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Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip

'What are you going to do... CALL someone on it, you FOSSIL?'

Chapter 33 – Page 11

on August 12, 2014
Chapter: Chapter 33
└ Tags: Shanna, Xan
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  1. alicemacher
    alicemacher
    August 12, 2014, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Wait a minute… Xan… Phil and T, this is a version of the character from Sketchies, isn’t it?

    (I miss Sketchies. :( Could you at least put the chapters you guys did finish back online? I’ll be your best friennnnnnd…)

    • T
      T
      August 12, 2014, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

      You are correct… and this has not gone unnoticed. More to come.

  2. JSStryker
    JSStryker
    August 12, 2014, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    That dude looks vaguely like Penk.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      August 12, 2014, 7:30 am | # | Reply

      No, he is E-Gurl, without the cool beard

      • Chris
        Chris
        August 12, 2014, 9:00 am | # | Reply

        He could be both!
        Makes sense as a Bard Tamer / Mage tend to be the big gold farmer skills.

        He’s playing both sides!

        • nemui
          nemui
          August 12, 2014, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

          How’d he play both sides at the same time during the assault on B’ial Vezk?

          • Vic
            Vic
            August 12, 2014, 9:18 pm | # | Reply

            2 acounts + some macros or bots
            he said he is gold farmer thats like pretty basic things for them to gather that stuff o.o
            (aside of hacking acounts for that)

  3. Dusksworn
    Dusksworn
    August 12, 2014, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    He looks like Penk…

    • Acrox
      Acrox
      August 12, 2014, 5:25 am | # | Reply

      Now I can’t imagine anything else but him putting on a Galactus helmet (or maybe Penk’s actual helm printed on 3D) before Wikileaking it.

  4. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    August 12, 2014, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Pff, phone. Shanna probably still watches cable too instead of using her TV simply as a large monitor.

    • Otaking
      Otaking
      August 12, 2014, 9:31 pm | # | Reply

      Plot twist: he learns he strangely enjoys being talked down to by an anachronism spouting woman dressed as Carmen San Diego. I predict the next tissues will be dedicated to her.

  5. Gram91
    Gram91
    August 12, 2014, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    I really don’t like Shanna for her whole video game bashing thing, but this guy is just freakin’ awesome. Logic for the win.

    • Fiaryn
      Fiaryn
      August 12, 2014, 12:53 am | # | Reply

      Unfortunately, his downfall is that he’s not as smart as he thinks he is. His entire argument is predicated from the notion that anonymity will in any way shield him.

      It won’t.

      • Fiaryn
        Fiaryn
        August 12, 2014, 12:55 am | # | Reply

        It’s the whole reason for the door buzzer scene. He views himself as something greater than he is. Whatever Shanna’s failings may be, she has a much clearer perspective of how little rules matter anymore.

    • Insanenoodlyguy
      Insanenoodlyguy
      August 12, 2014, 1:29 am | # | Reply

      Only if he goes mobile, which I doubt he’s going to do. Shanna realizes what’s after her. This guy would probably be dead before he could release the story.

      Hell, he might be dead now.

      • Gram91
        Gram91
        August 12, 2014, 2:19 am | # | Reply

        Oh yeah, this guy has a pretty high chance of dying. I just really liked the way he shot down what Shanna said. I just really don’t like her. To me, she seems to talk down to people, thinking she’s a person with all the answers, when they don’t…I just don’t like those kind of people, mainly because I live with one.

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        August 12, 2014, 7:32 am | # | Reply

        Yes please very much so! Kill him until he is dead, and then kill him again for being a pretentious little fracker who thinks they invented the computer and the cyber world

        • CorrTerek
          CorrTerek
          August 12, 2014, 9:58 am | # | Reply

          I’d like to point out that Shanna insulted him first by implying that he would sit on a story to protect his entertainment. I think a little bit of snark is justified.

          • Gram91
            Gram91
            August 12, 2014, 8:46 pm | # | Reply

            This guy gets it.

        • Phil
          Flo
          August 12, 2014, 2:11 pm | # | Reply

          Jesus fucking Christ.

    • Swissaboo
      Swissaboo
      August 12, 2014, 2:57 am | # | Reply

      I used to really hate the whole “video game violence causes violence thing” but all of a sudden you’ve gotten people who’ve up and dropped everything to go fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq literally saying it’s amazing because it’s just like Call of Duty. It’s not looking so backwards anymore.

      • AlmondMagnum
        AlmondMagnum
        August 12, 2014, 3:48 am | # | Reply

        People have dropped everything to go fight holy wars for centuries. They just have different reference frames to describe their experiences now, not to mention a lot more people to describe them to. (When you’re an illiterate peasant on his first crusade, aren’t the only guys to talk to about it other peasants on their first crusade sitting right next to you?)

        • Guesticus
          Guesticus
          August 12, 2014, 7:35 am | # | Reply

          No, people now are going to war because they think it’s a real life video game, not the same thing at all

          • tejón
            tejón
            August 12, 2014, 7:49 pm | # | Reply

            Hero story is hero story. Medium is irrelevant.

            • Karishi
              Karishi
              August 12, 2014, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

              When a specific medium’s effectiveness at causing a behavior is notably higher than another’s, medium ceases to be irrelevant.
              Note that this is a declaration of “medium is not necessarily irrelevant,” not of “I have research declaring that video games as a medium are awesome at turning Today’s Youth ™ into Rampaging Murderfiends (also tm).”

        • TxGator
          TxGator
          August 12, 2014, 9:33 am | # | Reply

          I don’t know. I used to think that people were falsey blaming video games and movies for a perceived increase of violence in our society. But now days I’m not so sure. It very well may be the case that things are the same as they ever were. And that if it wasn’t movies and video games, it would be something else. But violence does beget violonce. And I wonder at times if violent entertainment may help to stroke the fires a bit.

      • NobodySpecial
        NobodySpecial
        August 12, 2014, 4:02 am | # | Reply

        I do not believe video game violence CAUSES violence, but I believe like any other stimuli, it reinforces violent behavior in the individual. That’s also helped by video games allowing you to act violently in an exposed environment while retaining a level of anonymity.

      • Acrox
        Acrox
        August 12, 2014, 12:33 pm | # | Reply

        Not to mention getting kids to play a simulacrum of what brawls and wars is older than dirt.

        When I was a kid, it was common to get gifted with realistic-looking (sometimes 100% metal and wood) toy guns and go out of the way to using them in any way you wanted (“it was the fat kid’s fault for not getting enough cover and getting shot by a BB/too slow to not notice someone edged on him and getting his bacon face pistol-whipped silly”) so when we could buy/earn our own gun we would be familiar with it and how jerkass you/people would be with it.

        Now civilian gun use is illegal, and the whole “toy guns are evil/medieval toys are evil/tabletop is evil/Counter Strike is evil” was played to exhaustion, but you get to shoot people the same if you go to army (since it’s obligatory, you’ll learn how to murder people with extreme prejudice anyway if you managed to reach 18 without any kind of crippling injury, and many people happily oblige even if they are more interested about hats in shooting games).

        Jerks will be jerks anyway, like that one guy who would bring a BB gun to a game of tag or the kid who watched a documentary about spartans and learned about their cool-but-now-illegal-due-to-broken-teeth shield bash. Those excuses will only serve their lawyers once they do the only thing they know (which is making other people’s life miserable).

        • Ross
          Ross
          August 12, 2014, 6:10 pm | # | Reply

          For purposes of context, what country do you live in?

          • Otaking
            Otaking
            August 12, 2014, 9:24 pm | # | Reply

            Yeah, those ISIS members play a lot of CoD too I heard. Well really they like playing the terrorists in CS more since they can’t afford the latest PCs obviously.

            • Acrox
              Acrox
              August 13, 2014, 7:06 am | # | Reply

              More like “playing terrorists because they can’t even afford the M1 rifle” (well, the AKA-47 is way better anyway).

              And just in case Ross backtracks this comment, I live in Brazil. I miss my old cannon keyring (if you provided a cap, it could actually shoot a BB round).

              • Guesticus
                Guesticus
                August 14, 2014, 3:05 am | # | Reply

                Yeah, we had some of those keyrings

                And, as a kid, we didn’t have no fancy mass-produced gun, we made our own and played in the neighbours backyard (it was overgrown and had an old shed)

  6. FoolishOwl
    FoolishOwl
    August 12, 2014, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Can’t stop the signal, Mal.

    • Oldguy
      Oldguy
      August 12, 2014, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      My thought, exactly. Now if there’s a blow-up doll on a couch around there somewhere, I’d say that Xan’s chances of catching sword poisoning have gone up 3000%.

      • Ishmael
        Ishmael
        August 12, 2014, 12:41 am | # | Reply

        Well, there ARE the used tissues lying at his feet.

        • Sestror
          Sestror
          August 12, 2014, 4:00 am | # | Reply

          Which he could have just used to wipe away some sweat.

          Seriously, it could be like an oven in there without proper ventilation.

          • cliffmonster
            cliffmonster
            August 12, 2014, 9:42 am | # | Reply

            Yeah right, and I am Best’s alt.

            • Corwin MacGregor
              Corwin MacGregor
              August 12, 2014, 7:01 pm | # | Reply

              Best! My man! Stop frittering away your time on that dog-faced cultist alt, and come back and join the Alliance, dude. We all miss you. No hellspawn succubine girlfriend is worth whatever she’s promising you in that damned cult.

  7. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    August 12, 2014, 1:49 am | # | Reply

    It will be very interesting to see what happens if this guy is real world Penk and dies for real

    • cliffmonster
      cliffmonster
      August 12, 2014, 9:43 am | # | Reply

      Good call; I bet it will happen just as the two sides come together to fight the chaos worm (or whatever)…

  8. dethdukk
    dethdukk
    August 12, 2014, 2:16 am | # | Reply

    Called it on the last page!

  9. Hellhound
    Hellhound
    August 12, 2014, 2:32 am | # | Reply

    “Violence begets Violence” and “video-game-bashing essays” ? whoa…shanna just lost alot of Points in my book. still a good character though.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      August 12, 2014, 7:37 am | # | Reply

      Violence does beget violence, it always has

      • Taxil Necrobane
        Taxil Necrobane
        August 12, 2014, 11:08 am | # | Reply

        Not exactly. Human nature begets violence. It has been doing it long before the net existed. I can testify to that for I was here before the net was created back in the 80’s.

      • tk
        tk
        August 12, 2014, 11:22 am | # | Reply

        ACTUAL violence begets violence.

        • Guesticus
          Guesticus
          August 14, 2014, 3:08 am | # | Reply

          Umm, yeah, that’s what said

    • CorrTerek
      CorrTerek
      August 12, 2014, 9:44 am | # | Reply

      We’ve known since the beginning that Shanna’s job involves bashing an art form that she doesn’t like or participate in.

  10. Fenlander
    Fenlander
    August 12, 2014, 3:56 am | # | Reply

    That nose! I’ve seen it before… HE’S BANDIT!

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      August 12, 2014, 7:38 am | # | Reply

      Thought you were talking about The Nose in the doorway :P

  11. Locke
    Locke
    August 12, 2014, 6:03 am | # | Reply

    She’s gonna kill him with the phone, isn’t she

    • Fairportfan
      Fairportfan
      August 12, 2014, 6:34 am | # | Reply

      Well, if it’s possible to die from having a phone shoved up your nose (or other orifice)…

    • flevine
      flevine
      August 12, 2014, 6:57 am | # | Reply

      What, with his cell phone? Nah. You need a good old rotary for a proper skull fracture.

      OTOH, he might have one since it doesn’t have an IP or GPS…

      • Just_IDD
        Just_IDD
        August 12, 2014, 7:07 am | # | Reply

        My bet is she is calling Watson to find out if her tail has reached him yet.

  12. Aleister Crow
    Aleister Crow
    August 12, 2014, 7:38 am | # | Reply

    All the conjecture about who his character is based on his looks… wouldn’t it be funny if it was someone with no physical resemblance to him at all?

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      August 12, 2014, 8:25 am | # | Reply

      He’s actually playing a gnome.

    • Avris
      Avris
      August 12, 2014, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

      It’s pretty obvious that he’s Rendar.

      Who else could nerd out so hard?

    • wolfpax
      wolfpax
      August 12, 2014, 2:04 pm | # | Reply

      I’m betting most of us are wrong, it’s still fun to guess.

  13. Kennerly
    Kennerly
    August 12, 2014, 9:01 am | # | Reply

    It seems to me the problem is Shanna wants all the responsibility and recognition that goes with releasing this story.

  14. Random_idiot
    Random_idiot
    August 12, 2014, 2:52 pm | # | Reply

    WHO SHE GONNA CALL

    • Karishi
      Karishi
      August 12, 2014, 11:51 pm | # | Reply

      Boast-gusters!

  15. Dave
    Dave
    August 12, 2014, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

    Why do I find myself thinking he could be the real life analogue of Payet Best… maybe his tube signal went dead because he got magicked out or into a new body or thrown back in time… ?

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      August 14, 2014, 3:10 am | # | Reply

      No no no, Best is William H. Macy

  16. Tito
    Tito
    August 12, 2014, 5:58 pm | # | Reply

    People, he’s Goblaurence! The same snarky attitude and the same baggy eyes.

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      August 12, 2014, 9:55 pm | # | Reply

      But where is the tree smoke…

  17. Ahighfunctioningsociopath
    Ahighfunctioningsociopath
    August 14, 2014, 2:50 pm | # | Reply

    I still think E-merl. The nail in the coffin was the, “gold farming.” In game E-merl’s explanation is that the gold is just going to pay off his wizard school debts. E-merl is a gold farmer.

  18. Banana
    Banana
    October 8, 2014, 2:02 pm | # | Reply

    Dinosaur media? Oh please … the printed newspaper have a reputation, tought-out articles, correct spelling and writing, and their very nature makes it mandatory to think before printing.
    These so-called “new” media are barely an ersatz. The perfect embodiment of “talk, think after.”

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