Penny Arcade on Rockstar sex controversy

[mojo1701]

Also, you have to actually be able to see the comic in question.

I think their server's down. It should be up soon, I guess. And for future reference, you might want to link it through the archive, since when you link the view.php ending, it'll go to the last comic, and they update every few days; I've had that happen to me a few times.

 

[reveal]

It seems it's back up and.......... not teh funny.

 

[Krug]

Boy that punchline was stretched more than Reed Richards.

 

[GlassJaw]

For those that don't find the comic funny, you basically have to be very up to date on video game news in order to find -anything- funny on Penny Arcade. Also, most of it still doesn't make sense unless you read the essays on the front page.

I've been following the "controversy" pretty closely and I still didn't find this funny. I didn't really get it either actually.

 

[fett527]

Don't find it funny- OK. But if you're following the controversy how could you not get it?

Rockstar at first tried to ignore everything, then they said it was an Internet mod put out by some "third-party" (read: hackers) then they admitted that existed in all versions, including PS2 and XBOX and had to admit it was put in by their developers. In that context I find the comic teh funny.

 

[Desdichado]

It seems it's back up and.......... not teh funny.

Yup. :\

 

[ThirdWizard]

Penny Arcade just isn't a funny comic.

What I do find funny is that God of War has a sex mini-game and shows lots of topless women in it, yet people think its just a funny side-bar in the game, even though the main gameplay is much less "mature" than San Andreas. San Andreas has hookers and cop killing, which is kind of reflected in the title: "Grand Theft Auto." But, apprently lots of kids are playing this and seeing norty boobage, which is a horrible thing.

Side note: If your kid is downloading hacks for their video games to see porn, that ain't the only porn they've got. *wink wink* *nudge nudge*

 

[Angel Tarragon]

eck.

 

[Lady_Acoma]

I just find it funny that there is such an uproar, like all of the sudden someone noticed what the game actually was. I love the game, play it a lot actually, but I don't even think of turning it on when there is a kid in the room, I mean duh. And honestly, if the kid wants to look up porn cheats like said earlier, they know how to look up porn.