Comments on: Strafe Left: The Formative Years #13

By: always_black

always_black — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:26:42 +0000

Was it more or less censorship-worthy than some of the games that were advertised in that issue, I wonder.

By: Iain "DDude" Dawson

Iain "DDude" Dawson — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:45:24 +0000

I love strafe left.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:42:31 +0000

I find this passing hilarious from a magazine where a slight mis-reading of an url (1ZOOX for 1Z0OX, and the font really doesn’t help with that distincting) sends the reader to an amateur porn site rather than the homepage for UT Tweaker.

Ah well, sorry to see Strafe Left go at any rate, one of my favourite parts.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:29:28 +0000

Any chance of the “Mature themes” – “Strong Language” one being up in the not too distant future? I’d quite like it as wallpaper.

(Sorry if I sound a bit like the guy at a gig shouting “Freebird! Play your old shit, man!”)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:39:47 +0000

You’ll then need to start making new ones! :o

Good that you’ll get it online. A side-by-side-comparison would be neat, since I personally abhor censorship.

By: Tim Stone

Tim Stone — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:57:54 +0000

The uncensored version of the TF2 cartoon will probably appear in the archive eventually. Probably not for a while though. I’m trying to inter the older stuff first. (For hygiene reasons, obviously).

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:18:32 +0000

Fair enough – I suppose it was censored, I’d love to know what, and see them both. I mean, if a mere comic is censored, what else can we assume is? :(

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:18:29 +0000

@Andrew: The censored comic hasn’t been posted up on RPS, but it did appear in the last isssue (183) of PCG UK.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:15:01 +0000

So, did you post the TF2 “to be censored” comic or did I miss that?

I don’t comment on them but they are not bad, and artistically I let them off :) – a good contrast to the ultra-super-graphics of the games they usually represent.

Why not make new ones for RPS? I mean, unless you have a censor here :(

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:16:18 +0000

“Apologies to SL ‘fans’ (all five of you).”

Ahh, don’t be so modest Tim, I’m sure there are at least 12 of us =)

By: Max

Max — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:10:41 +0000

“It’s satire you [wonderful man].”

Yeah, nice one :/

I’m sort of used to these comics parodying one game or another, and when I couldn’t spot a specific theme in this one I assumed it must have been a game I hadn’t played. I was wrong, and after another read of the comic after your wonderfully helpful comment I understand the joke.

Thanks for making me feel welcome here though; nice job.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:46:22 +0000

I thought that strip was excellent, essentially every single time I saw it. Look forward to seeing it elsewhere. Go hang out with Zeropunctuation at the Escapist.