Mama Robotnik
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On Wednesday Penny Arcade published this. I think its funny:
I thought it was a nice comment on the absurd fun nonsense of game quests, and how horrible elaborate scenarios are invented only to be resolved through a typical rescue X people/kill X baddies/find X treasures. The vulgarity is part of the Penny Arcade style, and I don't find it offensive in the slightest.
Apparently some did though. Tycho and Gabe comment:
And their apology in full:
Remember, if the first comic turned you into a rapist: Stop, apologise, and leave.
I thought it was a nice comment on the absurd fun nonsense of game quests, and how horrible elaborate scenarios are invented only to be resolved through a typical rescue X people/kill X baddies/find X treasures. The vulgarity is part of the Penny Arcade style, and I don't find it offensive in the slightest.
Apparently some did though. Tycho and Gabe comment:
Tycho said:Reaction to Wednesday's comic fell, conveniently for my purpose, into two camps: those who found a phrase like "raped by dickwolves" a stunning return to form, and those who felt that we were somehow advocating the actual rape of human beings. It sounds as though we've already satisfied the first camp, but an effort should certainly be made to assuage the latter.
Gabe said:What surprised me most about some of the reactions to our Dickwolf joke was not that people were offended. But that this was the comic that offended them. In each case the emails I got started with something like Ive been a long time fan or Been reading the comic for years... and then they go into how this particular comic really bothered them.
I just dont understand that. Did the comics about bestiality, suicide, murder, pedophilia, and torture not bother them? Or how about the fruit fucker? I mean, we have a character who is a literal rapist. What comic strip have they been reading all these years?
For the most part I think that people are perfectly happy to laugh at offensive jokes until the joke offends them. Then its not funny anymore. There is no way we can know what each and every person who reads the comic has decided to find offensive.
In the end I just disagree with these people about whats funny and thats perfectly okay.
And their apology in full:
Remember, if the first comic turned you into a rapist: Stop, apologise, and leave.