The New Comic Thread for Friday, September 26, 2008

scsscs

Knob wrote:

say hello to new administrative policy

• Be civil.
• Don't come back every M/W/F just to complain or shit on people posting in this thread.
• Comic Edits are OK, but lets not spend half the thread discussing them.
• Lets try not to veer too far off topic in this thread.

Bogey

Good job, robot!

redhead

look, scsscs, it's your nephew

PotU

Woah what

I must've totally missed the time of dongle copy protection!

Muggins

I remember the snakes


the snakes

Bogey

Why'd it have to be snakes?

the cheat

dongulites!!

scsscs

Bogey wrote: »

Good job, robot!

SabreMau

The Ghosts of Copy Protection Past, Copy Protection Present, and Copy Protection Future.

Jarofmoldymayo

If I had been around for code wheels I think I would have given up on gaming.

Probably would have given up on humanity.

Ranx

I really want to know which mod's alt scsscs is

PotU

Jarofmoldymayo wrote: »

If I had been around for code wheels I think I would have given up on gaming.

Probably would have given up on humanity.

I played around with the Monkey Island code wheel so often. You can get some pretty hilarious faces.

Ten

I think live snakes were only ever used on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, right?

Captain K

Ranx wrote: »

I really want to know which mod's alt scsscs is

if I was Thanatos I would think this a fine and dandy excuse to go Super Mod and check scsscs's IP here in SE++


but I'm not


so I won't

Andrew Ryan

I wonder if an md5 checksum based copy protection system would work..

scsscs

Ranx wrote: »

I really want to know which mod's alt scsscs is

Yours

Captain K

Ten wrote: »

I think live snakes were only ever used on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, right?

Yeah, but it was just my pet snake Richie!

Ranx

scsscs wrote: »

Ranx wrote: »

I really want to know which mod's alt scsscs is

Yours

holy shit it's true

Bogey

Asps. Very dangerous.

You go first.

the cheat

i don't remember the dongle copy protection either. what games had it?

Bogey

Captain K wrote: »

Ranx wrote: »

I really want to know which mod's alt scsscs is

if I was Thanatos I would think this a fine and dandy excuse to go Super Mod and check scsscs's IP here in SE++

but I'm not

so I won't

Because you're smart enough to just click on his profile, then User Options, then check IP...

Obbi

Dongle copy protection?

but I like where this lil' series is goin'!

Peter Ebel

Just looked up dongle on wikipedia. But damn that is a shitty thing to throw at a customer.

Captain K

C'mon, show a little backbone!

Ten

Captain K wrote: »

Ten wrote: »

I think live snakes were only ever used on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, right?

Yeah, but it was just my pet snake Richie!

Man, I am nowhere near familiar enough with the game or the movies to get this, though I assume it's a quote from one

My recall doesn't go much past 'I hate snakes'

Bogey

the cheat wrote: »

i don't remember the dongle copy protection either. what games had it?

If I remember correctly, this was used about 10 years ago for the expensive production software suites. Like Adobe and Maya, etc.

Bogey

Ten wrote: »

Captain K wrote: »

Ten wrote: »

I think live snakes were only ever used on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, right?

Yeah, but it was just my pet snake Richie!

Man, I am nowhere near familiar enough with the game or the movies to get this, though I assume it's a quote from one

My recall doesn't go much past 'I hate snakes'

End of opening escape sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

PotU

Well, now I know what that thing that's lying around here somwhere was good for!

Captain K

also


That's like 138 clicks, Bogey, what kind of mouse-clicking machine do you take me for?

Captain K

Also also.


"It's shameful. You're old enough to be her father--her grandfather!"

"I'm as human as the next man."

"I was the next man."

Ranx

k what is the story behind your avatar

I have always wondered and never known

Peter Ebel

He fucks children.

Bogey

Captain K wrote: »

also


That's like 138 clicks, Bogey, what kind of mouse-clicking machine do you take me for?

yutt

I thank goodness I never had to deal with a code wheel. The Page/Paragraph/Word system was annoying enough.

I'm wondering, would photocopying or photographing a code wheel be considered illegal under the DMCA's DRM anti-circumvention clause? I believe so.

I mention this because, someone posted an image of a code wheel in the previous comic thread. There are all sorts of ridiculous legal ramifications now for something so simple. If any of you remember the whole AACS encryption key controversy, we've reached a certain level of absurdity with copyright laws. At this point a 32 character number is questionably illegal.

Captain K

It's the first few seconds of the intro to Azumanga Daioh, which is one of the few anime series actually worth watching.


I'd have changed it years ago but people flip out whenever I do that.

Captain K

yutt wrote: »

I mention this because, someone posted an image of a code wheel in the previous comic thread. There are all sorts of ridiculous legal ramifications now for something so simple. If any of you remember the whole AACS encryption key controversy, we've reached a certain level of absurdity with copyright laws. At this point a 32 character number is questionably illegal.

While that is dumb, I would fully support the incarceration of anyone involved with the password system used in many NES and SNES games, because they fucking ruined my childhood.


Legend of the Mystical Ninja, I am looking the fuck at you. RUINER!

yutt

I've dealt with dongles for print shop software (we're talking thousands of dollars for a single workstation license), and some custom sewing machine PC software. Also Mitchell on Demand automotive repair software.

Dongles are still around today. For some reason they seem to mostly show up in PC software for industries that aren't traditionally PC oriented.

PotU

Captain K wrote: »

yutt wrote: »

I mention this because, someone posted an image of a code wheel in the previous comic thread. There are all sorts of ridiculous legal ramifications now for something so simple. If any of you remember the whole AACS encryption key controversy, we've reached a certain level of absurdity with copyright laws. At this point a 32 character number is questionably illegal.

While that is dumb, I would fully support the incarceration of anyone involved with the password system used in many NES and SNES games, because they fucking ruined my childhood.


Legend of the Mystical Ninja, I am looking the fuck at you. RUINER!

Just go to the third stage and stay there forever and if you're done there maybe play for a bit and then quit.

the cheat

Bogey wrote: »

the cheat wrote: »

i don't remember the dongle copy protection either. what games had it?

If I remember correctly, this was used about 10 years ago for the expensive production software suites. Like Adobe and Maya, etc.

well that would explain everyone here's lack of knowledge on the subject.

why oh why am i still fucking jailed... two months for some backsass?!

Captain K

yutt wrote: »

custom sewing machine PC software

mind: blown

yutt

Captain K wrote: »

mind: blown

One of my grandmothers owns a craft store. <_<