Certainly not the guy who just threw his phone away instead of uninstalling the app
November 26, 2012
12:00 am
It’s no secret that I’m comically bad at anything FPS related that isn’t Portal, but I noticed that while I spent the weekend trying (and failing) to lern 2 borderlands my Tumblr friends spent it complaining about the pay-to-play nature of the My Little Pony iPhone game.
And I couldn’t do an image search for “Butt Stallion” that didn’t begin and end with piles of Rarity fanart.
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Hahahahaha this made my day thank you
I love how easily the kids are able to hang out with most of the Commander’s clientele.
That and Butt Stallion is the best name ever. *can’t FPS for her life mostly because she’s one of those people who gets queasy in first person perspective*
Responding to the FPS part: I’m the exact same way. Metroid Prime has been the only FPS I could navigate without frequent several-minute breaks of resting my eyes.
For some reason I only get this problem with Minecraft. I don’t know why this works, but try increasing the FOV. It helps a lot.
I have the same problem in Minecraft but only underground or at night.
I can play any kind of video game without a problem! :P Unless, of course, I have to strain my eyes to see something because it’s too bright or too dark for whatever reason, but I can’t remember that happening. XD
my one FPS is Bioshock. I don’t know why. I suck at any other legit FPS, but I can play the sh*t out of Bioshock
Wierd, I get queasy when I change Minecraft’s FOV from the dafault
Stay away from Mirror’s Edge then, heh.
lolol oh most definitely! XD mirrors edge made ME dizzy and i dont get dizzy from videogames lol XD
You get queasy from playing FPS?
I COMMAND THEE TO CHUKE IN THE NAME OF EPIC!!!
gimme a dollar
This jar deserves more fame.
I have that problem. In fact, I couldn’t play Borderlands 2 at first because it caused me motion sickness. Turning mouse sensitivity down to 40 and aim assist on helped me, though. I can’t aim so well but playing an anarchy mechromancer takes care of that.
I get the same problem, but only with the Half-Life games. Didn’t bother me a few years ago, but for some reason it’s a problem now. Even watching HuskyStarcraft’s LP of Black Mesa can cause me trouble.
Weird part is I can play Skyrim in first person no trouble.
Try motion sickness pressure point wristbands. Those things have pretty much gotten rid of my FPS nausea problems.
yay, borderlands reference and offhand mlp insult.
Seems more like a jab at the app game than MLP proper. But then, who doesn’t take jabs at those?
Exacttly. Based on what I’ved seen from reviews of the app, paying for things not only increases what you can do in the game but is actually required to get the Mane 6 to finish it. Which can be accomplished for free over the course of 2 years at optimal efficiency.
There are enough ways to get gems now that you can pick up all of the plot-required characters (including the now-three update expansions) within five months. If you have enough friends all quest-mentioned characters, plot related or not, can be done in about eight months total.
When it was first released, optimal play would have taken about two and a half years.
yay.
I was thinking about this the other day, actually. Something about people spending ridiculous amounts of money on an iPad and tablets, but then thinking $0.99 is too expensive for an app.
Clearly applies here, since Jack is rich, or something. I haven’t played the game.
Every time a player dies, Hyperion (the company that Jack owns) gets paid about a quarter of all the money you had on you when you died, not to mention their thriving weapons trade.
Butt Stallion is a diamond horse. A horse made of diamonds. Not covered. Not accented. Composed of diamonds.
Really, it’s more like 7.5%. A pretty fair price for immortaliity on a good planet, price gouging on a crap-hole like Pandora.
But, hey – could be worse; you could be on Promethea.
Well, actually, the New-U stations are not considered canon. They are simply a game mechanic. Anthony Burch, the writer of Borderlands 2, laments the fact that he added the female voice that talks after you die as it is part of what makes people think they’re part of the in-game universe.
It could have been even worse considering the voice was originally Jack himself (though the cut lines are, as with all of Jack’s dialogue, pure gold).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1YMlNRChdc
OMFGthosewereawesomelineswhydidtheynotusethem
inthegameyou’dthinkthatbecausehe’suchacontrolfreak
HandsomeJackwouldactuallysupplantthefemalevoicein
theNew-Udevicesjustforshitsandgiggles.
Honestly, if Jack really wanted the Vault Hunters to bite the bullet, he could easily have the New-Us, y’know, NOT resurrect them after they die.
And being that he’s a bit of a dick like that, I’d expect it to be right up his alley. Especially considering it’s a bit of an oversight that he’d attempt to BLOW THEM UP ON A TRAIN at the beginning of the game, then make a big deal about paying anyone who killed the Vault Hunters a tidy sum.
Really, it’s one of those plot holes that you don’t look too closely at lest you fall in. Like why (insert villain here), who knows that (insert protagonist here) who is currently standing in front of him without a weapon or a care in the world, is the only one who can stop (insert grandiose plan here), yet doesn’t stab them in the face, repeatedly, until there’s nothing left north of the protagonist’s chin. And then burn the corpse. And anyone who was around to see it.
Furthermore, it’s a similar plot hole to the resurrection chambers in the Bioshock games. If it’s such a big deal that the hero-person die, [i]don’t leave technology around that can bring them back when they do.[/i] Especially if you presumably control 90% of the populace¹.
It’s extremely hard (but not impossible) to make a semi-realistic game wherein the game mechanics are entirely logical within the boundaries of the game world, yet would be considered fair to the player. More often it’s simpler to employ non-canon mechanics (resurrection points) or straight up save data (either by auto-save or manual use) to “rewind” to a previous point.
There’s a pretty good reason every game with a Hardcore mode (one life, and save data is deleted upon death) has a non-Hardcore mode to go with it: it’s really, REALLY discouraging to most people when you sink a couple hundred hours into a game and lose it all on a technicality.
And there WILL be technicalities, because the only perfectly unbroken “game” is Super Press Space to Win Action RPG.
You’ll note nobody bats an eyelash at extra lives in Mega Man or Mario games, or at Link suddenly appearing at the entrance to a room after FALLING IN LAVA or a bottomless pit, or the fact that in many “military-inspired” FPS games, a man can take three heavy caliber handgun rounds (from, say, a mark XIX Desert Eagle firing a AE round) to the stomach (armored or not) less than four feet away, and still have the strength and wherewithal to sprint to cover, recharge his health, then step out and shotgun you in the face, then hump your corpse while you wait for respawn. (Or if they do, they are viewed as “petty” or “nitpicking”.) It’s a similar “grey area” that breaks suspension of disbelief.
In the end? They’re still fun games to play. Just don’t over-analyse them, or you’ll be there all day. Suspension of disbelief is important to all fiction, and incredibly more important to story-driven gaming, and the more you nitpick, the harder it is to stay “in it”.
¹⋅ ʸᵉˢ, ᴵ ᵃᵐ ᵃʷᵃʳᵉ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖᶫᵒᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ᵍᵃᵐᵉˢ⋅ ᴹᶦᶰᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵖᵒᶦᶫᵉʳˢ, ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ ᴬᴿᴱ ᵖᵉᵒᵖᶫᵉ ʷʰᵒ ʰᵃᵛᵉᶰ’ᵗ ᵖᶫᵃʸᵉᵈ ᵗʰᵉᵐ⋅
…Crap, broke the code on that. That should be .50 caliber AE round, my bad. Should’ve double-checked.
Fixed it for you.
Actually you can right click and select ‘play’ to break ‘super PSTW’. Win without ever pressing space.
I figured a certain someone hacked them for us.
You want a plot hole?
Jack himself, as well as his daughter and GF are all killed and don’t get resurrected by New-U stations.
Even though you enemies of Hyperion do.
One headcanon I liked was that he couldn’t. Think about how big a company like Hyperion would have to be, and think about how much red tape and waiting it’d involve. The bureaucracy moves for no man, not even Handsome Jack.
So, maybe he had put in the order to ban the original Vault Hunters from being revived from the New-U a while ago, and they’ve already gone through, which is why the threat of death is a thing for them. For the BL2 Vault Hunters, Angel put them into the New-U system herself, and Jack’s mostly trying to kill you to slow you down, since the paperwork for Maya, Axton, Zer0, and Salvador hasn’t gone through yet.
Well, they’re kind-of sort-of retconning New-U to be non-canon this time around. They were canon in the first game.
But then, Gearbox/MakeItUpAsTheyGoAlong/RandyPitchford. It’s not likely to make sense.
I wanted to play the Gameloft pony game, but then I remembered I do not have a tablet or smartphone. And then I also remembered I contracted a most likely uncurable case of League of Legends.
Got that disease too. Among the it’s-free-but-not-really-because-paying-gives-you-great-advantage games, it’s by far one of the fairest.
How so? The only advantage to paying in league is getting champions faster than those who don’t, vanity skins and useless exp/ip boosts. You can’t buy runes with money and you certainly can’t buy skill. There are few joys in the world that can top crushing a Pulsefire Ezreal.
When my friends and I played LoL, I was the worst player in the group and always played the “faceroll keyboard to win” type champions. Namely Ryze, who at the time was decent, but not great, while requiring a minimum of skill to play effectively. What I always found amusing about it, though, is that I was always the guy who got primaried in any group fights. I know Ryze has a lot of damage potential, and his ult is absolutely great for group fights, but people would go out of their way to kill me even so far as to have half their team chase me to their own death.
After one match someone on the enemy team made a comment about how badly I played, so I asked him why him and his team kept chasing me down the way that they did. His answer was that it was because I was the only person on my team to have a skinned champion(Uncle Ryze skin) and combined with the fact that Ryze can act as a carry they assumed that I knew what I was doing more than the rest of the team. I asked a few other people we ended up playing against who did the same thing, and every time it was because I had a skin while the rest of my team didn’t. It’s amazing the psychological effects that a skin can have.
But then again, this was like 2 years ago and you’d often go 5-6 matches without seeing a skinned champion at the time. By the time I quit it was becoming hard to find a match where there wasn’t a skin in use, so the effect had diminished, but I always did find it amusing how my in-game appearance could make people overestimate my abilities.
i know exactly what you mean, one of the first things i did was get Wukong’s volcano skin, just for the look, everyone instantly thought i’d clean up but really i mostly sat back doing lane control, kinda put me off after a while with all the targeting but slowly getting back into it as it’s lessened
The thought of you (or anyone) doing a search for “Butt Stallion” and what the possible results just sent me into hysterics.
results would be*
I went right ahead and did it.
Bluff called.
Yeah… turns out i’m no good at poker.
I got more Applejack than Rarity.
Also gay porn.
Lots of gay porn.
I’d have assumed the gay porn would be the far greater bulk of the results!
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_makxa8S9XZ1r220s0o1_500.png
Page 1, third or fourth result. A couple of MLP pics, but all in the spirit of things. Brotip: Even though you’re probably over 18, you can turn Safesearch back ON. Just for a bit. Nobody needs to know.
http://images.mmorpg.com/images/galleries/formatted/392012/083247b8-724d-46f3-9ad8-5c8f575d054c.jpg
I have no idea what you mean by “butt stallion”, so I’m just going to leave this guy here, because he seems to fit with this comic.
That picture is fantastic.
Butt Stallion is the name of Handsome Jack’s pony. It’s made of diamonds.
Is that the corporeal manifestation of bronies in MLP form?
Please, please tell me he’s voiced by Patrick Warburton!
Haha, I was picturing his voice when looking at that picture.
Sadly, Bulk Biceps (whose fanon names also include “Roid Rage” and “Snowflake”) was not voiced by him, nor Jack Black.
YEAAAAAAAAH!
Butt stallion has no image since it is mentioned in audio and text only, hence you find tons of Rarity art since that is probably the closest thing you get to Butt stallion.
Butt Stallion sounds like the name of a main character in a comedy about the American porn industry.
She actually does show up in the Tiny Tina DLC.
I…. I really like Borderlands.
Got a laugh out of this one. It’s amusing how easily his kids mix with the regulars there… Thank you for another week Coelasquid!
… And is Butt Stallion a name for a certain one from the show? I’d google it but… I really don’t want to have to bleach my eyes in case google gets imaginative…
It’s a reference to a series of taunts that Handsome Jack makes early on in Borderlands 2.
A diamond covered horse that Jack purchased on a whim in order to emphasize a name of ridicule he wanted to give the Vault Hunter (player).
It’s not diamond covered. Its made of diamonds. Made of them. Diamonds.
To be fair, diamonds are actually pretty cheap compared to what the jewelry industry, namely a specific cartel, would have you believe. They can be mass-produced in factories these days. The only reason they seem to be exorbitantly expensive is because De Beers is a monopolistic price-fixer and has worked hard to keep the manufactured diamonds from being salable as jewelry.
It’s a LIVING diamond horse, though. It’s like a horse made of Emma Frost. I don’t think that’s going to be a cost-effective purchase no matter what DeBeers is doing.
I’d imagine it’d sound like a thousand teeth grinding on rocks when it runs.
Jack is a sick man.
From what I hear, Emma is pretty cheap. Not to mention, of course, the number of clone-children she’s had…
Oh. Wow. Didn’t know that. I just kind of figured that it was a life-size diamond statue or something. That’s going to up the barrier to entry a little bit.
Don’t worry, Jack knew you would assume that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SfDiD8tUT8
This made me laugh. Priceless.
It’s a game for little girls.
With an option to spend $100+.
Ha ha ha ha. Yeah.I can only hope this puts a few more Bronies out on the streets where they belong. Begging for their next hit of “Twilight Sparkle.”
I hear it’s not even really an option if you have any intention of beating the game (granted, I don’t know what constitutes “beating” what appears to be pony-based Farmville)
You had to complete two main objectives, reach the six ‘Harmony Stones’ scattered around the game area and actvate each of them with a certain amount of their respective ‘Harmony Shards’, at the same time you needed to gather the Mane Six ponies (You begin with one of them, being Twilight Sparkle). Two of the Mane Six, Rainbow Dash and Rarity required an absurd amount of Gems, the game’s premium currency. Neither myself or anyone I knew was stupid enough to spend that kind of money, so we abused the ability to change the time on our devices in order to speed up the process of obtaining the premium currency in-game. Horrible waste of time. XD
really? bronies deserve to be put out on the street? that’s quite the active imagination you’ve got there. put it to work on something NICE.
Given that I spent actual money for Mockingbird on Marvel Avengers Assemble this weekend, I can’t make fun.
Shame.
Nah, even the Bronies were smart enough to realize the exchange rate on the gems was ridiculous. Celestia costs 950 gems, and considering that $100 gets you 1500 gems, it’s definitely not worth it. I have a feeling Luna, Cadence and Shining Armor are going to cost about the same each. Upwards $400 for four characters? It makes more sense to get a console and a crappy, just as buggy game.
i think you could get a console and a 60 dollar game at that price. and what do you mean “even” bronies? that’s assuming they’re all the same and assuming that they’re all stupid.
Seems like a fair assumption.
TIL King of Zeroes is a brony by his own definition.
So just out of curiosity how do you know these prices?
Google.
Celestia has never been above 495, Luna is a quest reward, and Shiny is priced in an unbuyable currency.
Classic MGDMT right here.
i’ve never played the game but do either of these http://o-fluttershy-o.deviantart.com/art/Butt-Stallion-328033586 look like the butt Stallion you mean http://www.mmorpg.com/photo/083247b8-724d-46f3-9ad8-5c8f575d054c ?
Butt Stallion is never shown in the game. The second one is probably a pretty realistic rendering of what it would look like. The first one is MLP-shaped, and… the diamonds cover its mouth. We do hear Butt Stallion neigh, so we know it has to be alive under those diamonds.
This one’s my favorite, personally.
http://naiirvo.tumblr.com/post/34938647066/honestly-i-doubt-a-horse-with-diamond-skin-would
Yeaah…. When I saw that there is an MLP game with microtransactions, I knew right away that whoever owns it will never have to work again in their lives.
I can’t muster any rage at someone for squeezing money out of Bronies, but the fact that it still is a show for little kids makes this business model more than just a little questionable.
ah, bronies, yet another money pump on the internet…
And here I was, innocently thinking that it might be Robot Unicorn Attack. Then I noticed the subtle hints that it isn’t.
Hmmm, makes me think about getting a bunch of people together on XBL for a Borderlands 2 session on friday nights…
I was hoping he would ride ButtStallion during the last boss fight, but I was let down :(
It might appear in the DLC, though.
What IS it about apps that make them seem so much more expensive when they’re more than a dollar? Must be precedent.
I’d love to see more Handsome Jack on here. He’s not exactly a Manly Man, but he’s hilarious and awesome, with a great deal of power.
I think that we know that our phones/tablets/devices are ultimately disposable, and that unlike a cup of coffee buying the app is a gamble (it amazes me at how much stuff on the iOS store is basically useless garbage that won’t work)
Keyword “Fanart”
Am I the only one who feels slightly unsettled at the thought of Jack around children? I don’t think I’m over my burning hatred for the man quite yet, but that just doesn’t seem like a good idea.
He had a kid… you know… for a little while…
Like, twenty years.
…in a box!
Out of scraps!
There is a little discussion about this on a deviantartist’s piece, it’s both touching and scary too. http://alienfirst.deviantart.com/art/time-before-borderlands-2-spoilers-331807391
I love Handsome Jack because he IS such a complete insane douche. I’m not sure that he is really aware of his insanity, but he clearly knows he’s a douche. :)
A completely insane douche, who is insanely rich, deals in weapons, buys a horse made of diamonds to spite those who aren’t rich… Holy shit, Handsome Jack is Tony Stark!?
Even Handsome Jack is more of a sympathetic, likable character than Tony Stark.
Hey, the original Tony Stark was much more likeable than movie douche :(
I’ll be honest, the only characters I ever read marvel for were Frank Castle, Colossus, and occasionally Hercules.
Last I recall, (and my recollection comes from comics in the 70s) Hercules was something of a douche himself.
http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/11/119367/2343844-a2.jpg
Case in point.
The one in the comics is worse! He’s a whiny, alcoholic, borderline sociopathic, narcicist under the governments thumb. Once civil war rolls around he funds a nazi movement to round up all capes and put them in the negative zone.
That’s a bit worse than buying a diamond horse.
My general advice:
Get a Corrosive pistol with a good sized clip. They are some of the most fantastic weapons in the entire game and are usable for AGES after you pick them up. Hyperion anything is great for long range, but their shotguns can take down aircraft. Dahl sniper rifles are just useless. Go for Jakobs or Vladof instead. Tediore SMGs are pretty effective if you just toss the thing with a nearly full clip, especially VS bosses, since Explosive damage resistance is rare.
…and I heard Marcus’ voice throughout your whole post. Good job!
I know. The amount of laughing I had throughout the post is mind boggling. Cause I heard the same. I even heard in my head that classic Marcus line, “Let´s just get this out of the way….Yeeees, most of my merchandice was ‘ripped’ out of the cold hands of dead adventurers’ ‘Don´t go have too much fuuuun!’ XD
I spent pretty much the entire second half of the first game using Krom’s sidearm as my main weapon (Atlas machine pistol, only 48 base damage, but great accuracy, low recoil, and 3x shock damage). That plus a shock boosting module would cut through just about anything like butter.
I did get a decent corrosive sniper rifle at one point. I loved how you could hit a guy just once, then duck back down and let the acid kill him for you over the next 10 seconds or so.
Reading the title after the comic made me fall out of my chair.
The greatest thing is, *throws thing away in disgust* is such a classic cartoon sight gag, you don’t think twice about it or even consciously register its presence in the strip (or at least I didn’t) until reading the title.
Oh Jack…he’s surprisingly complex for a guy whose character starts and ends with “bluh bluh huge douche”. How far are you in the game, anyway? From the sound of it I’m guessing you haven’t reached True Vault Hunter mode yet.
Oh, and I like how you remembered that Jack is the kind of guy to wear two watches.
Let us know if you ever want to play BL2. Personally love CL4P-TP and his inability to climb stairs, and how Jack develops through the game. If you are on XBox live my gamer tag is Archer Ranger and mi amigo is ScarEcrow812
I was expecting Jared to suddenly burst in, yank the phone out of Jack’s hands and start playing that game :P lol
If you’re on the 360, I could help you loot stuff.
Not a man, but she is MANLY – Tiny Tina!!!:
“Gonna eat so many goddamn crumpets, it’s going to be a Crumpocolypse.”
“When you are ready to begin the Tea-Party, please smack Mister Flesh Stick in his bitch face.”
“BURN ALL THE BABIES!!!!!”
“Ten… Nine…” *launches rockets* “I got bored.”
This comic confused me spatially. So… their chairs and that bookcase aren’t against the wall?
His chair was not rocked, but rather his world.
That pretty much sums up all android apps games in existence.
Thank you for this MGDMT Borderlands 2 comic. :D I can now die happy, satisfied that my life is complete.
Aww, I almost thought that was Luigi Largo.
No, no, no! Luigi was the brother with the awful temper who stabbed anyone at the drop of a hat. The other brother…What was his name now? Pavi!! He was the one who kept stealing faces!!
Hey if it makes you feel any better, the only FPS game I’m any good at is Team Fortress 2. I rock with Heavy and Soldier (not to shabby with Medic or Pyro either ;) )
If you want to have all the fun ever, convince everyone on your team to be a pyro. Team Pyro wins even when they lose.
I LIKE this plan. Though I’m not sure I could convince a whole group to be Pyro, there’s always those like 3 dudes who have to be Sniper no matter what.
People keep telling me I need to get a smart phone. I don’t because things like this here, this would be my exact reaction. Secondly, I really don’t want to pay for the internet on my phone, that shit is expensive.
For a second, I didn’t realize it was Commander’s girl, so my first thought was– “Holy shit, Baby Angel. <3" Followed by: "Wait, if Jack's got his bosses face on, then he's probably already locked her in a box cause momma's gone. Riiiight."
A few moments later there was a ":(".
Actually, now I want to see a Baby Angel. That *is* safe to google.
I think Jack already had the face-mask before he strangled his boss since his boss specifically talks about how under that mask he’s a pathetic human being.
What’s not known is what happened to him that made him wear the mask.
So when are we going to get the comic in which Mr. Torgue rassles with either Jack or Saxton Hale?
did anyone else think that this was the commander in some sort of transition period between when he was cured of nomura syndrome? First and second panel in black&white made me think of that
I thought that too; I was trying to figure out if I had missed a “Nomura syndrome relapse” plotline. I’m not familiar with Borderlands so it took me until reading the comments to figure out it was someone else.
I uh…. I colored…. http://vriosart.tumblr.com/post/36655113855
Funny thing, if you check the character’s list, you’ll see Rarity’s dad in there, and he’s actually named “Magnum”.
One thing i agree about this strip: i HATE if a phone game is a Pay-to-play instead of “Purchase it then you can play it all you want” type. Even better, if it’s a freeware!
Then again, this is kinda make sense. I mean, the developer of the game create the game —> get money —> they want more money —> make it Pay-to-play.
& i’m really, REALLY sorry if i offense anyone in the Pay-to-play work field.
Paying for a game sucks, but some are worth it more than others…
This one clearly is not.
My friend did a drawing of Butt Stallion.
http://katedoodles.tumblr.com/tagged/butt-stallion
Enjoy!
Lol Butt Stallion is a nickname of a friend of mine who is a horse furry XD that made me lul.
The most topical comic to date? (Besides the voting one) Probably.
My favorite so far? Also probably!
She didn’t even have to draw what she was talking about, we (mostly) all just knew!
Battlefield Heroes and Battlefield Play4Free irk me in the very same way. You need to spend about 15 bucks to get the really competitive stuff. I stopped keeping track of how many deaths my Nationalist gunner had to better-armed Royals that actually spent money.
…maybe I’m just a cheapskate.
I was gonna say sumthin, but then the comic title said it for me. Well played.
Forty?! That’s as many as four tens!
And that’s terrible.
You win this time, Pie.
Sorry to ask, but who is the character in this one? He reminds me of Pavi from Repo! but I figured he’s probably not.
Never mind, recognized him, Borderlands
As always, it’s in the tags.
I don’t play and didn’t know that was his name til I asked my bf about it. I thought it might be part of the horse game.
I don’t play shooter games, so my first thought was Pavi, I was actually shocked to find that it wasn’t him XD
did you forget to shade his left arm in the last pannel?
NO, Jack is dead, I shotgunned him in his bitch face myself. You are not allowed to use him because he is dead and I really prefer him that way. You wanna know why? Motherfucker killed my bird.
The feels, man. The feels. I love Jack in so many ways but yeah, and particularly coming across the … um… bit in Opportunity. :( He’s truly a villain. I trust though, that you have seen through the credits? :) If you haven’t, watch them.
You can just return to a little pod! So what if you killed him.
The guy in this looks remarkably like Zapan (Post face removal) from ‘Battle Angel Alita’ doubt it is him (prolly some other character) but still, close resemblance.
Great comic as always :P
HJ is probably my new favorite villain.
I know June loves rainbows and there’s nothing weird about her wearing a multicolor shirt like that… But I’m pretty sure Commander had to go back to early 90’s to get her such outfit.
Doesn’t Stallion refer to male equids?
It’s true, but then Jack is very, very bad at naming things. That’s kind of a little running gag through the game. Butt Stallion IS female. He refers to her as “girl” at least a couple times. Hunt down some of the “Man Who Would Be Jack” echoes online, it shows a bit of backstory, and then Opportunity echoes also have some hilarious stuff about how bad Jack is at naming stuff.
He wanted to name Lynchwood “New New Haven.” Man has skills.
Is that the Commander’s wee girl?
Jack is probably my absolute favorite antagonist, now. He’s so likeable and hateable at the same time. You either want to punch him in the dick or give him a high five.
He fits perfectly in MGDMT. I love you Coelasquid.
There is only one iProduct and that is iLoser.
Huh… I should really get an iPhone…
Hmm, I do NOT recognize this guy with a face stapled to his face.
But somehow, I suspect that he isn’t from some rare or forgotten title, but something that is hugely popular but I never played for some reason.
As always, relevant characters are tagged for people to google at their leisure.
I wonder if the Courier from Fallout New Vegas is the one that delivers the mail for Commander Badass And the rest of the peeps that work/try and get work there.
Since you daid that Commander Badass sounds like Michael keaton, what do Jonesey, jared and Canadian Guy sound like?
It’s about dignity. And there is no dignity in buying DLC that just gives you money for the shadow economy.
Buying a new phone because the old one is tainted is perfectly dignified.
This makes me feel a bit better about the extra costume I bought for Awesomenauts, a game I had already bought.
another less time consuming option is to edit the games files, it’s incredibly easy and not even encrypted, you can do crazy things to it like a million apples in the apple catch game, or just increase the value per apple, no clue about the ball toss though, oh and someone found a way to make the currencies increase when you buy the extra stuff, like doing the 1000 coin thing gives you 999 gems, the 5 gem fives you 999 hearts, and the 100 coin gives 999 coins or something, I’d be happy as a pig in mud being levitated by a witch in a broom factory if the ponies would just move, buggy android port, oh well
Lol!!! I just remembered that this comic is spot on in another way. The new DLC class in BL2, technomancer I believe, has a lot of MLP references in her skill tree!
I mostly only play that game in the hopes of spotting Derpy and saving up 8 more gems to get Lyra and put her house next to Bonbon’s. It takes forever to earn enough money to do anything in that game, and I can’t even get rid of parasprites because I don’t have enough Harmony gem shards. :P
The cool: Hasbro used bronies’ names for background characters.
The uncool: How much you have to PAY to do ANYTHING.
Has anyone else made a “At least it’s a tediore!” Joke yet?
I found this strangely adorable, especially the second panel. This would make a good series.
Okay, you’ve finally found a reference I don’t recognize. Who’s the dude with the stapled face?
Never mind. Figured it out. Borderlands. Got it. Never played it.
I hate Handsome Jack with a passion, but this made me laugh because of Butt Stallion.
I can see ten dollars, but forty? Yeesh. o_0
I’ve never played Borderlands, I thought he was supposed to be Pavi Largo from Repo! The Genetic Opera
lmao this is awesome, you should do a new one where handsome jack gets totally into the game and is playing with it next to butt stallion XD
(U can now search for butt stalion pics as they released her in the Dragons Keep Dlc)
Jack…You earn millions from everytime I die and respawn! You could litterally buy dozens of Butt Stallions! Ugh…see, this is why you are my most hated video game character ever…jerk!