*gasp* you have a fever or something?

Wow! Really?

He bought an Iphone, that's a boob joke in itself :P

ba-dum chsh

Clever indeed

+2 X of Hey-There-Baby.

Huh... so why is she in a period costume?

She's from the King's era.
I'm breaking laws of time and space in this one.

-B!

TIME PARADOX!

Oh I thought that she was supposed to be the cosplaying girlfriend who is very "open minded"

And yet her speech is more reminiscent of a current-day person...

Magic computer that communicates with the internet before it's been invented. They'll be very popular with princesses in the next sideways decade.

From whos got the biggest castle to whos the faster to whos the Richest Empire, to whos got the more smaller phone with the most gadgets! ;o I pref the Rich Empire!

For girls status symbol is a good skank-off! Watch it, naugthy link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x77u.....E&index=27

That girl is too damn tall!

Draw "too damn tall girl(s)" for once...for a change...for fun's sake...I dare you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aovjii973Nc - I have much more fun watching the Wooden Pony move... but I'm mean.

That's a given, but I watch the environment too in a game. As you mentioned ONLY the girl, then you must have missed out on the rest of the game. You cannot say that the game looks fantastic and the places are more then pretty. When leaving a hellish lava pit and entering a lush green utopia trough a portal, it's just simply breathtaking. The main character is not that much to my liking either, but hey, the game is so much more then the sexy b!tch in the middle of the screen. If people could do, they could simply replace the model with Dante, and voile, the game is so much better? Nope, just the main char would look more awesome...or not. Tastes vary...

I don't own Bayoneta either. i'm far too busy to play with every game, but some I can follow on U2B. I only have my PC as a playing platform. My priorities: Story, Stability, Music (Ambience), Graphic, Gameplay. A good example is the Legacy of Kain series. LoK: Defiance had an awesome story, had great ambience, and the graphic was on spot. Yet the gameplay sucked, and it doesen't bothered me to beat the game. I can take some button-mashing, when the story is worth it. As a mainly rpg gamer, the story is the most important to me too. That's why the last best game i played was Portal from Valve. It had all the requirements above 90% in my book...it was a bit short though.

My bf is a true nerd too, hauling achivements in WoW: 3K quest, 100 mounts, 20K kill, etc etc...It would be meaningful if it was worth something, but it's not, so it1s just an excuse for maximalists to play the game every day.

1: I've played the whole series from Blood Omen 'till Defiance, but it all started with Soul Reaver for the PSX...
2: I eagerly await Portal 2!
3: I'm too. RPG's takes a lot of time to beat, and sometimes a short game is more favorable. Sometimes all you need is a session of zombie-killing, or strip poker, or go all ninja on the rest of the game's residents! No sports game for me - meaningless to do it virtually, and they are helluva repetitive IMO. It's better if you do sport for real!

Yeah I watched that action too...I was mainly pointing out the skank-off and not the erotica in the game. But the most fun and erotic part was for me, when the Rockets hit their helicopter and the camera zooms on them trio for their expression: Chessire, Dolly, and Boobies...and rocket hits. I was like, Yeah Boobies needed a shown expression! Was funny like hell.

The Wooden Horse torture move is a nice move, but it is really disturbing, but not more, then the rest of the game. Bayoneta's potty-mouth is more shocking then the animated violence IMO. Then again, I'm grown-up...

PPffftttaaahahahahahhaha!!XD

I dunno, yachts are still sortta up there, aren't they?

Only if you're a judge. Gavels don't seem to be enough.

Man... now _I_ want a hammer of justice!
Also, I have always loved that avatar image. XD

its true as if you got a big fancy car now your called a showoff :P

Status symbols haven't changed much. we've just really lowered our standards.

Your icon is a skeleton smoking a cigarette. HOW IS IT DOING THAT WITHOUT LUNGS OR LIPS?

he's a grim fandango rules skeleton!

Oh that I can dig. When it comes to Schaffer, reality bends to suit.

heh he makes some gewd games.

Is it wrong to like Brutal Legend so much? even if its just DLC man, I want moar story.

Not to mention that it isn't Film Noir if everyone isn't smoking.

And unlike IRL its not film noire if everyone gets lung cancer.

Also, black people are only in Jazz clubs.

That is hysterical. I have to agree with you.

Are you CRAZY? My god, man. The iPhone is the pinnacle of man's technology. I'm carrying around Science Fiction in my pocket. It does things that Star Trek would have blushed to pretend a tricorder could do. I am particularly fond of its new 'translate text by looking at it' function, although the pinpoint navigation system and pocket-held access to nearly every other computer in the world are really great.

I'd rather have the castle.

-B!

There's an app for that.

I'D rather have the princess, but I think the guy on the right just isn't rich enough to afford her like the other guys can.

Most people do not translate foreign languages, diagnosis and heal injuries, or examine the content of the air, water, or ground around them on this "pinnacle" of man's tech. What do people do with it? Flick a finger across a screen so limbless birds can hit planks and pigs in game levels that last no longer than 3 seconds. The attention span of your average user has shrunk enormously.

Ah, but if anything that is its strength! For behold, when I was 500 miles from Anywhere Whatsoever and I needed to contact friends who relied on an ancient Telnet-era communications system? There was an app for that. When I found myself standing outside a hotel in Boston wondering where the Hell I could get a pizza? There was an app for that. When I found myself retaking calculus after 20 years and I needed a scientific calculator? What, buy one for 30 bucks and carry it around? Hell, no. There's an app for that. It is The Future not because it does any specific thing you need. It is because it is All Things For All Men. Some folks' need is to fire cardinals out of a slingshot. For others it's to have *minute by minute* updates on whether that vaguely feline girl's bodice is still on. In The Future we can carry a single device that performs all these functions and fits in the palm of our hands. That future is now.

Also, castles are drafty and cost a fortune to maintain. If you're THAT rich you don't NEED no damn castle. You can just hire some girls in bodices, buy a slingshot, and make them fire chickens out of it all day long.

You know you could have found a good pizza joint just by talking to anyone in the hotel, right? You wouldn't just get a review from some random person that can afford internet access.

Dude, BETTER. I looked on a local street map, saw exactly where I was, and every restaurant for blocks around was labeled.

And then I did a little dance.

Were you looking for pizza or other restaurants? Anyone in that hotel could have told you the best pizza parlor and half of them would probably know which cook was best and which days they worked.

is there an app to make mindless apple fanboy drones shut up?

Also, if the fucking icrap is the pinnacle of technology for you, I guess there's a metric fuckton of crap that must look like MAAAAAGIIIIC to you.

Yea sign me up for the castle. I would rather have the implication that I am so stupefyingly rich that I have a castle. I am sure I could get a smart phone with the change in my royal couch cushions. Then there is the fact that deep inside all girls want to be the princess, what are you going to do next year when your plastic brick is out of style?

Show her your Plants vs. Zombies app on it. She'll probably still be too stubborn to take back what she said, but she'll probably bite your arm off if you try to take back your smart phone unless you get her one for herself.

Heh, so true.

Nice reflection on both the ever expanding, yet micronization of our world. What was once access to great tracts of land is now access to great tracts of data...and boobs.

You're so right! I was thinking about this same concept earlier today. How everyone needs the latest "cellphone". I don't get the craze. I don't have a cellphone because I (like 99% of people who have one) don't need one, and yet I still manage to survive somehow. The same thing was with pagers some 15 years ago. Everyone just absolutely HAD to have a Pager (Beepers to yall down south). I think people just get stuff like this just to tell other people they have them, and that's the main reason.

I can see that they're useful devices, but they're certainly not the criteria that you judge a person.

-B!

A-men.

Shmexy Princess Cloning? There's an app for that.

Pfft, screw the smartphone....I want the castle and the fine lass at the end of the pic!

I gotta agree.

You're off a bit. Only like, 5 people ever had the rich kingdom/fastest ship/iron monopoly. I know homeless people who have iPods/iPhones, so they're not really that great a comparison for "status symbol"

5 people at a time, I meant

Well I heard a commercial that flat out said people with such and such a phone were better people and it irritated the hell out of me, so I had o do this one.

-B!

I like the King's era and the Industrial era ones myself.

Hooray for Status Symbols!

I'm surprised you didn't start this off with Egyptian Pyramids and the Sphinx... that has to at least be equal to five castles!

Yeah but the down side was you had to be dead to have those. Can't impress hot babes when you're dead, and since when did the babe in a movie do anything but scream and run away at the sight of the mummy walking around.

That's what makes it funnier. Would be a Mummy in front, hence showing the dead guy NEEDS the biggest Status Symbol.

100% accurate....so sad. . _ .

For a second I thought you were including the princess as a modern day male status symbol, and her dialogue took on a whole new meaning.

Stone, wood, and iron.

Fuck 'um all.

Sheep too.

Well done, sir. Well done. :)

And yet they're still schmucks. Go figure.

*hugs*

here, mobile phone joke w/ boob joke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HANqEpKDHyk


go japan, go.

Oh yes, such a nice boobalicious series!

-B!

I think Cellphones lost the charm of false status with me when I started walking past folks on bread lines and saw half the folks on the line with some sort of high tech cellphone.

Maybe affordable healthcare will be the next status symbol to reach the masses.

Only for Canadians...

:(

Hey now, a bit of opium and a secure route to the orient is nothing to sneeze at!

And have you seen the prices of senators these days? Outrageous, I say!

ou may have dodged the direct boob joke BUT there are boobs that look 'perked up' on that princess in the last panel so not a total divergence for you :3

They're garnish for the pic.

Got a laugh out of that one. By the way would you say that the first one has, "Huge... tracks of land"?

*snort* Very nice!

Heh, heh; clever, Drake, very Effin' clever, dude. -XD-

Thanks 4 sharing a Quick Take to impress a Woman in 4 Different Eras; I SO would've been 4 the King's Era. -lol-

Take care, dude; can't wait to see more from U, soon; Peace!

-3G FTW; It'll impress 'Anyone'. EVEN Women- -XD-

I like how that old guy just ends it with "go me." lol. I think your confusing the high class society status symbol with the commoner's one. you use what option you have to win.

Oh I think phones no go across the board. Every level of society has them.
Even the President loves his Blackberry.

well, like in the first picture, every level of society has a house, but just having a house isn't enough. you need the biggest and greatest house, that being a castle. having a phone isn't such a big deal, but if you have the biggest and greatest phone with an app that can check for STDs? you, my friend, are in the zone.

Perfect, simply perfect xD the only thing that would have been better, was if further to the right there was a cave woman going "be thankfull, you should see what we have" with cave man going ROCK!!!!!

after all....you just cant....
..stop....*gets out shades* the rock
YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


. . .meme aside, loved the little comic, the detail and effort placed on the backdrops is amazing, especially the ship. o.o

haha he has 3G? and hes braging, why not 4G or Super secret 6G? ;) Funny one Drake. :D

i sometimes wonder if im the only person who uses a normal cellphone nowadays... its a plain old flip-phone... no keyboard, no mini-computer, no MP3 collection on it, or 500+ other attachments im never gonna use.

...i wonder if anyone uses house phones anymore?

MONOCLE SMILE!
/British Idiom

Can't believe I didn't spot this before, so I guess my comment is a little late..

One key difference between the modern 'status symbol' and the older ones is; all the older 'status symbols' were also independent sources of income, the kingdom continues production whether the king goes out to personally beat serfs or not, the ship can ply the trade routs whether or not the owner is a board, if he has hired a captain he can trust, and the factory, do we really need to go into details about how factories make money? Compared to all that, the iphone is just a toy, it doesn't make any money on its own.

Oh yeah, but the importance people we put on such things these days in overwhelming.

B!