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  • If you like punk, or if you just like online comics in general, you should check out "Nothing Nice to Say"... updated tri-weekly... endorsed by the Penny Arcade...

  • Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
 #50106  by ManaMan
 Wed Jul 24, 2002 12:02 am
<div style='font: 12pt "Courier New"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.nothingnice.com/index.shtml">Nothing Nice to Say</a>

If you like punk, or if you just like online comics in general, you should check out "Nothing Nice to Say"... updated tri-weekly... endorsed by the Penny Arcade...</div>

 #50109  by Kupek
 Wed Jul 24, 2002 7:08 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>They mention Discount. They get a bookmark.</div>

 #50110  by Flip
 Wed Jul 24, 2002 9:23 am
<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>hey look, another unfunny comic endorsed by the biggest overrated unfunny comic ever.</div>

 #50112  by Imakeholesinu
 Wed Jul 24, 2002 11:41 am
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>LOL!</div>
 #50113  by Tessian
 Wed Jul 24, 2002 3:22 pm
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>PA may not be the funniest webcomic around (I find Machall funnier more often) but Tycho's postings and debates he discusses are gold. Inteligence mixed in with humour and randomness; I love it</div>

 #50115  by Flip
 Wed Jul 24, 2002 5:28 pm
<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Whos postings and debates? I just read the comic when someone posts a link, I guess they have a site too and hes the creator? I thought that comic had 2 people making it? Which is also my point that 2 people cant even be funny.</div>

 #50116  by Kupek
 Wed Jul 24, 2002 5:37 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Two people - one does the art, and the other (mainly) does the writing. The one who does the writing puts up news posts along with the new strip.</div>

 #50117  by Nev
 Wed Jul 24, 2002 7:09 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Haha! Now that's funny.</div>

 #50120  by Lee
 Thu Jul 25, 2002 12:03 am
<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>I like online comics in general, but I'm going to have to assume that liking punk is a prerequisite to finding this funny. Change "or" to "and" in your statement.</div>

 #50121  by Gentz
 Thu Jul 25, 2002 11:07 am
<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Look, Flip, your opinion is wrong. Get over it.</div>

 #50122  by Tessian
 Thu Jul 25, 2002 12:06 pm
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>Tycho does writing and news posts; that's where their real claim to fame is. Most of their strips need some explaning anyway</div>

 #50123  by Flip
 Thu Jul 25, 2002 2:48 pm
<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Well gee, maybe the sunday comics should all come with explanations too. I love jokes that need to be explained to me. As an advid gamer that is current with gaming news i would think i should read a comic that needs no explanation. PA is gay, am i the only one that thinks so?</div>

 #50124  by Lee
 Thu Jul 25, 2002 3:01 pm
<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>Yes, you and you alone think that Penny Arcade is gay. There is nobody else in the entire world that shares your opinion. Loser.</div>

 #50126  by Kupek
 Thu Jul 25, 2002 8:03 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Actually, they don't need explanations. The explanations just add to it. Most Sunday comics are just cheap gags, and explanation wouldn't add much. (The only exceptions I can think of aren't in print anymore: Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side.)</div>

 #50127  by Tessian
 Thu Jul 25, 2002 10:09 pm
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I know you'll try to refute this; but 70,000 readers a day can't be wrong. And Kupek's right</div>

 #50130  by SineSwiper
 Fri Jul 26, 2002 1:52 am
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Yes, because common jokes and puns are not funny. Comic content on more specific topics are funnier than cliched jokes that everybody's heard of.</div>
 #50131  by SineSwiper
 Fri Jul 26, 2002 2:03 am
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>For example, one of the funniest scenes in South Park (the movie) was the part where the general shoots Bill Gates. Not because it was Bill Gates getting shot, but because it was a specific funny joke about computers that only a select audience would laugh at. I was probably the only person in the theatre who laughed at it, but it was still damn funny for me. For those who don't know what I'm talking about: [Globe of the world fades out and breaks] G: "Goddamn Windows 98!" G: "Bring me Bill Gates!" [Gates immediately enters] G: "Why isn't this damn thing working? You told me that Windows 98 would be faster and give me better access to the Internet!" BG: "Well, actually, over five million pe..." *BANG*</div>

 #50133  by Torgo
 Fri Jul 26, 2002 6:16 am
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Thankfully, both of those have collections that do just that.</div>

 #50134  by Kupek
 Fri Jul 26, 2002 7:03 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Exactly. The Ten Year Anniversary book for C&H is fantastic. There's a lot behind some of the strips that you never could have known on your own.</div>

 #50135  by Flip
 Fri Jul 26, 2002 8:03 am
<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Oh please, you just named both my favorite comic strips. THEY have (had) intelligent humor. Its just a matter of taste i suppose, i dont find PA funny and think its overrated.</div>

 #50136  by Flip
 Fri Jul 26, 2002 8:04 am
<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Well, you just named both my favorite comic strips.  THEY have (had) intelligent humor.  Its just a matter of taste i suppose, i dont find PA funny and think its overrated.</div>

 #50137  by Nev
 Fri Jul 26, 2002 12:19 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>No, they sure can't, because "right" and "wrong" are less important than what someone likes and finds funny. Flip can think PA sucks if he wants to, you can think it's great by the same token, and I reserve all rights to be alternately disappointed and rolling on the floor.</div>

 #50139  by Kupek
 Fri Jul 26, 2002 6:59 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Christ, and G-Man calls me square. We know he's entitled to his opinion, yadda yadda yadda, he's just so extremely in the minority, and it's on an issue that doesn't matter, there's humor in overstatement.</div>

 #50141  by Nev
 Sat Jul 27, 2002 12:43 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Oh, can it. The whole debate is stupid and pointless. I tried the nice way of saying that...now I'm trying the mean way.</div>

 #50142  by G-man Joe
 Sat Jul 27, 2002 1:10 am
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Sometimes I think you're obtuse. Other times, kinda contorted and trapezoid. But skinny people are like that. =8^)</div>

 #50145  by Kupek
 Sat Jul 27, 2002 4:07 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>They weren't being serious. And that's not mean, that's direct.</div>