[PA Comic] Wednesday, August 27, 2014 - Like You Do

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[PA Comic] Wednesday, August 27, 2014 - Like You Do

Like You Do

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/08/27

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CEOIII

.....que?

constantin_christian09

...

iolo

Second panel mouth is a bit Picasso-esque.

darleysam

Amazon bought Twitch.

These are good jokes.

orthancstone

Love the one-click reference

Warlock82

I still don't know how I feel about the whole thing. Google was JUST starting to fuck Twitch up with their whole "let's mute every video ever because all video game music sounds like copyright infringement." I am curious to see what Amazon does (like make the HTML5 players actually work well and work with archived videos... I want to watch more stuff on my Wii U dammit!)

Linktm

This entire comic strip feels like a dad joke. I approve.

MichaelLC

Warlock82 wrote: »

I still don't know how I feel about the whole thing. Google was JUST starting to fuck Twitch up with their whole "let's mute every video ever because all video game music sounds like copyright infringement." I am curious to see what Amazon does (like make the HTML5 players actually work well and work with archived videos... I want to watch more stuff on my Wii U dammit!)

HTML5? I wish. The web Prime player requires Silverlight.

AntonNUL

Maybe Amazon bought Twitch to keep it from being bought out by the censorous glob that is Google?

Hevach

AntonNUL wrote: »

Maybe Amazon bought Twitch to keep it from being bought out by the censorous glob that is Google?

Considering the asinine reasons Amazon has locked certain book/ebook publisher off the site (or just removed them from search results) I don't see any scenario where "delivering us from evil" was considered, even by the PR department. I mean, sure, Joker just saved you from getting fed to penguins, but you do know what he means when he says he wants you to smile forever, right?

fightinfilipino

Google was concerned they'd be hit with an antitrust complaint if they acquired Twitch.

Abacus

Thank God that it isn't Google.

Also:

Hevach wrote: »

AntonNUL wrote: »

Maybe Amazon bought Twitch to keep it from being bought out by the censorous glob that is Google?

Considering the asinine reasons Amazon has locked certain book/ebook publisher off the site (or just removed them from search results) I don't see any scenario where "delivering us from evil" was considered, even by the PR department. I mean, sure, Joker just saved you from getting fed to penguins, but you do know what he means when he says he wants you to smile forever, right?

Those "asinine" reasons, FYI, are basically a bidding war against the publishing monopoly because the latter doesn't want to deal with the actual prices of ebooks or that now anybody can just hire an editor and publish on Amazon with better terms.

But hey, don't ask me, ask the authors:

http://www.hughhowey.com/winning-at-monopoly/

adman

Amazon is way way way above Google in my list of "giant, moderately-evil companies that I am okay with owning Twitch" so this was pretty good news to me.

Evil Taco

Hevach wrote: »

AntonNUL wrote: »

Maybe Amazon bought Twitch to keep it from being bought out by the censorous glob that is Google?

Considering the asinine reasons Amazon has locked certain book/ebook publisher off the site (or just removed them from search results) I don't see any scenario where "delivering us from evil" was considered, even by the PR department. I mean, sure, Joker just saved you from getting fed to penguins, but you do know what he means when he says he wants you to smile forever, right?

Please, Amazon allows books that feature bondage sex between people and dinosaurs. You're kidding, right?

Goose!

What made Google evil, again? I lost track. Sure they're big, and growing, and integrating Google+ forcibly with shit was annoying, but evil? Nah. Amazon's ebook garbage is really shitty, but Twitch is not ebooks, so I guess that's fine. Facebook buying twitch would have been shit.

Abacus

Goose! wrote: »

What made Google evil, again? I lost track. Sure they're big, and growing, and integrating Google+ forcibly with shit was annoying, but evil? Nah. Amazon's ebook garbage is really shitty, but Twitch is not ebooks, so I guess that's fine. Facebook buying twitch would have been shit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation

EDIT: Ah, and they tend to allow a lot of abuse of DMCA regulation on YouTube.

adman

Goose! wrote: »

What made Google evil, again? I lost track. Sure they're big, and growing, and integrating Google+ forcibly with shit was annoying, but evil? Nah. Amazon's ebook garbage is really shitty, but Twitch is not ebooks, so I guess that's fine. Facebook buying twitch would have been shit.

Google's entire business model is to collect everything they can about everything you do and then sell that to people. Basically the same as Facebook. Amazon's not exactly an upstanding citizen, but at least they are selling me a product and not selling me.

It's worth noting I don't care that much and I still use Google products. I just don't want Google owning YouTube and Twitch.

adman

edit: this was a weird double post

Darkewolfe

Well, amazon has the terrible track record of being absolutely abusive to their hourly employees in a way that's sort of mind-boggling. They're like walmart but 100x more evil.

/still buys everything off amazon.

streever

Man, are people really against amazon on the ebook thing? I don't know anyone willing to buy ebooks at Hatchette prices. I read 60 novels a year, and I can't imagine paying more than Amazon charges on ebooks. I already get as many second-hand books and borrows from the library as I can without really restricting what I read.

Also, as someone who lives in the middle of nowhere, Amazon is my only option for many authors, so I don't exactly see them as a behemoth crushing local/small bookstores; those disappeared well before Amazon created 2 day shipping where I live, at least.

Reiska

Reading a book from a fragile electric toy that needs recharging ? First you pay for the toy, then you pay for the content and you even pay to keep fucking gizmo working. Now that's stupid.

How about a real book that lasts decades and even centuries with minimal care ? No ! Far too reasonable and durable ! Some want electric toys and they actually want to pay many times over for same things, only much more fragile and short lived versions of them. So sick.

streever

Reiska wrote: »

Reading a book from a fragile electric toy that needs recharging ? First you pay for the toy, then you pay for the content and you even pay to keep fucking gizmo working. Now that's stupid.

How about a real book that lasts decades and even centuries with minimal care ? No ! Far too reasonable and durable ! Some want electric toys and they actually want to pay many times over for same things, only much more fragile and short lived versions of them. So sick.

Oh my.

I actually don't want to keep most books forever; I read 60-70 books per year, and if I kept every book I read, and every book I wanted to someday read, I'd have more books than I want to ship & pack.

I know it's easy to assume that other people are just idiots, but sometimes, we simply have different priorities than you do.

Kindle is $69. I get free ebooks from my library and pay between 8 and 9 for the rest of them. Typically, the 'real' version costs 14-18.

My kindle literally paid for itself in 1 month of ownership.

Reading digitally is not somehow a flawed exercise; posting in forums, for instance, can be interesting and fulfilling, even though you could be talking in a room full of people instead.

Listening to vinyl records on a turntable is great, but so is listening to an MP3 on your iPod.

If you don't like the stuff that other people like, that's OK, but pretending that they are idiots for liking something you don't like is pretty silly.