I like to think the orphanage staff disabled the game system’s wireless capabilities. On-line gamer chatter is not a thing youngin’s need to hear.
Slightly related! I got curious and looked up XBox Live clips on Youtube. I think this is funny:
Cabbage Patch Commandos is a kid-friendly homage to Team Fortress 2. Instead of bullets and blowing up, you have carrot juice and fainting, and the pyro's fire is more like cartoon fire, where you just go "BOMPH" and turn into a burnt matchstick with blinking eyes.
Two items:
1) Cabbage Patch Commandos is adorable, and would paradoxically gather the hardest-core gamer following ever.
2) Amanda’s 0.0 face is oddly satisfying.
Yes I agree Amanda’s face “PRICELESS” hehe
It Already did. It’s called Team Fortress with a fun texture pack.
That was always my favorite commercial, so very clever! I find it sad that our world is so stupid that it had to be banned.
And I think Amanda’s about to have an aneurism.
…why am I the only adult who remembers how foul-mouthed late-elementary and middle-schoolers actually are?
(Perhaps “already are” would have made the point better.)
We all remember!
So there’s no need to actually illustrate it. Fewer swear words = higher concentration of funny remarks.
I think it depends on which decade you grew up and how you were brought up. I know that in 1st or 2nd grade in school we certainly KNEW most of the common swearwords, but none of us would have dared to utter one of them out loud even in a fit of anger, because if any adult had been within hearing range, we would have gotten grounded instantly.
Oh no, I remember very well. XD I actually dropped a few top-tier cuss words early in the strip, but when people started sending me emails about reading Selkie with kids and younger siblings, I felt a bit bad and reconsidered my stance on it. I’m not trying to be the next South Park, ya know?
I love Amanda´s expression in the last panel. She deserves another shock or two for being such a jerk.
By the way, you got me fooled for a moment, thinking Cabbage Patch Commando is a real game. It really should be, from the description.
Now excuse me for a moment while I re-install Worms 3D…
I’m kinda of the opinion that the worst part about watching a kid suffer in a medium like this isn’t necessarily the part where it happens, but the part where it dawns on you that you wanted it to happen up until the point it did. She was a brat, yes, but nothing completely out of the realm of “normal kid” brat and in to the realm of “young sociopath.”
I spent ten years as a kid on the receiving end of jerks and bullies like Amanda (though in school, not in an orphanage); maybe that explains my sentiments.
Is it just me or is the new kid’s apparent fascination with fire somewhat disconcerting? Also, Amanda’s expression in the last panel is so “full of win” that I’m still laughing at it myself. XD
I think the only reason he asked was because Moonsong mentioned it and deep down we all love setting stuff on fire.
Hey I’m fascinated with fire and I never hurt anybody. being a lil pyro just means you always wanna help your parents start the grill, the campfire, or the fireworks. Its normal, just because you love fire doesn’t mean you need to be worried about.
I work in a chem lab. Fire is a very dangerous thing with all the chemicals around me (especially organic solvents), so it has to be well contained and kept to minimum exposure with anything, hence freaking up about fire comes naturally to me. 😛
(Although, “the squirrel with the can of beans” leads me to assume that the fire in the game is more of a humorous piece of content than anything serious.)
I personally don’t see any issue with allowing morons to be morons publicly… make it easy to block them.
Then again, I grew up in an arcade where people being morons had you thrown out on your face by a six-eight black guy (who also, notably, knew exactly how to make the Suicide I grew to know and love, bwaha~).
Also, that Xbox Live ad… it’s funny, yes, but I can very well see why it would be banned. 😛
What kind of world do we live in where it’s okay to make & sell a violent video game, but it’s also okay to ban a perfectly logical AD for said game?
The mind boggles…
Haha, Team fortress is awesome and the scout is OP (a lot of fun to play though) and one thing misses from the commercial. the never ending swearing and the 12 year olds who begged there mother for it who figured “computer games are always for kids” or the cheaters and hackers. It’s still an incredibly funny commercial though XD
Did you see the Medic’s video this weekend? It was pretty awesome.
I did see the Medic video! Loved it!
hey I know you! 🙂
Love the adoption center arc : ) and can’t wait to see what happens next. I remember kids swearing all the time lol but none of us did it if we thought we’d get caught or tattled on lol.
But I have to wonder if the 360 add has anything to do with this episode of Spaced : ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kct523XltUM
It’s a British show from the Shawn of the Dead/Hot Fuzz guys.
Loved Cabbage commando’s always thought there should be a subversive fps shooter like the for the blood and violence naysayers.
The heck Dave, why aren’t we playing TF2?!
I dunno! :O My Steam name is Strawberrycocoa, let’s fix that!
Says it can’t find you! Mine is TrevorBlack. But I think its better if you just use my e-mail. Jade is on Steam too but she just plays Rift and Terraria right now lol
Ah ya I keep forgetting you have to give the account name or email, not the display name. I sent an invite!
Mind if i sending me one as well. I’m a pretty decent engineer.
Steam name is: Doomba
(my icon with “404” character in it)
Sure!
Actually, the game more reminds me of Conkers. I never played the original, but the Xbox version is pretty good. ^^
@’esque: you nailed why I hate vulgarity for vulgarity’s sake; I’ve dropped a lot of comics for just that reason.
While I agree that watching Amanda’s karma come home to roost is satisfying, it’s also a bit sad. Dave, you’re doing a great job of showing the orphanage’s little subculture.
It’s official my girlfriend wants to adopt Moonsong. Think it can happen Dave?
We’ll have to see what adoption fate awaits our resident goth-in-training. XD
She’d rather him just stick to gamer.
Duly noted. 😀
Hey, I have nothing against goths, Lani. 😛
Hee hee. “The squirrel with the can of baked beans.” Fire! o.O
I’m a Badgerneer. That means I solve practical problems.
That game is Team Fortress 2. ^__^ And the Xbox Ad? I love that one. I would totally do that
Dave can I please please please Adopt Georgie. He is so cute, and a gamer, and seems to be very imaginative. He is the perfect mixture of me and my fiance. 🙂 PLZ
I still feel sorry for Amanda but man that face was worth the wait haha.
The game they’re playing actually reminds me of Conkers Bad Fur Day, into which I poured about a third of my adolescence.
While I am enjoying the orphanage arc, I’m curious what;s going on with our little web-footed heroine…. 🙂
Yes, please! I miss Selkie!
Best part of that X-Box commercial?
Getting to hear a Les Paul song play over the background…
About the Xbox ad: They deliberately made sure to get it banned so that everybody on the Internet would see it. Viral marketing for the win.
gotta admit, I’d play the heck out of Cabbage Patch Commandos if it was real
Team Fortress 2 woodland creature style!! I’m also glad that Meet the Medic finally came out 😀
I’m glad that video games are distracting him from not being able to find his parents. I just hope it’ll turn out OK for him.
yes my internet is working
Man moonsong really reminds me of my little bud
Snipin’s a good job, mate. Challengin’ work, out of doors… And I guarantee you’ll never go ‘ungry.