Penny Arcade

Gabriel saw Tenet, or TENET, or whichever one is the correct one, but it sorta seems like it was the same as not seeing it...? Maybe it was like seeing it in reverse, or "unseeing" it. Powerful, if true.  Its director is angry that there is a pandemic and it changed some of the business assumptions that were thought of as material truths. I understand how it must feel. But I also think this shift has been en route for some time, and this is just us seeing those forces at work, as though…

Thursday night is race night and the Penny Arcade iRacing league will be hitting the oval this evening. I did the practice race last night and had a pretty rough go of it. These cars are tuned super loose and it's very easy to lose it on the turns. By the end of the practice race I felt a little more comfortable behind the wheel but I'm super nervous about tonight. These oval races tend to be action packed. I'll be opening up the Pit Crew at 7:30PT to start with some more…

Chris Pine might be "attached," I assume by a length of chain or rope, to the Dungeons & Dragons film. As for the strip, obviously no. But! If you've ever seen him with his hairs mowed real close to the ground he's basically there. A movie that is essentially a fantasy heist film, like the sort of shit we get up to at the table anyway, maps the concepts we like onto a structure that's perceptible by humans broadly. That's the sort of thing you could actually get made, it…

I don't remember the last time a developer came out publicly and offered refunds for a game at this level of expectation - one that hadn't been out for a week. I don't know if that's because it's exceedingly rare or if it's because it's never happened before. When we discussed the prospect of a troubled launch in this strip from September, I mostly expected the normal sorts of shit that you get in open world games, frankly, like what they've delivered…