Part Two of "Cardboard and Steel," Penny Arcade's epic samurai tale, awaits you. I want to stress that I use the term "epic" rather loosely, for example - I think my belt is rather epic. This page is really cool, by the way. That's something I can get away with saying because I had very little to do with it. The first panel of the strip has been fashioned into a wallpaper, if you are so inclined.

There are some bits of Penny Arcade news that need to be communicated.

One, my friend and associate Plastik360 is completing a scrumptious RSS feed for Penny Arcade. I'm in no position to tell you what that stands for, something with R, but I suspect that many heads are nodding in unison. The long and the short of it is that it will allow easy, multiplatform content tracking for our strips and posts which can be digested by apps like Kontent for OSX, a sort of news reader that utilizes this feature. Anyway, when he told me about it, it sounded like a cool idea and I couldn't think of any reason why not.

Two, humans have expressed some agitation over our boycott of the Amazon Honor System. Many people feel that Paypal is at least in league with Satan, if not itself the Sovereign of Hell. I respect that. It is the hope that our upcoming online store, set for launch this month, will have some functionality of this kind.

Three, on the Club PA tip, it pleases me to announce that I have sent the gift out to every e-mail address I have. Of course, if you donated through Amazon, I never got it - please mail me at ClubPA@penny-arcade.com and I will get you squared away. That e-mail address is meant to serve a sort of "Customer Service" role, if you have any problems with your membership at all feel free to communicate those concerns to me via that account. I think I might take over the sending out of the gift, HomeLAN gave me some pretty bad-ass tools to get the job done.

(CW)TB out.

where is my mind

My friend Robert came back from Shanghai with some Stephen Chiau DVDs and some kind of Communist Supercold. I borrowed the movies and maybe the disease just came along for the ride, but that's no reflection on Stephen Chiau, who is a comedy powerhouse.

Inbetween furious bouts of nose blowing and softly whimpering, I was tooling around over at VE3D when I saw this: the Kung Fu Edition mod for Max Payne. The only user modification I'd ever installed was the one with a first person view, but it always seemed like it was just a matter of time before the right person got their hands on it. This is actually the third iteration of the mod, which makes me wonder what else I've been missing.

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Holy shit.

Dust off that copy of Max Payne, dig it out, whatever - and download that Kung Fu mod. To tempt you, here is a list of the fabulous new additions.

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I'm just testing our new RSS feed. I didn't mean to get your hopes up for a stirring new post.

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Gabe just got back from Sacramento today, having gone down to a career fair to convince the young that one can indeed make a living drawing things.

Of course, he came back in the middle of the day, exhausted, only to find an extremely elaborate script for Friday's comic that he cracked into immediately.

Hey may receive some burst of energy that compels him with great force, but barring that, he may need to wake up in the morning to complete it. I do ask that you please tolerate this brief delay, with our assurances that the rest of the series will be delivered promptly.

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