Wait why is Gabe proposing to Mike Krahulik’s girlfriend? This is confusing!
It gets worse.
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i was thinking that he was supposed to maybe look like someone that the reader should recognise, and that’s the joke
but your explanation is more likely
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i’ve been thinking of a similar article blaming competitive online play, but yeah penny arcade is also guilty.
tbh they are both branches of the tree sprouting from spoiled middle class kids of the nineties with no curiosity
i’ll never actually write it because no matter how many hundreds of words are spent on couching and clarification, it will inevitably attract the attention of slow-wittd troglodytes capable of only the most surface level interpretation of anything and they’ll all get mad and i’ll have to hear about how mad they are
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i’m sure i heard recently that the vgcats guy became some kind of cultist?
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I think that was the Homestuck guy, who now dresses up in clown getup and goes to cons.
there’s just no good fate for webcomics huh.
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Competitive Online Play ruining games is something I could write about. it’s a videogame thing I think about a lot too
i wasn’t there for overwatch but I took one look at it and went ‘nah’ but then it became the only game in town, and now every game is like overwatch even though nobody likes overwatch. everything had to be a esport. had to be a hobby. had to have the capacity to be a job. there’s no more chaos of custom servers or unbalanced gameplay, now it’s just a constant grind. is this fun? you can no longer join a game in the middle and muddle through at the bottom of the server rankings. you are a load bearing pillar of the team. matchmaking algos where you lose 50 percent of the time. i could go on. maybe i should…
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I never, ever could have played TFC for like 200 hours with 250 ping without being able to hop servers until I found one I was good in
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yeah I lost all interest in online multiplayer with the rise of matchmaking. Shit stinks
That and the emphasis on multiplayer modes that have lots of downtime; doing even a little poorly in something like overwatch means that it takes 30 seconds to a minute before I respawn, it punishes experimentation. battle royales are even worse, that whole last person standing format sucks
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We should do a bad video game webcomics thread. Do we already have one?
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I’m mad at everyone on here right now for once again forcing me to remember that penny arcade exists
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have i mentioned that i hate fighting game elo based matchmaking and ranked online versus modes…
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Yeah me too , I sure was never basic enough to enjoy that webcomics shifty eyes
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hbomerguy did a pretty good take on the irony/shittiness of these webcomics in this video
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I remember this webcomic about youth pastors with art clearly influenced by the Penny Arcade strips, and how the author did NOT like when people on twitter were calling his comic Pentacost Arcade
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OMG, you can almost pinpoint the moments that each person no longer looked like the character based on them so Mike could no longer just look in the mirror or at his homie for a quick reference
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Bashing gaming webcomics is so early 2000s. ^ _^
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Wondering if I’ll ever play Kraut Busters.
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we should have one but you can only post bad webcomics that you’ve redrawn yourself
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