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[PA Comic] Monday, May 7, 2012 - The Fullness Of Time
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LegionPerseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
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Why would they be? They'd be more valuable in a sense, but you wouldn't have to terraform them.
I gotta get me one of dem stars.
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That's all the way across the galaxy, Hierarch.
Edit: AHA! I knew it looked familiar.
Useful info, that. In other news, I am totally starting a star-naming business. Please PM me your orders!
Apparently Susan is just the exact name you think of when you ask yourself, "What lady do I know that needs a star system named after her?"
Forget this guy. I'm selling galaxy names. Ask about reduced rates for clusters and superclusters!
Uh....his first name is "Agent."
I used to work at one of these places!
(This one: http://www.starregistry.com/)
Back in high school (Mid 90's) I took phone orders and did random office crap for them.
Legit? They always seemed to think so.
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This isn't even necessarily useless. As long as you remain ignorant of the fact that it's not really yours, you enjoy all of the benefits of thinking that it belongs to you... which is exactly what you paid for.
http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2011/3/1/how-to-give-someone-an-intangible-gift.html
Except that they don't. It's a scam. Flat and simple.
If you want to get bogged down in technicalities, then sure, they just don't correct misperceptions that their consumers have.
We live in America.
Think about it.
Fine, it's a scam, but not in the same way that Quibids is a scam.
Uhhhh . . . tried. Didn't work. Something abstract about how Americans have an undeserved sense of entitlement. Maybe something about capitalism.
I was just willing to dismiss this on the fatalistic acceptance that a certain segment of the population is just plain stupid. I mean, people have been sold bridges and false consolations of an afterlife. Homeopathy is pretty big in Britain. This stuff is hardly unique. No?
I live in America, so my calibration for these things is off. It's part of the background noise. You'll have to spell this out for me.
Nah, I think he was making a point that the people there are egoistic assholes, or somesuch thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci
Yeah, but he was an explorer who got his name stuck. Leif Ericson or Columbus weren't exactly lucky that way. He didn't buy a piece of immortality in some blatantly consumerist manner.
I fail to see your point. People here need to stop trying to be ambiguous and clever and shit.
Because then this situation would be more likely to play out! You think The Black Fleet goes just any damn place?
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
America got its name through random ass happenstance, not through the careful planning of the indigious people, the people from Europe who discovered it, or the people from Europe who discovered it for the mainstream.
And now the joke is dead.
I hope you are happy.
Just because humans don't visit them doesn't mean that nobody does. Maybe there are light entities out there who make regular trips to stars.
I believe the Star Trek classification for a planet with an Earth-like environment is a Class M Planet. Maybe there is a Class M equivalent for stars that contain certain livable environmental conditions for other beings.
"Plagiarism" isn't the right word, could it be a tribute? Or perhaps just a fairly common joke to make?
Anyway, about the news post and the $99, Live-subscription subsidized Xboxen. I think that the point is true—that this will bring new people into the X-sphere, so to speak. The interesting thing is that it doesn't only bring them into the world of Xbox, but into our communities, by way of mandating XBL Gold subscriptions. These folk who would otherwise not be part of this community will jump into it with unforeseen consequences (for better or worse). It could be interesting.
Another reason to think that this is the case is that if this were a tribute they would have credited the people this is a tribute to, and if it were plagiarism then they'd have to have suddenly turned into people who steal jokes, which seems... incredibly unlikely. I can't really imagine them sitting around (being filmed by the documentary crew for a Fourth Panel episode...) and saying "shit, can't think of anything funny, let's rip off another webcomic and hope nobody notices."
On the star-selling bit, I kinda think most people know they are buying nothing more than a nice greeting-card, a childs-fancy (like the comic), or an anecdote?
Although I do have a nice acreage overlooking the Sea of Tranquility if anyone's interested :winky: