Haha, yeah, it is a little long and a little late, I guess. I don't have a great sense of the issue due to not having been that involved in it. It's just something my friends have been discussing lately, so it's come up again, and I've been curious/torn about it since they seem to be really staunchly on the anti-PA side.
Haha, yeah, it is a little long and a little late, I guess. I don't have a great sense of the issue due to not having been that involved in it. It's just something my friends have been discussing lately, so it's come up again, and I've been curious/torn about it since they seem to be really staunchly on the anti-PA side.
More like just in time for PAX East to create more dissenters, imo.
Seriously let it go. Both sides did things that weren't the best. No one wins. The best move is to not play.
Sorry to bring up dickwolves again, but after getting a link from a friend today, I'm curious: what do you guys think of this article?
Your Friend reads Violet blue, or knows someone who does, apparently.
Are there any other misrepresentations present here that anyone else can spot
For a start, they tried to apply The Internet Fuckwad Theory, both stupidly, and with no more purpose than saying "Hurr Duur you're a fuckwad and it's ironic because you're the one who said other people are fuckwads" - With of course, anonyminity being a major factor in the Internet Fuckwad theory against the fact that they're talking about two people who are public figures, pictures of whom and whose names are displayed and written not even two inches further up the article.
The article states -
On August 11, 2010, Penny Arcade published a strip called "The Sixth Slave." It was not so different from many other comics they have published. It consisted of three panels. It was tasteless, shocking, it involved rape...
Which is a poor attempt to give the impression that rape is a common source of humor in penny arcade strips. It follows it up with noting that the strip sparked a debate that "Would Divide Pennyarcade fans forever" which is ludicrous hyperbole - It was only six months ago, it's hardly still spoken of by penny arcade fans within the community, and really, the only people still carrying on about it are the "I STOPPED READING PENNY ARCADE BECAUSE I AM HORRIBLY OFFENDED BY THIS AND THEREFORE IT IS WRONG" crowd.
If you can stand it, folks, prepare for an almost hilariously overwrought description of the comic
The comic is set in a fictional video game that vaguely resembles World of Warcraft. A hero strolls jauntily forward in the first panel. Far behind him, a grizzled, thin man with a wooden cane calls out to him. "Hero!" this man cries out. "Take me with you! Release me from this hell unending!"
The pleading man's face fills the second panel, his eyes wide with sorrow and horror. "Every morning," he says, "we are roused by savage blows. Every night, we are raped to sleep by the dickwolves."
In the final panel, the hero retorts: "I only needed to save five slaves. Alright? Quest complete."
The slave interjects. "But — "
"Hey. Pal." The hero points a finger in his face. "Don't make this weird."
The only thing missing is some maudlin violin music and a black and white title card that reads "FIN." Fucking hell.
The article then goes on to state a minority of readers were offended - which is true - but then goes on to state that a minority sent in complaints, and this "Handful" of offended readers plus the single blog post on shakesville was enough to get Gabe and Tycho's back up enough to make them Defensive, and tries to paint them as sarcastic assholes with the follow up strip. So, How the fuck does she know how many people sent e-mails to Pennyarcade? How many were offended? The contents of these e-mails? Where's the data? Nowhere, because she's making shit up for the sake of a good story. Make no mistake - this isn't journalisim. It's barely op-ed.
The comic seemed designed to call attention to the fact that Krahulik and Holkins had no intention of making a real apology, and to mock anyone who expected otherwise.
Of course, this fails to mention about the PA blog posts explaining their position which went up in tandem to the comic, Which were Mocking disbelief from Tycho that anyone thought they were advocating the actual rape of human beings in the comic, and Mike pointing out that his suprise was not that people were offended, but that after years of comics including bestiality, suicide, murder, pedophilia, and torture, and a character who is, as almost his entire characterization, is a literal compulsive rapist, they chose the dickwolves strip to be offended by.
She skips entirely over the blog posts, despite having a go at the comic that went up in tandem with it, and then jumps straight ahead to Mike Drawing the Dickwolf for the audience at the live-draw session - Where you can hear someone shout out "DRAW A DICKWOLF!" for fuck's sake - Noting that Mike "Cavalierly" drew a dickwolf for a crowd of screaming fans - which is a complete misrepresentation, or at least, a gross misunderstanding, of what actually occurred.
And that's just the first two short pages. I'll get to the rest after I have a bit of sleep. Suffice it to say, this woman has pissed me off - not with her stance, she's got every right to that, but with her piss-poor pseudo-journalisim horseshit, and her misrepresentation of the situation which having read the article, I can only reasonably assume was entirely intentional. Remember the time I abused the shit out of a whiny article about electronics on planes? I feel another case of the Fuck-yous starting up, or in plainer words, fetch my filthy assistants, I feel a monstering coming on.
I look forward to that full-blown fuck-you, because while I respect my friends' opinions, I have a hard time getting balanced views/sources from them. This article, believe it or not, is probably the most balanced-looking one that one of them has linked thus far, which is why it made me curious to know just how fair it was really being.
I'm done with the dickwolves thing. They did nothing wrong other than feed the trolls. That was funny too for a bit until fans on both sides started taking things too far, at which point PA did a good job of burying the issue for good.
As for weather, it's too early! I won't even look until it's a 5 day forecast. My Marriott elite loyalty convinced me to forgo a Westin reservation because the Renaissance is only 1 block away. I can dodge rain drops for one block, I swear!
Shoot the pax people an email, the same thing happened to me last year. They will probably just tell you to take your receipt to PAX and talk to the badge people there.
Still no tickets. I just checked and I was still charged for them.
if for some horrible reason you wind up getting to Boston and totally screwed out of a ticket, message me and I will hook you up. I have a media badge but rather than take any chances, I buy a 3-day in case there are issues with my media reg. 99% chance I won't need this badge but not going to give it away until Thurs night.
if for some horrible reason you wind up getting to Boston and totally screwed out of a ticket, message me and I will hook you up. I have a media badge but rather than take any chances, I buy a 3-day in case there are issues with my media reg. 99% chance I won't need this badge but not going to give it away until Thurs night.
Thanks, I really appreciate it. However I purchased two (for my girlfriend and I). I'm sure that Khoo and everyone will be able to help me, but it's just unnerving that it's so close and I don't have them.
Shoot the pax people an email, the same thing happened to me last year. They will probably just tell you to take your receipt to PAX and talk to the badge people there.
Yeah, just go up to reg (since there's barely ever a line), and they'll sort you out. I worked with them last year; they're super awesome and professional.
EDIT: If I remember correctly, you just need your receipt and photo ID.
They are being held and I'll have to pick them up at the show.
The line is a whopping 2-3 people most times, so I wouldn't worry. Scott and I have to go pick ours up every year anyway: they don't mail guest/presenter badges.
Why the fuck are you going to snow/rain next week? Ugh. Now I have to pack a real fucking jacket.
It wouldn't be PAX East without retarded weather. Last year the forecast said 50's, maybe some rain up until the day of the con, then the weather abruptly said "FUCK YOU, you get 20's and snow!"
Yeah I checked out the forecast and it doesn't look to bad but I'm still bring my heavy winter coat. Last year I was freezing waiting to get into the bar after the Retronauts panel. Which sucked extra hard because you could tell the bar staff didn't want us 'nerds' in the bar, nerding it up.
I don't understand. The weather looks like it's going to be pretty reasonable to me. I mean, between 25 and 45 F, and only a little rain? That's pretty much spectacular compared to what we've been having.
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Seriously, just let the Dickwolves thing go.
Seriously let it go. Both sides did things that weren't the best. No one wins. The best move is to not play.
The article states - Which is a poor attempt to give the impression that rape is a common source of humor in penny arcade strips. It follows it up with noting that the strip sparked a debate that "Would Divide Pennyarcade fans forever" which is ludicrous hyperbole - It was only six months ago, it's hardly still spoken of by penny arcade fans within the community, and really, the only people still carrying on about it are the "I STOPPED READING PENNY ARCADE BECAUSE I AM HORRIBLY OFFENDED BY THIS AND THEREFORE IT IS WRONG" crowd.
If you can stand it, folks, prepare for an almost hilariously overwrought description of the comic The only thing missing is some maudlin violin music and a black and white title card that reads "FIN." Fucking hell.
The article then goes on to state a minority of readers were offended - which is true - but then goes on to state that a minority sent in complaints, and this "Handful" of offended readers plus the single blog post on shakesville was enough to get Gabe and Tycho's back up enough to make them Defensive, and tries to paint them as sarcastic assholes with the follow up strip.
So, How the fuck does she know how many people sent e-mails to Pennyarcade? How many were offended? The contents of these e-mails? Where's the data? Nowhere, because she's making shit up for the sake of a good story. Make no mistake - this isn't journalisim. It's barely op-ed. Of course, this fails to mention about the PA blog posts explaining their position which went up in tandem to the comic, Which were Mocking disbelief from Tycho that anyone thought they were advocating the actual rape of human beings in the comic, and Mike pointing out that his suprise was not that people were offended, but that after years of comics including bestiality, suicide, murder, pedophilia, and torture, and a character who is, as almost his entire characterization, is a literal compulsive rapist, they chose the dickwolves strip to be offended by.
She skips entirely over the blog posts, despite having a go at the comic that went up in tandem with it, and then jumps straight ahead to Mike Drawing the Dickwolf for the audience at the live-draw session - Where you can hear someone shout out "DRAW A DICKWOLF!" for fuck's sake - Noting that Mike "Cavalierly" drew a dickwolf for a crowd of screaming fans - which is a complete misrepresentation, or at least, a gross misunderstanding, of what actually occurred.
And that's just the first two short pages. I'll get to the rest after I have a bit of sleep. Suffice it to say, this woman has pissed me off - not with her stance, she's got every right to that, but with her piss-poor pseudo-journalisim horseshit, and her misrepresentation of the situation which having read the article, I can only reasonably assume was entirely intentional. Remember the time I abused the shit out of a whiny article about electronics on planes? I feel another case of the Fuck-yous starting up, or in plainer words, fetch my filthy assistants, I feel a monstering coming on.
Why the fuck are you going to snow/rain next week? Ugh. Now I have to pack a real fucking jacket.
As for weather, it's too early! I won't even look until it's a 5 day forecast. My Marriott elite loyalty convinced me to forgo a Westin reservation because the Renaissance is only 1 block away. I can dodge rain drops for one block, I swear!
EDIT: If I remember correctly, you just need your receipt and photo ID.