tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post3884250479638140339..comments2024-03-17T05:03:46.056-07:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 484: Only Suckers Pay For GamesCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-23874754909263563622008-10-10T16:14:00.000-07:002008-10-10T16:14:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bunniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01180990053526794017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-84787703927128362202008-10-10T16:11:00.000-07:002008-10-10T16:11:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bunniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01180990053526794017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-47992148248108815872008-10-08T09:50:00.000-07:002008-10-08T09:50:00.000-07:00Amanda - Thanks!Pat - I see what you mean. If I co...Amanda - Thanks!<BR/><BR/>Pat - I see what you mean. If I could make two edits to this entry (hear hear, Carl), I would change "open source" to "freeware" and add "Except Me" to the title (Only Suckers Pay For Games, Except Me). <BR/><BR/>However, the alt-text is addressed with a question, because I think Randall could be going either way. If he's being sarcastic about motion control, then that's smarminess all the way. If he's being serious, then he would seem to be temporarily undermining Stickman, since he would play head-tracking games for five minutes and go back to shooting arrows at precise angles or falling for a girl who uses a ceiling-mounted head tracker to measure the wildness of men in bed OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. Extra stick-boners if a chart is involved.<BR/><BR/>Anywho, the post was a brave attempt at dissecting the social joke in the strip. The strip is much too tame to be an actual attack. Thanks for bringing clarity.thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03123852112758346209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-35841804043826043812008-10-08T08:58:00.000-07:002008-10-08T08:58:00.000-07:00If I may assist in hostile over-analysis...Most Fl...If I may assist in hostile over-analysis...<BR/><BR/>Most Flash-based sites are not open source. "Free" and "open source" are not synonymous. Actually, no Flash-based site is fully "Open Source" (capital letters) because flash is a proprietary language owned by Adobe. Richard Stallman (everyone's favorite katana owner) would never play a Flash game for this reason.<BR/><BR/>So assigning some "open-source crusade" motivation here is factually inaccurate.<BR/><BR/>This essay makes a brave attempt to turn a single panel and a single statement into social commentary and a personal attack on everyone who ever bought a game system. But it isn't. Ah, but then you strain to fit the contradictory alt-text into your thesis by filtering it through the "Randall is full of spite for everyone who has spent a dollar on games" assumption. But I am reasonably sure Randall has linked to head-tracking on his blog, and thinks it is awesome. So the assumption of sarcasm is implausible.<BR/><BR/>Maybe the game system is <I>comically</I> large to emphasize contrast. I would bet that Randall has some of "the most powerful gaming systems in the world" and did not write this comic to express his self-loathing.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12456796465979923295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-60757464421463240902008-10-07T23:18:00.000-07:002008-10-07T23:18:00.000-07:00I feel like this is kind of like his Bernanke refe...I feel like this is kind of like his <A HREF="http://xkcdsucks.blogspot.com/2008/09/comic-476-graphs-relationships-cell.html" REL="nofollow">Bernanke reference</A>, in that it just sorta shows that he likes to jump on the bandwagon. What, everyone's got all the latest games? Must get! But they're just for show.<BR/><BR/>Anyway. I enjoyed your post, Thomas. I did not enjoy the comic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com