I'd like to MURDER those darn rape apologists!

Fat Cancer Patient = band name

Rape Apologist was a solid debut effort but FCP's sophomore album Penny Arcade Isn't Making Money was a real disappointment

FCP is no BNL.

You guys are going to have to explain this one to me. Rape apologist?

I didn't follow it too closely, but the webcomic/gaming news site Penny-Arcade started a shitstorm a while back with one of their strips.

It was a joke about how players become indifferent to the suffering of NPCs in RPGs. The player's character was on a mission that required him to rescue a certain number of prisoners. After getting the minimum number of prisoners and attempting to leave, he was approached by another prisoner who laid out how awful his existence was in a fruitless effort to convince the player to rescue him, too. The prisoner ended his tale of woe with "every night, I get raped to sleep by wolves." The PC still refused to rescue the prisoner and left to collect his reward for the mission.

Some people took offense to the bit about the rape and when they confronted Gabe and Tycho about it, the two were less than cordial towards their critics. Instead of apologizing, they became overly-defensive of their joke leading some people to accuse them of making light of rape.

Was that the infamous "dickwolves" strip?

Sorry, you're right. The prisoner said he was raped to sleep by dickwolves, not regular wolves.

Don't forget when they endorsed a card game about raping schoolgirls (but don't worry, they're totally 18 and secretly asking for it *wink*) and then had a Twitter meltdown when people pointed out how fucking creepy that was.

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=109519

The only reason I can really think of is that Telltale is thinking about doing an Evil Dead/Army of Darkness game, and they wanted to test the waters...

which would be great -- previous Evil Dead video games haven't been kind to the franchise by any stretch, Telltale has shown its competence with the undead, and what they did with Back to the Future was pretty neat fan service.

PORTAL OF WHAT?

Yeah, count 'em, Two. One.....Two. Two.

Yeah, couldn't they have worked some bacon, ninjas, zombies, pirates, cheese, goggles or Neil Degrasse Tyson in there?

the reason I didnt mention sam and max is because

FUCK SAM AND MAX

i've played three games so far -- two of them with Claptrap making it to the final three, and the other one he made it to Heads Up.

the exact same goddamn thing happened with Tycho in the first game. I don't know if its just the way the player behaviors are coded that ensure they stay in the game the longest, terrible luck, or maybe that I just play stupider when I'm in hands with those characters on account of devoting so much brainpower to pure loathing.