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New Comic: In The Flickering Hours Before Death

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I’ve mentioned it before, but it’s pertinent so you’ll have to endure it again: One of the dudes that worked with us making the first two On The Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness games told me about a hobby of his, one I’d never heard of, even though I get into some really dorky shit and I’m okay with it. He was an Air Traffic Controller for people playing Flight Simulator. I don’t know which portion of the Hotline Bling meme applies here: does it inherit the shame-palm, or the ecstasy? All I know is that I can see that person from here, where…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Bus Stimulator 2018

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I’m as surprised as anybody: Solo is good. I wasn’t even gonna go see it; I have shit to do, and after The Last Jedi watching a Star Wars movie during its theatrical run isn’t a guarantee anymore. I’ve adopted something like the rigor of Cold War Deterrence when it comes to that: unless I get the okay from two friends, I’m not going. They aren’t owed my money but more than that they aren’t owed my time. Brenna and I emerged from The Force Awakens trying to figure out when we could get the kids into the theater to see it all…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Preemptive Consensus

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Gabriel has described this comic as a Public Service Announcement. It’s a public service announcement from an alternate universe where people drink medicine out of magic holes. Look! I don’t know about it yet. I just tried to help him. We’ve seen Dauntless at a couple PAXes over the last year, the main reason I know about it is that Gabe kept pointing me toward it, and when something in that Exhibition Hall environment can defeat both 1. The cavernous din, and 2. His robust defensive matrix I’m going to pay attention to it. The last of…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Well, Well

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I showed Gabe the House Flipper trailer because I thought he would find it novel, but instead he was enraged. This sort of thing is the Anti-Gabe: it’s almost completely about intrinsic motivations. That’s not gonna cut it for him. People want different shit from their entertainment, this isn’t some kind of a dig: if he gives someone twenty dollars, what he doesn’t want is for them to give him a job earning his money back. He wants to get in the cart, pull down the heavy bar until it clicks, and ride. I’m down for whatever, you know…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Wasted Youth

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I can’t express to you the extent to which this isn’t some kind of bit we’re doing. Galabasas is the ultimate cyber-warfare agent. Under the right circumstances, he has a superpower. If for some reason you don’t want technology to function as hoped for or even as designed, put him in. He works on computers but does not play on them, generally. Until very recently, at least. Now he’s back in because you can’t not be in. Personal Computers are the clear, crisp snowmelt that makes the rest of this culture possible. We used…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: 2b+1

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Lil’ Heretics

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I’ve heard a bunch of really amazing shit about the new Warhammer 40k stuff; the last time I played my Necrons, games still took six hours. From friends, it sounds like it’s hitting that ribald, skirmish scale that attracted me to Warmahordes and Infinity. And let me be clear: I feel like that was six hours well spent. I just don’t have time like that all in a row these days. I’m willing to put up with a lot of horseshit when it comes to my tiny men, and I didn’t mind how it comported itself mechanically. I was into it. But it was…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I didn’t really live in the Eighties people lionize, let alone lion-o. I wasn’t allowed to like the music and shows people recall with such fondness. I always mention this, but the extra part you should know is that I didn’t feel hard-done by it generally. I didn’t resent it. I believed in the mechanism that was being used to curate my mental diet: I understood that the Devil was using the culture to mainstream concepts like witchcraft and, yes, even premarital sex. So the way it worked was that you would be watching cartoons and then…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Mumm-Wha?!

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Gabriel’s experience with RPGs is a smattering of potent imports from Japan, the occasional Dragon Age game, and Mass Effect. No Wizardry, no Ultima, no Bard’s Tale, no Gold Box, and certainly no Baldur’s Gate - the inheritor of that august fraternity. No classic Fallouts. And no Planescape. What I mean to say by this is that the literary branch of the RPG typically constrained to the PC is not really in his experience. It was once a point of contention: as proof, I offer a comic strip nearly old enough to vote. So when he told me he was…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Divine

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
My fever keeps riding a data set that, at its highest point, I think I can see; I’m traversing it on a kind of minecart. I don’t mind. Sometimes the thinking is disordered, and sometimes it is oddly interactive and sometimes it is revelatory. I can see sages of the past from here, and they wave to me. I wave back. Gabe and I have often responded to queries of the form “what will you do in the future” with what I think is a fairly typical response for people who make stuff, which is to say “make stuff for kids.” Depending on the…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Lexcalibur

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
We played a bit of Battle Chasers: Nightwar back when it hit on Big Machines, got to the point where we realized that we felt very good about what they were doing, found some bugs and then waited for the Switch version which just came out. Like I said when it came out, Battle Chasers was a book he could reliably get me to real when we were living together. It kinda came out when it came out, but I was playing a lot of D&D back then and seeing some of those classic ideas through that lens was fascinating. Of course, as we suggest in the strip, Gabriel’s worship of Joe Mad…

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