Valve Ruined My Joke Art Day

[lacktheknack]

Freaking nailed it. Please never change.

 

[CaitSeith]

Damn it! Shouldn't the webcomic artists have an "emergency topics list" for cases like this? Oh, well. At least the artwork is nice...

 

[Truth Cake]

Damn it! Shouldn't the webcomic artists have an "emergency topics list" for cases like this? Oh, well. At least the artwork is nice...

I thought that's what "DEEP AND MEANINGFUL" and shitting on Nickelback was for; not that I'm complaining, it's just those are the usual fallback topics for CM.

I just hope someday they remember Scary Penny, I don't think we've seen her since the epilogue of Children of Steam (at least that's the last time I remember seeing her).

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Drinking solves everything, especially when you have an artist doing the arts standing by.

 

[Darth_Payn]

Damn it! Shouldn't the webcomic artists have an "emergency topics list" for cases like this? Oh, well. At least the artwork is nice...

I think that was what Evangelion was for, but that well's dried up.

 

[Jacked Assassin]

If CM had the ability to tell a Valve Joke on Tuesday.... And FFN is only on Wednesday.... Then that means there was no time to tell a Valve Joke a day before FFN.... Also no way that could be unfair though as Valve made the announcement sometime on Monday.

 

[Zer0Saber]

Someone beat me but oh well.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

Inspired by Redlin5's avatar and some webcomic on the Internet:



[QUOTE=Zer0Saber]Also I'm dumb and don't know how to post a pic in the comments. Let me know if you feel like it.[/QUOTE]

[code][[b][/b]img src="http://i.imgur.com/sd9lTXu.jpg"][/code]

 

[RJ 17]

Yay! Time to Mad-Lib the strip!

Erin: "So this is where those cunts at Konami hid all the fucks they had left to give for making good games!"

Complete with a dirty word. :3

How about three?

"So this is where those disheveled cunts at spotty Konami hid all the gritty fucks they had left to give for making good games!"

If we really want to go for dirty...I can think of a particular place to use the British descriptor "bloody" (as in "Oh bloody hell!" or "BLOODY PIRATES!!!") that would make my Mad-Lib particularly offensive. =3

I'll give you a hint: it wouldn't replace "spotty", nor would it replace "gritty."

 

[FPLOON]

"Fuck you, Valve! I'm going to give my fancy pet rat more attention than you this time!" -Erin

But seriously, this strip's own mod gave me a better laugh than Steam trying to sell mods...

 

[vallorn]

Inspired by Redlin5's avatar and some webcomic on the Internet:



[QUOTE=Zer0Saber]Also I'm dumb and don't know how to post a pic in the comments. Let me know if you feel like it.[/QUOTE]

[code][[b][/b]img src="http://i.imgur.com/sd9lTXu.jpg"][/code][/quote]

Nonono he said it needs a dirty word. She has a Quantum ****.

Also, if you aren't drinking Irish Whiskey we will be having words Mr Carter...

 

[Orekoya]

Well why couldn't Critical Miss have just ripped themselves off [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comicsandcosplay/comics/critical-miss/9831-The-R-Word] if Full Frontal Nerdity was off the table?

 

[Zombie_Fish]

Nonono he said it needs a dirty word. She has a Quantum ****.

I'm going to be starting a PhD in less than five months time. As far as I'm concerned, 'quantum' is the dirty word.

 

[SadisticFire]

It's pretty clear the timeline went

1) Guy thinks of monetizing mods, floats idea to Gaben.
2) Gaben says yes, but go through Beth and check with lawyers
3) Mod marketplace is established with standard minimal Valve oversight
4) Internet blows up
5) Gaben notices issue, attempts to calm masses on Reddit
6) Gaben actually looks at how everything works, notices all the inherent fuckups
7) Gaben cancels monetizing mods.

There's plenty of opportunity to make a joke out of that.

I don't think that's how it works for mostly a couple reasons. Gabe wasn't around when the thin was released, and how Valve is structured. If you want to start a project in Valve you don't need approval, a forum sent in, or anything. You just start it, and if you feel like it you can pitch it to a feel co-workers and have them 'roll their desk over'. It's more likely that after they finished it, they brought it to legal consulting to get the greenlight paper work, and then besethda went okai.
The system is quite nice, it help leads to quality games most of the time because everyone's that working on it WANTS to work on it, but due to the lack of hierarchical structure it takes a god awful amount of time.
That being said I'm expecting this not to be over with. Be cautious of Fallout 4 when it comes out. They might try it again, and if there isn't enough lash back it might become the norm.