Penny Arcade

A new comic strip can be found here.

I have some more details regarding the upcoming Penny Arcade gaming day at Lanwex on the 23rd. We still have a few spots open in the Soul Calibur 2 tournament that will take place there. If you would like to register for the tourney please contact Brad. We have around forty people already signed up and we’ll be closing it off at around sixty or so. Don’t feel like you have to be a pro to enter, a lot of the people who will be playing are gonna be first timers. Here are some more details on the tournament itself:

-The tournament starts at 6:00pm.

-The tournament will be double elimination

-Rounds will be 60 seconds with 100% health

-A winner will be determined by best two out of three matches (each match consisting of best two out of three rounds)

-No console specific characters will be allowed. I.e. Spawn, Link etc.

-You are welcome to bring your own sticks and controllers. Games will be played on both the PS2 and the Gamecube. Losers bracket matches will be played on the Xbox. We will have some adaptors and sticks that will work on all the systems if you don’t have your own and don’t like the default controller.

-First place winner gets an official Soul Calibur 2 Joystick for either the Xbox or Cube as well as a $10.00 gift certificate to Kicks

-Second place gets a $30.00 gift certificate to Kicks

-Third place gets a $20.00 gift certificate to kicks

-We will also be giving away Penny Arcade T-shirts, posters and other goodies throughout the day.

Now I won’t actually be playing in the tournament itself since I’m sort of running the thing. Don’t worry though if you really want to kick my ass at SC2 there will be plenty of time to do so before the tourney starts. Lanwerx will open at 11:00 am and we will be there in full effect until probably midnight. There will be three televisions with SC2 open for play all day before the tournament. So come early and spend the day.

I think that’s pretty much it. Like I said before tell your friends and tell them to tell their friends. I really wanna pack this Lanwerx place with gamers. If all goes well you can probably expect and event like this from PA every month.

In other news we finally have some new GBA SP skins available for purchase. I just got mine in today and they turned out really slick. So if your sick of your boring SP head over to GBA MOD and spice it up a bit.

Finally, happy birthday to my good friend Chris. Apparently on this very day some number of years ago he was born. He will no doubt be celebrating the miracle of his birth all day today with cake, balloons and from what I am told not one but two clowns. I know I didn’t get an invitation or anything but that’s cool cause I couldn’t have made it anyway. I have to spend all afternoon crying in the bathtub and tearing up pictures of someone I thought was my fucking friend. Enjoy your party though…Judas.

-Gabe out

I keep hoping I’ll see that fuckhole Rick Steves while I’m over here.  Yes, that Rick Steves, PBS Rick Steves, Mr. Knows All About Europe, I’m Going To Punch Him In The Face Rick Steves.

We’ve got one of his travel books with us, a real treasure trove of fucking wisdom.  If you turn to the last page of the book, you can see ads for a series he calls “Europe Through The Back Door,” promising a host of exciting Back Door Tours.  It probably wouldn’t hurt him to ask his hip young nephew whether or not his new book titles contain references to anal sex. 

We did not have a very high opinion of Venice, and we were glad to leave it on a train for Munich a few days ago.  The thing is, it wasn’t even Venice’s fault.  I blame Dick Steves. 

We were staying in a hotel that was about 100 Euro a night, which is to say about a million US dollars.  Keep in mind that this is a hotel we found in his Book Of Lies.  When we went in to get our key, we saw that there was even a Rick Steves tour staying in the hotel, and since this was when we still liked him we thought this was a good sign. 

We became very itchy in the night.  I thought I was just hot, but it eventually became so intense that I turned the light on and threw back the sheet.  What I saw were black columns of insects lining up to take a bite of my business.  Me, I mean, that’s how I would write about it.  Ants were biting my balls.  That cockjockey Steves would probably say some shit about Discovering Venice’s Tiniest Citizens.  I’m going to choke him with a belt.   

(CW)TB

Two things:

1. The plural of Lego is still Lego. Thank you to everyone who wrote in to tell me that. No I’m not gonna change it. I have never in my life heard anyone refer to a box of Legos as a box of Lego. I don’t care if it’s the correct way to say it, no one uses it that way.

2. Insects taking a bite out of Tycho’s coin purse, now that is pretty damn funny. I hope he didn’t give those bugs any diseases.

-Gabe out

***UPDATE***

We are full up for the Soul Calibur 2 Tourney. We have 64 players now which is a pretty big group. We will be posting a list of everyone’s gaming handle here shortly. We’d like for you all to check in a half hour before the tournament starts. That means be there at 5:30.

Keep in mind there will still be plenty of gaming to be had all day even if you don’t play in the tourney.

-Gabe out

Thank you TriQuad for pointing me towards this great interview with Dan Brown, the Author of THE DAVINCI CODE.

Some of you who read the book mailed me about the comments in the book regarding Davinci’s Last Supper painting. I found a great site with some really good pictures of the painting post restoration. Those of you who read the book should be able to see many of the hidden messages the book talks about in the pictures on that page. I don’t want to ruin anything for those of you who have not read the book yet so I’ll just leave it at that.

-Gabe out