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281 282</div></div> 283 </div> 284 <hr> 285 <div id="news"> 286 <article class="content"> 287 <div class="avatar"> 288 <div class="border"> 289 <img src="https://assets.penny-arcade.com/img/avatars/avatar-tycho-general.jpg" srcset="https://assets.penny-arcade.com/img/avatars/avatar-tycho-general.jpg 1x,https://assets.penny-arcade.com/img/avatars/[email protected] 2x" width="100" alt=""> </div> 290 </div> 291 292 <header><h2><a href="/news/post/2026/09/30/the-race-galactic">The Race Galactic</a></h2></header> 293 <footer> 294 <p class="details author">By Tycho – September 30, 2026</p> 295 <ul class="tags"> 296 <li><a href="/archive/search?tag=3652">Star Wars: Galactic Racer</a></li> 297 </ul> 298 </footer> 299 <div class="post-body"> 300 <section class="post-text"> 301 <p>There was a period of time where they were just putting Star Wars on shit. Games Workshop used to do that too, with their license. There was some <em>filth</em>. But they've both figured out that - and I'll agree it's a little crazy - if you give the licenses to <em>cool</em> people who make <em>good</em> games it's a better play. In the same way that ex-Firaxis people proved that Star Wars XCOM could be much more than the sum of its parts, ex-Criterion people are making some kind of Goddamn roguelite racing game and it <a href="https://starwarsgalacticracer.com/">looks fucking sick</a>.</p> </section> 302 </div> 303 </article> 304 305 <article class="content"> 306 <div class="avatar"> 307 <div class="border"> 308 <img src="https://assets.penny-arcade.com/img/avatars/avatar-tycho-angry.jpg" srcset="https://assets.penny-arcade.com/img/avatars/avatar-tycho-angry.jpg 1x,https://assets.penny-arcade.com/img/avatars/[email protected] 2x" width="100" alt=""> </div> 309 </div> 310 311 <header><h2><a href="/news/post/2026/09/28/numbers-game">Numbers Game</a></h2></header> 312 <footer> 313 <p class="details author">By Tycho – September 28, 2026</p> 314 <ul class="tags"> 315 <li><a href="/archive/search?tag=3651">Fallosophy</a></li> 316 <li><a href="/archive/search?tag=1507">Fire Emblem</a></li> 317 <li><a href="/archive/search?tag=3649">Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave</a></li> 318 <li><a href="/archive/search?tag=3648">Fortune's Weave</a></li> 319 </ul> 320 </footer> 321 <div class="post-body"> 322 <section class="post-text"> 323 <p>He's still being dragged down into an incredibly deep hole with the new Fire Emblem, enough to wonder how some of the math could possibly <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/09/25">math in this way</a>. He sounds like me when I got heavily - heavily - into Dynasty Tactics, which I was horrified to learn is twenty-four years old. Fire Emblem is about type-matching and abilities, which is already drugs; Dynasty Tactics is largely about creating a favorable battlefield by positioning your units so that, like striking a match, you attack once and it triggers additional attacks from the rest of your army. I don't know that I've ever had to think that hard in a game since. They made a second one, but I didn't like it as well. That could be due to the fact that it wasn't as good, maybe, but who knows. It's also possible that the exertions of arranging and then triggering ten discrete units on a two-dimensional plane so that they all perform in a harmonious sequence is only something you can <em>feel</em> once.</p> </section> 324 </div> 325 </article> 326 327 <article class="content"> 328 <div class="avatar"> 329 <div class="border"> 330 <img src="https://assets.penny-arcade.com/img/avatars/
330avatar-gabe-retina.jpg" srcset="https://assets.penny-arcade.com/img/avatars/avatar-gabe-retina.jpg 1x,https://assets.penny-arcade.com/img/avatars/[email protected] 2x" width="100" alt=""> </div> 331 </div> 332 333 <header><h2><a href="/news/post/2026/09/25/my-b-day">My B-Day!</a></h2></header> 334 <footer> 335 <p class="details author">By Gabe – September 25, 2026</p> 336 <ul class="tags"> 337 <li><a href="/archive/search?tag=631">Birthday</a></li> 338 </ul> 339 </footer> 340 <div class="post-body"> 341 <section class="post-text"> 342 <p>Thanks for the Birthday wishes guys I appreciate it! Gabe’s Birthday being a worldwide phenomenon is one of my favorite running gags in the strip. </p> 343<p> </p> 344<p> </p> </section> 345 </div> 346 </article> 347 348 <article class="content"> 349 <div class="avatar"> 350 <div class="border"> 351 <img src="https://assets.penny-arcade.com/img/avatars/avatar-tycho-real-jerry.jpg" srcset="https://assets.penny-arcade.com/img/avatars/avatar-tycho-real-jerry.jpg 1x,https://assets.penny-arcade.com/img/avatars/[email protected] 2x" width="100" alt=""> </div> 352 </div> 353 354 <header><h2><a href="/news/post/2026/09/25/goerbemisdag">Goerbemisdag</a></h2></header> 355 <footer> 356 <p class="details author">By Tycho – September 25, 2026</p> 357 <ul class="tags"> 358 <li><a href="/archive/search?tag=3650">Steven Brust</a></li> 359 <li><a href="/archive/search?tag=50">PAX Aus</a></li> 360 <li><a href="/archive/search?tag=2715">The Christmas In September</a></li> 361 </ul> 362 </footer> 363 <div class="post-body"> 364 <section class="post-text"> 365 <p>Strips about "<a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/08/14/mein-birthday">The Christmas In September</a>" go back, yea, unto the site's very founding. This was during a time where "sites" were a thing, luckily we came to our right minds and converted the frontier into a series of corporate intranets. Dodged a bullet, there. But! There are <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/09/26/how-do-you-celebrate">several</a> <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/09/28/bacchanal">more</a> strips in that vein, and there are <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/09/23/saturation">two</a> <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/09/25/the-kit">strips</a> in particular that have the visual cues to help you understand the <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/09/25">rich lore</a> he has been embroidering the holiday with. I should tell you that he and I never <em>once</em>
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