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Subject: Penny Arcade's Delightful Response

Devil is Double is Deuce and Joker always trumps Deuce.

don't get involved over there
OUR mods get pissed
i tried to make that forum apologize and ended up with a friendly warning (not directed at me just in general) from the bungie.net overlord

  • 07.18.2004 12:49 AM PDT
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Don't worry, I don't get involved in forum cat fights, but it still took some of the shimer off the weekly update.

[Edited on 7/18/2004 12:52:08 AM]

  • 07.18.2004 12:51 AM PDT

Devil is Double is Deuce and Joker always trumps Deuce.

yeah

it's a battle of brains and everyone in PA forums is unarmed

  • 07.18.2004 12:52 AM PDT
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Got that right

  • 07.18.2004 12:53 AM PDT
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This post isn't about Halo 2, so I'm moving the thing to The Flood

And don't let it get out of hand

  • 07.18.2004 12:54 AM PDT
Subject: Penny Arcade's Delightful Response
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Finally got around to checking the new Update, which by the way was great as usual, yet to my disgust when checking the responses to update I found pages and pages of disgruntled Penny Arcaders ripping into the post and Halo responders. Now I'll give it that many of these guys probably live on these forums and might consider someone new posting something akin to blasphemy, but excuse me, who the crap do they think they are? Don't they realize that it is companies like Bungie that give their stupid little forum a reason to exist. Even the admin's note was dripping with disdain. I can't understand how some people build up such snobbish attitude on some forums. They feel that having 500 gazillion posts gives them the right trash whoever they danged well feel like.

And trashing a rep from a company like Bungie no less, who willingly decides to fill in their gamers on all the cool new stuff they are doing and have planned. It's that kind of devotion to gamers that makes Bungie seem so personable. When you have direct insight into the day to day happenings of a revered game studio, you can't help but feel apart of the excitement, apart of the team. I think Penny Arcade owes an apology to Bungie and Halo fans alike for such a poor reception. Now, I'm not suggesting setting up your computer to relentlessly ping Penny Arcade.... but by all means avoid the site.

  • 07.18.2004 12:47 AM PDT

Devil is Double is Deuce and Joker always trumps Deuce.

aye aye Maka

  • 07.18.2004 12:55 AM PDT
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whos penny arcade

  • 07.18.2004 12:56 AM PDT
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Sorry bout posting in the wrong area, wasn't quite sure where to post

  • 07.18.2004 12:59 AM PDT
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you know i think i learned something today that all fans of halo and halo2 and any other bungie fans should get along and not flame each other we should save that for xbox live and trash talk to other fans likegta fans

[Edited on 7/18/2004 1:11:26 AM]

  • 07.18.2004 1:02 AM PDT
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are these penny arcade people evil or something

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  • 07.18.2004 1:08 AM PDT
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I don't know, sounds like there might be some trouble makers on the Penny Arcade forums.
I guess I don't blame Penny Arcade, just the people who can't have civil conversations on forums.

Read the post about the update on the home page of Penny Arcade, sounds like things just got out of hand.

Still probably won't go there in the future.

  • 07.18.2004 1:16 AM PDT
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can ya giive me a link

  • 07.18.2004 1:35 AM PDT
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After this whole Penny Arcade biz is over and Halo 2 comes out. It's gonna be one of the things I smack them for. . . and I won't forget.

Playing such a good game + thinking about someone having a downright unfair attitude = "anime nerd basher" time. ( Yeah maybe that's it. Maybe they're trying to act like their favorite little anime characters or something. Being stubborn and thinking it's attractive. Some class to dismiss such a great effort ) otherwise . . I'll just be waiting, letting them get away with wiping their noses with their own diapers.

  • 07.18.2004 2:46 AM PDT
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I hate to say it, but maybe PA is right. I don't know if Frankie cleared with them the fact he was posting the update or not. The update has killed a website's bandwidth in the past, and not everyone may welcome the attention. However, the PA forums are a public message board. If the PA staff really had such a problem about it, they should have deleted Frankie's post and told him to get lost.

As for everyone being shocked about how rude the audience is there, what were you expecting? PA has got to be one of the most jaded and sarcastic websites on the net, and they are certainly not a fan site, let alone a Halo/Xbox one.

  • 07.18.2004 10:28 AM PDT

-S

The last update is the center of a small debacle that was a bit of everyone's fault. It's best to just drop it.

  • 07.18.2004 10:47 AM PDT
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Yeah, I can see how having your banwidth suddenly destroyed by a massive influx of people could tick some people off. But that still doesn't excuse the way people were acting on the forum. I'm sure Frankie will choose better next time around ;-)

Thanks, everyone, for your opinions!

[Edited on 7/18/2004 11:18:39 AM]

  • 07.18.2004 11:18 AM PDT
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To be fair, Jay thinks Frankie should at least have given the poor sods a good warning before putting the update there. The hard feelings were resultant of error on both sides, and Jay thinks that not recognizing that is an error too. At least we learned from this not to assume that the update will be seen as an honor upon whichever site is chosen for it.

  • 07.18.2004 12:26 PM PDT
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You shouldnt take what PA is saying so seriously, I think some of their comics are pretty good.Besides I read that one of the writers of the comics didnt like HAlo but liked Halo 2.

  • 07.20.2004 12:44 PM PDT
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Gabe himself is resentful of the cesspool of idiocy that is their forums:

"Bungie decided to make their most recent Halo 2 update in our forum. They are all really nice guys and had they told me of their intentions I would have begged them to reconsider. They post these updates in forums all the time but I don’t think they really understood just how bad ours is. The only reason it still exists is because at some point someone in there will blow up a nursing home full of senior citizens and the FBI will want a history of their online activities. It’s really just a big pile of evidence that we’ll hand over to the authorities the second they stop posting pictures of their asses and start killing people.

-Gabe out"

  • 07.20.2004 12:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: forumrunner
To be fair, Jay thinks Frankie should at least have given the poor sods a good warning before putting the update there. The hard feelings were resultant of error on both sides, and Jay thinks that not recognizing that is an error too. At least we learned from this not to assume that the update will be seen as an honor upon whichever site is chosen for it.


Please excuse my naivete, but what is with the whole "Jay" thing? Enlighten me, if you will.

  • 07.20.2004 12:53 PM PDT