42 Responses to “It DOES Matter If You’re Black or White”

1. 1 Andrew Posted: Apr 9th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

   No, it isn’t weird to cross your legs like that. From most to least acceptable: Ankle to Knee (The Tim) Ankle to Ankle (Extended Leg Cross) Calf to Shin (Infinity Crossing) Knee to Knee (The Ray) ————— (The Line) Thigh to Thigh (Ball-less crossing AKA The Piss Holder) Also, Ikaruga was probably my favorite Dreamcast game, and I would get it for Wii (Gamecube) if I ever saw it. What is on the wall behind the couch? Reply to this comment.

2. 2 Ray Posted: Apr 9th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

   Author Comment What is on the wall behind the couch? Oh you know me and my Sonic posters…… Reply to this comment.

3. 3 dj75728 Posted: Apr 9th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

   NCG. Honestly I’m just really happy to see some love for Ikaruga. BTW, Tim/Ray have you guys heard of the new white Gamecube controls coming out in japan? I’ll probably pick one up if I can find one. Reply to this comment.

4. 4 dj75728 Posted: Apr 9th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

   What is on the wall behind the couch? Oh you know me and my Sonic posters…… Hey, that looks like one of the new Sega shirts that just came out in japan. I really want the blue one but the website is in Japanese and I don’t think they ship to US T_T….. Reply to this comment.

5. 5 Baka Posted: Apr 9th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

   I loved this comic; I haven’t even played the game but was able to use the powers of context clues to pick up on the joke AND enjoy it. That is a really nice looking couch, by the way. Reply to this comment.

6. 6 D3vin Posted: Apr 9th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

   On the subject of Tim’s ever-changing look, as a gag in one comic you should have his clothes change appearance in every panel… Show ▼ (Imagines the comic right now… Tim doesn’t seem to mind, it freaks Ray out, Tim just replies “What? That starman cost me five bucks, and I’m making the most of it.” and he pokes Ray defeating him for 100 points….) Reply to this comment.

7. 7 Cory Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 1:11 am

   Are you supposed to play Ikaruga on its side? Have I been playing it wrong all these years…? Reply to this comment.

8. 8 Rokai Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 5:48 am

   Are you supposed to play Ikaruga on its side? Have I been playing it wrong all these years…? Oh really! Bad Copy->Paste? Reply to this comment.

9. 9 Andrew Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 5:58 am

   Are you supposed to play Ikaruga on its side? Have I been playing it wrong all these years…? I was wondering about that. Is there side scrolling on the xbox version? Reply to this comment.

10. 10 tustin Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 6:36 am

    I don’t know Ray… the crossed legs make is seem your either really into the game, or you sort-of need to pee but don’t want to get up at the moment. On a slightly related note, I find myself standing up whenever I get really into a game, and if my brother is watching (which he usually is), he’ll yell at me for blocking the screen or something. Anyone else stand while playing? By the way, I like Tim’s new look - it hides some of those nubby elbows and makes him look more dignified (read: older). Reply to this comment.

11. 11 dj75728 Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 6:37 am

    Are you supposed to play Ikaruga on its side? Have I been playing it wrong all these years…? I was wondering about that. Is there side scrolling on the xbox version? I just figured it looked better sideways for the comic and decided not to nit-pick at it. but now that its been said: whats up with that ish? Reply to this comment.

12. 12 Tristan Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 6:55 am

    I STILL cant belive on that comic a few weeks ago that ray used Landmaster, which is Fox’s final smash Show ▼ or Falco’s final smash, or Wolf’s final smash, Nintendo was real inventive giving them all Landmaster But why wasnt it SONIC’s final smash that was used? Why not transform into Super… Ray….? Yeah thats it. Use the chaos emeralds ray Reply to this comment.

13. 13 Tristan Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 6:56 am

    yay my first comment with a spoiler tag! Reply to this comment.

14. 14 A Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 7:58 am

    Xbox sucks Reply to this comment.

15. 15 A Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 7:59 am

    Xbox sucks balls Reply to this comment.

16. 16 A Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 8:00 am

    Xbox sucks dry donkeyballs Reply to this comment.

17. 17 A Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 8:00 am

    Xbox sucks dry donkeyballs with a straw Reply to this comment.

18. 18 dj75728 Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 8:57 am

    What’s with the xbox bashing? This isn’t some kind of fan-boy site afterall (even if sometimes it seems that way ) Reply to this comment.

19. 19 Andrew Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 9:33 am

    Show ▼ What’s with the xbox bashing? This isn’t some kind of fan-boy site afterall (even if sometimes it seems that way ) What I want to know is how these xbox bashing sentences are supposed to be parsed. I mean, the first case is clear with a subject, verb. Xbox is the one doing the sucking. The second case expands that balls are being sucked. In the third and fourth cases, it seems clear that xbox is still sucking. What is less clear is if dry donkeyballs are being sucked, or if donkeyballs are being sucked dry. It also is somewhat confusing on what a donkeyball is. Probably A simply mean to refer to donkey balls, but is unable to type, perhaps overcome by a blinding rage at such a great game appearing on a console he so evidently despises. Most perplexing is the addition of the straw. The pattern in the first three seems to be that the level of insult is increasing. However, does the addition of the straw uphold this pattern, or humorously reverse it? On the one hand, it is certainly more ridiculous to have the xbox intake vent taped to a straw which it uses to suck the donkeyballs. It means that the xbox probably went to a lot more work to set up this donkeyballs sucking than it would have without the straw. On the other hand, it removes the direct xbox on donkeyballs contact that A probably finds so distasteful. A must not hate the xbox completely, because he allows it this one concession, probably because A has a level of empathy for the situation of xbox. I am sure that when A sucks donkeyballs, A prefers to use a straw. Reply to this comment.

20. 20 sheppy Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 9:46 am

    Heh… should I cause trouble and point out no PS3 was present? Or should I point out Sega confirmed wolf sonic slows down and busts through stuff ala knuckles without the gliding? Or should I say that’s the funkiest TV set I ever saw? Nah, I’ll just say I’ve been seeing some real improvements over the past few months. Seriously, otherwise I wouldn’t comment and give you guys sh*. I’m hated for that on deviant art. Bad stuff, I won’t even comment but stuff I like, I feel I must be the pretentious art critique (four years of art school “firing squad” critiques does this to you…) and try to push you guys forward. I’d like to see a comic go up that’s freehand sometime, though. Reply to this comment.

21. 21 Tim Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 10:10 am

    Author Comment Ikaruga CAN be played sideways, but the controls don’t follow suit, meaning you either have to rotate your TV 90 degrees or lay on the couch (rotate yourself 90 degrees). Ray must be showing off his skillz (notice the ‘z’) because he’s playing the game sideways without rotating anything, NOT an easy task. As far as the TV goes, yes, it’s the funkiest TV I’ve ever seen too. When it first appeared (second comic, I believe), I was a little weirded out by it (it was even funkier, so I made Ray change it a little). We’ll talk about it in the upcoming podcast. Reply to this comment.

22. 22 Andrew Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    Ikaruga CAN be played sideways, but the controls don’t follow suit, meaning you either have to rotate your TV 90 degrees or lay on the couch (rotate yourself 90 degrees). Ray must be showing off his skillz (notice the ‘z’) because he’s playing the game sideways without rotating anything, NOT an easy task. That is awesome! You don’t have to waste 75% of your widescreen when you play. Reply to this comment.

23. 23 dj75728 Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    LOOK!!! Tim and Ray have Wavebird’s! Lucky >_> …..BTW nice detail on the consoles; I’m a bit of a detail nut myself . Reply to this comment.

24. 24 dj75728 Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    @Tustin: Oddly when I was little and would get into a game I would stand up and start hopping in place. It always annoyed everybody I played with. Glad I outgrew that . Reply to this comment.

25. 25 hyper Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

    wasn’t tim supposed Show ▼ to have blue baby eyes??????????????????????????????????? Reply to this comment.

26. 26 cuephat Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    On a slightly related note, I find myself standing up whenever I get really into a game, and if my brother is watching (which he usually is), he’ll yell at me for blocking the screen or something. Anyone else stand while playing? I stand when I do just about everything, especially a rousing game of Smash Bros. It’s a commonly accepted law of nature between all people who know me well. Sometimes when the gloves are off and I’m in for a really intense game, I’ll crouch. Does that make me weird? Probably. In other news, I love the fact that you guys are playing Ikaruga. That was one game that my dad and I could never get enough of. Another being Super Metroid. But I’m glad you guys saw fit to mention it. Anyway, NCG! Reply to this comment.

27. 27 OmegaLord Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    Oh god, this comic makes me feel inadequate. XKCD I can understand but this is out of my league. Reply to this comment.

28. 28 Ransom Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    Ikaruga’s already been on the Dreamcast, Gamecube, and the 360. You really should stop reading obscure webcomics if you haven’t played it by now. Reply to this comment.

29. 29 tustin Posted: Apr 11th, 2008 at 10:20 am

    BTW, very nicely done, adding a login feature for those of us who visit the site daily. Personally, I didn’t have to add in info each time I wanted to comment because Firefox stored it for me, but logging in is cooler. Might this lead to other things on the website? Reply to this comment.

30. 30 ObscureLarry Posted: Apr 11th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    This comic was awesome. Reply to this comment.

31. 31 Employer Posted: Apr 11th, 2008 at 6:17 pm

    This was a nice comic.. except i have a random question… do you really have a TV that looks like that? Reply to this comment.

32. 32 Lilguitarist Posted: Apr 12th, 2008 at 3:32 am

    Sorry guys but this has to be the first comic I don’t get. I blame Tim! I joke, I guess the joke kinda relies heavily on knowing the game and I haven’t even heard of it. Sorry if it’s a really awesome popular game that I’ve totally missed ’cause I’ve been out of touch, playing on the Mega Drive (that’s the Sega Genesis to you) until the early hours of the morning…I should really buy a new console… Reply to this comment.

33. 33 Lava Posted: Apr 12th, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    So, this was pretty surprising, but in a good way. I’m not even sure exactly what the joke is, but I loved that you used Ikaruga… I’ve been wanting to get that for Gamecube for a long time. Oh, and nah, I think the legs thing is fine Ray. Oh, and I just noticed the Wavebird receiver sticking out of the Wii… haha. That’s a little more realistic than Nintendo likes to portray their system in a home environment. Seriously, mine always has the receiver in it, and usually a cord or two as well. NCG (I haven’t read any other comments, so…) Reply to this comment.

34. 34 Lava Posted: Apr 12th, 2008 at 11:41 pm

    Wow, I went back and read all the comments, and I kind of want to comment on a lot of them, but most importantly… @ Andrew; Do you know if the Dreamcast version is better in anyway to the Gamecube version (besides controllers)? I only have Wii and Dreamcast, so that would be my options. I think I’ll probably have an easier/cheaper time finding it for Gamecube, but I could be wrong. I still want to know if there’s quality differences. Technically the Gamecube is more powerful, but the Wii has proven power doesn’t equal pretty ports. (The Wii being more powerful than GC, but still looking like PS1 at times.) Reply to this comment.

35. 35 Andrew Posted: Apr 13th, 2008 at 1:29 am

    I think that the gamecube version is missing some japanese text, adds two modes that aren’t that helpful, and supports widescreen/prog. scan. The dreamcast could be played through a VGA box for higher quality graphics. Reply to this comment.

36. 36 Kevin Ghadyani Posted: Apr 14th, 2008 at 7:50 am

    To add to this comic’s idea. Resident Evil 5. Enough said. But even then, I was watching a movie which I didn’t learn the name to where a boyfriend was white and marrying the daughter of a black family. It all points to how most younger Americans precieve racism and why it’s still so pertinent in our culture even though it’s supposed to be dead. It’s even unconciously in the minds of most everyone solely because of the media and movie’s way of racial stereotyping. Just wanted to add that because I think this is the first time I saw Ikaruga (after playing the DC game and owning the GCN version) associated w/ race. It was a new concept. By the way, do you guys play it sideways because that’s the default or you set it up like that? The reason I’m saying it is because it’s not a horizontal shooter and things fall down and your ship is shown from the top-down view which makes it really weird to not see it from the side view when switching to a horizontal playing method and having everything fall leftwards rather than down. Know what I mean? Reply to this comment.

37. 37 Andrew Posted: Apr 14th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    Gravity goes <—— That way Reply to this comment.

38. 38 Lilguitarist Posted: Apr 14th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    Is Tim’s soda of choice a Dr Pepper per chance? Reply to this comment.

39. 39 Tim Posted: Apr 14th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    Author Comment Dr. Pepper is my lifeblood. Reply to this comment.

40. 40 dj75728 Posted: Apr 14th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

    Dr. Pepper is my lifeblood. I though we all went over that already, but just in case someone doesn’t know, Tim loves Dr.Pepper like Ray loves Smash bros. Maybe even more so Reply to this comment.

41. 41 Rioluke Posted: Apr 14th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    Dr. Pepper is my lifeblood. AMEN, neext time I go to the hospital i’m hook my iv up to a bottle of that holy liquid. Nice comic.Funny you mention MLK. in other news I don’t know if you guys read my post on the podcast so i shall repost that I found the black doom awards music in sonic the hedgehog 2 at the mystic cave zone. cool huh? Reply to this comment.

42. 42 Sushyi Posted: Apr 15th, 2008 at 11:07 am

    I didn’t ever play the game, but I got the joke. Quite funny, liked it a lot. You made me go youtube the game after I saw this as well. =P Reply to this comment.