Stolen Pixels #227: PUNishment

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Stolen Pixels #227: PUNishment

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I love you and hate you at the same time...

 

[imnot]

I dont get it.
Am I stupid?

 

[2xDouble]

You watched it, you can't unwatch it.

I dont get it.
Am I stupid?

Ninja Gaiden = Ninja Guy, Dan (a ninja guy named Dan)
Metal Gear Solid - Metal Gere Solid (starring Richard Gere, a famous actor)
Metroid: Other M - MMetroid: Another M (get it? it has an extra M)

 

[CrashBang]

...I love you, Shamus. Thank you

 

[Pikeperch]

Spoiler: Unless you enjoy dark humour - don't click

Where's the picture from? It looks like swedish in the background, but I can only make out two words.

On topic, puns are funny. MMetroid was hilarious, especially because I didn't see it at first.

 

[mjc0961]

The Metal Gere Solid one threw me off a bit, I was looking for the faces or whatever in the box art of the other two. It took me a minute to realize "Oh, just word play in the titles is all."

And even then it took me another minute to get "Mmetroid: Another M." Man I feel dumb.

Someone mind explaining the Metroid: Another M joke is? I think I get it, but if that's the case, I don't find it too funny. Maybe I'm missing something.

Well the actual game is called "Metroid: Other M." This one is "Mmetroid: Another M." He stuck two m's in Metroid. Look again at the box art.

 

[Abe Robinson]

Heh. The Metroid "Other M" is the only game not rated M.

 

[DancePuppets]

I want to play "Ninja Guy Dan"!

 

[Ken Sapp]

I expected better from you Shamus.

 

[Galad]

For those wondering, the bee puns appeared in the previous, 6th installment of Spoiler Warning, (which is currently a Let's Play of Bioshock) - http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=9489

I'm not very much in love with neither of these games "punished" in this comic so I just laughed heartily, just like with the bee puns

 

[elricik]

....I see what you did there. And now I do hate you, but all will be forgiven next week.

 

[BrunDeign]

Can someone explain the Ninja Gaiden one? I didn't see anything on the cover that had anythign to do with "Guy Dan". Or is he just being a troll with that one?

 

[Shamus Young]

Can someone explain the Ninja Gaiden one? I didn't see anything on the cover that had anythign to do with "Guy Dan". Or is he just being a troll with that one?

It's a pronunciation thing. The cover is from the Ninja Gaiden series. For a long time, "Ninja Gaiden" was pronounced "Ninja Guy-DAN", with the accent on the second syllable. I think most younger people use the more correct (true to the Japanese pronunciation) GUY-den, accent on the first, short "e" sound in the second.


But for those of us who used the older and more mangled Americanized pronunciation, "Guy Dan" is a play on words.

 

[Helgi]

I LOVE puns

 

[Goliathvv]

Lol! I'm actually laughing a lot! XD

I love those puns, these infamous jokes are my favorites ever. Good one shamus!

 

[The Wooster]

Can someone explain the Ninja Gaiden one? I didn't see anything on the cover that had anythign to do with "Guy Dan". Or is he just being a troll with that one?

It's a pronunciation thing. The cover is from the Ninja Gaiden series. For a long time, "Ninja Gaiden" was pronounced "Ninja Guy-DAN", with the accent on the second syllable. I think most younger people use the more correct (true to the Japanese pronunciation) GUY-den, accent on the first, short "e" sound in the second.


But for those of us who used the older and more mangled Americanized pronunciation, "Guy Dan" is a play on words.

I think I called it 'Ninja Gay-den' till I was like 18. I wasn't being funny. I'm just stupid.

 

[Zenron]

That was puntastic! *shoots shamus*

 

[TheSkaAssassin]

What you did

it's there

and I see it.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Why would you ever release something so horrible onto the world...

Clearly, Shamus is still addicted to Chime

I honestly think I would prefer comics that have no punchlines or words.

 

[SideburnsPuppy]

Too much Chiming has totally Chimed his ability to make funny Chimes!

Good god, I feel like a smurf.