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Parenting the PA way

#1

strawman

strawman

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/

I wish I had seen this when I needed to answer my kid's questions! A dark wizard in a tower is so much cooler than the rather mundane truth.

On the other hand, "dark wizard in a tower" is a rather interesting euphemism for the mundane reality...


#2

Dave

Dave

I laughed my ass off at this and couldn't wait for the blog post about it. Alas, the blog post is quite mundane and doesn't explain anything. Sometimes the blog posts are like streams of consciousness with Tourettes.

It falls to us to explain some pretty elemental shit on occasion, a task I relish. The version I gave my own son was (for lack of a better term) rendered at a substantially higher resolution.

I have been trying to discern exactly why I have warmed so to my Avatar on the 360, why I like him and want the best for him. Something Avatars have over their Home counterparts is that they exist as a part of the base experience - I don't need to \"go\" somewhere to see it. This means that items purchased for them fall under the same conceptual space as themes: it is a dress-up Doppelganger, my jolly adjunct.

Originally consigned to the damn'd vault of Hell along with quote unquote premium horse clothes, I never thought I'd be the kind of lawless brigand who'd avail myself of electronic doll shit - until, one day, I began to think of these purchases as tips. If I go to Tacos Guaymas and get a burrito, that person gets a tip. It's tip time. But if Casey Hudson (et al) gives me the opportunity to ensoul a paragon of humanity, and I live thus for nearly a day of real time, he gets a double thumbs up, or maybe the finger guns? I like pork, but I don't like pork more than I like decapitating xenomorphs, and that's something I'm happy to recognize with a couple bucks.

Microsoft is finally gearing up to manifest Live Anywhere, a spectral initiative which has howled nightly in its dereliction. Understand that this is something Gabriel and I \"saw\" in 2006, \"running\" on an \"actual phone,\" an application which we may now assume had the filename \"lies.exe.\" Or maybe not lies as such, but a notion that exists as something less than a pure directive and is more like an inclination. The business needed to make money, though, and so vending digital merchandise took center stage while finding out what the fuck Steve is doing took a back seat.

What has changed to make such a unification the right maneuver? Whence the money?

There were, at one point, elements of the Periodic Table whose existence we could only infer. To be frank, a phone running Windows Mobile 7 can't (can't, can't) be the extent of their mobility narrative.
Unless they're dumb, which they aren't. So, again: what do they have writhing in the periphery which has returned noble Steve to the fore?
(CW)TB out.


#3

Hylian

Hylian

:laugh:

I got a good laugh out of it.


#4

Jake

Jake

The wizard is my penis.


#5

Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Too bad no one posted the image of the comic so it could be spoiled.


#6

Dave

Dave

??


#7

Allen who is Quiet

Allen, who is Quiet

Too bad no one posted the image of the comic so it could be spoiled.
Heh.


#8

Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I'm still hanging onto something I should have let go of long ago.


#9



Occasional Poster

Too bad no one posted the image of the comic so it could be spoiled.

Ha!
Has it been more than two years now since we learned that lesson? :D


#10

strawman

strawman

Too bad no one posted the image of the comic so it could be spoiled.

Ha!
Has it been more than two years now since we learned that lesson? :D[/QUOTE]

Time wounds all heels.


#11

Dave

Dave

Ah! I forgot all about that! But it doesn't fit anyway because the spoiler was when you showed the comic without adding the blog post.

I DO remember!


#12

Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Was that it? I thought it was because JCM hadn't mentioned that it was that day's PA in the title, just that it was PA.


#13

Dave

Dave

Nah. Someone bitched because without the blog post they didn't get the comic and thus posting comic without blog is bad.


#14

Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

JCM did it.

Mav was the unhappy clam.


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