Stolen Pixels #228: All Points Bu

[Andronicus]

It's kinda sad really, like a dead kid. Think of all that wasted potential (like Shamus' Let's Play). Good comic, but it's just depressing to hear about, this sort of thing, even if it is about a game in a genre I don't care about.

 

[pseudoidiot]

We need a new word for Irony, or just get rid of the word Irony. Its been warped so badly its beyond saving.

I blame Alanis.

 

[Aesthetical Quietus]

It's kinda sad really, like a dead kid. Think of all that wasted potential (like Shamus' Let's Play). Good comic, but it's just depressing to hear about, this sort of thing, even if it is about a game in a genre I don't care about.

Agreed. When I heard about it, I was interested, I was just waiting until there was a few things sorted out. [I typically won't join an MMO until it's a year + running, just for this very reason. Getting caught with useless discs and playtime is annoying].

 

[Mistermixmaster]

I feel robbed for the cut comic... but then again, I guess that's what Shamus was going for with this one, and I still laughed, even more so when I noticed that the title also was cut off xD

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

We need a new word for Irony, or just get rid of the word Irony. Its been warped so badly its beyond saving.

Iron...Hmm...

How about Irridy?

 

[Outright Villainy]

We need a new word for Irony, or just get rid of the word Irony. Its been warped so badly its beyond saving.

I'll never give up the fight damnit! Fools must be learned!

[sub][sub][sub]An ironic comment about irony. How meta...[/sub][/sub][/sub]

 

[Irridium]

We need a new word for Irony, or just get rid of the word Irony. Its been warped so badly its beyond saving.

Iron...Hmm...

How about Irridy?

Ego-boosting, but it doesn't roll off the tongue that well, sadly. My suggestion is "mirony".

 

[snowman6251]

I saw some copies of it at the Walmart near my college and I was like "Wait what the fuck this game is over. Take it down before the unknowing buy it".

 

[ZiggySt]

You deserve to be shot for that car paintjob, you know?

 

[Evilsanta]

Yeap some poor fools will buy this and then find out that is no longer online.

 

[oppp7]

I heard Darkfail had a pretty bad launch and even that lasted longer than this.

 

[PsiMatrix]

Stolen Pixels #228: All Points Bu

Sometimes, you just can't finish what you st

That makes two things that have cut short on this site. This and the Mafia 2 review from Zero Pun

 

[Shamus Young]

You deserve to be shot for that car paintjob, you know?

If it makes you feel any better, I was. Many times.

 

[Pipotchi]

Yeap some poor fools will buy this and then find out that is no longer online.

I was in Game in Camden Town today, just browsing on my lunch break.

APB was number 9 on the PC charts retailing at £34.99, I thought about saying something but didnt think talking about a now offline game would endear me to the attractive salesperson

Lots of copies as well

 

[Kross]

I pre-ordered APB via Steam. Played in the early beta a few hours and then was busy with other things. Never played it post-launch.

Argh.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Imagine if this had happened to WoW? Imagine the alternate reality

Too bad it won't happen to WoW


I had a feeling it wouldn't do so good

 

[ZephrC]

Shame, my brother really wanted to play this game. He was so exited for it too.
Just goes to show money doesn't fix everything.

Haha, oh the irony...

What irony?

The game was in development for longer than three years, but it lasted less than three months.

also, the comic cut at the end.

Irony is the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.

Time in development opposed to time in sale is in no way ironic. Neither is cutting the comic. It is funny though

Irony is words used to the opposite of the intention. It's typically unintentional.
Use of words to CONVEY (deliberately pass on)the opposite meaning is sarcasm as the irony is done with intent.

your right though, not ironic in any way.

Still; I thought the game was getting picked up by another publisher.

We need a new word for Irony, or just get rid of the word Irony. Its been warped so badly its beyond saving.

Oddly enough, the people that are trying to "save" the word Irony have even less idea of what it means than people that misuse it sometimes. For instance, one of the definitions of Irony according to Mirriam-Webster is incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal expected result. That's not a new meaning to the word. Thus the original statement was actually a correct use of the term irony.

Also, it means that your statement is ironic, as you wouldn't expect the person complaining about irony's meaning being warped to be warping its meaning.

 

[Irridium]

Oddly enough, the people that are trying to "save" the word Irony have even less idea of what it means than people that misuse it sometimes. For instance, one of the definitions of Irony according to Mirriam-Webster is incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal expected result. That's not a new meaning to the word. Thus the original statement was actually a correct use of the term irony.

Also, it means that your statement is ironic, as you wouldn't expect the person complaining about irony's meaning being warped to be warping its meaning.

I don't want to save it. I want to destroy it. Or at least put the definition behind another word. Its beyond saving.

 

[ZephrC]

Oddly enough, the people that are trying to "save" the word Irony have even less idea of what it means than people that misuse it sometimes. For instance, one of the definitions of Irony according to Mirriam-Webster is incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal expected result. That's not a new meaning to the word. Thus the original statement was actually a correct use of the term irony.

Also, it means that your statement is ironic, as you wouldn't expect the person complaining about irony's meaning being warped to be warping its meaning.

I don't want to save it. I want to destroy it. Or at least put the definition behind another word. Its beyond saving.

Saving from what, exactly? People not using it precisely as you want them to? Sure it gets misused from time to time. Most words do. This whole nonsense about it being more misused than any other similar word is just sillyness coming from people that don't even know what it really meant in the first place though.