And you make it sound like we had a Penny Arcade quota or something, and this story came along and we said, “Oh, there’s something on Penny Arcade, so that’ll count as today’s PA piece!”

That’s not necessarily true. First, regarding this site I have seen you and other news posters here write more than one opinion piece for a game or post a story about a game even when it wasn’t actually newsworthy at that time. Second, you don’t know what other blogs would have done regarding coverage of the game especially ALL other blog sites. You are just being presumptuous and fawning of Penny Arcade since you happen to like the ads.

No, those game blogs would still have written about the game. If anything a story on this detracts from the promotion of the actual game because it diverts resources and attention that could otherwise be used to write glowing reviews of the game.

needs more desu

Not only is it not brilliant, it certainly isn’t free advertising as ddf is only posting in articles which already reference Penny Arcade. So, ddf’s comments are additive at best and at worst a deterrent to purchase or patronize Penny Arcade.

Personally I have to agree with ddf that Penny Arcade is generally banal and only humorous to the extent that watching two pseudo intellectual misfits’ vain attempts at comedy is funny. Penny Arcade is the comic equivalent of watching William Hung sing. I also bet that ddf is actually just a “clever” ploy by the two idiots who run Penny Arcade to be generate some false controversy around their so-called game and comic strip.