Penny Arcade, on the Hulk Hogan / Gawker affair:
I don’t wish ill on anyone who works there, obviously. I mean, I guess their every action technically does sustain a legitimately evil beast of legend, some Revelations type shit, and they ruin lives for profit whenever they aren’t simply wasting your time. It’s like, oh, this other Gawker site does that. That’s not the site I read. Well, no, it’s all one site. It’s just the one site. Oh, but I only detest the mouth of the lion, where its fangs are kept; I do not detest the ear of the lion, nor its tail. But the ear is how he found your brother, and when he leapt on your sister, the tail kept him straight.
…That last bit is rather good, isn’t it? If Tycho came up with that, that’s some primo literary stuff, right there. I approve.
Tycho is a master word-smith, and I wish he had the cycles to finish that novel. To his credit, from what I’ve seen, he has not blindly jumped on the GamerGate witch-hunt either.
Penny Arcade was one of the first targets of the SJW Internet Rage Machine. Remember this?