Penny Arcade on the Always-Online Issue
Posted 8 August 2011 by FluxWeb comic Penny Arcade has offered their take on the Diablo III online-only issue. Like all of PA’s humor, it’s satire stemming from gross caricature and exaggeration (and I mean that as praise). Like all such humor, it’s funnier when it’s not about you.
That said, our latest vote suggests that at least half of you guys will find this funny. (PA has previously touched on the Art Controversy and the mandatory Real ID debacle.)
Amusing or not, you have to admit that it’s topical; our last two posts on this issue (not counting the vote one) have well over 100 comments, and forum debate abounds as well.
Was there ever a time when penny arcade was funny?
lol what are you, over-age? you need a lil more laughta in yer life, old man.
I get laughter. I just don’t like PA. : /
But it’s always funny to see overzealous butthurt PA fanboys furiously clicking that red arrow. GOGOGO!
So, you find silly exaggeration funny. Penny Arcade’s punchline just cuts too close to home I guess. Lol.
Maybe go on a diet, and get off of here during the daylight hours at least?
What was that about silly exaggeration?
So now if I don’t find funny what you find funny I’m a fat vampire loser? Okay man.
@HM Hey, way to be an asshole to one of the forums more interesting posters. You’re the man, or the something. And no, PA has never been funny, to my knowledge, only topical. Also, if a dude who looks like that has been online gaming since 1999, he will not be buying D3. He will most certainly be playing it, but not buying it.
@SavalBork, Hehe thank you. I really am the man! 8)
I do find PA funny on occasion and that’s all that matters.
Risingred is interesting, yeah in some ways… But I don’t think he’s going to slow down his rage posting just because of my little comments.
p.s. you guys really need to learn how to laugh at yourselves sometimes.
I’ve personally had a hard time ever finding Penny Arcade funny.
And the punchline should be “Saw this article 23 seconds after it was posted because he has been online since 1999″
“Pissed that he can’t mod the game anymore”
RisingBlue: you call that vid funny? let me show you what I FIND funny! skip to 5 minutes if you don’t want to watch the glue-ing process.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llRtZQcoJzU
“Was there ever a time when penny arcade was funny?”
Yes. from about the point it debuted, onward. “gross caricature and exaggeration”? More like, level-headed accuracy. The more time you spend online arguing that being online is a problem, the weaker your argument becomes.
This site is becoming a more of a cesspool of biased whining every day.
they call that cesspool Permaximum
I’ve never found it funny. They make horrible “observations” on issues they clearly don’t understand, make some shallow comic over it.
Sense of humor? I like xkcd and cyanide and happiness. :p
“This site is becoming a more of a cesspool of biased whining every day.”
…because I don’t like a comic strip? Are you serious?
I wonder how their horrible observations have managed to fund multiple conventions, and a successful charity for sick children. Good thing so many of us fanboys are shallow and not master-observers like you.
The cesspool comment wasn’t directed at you, but at Flux’s insistence on making article after article of the topic “look, more people are whining about everything that Diablo is not”, when that attitude is, in actuality, the minority.
When did I say anything about their success or charity contributions? Good on them, and I donate to child’s play annually. I usually find a chuckle in the enormous amount of zealotry of their fanbase, and it was merely coincidence that it showed up here today. It’s my only trolling guilty pleasure. Calm down, guy.
But you are nobody to say what the minority is or not because, you know what? Everyone here? We are the minority. So you’re speaking of a fraction of the audience, and further breaking down that fraction. It’s irrelevant. I’m still excited to play D3. It just takes time to adjust to (what I perceive as) bad news.
I enjoy PA and read every comic, though I seldom get through Tycho’s TLDR posts about games I don’t care about. That said, I wonder if HyperSapien understands what “gross caricature and exaggeration” means? It’s not an insult, and I’ve seen Tycho describe their comics in very similar terms. Though I did leave out “profanity laced and hyperviolent” which would have provided a more comprehensive summary.
I included links to 2 previous PA strips about D3 issues, both of which are precisely coterminous with my description of this one.
wow, “coterminous”.. i get the meaning by context, i’ve just never heard anyone use that word before now.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/12/15/
Not that I’ve witnessed.
A nerve was struck.
Risingred is upset because he’s only been continuously online since 2000…
It’s been a while, I’d say this is their last real zinger.
Edit: Meant as a reply to RisingRed. Feh.
I’m against it but thankfully it probably won’t affect me. Already sick of the whining though.
Still found this pretty funny. Not a fan of webcomics but PA can be ok occasionally.
Good god… so much negativity… quickly, everyone name 3 things they DO like. And no, “offline” cannot count as one of them
I like…kittens, runestones, and station wagons. And pickles. But that’s four.
no one likes station wagons.
Not even auto companies. Hence minivans. Then non-4×4 SUVs.
Yet, a lot of people like Hot Hatches. It’s very confusing to me.
I like sedans, and jokes.
Station wagons are the only tanks on Earth that have no treads. They’ll fuel the post-apocalyptic revolution to save humanity.
Honda Fit, ftw!
Although I’m not even close to someone like that boy, I would like to draw Penny Arcade as a ball-sucker money-whore and oversized Blizzard just gave her payment.
“continuously online since 1999″… hot damn!! Who’s his service prodiver?? Sign me up!
Except I’m not always online… in fact all week I’ve been having outtages. Yeah, my provider sucks. But it’s not like I have any other choice without moving out of city.
Skimp over the fact that always online means good bye to always being able to play a game that you want when you want to. Regardless of your conenction, what happens when the game servers shut down for good, and all you have left are memories and a log in screen? It’s probably just a matter of time now before every video game is online only, anyway. This looks like a convenient place to give up on the hobby.
Wait until you’re one hit away from a killing a big boss and your ISP momentarily drops you on a “seemless” transition, for nightly maintenance, or your b.net server hangs, and then we can all have a good laugh.
You’re right, Flux. This probably is funnier if it’s not you.