Penny Arcade

My guess would be "because everyone posts on that comic's forum".

edited 16th Apr '18 9:08:19 AM by Medinoc

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

What's wrong with Hotmail? Microsoft is at least not effectively defunct, like Yahoo.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Yahoo is working it's way to becoming an former email provider if they keep harassing me about adblock

Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.

I seem to have accidentally duplicated this thread here, but now that this thread has been recovered from the dark depths of the database, we can continue talking about it here, I think.

Optimism is a duty.

I still read Penny Arcade every time they post a comic, but most of them aren't distinct enough to post about specifically. For example, the latest: "Rubrik's Cube"

I'm sure this would get a laugh out of anyone familiar with Warhammer 40K, but for me it's just playing on Gabe being obsessively stupid and Tycho being obsessively pedantic. Which is, admittedly, funny, but not in a "oh, I get that reference" way.

A lot of comics are like that, throwing referential humor at the wall to see what sticks.

Edited by Fighteer on Mar 13th 2021 at 10:14:05 AM

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

ffs they're called Thousands Sons!

New theme music also a box

Well, page two of this sub-forum

Thousand Sons are the Legion as a whole, which is split into the Rubric Marines (which is what they are talking about) and the Sorcerers (along with the Tzaangor auxiliaries and enslaved psykers but they arn't really members of the Legion).

Well, I used forum search, and it couldn't find the thread, so there you go.

Optimism is a duty.

Not having any personal interest in WH40K, that all sounds like the gibberish of adult speech in Peanuts cartoons.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Tycho's blog post to go with the comic

But yeah

"Because I am nothing if not merciful, I did not discuss the Rubric's true purpose - to guard the doomed XV Legion's bodies against the Flesh-Change. Nor did I emphasize that the sorcerous exile Ahzek Ahriman, once exalted of the Corvidae, still seeks his redemption"

Which is why for a long time it was hotly debated how they recruited people into their legion,since they can't simply 'make' new rubics,also Flesh-Change turned their insides to dust and then they got sealed inside their armour when Ahriman tried to fix them or something

Edited by Ultimatum on Mar 13th 2021 at 10:12:56 AM

New theme music also a box

That it's about 40K is almost unrelated to the punchline, I feel. I know I've tried to share my interests with my friends quite a bit over the years. After enough time, certain concepts or ideas might stick with them, but in a way removed from their original context. Moreover, it's likely they dont care about the proper context at all given that they never picked up on that interest in the first place. It's not a particularly funny strip, but its relatable on a certain level.

It's probably the closest thing to a running theme this comic has.

Disgusted, but not surprised

NFTs make Gabe a rich boy!

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

So what are they?

Optimism is a duty.

Ummmmmmmmmm... They're a crypto thing that makes people rich. Now hop on the bandwagon you gullible sheep.

Okay, okay. NFT stands for "non-fungible token". They are a method of adding an unforgeable identity stamp to a digital product, such as an image or video, allowing "unique" copies of it to be traded. They supposedly transform a fundamentally fungible article (digital products can be reproduced indefinitely at virtually no cost) into something like a painting that has value because of the scarcity of originals.

Edited by Fighteer on Mar 15th 2021 at 9:25:19 AM

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

...yeah, that's not actually how scarcity works. I mean, I can understand how the makers thought that—what's the difference between the original Mona Lisa and a high definition photo of it?—but you do need people to care about the thing that is now scarce.

The eternal truism of art is that it is exactly as valuable as the highest bidder is willing to pay for it. People do tend to value scarce things more highly, but that does not automatically make scarce things more valuable. Not every digital artwork is going to be worth anything, no matter how unique it is.

Optimism is a duty.

And of course a non-fungible token doesn't even need to be the original. People can and do make NFTs out of stolen artwork. The only thing verifying that you own the "original" is the record of you purchasing it from the original artist (or purchasing it from someone who purchased it from the original artist, etc.), which is a concept that has always existed, so really NFTs are a very stupid (and wasteful) gimmick.

Speedwagon

I love the meta-humor here, but the joke is premised on Gabe confusing "SEO bandwagon" for REO Speedwagon... I don't know how to feel about that. Abused, maybe?

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

The 'Chains

OMG, dystopian future fiction in which all rights are managed through blockchain... I don't know if I would read that but it would be memetastic.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

I was going to say something about the culinary heresy that is Pizza Noodle, but I order a kebab pizza only days ago, so I probably shouldn't talk.

Pizza noodle and kebab pizza are culinary abominations. If one wanted to make the gastronomic equivalent of beholding the spawn of Yog-Sothoth, kebab pizza would be a good effort.

Disgusted, but not surprised

Yeah, it was a new menu item, and I was like, "sure, I like kebab, I like pizza, why not?"

'twasn't great. Mostly fat, but not in a good way.

We have pancake restaurants that specialize in pancakes with all manner of exotic toppings. Not sure if that's a thing in the US though, but this place sounds like a similar concept for pizza.

Optimism is a duty.

A pancake works for that purpose because it is considerably simpler than pizza. It's just a flat cake.

Disgusted, but not surprised