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Kurtz (Kurt? Kuntz? what's popular to call him now?) to go back to video game jokes.

#1



Soliloquy

In a recent Blog Post, Kurtz pretty much says that the peer pressure from moving in with the PA guys is causing him to play more Video Games, which he thinks will, in turn, cause him to make comics about video games.

Luckily, peer pressure is very real. It changes when you get older. It’s less about what clothes you wear and what drugs you should try and more about how you spend your precious free time. When your peer group sits around doing nothing, you do a lot of that. When they tell you to go buy Red Dead Redemption because we’re forming a posse later, you do that.
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Kurtz said earlier in the post that the reason for him not doing video game jokes was he stuck to the mantra of "write what you know." Since his free time essentially amounted to "sitting around doing nothing," I think that would explain why his comics in recent years have been about, well... nothing.

So, will Kurtz's new social life cause his comics to improve?

I say... maybe?


#2



TwoBit

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I say...no.


#3



Philosopher B.

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I'd say his comics will improve ...

when the Angels win the pennant.





#4

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

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Doesn't matter whether it'll change his comic or not. It won't change his narsissistc attitude.


#5

@Li3n

@Li3n

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Soliloquy said:
Kurtz said earlier in the post that the reason for him not doing video game jokes was he stuck to the mantra of "write what you know." Since his free time essentially amounted to "sitting around doing nothing," I think that would explain why his comics in recent years have been about, well... nothing.

So, will Kurtz's new social life cause his comics to improve?

I say... maybe?
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So the run of comics the forum have been hating on could have been avoided if on of us invited Kurt the Tastemaker to some D&D/L4D sessions?! Who knew...


#6



Soliloquy

Kurtz (Kurt? Kuntz? what's popular to call him now?) to go back to video game jok

The way I see it is this:

For the past year or two, kurtz has been leading an extremely dull life, consisting of only hanging out doing nothing, and writing comics about hanging out and doing nothing. Such circumstances cannot inspire greatness -- they inspire dullness.

A major change in his life, in which he's actually hanging around with interesting people and doing interesting things, can only benefit him.


#7

Gusto

Gusto

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Philosopher B. said:
I'd say his comics will improve ...

when the Angels win the pennant.



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Wow, that's a first.


#8

evilmike

evilmike

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Soliloquy said:
Kurtz said earlier in the post that the reason for him not doing video game jokes was he stuck to the mantra of "write what you know."
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That would explain the fart jokes.

:rimshot:


#9

Cajungal

Cajungal

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Personally my favorite one recently was the one with Bill the pony.


#10

SpecialKO

SpecialKO

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I like today's. I have been both Brent and Cole in that situation previously.


#11

Dave

Dave

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I think he's been getting MUCH better lately. I even think that this will bring him closer to his roots.


You guys are so negative. First you were all like, "He is doing all characters now! I want my game comix!!" and now you're all like, "Meh. Who needs another comic about games?"

Fickle bastards.


#12



Matt²

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I think he should do BOTH,..write what you know, AND write about games. AFter all, the name of the strip is "PVP" .."Player Vs Player". Either that or change the comic name to something else.


#13

SpecialKO

SpecialKO

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Matt² said:
I think he should do BOTH,..write what you know, AND write about games. AFter all, the name of the strip is "PVP" .."Player Vs Player". Either that or change the comic name to something else.
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Well, it is the name of the in-comic magazine, for what it's worth.


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Chazwozel

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Dave said:
I think he's been getting MUCH better lately. I even think that this will bring him closer to his roots.


You guys are so negative. First you were all like, "He is doing all characters now! I want my game comix!!" and now you're all like, "Meh. Who needs another comic about games?"

Fickle bastards.
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The only thing that really chaps my ass about Kurtz is that he pisses and moans about having probably the coolest and easiest fucking job on the planet.


#15

ElJuski

ElJuski

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Philosopher B. said:
I'd say his comics will improve ...

when the Angels win the pennant.



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I'm still waiting for daddy to come back.


#16

checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Kurtz (Kurt? Kuntz? what's popular to call him now?) to go back to video game jok

The real question is when will he return to making good comics?
I still followed PVP long after Kurtz had all but abandoned videogames as a subject. It's not the subject matter that's kept me from going back, its the lack of quality. I go back visit every now and then, sift through a few week's worth, and it just isn't funny anymore. It hasn't been for some time.

And that's not to say Kurtz himself isn't hilarious. He gets a tonne of laughter from me in the Aquisitions Incorporated podcasts, for example. He is still capable of the same humour he used to deliver frequently, he just doesn't bother to anymore.


#17

Jay

Jay

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That Bill the Pony one had me in tears.

Overall, someone needs to point a comic out to me one day, then I'll spend the next hours reading the last 3-4 months I missed, with a very bored look on my face.

Is Francis in the comic anymore? Geez.


#18

Gusto

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I don't fucking care about a comic wherein Cole doesn't want thai food and Brent does.


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Philosopher B.

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Dave said:
I think he's been getting MUCH better lately. I even think that this will bring him closer to his roots.


You guys are so negative. First you were all like, "He is doing all characters now! I want my game comix!!" and now you're all like, "Meh. Who needs another comic about games?"

Fickle bastards.
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Pish posh, my good sir. Personally, I once made a thread back on HP lightly mocking the droves who used to sniff 'round with all that 'I-am-never-reading-this-piece-of-shit-comic-again-unless-there-are-some-game-jokes-REAL-QUICK' jazz. He did used to have some people who were willing to see where he was going with things, if you'll recall.

Gusto said:
I don't fucking care about a comic wherein Cole doesn't want thai food and Brent does.
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I swear, he made that one just so he could write 'The Thais Have It'.

Jigglymuff said:
I'm still waiting for daddy to come back.
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:sneaky: ... it could happen!


#20

blotsfan

blotsfan

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Philosopher B. said:
I'd say his comics will improve ...

when the Angels win the pennant.



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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_ALCS


#21

checkeredhat

checkeredhat

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blotsfan;389819][QUOTE=Philosopher B. said:
I'd say his comics will improve ...

when the Angels win the pennant.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_ALCS[/QUOTE]

I'm pretty sure that was a direct reference to:



#22



Soliloquy

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I have to admit, I cracked up at the reference.

I don't think I've ever seen that used on the internet before.


#23

SpecialKO

SpecialKO

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Soliloquy said:
I have to admit, I cracked up at the reference.

I don't think I've ever seen that used on the internet before.
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Time for a new forum meme!


#24

Gusto

Gusto

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TeKeo said:
Time for a new forum meme!
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Been waiting to bust this out for a little while:



Also:



#25

Allen who is Quiet

Allen, who is Quiet

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Hey Gusto,



#26

Gusto

Gusto

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I don't even know what that's trying to say.


#27

Allen who is Quiet

Allen, who is Quiet

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It's trying to say "IT'S FACE ME BITCH, LOOK MY EYES."


#28

Jay

Jay

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Jay has been here, imaging ur threadz.


#29

Gusto

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---------- Post added at 10:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:21 PM ----------


#30

Jay

Jay

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Your move



#31

Gusto

Gusto

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#32

Jay

Jay

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---------- Post added 05-26-2010 at 12:08 AM ---------- Previous post was 05-25-2010 at 11:54 PM ----------


#33

CynicismKills

CynicismKills

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Man, that Wrex/Tali one gets me every damn time I see it. So funny.


#34

Jay

Jay

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boner alert!


#35

bhamv3

bhamv3

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Meh, not blue enough.


#36

Baerdog

Baerdog

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Liara broke my heart in ME2. :cry:


#37

Gusto

Gusto

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Baerdog said:
Liara broke my heart in ME2. :cry:
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You may have missed a conversation option. Liara loves you more than ever.

C&P from ME-Wiki:

In Mass Effect: Redemption the Shadow Broker was hired by the Collectors to retrieve Shepard's body and deliver it to them. As Harbinger is talking about the deal to the Shadow Broker, only one voice is responding to the possessed Collector General further hinting that the Shadow Broker is indeed a singular individual. He sent Tazzik, his personal enforcer, to retrieve Shepard's remains from the Blue Suns on Omega, a task at which he succeeded despite interference from Liara T'Soni and Feron. When the two followed Tazzik to the Broker's base on Alingon, they come face-to-face with the Broker, so to speak, as an obscure shadowy figure. Liara talked to him while Feron downloaded all the informing on the Broker's dealings with the Collectors. When asked to why he would sell Shepard to the Collectors, who may be working for the Reapers, the Broker answered that it was simple business. He doesn't believe that the Collectors could gain anything from a corpse. When Liara got close enough to get a good look at the Broker, she finds that it is a just a machine he's communicating through. But before the Broker could alert his men to their presence, Feron had finished downloading and Liara unleashed a powerful display of biotics, disabling the communications in the room. When they attempt to fool Tazzik and the Collector intermediary into thinking the Broker wanted full payment, the Collector General, who was possessing the drone, accused the Broker of treachery. The Broker assured the Collector that Feron doesn't speak for him. Despite the General's warning, Liara is able to escape with Shepard's body, but is forced to leave Feron behind.
(http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Broker)

Liara confesses that she feels guilty — she understood that Cerberus would use Shepard for their own agenda, but nevertheless gave the Commander's body to the Illusive Man, because she could not let Shepard go. Shepard may choose to calm her by assuring that she did the right thing as the current mission is extremely important. After handing over Shepard's body, Liara remained on Illium, devoted to hunt the Shadow Broker down, although she expresses regret that she cannot come with Shepard.
(http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Liara)

Basically Liara loved you so much that she rescued your body from the Shadow Broker and the Collectors and gave it to the Illusive Man's Lazarus Project so that you could live again. She has since become violent in her quest for revenge against the Shadow Broker.


#38

Baerdog

Baerdog

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It was the way she changed, from the sweet, caring Liara my Shepard came to love in Mass Effect 1 to the cold, calculating killer that she is in Mass Effect 2 that disappointed me. Yes, she was responsible for Shepard's resurrection but in the intervening years she'd let her desire for revenge consume her. At least, that's the impression I got.

Luckily Yeoman Whatsherface was there for rebound nookie and Tali was able to show Shepard how to love again.


#39

Gusto

Gusto

Kurtz (Kurt? Kuntz? what's popular to call him now?) to go back to video game jok

I stayed faithful to Liara.

She will be mine again.

Although I was briefly tempted by that smooth drell assassin...


#40

Necronic

Necronic

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Chazwozel;389539][QUOTE=Dave said:
I think he's been getting MUCH better lately. I even think that this will bring him closer to his roots.


You guys are so negative. First you were all like, "He is doing all characters now! I want my game comix!!" and now you're all like, "Meh. Who needs another comic about games?"

Fickle bastards.
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The only thing that really chaps my ass about Kurtz is that he pisses and moans about having probably the coolest and easiest fucking job on the planet.[/QUOTE]

Seriously? I would hate to have his job. Fans of webcomics are fickle obnoxious bastards. Having to pander to them would make me feel more like a whore than my week with Nicholas Cage in Las Vegas.


#41

Jay

Jay

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#42

Dave

Dave

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Back to the OP, today's Penny Arcade PATV episode is about Scott and it's really nice.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/pa-the-series/121/

How can you hate the guy after this?


#43

Fun Size

Fun Size

Kurtz (Kurt? Kuntz? what's popular to call him now?) to go back to video game jok

Dude, have you seen this crowd? He could be a national hero and they could hate him.

"Did you see that Scott Kurtz rescued an entire litter of puppies and several children from a burning orphanage, and then offered to rebuild the orphanage with his own money?"
"Whatever. Today's PvP wasn't funny enough. Kurtz is a douche."


#44

Cajungal

Cajungal

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Aww. :)


#45

Thread Necromancer

Thread Necromancer

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Fun Size said:
Today's PvP wasn't funny.
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That part was true at least.

I'm well past the point of disdain for Kurtz himself. I didn't care for his actions for years regarding the community that followed him but that's all over now. It's in the past. No ill will. We've moved on to bigger and better things.

But the comic... Well that just stopped being funny forever ago. I won't, nay, can't, sit here and rag on it though because I don't know what it's been doing. I stopped reading it. That's the end.


#46

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

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I thought the line should be YESTERDAY'S PvP wasn't funny.


#47

bhamv3

bhamv3

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If Scott's always as nice as he appeared to be in the video, there would be very few people hating on him.


#48

Dave

Dave

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TODAY'S is funny as hell!


#49

Telephius

Telephius

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Dave said:
TODAY'S is funny as hell!
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His humour today mostly sucked.


#50

Jay

Jay

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#51

Jay

Jay

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#52



Iaculus

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Jay said:
*stuff*
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Hey guys what's going on in this- OHGODMYEYES.


#53

Jay

Jay

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#54

Gusto

Gusto

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I will allow this derailing to continue if only for this:

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#55

Dei

Dei

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Those glasses he was wearing really slimmed his face, which made his face look too skinny for the rest of him. (Which, really, I'm complementing his glasses, it just drove me nuts).

Or, wait, is this an ME porn thread now?


#56

Jay

Jay

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#57

CynicismKills

CynicismKills

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Jay said:
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hahahaha

Best re-use of a tired meme ever.


#58



Philosopher B.

Kurtz (Kurt? Kuntz? what's popular to call him now?) to go back to video game jok

Dave said:
Back to the OP, today's Penny Arcade PATV episode is about Scott and it's really nice.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/pa-the-series/121/

How can you hate the guy after this?
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I can hate Kurtz forever, because he peed in my cereal. While shooting my dog. With a dart gun (that dog was in pain for days before the end came ...).


#59

checkeredhat

checkeredhat

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mr_thehun said:
you know the funny thing is that after saying he will be doing more video game jokes.... he's been doing jokes about Scott Kurtz.

Conversation about suck buddies, eating thai food etc....
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But the suck buddies one was actually funny.
Like I said, Kurtz is funny, PvP is not.


#60

Jay

Jay

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#61

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

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I approve of this thread for the lack of Kuntz content and abundance of wonderful ass shots. :thumbsup:


#62

SpecialKO

SpecialKO

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mr_thehun;392910][QUOTE=checkeredhat;392363][QUOTE=mr_thehun said:
you know the funny thing is that after saying he will be doing more video game jokes.... he's been doing jokes about Scott Kurtz.

Conversation about suck buddies, eating thai food etc....
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But the suck buddies one was actually funny.
Like I said, Kurtz is funny, PvP is not.[/QUOTE]

Yeah the suck buddies one was funny.[/QUOTE]

He should do more strips about the Seattle-settling in experience. They've been his funniest in a while.

Not as funny as PA's, admittedly.


#63

Jay

Jay

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Jay

Jay

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#65

bhamv3

bhamv3

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Ahem.

Tali'Zorah vas Normandy.

Otherwise, excellent poster. :D


#66

ScytheRexx

ScytheRexx

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bhamv3 said:
If Scott's always as nice as he appeared to be in the video, there would be very few people hating on him.
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I met Scott nearly two years ago in Austin, at the release event for the WOTLK WoW expansion. We ended up having drinks and talking, and he really is a nice guy. One of the reasons I often stay out of the Kurtz bashing, as I have nothing but respect for him. I bet we would have been great friends if he lived closer to Austin.

As for PA TV in general, it sure makes me wish I was a part of that place. I don't have the spine or the talent to actually work there, but they sure look like my kind of people.


#67

Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

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I've met Scott in person, and he seemed like a genuinely nice fellow. He gave my son (who was like 6 at the time) a free Skull plushy.

But man, he sure can come across like a jerk on the internet


#68

KCWM

KCWM

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Tinwhistler said:
I've met Scott in person, and he seemed like a genuinely nice fellow. He gave my son (who was like 6 at the time) a free Skull plushy.

But man, he sure can come across like a jerk on the internet
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So can most of us on this forum, and do on a daily basis :D


#69

Dave

Dave

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KCWM;394526][QUOTE=Tinwhistler said:
I've met Scott in person, and he seemed like a genuinely nice fellow. He gave my son (who was like 6 at the time) a free Skull plushy.

But man, he sure can come across like a jerk on the internet
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So can most of us on this forum, and do on a daily basis :D[/QUOTE]

Shut the f-

I mean, I concur.


#70

Null

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Everyone on the internet comes across as a raging douchenozzle now and then, but I know Mangler's had mostly good experiences with SKurtz in person.


#71

SpecialKO

SpecialKO

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I don't think Scott has ever intended to start the internet fires that he has. I just think he's frequently a bit careless with the butane lighter lodged deep in his throat.


#72

Cajungal

Cajungal

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Today's was funny.


#73

Gusto

Gusto

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Cajungal said:
Today's was funny.
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And written (or at least inspired) by the new girl at PA.


#74

Cajungal

Cajungal

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Well, well done, new girl at PA. I blast laughed in the office.


#75

Gusto

Gusto

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Cajungal said:
Well, well done, new girl at PA. I blast laughed in the office.
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Yeah I had my doubts about her but she seems pretty cool.


#76

Jay

Jay

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#77

Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

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I never had issue with Kurtz as a problem; he always seemed cool and friendly on podcasts. But sometimes he does stuff or says stuff... He just needs a PR team. Or to just give announcements and news the way he tells his friends, record it secretly, and then pretend it's how he was going to tell everyone.

The new girl is Erika?

Is this the same Erika that Kris broke up with and told everyone over Twitter immediately?


#78

Dave

Dave

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escushion said:
Is this the same Erika that Kris broke up with and told everyone over Twitter immediately?
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No.


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