Penny Arcade

Last year around this time I discovered sim racing and this year I’ve discovered Gunpla. I guess I’m just a sucker for a new hobby. I’ve seen Gundam models in hobby shops my entire life, but I had never seen any of the shows and while I thought the robots looked cool, I just never investigated them. I certainly had no idea that they fit together entirely without glue or that the models came in a variety of grades each with its own level of difficulty and detail. After starting…

We sorta have the opposite problem; I have hands that resent their given function, hands that flop and writhe, hands that are happy to cover an entire PCB in a thin layer of solder when trying to join a single junction. He has perfectly still art hands. If I'm gonna undertake the kind of labor required to build a bunch of models, there has to be a scenario where I arrange said models with precision, roll well, and still lose somehow. Sorry! That's how it's gotta be. Of course,…

I understand he might have gone hard at the USA Gundam Store. That's not, like, an affiliate link or anything. We don't know them. I just sorta know that once Gabe had boiled down a bunch of the options he ended up going with them. We get into it a little bit in the strip we just wrote for Monday, but when I drop money on a bunch of tiny things I'm gonna have to assemble I want there to be a game at the end. My primary hobbies are coffee roasting, brewing, and wargaming;…

In truth, Monsieur Gribeaux offered nothing but support in real-time. But as a practical matter, he considers the manifold threat of the outer wilds something of a solved problem. Most of my recovery has been spent fixing a neighbor's computer, and having an opportunity to see the state of play today's Comcast technicians are at. It's not high. And look, I was in tech too. Most of working in tech is telling people you're the only one who gets it. But three have been out so…