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Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
Initially the characters didn't represent them, or something like that.

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8-Bit Scholar
Jan 23, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

Germstore posted:

Initially the characters didn't represent them, or something like that.

Indeed, they were nameless avatars which became over time given pseudonyms that ended up being the creators' pseudonyms. I think Gabe is named after Gabe Newell and Tycho after Tycho Brahe

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro

I think this is right around when they just became normalish dudes and not internet "nerd culture" poster boys. Funny how becoming more than moderately successful and raising kids will do that

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009


the fallout from this was kinda funny. iirc whoever owned the trademark to strawberry shortcake told them to take the comic down, and they were all NO WAY YOU CAN'T TELL US WHAT TO DO, WE'LL FIGHT THIS TO THE BITTER END and then they got a lawyer and he told them yes you actually do have to take it down

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:
should i read all 5 (lol) pages of this thread or just kill myself

edit: too late ive already started cutting

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

A misanthrope posted:

should i read all 5 (lol) pages of this thread or just kill myself

edit: too late ive already started cutting

if you read fast you can get through it before you bleed out

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:

Parallax Scroll posted:

if you read fast you can get through it before you bleed out

there are worse things i could spend my last minutes on earth doing.


lol jk no there arent

Dr. Gene Dango MD
May 20, 2010

Fuck them other cats I'm running with my own wolfpack

Keep fronting like youse a thug and get ya dome pushed back
Penny-Arcade was pretty decent from like 2003-10 but then they split their attention into a hundred side projects and fake tv shows and conventions and now maybe 1 out of 20 strips are good.

Sleeveless posted:

These are the same guys who flipped their poo poo about people drawing porn of their characters, up to and including removing characters from the comic forever because porn got drawn of them.
Really? Can anyone follow up on this/provide links?

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

whoa this is like gen y beavis and butthead

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream

Sleeveless posted:

These are the same guys who flipped their poo poo about people drawing porn of their characters, up to and including removing characters from the comic forever because porn got drawn of them.
To be fair, one of those characters was basically a representation of Gabe or Mike's tween niece- so I can understand them being really grossed out by the inevitable porn of her that followed.

King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!

32MB OF ESRAM posted:

whoa this is like gen y beavis and butthead

They're pushing 40 so they're unquestionably Gen X. Like, not even on the border.

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

King Vidiot posted:

They're pushing 40 so they're unquestionably Gen X. Like, not even on the border.

there is no way that is a 40 year old jpg and i dont care about the irl people so gently caress OFF

Dr. Video Games 0112
Jan 7, 2004

serious business

Dr. Gene Dango MD posted:

Penny-Arcade was pretty decent from like 2003-10 but then they split their attention into a hundred side projects and fake tv shows and conventions and now maybe 1 out of 20 strips are good.

Really? Can anyone follow up on this/provide links?

I definitely recall something along those lines, but no way in hell I am scouring their news archives for it. Must have been way back when one of them still posted here.

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica

Parallax Scroll posted:

the fallout from this was kinda funny. iirc whoever owned the trademark to strawberry shortcake told them to take the comic down, and they were all NO WAY YOU CAN'T TELL US WHAT TO DO, WE'LL FIGHT THIS TO THE BITTER END and then they got a lawyer and he told them yes you actually do have to take it down

And then when the took the comic down they posted the name and contact info of the woman from American Greetings who had contacted them and encouraged their fans to harass her.

They really were ahead of their time!

Origin
Feb 15, 2006

I remember back around 1999-2000 a whole bunch of people on their forums called one of their wives fat and it got shut down for a while.

Stabbatical
Sep 15, 2011


ha ha, that's actually funny

Not sure why anyone would get heated over a gamer webcomic, tbh, when you can just go outside and forget about it

Also, why are people concerned about how fat their wives might be? What's that to anyone?

Justin Godscock
Oct 12, 2004

Listen here, funnyman!
Ah, Penny Arcade, people liked you back when gaming webcomics were a novelty and you were the only one that wasn't A) lovely or B) Had a scumbag author penning it.

Now, they get in the gaming news when they said or did something that pissed the overly-sensitive off.

Tricky D
Apr 1, 2005

I love um!

Stabbatical posted:

ha ha, that's actually funny

Not sure why anyone would get heated over a gamer webcomic, tbh, when you can just go outside and forget about it

Also, why are people concerned about how fat their wives might be? What's that to anyone?

"The only measure of success that matters is how hot your wife is." - The Internet

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Nathilus
Apr 4, 2002

I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.
Can i get more of the gay fanart? Thanks. :)

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