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Today's comic deals on a peripheral level with a very serious issue: software piracy. Or, more specifically, "piracy prevention." It has come to my attention that The Sims 2 comes with a delightful anti-piracy virus that won't let the game run on some machines that have CloneCD or Daemon Tools installed. Now, I have no first-hand knowledge of The Sims 2 because, as I pointed out in a previous newspost, I already have a job. However, even though I think it's a good thing to prevent people from ruining their lives with this hell-forged digital addiction in whatever way possible, the fact remains that this is a monumentally stupid idea. There are a number of factors in play:
Now, I'm no fan of piracy. Lord knows I look at some of the games I've downloaded and it's like waking up naked next to a 40 year old amputee. However, when the free product is better than the one in the store, you have to ask yourself what you're paying for. I am reminded of a saying of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz that I will paraphrase: "In prostitution, who is the biggest sinner, the one who sins for pay or the one who pays to sin?" Well, who's stupider, the person getting paid to rape you, or you for paying to get raped? PS |
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I would just like to thank you for your sponsorship of our website. I'm sure our readers will buy many of your Disney T-Shirts. In the future, however, I would prefer to deal directly with the Disney Corp, and cut those google middle-men out of the equation altogether. I feel this way we can both save a little money, and be happier in the end. Yours, Fuzz uacomic.com PS: I am sorry that your movies are all bad lately, my condolences. Oh right, piracy. Software piracy is really the only piracy that I consider wrong. Do I do it anyway? Of course. It's hard to justify paying for something that's infinitely reproduceable for next to nothing. It's also the most convenient, hassle free way, as Deacon has mentioned. If current trends continue, 0 pirates will start paying for the software they use, and many, many honest customers will migrate to the warez (green) side of fence. Corporations will of course still have to pay through the prostate, since they aren't people. The fact is most pirates will never see the inside of a prison cell or pay fines, and it isn't even worth the cost of the bullets to kill them all. Even the guillotine cleaning bills would be too costly. Sending them out to drown at sea may be a feasible option, we are still looking into the logistics. Piracy of music, movies, and pornography is a slightly different beast from software. I try to support the "artists" I deem worthy, but as long as copyright is something that can be bought, sold, and whored out until the original creator has cremated himself from the spinning, I'll be damned if I'm going to obey copyright law. |
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Apparently I can walk now. Praise Jesus, it's a miracle! Penguinx has healed me! As if we didn't have enough continuity problems already. Fuck. |
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Well, maybe if you would flesh out the backstories of your characters better this wouldn't be a problem. It's been posted to the wiki several times that Deacon is a lazy-ass who usually refuses to walk even though he is capable. I don't write 'em, I just draw 'em! |
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I guess you didn't read the first fucking sentence of my profile, where it says "Deacon is wheelchair bound, paralyzed from the waist down." Was that too ambiguous for you, or were the words too big for your second grade education? |
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I made it to the sixth grade, thank you very much. You do realize that there is a strip written where your character gains the use of cybernetic limbs only to have them instaneously disappear one comic later? Continuity is for fanboi losers. |
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Nice spoilers, morons. Next time keep that shit in the wiki. |
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If they've been actually paying attention they'll see the CyberDeacon storyline coming a mile away. It's the kind of obvious thing you smack yourself for not realising ahead of time. But yeah, stop fucking up our comic, Penguin. Continuity errors that serve the plot are ok, a crippled character standing for no reason is not. And all of you save your immature bitching for the wiki. This is a professional news page, not a blog. We're here to report and provide a non-biased, non-stupid viewpoint. |
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