Today’s Penny Arcade is a near perfect commentary on the Unity debacle.

Whole comic linked above, but here’s the one-panel that is perfect.

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    Oh yikes. I mean I agree that the first panel is solid but the other two reminded me why I stopped reading PA. So often the “punch line” is just edgelord violence or insults.

    Reminds me of the Hbomberguy video that really dissects “gamer comics”.

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      The way this CEO operates is absolutely worthy of condemnation and viewing him through the lens of unfeeling cosmic horror is, if anything, a nicer take. But it’s fair to say that people operating at that level of wealth have become detached from and profoundly alien to normal folk.

      I don’t think you’re parsing this comic fairly or engaging with its content by labeling it “edgelord violence or insults.”

      Pretty much ALL of Hbomb’s substantive examples from the video are from CTRL-ALT-DEL which is like … the worst example imaginable. There’s screenshots of PA’s art, but beyond the one dumb gag about “stake me bro” he never really gets into PA’s writing. ODD, THAT. Because if you actually read Jerry Holkin’s posts, you’ll find a level of writing that puts the lie to the notion that these are idiots making cheap, derivative work. Setting aside the fact that they’ve been doing this so long that they basically defined the genre.

      And as an aside, really Harris, web comic artists as targets? You’ve done it, you’ve achieved the epitome of punching down. These and other extremely sane takes from the guy that brought you an almost 2 hour long video on the goddamn Roblox “oof” sound effect.

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        These and other extremely sane takes from the guy that brought you an almost 2 hour long video on the goddamn Roblox “oof” sound effect.

        Or a 3 and a half hour video about how a game is just okay. If you don’t know how to edit down videos to a reasonable length, then you’re just wasting my time.

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          That’s disingenuous as hell. It’s about the motifs of the genre and what the game was aiming to accomplish after it’s predecessor.

          And the Roblox video was only 28ish minutes. The rest of it is on Tommy “my mother’s very proud” Tallarico.

          And both deserve the full 3 hours.

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            It’s pretty clear these guys put more time into complaining about the videos than they did actually watching them.

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            It’s about the motifs of the genre and what the game was aiming to accomplish after it’s predecessor.

            Then perhaps he should have used a title and thumbnail that explained what the content of the video actually was going to be.

            Also, this is not such a complicated topic that it takes three hours to explain. About the only long video that could justify its length is Folding Ideas’ video about NFTs, and only because it’s a very complex, very important, and, at the time, very relevant subject. Even then, some people just aren’t going to watch a two-hour video on the subject even if it is important. That’s the risk you take when you make a two-hour video.

            And the Roblox video was only 28ish minutes. The rest of it is on Tommy “my mother’s very proud” Tallarico.

            And both deserve the full 3 hours.

            It obviously doesn’t, because then you wouldn’t be trying to justify the runtime by saying it’s only 28 minutes of real content. If the real content is only 28 minutes, then the video should also only be 28 minutes. He can rant about Tommy on a different video, and I can choose or not choose to watch it. See, that’s how YouTube works.

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              then you wouldn’t be trying to justify the runtime

              That’s putting words in my mouth. The Roblox video is only about 28 minutes. The rest of the video the author makes very clear is about the unveiling of a pathological liar in the game industry.

              It sounds like your issue is he should have picked a different title. Sure, that may have helped.

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          That was a very interesting video though. Nobody’s making you watch it, you’re wasting your own time!

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        Pretty much ALL of Hbomb’s substantive examples from the video are from CTRL-ALT-DEL which is like … the worst example imaginable.

        Because it’s a video specifically about CAD (that’s why the video is literally titled “Ctrl + Alt + Del”) not webcomics in general. There are some references to other gaming comics and what they generally don’t do well but it’s preamble for why CAD is the worst. The whole point of this video is to be about Ctrl + Alt + Del and the guy behind it.

        And as an aside, really Harris, web comic artists as targets?

        No, it’s specifically about the CAD guy. He doesn’t talk about the other webcomic artists.

        These and other extremely sane takes from the guy that brought you an almost 2 hour long video on the goddamn Roblox “oof” sound effect.

        I’m curious what other “takes” you think he has if you didn’t even realize why the video called CAD primarily talks about CAD.

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      They’ve done the cosmic horror joke many times. I found it funny in my 20s.

      Gabe’s art has gradually deformed and is just horrible now.

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        The art is approaching cosmic horror on its own, or at least existential dread.

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        Well that one made me snicker lol. Maybe I am being too harsh. Idk, I used to read PA daily when I was in high school but at this point a few decades later, it’s just something that I’ve grown out of so it seems pretty juvenile in retrospect.

        This might be more of a “me” thing instead of “penny arcade” thing. 🤷

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          I found Jerry’s writing to be exactly as it was. I no longer have a taste for it.