Penny Arcade

I wouldn't say our Comedy Weapon - the geoscynchronous platform I'm addressing you from now - strikes unerringly. But I would say that we have attempted to engage with the form often enough to suggest that we know something about its elusive dynamics, at least enough to propose that not everyone can do it and most attempts fail. The Netflix slash Game Pass comparisons are robust at the First Party tier. Remember when Netflix Original Series sorta just meant Not Good Shows? This…

We have a few strips written out ahead at the moment because Gabriel firmly situated in his personal pit of horrors, that of being strapped to an inclined concrete wedge while dentists, warlocks, and necrophiles dance in frenzied arcs about the dias. You might think of this as an exaggeration, and it might be an exaggeration as a description of dentistry as practiced on Earth, but it is not an exaggeration of the terror it inspires. If anything, I have softened its terrifying, serrated…

I think I have had fun every time I've been golfing. That said, I rarely play; I'm there primarily to engage in anthropology. A lot of the weirder terminology of golf has been worn smooth by its professionalization, but even a Hole In One is still understood to be an Eagle, and the scoring structure is replete with iconic birds. The real meat for the linguaphile is in deprecated terms, and this Wikipedia page is replete with them. If you can't find yourself nourished by terms…

Tonight’s Penny Arcade league race is going to be a doozy. We are racing the Dallara F3 car at Road America. This car is much faster than anything I’ve raced in iRacing so far and it’s also a brand new track for me. I’ve been practicing for a couple days now but there are so many blind turns and tricky sections to this track that just getting around it cleanly is a challenge for me. The league had a little practice race last night and I spent most of the time in the pit.…