Sunday Comics: Unlimited Power

9 responses to “Sunday Comics: Unlimited Power”

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   ash

   November 23, 2015 at 8:47 am

   I was wondering if Kotaku would still promote Penny Arcade’s comics after the latters critical post.

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      cephalxn

      November 23, 2015 at 9:15 am

      ??

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         spyder

         November 23, 2015 at 9:58 am

         I think Ash is referring to this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2015/11/20/parabolic1

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            corimknight

            November 23, 2015 at 10:46 am

            Yikes, that’s pretty darn harsh.

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               themunga

               November 23, 2015 at 12:41 pm

               Yeah Kotaku AU is pretty chill so we don’t see as much flak towards Serrels and co.

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               comban

               November 23, 2015 at 1:37 pm

               It’s largely because they don’t write about how transgendered whales have been offended by the depiction of dragons in skyrim.

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               pylgrim

               November 23, 2015 at 1:03 pm

               I think that the truth of the matter is somewhere between Tycho’s and Totilo’s position. Yes, news sites have a responsibility to their audience and that responsibility transcends the artificial limits imposed by corporate PR. If a company has poor practices, is defrauding their customers or exploiting their employees, lying or involved in shady deals, the journalist has the duty to make such things public regardless of corporate wants and needs.

               But there’s a limit that should be respected and that’s the one of ethics and human decency. Leaking secret developmental information about an upcoming product generates possibly misleading expectations on the consumer base, while giving that company’s competitors a leg up. This is not information that the public /needs/ to know, but as the comic states, the news outlet is highly incentivised to post it, regardless of possible damages to third parties as such posts are usually the highest click providers.

               I think that the comic, and rather outraged post came not from the fact that journalists (Kotaku, in this case) engage in that behaviour, as it is pretty much expected. The thing that got him is that post last week complaining about being blacklisted for leaking secrets and yet, bragging about it as though it was a mark of journalism martyrdom.

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      scrumptatoes

      November 23, 2015 at 12:43 pm

      Hmm, bugger.

      I don’t like Penny Arcade, I don’t like the creators of PA, I don’t think they’ve written anything funny, poignant, or even interesting for years.
      Jerry and Mike have a habit of saying stupid shit and doubling down whenever scrutiny is aimed at them. For all the good their subsidiaries have achieved, they’re still a couple of shit stirrers.

      Yet, I’d rather Kotaku continued hosting PA comics. It’s understandable why they wouldn’t want to host the most recent comic, the usual kind of charged slather they fall back to when firing retreating shots. That shouldn’t stop Kotaku from looking at crap and shirking it off for their audience.
      That could be taken as “being the better person” or as I’d prefer, part of doing business in such an arse-backwards industry full of fallible people.

      Edit: It’d also be nice if Kotaku, if they do replace the PA spot, host a revolving position for younger web comics, share some of that exposure for up and coming talent rather than deferring to the old guard.

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         Good Idea

         November 23, 2015 at 8:24 pm

         Just wanted to second your idea for the rotating spot for newbies. I read a huge amount of web comics and am always interested in seeing what’s new. The current process is a bit vague – I remember people voting on what comics were posted a very long time ago, but a more recent memory is the addition of Gamercat purely because a Kotaku staffer liked it.

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   zambayoshi

   November 23, 2015 at 10:06 am

   So funny how the Emperor scuttles around in Battlefront. I took down Luke Skywalker from full health in close quarters last night. I was zipping around, using the Force Dash to avoid his charge and then turning to blast him with lightning. It was glorious!