have Slam Bolt Scra... | |
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News: Kotaku's Japan Fundraiser | Tycho: Brian Crecente sends word of their noble mission, and having experience running multiple Rock Band events for Child's Play he's got the chop... | |
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Comic: Revel/ation | New Comic: Revel/ation | |
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News: Revel/ation | Tycho: Here is today's strip, or strip shell at any rate, a comic Boboli, which can be filled with marinated chunks of history. Those are some of t... | |
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News: The Pony Factor | Tycho: I neglected to mention it, but as is usual at the create a strip panel, audience suggestions are taken into account. Gabriel will draw... | |
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Comic: Ballin' | New Comic: Ballin' | |
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News: Ballin' | Tycho: I have been lying in bed feeling desolated in an essential way and powerless, as my ill-used larynx throbbed with the wages of a weekend spe... | |
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Comic: Protocol | New Comic: Protocol | |
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News: Protocol | Tycho: I was never taught any particular rule about using the restroom, I just know in my hidden bones that you a) don't talk to people in there wh... | |
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News: Dragon Age 2 Comic | Gabe: I'll be travelling all day tomorrow which means I won't have time to mention the new page of our DA 2 comic. Page two should be live tomorrow... | |
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Comic: The Land Before Time | New Comic: The Land Before Time | |
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News: The Land Before Time | Tycho: I really want to know what another ten years of increasingly ubiquitous Internet will do to a person. I've got two kids, and it's not too la... | |
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News: Funny drawing I made | Gabe: The drawing of Gabe in the second panel today really makes me laugh. I think it’s the best Gabe I’ve ever drawn. So I went ahead ... | |
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Comic: Pokémorality | New Comic: Pokémorality | |
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News: Pokémorality | Tycho: I don't think it's too bad a spoiler to say that the new Pokemon game - the new Pokemon game, for God's sake - asks questions about the fran... | |
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News: DA2+ | Tycho: When I was writing it, this is what I kept thinking about: all the times in DA where you pull back out of a combat to some kind of dia... | |
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News: Dragon Age 2 | Gabe: Page 1 of our new Dragon Age 2 comic is live over on the DA2 page. This is just a quick three page story that will introduce yo... | |
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Comic: Roiling | New Comic: Roiling | |
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News: Roiling | Tycho: PAX East grows ever nearer, it's super near right now, and our dutiful JavaScript clock is returning a value that seems almost impossible. M... | |
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News: Minecraft Fruit Fucker | Gabe: PA reader Michael just sent me this and I thought it was awesome. The lava "juice" is my favorite part. -Gabe out | |
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News: Omegathon Games | Gabe: Time to start practicing Omeganauts! Round 1: Katamari, Friday, 12:30 PM – Merman Theatre (052) Round 2: Bananagrams Saturday, 11... | |
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News: Something To Consider | Tycho: Your choice of Pokemon games mostly comes down to whether or not you want Reshiram or Zekrom. Clearly, Zekrom is the right choice. Even more... | |
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Comic: Something To Consider | New Comic: Something To Consider | |
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News: New Ledo and Ix | Tycho: Why yes, we do have more. Glory and honor to Kid Can Drive! (CW)TB | |
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Comic: Beauty And Another Kind Of Beauty | New Comic: Beauty And Another Kind Of Beauty | |
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News: Beauty And Another Kind Of Beauty | Tycho: It was an act of will to keep from cocking my head at the Beastly trailer, which Gabriel queued up while laughing through his nose. Eventual... | |
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Comic: Space Beans, Red Racers | New Comic: Space Beans, Red Racers | |
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News: Space Beans, Red Racers | Tycho: Gabriel was trying to tell me about his Smurf Town, and how many Smurfs were there, or something. I was given to understand that there were ... | |
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Comic: What's Past Is Prologue | New Comic: What's Past Is Prologue | |
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News: What's Past Is Prologue | Tycho: I've been reading Jane McGonigal's Reality Is Broken, and some of the things she says track very closely with the way things work in my own ... | |
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News: Side Effects | Gabe: I certainly appreciate everyone sending me tips on gaining weight and building muscle. Tycho’s story was from a few years ago though an... | |
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News: A Campaign Of Perpetual Psychic Warfare | Tycho: It's crucial to abuse Gabriel lest he get airs, to make him chase phantoms and spirits, to ride his anguish, howling like a pirate in the ri... | |
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Comic: A Campaign Of Perpetual Psychic Warfare | New Comic: A Campaign Of Perpetual Psychic Warfare | |
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News: Teevee Showz | Tycho: There is new Penny Arcade Television today, a Fourth Panel, one which describes the writing process for the strip entitled "A New World Reco... | |
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Comic: The Wounds Of The Past | New Comic: The Wounds Of The Past | |
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News: The Wounds Of The Past | Tycho: It's very hard to tell how long a fighting game will be a going proposition around here. Soulcalibur IV is still played almost daily by Keek... | |
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News: What's That, PATV Enthusiast? | Tycho: You crave more of Emily Carmichael's Ledo And Ix, which is the best? Well, saddle up. (CW)TB | |
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Comic: Serendipity | New Comic: Serendipity | |
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News: Serendipity | Tycho: I played Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 at the San Diego Comic-Con what seems like a hundred years ago, and though the roster was a profoundly truncate... | |
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Comic: The Ecology Of The Loser | New Comic: The Ecology Of The Loser | |
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News: The Ecology Of The Loser | Tycho: Losing in a game that takes a long time to play feels bad; and losing in a wargame (which has a tactical component, even if dice are the fin... | |
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Comic: Gawk-Blocking | New Comic: Gawk-Blocking | |
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News: Gawk-Blocking | Tycho: Pulling Gawker sites off my bar felt momentous, but the relief was incredible. Once I realized that I didn't have to look at them, even if I... | |
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Comic: Appliances For The Nefarious Home | New Comic: Appliances For The Nefarious Home | |
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News: Appliances For The Nefarious Home | Tycho: In many ways, I just buy the industrial design in Killzone. I buy that actual ISA weapons and dropships might look this way, and I can see a... | |
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News: Dead Crawl Space | Gabe: Tycho and I finished Dead Space 2 last week and I was really impressed with the game. Overall I didn’t feel like it was as scary as the... | |
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Comic: Bono Trask: Timesqueezer | New Comic: Bono Trask: Timesqueezer | |
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News: Bono Trask: Timesqueezer | Tycho: As one of Gabriel's fully actual dreams, this bizarre pastiche was weird enough to record. But now I want to use this character again, to re... | |
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News: Hearts | Gabe: We are running a special sale on our heartris and life t-shirts for valentines day. They are now $14 each! -Gabe out | |
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News: Urdhva Mukha Svanasana | Tycho: Bulletstormin'. Parody is a difficult business. The difference between "good-bad" and something that is regular old bad sits on the edge of ... | |
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Comic: Urdhva Mukha Svanasana | New Comic: Urdhva Mukha Svanasana | |
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News: On The Matter of Dickwolves | Tycho: One of the most important essays I’ve ever read is by Philip K Dick, entitled “How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall A... | |
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News: Okay that's enough | Gabe: I think this has really gone too far. We have people on both sides of this ridiculous argument making death threats and worse. Kara was certa... | |
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News: Armored Core 5 | Tycho: To this day, any conversational lull between Kiko and I invariably turns to Chromehounds. That's right: boring old four-out-of-ten, six-out-... | |
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News: some stuff | Gabe: We’re working on fleshing out PATV so it isn’t just shows about Penny Arcade. Ledo and Ix is one such show. The third episode wen... | |
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Comic: My Friend Wyrmidon | New Comic: My Friend Wyrmidon | |
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News: My Friend Wyrmidon | Tycho: We've got Dead Space 2 more or less in the bag, now, practically sewn up, and it's just... solid. It's more of a compliment than it sounds. ... | |
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Comic: Topical Gaming Strip | New Comic: Topical Gaming Strip | |
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News: Topical Gaming Strip | Tycho: With two analog sticks, two triggers, a d-pad, four face buttons, two cameras, and front and back trackpads, it's entirely possible that you... | |
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News: Dickwolves | Gabe: It’s true that we have decided to remove the Dickwolves shirt from the store. Some people are happy about this but a lot more of you ar... | |
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News: I Am Learning So Much About Shoes You Guys | Tycho: For example, collating your feedback thus far, we have arrived at a low-cut, sleek skate-type shoe with a "cupsole" style "outsole." The sid... | |
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Comic: Bedevilment | New Comic: Bedevilment | |
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News: Bedevilment | Tycho: I'm spending more time on the PC than I have in a very long time, and it's a policy I can't help but maintain - my Steam list is full of ord... | |
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News: Live Nude Drawing! | Gabe: Drawing today's strip Live: | |
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Comic: Inner Wealth | New Comic: Inner Wealth | |
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News: Inner Wealth | Tycho: If it is possible to be happier with the opening sequence of Dead Space 2, I'm not entirely sure how that would happen. Having returned from... | |
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News: We Need Enforcers! | Gabe: PAX East is shaping up to be a huge show this year and it looks like we could use some more Enforcers. If you’d like to join a truly am... | |
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News: A New World Record | Tycho: This strip is less true than the one previous, because as much as we might be curious about getting our armies on some random table and smas... | |
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Comic: A New World Record | New Comic: A New World Record | |
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Comic: Imagine My Surprise | New Comic: Imagine My Surprise | |
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News: Imagine My Surprise | Tycho: It's all true. I showed it to Gabriel, against my own better judgement, who quickly made it his wallpaper. Shortly thereafter he brought in ... | |
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News: Shooz | Tycho: I mentioned it before, but we are starving for data. Well, maybe not starving, because we have a lot. But we want more! If... | |
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News: The Five Stages Of Grief | Tycho: Gabriel's World of Warcraft account got hacked, which (as a practical matter) means that this guild got hacked, and the deep vault of its gu... | |
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Comic: The Five Stages Of Grief | New Comic: The Five Stages Of Grief | |
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News: Dickerdoodle Winners | Gabe: Sorry for the delay but I have finally chosen this year's Dickerdoodle winners. After sorting through hundreds of entries I believe this is m... | |
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Comic: Where The Toys Are, Part Three | New Comic: Where The Toys Are, Part Three | |
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News: Where The Toys Are, Part Three | Tycho: So, provided that you hold assertions A and B to be true, where A and B equal a) you want to play hobby games b) you want to buy them from a... | |
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News: Where The Toys Are, Part Two | Tycho: I want to emphasize that when you lay eyes on the entity in today's strip, really take him in, that he is a real person and we are not makin... | |
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News: Precipice Epilogue | Tycho: Here it is, the last chunk of Episode 3 - Chapter Twenty-Two, Epilogue For A Universe. I'm very sad to be done with it. But I'm ... | |
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Comic: Where The Toys Are, Part Two | New Comic: Where The Toys Are, Part Two | |
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News: Shoe Design (Help Ussss!) | Tycho: Robert asked me if I wanted some shoes, and I said yes - then, things got complicated. Put succinctly, there is a methodology by which we ca... | |
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News: Where The Toys Are, Part One | Tycho: There's a shop Gabriel frequents for his tabletop needs, even though... well, we'll go into it. I feel strongly that the Hobby Shop as a con... | |
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Comic: Where The Toys Are, Part One | New Comic: Where The Toys Are, Part One | |
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Comic: The Perils Of Lineage | New Comic: The Perils Of Lineage | |
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News: The Perils Of Lineage | Tycho: We're staunch enthusiasts of Chair's Infinity Blade, by which I mean Infinity Blade. It's almost ridiculously suited "for mobile," equally f... | |
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Comic: The Globfather, Part Three | New Comic: The Globfather, Part Three | |
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News: The Globfather, Part Three | Tycho: I hope that someday, when people describe a personal arc studded with hubris (and, potentially, taut pustules) they will describe it as crun... | |
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Comic: The Globfather, Part Two | New Comic: The Globfather, Part Two | |
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News: The Globfather, Part Two | Tycho: The bleak saga of Dr. Jacob Crunchner continues, and if I had to guess, I would say that there is probably one more strip to wring out of it... | |
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News: Precipice Chapter Nineteen | Tycho: Is now awailable. (CW)TB | |
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Comic: The Globfather | New Comic: The Globfather | |
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News: The Globfather | Tycho: People have a kind of reflexive, ironic kata when it comes to the word Orwellian. I can't blame them completely for this reaction, as the te... | |
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Comic: A Good Start | New Comic: A Good Start | |
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News: A Good Start | Tycho: New year's resomolutions are a tricky business, as recidivism and moral inertia are man's natural state. But I think I've got one I ca... | |
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News: Precipice Chapter Eighteen | Tycho: Is available here. It's been a hell of a week; you'll see some of what I've been up to in Friday's Blamimation. (CW)TB | |
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News: Some Dungeon Master stuff | Gabe: I mentioned a while ago that I was going to put my regular D&D game on hold to try something different for a bit. I was feeling a bit bur... | |
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Comic: With Apologies To Wilde | New Comic: With Apologies To Wilde | |
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News: With Apologies To Wilde | Tycho: Monday night has morphed into some runaway Guy's Night anachronism, but if living in the walled complex of this cliche means that I can (wit... | |
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News: The Usurper | Tycho: Christmas Debriefing. This was easily the most Adult Christmas that I've ever experienced. I got a juicer, which does not indicate youthful ... | |
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Comic: The Usurper | New Comic: The Usurper | |
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News: My take on the comic | Gabe: I’ve always thought it was interesting that in the comic, Tycho maintains his atheism in spite of the fact that he hangs out with Jesus... | |
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News: Heartwarming-Ass New Penny Arcade Television | Tycho: We got that holiday shit, yo. (CW)TB | |
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Comic: Dropping The Science | New Comic: Dropping The Science | |
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News: Dropping The Science | Tycho: The strip is probably the only place he and I can discuss religion without getting into a fistfight. His concern (generally speaking) ... | |
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News: It's Got To Come Out | Tycho: As I've already suggested, TRON: Legacy contains within it a host of discrete films, and positions you can take, so that at the culmination ... | |
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Comic: It's Got To Come Out | New Comic: It's Got To Come Out | |
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News: New PATV Today | Tycho: What the what? Back to back videozzz? I know! It's crazy. | |
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Comic: Lamentations | New Comic: Lamentations | |
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News: Lamentations | Tycho: There is a pretty awesome article over at Comics Alliance about some of the casting in Thor, specifically the black casting, because blackit... | |
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News: Also, Don't Forget Your Penny Arcade Television | Tycho: New episode today. Where do your shirts and other Penny Arcade things come from? They come from here. (CW)TB | |
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News: Don't Forget-Dickerdoodles 2010 | Gabe: You didn’t think I forgot did you? Well actually I did forget. But you all reminded me soooooo, it's Dickerdoodle time again! Th... | |
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News: A Priori | Tycho: With the WoW Glider case having been examined on appeal, the legal furor between Activision Blizzard and the makers of the automation tool i... | |
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Comic: A Priori | New Comic: A Priori | |
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News: Precipice (Updated) | Tycho: Every time I scroll down the page, I'm surprised to see a cat with its dick out. Every time. Anyway, new Precipice. (And ... | |
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News: Last day for free upgraded shipping! | Gabe: ** Today is the last day to take advantage of our free priority shipping deal. That means you need to order from us today if you want to get ... | |
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News: Precipice Tomorrow | Tycho: I gotta wrap up Book 7 today, or Robert will eat my trachea. Tomorrow, tomorrow. (CW)TB | |
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News: Dickerdoodles 2010 | Gabe: You didn’t think I forgot did you? Well actually I did forget. But you all reminded me soooooo, it's Dickerdoodle time again! Th... | |
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Comic: Things, Part Two | New Comic: Things, Part Two | |
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News: Things, Part Two | Tycho: My cohort feels bad about his regular Monday game going on hiatus - I would submit - because he hasn't seen or run enough tables to know tha... | |
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News: Precpice | Tycho: Every time I scroll down the page, I'm surprised to see a cat with its dick out. Every time. Anyway, new Precipice. Oh, a... | |
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News: DMF | Gabe: As Tycho mentioned above I I have decided to take a break from my normal Monday night game. Two years ago this month I approached my friends ... | |
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News: Free priority shipping! | Gabe: If you are like me you probably wait until the very last minute to do your Christmas shopping. We’ve got a special offer going for proc... | |
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Comic: The Things We Do For Love | New Comic: The Things We Do For Love | |
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News: The Things We Do For Love | Tycho: Last week, I listened as a depleted Gabriel made a startling admission. I'm surprised it took as long as it did, to be honest: for two years... | |
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News: New PATV | Tycho: There is a new 4th Panel, which details the creation of this strip. (CW)TB | |
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News: Greed Corp For PC | Tycho: I loved this game on XBLA, where the available demo let me learn the game at my leisure and without an investment. I hope they add a d... | |
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Comic: Wolf Of The Year | New Comic: Wolf Of The Year | |
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News: Wolf Of The Year | Tycho: I have thus far managed to avoid the swirling vortex of Cataclysm, even as my friends disappear into it one by one. They do make it hard, th... | |
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News: Denizens Of San Francisco: Umloud Is Tonight | Tycho: Tonight, God dammit! toniiiiiiiight (CW)TB | |
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News: Last Day For Standard Shipping | Tycho: On our store, I mean. That's what Robert is telling me. (CW)TB | |
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News: Thursday is the Last Day For Standard Shipping | Tycho: On our store, I mean. That's what Robert is telling me. (CW)TB | |
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News: Teef | Tycho: I suspect that when it comes to fathers and sons, it would be easier to count the truths than the lies. Just this morning, Elliot wanted to ... | |
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News: Precipice Chapter Fifteen | Tycho: Heading downtown to the Child's Play dinner now, tux in tow, but I just uploaded the next bit. (CW)TB | |
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Comic: Teef | New Comic: Teef | |
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News: Deck The Walls | Tycho: We are really big fans of Kiko's "Twisp Argyle" design, which is on hoodies and shirts for girls and boys. Such big fans, in fact, that we b... | |
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Comic: Clarity | New Comic: Clarity | |
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News: Clarity | Tycho: The last time my father left, for real this time, the legal document that came to define our relationship decreed that I had to go there eve... | |
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News: Penny Arcade Cases For iPhone 4 (!) | Tycho: Our friend Jeremy Chung (who makes a cameo in this episode of PATV) wanted to know if he could make some Penny Arcade cases for the iPhone 4... | |
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Comic: Do Not Want | New Comic: Do Not Want | |
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News: Do Not Want | Tycho: When everybody discovers a new wargame at the same time, there's an atmosphere of sharing that accompanies it; everyone is curious about wha... | |
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News: Ha! | Tycho: I'm writing the notes for our seventh compilation at the moment, which means heading back through a year I only dimply remember. It ma... | |
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News: Tis the season...to buy shit | Gabe: I apologize if you are sick and or tired of hearing about our fabulous wares but it must me done. You will find many people online questionin... | |
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Comic: A New Spin On An Old Favorite | New Comic: A New Spin On An Old Favorite | |
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News: A New Spin On An Old Favorite | Tycho: Every year at the Child's Play Dinner (sold out, or I'd make that text a link) we auction an appearance in the strip that sometimes culminat... | |
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News: Cyber Monday (?) | Tycho: We have a store which has things in it - things you may buy. Limited edition Jim Darkmagic Portraits and Book Six Hard Covers... | |
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News: Fundamentally Accurate | Tycho: Gabriel is under the weather, slipping in and out of consciousness, and his condition has given him terrifying glimpses into the after-now -... | |
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Comic: Fundamentally Accurate | New Comic: Fundamentally Accurate | |
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News: Merchandising! | Gabe: As a young man I worked a series of retail jobs at Toys R Us and then Circuit City. With out a doubt the worst day to work was Black Friday. ... | |
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Comic: Additional Boys | New Comic: Additional Boys | |
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News: Additional Boys | Tycho: There were a few more jinks in reserve. These are aged jinks, comparable to a smoky Gouda. I don't really know what to do with myself when s... | |
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Comic: Gabriel's Home For Lost Boys | New Comic: Gabriel's Home For Lost Boys | |
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News: Gabriel's Home For Lost Boys | Tycho: These jinks are so hi, you'll need an altimeter. The worst part about leaving for Spokane, aside from the Spokane part, which Good God I don... | |
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News: Precipice Chapter Thirteen | Tycho: Is now available. Has been for a little while, actually. Good Lord writing these is fun. (CW)TB | |
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Comic: How It Works | New Comic: How It Works | |
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News: How It Works | Tycho: There's been a rash of new OnLive reviews, based now on the MicroConsole - the standalone bit that hooks directly into a television. You alr... | |
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News: Slam Bolt Scrappers Naming Rights Auction! | Tycho: I just got a mail from Eitan over at Fire Hose Games, who was kind enough to teach me how to play their game Slam Bolt Scrappers at the last... | |
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News: New Penny Arcade Television! | Tycho: Welcome to Season Two. (CW)TB | |
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News: Mount Doom | Tycho: Have you seen the multiplayer for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood? You really, really should. Yeah, sometimes it ends in a pigpile. This is wh... | |
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Comic: Mount Doom | New Comic: Mount Doom | |
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News: Tremendous Child's Play Riches | Tycho: With the kind of pressure I exert in the post for others to donate, I feel a strong compulsion to strike with decisive force. Here's t... | |
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Comic: Prognostication | New Comic: Prognostication | |
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News: Prognostication | Tycho: I keep saying that I'm not going to talk about Kinect anymore, but it's such a comprehensive lozenge of so many ideas that it's kind of irre... | |
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News: Late Precipice (i.e., Shame) | Tycho: My process for this thing is completely fucked, it's devoured the schedule I had and I apologize. There are a ton of excuses I could m... | |
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Comic: Inadvertent Peripherals | New Comic: Inadvertent Peripherals | |
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News: Inadvertent Peripherals | Tycho: Brenna took my Xbox and its grim Observator to a party, and when she returned near midnight, she didn't have it with her. She'd left it at t... | |
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Comic: Holistic Analysis | New Comic: Holistic Analysis | |
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News: Holistic Analysis | Tycho: This a comic about... Well, just read it. It's quick. Until something noteworthy happens, this is probably the last time we'll need to talk ... | |
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News: Penny Arcade: The Series DVD Now Awailable! | Tycho: The pre-orders are going out, and the four disc set is now in stock. 2 Player did a fantastic job with the set, which I feel comfortab... | |
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News: That Tomb Tomb Pow | Tycho: Gabriel tried his hand at running an update of a classic D&D adventure for a group of players for whom 4th Edition is God's edition... | |
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Comic: That Tomb Tomb Pow | New Comic: That Tomb Tomb Pow | |
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News: Poker Night At The Inventory | Tycho: I really like games from Telltale, so there wasn't a tremendous amount of deliberation when they asked to use Tycho in their new Poker Game ... | |
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Comic: Full Circle | New Comic: Full Circle | |
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News: Full Circle | Tycho: We believe, like every cognizant being, that progenitors should arbitrate the media consumption of the organisms they create. In other words... | |
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News: We have a winner! | Gabe: Looks like we will be doing Sand first! Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote. -Gabe out | |
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News: My take on Kinect | Gabe: It’s pretty obvious that Kinect is not for me. Chances are if you’re reading this it’s not for you either. Like Sony with t... | |
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News: PATV = Mega64 | Tycho: As per usual, Mega64 isn't afraid to tackle the tough issues. (CW)TB | |
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Comic: Power Word | New Comic: Power Word | |
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News: Power Word | Tycho: Our experience with Kinect voice commands was odd, powerful, almost unsettling. This is incredibly interesting as a piece of technology, and... | |
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News: Shank Contest Thingamabob | Tycho: Intel is giving away a huge pile of Shank-related stuff, including literal copies of the game Shank for the PC, and you can get your share o... | |
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Comic: Pipe Cleaners, Reimagined | New Comic: Pipe Cleaners, Reimagined | |
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News: Pipe Cleaners, Reimagined | Tycho: When you're first learning a wargame, you might fudge some stuff. Maybe every model isn't, for lack of a better term, "painted." A styrofoam... | |
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News: Time to vote! | Gabe: Today is the day to get out and vote...for your favorite new Penny Arcade comic! Just hit this link and vote for your favorite: Vote here &nb... | |
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News: Voting for your favorite | Gabe: Our weblord Erik is currently on vacation. He’ll get back later this week and we will put up a voting page. Until then re-read the stri... | |
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News: Belruel Wallpaper | Gabe: Our last offering is the Queen of Bells. I’ve had a few requests for a wallpaper of the last panel and I hate to disappoint. (click her... | |
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Comic: Queen Of Bells | New Comic: Queen Of Bells | |
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News: Queen Of Bells | Tycho: A long time ago, I made a song in the game Jam Sessions called My Belruel. The song is more or less about falling in love with your in-game ... | |
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News: Hindsight again | Gabe: In case you missed it yesterday I just wanted to re-post this. We’ve done a lot of work for Bioware in the past and for Dragon Age 2 th... | |
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News: The New Kid comic | Gabe: Being the new kid is hard, being the new kid in a school full of aliens is harder. Tycho mentioned that this one could be the biggest thing w... | |
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Comic: The New Kid | New Comic: The New Kid | |
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News: The New Kid | Tycho: Today's idea: The New Kid. It was The New Kid that catalyzed this round of offerings, and I think that (under the right conditions) The New ... | |
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News: Hindsight | Gabe: We’ve done a lot of work for Bioware in the past and for Dragon Age 2 they actually had us create an in-game item. It’s a magical... | |
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News: Sand comic | Gabe: Like Tycho said we are going to deliver three one page treatments and ask you to vote on your favorite again. The last time we did this we go... | |
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Comic: Sand | New Comic: Sand | |
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News: Sand | Tycho: Much as we did last year, we're seizing the site again for a ridiculous expenditure of your goodwill. Last time out our bizarre genre experi... | |
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News: More Precipice | Tycho: Additional Precipice is yours for the taking, with Chapter Eleven. (CW)TB | |
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News: A Policy Of Conscious Aggression | Tycho: The sloth of today's game designers is revolting. What is the biggest innovation in the last six years of aggregated shooting? Literally, it... | |
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Comic: A Policy Of Conscious Aggression | New Comic: A Policy Of Conscious Aggression | |
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Comic: A Traditional Form | New Comic: A Traditional Form | |
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News: A Traditional Form | Tycho: Gabe had an idea for a comic, and after a nominal attempt to make three panels out of it, it seemed to fit more naturally into the single-pa... | |
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News: Last Day To Preorder The DVD | Tycho: Just like it says! Any of the preorders we receive will be signed by the office, and there's two thousand preordered so far, so that's... | |
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News: quick thoughts on some games | Gabe: I have been playing a lot of different games lately and I figured I should take a minute and share some thoughts. Video Games! Kirby’s ... | |
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Comic: That Constant Refrain | New Comic: That Constant Refrain | |
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News: That Constant Refrain | Tycho: We haven't gotten around to talking about Castlevania: Lords of Shadow yet, but it ain't for lack of love. In fact, it's fair to say th... | |
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Comic: Wool On The Horizon | New Comic: Wool On The Horizon | |
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News: Wool On The Horizon | Tycho: Kirby's Epic Yarn is effective, not merely as an electronic entertainment product but also as a time machine. Videogames often have "physics... | |
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News: Blaminations, On Penny Arcade Television | Tycho: Today on PATV, a new Blamimation, featuring timely returns to your favorite sketchencomedich. (CW)TB | |
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News: For The Blamination | Tycho: Today on PATV, a new Blamimation, featuring timely returns to your favorite sketchencomedich. (CW)TB | |
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News: OMG PATV DVD | Gabe: In case you missed it, our online store is back and we are taking pre-orders for the PATV DVD. If you liked the show then I think you will re... | |
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Comic: A Medically Recognized Condition | New Comic: A Medically Recognized Condition | |
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News: A Medically Recognized Condition | Tycho: Having sons means (among other things) that we can buy things "for" those sons that we might not purchase for ourselves. I think Invizimals ... | |
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News: What A Weird Day | Tycho: DOTA's Icefrog is a bastard? The terrible, true story of Mythic's dissolution? This is the dawning of the age of t... | |
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News: Precipice Chapter Nine | Tycho: More Precipice, and I'm sorry it's late. I usually write these at night, which feels appropriate, but my son, my daughter, and my wife... | |
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News: Gamma World | Gabe: I was able to purchase a copy of Gamma World from a “Premiere Store” near my house last weekend and I ran the game on Monday for ... | |
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Comic: More Things Than Are Dreamt Of | New Comic: More Things Than Are Dreamt Of | |
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News: More Things Than Are Dreamt Of | Tycho: This one hardly needs a preface. Sometimes, the comic is word for word true. The core story in Gabe's regular Monday game is pretty heady st... | |
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Comic: What's Not To Like | New Comic: What's Not To Like | |
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News: What's Not To Like | Tycho: Gabe really does have a bat! A real bat, just hangin' up in the eaves and devourin' thousands of insects every night. You might be surprised... | |
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Comic: The Apex | New Comic: The Apex | |
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News: The Apex | Tycho: Cold Stone is generally a dessert, but it can also be a meal - the one by us will fold forest mushrooms, prosciutto, or Black Forest ham int... | |
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News: Our Store Is Back! | Tycho: Brian has essentially killed himself getting things going, but it's ready for you now. A few noteworthy additions, since it's been awa... | |
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News: Warmachine, Precipice | Tycho: As I mentioned after PAX, it was my great honor to write lyrics and a vocal melody about Warmachine, the thunderous tabletop wargame from Pr... | |
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Comic: Where My Shows At | New Comic: Where My Shows At | |
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News: Where My Shows At | Tycho: Am I the only only one who is this way? I don't know. I sort of like foraging for shows. I like to watch television, but I like watching it ... | |
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Comic: Full Of Twists And Turns | New Comic: Full Of Twists And Turns | |
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News: Full Of Twists And Turns | Tycho: New rumblings about a Myst movie were more or less irresistible as strip material. Now, though, as the most deeply Myst obsessed human being... | |
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News: New Penny Arcade Television | Tycho: PATV! Mega64! New Episode! (CW)TB | |
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News: Comic Jumper Winner! | Gabe: Thanks to everyone who sent in a photo for my Rob Liefeld pose contest. It turns out even Rob Liefeld entered, but I said no photo-shopping s... | |
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Comic: Civilophelia | New Comic: Civilophelia | |
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News: Civilophelia | Tycho: Today's strip isn't terribly far from the conversation we actually had. Dialogue wise. I'd seen his tweet to the effect that he'd discovered... | |
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News: Comic Jumper | Gabe: Comic Jumper is a new game coming out from the guys at Twisted Pixel. We had a chance to play it before PAX and I really liked the con... | |
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Comic: Understanding | New Comic: Understanding | |
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News: Understanding | Tycho: Integrating another human being's unique biology into the office has been a unique proposition. Scott claims that before moving north, nobod... | |
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News: Ex Precipicio | Tycho: Maybe? I don't know really know any Latin. Would that mean I was out of Precipice? Because that shit ain't true. In ... | |
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Comic: Warrants Further Assessment | New Comic: Warrants Further Assessment | |
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News: Warrants Further Assessment | Tycho: Comic related to my cohort's birthday constitute a kind of sub-genre in the greater body of our "work," some are more generalized - like tod... | |
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News: Instruction | Tycho: I sometimes get overwhelmed with only one wife, and only two children. I'm not sure I'm patriarch material. Even so, I should probably make ... | |
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News: Penny Arcade Televisiones | Tycho: Scort and Krasp are back again, on track again, for a segment we like to call Blam Nights. (CW(TB | |
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Comic: Instruction | New Comic: Instruction | |
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News: The Move | Gabe: So I am home sick today and that’s why the strip looks a little strange. I was trying to figure out a way to draw the comic from home w... | |
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Comic: The Fashion Imperative | New Comic: The Fashion Imperative | |
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News: The Fashion Imperative | Tycho: My son and I don't play very many games together. Well, we don't play many videogames; I don't think we've stopped living a kind of game sin... | |
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News: Mine All Mine, Part Two | Tycho: Mine All Mine moves into Phase Two, depicting the savage and repeated "key learnings" this game heaps on you with a quickness. Minecraft is ... | |
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Comic: Mine All Mine, Part Two | New Comic: Mine All Mine, Part Two | |
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Comic: Mine All Mine, Part One | New Comic: Mine All Mine, Part One | |
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News: Mine All Mine, Part One | Tycho: I've been out of the office all week, as some variety of Streptococcus has colonized my wife. I've had to parent full time for three days, j... | |
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Comic: Dotage | New Comic: Dotage | |
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News: Dotage | Tycho: Because we tend to come around for the high point of Halo's arc - in when a new game has been released, all but out before the first map pac... | |
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News: Castle Ravenloft | Gabe: I have had the opportunity to play the new Castle Ravenloft board game a handful of times now and I’m very impressed. We brought it ove... | |
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Comic: The Policy | New Comic: The Policy | |
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News: The Policy | Tycho: This is essentially how I feel about Halo. I can probably count on one hand the number of discrete rounds I've played alone. It would be lik... | |
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Comic: The Eighth Attraction | New Comic: The Eighth Attraction | |
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News: The Eighth Attraction | Tycho: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions knows what it is, and doesn't try to convince you otherwise: it's fanservice, served neat in a highball gla... | |
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News: Today, On Penny Arcade Television | Tycho: Blams! We've got them, hot and fresh. Savor them! Or it. There's just the one. (CW)TB | |
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News: More Penny Arcade Stuffs | Tycho: There was new Penny Arcade Television last week, but some stuff came up, and I forgot to link it. So here it is: VG Fack Checker... | |
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News: The Trenches | Gabe: Obviously the biggest announcement of PAX this year was Duke Nukem Forever. There was another announcement though that you might have missed.... | |
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News: The Wager | Tycho: Frequently during panels at the Penny Arcade Expo our own Gabriel will receive compliments on his work. This is as it should be; the visual ... | |
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Comic: The Wager | New Comic: The Wager | |
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Comic: The Lucifex | New Comic: The Lucifex | |
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News: The Lucifex | Tycho: You might recall that during the last PAX on the west coast, I had to leave because (much to my great surprise) a human being was trying to ... | |
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News: Mouth Rituals Exposed | Tycho: It's pretty incredible where young people draw the line between which which things are impossible and things which are made possible by inex... | |
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Comic: Mouth Rituals Exposed | New Comic: Mouth Rituals Exposed | |
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Comic: The Ultimatum | New Comic: The Ultimatum | |
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News: The Ultimatum | Tycho: We kept thinking about the Xbox Live price hike as the week went on, trying to divine its purpose, and came up with a big ol' goose egg. And... | |
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Comic: Remove Sandals (0/2) | New Comic: Remove Sandals (0/2) | |
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News: Remove Sandals (0/2) | Tycho: The Bible Online, right? Where has this thing been? As a setting, we've emphasized on multiple occasions that the Bible is woefully underuti... | |
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News: Another Star Wars Political Cartoon | Gabe: Here is another of our Star Wars Political Cartoons: -Gabe out Tweet | |
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News: Blamimation Nights | Tycho: There's a new Blamimation in town. Well, there's a new Blamimation, but there's also a whole new way to experience them - Blamimation ... | |
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News: Skullkickers | Tycho: We've known Jim Zubkavich for a long time, and in a way, you probably know him too - his art is everywhere. He's a webcomics pioneer, ... | |
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News: Meet Your Omeganauts | Tycho: The wardrums have already begun to pound, and if you are able to interpret the message encoded deep in their rhythm, you'll hear a tale of w... | |
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Comic: Room 418 | New Comic: Room 418 | |
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News: Room 418 | Tycho: We saw an incredible Craigslist ad when we were getting ready to write the strip, an ad which quickly became the strip we were trying to mak... | |
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News: Let's go to the phones! | Gabe: I have gotten almost 300 responses so far! There is simply no way I can post all the great mails I am getting. Here is are a few that echo wh... | |
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News: Let's talk about this... | Gabe: My Twitter and my email are both exploding today. People on both sides of the used game debate arer crazy passionate about this. If Penny Arc... | |
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Comic: Words And Their Meanings | New Comic: Words And Their Meanings | |
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News: Words And Their Meanings | Tycho: I had a different reaction to the "fightin' words" of THQ's Cory Ledesma than most. I have a different reaction to lots of things, probably.... | |
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News: D&D Essentials | Gabe: I received an early copy of the new Dungeons and Dragons Red Box last week and quickly wrangled a group of friends for a trial run. The game ... | |
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Comic: Traditional Values | New Comic: Traditional Values | |
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News: Traditional Values | Tycho: You might have heard of D&D Essentials already; I don't really know what to think of it yet. Billed as a streamlined yet compatible vers... | |
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Comic: Creationism | New Comic: Creationism | |
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News: Creationism | Tycho: Nobody likes artists, and who can blame them? When they aren't challenging your preconceptions or whatever, or renouncing the boundary betwe... | |
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Comic: The RIAAl World | New Comic: The RIAAl World | |
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News: The RIAAl World | Tycho: As is often the case, you can read a truncated, insulting version of a story somewhere else or you can go to Ars Technica. What we say in th... | |
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News: Precipice | Tycho: Colloquially, people either refer to it as Precipice or Rainslick. Does that mean something, I wonder? Is one of these types of ... | |
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News: Lego Creationary | Gabe: My son is a convicted Lego Maniac. This weekend we were at Toys R Us and saw a game called Creationary which looked pretty much like Pictiona... | |
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Comic: Something Which Actually Happens | New Comic: Something Which Actually Happens | |
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News: Something Which Actually Happens | Tycho: Attempting to experience as broad a swath of the medium as I can - to maximize my usefulness to you, but also, you know, video games - it's ... | |
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News: Tragedy is when I cut my finger. | Gabe: What surprised me most about some of the reactions to our Dickwolf joke was not that people were offended. But that this was the comic that o... | |
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Comic: Breaking It Down | New Comic: Breaking It Down | |
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News: Breaking It Down | Tycho: Reaction to Wednesday's comic fell, conveniently for my purpose, into two camps: those who found a phrase like "raped by dickwolves" a stunn... | |
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Comic: The Sixth Slave | New Comic: The Sixth Slave | |
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News: The Sixth Slave | Tycho: Something that is discussed with some frequency around here is how the quickly an MMO reverts to its default state, ready for the next bus-f... | |
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News: On The Rainslick Precipice Of Darkness | Tycho: Episode 3 starts NOW. It updates on Tuesdays, more if I can, but always on Tuesday. (CW)TB | |
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News: In Too Deep | Tycho: There are multiple ways to watch Inception, just as there are multiple ways to see it. It has that "movie-as-game" process of narrative deta... | |
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Comic: In Too Deep | New Comic: In Too Deep | |
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Comic: The Reptile Of Choice | New Comic: The Reptile Of Choice | |
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News: The Reptile Of Choice | Tycho: Gabriel finished his last book during the San Diego trip, and so he's been on the prowl for a new one, which is always a dangerous time. The... | |
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Comic: The Armageddon Doctrine | New Comic: The Armageddon Doctrine | |
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News: The Armageddon Doctrine | Tycho: Did you know that there was a time when our website played host to comics of a "humorous" nature, japes of a merry sort, which dealt with po... | |
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News: Strip's Up | Tycho: And it can be found here. (CW)TB | |
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News: We're Closing Down The Store (Not Forever!) | Tycho: We decided to get our own warehouse up here in Seattle, for lots of reasons, but primarily to have after-hours shootouts with The Triads. &n... | |
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News: Blood And Oil, Part Five | Tycho: The Blood and Oil have finally run out in this, the fifth chapter. What a tremendous amount of fun that was, and we must all thank Ben Caldw... | |
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Comic: Blood And Oil, Part Five | New Comic: Blood And Oil, Part Five | |
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News: Child's Play And PATV Stuff | Tycho: Child's Play is incredibly vast, so vast that - even though Gabriel and I ostensibly created it - it extends far beyond our influence. That'... | |
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Comic: Blood And Oil, Part Four | New Comic: Blood And Oil, Part Four | |
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News: Blood And Oil, Part Four | Tycho: Blood And Oil. Part Four. One more to go. I met a guy from DigiPen many years ago - eventually he quit the school, but found his way into th... | |
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News: Blood And Oil, Part Three | Tycho: I've got more blood for you, and also more oil, in the ongoing series we're calling Blood And Oil - here's part three. This is a guest work;... | |
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Comic: Blood And Oil, Part Three | New Comic: Blood And Oil, Part Three | |
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News: P To The A To The T And Also V | Tycho: The new Episode of PATV went up on Friday, but I forgot to link it, because my mind body connection had been severed. It is good,... | |
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News: Blood And Oil, Part Two | Tycho: It may be wise if, going forward, you think of the ongoing Blood & Oil series as something which needs to slow roast; the strip wil... | |
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Comic: Blood And Oil, Part Two | New Comic: Blood And Oil, Part Two | |
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News: Blood And Oil, Part One | Tycho: Today marks the debut of a guest Automata "event," drawn by the incomparable Ben Caldwell and "Book of Eli" scribe Gary Whitta. We don't hav... | |
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Comic: Blood And Oil, Part One | New Comic: Blood And Oil, Part One | |
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Comic: The S Word | New Comic: The S Word | |
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News: The S Word | Tycho: The room scenario described in the strip is brutally mega-real. My response was to haul out the big guns. Actually, it's my policy to levera... | |
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News: Planting A Flag | Tycho: Gabriel specializes in names like "Mantis Eaglehawk," that is to say, names that puncture the carefully calibrated drama of their setting. H... | |
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Comic: Planting A Flag | New Comic: Planting A Flag | |
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News: Here's The Stuff We're Bringing To San Diego | Tycho: Seriously, all kinds of shit. We've got the new Mosey shirt, Wolfman/Dracula, some some new Automata stuff as well. A... | |
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News: New PATV For That Ass | Tycho: It's a 4th Panel, and it's more or less about what happens when things go wrong. (CW)TB | |
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Comic: This Would Actually Be Rad | New Comic: This Would Actually Be Rad | |
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News: This Would Actually Be Rad | Tycho: This holiday's Harry Potter offering forgoes the Grand Theft Hogwarts/campus crawling adventure for something like <"http://kotaku.com/55... | |
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News: PAX PRIME! | Gabe: I had a dream the other night that we decided to hold PAX in a huge field this year. It seemed like a good idea for some reason but when we g... | |
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Comic: Duplicity | New Comic: Duplicity | |
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News: Duplicity | Tycho: When Christian Bale was recorded in the middle of some kind of aggressive territorial display, we queued it up expressly to be titillated bu... | |
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Comic: Our Partial Future | New Comic: Our Partial Future | |
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News: Our Partial Future | Tycho: I don't know exactly how prevalent "Sony Style" stores are. I know of exactly one in my town, and one in another town. If you have one close... | |
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News: Blam! Blam! As In Blamimation | Tycho: What I think is probably the best, best, best Blamimation yet can be found by clicking here. (CW)TB | |
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News: Blizzard Partially Retreats | Tycho: As seen here. You should be careful about any kind of celebration, though: the third paragraph tells you why. They're still tying incr... | |
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Comic: The Grim Curriculum | New Comic: The Grim Curriculum | |
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News: The Grim Curriculum | Tycho: Blizzard's RealID thing didn't make any sense to me, but that's because I was relying on the official message to get a sense of it's purpose... | |
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News: The Butcher's Bill, Part Two | Tycho: Oh, I remember what we were talking about, prior to our dark fugue: Laurell K. Hamilton. Okay, yeah. That explains all this, then. You're sa... | |
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Comic: The Butcher's Bill, Part Two | New Comic: The Butcher's Bill, Part Two | |
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Comic: The Butcher's Bill, Part One | New Comic: The Butcher's Bill, Part One | |
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News: The Butcher's Bill, Part One | Tycho: Gabriel and I were talking, about something - I forget what - when we fell into a black slumber. Through the sludge of our waking stupor, we... | |
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News: Penny Arcade Television | Tycho: Would you like some of that? Because we have a new episode. No, really! (CW)TB | |
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Comic: Twisp & Catsby in: Der Dorbelgorbel | New Comic: Twisp & Catsby in: Der Dorbelgorbel | |
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News: Twisp & Catsby in: Der Dorbelgorbel | Tycho: We put the word out - technically, a chirp - regarding what people might like to see in a comic. That is a rare request, truly, but while we... | |
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News: D&D in the Elemental Chaos part 2 | Gabe: In my last news post I talked about how I actually built the planets for my Elemental Chaos encounter. In this post I’ll talk a little ... | |
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Comic: Incredible Savings | New Comic: Incredible Savings | |
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News: Incredible Savings | Tycho: It never ceases to amaze me how much better at this Sony is. This is something Microsoft doesn't understand well, to the extent they underst... | |
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News: D&D in the Elemental Chaos part 1 | Gabe: If you saw my Twitter last night you know that I ran a pretty crazy game of D&D. My players ended up int he Elemental Chaos, a place call... | |
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Comic: The Sound Of A Klaxon | New Comic: The Sound Of A Klaxon | |
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News: The Sound Of A Klaxon | Tycho: I did my best to warn him, but he's quite certain that The Deck of Many Things has a place in his campaign. On this point, we don't entirely... | |
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News: The Shipment | Tycho: I called an Apple Store, just for kicks, to see how things were going during the launch, and if he thought they might have any phones ever. ... | |
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Comic: The Shipment | New Comic: The Shipment | |
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News: Our Jpeg | Gabe: So yeah...how about those poop jokes. I guess at the very least it is not unprecedented. I made a pretty major change to the rules in my D&am... | |
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Comic: Redolent With Spices | New Comic: Redolent With Spices | |
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News: Redolent With Spices | Tycho: This was an authentic series of text messages sent to me by Gabriel. I would take a picture of it, but I would have to use my own phone to d... | |
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Comic: Secreting Digestive Ichor | New Comic: Secreting Digestive Ichor | |
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News: Secreting Digestive Ichor | Tycho: Kinect, being an onyx lozenge bristling with a combination of sensing "eyes" and licking "beams," has an inherent Fear Quotient (FQ). It gen... | |
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Comic: The Brute Force Method | New Comic: The Brute Force Method | |
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News: The Brute Force Method | Tycho: How is possible that I'd never played Words With Friends? I'd heard of it, of course, but it's not quite enough to say that it is Scrabble o... | |
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News: Live Nude Drawing | Gabe: I am drawing today's comic right now. You can watch if you want. Free Videos by Ustream.TV | |
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News: Let's Get Ready To Rummmmbllllle | Tycho: Just as in years past, we submit a distillation of the Big Three Briefings. This E3 has been difficult to observe usefully from afar, becaus... | |
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Comic: Let's Get Ready To Rummmmbllllle | New Comic: Let's Get Ready To Rummmmbllllle | |
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News: Some Junk | Gabe: I just wanted to drop a reminder that I have collected a bunch of my D&D posts on one page. You can also grab my adventure "Dusk" there. ... | |
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News: Anguish Vinegarette | Tycho: I feel bad for the models that work expo halls. Maybe it's better than other kinds of day work, I wouldn't know. I try to avoid making eye c... | |
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Comic: Anguish Vinegarette | New Comic: Anguish Vinegarette | |
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Comic: Project Hatesphere | New Comic: Project Hatesphere | |
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News: Project Hatesphere | Tycho: The "Mortal Kombat Rebirth" short exists in that continuum that appends gravitas to fundamentally ridiculous subject matter by attempting to... | |
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News: RvB Community Auctions for Child's Play! | Tycho: Over drinks with some of the staff last night, they wanted to make sure I knew about some incredible auctions the group had put together. &n... | |
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Comic: An Inside Job | New Comic: An Inside Job | |
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News: An Inside Job | Tycho: We were trying to imagine what it looks like backstage when there is a Technology Problem - capital T, capital P - during an iPhone announce... | |
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News: Funny idea | Gabe: While I was feeding the baby this morning at five a.m. I had an idea. What if Coruscant had a newspaper? What would their stupid political ca... | |
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News: Dusk | Gabe: I have collected all my D&D posts in one place. I've also uploaded my D&D adventure Dusk to the same site. You can check out all my o... | |
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Comic: Faire Thee Well | New Comic: Faire Thee Well | |
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News: Faire Thee Well | Tycho: In the manner of today's hottest reality programs, I need to inform you that the story you are about to read is entirely true. Historically ... | |
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News: New Showwww | Tycho: We've got a new episode of Penny Arcade: The Series up today, about Dungeons & Dragons. It touches on a number of themes ... | |
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Comic: The Universal Analogy | New Comic: The Universal Analogy | |
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News: The Universal Analogy | Tycho: I'm fairly certain that playing videogames has given me unrealistic expectations when it comes to solving real problems. Independent of the ... | |
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News: D&D and Drawing | Gabe: On Memorial Day I ran a D&D game with my friend Alex. It was a special game for the wives of my players and Kurtz. The girls tend to like... | |
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News: Robert Wants To Know Something | Tycho: I'll let him tell you: "We’re looking for a film crew and producer located in the Seattle area for a new project to launch later in th... | |
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Comic: Your Definition Headquarters | New Comic: Your Definition Headquarters | |
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News: Your Definition Headquarters | Tycho: I tend to like a little wiggle room in my narratives. I don't like to know absolutely everything, and often what I come up with on my own I ... | |
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Comic: Hot With Heat | New Comic: Hot With Heat | |
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News: Hot With Heat | Tycho: Split/Second - I will honor them by maintaining the slash - is an incredibly solid product. You can play the demo as many times as I did, wh... | |
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Comic: Everything You Need To Know About Blur | New Comic: Everything You Need To Know About Blur | |
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News: Everything You Need To Know About Blur | Tycho: Blur is marvelous, even though these might as well be real power-ups. IGN delivered as much savagery as the game is likely to receive in rev... | |
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News: Some things you can buy if you want | Gabe: If you have not checked out the Penny Arcade store recently you should. I say that because, when you buy things from the store we get the mon... | |
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Comic: We've Got To Get To The Jamba Juice | New Comic: We've Got To Get To The Jamba Juice | |
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News: We've Got To Get To The Jamba Juice | Tycho: I played through Alan Wake prior to the actual release, before much was made of its fairly vigorous "promotional consideration." I've alread... | |
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News: Never, Ever Press B | Tycho: Gabriel thinks that he might be done with Red Dead Redemption already, and it won't be the first time I've taken a save we've created togeth... | |
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Comic: Never, Ever Press B | New Comic: Never, Ever Press B | |
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News: playlist | Gabe: Here are some quick thoughts about the games I've been playing recently: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands: I've devoted the last two nig... | |
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Comic: The Wince of Persia | New Comic: The Wince of Persia | |
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News: The Wince Of Persia | Tycho: I just put Forgotten Sands to bed, last night around nine or so. It's strange, in a way, but maybe we shouldn't wonder when a series about t... | |
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News: Mailbag | Gabe: A PA reader and medic stationed just outside Baghdad sent me a mail this week asking about how I run my D&D games via Email. It just so h... | |
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News: Day One Purchase | Tycho: Red Dead Redemption sat next to my keyboard all day yesterday, face down, and I frequently stole glances at the screens printed on the back.... | |
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Comic: Day One Purchase | New Comic: Day One Purchase | |
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Comic: My Pedipalps! | New Comic: My Pedipalps! | |
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News: My Pedipalps! | Tycho: I am occasionally coaxed back into Azeroth, or into its battle-scarred adjunct The Outland, and each time I return to a bank full of mysteri... | |
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News: Das Printenpacken | Tycho: We decided to put a few of packs together of the full-page storylines, in case you want to have ridiculously beautiful versions of stuff lik... | |
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News: Oh No The Sun | Tycho: We put together another Dungeons and Dragons podcast on Wednesday, this time devoted to the resurgent Dark Sun setting. This round saw me be... | |
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Comic: Oh No The Sun | New Comic: Oh No The Sun | |
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News: I am back! | Gabe: Well I'm back at the office after my paternity leave. It was great being home with the new baby for a couple of weeks. I have to say the seco... | |
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Comic: Au Lait S'il Vous Plait | New Comic: Au Lait S'il Vous Plait | |
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News: Au Lait S'il Vous Plait | Tycho: Scott lives up here now, and not just lives up here but works up here, and when I say "up here" I don't mean the Greater Seattle Metro Area ... | |
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News: Frostmourning | Tycho: Only three panels? No beautiful colors by Steve Hamaker? No rad letters by Erica Greco? I suppose it will have to do. Strong topic, though. ... | |
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Comic: Frostmourning | New Comic: Frostmourning | |
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News: New Episode Of Penny Arcade: The Series | Tycho: It's true! There's a whole episode about the Time 100 stuff, if you're interested. (CW)TB | |
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Comic: A Boy Must Learn, Part Six | New Comic: A Boy Must Learn, Part Six | |
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News: A Boy Must Learn, Part Six | Tycho: The last page of Lookouts: A Boy Must Learn is here. At least, for now. Next time in, sooner than later I hope, we'll deal with The Daughter... | |
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Comic: A Boy Must Learn, Part Five | New Comic: A Boy Must Learn, Part Five | |
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News: A Boy Must Learn, Part Five | Tycho: Just two more pages of Lookouts to go, and here is the first of them. This is the fantasy equivalent of the bonus round, where all points ar... | |
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Comic: A Boy Must Learn, Part Four | New Comic: A Boy Must Learn, Part Four | |
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News: A Boy Must Learn, Part Four | Tycho: Lookouts? Oh, yes. There is more. I can remember being in church with my mother, where it was suggested that I ought to fear the Lord my God... | |
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Comic: A Boy Must Learn, Part Three | New Comic: A Boy Must Learn, Part Three | |
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News: A Boy Must Learn, Part Three | Tycho: Lookouts continues, and Gabriel keeps nailing it. Please don't tell him I said so. I have (en Twittre, and elsewhere) received a healthy vol... | |
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News: PAX 10 Submissions Open | Tycho: If you are rocking it in an indie style, and what you are doing is truly badical, we want very much to hear from you. Every year we of... | |
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Comic: A Boy Must Learn, Part Two | New Comic: A Boy Must Learn, Part Two | |
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News: A Boy Must Learn, Part Two | Tycho: Look out! It's the, um... Lookouts. Listen, I'm trying here. If you have a mind to run a game similar to Lookouts at the table, either with ... | |
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News: Processor Auction For Child's Play | Tycho: One of many incredible memories from PAX East involved a processor giveaway. The guys from the Intel booth gave us a pretty motherfuck... | |
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Comic: A Boy Must Learn, Part One | New Comic: A Boy Must Learn, Part One | |
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News: A Boy Must Learn, Page One | Tycho: While we were at PAX East, a time which is at once incomprehensibly ancient and yet concurrent with the now, we suggested to attendees that ... | |
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News: A Boy Must Learn, Part One | Tycho: While we were at PAX East, a time which is at once incomprehensibly ancient and yet concurrent with the now, we suggested to attendees that ... | |
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News: Teaser For Monday | Tycho: | |
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News: Ja, Das Ist Der PATV Einschluss | Tycho: We'll have something set up soon that will automatically update you when this happens, but for now, we have a channel called PATV and there ... | |
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Comic: I Try To Tell Heem | New Comic: I Try To Tell Heem | |
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News: I Try To Tell Heem | Tycho: Is he actually listening to me when I say things? I'm perpetually trying to enrich that motherfucker, but it's like he ain't want to be enri... | |
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News: Games are art | Gabe: I get mail every day asking us to weigh in on this Roger Ebert thing. It's really not worth getting worked up about in my opinion. Of course ... | |
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News: Again With The Art Stuff | Tycho: There are many, many replies to Roger Ebert's reeking ejaculate, from measured Judo-inspired reversals of momentum to primal shrieks which c... | |
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Comic: Again With The Art Stuff | New Comic: Again With The Art Stuff | |
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Comic: Machinations | New Comic: Machinations | |
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News: Machinations | Tycho: The story in the new Splinter Cell is of the International Intrigue variety, and by the time events have reached their culmination, every se... | |
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Comic: They Are Genuinely Interested | New Comic: They Are Genuinely Interested | |
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News: They Are Genuinely Interested | Tycho: Splinter Cell: Conviction has virtues, and we may even get around to discussing them, but "incessant guard dialogue" is not among them. Thes... | |
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News: PA Scholarship | Gabe: I'm happy to announce that the application for the 2010 Penny Arcade Scholarship is now online. Every year we here at PA give away $10,000 to... | |
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Comic: Purgatory | New Comic: Purgatory | |
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News: Purgatory | Tycho: I don't think I'll ever get back to Final Fantasy, now. Typically when I crush a game between my molars, making it a vessel for my rage, I e... | |
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News: The Ides Of Harsh | Tycho: I've been asked before why we haven't "weighed in" on the Infinity Ward/Activision lawsuit, and the main reason (I would say) is that it is ... | |
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Comic: The Ides Of Harsh | New Comic: The Ides Of Harsh | |
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Comic: A Matter Of When | New Comic: A Matter Of When | |
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News: A Matter Of When | Tycho: It's likely situated at a point somewhere below your comment threshold, but there is a kind of holy war occurring in Star Wars canon. With t... | |
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News: OD&D | Gabe: Many of you approached me during PAX East to thank me for the D&D news posts I make. As a DM I know how hard it can be to find inspiratio... | |
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Comic: By Way Of Explanation | New Comic: By Way Of Explanation | |
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News: By Way Of Explanation | Tycho: One deficit an electronic reader has over printed media, and this is only a factor if you've been in the air as much as we have lately, is t... | |
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News: JJGO SHOW | Gabe: So You might remember a while back we talked about our disastrous appearance on the Jordan Jesse Go Show. It was a real clusterfuck of misund... | |
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News: PAX Preregistration Is Open | Tycho: We just opened it up for the west coast PAX, which we call PAX Prime internally, because we think it evokes a gigantic robot. Maybe we... | |
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Comic: Penny Arcade (by Kate Beaton) | New Comic: Penny Arcade (by Kate Beaton) | |
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News: Penny Arcade (by Kate Beaton) | Tycho: Kate Beaton is, among other things, an organism - and she's good at it. That is to say, she's good at being. She's got a ton of autonomous p... | |
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News: My day off | Gabe: I am taking the day off to recover from PAX East and the book tour. So far I've played a lot of Lego Star Wars with my son and worked on my D... | |
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Comic: Penny Arcade (By Erika Moen) | New Comic: Penny Arcade (By Erika Moen) | |
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News: Penny Arcade (by Erika Moen) | Tycho: There was a point after PAX East had come to a close and the second leg of our book tour was underway that we began to understand we had fuc... | |
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Comic: Friends, Romans, Countrymen | New Comic: Friends, Romans, Countrymen | |
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News: Friends, Romans, Countrymen | Tycho: We spent a substantial amount of time discussing GameCrush this week, trying to discern exactly what was going on there, and I'm not certain... | |
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News: DM 101 | Tycho: The content itself is imprecise - the greatest danger Gabriel's characters are likely to face is literally drowning in their platinum wealth... | |
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Comic: DM 101 | New Comic: DM 101 | |
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Comic: PAXination | New Comic: PAXination | |
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News: PAXination | Tycho: We had a problem with viruses at the last PAX - specifically, they were multiplying inside people's bodies - something this comic attempts t... | |
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Comic: Three-Hee | New Comic: Three-Hee | |
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News: Three-Hee | Tycho: You've got to love Jack Tretton. Well, you don't have to. There's no actual law. Still, though. He's always pulsing with dangerous ene... | |
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News: Matthew 21:22 | Gabe: Click on the thumbnail for a big ass version. -Gabe out | |
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Comic: The God Of Abraham, Isaac, And Jacob | New Comic: The God Of Abraham, Isaac, And Jacob | |
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News: The God of Abraham, Isaac, And Jacob | Tycho: Is it possible for the death of a God to become commonplace? You may find yourself wondering just this, as you reach the latter hours of God... | |
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News: Actually, Speaking Of Kris | Tycho: A new Blamimation is now awailable! There's something every Friday, of course - but today it's them, doing their awesome thing. (CW)TB... | |
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Comic: Subterfuge And Social Media | New Comic: Subterfuge And Social Media | |
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News: Subterfuge And Social Media | Tycho: If there is a bigger Splinter Cell fan than myself, I haven't yet met them; but in their zeal to promote the newest iteration, Ubisoft has c... | |
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Comic: The Progenerator | New Comic: The Progenerator | |
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News: The Progenerator | Tycho: That Pokewalker thing kinda turns my crank. Essentially a pokeball-themed pedometer, your Pokemon reside within - earning experience as you ... | |
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News: Dungeons and Dragons and Theft | Gabe: In my current D&D game my players are exploring a sprawling wilderness full of strange creatures and adventures. Populating this place wi... | |
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News: Final Page Of Dragon Age: Awakening | Tycho: Like so. Nathaniel Howe isn't unlocked on the official site, but for some reason Gametrailers has his intro video if you want slash ne... | |
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News: The Show Of Shows! | Tycho: I was not able to mention a new episode of the show, because of things. But there is a new episode! Of the show, no less! ... | |
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Comic: A Final Fantasy XIII Primer | New Comic: A Final Fantasy XIII Primer | |
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News: A Final Fantasy XIII Primer | Tycho: Kiko and Gabe are here, talking about Final Fantasy XIII, and I am on the absolute periphery of it. Did they receive a different version? Th... | |
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Comic: The Bar Mitzvah | New Comic: The Bar Mitzvah | |
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News: The Bar Mitzvah | Tycho: I've been trying to write this post forever, forever, but my cohort has been taking a "Blur Break" now that has gone on for the better part ... | |
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Comic: Applied Scheduling | New Comic: Applied Scheduling | |
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News: Applied Scheduling | Tycho: Now that I've finally got a dependable crew in the new Battlefield: Bad Company - and a bandolier stuffed with the fruits of my progress - i... | |
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Comic: The Straub Factor | New Comic: The Straub Factor | |
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News: The Straub Factor | Tycho: I can't say enough nice things about Kris Straub. I know this because I once attempted to do so, to reach that theorized limit, and after al... | |
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Comic: The Opposite Of Poker Face | New Comic: The Opposite Of Poker Face | |
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News: The Opposite of Poker Face | Tycho: I feel good! I saw a some hummingbirds courting earlier, and it assured me of life's essential continuity. Gabriel - yes, our Gabriel! - has... | |
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News: The Name Of The Wind | Gabe: Tycho told me to read a book the other day and I told him to tear out all of the pages and shove each one individually up his butt-hole. He d... | |
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Comic: The Next Chapter | New Comic: The Next Chapter | |
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News: The Next Chapter | Tycho: Heavy Rain is really the thing at this point, right? Let's get up on some of that. I know Gabe craves that shit. I'd be pl... | |
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News: Heavy Rain and stuff | Gabe: I've spent a couple nights with Heavy Rain now and I think it's really special. If you're a parent, (especially a Dad) this game can be prett... | |
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News: I Have Multiple Link Disorder!!! | Tycho: Two things, or potentially, thangz: Do you have a second? Because we've got a new survey up. We have to refresh this ... | |
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Comic: The Valley Of The Shadow of Death | New Comic: The Valley Of The Shadow of Death | |
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News: The Valley Of The Shadow of Death | Tycho: March? Already? That's horrifying. When the first leg of the book tour was concluded, I slept a full thirteen hours in a black sleep which w... | |
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Comic: Contrition | New Comic: Contrition | |
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News: Contrition | Tycho: Sometimes I am exposed to the larger culture. I'm rarely improved by the process. It had been my intention to eat a hamburger, as is so ofte... | |
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News: PAX East Update | Gabe: Pax East is just a few weeks away and Robert has asked me to share some last minute info with you all. "Two things of note: One is that we ar... | |
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Comic: The Gods Of Modernity | New Comic: The Gods Of Modernity | |
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News: The Gods Of Modernity | Tycho: It was a lot of fun watching this story mutate as the day progressed, warping in its essential shape, culminating in something like justice.... | |
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News: Book Tour Starts Tomorrow! | Gabe: Our book tour kicks off tomorrow here in Seattle at the University Book Store. From there we make our way to California. You'll be able to pu... | |
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Comic: The Game | New Comic: The Game | |
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News: The Game | Tycho: We have invented an incredible new game. It is called, simply, The Game. The rules are concise, which lets you bore directly into its core o... | |
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News: In The Post Above | Tycho: I called the expansion "Awakenings," as opposed to Awakening, which is the actual name. It seems to me like they're missing an opportu... | |
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News: Dragon Age: Awakenings Comic | Tycho: I loved Dragon Age, and I loved making a comic for Dragon Age. When they started to spin up talk of an expansion, I was glad to see that it ... | |
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News: Dragon Age: Awakening Comic | Tycho: I loved Dragon Age, and I loved making a comic for Dragon Age. When they started to spin up talk of an expansion, I was glad to see that it ... | |
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Comic: A Cyclical Argument With A Literal Strawman | New Comic: A Cyclical Argument With A Literal Strawman | |
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News: A Cyclical Argument With A Literal Strawman | Tycho: Alright. So, Ubisoft's new DRM. Supports unlimited installs and Cloud-based save data. Requires absolutely unbroken access to their master s... | |
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News: Book Tour | Gabe: I just wanted to post a reminder here about our book tour. Starting next week we'll be hitting up the west coast promoting our new book, The ... | |
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News: A Funny Dad Story | Gabe: I don't mean to turn PA into an episode of Kids say the darnedest things but some of you might appreciate this. I was playing Star Wars with ... | |
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Comic: Let Your Imagination Run Wild | New Comic: Let Your Imagination Run Wild | |
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News: Let Your Imagination Run Wild | Tycho: An old friend. The last time Sony said supplies of the Playstation 3 were low, the results were hilarious - to say nothing of profitable. Wh... | |
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Comic: The Corruption Of Our Youth | New Comic: The Corruption Of Our Youth | |
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News: The Corruption Of Our Youth | Tycho: This is something that was brought to me as a legitimate avenue of concern. When I was straining the X10 stuff for nourishment, in receipt p... | |
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Comic: Literalus | New Comic: Literalus | |
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News: Literalus | Tycho: Gabe and I are beginning our descent into Rapture more or less simultaneously, so there's plenty to discuss. I'm still feeling my way around... | |
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Comic: Why Aren't We Coming To Your Town? | New Comic: Why Aren't We Coming To Your Town? | |
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News: Why Aren't We Coming To Your Town? | Tycho: Ever since Gabriel posted the destinations for our book tour, there has been a steady stream of aggression amassing in his inbox regarding p... | |
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News: Penny Arcade Book Tour | Gabe: Our new book, The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: The 11½ Anniversary Edition AKA "Nearly Twelve Years of Bullshit" will be coming out... | |
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News: You Know What I'm Talking About | Tycho: Mass Effect 2 is finally in the bag after perhaps thirty hours of interstellar ramblin', and I'll be God Damned if they haven't ended up wit... | |
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Comic: You Know What I'm Talking About | New Comic: You Know What I'm Talking About | |
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News: This Lady | Tycho: is so fucking rad. The link is more or less a video appraisal of what makes English such a Goddamned whorehouse. Trying to expla... | |
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Comic: The Appocalypse | New Comic: The Appocalypse | |
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News: The Appocalypse | Tycho: Virtually every person who's "done time" in Azeroth has begged for a portable Auction House application, a hunger which is being answered wi... | |
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Comic: Questionable On Many Levels | New Comic: Questionable On Many Levels | |
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News: Questionable On Many Levels | Tycho: You may have guessed that we'd feel it necessary to comment on the most recent local news offering about videogames. I'm of the opinion that... | |
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Comic: The Future Is No Escape | New Comic: The Future Is No Escape | |
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News: The Future Is No Escape | Tycho: Something I like about Mass Effect 2 (and this is a list which must be appended frequently) is that I have a personal assistant. In a contin... | |
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Comic: The Morning After | New Comic: The Morning After | |
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News: The Morning After | Tycho: That iPad presentation had to be the worst thing I've even seen on on the Apple stage. There is a part where they - I am not making a joke -... | |
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Comic: Gwaihir In The House | New Comic: Gwaihir In The House | |
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News: I would like to win this | Gabe: The Washington Post has a poll designed to choose the best webcomic of the decade. -Gabe out | |
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News: Gwaihir In The House | Tycho: The story about a prisoner deprived of his Dungeon Master's Guide and custom campaign world resonated. It sucks when the guards are all comi... | |
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News: Bioware's Chris Priestly | Tycho: has something he would like to say to you. Hello Penny Arcade readers. My name is Chris Priestly and I am BioWare’s Community Coordina... | |
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Comic: Here's Your Reality Program | New Comic: Here's Your Reality Program | |
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News: Here's Your Reality Program | Tycho: You may know that Sony is putting together a reality show where human beings caper for our amusement. That's regular stuff. But the prize th... | |
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News: Soya Con BLAMIMATIONES Al Pastor | Tycho: Nueva BLAMIMATION es muy relleno aujourdhui! Nous n'avons pas de poissons surgelees. (CW)TB | |
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Comic: Rapidly Pressing The Button Beneath The Counter | New Comic: Rapidly Pressing The Button Beneath The Counter | |
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News: Rapidly Pressing The Button Beneath The Counter | Tycho: I got my Zune a few days before the iPhone was announced. It was a smartly manifested little brick to be sure, its combination of brown and ... | |
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News: Bayonetta Contest Still Runnin' Yo | Tycho: The awesome shirts have been ordered, and I want to make sure that as many people get them as possible! Here are the details yet agai... | |
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News: PAX East Is Going To Sell Out | Tycho: Part of the reason we opened the Eastern Front of this convention was to relieve some of the pressure on the PAX Prime, but the show has its... | |
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News: Sandbox D&D | Gabe: I mentioned a while ago that I was pushing my D&D game into a new direction, that being more of a sandbox style adventure. I also said I'... | |
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Comic: De La Musique | New Comic: De La Musique | |
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News: De La Musique | Tycho: The Rock Band Network - a vector for gameplay authorship that recalibrates the rhythm title as a democratic platform - is imminent, if not a... | |
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Comic: Fundamental Assertions | New Comic: Fundamental Assertions | |
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News: Fundamental Assertions | Tycho: It falls to us to explain some pretty elemental shit on occasion, a task I relish. The version I gave my own son was (for lack of a better t... | |
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News: We Accepted Ads For White Knight Chronicles | Tycho: It came out quite a while ago in Japan, and feels a little dated as a consequence, but this video expresses a few of the ideas that put... | |
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News: Moby Dick! | Gabe: My twitter is going crazy with requests for a larger version of today's comic. How can I deny the twitterverse? Click on the thumbnail for a ... | |
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Comic: A Trend We Wholly Endorse | New Comic: A Trend We Wholly Endorse | |
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News: A Trend We Wholly Endorse | Tycho: We had originally read that a new printing of Dante's Inferno was a "novelization," which implies that the game had been turned into a novel... | |
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News: Bayonetta Contest, AGAIN | Tycho: (I wanted to get this in front of you again, in case you were a recent convert to the game. We've had a great response so far, but I w... | |
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News: PAX 2009 DVD Set | Gabe: I'm pleased to announce that the PAX 2009 DVD set is now available and more importantly, it's fucking awesome. It is so awesome in fact that ... | |
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News: A Comprehensive Education | Tycho: My cohort's education is always foremost in my mind, but in the past I've typically resorted to misdirections that (once discovered) set the... | |
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Comic: A Comprehensive Education | New Comic: A Comprehensive Education | |
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News: PA is Hiring | Gabe: The stars have aligned once again my friends. Penny Arcade is hiring and this time we need an artist! You can find the job listing and all th... | |
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Comic: His Most Recent Superpower | New Comic: His Most Recent Superpower | |
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News: His Most Recent Superpower | Tycho: Bayonetta's shape - I almost hesitate to call this impossible contraption a "body" - is striking. I don't mean that as a euphemism for appea... | |
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News: Bayonetta Contest (Repost) | Tycho: I used to love looking in game magazines for those photos people used to send in, pictures of the screen itself or the player in front of th... | |
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News: Apologies to Joe Mad | Gabe: I've gotten a lot of requests for a larger version of the first panel from today's comic. I'm glad you guys liked it so much but I can't take... | |
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News: Child's Play Episode Of PA: The Series | Tycho: It's only the first part, there are two total, but here you go. We don't spend a lot of time cataloging how incredible Child's Play ac... | |
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Comic: A New Kind Of Truth | New Comic: A New Kind Of Truth | |
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News: A New Kind Of Truth | Tycho: The Wii was either "innovative" or "gimmicky," depending on your perspective, an evergreen topic that still springs up now and again. There ... | |
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News: Bayonetta Contest | Tycho: I used to love looking in game magazines for those photos people used to send in, pictures of the screen itself or the player in front of th... | |
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News: DnD Sandbox | Gabe: The overarching story-line of my D&D game involves my players traveling the world thwarting the machinations of Tiamat's many heads. I tr... | |
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News: PAX East Nooz | Tycho: A couple items: - Panel submissions are closing on the eleventh! Let us know what you'd like to see, or what kind of a discussion you ... | |
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News: A Review Of The Preview | Tycho: You can actually play MAG now, most of the time I'd say, but it can be a harsh-ass motherfucking mistress. The vaunted 256 player modes aren... | |
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Comic: A Review Of The Preview | New Comic: A Review Of The Preview | |
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News: Best Punchlines Of 2009 | Tycho: Last week, when every blog took the opportunity to regurgitate a rancid, reeking mess of the year's "best" every Goddamned day, I wondered w... | |
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Comic: Best Punchlines of 2009 | New Comic: Best Punchlines of 2009 | |
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News: The 4th Panel | Gabe: The very first episode of our 4th Panel show went up today on PATV. This show is focused on Tycho and I writing the strip. It's much more lik... | |
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Comic: The Bright Side | New Comic: The Bright Side | |
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News: The Bright Side | Tycho: Holidays where people exchange thoughtful objects (or those which sport a pronounced turkey component) get a pass, but "enforced revelry" as... | |
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Comic: Resomolutions | New Comic: Resomolutions | |
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News: Resomolutions | Tycho: This is the kind of conversation we have after we've been separated for a week. The throughput gets redlined with a thorough, almost reptili... | |
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News: 2009 Dickerdoodle Gallery | Gabe: The Gallery is very NSFW! I've created a gallery with some of my favorite entries from this year. Take a look and see if you recognize any of... | |
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News: Dickerdoodle Winners! | Gabe: This year's Dickerdoodle contest was awesome. You guys are a sick bunch of fuckers. Choosing a top three was no easy task but I've finally do... | |
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Comic: How The Illithid Stole Lolthmas, Part Four | New Comic: How The Illithid Stole Lolthmas, Part Four | |
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News: How The Illithid Stole Lolthmas, Part Four | Tycho: Was the Illithid ultimately able to steal Lolthmas? Can Lolthmas truly be stolen? The final page may contain these answers. We will try, I r... | |
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Comic: How The Illithid Stole Lolthmas, Part Three | New Comic: How The Illithid Stole Lolthmas, Part Three | |
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News: How The Illithid Stole Lolthmas, Part Three | Tycho: I hope that you are having an unambiguously merry Christmas. Or a hopi Schneikel, or a gurd Nachtouph, or whatever they have where you are. ... | |
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News: PAX East! | Gabe: We assumed that the first year of PAX East would be a slightly smaller event than PAX West. This is a new show in a new venue and we just fig... | |
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Comic: How The Illithid Stole Lolthmas, Part Two | New Comic: How The Illithid Stole Lolthmas, Part Two | |
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News: How The Illithid Stole Lolthmas, Part Two | Tycho: Page Two of "How The Illithid Stole Lolthmas" is now available. Hopefully that's a good thing? Every now and then I am allowed to write poet... | |
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Comic: How The Illithid Stole Lolthmas, Part One | New Comic: How The Illithid Stole Lolthmas, Part One | |
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News: How The Illithid Stole Lolthmas, Part One | Tycho: Prepare yourself for four full days of D&D related wankery. For edification purposes, "Illithid" is an even dorkier way to say Mind Flay... | |
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Comic: An Actual, Real Film | New Comic: An Actual, Real Film | |
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News: An Actual, Real Film | Tycho: I'm on record as saying that game length isn't an especially good indicator of, well, anything really, except perhaps game length, of which ... | |
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Comic: A Selective Reading | New Comic: A Selective Reading | |
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News: A Selective Reading | Tycho: The Dante's Inferno demo is a demo that must be played. It's funny, but given what they're attempting here it really shouldn't be. Weird is ... | |
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News: nook | Gabe: I've gotten a lot of requests from people wanting to know what I think of my nook. I've read all the same reviews that you guys have and most... | |
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News: PATV | Gabe: Episode 2 of the Penny Arcade show went up last Friday. We've also put up a FAQ to answer some of your PATV related questions. The important ... | |
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Comic: The Axiom | New Comic: The Axiom | |
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News: The Axiom | Tycho: I'm not sure exactly what the deal is with Tony Hawk, if the people in his orbit just never disagree with him, or if he operates in some kin... | |
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News: I, Um... Yes | Tycho: The Dante's Inferno demo was a nasty, incoherent facsimile of an existing product, and worse, it doesn't seem to understand what makes the o... | |
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News: Katamari Winners! | Gabe: We've finally gotten through all the Katamari contest entries and picked our three winners. First place goes to Anna the Red's bento box. Con... | |
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Comic: A Private Moment | New Comic: A Private Moment | |
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News: A Private Moment | Tycho: If you pre-ordered the Nook a sufficiently long time ago, they ship it to you overnight - and Gabriel's arrived at the office yesterday afte... | |
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News: We Thought It Would Be Mummies | Tycho: We were wrong. (CW)TB | |
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News: Umloud Is Now Underway | Tycho: If you're down San Francisco way, and you want to rock in absolute terms while donating to Child's Play, Wired's Chris Kohler and the DNA Lo... | |
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News: Dessert Porn | Gabe: It's Dickerdoodle time again! Once again, I'm asking you to send me your pictures of people making/enjoying Dickerdoodles. Just like previous... | |
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Comic: On The Dunes of Ur-Marsa | New Comic: On The Dunes of Ur-Marsa | |
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News: On The Dunes of Ur-Marsa | Tycho: I don't wear nice clothing often enough to remember exactly how it is applied to the body. Every time the Child's Play Dinner rolls around -... | |
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Comic: Good On Paper | New Comic: Good On Paper | |
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News: Good On Paper | Tycho: We don't play a lot of Ground War in Modern Warfare 2, by which I mean we don't play any of it, ever. Kiko and I investigated the mode (in o... | |
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News: Additional Children And Playing | Tycho: As Gabe mentioned above, Child's Play has already cracked a million dollars this year - earlier than any previous drive. Indeed, it has grow... | |
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Comic: From The Desk of Robert Logitech | New Comic: From The Desk of Robert Logitech | |
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News: From The Desk of Robert Logitech | Tycho: Logitech's rumored UMD peripheral for the PSP Go is incredibly hilarious. I'm not even saying that's it's true. I'm saying that its apparent... | |
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News: Double Shotgun Dude | Tycho: Outside of a distaste for his methods (and a truly vile appellation), we weren't very informative on the matter of the DSD. This video, whic... | |
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News: D&D | Gabe: I've got another post for all you DM's out there but before I do that I have a minor PAX announcement. I've been getting a lot of mail about ... | |
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Comic: Dragon Age Spoilers Ahoy | New Comic: Dragon Age Spoilers Ahoy | |
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News: Dragon Age Spoilers Ahoy | Tycho: With the title of the strip as explicit as possible - and this introductory sentence positioned for maximum emphasis - I feel as though we'v... | |
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News: Cyber Monday Update | Gabe: I will usually mention new items when they pop up in the store but I try not to make big buy our stuff posts more than once or twice a year. ... | |
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News: Cyber Monday! | Gabe: Happy Cyber Monday everyone. I'm told that you guys will be buying all kinds of stuff online today. It just so happens that I sell things onl... | |
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Comic: Witchblades | New Comic: Witchblades | |
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News: Witchblades | Tycho: There is a build in Modern Warfare 2 - Tactical Knife, Commando, Marathon, and Lightweight - that we have taken to calling the Witch. They a... | |
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News: First Party | Gabe: We've been talking about First Party for a long time and yesterday the site finally went live. We love making T-shirts and we have no intenti... | |
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News: Child's Play Update! | Gabe: If my life was a newspaper you could say that these two comics were "ripped from the headlines". I still have flash backs about my time at To... | |
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Comic: Retales, Part Two | New Comic: Retales, Part Two | |
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News: Retales, Part Two | Tycho: Here's the second (and final) strip retelling Gabriel's harrowing past as a retail aggressor. I hope the writing process for this strip make... | |
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News: Child's Play Dinner | Gabe: The Child's Play charity dinner and auction is coming up on December 8th and we only have 45 tickets left. If you'd like to attend you should... | |
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News: Dbus+, Or Jiminy Fucking Cricket | Tycho: I tend not to reveal my deepest hopes, lest they be stolen from me by the universe. Now, on the cusp of its realization, perhaps I am ... | |
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Comic: Retales, Part One | New Comic: Retales, Part One | |
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News: Retales, Part One | Tycho: Gabriel still gets the shivers when entering the Holiday Retail environment, as shellshocked memories begin to leach from his brain. He is g... | |
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News: PA Reality Show! | Gabe: I have exciting news to share! A while back we talked about a reality show based on life here at Penny Arcade. It was just something we kicke... | |
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Comic: Delicioso | New Comic: Delicioso | |
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News: Delicioso | Tycho: In the same way that professional skateboarders can approach Tony Hawk Ride and extract something resembling a game, people who are Italian ... | |
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News: Child's Play & Dbus | Tycho: The exact total is $542,107.01 - a jump of just over eighty-six thousand over last week's figure. We'll take it, certainly.  ... | |
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Comic: The Fullness Of Time | New Comic: The Fullness Of Time | |
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News: The Fullness Of Time | Tycho: New Super Mario Brothers Wii is marriage poison. I wouldn't play this game with any person you want to see again. In its multiplayer interpr... | |
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News: Gyromancer | Gabe: I was very excited about Gyromancer and I decided to grab it on the PC since I saw it right there in Steam when I went to play Torchlight. I ... | |
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Comic: Grim | New Comic: Grim | |
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News: Grim | Tycho: I have to say that we found DJ Hero quite interesting, actually. I understand that it didn't sell particularly well, but that's never been a... | |
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Comic: Ne'er The Twain Shall Meet | New Comic: Ne'er The Twain Shall Meet | |
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News: Ne'er The Twain Shall Meet | Tycho: We've waged an unrelenting crusade to have Gabe give Modern Warfare 2 a try, to see if he wasn't enthralled by it, or if the experience wasn... | |
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News: Tycho/Jerry | Gabe: Hello dear readers, I would like to tell you a story. Yesterday Tycho and I were in the process of writing today's comic when something very ... | |
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News: Child's Play 2009 Update! | Gabe: We launched Child's Play 2009 last week and as of today we've managed to raise $455,863.80. I'm going to give you all a little bit of time to... | |
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Comic: Conclusive Evidence | New Comic: Conclusive Evidence | |
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News: Conclusive Evidence | Tycho: Emotiv's Epoc mind controller device thing doesn't allow you to control other people's minds, which I think is a disappointment to everyone.... | |
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News: DM's corner | Gabe: I get a lot of mail from new DM's asking for tips. Some of the stuff I post here will probably be old news to veteran DM's but I think it mig... | |
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News: My Playlist | Gabe: I've been jumping back and forth between a few different games recently. There's just so much good stuff to play right now. -Dragon Age I've ... | |
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Comic: The Minutia-men | New Comic: The Minutia-men | |
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News: The Minutia-Men | Tycho: I understand that Modern Warfare 2 is a big release - playing last night, the game informed me that my rank was over two million, and that's... | |
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Comic: At The Midnight Hour | New Comic: At The Midnight Hour | |
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News: At The Midnight Hour | Tycho: I once made it a point to attend midnight launches, if for no other reason than it offered an excuse to hit Dick's on the way back - around ... | |
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News: A Truly Fascinating Phenomenon | Tycho: We spent quite a bit of time trying to determine how we felt about the Dragon Age situation described in today's comic - a character appears... | |
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News: Child's Play 2009 Is GO | Tycho: It's back! The ultimate in friction-free, ultra-lightweight charity engines is here, ready to transform the slightest movements of your fing... | |
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News: PAX East | Gabe: PAX East is coming up quick and we're going to need some new enforcers to help us out. We will be bringing over about 150 of our west coast e... | |
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Comic: A Truly Fascinating Phenomenon | New Comic: A Truly Fascinating Phenomenon | |
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News: Post Got Truncated Somehow | Tycho: I un... truncated it(?). In the future, I will assess all posts for truncability. (CW)TB | |
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Comic: The Price Of Loyalty | New Comic: The Price Of Loyalty | |
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News: The Price Of Loyalty | Tycho: Runic Games is doing the Lord's work, in an robust and unambiguous fashion. Torchlight has the bracing qualities we associate with pure moun... | |
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News: Magic: The Gathering Tactics | Tycho: Historically, we've had a strange relationship with SOE's John Smedley - though I think it's more or less reached equilibrium now. We ... | |
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News: Some things | Gabe: -My D&D campaign is featured over on the Obsidian Portal site this month. You can check out a little interview with me as well as take a ... | |
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Comic: Assertion Twelve | New Comic: Assertion Twelve | |
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News: Assertion Twelve | Tycho: Gabriel brought to my attention a post in a dungeonmastering board he reads, which detailed the circumlocutions some people go through tryin... | |
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News: Kick our ass at Tekken 6! | Gabe: Tycho and I will be playing Tekken 6 this Sunday Nov. 1st as a part of the Xbox Live Game with Fame thing. You can get all the details over o... | |
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News: Ratchet and Clank is so good | Gabe: Tycho said he hasn't been playing Ratchet and Clank, but I sure as hell have. I've been putting a few hours into it every night this week and... | |
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Comic: In The Seventh House | New Comic: In The Seventh House | |
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News: In The Seventh House | Tycho: Gabriel installed Windows 7 yesterday on his powerful new laptop, claiming that it "just works," which is a two-word phrase we typically ass... | |
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News: Larger version of the strip | Gabe: You can get a much larger version of today's comic right here, if that's the sort of thing you are into. -Gabe out | |
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News: A Larger Version | Tycho: is available here. (CW)TB | |
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Comic: Twisp & Catsby In: The Visitation | New Comic: Twisp & Catsby In: The Visitation | |
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News: Twisp & Catsby In: The Visitation | Tycho: It seemed like it was about time for some Twisp and Catsby, which we hope is welcome. We wondered how the season might be interpreted in the... | |
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News: PAX East (And Assorted Etcetera) | Tycho: We opened up preregistration for PAX East last week! Occupying the chronospan March 26-28th, day tickets will run you $25, while the t... | |
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News: Babicide | Tycho: Dante's Inferno apparently sports an achievement called "Bad Nanny," so called because in order to secure this achievement one must murder t... | |
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Comic: Babicide | New Comic: Babicide | |
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News: Two things | Gabe: The last page of our Dragon Age comic is now online. The comic has sparked a bit of a debate in the official forums. Some people think we hav... | |
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Comic: Twilight Of The Clans | New Comic: Twilight Of The Clans | |
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News: Twilight Of The Clans | Tycho: Everywhere the discussion is takes hold, the conversation surrounding Infinity Ward's decision to forego dedicated servers is an absolute fu... | |
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News: A list of things | Gabe: Check it out, it's a list! -The Fruit Fucker made his prime-time television debut last Monday. Our friend Wil Wheaton was on Big Bang Theory ... | |
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Comic: The Glass Tweet | New Comic: The Glass Tweet | |
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News: The Glass Tweet | Tycho: Gabriel suggested we do another Uncharted 2 comic, that is to say two comics, because it is Uncharted two. His argument was unassailable, an... | |
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Comic: Ambiguitas | New Comic: Ambiguitas | |
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News: Ambiguitas | Tycho: I suspect that Gabriel has already completed the second Uncharted, and I am working toward that goal as fast as my plague-wracked body will ... | |
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News: Dragon Age, Page Seven | Tycho: The new one went up today. One more to go. (CW)TB | |
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News: Katamari Forever Contest | Tycho: We typically don't go in for contests, but the prize on this one was too rad. We had to. Here is what we need from you, and it's crafty:&nbs... | |
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Comic: Tycho Brahe, Ornithologist | New Comic: Tycho Brahe, Ornithologist | |
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News: Tycho Brahe, Ornithologist | Tycho: Kotaku saw fit to publish some Brutal Legend damage control care of Double Fine's Tim Shafer, or perhaps it's Tim Shafer's Double Fine - eit... | |
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Comic: Garbled For Your Protection | New Comic: Garbled For Your Protection | |
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News: Garbled For Your Protection | Tycho: A character creation tool was just released for Dragon Age, precisely the sort of morsel to appetize those for whom simulations of quasi-med... | |
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Comic: A Premonition | New Comic: A Premonition | |
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News: A Premonition | Tycho: By any reasonable barometer, any metric, by any comprehensive schema of assessment, undeath is this nation's chief export. We deal it out gl... | |
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News: Pre-Order your copy of Tekken 6 today! | Gabe: The incredible tale that is the story of Roger Jr. the Kangaroo continues today over on Namco's Tekken site. I got some shit last week from p... | |
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Comic: Our Newest Feature | New Comic: Our Newest Feature | |
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News: Our Newest Feature | Tycho: The fact that Gabriel's players are expressing mastery of D&D - solid characterizations, systemic control, leveraging the gestalt - is s... | |
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News: My Play List | Gabe: I had a few people at PAX ask me to post more often and talk about what I'm currently playing. So this is for you guys! Kingdom Hearts 385/2 ... | |
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Comic: Le Choix De Sophie | New Comic: Le Choix De Sophie | |
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News: Le Choix De Sophie | Tycho: Many of the strips we produce catalogue the process by which Gabriel learns about the world around him. In many ways the strip is about him,... | |
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News: Dragon Age | Gabe: Our Dragon Age comic is up to page five now. Whenever we do a project like this I always jump into the game's forum just to see what people a... | |
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Comic: My Friend Totoriol | New Comic: My Friend Totoriol | |
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News: My Friend Totoriol | Tycho: Kingdom Hearts 2 is Gabriel's favorite game, indeed, anything with that name in the title ranks high. Even Chain of Memories rests on ... | |
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News: 'Tis The Age Of Dragons | Tycho: or whatever! (CW)TB | |
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News: No I did not pre-order it | Gabe: I stopped by EB yesterday to pick up a copy of Deadspace: Extraction. The store out at the Northgate mall is on my way to work so I popped in... | |
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Comic: Polygonous Polygymy | New Comic: Polygonous Polygymy | |
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Comic: Polygonous Polygamy | New Comic: Polygonous Polygamy | |
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News: Polygonous Polygamy | Tycho: In a turn of events that has as its consequence a deep sense of personal relief, Gabriel has finally conceded that the PC is a legitimate ga... | |
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News: Light and Mirror puzzle in D&D | Gabe: People seemed to enjoy my D&D free fall game so I thought I'd share what I did last Monday. I was inspired after playing some God of War ... | |
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Comic: Love Bombs From On High | New Comic: Love Bombs From On High | |
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News: Love Bombs From On High | Tycho: Gyromancer appears to be the work of a nefarious intellect, when the truth is substantially more beautiful: Gyromancer stands as proof of an... | |
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Comic: War Of The Words | New Comic: War Of The Words | |
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News: War Of The Words | Tycho: The first two panels are essentially a transcription of the actual conversation. For him it's a kind of "fish story," this supposed fifteen ... | |
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News: Dragon What?! | Tycho: Dragon Age. It's a game. But it's also a comic! A comic we made, and publish each Friday over at the official site. Please... | |
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News: The Distinction | Tycho: I would say that the pursuit of Sport would, when assessing our oeuvre, appear as a very small word in the resultant tag cloud. Table ... | |
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Comic: The Distinction | New Comic: The Distinction | |
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News: Penny Arcade (By Samwise) | Gabe: I'm back from my vacation now and feeling 100% better. I have to give a huge thank you to all the talented artists who saved my ass last week... | |
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Comic: The Wisdom Of Solomon | New Comic: The Wisdom Of Solomon | |
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News: The Wisdom Of Solomon | Tycho: With the tiller once again in our sure grip, we have charted a course toward... jpegs. I started with a strong nautical metaphor, but then I... | |
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News: Dragon Age Comics, Yo | Tycho: They just keep on a comin'. (CW)TB | |
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Comic: Penny Arcade (By Kazu Kibuishi) | New Comic: Penny Arcade (By Kazu Kibuishi) | |
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News: Penny Arcade (By Kazu Kibuishi) | Tycho: Containing Kazu Kibuishi with language would be difficult. I can, on occasion, produce a unique sentence - made me almost insufferable. Kazu... | |
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Comic: Penny Arcade (by Kris Straub) | New Comic: Penny Arcade (by Kris Straub) | |
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News: Penny Arcade (by Kris Straub) | Tycho: Kris Straub is my hero, which makes being friends with him difficult if not altogether impossible. If orders something at Taco Bell - perhap... | |
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News: Penny Arcade (by Tiny Kitten Teeth) | Tycho: Finally rejuvenated after delivering The Lookouts, Tiny Kitten Teeth heard Gabriel's croaking call for assistance - and rode in heavy. Of co... | |
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Comic: Penny Arcade (by Tiny Kitten Teeth) | New Comic: Penny Arcade (by Tiny Kitten Teeth) | |
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News: Down but not out | Gabe: I'm alive. I don't know if I had the dreaded swine flu but whatever I had, it was brutal. It started as a flu and somewhere along the way mor... | |
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Comic: Penny Arcade (By Hawk and Jessica) | New Comic: Penny Arcade (By Hawk and Jessica) | |
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News: Penny Arcade (By Hawk and Jessica) | Tycho: Our friend Hawk - in concert with his friend Jessica - produced today's Penny Arcade, which features Batman's ass. Just try to find that kin... | |
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Comic: Penny Arcade (by Jon Rosenberg) | New Comic: Penny Arcade (by Jon Rosenberg) | |
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News: Penny Arcade (by Jon Rosenberg) | Tycho: My friend Jon over at Goats pitched in to help dig us out of the contagion, with a strip that leverages pop references and timely observatio... | |
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News: Feeling Sick? (Repost) | Gabe: We Just heard of our first test-confirmed swine flu case at the show. PLEASE if you feel symptoms (fever, etc) call your doctor. -Gabe out Fl... | |
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Comic: Penny Arcade (by Bill Amend) | New Comic: Penny Arcade (by Bill Amend) | |
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News: Penny Arcade (by Bill Amend) | Tycho: I apologize for the late post; the shit I'm being made to contend with today is truly epic in scale. You may have heard that we had an unann... | |
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News: Feeling Sick? | Gabe: We Just heard of our first test-confirmed swine flu case at the show. PLEASE if you feel symptoms (fever, etc) call your doctor. ... | |
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News: Girl, You're So Groovy | Tycho: I. She had trawled iTunes for the worst sort of music possible to accompany the process, music in quotation marks, "Meditation Trax" where t... | |
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Comic: Visceral Gameplay | New Comic: Visceral Gameplay | |
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News: Visceral Gameplay | Tycho: What is there to say? What can be said? With the addition of the sixth floor - something we've tried to get in previous years, but were unab... | |
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News: Additional Passes For Saturday/Sunday Available | Tycho: The Washington State Convention center has been monitoring traffic through the show, and they've determined that we're good for another thou... | |
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News: Dragon Age Comic | Tycho: When we were asked to do a piece for Dragon Age, there was no deliberation involved. You can find it here. I spent a lot of time with ... | |
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Comic: The Reality Problem | New Comic: The Reality Problem | |
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News: The Reality Problem | Tycho: You may see us this weekend with camera crews in tow; now you'll know why. It's thoroughly experimental, and I'm not sure what the endgame o... | |
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News: Tekken 6 Comic | Gabe: Things are bat shit crazy around here as you can imagine. I wanted to point you all towards a very fun comic project we did for Namco though.... | |
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News: PAX Exclusive Moray+ At The Penny Arcade Booth | Tycho: We had seven hundred of these things made - the package is sixty bucks, and represents a comprehensive audio/voice solution for portable sys... | |
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News: Word Ace Is Out For iPhone | Tycho: I talked about the game a few weeks ago, after I'd been exposed to it by one of the developers at San Diego Comic-Con, but apparently it got... | |
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Comic: Rightsizing | New Comic: Rightsizing | |
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News: Rightsizing | Tycho: It had originally been our intention to deliver - in a wholly ironic context, of course - the kind of rich, braised meats that the faithful ... | |
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News: Halo 3: ODST Firefight Omegathon FAQ | Tycho: ODST's Firefight mode is one of the rounds in the Omegathon this year, and understanding some of the ways in which it deviates from vanilla ... | |
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Comic: Amalgamations | New Comic: Amalgamations | |
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News: This Year's PAX 10 | Tycho: Another round of judging produced a bumper crop of indie bliss this year, with a few you've probably heard of honored further and a selectio... | |
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Comic: Iteration | New Comic: Iteration | |
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News: Iteration | Tycho: So desperate was I for entertainment that my television came to rest on America's Got Talent, a program whose title seems to protest too muc... | |
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News: Here Is A Track From Anamanaguchi | Tycho: I was overjoyed to have them play at PAX last year, and they appeared to be overjoyed to play there, and also the people listening appeared ... | |
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Comic: The Circle of Life | New Comic: The Circle of Life | |
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News: The Circle of Life | Tycho: We wrapped up Batman yesterday, and it was unrelenting in its quality. I hope you already know that for yourself - that you have maneuvered ... | |
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News: PAX: Saturday Sold Out, 1000 Passes For Fri/Sun | Tycho : I should try to be less comprehensive in the title, so that I have something to write about down here. How are you? Good, thank... | |
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Comic: The Universal Fantasy | New Comic : The Universal Fantasy | |
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News: The Universal Fantasy | Tycho : Dissidia is actually really interesting, and it didn't particularly need to be: Final Fantasy's luxurious familiarity still retains its alc... | |
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Comic: Retcon | New Comic : Retcon | |
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News: Retcon | Tycho : I've done my best to manicure out of my consciousness the lion's share of superstitions, some of which literally concern lions. I no longer... | |
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News: PAX: 3-Day Passes Are Sold Out | Tycho : Passes for individual days are still available! (For now! DUN DUN DUN!) (CW)TB | |
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News: Dungeons and Dragons | Gabe : Another of my projects that got announced last week was the cover to a new Dungeons and Dragons book. The book is called the play... | |
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Comic: Intro To Subterfuge | New Comic : Intro To Subterfuge | |
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News: Intro To Subterfuge | Tycho : We spent some time with Wolfenstein - which I can't help but pronounce voolfenshteen - cataloguing a portion of our conversation in strip f... | |
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News: PAX: Only 400 3-Day Passes Left | Tycho : Pretty much what it says up there. If you're thinking of coming to the entire show, think quickly, and grab your tickets. We ex... | |
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News: Making a strip | Gabe : Here is a recording I made yesterday while I was making the strip: -Gabe out | |
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Comic: Character Assassination | New Comic : Character Assassination | |
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News: Character Assassination | Tycho : As proponents of interactive electronic entertainment, we're accustomed to troglodytic salvos from all corners re: the fiendish nature of t... | |
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News: The Talisman | Gabe : You might not have heard, but we recently switched publishers. We are now apart of the Random House family and our new books from them shoul... | |
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News: As Regards Gabriel's Opponent | Tycho : The fact that his handle is "Ladylike Raul" shifts that entire conversation deep into Salvador Dali territory. (CW)TB | |
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News: LadyLikeRaul | Gabe : Before you're too hard on Gabe remember that he harbors secret homosexual urges, is blissfully ignorant, has been a non-judgmental cou... | |
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Comic: The True Face Of Our Enemy | New Comic : The True Face Of Our Enemy | |
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News: The True Face Of Our Enemy | Tycho : The Think B4 You Speak campaign is basically incoherent, and operates from some deep misconceptions about how and why people communicate. T... | |
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News: Automata, Pages One Through Six | Tycho : Reader Christoph interpreted the first page of Automata in a very interesting way, with a custom soundtrack - and he just sent over his ver... | |
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Comic: Tangy, With Notes Of Hazelnut | New Comic : Tangy, With Notes Of Hazelnut | |
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News: Tangy, With Notes Of Hazelnut | Tycho : I'd been very diligent in my consumption of Arkham Asylum marketing materials, up until the demo at least, which is typically the capstone ... | |
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News: CTS Figure (For Realz) | Tycho : If something like this is of interest to you: We sell them, and they can be purchased here. (CW)TB | |
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Comic: Consider The Nub | New Comic : Consider The Nub | |
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News: Consider The Nub | Tycho : There is a kind of genius expressed by Blizzard's mission to level the curve of World of Warcraft's original experience, slashing down bram... | |
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News: Last thing I promise | Gabe : Well the last two days have been pretty crazy. I'm still pouring through mail trying to answer as many people as I can. I'd like to say that... | |
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News: CTS Figurine | Tycho : People have been asking me when the Cardboard Tube Samurai statue thing was going on sale. The answer is: now. (CW)TB | |
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News: Love Systems | Tycho : If things have gone well for me on this go 'round, it's because I'm constantly being given opportunities to learn things. That is to ... | |
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News: Follow up | Gabe : Wow, just fucking wow. I decided to play devil's advocate yesterday with Tycho just because that's something I enjoy doing. ... | |
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News: last thing | Gabe : Listen, I would never personally take a class like this. I think it's silly and expensive. All I am saying is that I can relate to... | |
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News: That's All Well And Good | Tycho : I'm not sure the people who espouse these "love systems" or "dating sciences" want much to do with women outside of their role as the varia... | |
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News: whoa whoa whoa | Gabe : Hold on just a second asshole. You are taking that comment way out of context! We were having a conversation about Ambien Sex. You had ... | |
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News: Indeed | Tycho : This, from the dude who thinks it's okay to have sex with unconscious women. That must be considered the "ultimate" technique, someth... | |
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News: oh come on | Gabe : I think you're being overly dramatic. Girls have been using their "feminine wiles" to manipulate men since the beginning of time. Do you rea... | |
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News: I Would Read That Page Again | Tycho : I'm fairly certain the purpose of this course is to make you a better predator of women. Check out their offers of "in-field training... | |
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News: @Tycho | Gabe : I don't know, Love Systems doesn't seem so bad to me. It's really hard to talk to girls, and this is just helping guys with their confidence... | |
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News: Automata, Page Six | Tycho : Page Six, which can be found here, completes the first chapter of Automata. The project itself directly expresses a fairly narrow band of t... | |
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Comic: Automata, Page Six | New Comic : Automata, Page Six | |
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News: 1 vs 100 | Tycho : After we expressed some enthusiasm for the show recently, the people behind 1 vs 100 Live asked us if we wanted to come on there and co-hos... | |
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News: Tekken Project | Tycho : We did a six page Tekken piece, one that begins like this, and then - if you can believe it - becomes even more ridiculous. (CW)TB | |
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News: Automata, Page Five | Tycho : Page Five of Automata is here, followed by the final page (which we're thinking of calling "Page Six") on Monday. Automata has a physical e... | |
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News: My Free Fall Rules | Gabe : After I posted about my last D&D game, I received a lot of requests for my free fall combat rules. Here are the rules I put together. I ... | |
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News: 1 vs. 100 | Gabe : This is just a quick note to say that Tycho and I will be guests on 1 vs. 100 this friday on Xbox Live. The "show" starts at 7:00 and we'll ... | |
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News: This is great | Gabe : A reader has taken the time to actually produce the above radio show. I thought he did an awesome job: -Gabe out | |
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Comic: Automata, Page Five | New Comic : Automata, Page Five | |
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News: Automata, Page Four | Tycho : (Page four of Automata is here.) Edited Transcript of "The Big Night with Teddy Thursday"February 25th, 1927Guests: Franz Emmerich, Profess... | |
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Comic: Automata, Page Four | New Comic : Automata, Page Four | |
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News: Gabe Is Drawin' Automata (Again) | Tycho : Behold: (CW)TB | |
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News: my D&D game | Gabe : My D&D game last night was an epic one. I called it the season finale because it wrapped up a story-line that starte... | |
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News: My Neo Geo for Child's Play | Gabe : You might remember me talking about my Neo Geo Arcade machine here on the site a few times. I saved it from an arcade that was remodeling an... | |
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Comic: Automata, Page Three | New Comic : Automata, Page Three | |
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News: Automata, Page 3 | Tycho : Automata returns. Again! This series ends on Monday, if you were wondering - after which we will indulge in a full week of surprising (and ... | |
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News: Automata Wallpaper | Gabe : enjoy -Gabe out | |
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News: Gabe Is Drawin' Automata | Tycho : if you'd like to watch: (CW)TB | |
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Comic: Automata, Page Two | New Comic : Automata, Page Two | |
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News: Automata, Page Two | Tycho : Automata returns. I get five pages of this thing, to assert a few more facts about the world these characters live in. That's not enough to... | |
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News: For Our Friends To The North | Tycho : Because I'm on Popcap's mailing list (one of the few I tolerate, for reasons you will soon see) I had a chance to grab Bookworm Adventures ... | |
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News: On Being A Language Foundry | Tycho : My deepest fantasy is that, in my meanderings on this site, we will produce a piece of language that is useful to you. Not a slogan; ... | |
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News: Watch Me Draw | Gabe : I recorded my live drawing show yesterday. If you'd like to watch the creation of today's comic strip, you can do so right here. -Gabe... | |
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News: Omeganauts Will Be Selected Soooon | Tycho : We will be choosing the Omeganauts on August 5th, from the pool of those who have registered to attend this year's show. If you want ... | |
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Comic: Fabulous Prizes | New Comic : Fabulous Prizes | |
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News: Fabulous Prizes | Tycho : Dante's Inferno makes less and less sense each time it bobs to the surface of games coverage. That shouldn't be construed as a review; I do... | |
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News: Live Drawing | Gabe : Live streaming video by Ustream | |
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News: Escalation, Part Two | Tycho : Having been delayed in our return flight multiple times, the last time I saw on the clock before I was overcome by sleep was 3:59 in the mo... | |
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Comic: Escalation, Part Two | New Comic : Escalation, Part Two | |
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Comic: Escalation, Part One | New Comic : Escalation, Part One | |
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News: Escalation, Part One | Tycho : Arc System Works' BlazBlue has, much as their Guilty Gear before it, forcibly created a domain for itself in our minds. It exhibits another... | |
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News: In Case You Were Curious | Tycho : "Ham Doctor" was just one entry in a horrifying list we made up to shock the future. Here are the others, if you are so inclined: Vol... | |
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Comic: Prefanity | New Comic : Prefanity | |
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News: Prefanity | Tycho : Seeing an article about the naughty language policies on Xbox Live generated two corollary effects: 1. The creation of this strip. Then, 2.... | |
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News: CTS Blanks | Gabe : I just got word that we will also have about 20 "blank" CTS figures at Comic Con. These are just white, unpainted figures. If you'd like one... | |
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News: CTS Figures | Gabe : Good news! The CTS figures made it here this weekend, which means we'll have some of them down in San Diego. Comic Con will be the first pla... | |
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Comic: WELCOME TO RETAIL OBLIVION | New Comic : WELCOME TO RETAIL OBLIVION | |
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News: WELCOME TO RETAIL OBLIVION | Tycho : I sometimes ask friends who work at Microsoft why it is that they can't just be happy with absolute dominion over the realm of personal com... | |
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News: Interesting | Tycho : A curious fact one can learn if you actually read the articles you're sourcing: The Rock Band Network is the result of a 16-month developme... | |
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Comic: The More Things Change | New Comic : The More Things Change | |
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News: The More Things Change | Tycho : Battlefield 1942 is almost seven years old, if you can believe it. Obviously, the events depicted are much older - but we've been playing t... | |
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News: San Diego Comic Con! | Gabe : We'll be heading off to San Diego comic con next week. If you plan on attending, drop by and see us at booth 1237. We'll have a big selectio... | |
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News: Curses | Tycho : Internet just came back at the office, which allowed me to see a typographical error that has apparently been festering up there all day.&n... | |
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Comic: The Ball Region | New Comic : The Ball Region | |
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News: The Ball Region | Tycho : There was a point at which Gabriel and I decided we would be Mixed Martial Arts enthusiasts for some reason, and I don't recall exactly why... | |
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News: Further Thoughts | Tycho : When you come across two Gods creating universes from scratch, it can be worthwhile to compare their approaches. Our perspective on Home is... | |
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Comic: His Supposed Nemesis | New Comic : His Supposed Nemesis | |
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Comic: Guest Lookouts, Page Five | New Comic : Guest Lookouts, Page Five | |
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News: Guest Lookouts, Page 5 | Tycho : With this, the fifth and final page, Lookouts comes to a close. Unless it gets optioned or something (!!!), it might be a while until we co... | |
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Comic: Guest Lookouts, Page 4 | New Comic : Guest Lookouts, Page 4 | |
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Comic: Guest Lookouts, Page 3 | New Comic : Guest Lookouts, Page 3 | |
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News: Guest Lookouts, Page 3 | Tycho : Guest Lookouts continues, with Becky Dreistadt and Oliver Grigsby at the reins. Things are certainly looking bad for our heroes. I'm tense,... | |
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News: Lookouts, Page 2 | Tycho : And here you go: Page Two of Lookouts, as imagined by Becky Dreistadt and Oliver Grigsby. Works of this power and sophistication will... | |
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Comic: Lookouts, Page 2 | New Comic : Lookouts, Page 2 | |
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Comic: Guest Lookouts, Page 2 | New Comic : Guest Lookouts, Page 2 | |
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News: Guest Lookouts, Page 2 | Tycho : And here you go: Page Two of Lookouts, hand-painted by Becky Dreistadt and penned by Oliver Grigsby. Works of this power an... | |
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News: The Guildfather | Tycho : This is something we consider quite often: how massively multiplayer online role-playing games create a vortex of social musts whose wicked... | |
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Comic: The Guildfather | New Comic : The Guildfather | |
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News: Condraculations | Tycho : Sometimes Robert will come in and ask us to name things, all kinds of things, I assume as a kind of test. Usually this is the kind of exerc... | |
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Comic: Condraculations | New Comic : Condraculations | |
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Comic: Heresies | New Comic : Heresies | |
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News: Heresies | Tycho : The trailer for The Last Airbender materialized yesterday, and there isn't much to see there, but the commentary that surrounds the product... | |
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Comic: A Perennial Favorite | New Comic : A Perennial Favorite | |
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News: A Perennial Favorite | Tycho : One of the players in Gabriel's ongoing campaign made the mistake of suggesting they did not feel sufficiently threatened, and they did so ... | |
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Comic: Consumer Advocacy | New Comic : Consumer Advocacy | |
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News: Consumer Advocacy | Tycho : As a kind of psychic siesta, Gabriel has taken to curling up with [Prototype] some afternoons to harvest flesh with the terrible arc of his... | |
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Comic: What It Is To Burn Forever | New Comic : What It Is To Burn Forever | |
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News: So far | Gabe : Here's a quick peak at how the votes are going so far. -Gabe out | |
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Comic: Jim Darkmagic | New Comic : Jim Darkmagic | |
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Comic: Automata | New Comic : Automata | |
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Comic: Lookouts | New Comic : Lookouts | |
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Comic: The Unvarnished Truth | New Comic : The Unvarnished Truth | |
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Comic: His Southern Reaches | New Comic : His Southern Reaches | |
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News: His Southern Reaches | Tycho : We haven't actually seen Project Natal in the flesh, and with the advent of this strip, we'll never be allowed to. So... I guess that's tha... | |
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News: Addendom, Dark Lord of Suffixia | Tycho : Is Final Fantasy XIV the fastest turnaround ever on a so-called "exclusive?" I recall Assassin's Creed being very quick as well. We'll see ... | |
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News: An Added Addendum | Tycho : One of the biggest announcements, at least to my mind, didn't take place during a conference - Microsoft announced that it would be offerin... | |
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Comic: All Is Forgiven | New Comic : All Is Forgiven | |
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News: All Is Forgiven | Tycho : When they stepped forward with something called a Wii Vitality Sensor, we exploded with rage. Shortly thereafter, the sky cracked and we we... | |
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News: Addendum | Tycho : Our favorite parts of the Sony conference were the Assassin's Creed 2 live demo and the presentation of Uncharted 2, so the recently activa... | |
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Comic: Mean Ol' Mr. Sauron | New Comic : Mean Ol' Mr. Sauron | |
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Comic: Revoluciónes | New Comic : Revoluciónes | |
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Comic: Additional Infamy | New Comic : Additional Infamy | |
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News: Additional Infamy | Tycho : This is happening with greater and greater frequency: my inability to perceive the game I have read about in reviews. Infamous is a decent ... | |
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News: Mercurial | Tycho : One of the less talked about powers in Infamous - for obvious reasons - is the ability to deliver a healing jolt, which reinforces your rol... | |
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Comic: Mercurial | New Comic : Mercurial | |
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Comic: Upon That Shattered Plain | New Comic : Upon That Shattered Plain | |
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Comic: Sega Did What Nintendidn't | New Comic : Sega Did What Nintendidn't | |
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Comic: Body Movin' | New Comic : Body Movin' | |
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Comic: Argumentum Ad Verecundiam | New Comic : Argumentum Ad Verecundiam | |
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Comic: Cradle-Song of The Chickenman | New Comic : Cradle-Song of The Chickenman | |
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Comic: The Carnal Consonant | New Comic : The Carnal Consonant | |
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Comic: More Like Incorporeal | New Comic : More Like Incorporeal | |
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Comic: The Problem With Mystical Orbs | New Comic : The Problem With Mystical Orbs | |
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Comic: Lend Me Your Ears | New Comic : Lend Me Your Ears | |
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Comic: The Fivefold Mother | New Comic : The Fivefold Mother | |
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Comic: A Reasoned Assessment | New Comic : A Reasoned Assessment | |
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Comic: Further Education | New Comic : Further Education | |
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Comic: It's Really Quite Simple | New Comic : It's Really Quite Simple | |
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Comic: Maybe Too Soon | New Comic : Maybe Too Soon |
