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But seriously. This is exactly why I don't like the Penny-Arcade guys. They pull this stuff all the time just to get attention and to grow their egos. They pulled this shit with Jack Thompson at some point as well.
Mind you, I don't like fatality or Thompson, but this is just PA scoring free media attention and showing off how they are supposedly "with it". I don't like their sleazy moves, it's just low. They need to grow the fuck up.
Granted, sometimes their cartoon is funny and dead on, but even then it's not laugh out loud funny. Couple that with the fact that they pretend the characters are not fantasy versions of themselves (even though when you listen to their podcasts they talk as if they are) and the mess they made of their own game and the dude who's being wordy for the sake of it (I swear, listen to their podcast, sometimes he doesn't even know what a word he's using means!).
The PA guys are funny, irreverent and mock people who deserve it. As if "pulling this shit" with Jack Thompson is a bad thing? As if they need *more* attention (since PAX is a sell-out event every year)? As if it wasn't just a humourous quip about how ridiculous it is that E For All is trying to make it seem as if Wendell is someone worth showing up to a gaming convention for? Yeah they have big egos, but so freaking what? A lot of people - including many people on this site - do as well. The only difference is that these guys have earned the right to it, with the success of their expo and Child's Play charity, as well as the clout they wield in the industry.
I don't think Holkins is "wordy for the sake of it", but then I speak fluent English and find his prose entertaining. Oh, and I enjoyed the PA game. But each to their own I guess.
Or it could be they like to make jokes at everyone. Which is usually what they do. I don't see anything wrong in that. And hell I laughed, so they accomplished what they set out to do.
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He makes Brainy Smurf seem tough.
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Fatal1ty Wendel... the Billy Mitchel of a new generation.
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Of course when you jump on their shit for making fun of a company who doesn't "get" gaming as a culture, I'm not expecting much. Facing facts, you set the bar pretty low. Now look up Johnathon "Fatal1ty" Wendel. Read some of the interviews, how he likens himself to the god of gaming, how good of a winner he really is, or some of his past exploits at gaming conventions. Then analyze how he literally believes gaming celebs to be as big as football players and how he's like a rockstar in his celebrity status. Read all that, and realize why most gamers who know of him, can't stand him. Also.. fucker spams the same combo in SCIV.
Read up all about Fatal1ty and he'll remind you of one of gamings other resident douches... Billy Mitchell. Gaming needs good guys in the public eye. Not the living embodiment of everything that's wrong with the XBL community touring the nation on a bus with his gaming handle on it....
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See if you can see the difference
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Better yet, just dump them all on an island with Jack Thompson and the Xbox Killer.
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