CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby King Kool » 09 May 2011, 15:57

My PS3 isn't black, it's four-foot-eleven, a DD cup and had a cameo in Miss Congeniality 2. Am I safe?
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby Serisothikos » 09 May 2011, 15:58

ThrashJazzAssassin wrote:Not so keen about the colour scheme, particularly with that style of graphics. Personally I'd prefer a different shade of red, but I definitely think you should ditch the grey. It looks like some horrible preset colour scheme that no one actually uses.


I actually found myself liking it quite a bit: the contrast is visually arresting and draws the eye to the sidebar and the ticker more effectively than ENN's color cheme did.
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1

Postby Wolfenbarg » 09 May 2011, 16:02

Lyinginbedmon wrote:
Lyinginbedmon wrote:...


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...I hate you guys so much right now...

I should probably clarify this a tad...

It isn't that I hate LRR, or Penny Arcade, or even the content of CheckPoint (I actually did enjoy it quite a bit, especially given that it mirrors ENN in many aspects).

More, I'm irritated that Penny Arcade is getting still more online subscribers from still more avenues of entertainment, when they already borderline-monopolise the webcomic readership.

As a webcomic artist and author of nearly 4 years myself, Penny Arcade is a member of the elder peers that are doing some serious harm to the industry, for which I don't really blame them but they (and others like them) don't really redeem themselves by continuing to increase their readership figures like this. The elder webcomics make it very hard to start up, let alone succeed, in the webcomics industry because, simply put, the capacity does not exist to compete with them.

So yeah, enjoyed the video, dislike the implications its location has for my industry.


Aside from the 4th Panel segments of Penny Arcade's self titled reality series, none of these videos seem to do a lot to promote anything other than the rest of the videos on the site. Your webcomicing is fine, however you might have just lost a lot of hits if you were planning on making a parody news show.
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby Graham » 09 May 2011, 16:05

ThrashJazzAssassin wrote:Not so keen about the colour scheme, particularly with that style of graphics. Personally I'd prefer a different shade of red, but I definitely think you should ditch the grey. It looks like some horrible preset colour scheme that no one actually uses.

I once spent several seconds in a room with a guy who once owned a PS3. Am I safe?
I actually worked really hard on that colour-scheme, I assure it's not preset :D

And if your friends PS3 had a PlayStation Eye, no you're not safe.
It has X-ray capability, you know.
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby Rikadyn » 09 May 2011, 16:22

Fayili wrote:About halfway through, and had to stop because I'm in class, but it's definitely great so far. My only gripe would be that I don't like the color scheme, but that's just because I don't like those colors, especially together, not because of any inherent flaw.



Red+Yellow = McDonalds. Doesn't matter what shades, it all equals McDonalds in my eyes.

More importantly, my PS3 is matte grey 57 inches long, weighs 30.9lbs, you slide a large brass object into it and costs around 7k usd, am I safe?
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby goat » 09 May 2011, 16:30

So... it's ENN... on PATV?

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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby Beta Test » 09 May 2011, 16:34

ThrashJazzAssassin wrote:Not so keen about the colour scheme, particularly with that style of graphics. Personally I'd prefer a different shade of red, but I definitely think you should ditch the grey. It looks like some horrible preset colour scheme that no one actually uses.


I dunno, I like it, it differs itself in color-scheme compared to most of the other stuff on the site, and I find it helps as a since of starting something new and fresh, but still holds some of the good old elements in it.
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby Vanguard » 09 May 2011, 16:37

King Kool wrote:My PS3 isn't black, it's four-foot-eleven, a DD cup and had a cameo in Miss Congeniality 2. Am I safe?


Your PS3 is actually aging country music singer Dolly Parton. Your personal information is safe, as are your eardrums as long as you don't search for her on YouTube or come within twenty-five miles of Branson, Missouri.
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1

Postby Lyinginbedmon » 09 May 2011, 16:38

Wolfenbarg wrote:Aside from the 4th Panel segments of Penny Arcade's self titled reality series, none of these videos seem to do a lot to promote anything other than the rest of the videos on the site. Your webcomicing is fine, however you might have just lost a lot of hits if you were planning on making a parody news show.

You misunderstand, as PA garners increasingly large numbers of visitors for their other media, their flagship product (the webcomic pages) garners increasing attention, in turn feeding their existing readership which far exceeds that of any other webcomic today. It's a symptom of a much greater malady plaguing the industry which is perhaps best described in the old phrase "the rich get richer, the poor get poorer".

You can create the most fantastically well-written and beautifully-drawn piece of art on a thrice-weekly basis, and it counts for nigh-on diddly squat in webcomics unless you started almost a decade ago. It is a very harsh industry simply because the readership is monopolised by those who were first, who in turn continue to monopolise it because the alternative marketing options for the younger artists are few and far between.

As I say, I enjoyed the video, but much as I respect Mike and Jerry for their charitable contributions and their forays into other media, they are perhaps one of the most oblivious toxins within the industry today.
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby Matt » 09 May 2011, 16:43

This is so not the place for this particular discussion.

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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby Graham » 09 May 2011, 16:48

Yeah, that's a debate for not-this-thread.
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby Beta Test » 09 May 2011, 16:51

It did seem to attract some attention though so post it on the vent thread, or make it its own thread.
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby njsykora » 09 May 2011, 16:54

Got a few smiles from me but no outright laughs, think PSN jokes have kinda passed their sell-by-date. Actually think they passed it about a week ago. Also as some others have said, Persona-esque graphic style, intentional or not?
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby Beta Test » 09 May 2011, 16:56

njsykora wrote:I don't buy that PA make it harder to build a webcomic, or to make it successful. Their success may have over-saturated the gaming webcomic market with people looking to piggy-back on their success (sometimes even with the same jokes) but story-based or diary style webcomics shouldn't be affected since they occupy a different space and command a different readership. Webcomics aren't a finite resource and its not like people can only 'afford' to read one.

On the video, got a few smiles from me but no outright laughs, think PSN jokes have kinda passed their sell-by-date. Actually think they passed it about a week ago. Also as some others have said, Persona-esque colour scheme, intentional or not?


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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby njsykora » 09 May 2011, 17:01

I know, I was writing that while Matt and Graham were posting. Edited out now.
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby Phailhammer » 09 May 2011, 17:04

Checkpoint definitely fills the gap left by ENN as far as I'm concerned. I laughed at the target audience joke at the start. Not bitter at all. :P
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby Beta Test » 09 May 2011, 17:15

njsykora wrote:I know, I was writing that while Matt and Graham were posting. Edited out now.


Good, now you get an internet cookie, careful it has a decent amount of iguana marmite porn on it though.
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby njsykora » 09 May 2011, 17:23

Marmite is the substance that sustains life and iguanas are awesome, so that's aaaaaall good.
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby ElementalAlchemist » 09 May 2011, 17:56

Yesss! ENN returns! ^_^
Well, OK, it's not called ENN anymore of course, but it's similar enough.

I was very glad to see this. Then I watched it and was even happier. It was great--thank you guys for being so awesome.
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1

Postby AlexanderDitto » 09 May 2011, 19:19

Phenonemis wrote:Is it just me or does Jer's silhouette look awesome and remind me of Grit from Adavance Wars. Anybody else?


YES THANK you I knew it reminded me of something.

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I love that the four of you have really distinctive silhouettes. So good!
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby Kaiserin » 09 May 2011, 20:02

I checked the site today and now I am smiling! So glad it's back.
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

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Beta Test wrote:careful it has a decent amount of iguana marmite porn on it though.

OK, I have to ask... how much iguana marmite porn does it take for it to be considered "decent"?
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby WAYF » 09 May 2011, 21:10

Wow. Yep, this is gooooood... :D

I got the joke before Paul got to the punchline, but having him describe all of those things that weren't PS3s was hilarious.
And it's good to see Graham and Kathleen's trademark brands of sarcastic wit being brought back to the table. I did miss things like
"...presumably feeling they'll be more successful while not under the direct control of people who actively hate video games" and
"to flesh out that Red Faction expanded universe we were all so worried about."

(I have never played Red Faction, or... quite a lot of video games, actually :P , but I'm going to assume for the purposes of grinning at that joke that Red Faction doesn't or shouldn't have much of an expanded universe)
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Re: CheckPoint Episode 1 - Into the Breach

Postby zfubarz » 09 May 2011, 21:33

phlip wrote:Wait, there's an RSS feed? I hunted around for a while, but I couldn't find one... where is it?

well i use the PA feed anyways, so it works out for me, seems you aren't a fan, so you may be out of luck.

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