I think Penny Arcade’s over-rated. They’re funny, but not consistently so, and they seem to take pride in omitting context from half of what they say. Still, they hit it out of the park sometimes, and I commend them for that.
This whole Jack Thompson thing is a good example of that. He’s the lawyer who’s suing the makers of Grand Theft Auto for inciting some nut to murder two police officers. He also made an offer that if someone made a game in which someone kills video game execs as revenge for the industry’s violence that he’d donate $10,000 to charity. Naturally, someone made said game, and he backed down on his offer, saying it was satire.
So Penny Arcade donated the $10,000 for him, in his name.
Pretty damn awesome, I’d say.