Submitted by Quad9damage - November 5, 2007 at 8:46 am -0500
Don't you guys see, though? Penny Arcade is in cahoots with the video game industry. They made this comic so that the watchdog groups will THINK gamers don't care about Manhunt 2, and while the adults look the other way, all the children will be free to play the game and train to be killers!
Submitted by Black Manta - November 5, 2007 at 9:33 am -0500
As always, Gabe and Tycho are right on the money. The media may be focusing on Manhunt 2 but most of us right now are talking about games like Crysis, Hellgate: London, Guitar Hero III or Rock Band. Bravo, guys. :)
Submitted by Gameboy - November 5, 2007 at 9:42 am -0500
Gotta love the guys over at Penny Arcade. So true. So funny.
@ Black Manta
Don't forget Assassin’s Creed, Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Final Fantasy 13 (a friend tells me Versus may still be released this year), Halo 3, and a host of others.
Submitted by valthun - November 5, 2007 at 11:34 am -0500
yeah I am not in either wedge, nor is my roomate or any of my co-workers, who are in the majority as gamers. We all went out and picked up GHIII or Ratchet, or are playing Tactics on our PSP's.
To Gameboy;
Don't get your hopes up buddy. I can guarantee you that game isn't coming out this year.
Submitted by Gameboy - November 5, 2007 at 12:53 pm -0500
@ valthun
Yeah, I know. It's all rumor and whatnot. I don't really expect they'll release it too far from the release date of FF13, but you never know. I honestly can't find any concrete info on that. Guess I'll just wait and see.
Submitted by Chalts - November 5, 2007 at 11:42 pm -0500
I'm not sure if I count as the purple wedge or not. I care about the fact that people are trying to censor it and demonize video games at large by association.
I don't care about it from the perspective that I want to play it, especially after the middling reviews it's been getting.
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:27pm ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:26pm ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:23pm ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:18pm beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
Posted 11/07/09 at 03:34pm ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:07am ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:05am JDKJ: I'm no psychologist, but I'm told that crazy people have a tendency to do crazy things.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:03am chadachada321: Whoops, was out of the convo for awhile. I do wonder what type of ammo he used etc, but the real issue is WHY he did it, not HOW
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:56am JDKJ: But if it turns out that they actually did, they'll have Hell to pay.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:45am JDKJ: And I'd tend to rule out the possibilty of FN Herstal supplying restricted ammunition to someone merely because they're ordering it from a military base.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:37am JDKJ: I know you don't leave your gated community and get around much in dark alleys, so you may be surprised to learn that there's this thing called "the black market" where, if you've got enough money, ain't too much of anything which can't be bought.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:36am Austin_Lewis: Or, maybe he or someone else at the base ordered the SS190 from FN Herstal.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:32am Austin_Lewis: the hands of private owners. They run about 300 dollars minimum for a box of 50, and boxes of AP 5.7 are extremely scarce, mainly residing in the hands of Class III stores or individuals who for one reason or another got a demo box of it.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:30am Austin_Lewis: There are other firearms that fire the 5.7. However, I too would like to know where he got the ammo and what kind was used. Maybe Hasan, planning not to live through this, went out and bought one the boxes of SS190 that are floating around in
Posted 11/07/09 at 08:44am JDKJ: And it isn't yet clear what type of ammunition Hasan used. It's strange that he purchased a gun but didn't purchase ammunition for it at the same place and time. Especially because the calibre required is peculiar to the actual gun.
Comments
Hear that JT? Manhunt 2 won't corrupt us because most of us don't actually care about the game. You had nothing to worry about from the start.
Hooah indeed!
@ Black Manta
Don't forget Assassin’s Creed, Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Final Fantasy 13 (a friend tells me Versus may still be released this year), Halo 3, and a host of others.
And not for "stings"
To Gameboy;
Don't get your hopes up buddy. I can guarantee you that game isn't coming out this year.
I went and picked up Bladestorm. I'm loving it in 1 hour.
Yeah, I know. It's all rumor and whatnot. I don't really expect they'll release it too far from the release date of FF13, but you never know. I honestly can't find any concrete info on that. Guess I'll just wait and see.
"I’d say the proportion of gamers is actually smaller. "
I agree
The chart has an unaturaly large purple part. My reseach gives me a Graham number for the yellow/purple pixels ratio. Or a DNC error. More common.
Otherwise it jumps to the most recent comic, which is no longer the Manhunt one.
I don't care about it from the perspective that I want to play it, especially after the middling reviews it's been getting.
CyberSkull's right, the link you have up is now to the wrong comic, and it's still on the main page
Also; Penny Arcade is, as always, spot on.