Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Wired does Penny Arcade

A really nice article on Penny Arcade at Wired, if I do say so myself. My two favorite quotes, which literally made me laugh out loud:

"But gaming is increasingly a mainstream activity, with titles like Brain Age and the jock-friendly Madden NFL franchise selling more than anything else. A recurring theme of the strip is resentment that the cool kids are encroaching on their turf.

"It's not fair," Krahulik says. "They could be having sex. With women. Why do they want my hobby?"

...and...
"Kara gained a rep online as the perfect gamer wife after Mike revealed the particulars of their sixth anniversary to readers: They parked their son with the grandparents, holed up in a hotel room... and logged into World of Warcraft. "There's no time to run a raid on Molten Core with a kid at home," Kara says defensively.

Mike thinks the anniversary story has been blown out of proportion. "It's not like we didn't have sex, too," he says. Over his wife's shrieks of protest, he adds, "We took breaks. Long breaks, if you catch my drift..."

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