Critical Miss: #29
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Furthermore, at least one (1) unicorn should be at least fifty (50) percent robotic, electronic, or similarly cybernetic in nature, leave a rainbow effect in its wake, and be capable of charges that can destroy at least one (1) giant star crystal per charge. A negotiable number of butterfly fairies and/or sky dolphins can reduce the stringency of these requirements.
I don't have a lot of sympathy for that lady. Running a private server I don't see the harm in, but if you want to charge people for stuff, invent your own damn game.
Agreed. My biggest worry is that this case sets a precedent that could affect cases involving pirate servers for games without monthly fees, I touched on that in the strip.Optimystic said:
Running a pirate WOW server is a clear cut case of good/bad but how about running a Modern Warfare 2 server or any other game that dissalows dedicated servers.
One fat stack of bills is worth 10 bottlecaps according to Fallout 3.RobCoxxy said:
It should be noted that the average college graduate only makes about 1 million USD over the course of their lives.
Perhaps... Personally, I think the only clear-cut "bad" here is profiting from said server-running, as making money off someone else's property is clearly unjust enrichment.Grey Carter said:
Would she have been as in the wrong if she were doing it for free though? And I know, running servers isn't cheap, but she would have at least had the defense that this was a recreational venture and not a commercial one. A-B would have looked then even more fiendish than they already do.
But that would mean: no donations, no fees, no microtransactions, no accepting revenue of any kind from her guests - not unless she's willing to publish statements proving that all the money goes purely to upkeep, which would tip her hand anyway.
So I guess I'm asking - if someone were to host a private server like this just to play with their friends away from the stresses of the general population, and footed the bill entirely out of pocket, would that person be just as wrong? And this goes for any kind of multiplayer game that would benefit from a dedicated server, not just MMOs.
That I am sure I do not ever want to know.zombie711 said:
Krakens rock, though. Those are such a legitimate demand for compensation.
I have a bit of trouble sympathizing for acti-blizzard in this instance. I was acquainted with a couple of their employees. Their Christmases were disgusting. They'ed spend more on overpriced designer shit for their dogs than people working minimum wage make in a year. And it would all be under the little tree. The big tree was... an insult to reason. A necklace wasn't good enough, it had to be the one some actress actually wore in some movie his wife liked. Just pouring money down the drain. Every time I'd ask them about their priorities I'd get the old "Well it's my money" speech. Understandable?. I guess that's what I'd tell myself if I were in his shoes, sure. But then again I come from a different reality and wouldn't spend my money like I was a drug dealer. I'm not saying there wasn't any element of jealousy, but there was certainly more to it than that. How anyone could spend their money like that in their own little bubble universe while ignoring the suffering of people around them and still consider themselves a good person ate at me until I guess I just didn't want to know them anymore. There's this quote from Jesus about it being harder for a rich man to get into heaven than it is to get a camel through the eye of a needle. I used to think it was because they had to step on a lot of people to get where they were, I know better now.
That said, I do feel a little bad for this woman, but she had to go and make a business out of it. That was just stupid. I also don't know what she thought not appearing in court would do for her. The verdict is of course, still highly ridiculous.
Funny comic. All said.
That said, I do feel a little bad for this woman, but she had to go and make a business out of it. That was just stupid. I also don't know what she thought not appearing in court would do for her. The verdict is of course, still highly ridiculous.
Funny comic. All said.
