From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: The Neil Armstrong Of Horse Fucking

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I spent most of the weekend watching the Rainbow 6: Siege invitational, like… a lot of it, I watched it a lot. I ran down the battery on my loyal, ancient Acer Chromebook a couple times a couple times while I was out in the garage trying to make it less appealing to rats. I think R6 is one of the best competitive shooters of all time, and even when the tech wobbled out of the gate it couldn’t obscure that. It wears the cloak of a “sport” with greater ease than most of its competitors - it’s more legible, and the levels are dynamic, material spaces…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Legacy

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I’d heard that the new stress test for Sea of Thieves was gonna be an actual stress test. As in, they were gonna let us come in and try to break it while they were actively trying to break the backend as well. Giving people an experience with your product you aren’t completely in control of and which can literally fail in random ways creates novel rhetorical and business challenges, which is why “betas” are mostly marketing and why when we purchase entertainment software it’s fucked a nontrivial percentage of the time. The main difference I saw…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Quality Time

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I first saw the Wyrmwood crew out at PAX South, which was essentially “the tabletop focused show” before there was such a thing as PAX Unplugged. “Wood nerds” are real. I know about this from my stepfather: he was showing me some kind of “burl” or whatever, which I think is a wood word, and he was like “check this burl out” or something to that effect. No, it was Bird’s Eye maple. His eyes glowed. That’s the type of dorks these Wyrmwood people are. Indeed, they are multiclass, because they’re dorks…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Posers

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
When I’m playing pubji with Kiko, I take painkillers constantly. Like, in game. The inventory item. It helps me get my head right. In the state of preternatural clarity they create, do I occasionally shoot a bush that looks (at a certain LOD) like it might be a crouching man? I won’t say it doesn’t happen. Maybe the bush in question didn’t deserve to be shot, per se - but let’s be honest with one another. There is no bush without sin. The first panel is truly what he thought, before Amy Falcone - also known as Amy The…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Half-Life

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
This motherfucker can’t stay out of the news. And because eSports and social media have transformed every human medium of communication into a tabloid, I can’t look anywhere without seeing it. So now, even if you have scrupulously limited your Internet access to this specific site, you still have to put up with it. The whole thing has put me in a very philosophical mood. There is pretty clearly a disconnect between the audience for online content and the platforms that host that content. The audience is fairly clear on this point: they’re rewarding the…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: The Dumbest Timeline

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
So, without repeating myself too much, one of the reasons I like games is that I think - true or not - that somewhere in the experience of playing a game, I might be able to find some shadow of the person that made it. The game could also be the shadow, I suppose; they may be what casts the shadow. I’m not sold on any particular metaphor. It’s very, very weird when I play a game that already seems to know me. I love rhythm games, both because timing is something I have an aptitude for generally and it’s something Gabe is particularly challenged by. …

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: The Neon Corridor

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
The Overwatch League is having at least one of its intended effects, that of putting Overwatch itself back into rotation for Garb. By which I mean Gabe. Garb might be a little too far. Plus, it’s a word already. Garb is the Dark Souls of needless handle transforms. He’s not just going back in there and playing, which would be a normal effect, he’s specifically going back in to play in the game’s Competitive mode. I understand it hasn’t gone especially well, no doubt as a result of forking, ravenous cracks in his moral…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Camaraderie

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I caught some OWL when I probably should have been preparing for my son’s D&D game. They are now engaged in a live or death struggle with a race of featureless black cubes whose only weakness is candy. There are probably worse fathers but I can’t think of one right now. There’s a period of time early in the creation of an institution where everybody has to pretend together that what they are doing is real. I’ve used the metaphor before, but we might call this phase Wearing Daddy’s Coat. I’m making an observation about human…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Chromamancy

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Beaks And Geeks

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Gabriel and I have been playing Monster Hunter, yes, but only after he and his family get done playing pirate in Sea of Thieves. That game is some weird shit; I played on the stream once, and with he and Kara a few other nights. This feels indie as fuck, like a Steam survival darling in Early Access. In every possible way, the good and the bad. I think it works the kind of odd magic that I would have told you, straight up, Microsoft didn’t have in its roster. I can’t even imagine the fights they must have had to keep something like this alive. Its…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
There’s this weird-ass bird in Monster Hunter called a Kulu-Ya-Ku that legitimately puts on airs. It’s got this little tuft - the same tuft I have dangling from my weapon for good luck - and it’s always digging up rocks like some captain of fucking industry. It likes to throw the rocks and it also likes to corner you and kill you with the rock. Well, it likes to try. I chin check a motherfucking bird from down low and they stop doing it. Gobbler and I get in early and stay up late instructing these beasts with our proven techniques. We talk a…

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