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Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: captainawesome on 26 Jan 2005, 10:22
Penny Arcade has filed for the "rights in perpetuity to any and all humorous comic interpretations and/or situations arising or inferred from the electronic entertainment industry and/or the products thereof."

This apparently affects CTRL+ALT+DEL, VG Cats, and PvP, which happen to be 3 of my favorite comics.  Somehow I feel like theres something wrong here.  How can you have the rights a subject matter?  You can't have the rights to write love songs, or to draw pretty pictures, so I don't understand how they can have all the rights to make fun of videogames through comics.

From today on, I will be boycotting Penny Arcade, due to their being the Man.
Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: lb969 on 26 Jan 2005, 10:28
apparently cause one of Scotts comics was oddly similar to PA's comic.
Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: jeph on 26 Jan 2005, 10:49
Jesus, don't tell me you actually thought Tycho was being serious. IT IS CALLED SATIRE PEOPLE HELLO

JESUS
Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: lb969 on 26 Jan 2005, 10:53
I know, I'm an english minor...but for those who didnt see one or the other....


Scotts (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/050117.jpg)



Tychos (http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2005/20050114l.jpg)
Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: jeph on 26 Jan 2005, 10:55
They're not even that similar. So they both did a joke about the dealer guy in RE4. Each strip has a completely different premise.
Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: lb969 on 26 Jan 2005, 11:00
was kinda funny going from VG to PA, and going da-ja-vu?
Title: Re: Penny Arcade...
Post by: blindsuperhero on 26 Jan 2005, 11:26
Quote from: captainawesome
From today on, I will be boycotting Penny Arcade, due to their being the Man.


You know, this is funny, yet also kinda sad
Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: Dany on 26 Jan 2005, 11:57
The "joke/news" made the effect of a bomb in the CAD forum.
+100 reply thread in about an hour, with more than 1600 views.

I hope PA won't get thousands of hate mails by people who took it seriously.
Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: lb969 on 26 Jan 2005, 12:08
mighta had that effect with VGC, cept lazy ol' Scott hasen't bothered to put up his new forums yet....
Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: Digs on 26 Jan 2005, 13:37
I feel things about stuff. You should make note of this.

That's pretty funny, though.
Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: happybirthdaygelatin on 26 Jan 2005, 14:06
I feel things for stuff.  I still am not why I get called Filcher so much, it isn't my name.

This was damned funny.
Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: Mnementh on 26 Jan 2005, 14:41
Quote from: jeph
Jesus, don't tell me you actually thought Tycho was being serious. IT IS CALLED SATIRE PEOPLE HELLO

JESUS


I clicked on this thread, and I was hoping to dear god that the first post would be about how funny this joke was.

I must lower my expectations of people once again.
Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: captainawesome on 26 Jan 2005, 15:59
Sorry about that.  I wasn't really paying too much attention to it, and I saw it first on Ctrl+Alt+Del's site.  I was just a wee bit confused.

funny joke though.

even though it made me look like an ass.
Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: Tearon on 27 Jan 2005, 20:36
It's okay to look dumb every so often. What I'm wondering is how many other people didn't get it and still haven't gotten it. What if they all boycotted PA? This would be great! Free comic fodder for Gabe and Tycho!!
Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: torg on 28 Jan 2005, 01:37
WANG!!!
Title: Penny Arcade...
Post by: LiterSize on 28 Jan 2005, 10:50
no no no, WANG +1!


Wow.... I knew that it might be misinterpreted, but DAMN.