Tagged as pennyarcade

7 Apr 2010

  • Penny Arcade - OD&D. Mike Krahulik's posts on his D&D sessions are consistently great. I love how he keeps things playful and fresh with fourth-wall breaking nods and winks, and per-session house ruling.

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1 Apr 2009

“Whether surfing on an avalanche or jumping off of a motorcycle onto the back of a giant bat, there is something about the way you do what you do that makes people say, “Whoa!”. When using any of your Witchalok powers, choose one target you have line of sight to. That target is totally blown away.”— The Witchalok

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19 Feb 2008

  • Penny Arcade Podcast: The Spore Cult. Gabe & Tycho speak the awful truth about Spore and Mass Effect. A lot of Will Wright's stuff seems like it's more about entertaining him than the player. The procedural content issue is also why things like Rogue-likes and Diablo don't appeal to me.

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18 Dec 2007

Race condition

What is up with new entries for web comics showing up in your RSS reader before the graphic of the comic itself is available? It happens to me all the time with Penny Arcade and I've had it happen a couple of times with Double Fine Action Comics.

I really appreciate the feeds so I'm not trying to complain too much here, I'm just wondering what the cause is. Are their admin interfaces submitting the post and uploading the image in one step? Surely they should be doing the upload & preview then final submit dance.

Unless it's issues with a CDN or something, but penny-arcade's certainly appears to be coming from the same domain. And anyway, the delay seems far too long for it to be either of those things. Curious!

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