Does anyone actually read the Penny Arcade blogs?

[mike black]

I do it out of habit from time to time (especially after strips where Gabe is talking about dungeon mastering, as I genuinely enjoy his new found interest in table-top RPG's,) but typically end up throwing my notebook across the room in a fit of rage.

Is it just me, or is Tycho the most obscenely verbose person on the planet? Every blog is an ongoing torture session where he lays out the most mundane message board opinions - thesaurus tightly in hand.

I shook it off eventually, thank He Who Girds The Universe - the lure of the personal computer's untamed wilderness, coupled with its demonstratively superior presentation even on ports from lesser devices made sure of it, though games I couldn't imagine playing on a console sealed the deal. But I'm not installing Windows 7 until at least the first service pack, and possibly longer, purely on principle. I have a computer again, and I love it; I will take no risks.

If you had no externalities to manage - that is to say, if you were not a father of two, for whom sleep is a rare thing, and precious - I don't know what could make you stop playing Borderlands. I honestly don't know how you could sever the thick roots that seem to grow out of the screen and claim the body, whose novel barbs anesthetize and then pierce the meninges, seizing control.

What. The. Fuck? You couldn't say, like most other people on the planet, "I'm typically a fan of console gaming, however, there is a certain lure to playing on the PC. I really think I'll wait until Service Pack 1 comes out to make sure all the bugs are gone.

By the way, Borderlands is addictive."

Seriously? You're so in love with yourself that you had to try and write poetry to dazzle your fanboys?

[Boris the Blade]

I do it out of habit from time to time (especially after strips where Gabe is talking about dungeon mastering, as I genuinely enjoy his new found interest in table-top RPG's,) but typically end up throwing my notebook across the room in a fit of rage.

Is it just me, or is Tycho the most obscenely verbose person on the planet? Every blog is an ongoing torture session where he lays out the most mundane message board opinions - thesaurus tightly in hand.



What. The. Fuck? You couldn't say, like most other people on the planet, "I'm typically a fan of console gaming, however, there is a certain lure to playing on the PC. I really think I'll wait until Service Pack 1 comes out to make sure all the bugs are gone.

By the way, Borderlands is addictive."

Seriously? You're so in love with yourself that you had to try and write poetry to dazzle your fanboys?

The way he writes is WHY I read them. It's not just wordspew vocabustroke, I think it's fun and more interesting.

[dmh3000]

I do occasionally, or at least try to. Most of the time I only read the first two or three lines.

[J. R. Scherer]

I stumble across it now and again, but it's mainly the D&D stuff I'm interested in. The dungeon he made with the laser and mirrors is friggin' sweet (and insanely expensive!)

[mike black]

The way he writes is WHY I read them. It's not just wordspew vocabustroke, I think it's fun and more interesting.

Ugh. It's so self-congradulatory. Get over yourself, man.

[Ryan Elliott]

I do every now and then when the strip is something that strikes my interest.

[mike black]

I stumble across it now and again, but it's mainly the D&D stuff I'm interested in. The dungeon he made with the laser and mirrors is friggin' sweet (and insanely expensive!)

With those little LED's and fake spider webs? AWESOME.

[LordKinbote]

What. The. Fuck? You couldn't say, like most other people on the planet, "I'm typically a fan of console gaming, however, there is a certain lure to playing on the PC. I really think I'll wait until Service Pack 1 comes out to make sure all the bugs are gone.

By the way, Borderlands is addictive."

Seriously? You're so in love with yourself that you had to try and write poetry to dazzle your fanboys?

A better question is why you'd rather read something that you probably read a dozen times on the Bendis Board per day. If you want people to read the mundanity of your life, then at least make your prose interesting. It's a bit sad that we've asking people to "write like everyone else writes." Mike, you must keep sites like Twitter in business ("Had a cheeseburger! Yum!")

[mike black]

A better question is why you'd rather read something that you probably read a dozen times on the Bendis Board per day. If you want people to read the mundanity of your life, then at least make your prose interesting. It's a bit sad that we've asking people to "write like everyone else writes." Mike, you must keep sites like Twitter in business ("Had a cheeseburger! Yum!")

First, I have no interest in Twitter.

Secondly, there is a difference between "write how everyone else writes" and "writing like a tard". There is no need to dig up words like "circumlocutions" & "externalities"; using exceptionally unwieldy and esoteric words does not imply skill with language.

[Matt Jay]

I read it all the time, but mostly I don't know what he's talking about. It doesn't help that some paragraphs are about the same topic, but then other paragraphs are about something completely different. You have to read a couple sentences into each paragraph to determine if he's changed topics. Plus I saw him misuse "schizophrenic" one time. Not a big deal, but when you present yourself as some kind of expert wordsmith, you should understand the words you use.