It's been at pvponline.com for years.
I don't understand this strip.
Is the joke just that game consoles never have an HDMI cable even though the only reasons not to use HDMI anymore are that you don't have an HDTV or you're out of HDMI cables and need to buy another?
The Permanently Confused
I...guess? My Wii U came with an HDMI cable.
I think it's just about the beginning of the era of console manufacturers admitting that HDMI is the default? The last generation had HDMI on 2 out of 3 consoles, but most people (not necessarily most gamers, but most people) still had tube-based televisions.
I still think the comic's making too much out of it though.
Fresh-eyed movie blog
Gamer-turning-maker
For years, it was basically tradition for the HD-capable consoles to only be bundled with component cables and not HDMI cables. People didn't like having to buy HDMI cables because they cost somewhere around $75 per.
So yeah - while it may not be as big a deal as presented in the strip, it's still pretty big.
edited 20th Nov '13 4:37:47 AM by nomuru2d
Long live Cinematech. FC:0259-0435-4987
... do you only buy Monster cables? I can get HDMI cabling for under a dollar a foot.
Wait, do you mean when it first appeared in the market?
edited 20th Nov '13 10:48:34 AM by TParadox
Fresh-eyed movie blog
Mighty pirate!
Monster cables cost $ridiculous, but even the first-party-branded "regular" HDMI cables for a game system will run you $20-$40, for no good reason at all. If you search Amazon for an "official" HDMI cable for the X Box, for instance, it's $20, marked down from $50 MSRP.
edited 20th Nov '13 10:49:45 AM by Shale
Sorry for the necro, but has there been any commentary on the time skip and subsequent artstyle change? Is the strip under new management?
Lost in Space
Not new management. Kurtz is apparently trying out something new, after running with the same characters for years.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Somebody get this freaking duck away from me!
The TL;DR is that he didn’t feel like waiting for all of this *gestures broadly* to be over and felt like it was a good time to jump ahead to when it already is over in the comic.
Today's strip involves the lowest form of blackmail I have ever seen in a webcomic. If my parents tried that on me when I was younger I'd have told them where they could shove it.
I couldn't find a PVP general, and it seemed like one should exist.
Foremost on my mind: where can I find PVP Alive? It seems to have vanished off the face of the internet. I remember it being really funny...