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Foxtrot does nintendo DS

he did it with Beenie Babbies, and the Titanic... OMG Bill Amend is pimping beenie babies... get a grip and a clue...
 
Blackace said:
If you read Foxtrot normaly you see that he does that with most big, trend itmes. The xbox, the Gamecube, PS2, Doom III, Imacs and so on.. it is made for his fanbase, and most do know of these items....
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I don't follow Foxtrot so I wouldn't know. So the Foxtrot fanbase generally knows about the latest in games? In that case, it makes more sense.
It's just that I got this "Oh look, even adults love Nintendogs!" vibe like the strip came straight from a cheesy TV commercial from the 80s, but I guess it works better when you know the characters.
 
Kiriku said:
I don't follow Foxtrot so I wouldn't know. So the Foxtrot fanbase generally knows about the latest in games? In that case, it makes more sense.
It's just that I got this "Oh look, even adults love Nintendogs!" vibe like the strip came straight from a cheesy TV commercial from the 80s, but I guess it works better when you know the characters.
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as for most things that are considered a series...
 
FortNinety said:
I love how no one can profess their like for anything without there being an assumption that someone's being paid off.
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It is pretty lame given Amend's track record.. Fox Trot has been doing this with almost every trend since the start of the strip..
 
This is really funny. He and the dudes who right VG Cats should get together and have a laugh convention.

That said, I'd give Nintendogs to my mom to play too. It's not the premise that is broken. The fact that it's not funny just makes it sound like viral marketing, haha.
 
Memles said:
I posted this in the Nintendog thread...and today's?

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And now we know that he isn't a GAF fan. :(
 
Varian said:
Could someone explain this editorial cartoon I just found?
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It says 'the announcement' which is the common term for when an angel came from heaven and announced to Mary that she was pregnant with God's child.

I think it's a parody of a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci's master in which Da Vinci painted one of the angels in the scene. The angel he painted pretty much shamed his master with it's crushing superiority relative to the rest of the painting.

Not sure what the joke is though. :/
 
It's worse than you thought... Nintendo isn't just buying out Foxtrot -- they're extending their influence to web comics!

 
DavidDayton said:
It's worse than you thought... Nintendo isn't just buying out Foxtrot -- they're extending their influence to web comics!

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Most here will think that's funnier than VG Cats. :P
 
Fuzzy said:
Most here will think that's funnier than VG Cats. :P
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As I've said before, I'm aiming to dethrone VG Cats as the funniest video game comic!

Granted, I have no website and no fanbase, but those are minor issues...
 
This differs from previous Foxtrot strips featuring computers or games or game systems in that it's actually a real brand name being mentioned. Previous strips have always used a funny made-up name for whatever was being played or used, like "iFruit" or "Jupiter 64" or "World of Warquest." That by itself is enough to make me suspicious that there's some kind of, uh, mutually beneficial agreement in place this time.
 
jiji said:
This differs from previous Foxtrot strips featuring computers or games or game systems in that it's actually a real brand name being mentioned. Previous strips have always used a funny made-up name for whatever was being played or used, like "iFruit" or "Jupiter 64" or "World of Warquest." That by itself is enough to make me suspicious that there's some kind of, uh, mutually beneficial agreement in place this time.
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Or maybe it's just because there'snot good way to modifty the DS's name in the same way you can chnage ipod to ifruit?
 
bummyhead said:
Or maybe it's just because there'snot good way to modifty the DS's name in the same way you can chnage ipod to ifruit?
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There's plenty of room to change "NINTENDO DS" around so that it doesn't use existing trademarks - not to mention "Nintendogs."
 
"Irony" was not a watchword in the hallowed halls of GAF. Conceptually, it was acknowledged in a sort of humorless but earnest fashion; it was believed to exist, certainly, but any other useful characteristics beyond mere presence in a thread -- like, say, self-deprecating hilarity -- passed without deliberate remark, like an unskirted table leg in a Victorian ballroom.

Despite this condition, the GAF elite recognized that there was a tragic metaphor to this particular thread -- indeed, with any thread that involved the Nintendo DS and its discernably subpar library -- and they invoked it obliquely by guessing what one of the board moderators might make of the situation. In particular, they had come to use Drinky Crow, a greasy pompous windbag of a forum administrator known for his unrepentantly smarmy tirades, as a sort of proxy for their absent senses of irony. Now that he had been self-banned, the GAF elite were left without the forum equivalent of Navi to their fey, effete Links: they could not solve the dungeons of GAF geekdom without a shrill, inarticulate voice prompting them into the sort of apoplexy that eventually transformed into revelation.

A few, like AniHawk, used a sort of winking, supercilious observational style to let everyone else know that they were in on the joke, inscrutable as it might be. Unfortunately, this approach did nothing to hide the truth that they were fiercely debating the merits of Foxtrot as a Nintendo propaganda vehicle.
 
jiji said:
This differs from previous Foxtrot strips featuring computers or games or game systems in that it's actually a real brand name being mentioned. Previous strips have always used a funny made-up name for whatever was being played or used, like "iFruit" or "Jupiter 64" or "World of Warquest." That by itself is enough to make me suspicious that there's some kind of, uh, mutually beneficial agreement in place this time.
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Eh, not always. While the complete sets of strips have usually been named like that, he does use real brand names in certain situations.
 
I just now decided to peek in here and all I gotta say is "W.T.F.?". It's a fucking comic. Maybe someone in his family has the game and he had noticed that the parents took an equal liking to the game as their kids did. So what?
 
Shaheed79 said:
I just now decided to peek in here and all I gotta say is "W.T.F.?". It's a fucking comic. Maybe someone in his family has the game and he had noticed that the parents took an equal liking to the game as their kids did. So what?
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This is GAF. Dumping ground whiny bitches. As someone stated before if this were a Sony or Microsoft based comic you'd get similar reactions.
 
it's a good idea for a joke character, but damned if i'm going to be narrated by someone who can't use the words "irony" or "metaphor" in a sentence. the joke's on you people when "the narrator" turns out to be matlock.
 
drohne said:
it's a good idea for a joke character, but damned if i'm going to be narrated by someone who can't use the words "irony" or "metaphor" in a sentence. the joke's on you people when "the narrator" turns out to be matlock.
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:lol
 
Jive Turkey said:
This is GAF. Dumping ground whiny bitches. As someone stated before if this were a Sony or Microsoft based comic you'd get similar reactions.
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That gives me an idea. Once I get back from buying some new pants, I'll begin work on a Blockheads Sony/MS comic.
 
The Narrator said:
"Irony" was not a watchword in the hallowed halls of GAF. Conceptually, it was acknowledged in a sort of humorless but earnest fashion; it was believed to exist, certainly, but any other useful characteristics beyond mere presence in a thread -- like, say, self-deprecating hilarity -- passed without deliberate remark, like an unskirted table leg in a Victorian ballroom.

Despite this condition, the GAF elite recognized that there was a tragic metaphor to this particular thread -- indeed, with any thread that involved the Nintendo DS and its discernably subpar library -- and they invoked it obliquely by guessing what one of the board moderators might make of the situation. In particular, they had come to use Drinky Crow, a greasy pompous windbag of a forum administrator known for his unrepentantly smarmy tirades, as a sort of proxy for their absent senses of irony. Now that he had been self-banned, the GAF elite were left without the forum equivalent of Navi to their fey, effete Links: they could not solve the dungeons of GAF geekdom without a shrill, inarticulate voice prompting them into the sort of apoplexy that prompted revelation.

A few, like AniHawk, used a sort of winking, supercilious observational style to let everyone else know that they were in on the joke, inscrutable as it might be. Unfortunately, this approach did nothing to hide the truth that they were fiercely debating the merits of Foxtrot as a Nintendo propaganda vehicle.
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big complex words.. . that make sense. . . wow. . . its like reading Harry Potter
 
drohne sulked at his desk, glaring irritably at the screen. Like many a GAF poster, he had become accustomed to instinctively identifying himself with the larger forum body, and he felt somehow insulted. It didn't readily occur to him that despite his indulgent participation he could exist outside the methane memes that powered GAF; instead, he felt a sort of uncomfortable camaraderie with olimario that made him want to shower -- badly.
 
The Narrator said:
drohne sulked at his desk, glaring irritably at the screen. Like many a GAF poster, he had become accustomed to instinctively identifying himself with the larger forum body, and he felt somehow insulted. It didn't readily occur to him that despite his indulgent participation he could exist outside the methane memes that powered GAF; instead, he felt a sort of uncomfortable camaraderie with olimario that made him want to shower -- badly.
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Remind me to hire you when we make Blockheads -- The Movie.
 
The Narrator said:
drohne sulked at his desk, glaring irritably at the screen. Like many a GAF poster, he had become accustomed to instinctively identifying himself with the larger forum body, and he felt somehow insulted. It didn't readily occur to him that despite his indulgent participation he could exist outside the methane memes that powered GAF; instead, he felt a sort of uncomfortable camaraderie with olimario that made him want to shower -- badly.
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I'm most impressed by the fact that he spelled camaraderie right. This guy is awsome.
 
The Narrator said:
drohne sulked at his desk, glaring irritably at the screen. Like many a GAF poster, he had become accustomed to instinctively identifying himself with the larger forum body, and he felt somehow insulted. It didn't readily occur to him that despite his indulgent participation he could exist outside the methane memes that powered GAF; instead, he felt a sort of uncomfortable camaraderie with olimario that made him want to shower -- badly.
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:lol
 
I like the narrator conceptually, but in execution he reminds me of that horrible architect scene at the end of The Matrix: Reloaded.
 
jiji said:
This differs from previous Foxtrot strips featuring computers or games or game systems in that it's actually a real brand name being mentioned. Previous strips have always used a funny made-up name for whatever was being played or used, like "iFruit" or "Jupiter 64" or "World of Warquest." That by itself is enough to make me suspicious that there's some kind of, uh, mutually beneficial agreement in place this time.
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Foxtrot has done actuall names for games (And movies) in it's strips in addition to the made up ones. They've done Grand Theft Auto by name, and im almost positive they did Halo as well. When he does movies, he almost never changes the name. He just picks something popular in the gamming community and goes with it. The ones where he makes up names, I've always assumed we becasue there are several games in the genere popular at the time and it can make the joke more universal, like world of warquest or the gamestation 64 (I don't remember Jupiter 64).
 
The Narrator said:
"Irony" was not a watchword in the hallowed halls of GAF. Conceptually, it was acknowledged in a sort of humorless but earnest fashion; it was believed to exist, certainly, but any other useful characteristics beyond mere presence in a thread -- like, say, self-deprecating hilarity -- passed without deliberate remark, like an unskirted table leg in a Victorian ballroom.
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Matlock you like Victorian furniture too? Hopefully we can talk about it later, I hope this does not pass us by like an unskirted table leg! LOL
 
The Narrator said:
drohne sulked at his desk, glaring irritably at the screen. Like many a GAF poster, he had become accustomed to instinctively identifying himself with the larger forum body, and he felt somehow insulted. It didn't readily occur to him that despite his indulgent participation he could exist outside the methane memes that powered GAF; instead, he felt a sort of uncomfortable camaraderie with olimario that made him want to shower -- badly.
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Best. Shtick. Ever.
 
This thread is still going on?

Are the PSP bots so juvenile as to take offense over Bill Amend making mention of a Nintendo product? But it was ok for the PSP to be called Gadget of the year?

Get a life people.
 
Shaheed79 said:
Narrator? I rather enjoyed it except for the deplorable drinky bashing. He was a lil harsh.
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I'm pretty sure The Narrator and Drinky Crow are the same person.
- The Narrator has a special tag after 6 posts
- They share similar opinions and writing styles
- Drinky is banned, so he had to find a new way to vent
- It's just an awesome idea. After many members who normally like Drinky's style complained that his "the DS-hardware belongs to 1994"-shtick was getting boring, it's a glorious return.
- Believe :(
 
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Now it's not even about Nintendogs and it's basically the exact same as every "Jason's mother gets addicted to fads" set of strips. FoxTrot is relatively repetitive, so this isn't much of a surprise.
 
DrForester said:
Foxtrot often does an entire week focused on one paticular thing. Usually Jason;s new game, or a movie premire.
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True, but they've done them so many time...this one here more or less reeks of when his Mother took over his violent computer game and stopped sleeping. It's the same thing, over and over again.
 
Memles said:
True, but they've done them so many time...this one here more or less reeks of when his Mother took over his violent computer game and stopped sleeping. It's the same thing, over and over again.
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I don't remember that one. Can you explain it more?
 
Guy LeDouche said:
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I do find it strange that when South Park ran its PSP episode, nobody seemed to think that Sony had paid off Matt and Trey (http://forum.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=41414). But as several people have already pointed out, Fox Trot has game and movie references all the time. Bill Amend's just a geek...I seriously doubt any money has exchanged hands.

Still...

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New Line has paid off Bill Amend!
 
Shaheed79 said:
I just now decided to peek in here and all I gotta say is "W.T.F.?". It's a fucking comic. Maybe someone in his family has the game and he had noticed that the parents took an equal liking to the game as their kids did. So what?
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Tard-Age has been in full effect ever since the beginning of the year. Maybe when the new systems are released (and the servers explode again, helping to thin the herd) everyone will calm down
 
Drakken said:
I don't remember that one. Can you explain it more?
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I don't think I have the collection here at university, but it was based on a Doom-Style game. Jason went out and bought the game, and his mother was all angry about it. Then, Jason got her to play it to try to get her to understand, and she was disturbed...about how much she enjoyed it. Then, she started playing so much that the kids had cereal for dinner, and eventually Jason sold it back after he realize he couldn't do his own laundry.
 
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