Stolen Pixels #247: Her Price Is Right

[Scrythe]

*fires gun into the air*

Welcome back, Stolen Pixels!

You were surely missed.

 

[Baneat]

I don't get the panel.

What currencies are more valuable than 1 GBP?

 

[klasbo]

YES! Stolen Pixels is back!

Unless this is just some clever April Fools joke... I know your train of thought...

Please. It's not like he has a one track mind.

OT: Sure beats my $1.99 a minute joke I made when I saw the article on the Escapist.

Oh god. I thought I'd seen the light at the end of the tunnel and escaped the puns. Turns out it was a train.

You two are close to getting express tickets to a kick in the caboose.

You people obviously have training at this.

But seriously, we don't want this thread to go down the wrong track. Though I'm a-freight that might not happen...

 

[Ninjariffic]

Hasn't this run out steam yet?

 

[The Heik]

STOLEN PIXELS FUCK YEAH!!! And it's not an April Fools joke.

Actually I kinda think it is. English Pounds are some of the highest worth coinage around, so having it suddenly become Pounds would increase it's worth. So how does making it's cost go up make it suddenly cheaper than your girlfriend?

BTW welcome back Shamus!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

No, I think the offensive part comes from the fact that it implies that the reader is such a loser that he has to pay off his girlfriend. You must really by ballsy if you think you can sell something by insulting your target market.

 

[insanelich]

Err Shamus... Do I really need to point out that £ > $, thereby making the joke nonsensical?

You should point that out to Travis. But he's probably drunk.

 

[Kajt]

Yay! Stolen Pixels is finally back! I missed it. :3

 

[bad rider]

As soon as I saw stolen pixels back up "I will survive" started repeating in my head. That said awesome to see it back.

 

[cke]

Yay! Viva la Stolen Pixels!
Now do New Vegas Part 2!

 

[Aptspire]

I'm honestly MORE shocked by Stolen Pixels' return after almost 4 months of Hiatus
DON'T LEAVE US TT_TT

 

[CatinHat]

woot shamus young isn't dead

 

[Owlslayer]

Well, I'm glad Stolen Pixels is back.
Though my favorites were definitely the Gmod-made comics, especially the L4D-series. Hope something like that will be made sometime in the future.

Also, fun fact: when i first started reading Stolen Pixels, i though the creator made an image of himself and put it into the comic. Silly me, sorta.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Holy crap, Stolen Pixels is back after around a five month hiatus.

 

[wolf_isthebest]

soo 29.99$ < Shamus gf < 29.99pounds ... ouch

 

[Serenegoose]

Ok right, feminism 101: the little things matter. The male gaze in which everything in society is perceived from is an overwhelming accumulation of 'little things' which through a complex mathematical procedure known only to some as 'adding' become a 'big deal'. So whilst presuming that everyone who looks at your advert is male might, in and of itself, be a minor thing, when taken as part of say, 'all of advertising, everywhere' it is a lot bigger. I shouldn't really have to explain this. Also, you know, the whole 'cheaper than your girlfriend' essentially implies that women are financial burdens to men, who are obliged to spend money on them for their fickle loyalty. That's ever-so-slightly sexist, wouldn't you think?

 

[Frylock72]

What is with everyone suggesting that Shamus "disappeared" from the Escapist? You all do know that he writes the "Experienced Points" column here, right? The last one of those went up like six days ago - plus he's been part of the "roundtable discussion" of the Extra Consideration feature for the last several updates.

Finally, someone else realizes this. Are all of you other people fucking blind?

 

[Who Dares Wins]

STOLEN PIXELS FUCK YEAH!!! And it's not an April Fools joke.

Actually I kinda think it is. English Pounds are some of the highest worth coinage around, so having it suddenly become Pounds would increase it's worth. So how does making it's cost go up make it suddenly cheaper than your girlfriend?

BTW welcome back Shamus!

I don't know about you, but the (1) comic is here and it's Stolen Pixels. This comic is not an April Fools joke. Maybe it won't continue but maybe it will. [http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=11217]

EDIT: If you read in the comments section of that link, you'll see that he intended Travis not to know that English Pounds are worth more.

 

[The_Decoy]

Yay, stolen pixels! Hope it doesn't take too much time out of the book Shamus

 

[Boba Frag]

I really hope this isn't an April fools prank and hes really back.

Same, I really miss them. One of the reasons I started looking at other stuff besides Zero Punctuation on this sight was that Stolen Pixels was so awesome.
Ah, well.