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Amplitude Kickstarter

By Tycho – May 21, 2014

The last time I posted about a Kickstarter expressly to mourn it - Republique, which I described explicitly as a "Kick-Stopper" - I was so glad to be wrong. I thought it would never come out, and that the young people with smart coats engaged dutifully in the act of its creation had done so for naught. Except now the second episode is out, and it's even better than the first one.

Portrait Of The Artist

By Tycho – May 21, 2014

He did have a real Art Night, but I assume that the second panel did not actually occur, which would make the third panel a lie heaped upon a lie. He drew boys and girls, he drew boys with their cats and girls with their dogs, he drew them playing basketball and soccer, he drew them as fey folk, occupied with dreams of every sort. He drew a single Gabriel, also, for a dad who must have been very surprised to see him there.

Wildstar!

By Gabe – May 19, 2014

I really did try to avoid playing in the Wildstar beta. I knew any character I made would just get wiped when the game launches in a couple weeks. I figured it was smarter to just wait until it’s actually out and then dive in.

The State Of Play

By Tycho – May 19, 2014

I don't think it's entirely the fault of developers or the genre or any of those things. But we have been so rigorously trained in how to play Massively Multiplayer Games, in precisely the way we train rats, that you fall into that groove. Except it's not a groove, groove. The funk has long since fled. It's more like a rut. I have to break some of this stuff down to enjoy it again, I think. I have Optimization Sickness.

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Thwarter

By Tycho – May 16, 2014

I'm trying to get back en Twittre (Francais), and it's slow going. Presumably there is a bike metaphor we can leverage. Even though the whole thing is opt-in, people have to specifically choose to listen to me, I still feel like I'm being rude by using it! It makes no sense. So whatever I put in there has to be enough by some mystic standard, and it invariably isn't. As usual, Jane Austen nailed it two hundred years ago:

The Gauntlet! (Child's Play)

By Tycho – May 15, 2014

Card Kingdom has put together "corporate giving and volunteerism" program, read: a Being Rad program, and just like that famous truck it have started to move. They're holding a tournament called The Gauntlet this Sunday to kick the whole thing off. Myself and a few other stalwarts from Penny Arcade have joined in the fight, I don't know about our chances, because I suspect that Card Kingdom is going to draw in some truly savage brutes. But you can sponsor our team from the donation widget - just put PA in the text field, and we will do our best to earn your coin.

Sore Subject

By Tycho – May 14, 2014

The thing you have to remember about Microsoft rumors is that all Microsoft rumors are true.

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Survey and Hearthstone stuff

By Gabe – May 14, 2014

We have a new survey up that we would love for you to take a look at. We’re looking to get some more information about how folks collect and trade Pinny Arcade pins. Whether you’re already a Pin Pal or you’ve never purchased a pin from us, your info would be super helpful. You can find the survey right here and it should only take a couple minutes.

Shroudsourcing

By Tycho – May 12, 2014

We were out at lunch with Skarth Quartz, talking about the frankly next level shit he's got going on in Table Titans, and we were talking about how Yelp could help adventurers. That's really it. When you hang out with comic artists, you have to call dibs on ideas like this, which then means you have an obligation to follow through strong. "Ensorcelled locally" is about as good as I can do, folks. Time to go home, maybe.

Real Science

By Tycho – May 9, 2014

When I was in Australia, there was an arcade near our "serviced apartment" called Galactic Circus. My son and I used to go there whenever we could, interleaved around various cultural happenings, artisinal laneway grub, and what became known as the sharquarium.

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Intracranial Narratives

By Tycho – May 7, 2014

I think something along the lines of this strip started when we were streaming Amazing Spider-Man 2, it happens fairly early in the broadcast, but it apparently made some kind of dent in Gabriel's skull that proceeded to shape thought.

A History

By Gabe – May 7, 2014

Gabe and Spider-Man sort of have a History.

Hearthboned

By Tycho – May 5, 2014

As suggested by my opposite and my equal, Hearthstone is still spreading from the site of the infection. We have encountered several cards over the course of the last week or so that are probably due for a quick bake in the Nerf Furnace. Secret Cards in general, I mean literally as a mechanic, make me so mad it almost boils the eyes out of my face.