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The New Comic Thread for Friday, September 26, 2008

scsscsscsscs Registered User regular
edited September 2008 in Social Entropy++
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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.

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited September 2008
    Good job, robot!

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  • redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    look, scsscs, it's your nephew

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  • PotUPotU __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Woah what

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

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I remember the snakes


    the snakes

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited September 2008
    Why'd it have to be snakes?

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  • the cheatthe cheat Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    dongulites!!

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  • scsscsscsscs Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Bogey wrote: »
    Good job, robot!

    <3

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  • SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The Ghosts of Copy Protection Past, Copy Protection Present, and Copy Protection Future.

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  • JarofmoldymayoJarofmoldymayo __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    If I had been around for code wheels I think I would have given up on gaming.

    Probably would have given up on humanity.

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  • RanxRanx Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I really want to know which mod's alt scsscs is

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  • PotUPotU __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    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.

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  • TenTen Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I think live snakes were only ever used on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, right?

    Ten on
  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    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

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  • Andrew RyanAndrew Ryan Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I wonder if an md5 checksum based copy protection system would work..

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  • scsscsscsscs Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Ranx wrote: »
    I really want to know which mod's alt scsscs is

    Yours

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    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!

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  • RanxRanx Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    scsscs wrote: »
    Ranx wrote: »
    I really want to know which mod's alt scsscs is

    Yours

    holy shit it's true

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited September 2008
    Asps. Very dangerous.

    You go first.

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  • the cheatthe cheat Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    i don't remember the dongle copy protection either. what games had it?

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited September 2008
    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... :)

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  • ObbiObbi Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    Dongle copy protection?

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

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  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Just looked up dongle on wikipedia. But damn that is a shitty thing to throw at a customer.

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    Fuck off and die.
  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    C'mon, show a little backbone!

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  • TenTen Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    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'

    Ten on
  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited September 2008
    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.

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited September 2008
    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.

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  • PotUPotU __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Well, now I know what that thing that's lying around here somwhere was good for!

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    also


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

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    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."

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  • RanxRanx Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    k what is the story behind your avatar

    I have always wondered and never known

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  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    He fucks children.

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    Fuck off and die.
  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited September 2008
    Captain K wrote: »
    also


    That's like 138 clicks, Bogey, what kind of mouse-clicking machine do you take me for?
    preston2.jpg

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  • yuttyutt Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    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.

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    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.

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    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!

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  • yuttyutt Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    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.

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  • PotUPotU __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    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.

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  • the cheatthe cheat Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    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?!

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    yutt wrote: »
    custom sewing machine PC software

    mind: blown

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  • yuttyutt Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Captain K wrote: »
    mind: blown
    One of my grandmothers owns a craft store. <_<

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