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Comic for Friday, March 30, 2007

scsscsscsscs Registered User regular
edited April 2007 in Social Entropy++
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  • tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    :o:o

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  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Comic is good.

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    it's funny because it's true

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  • Jimbo the ImpressiveJimbo the Impressive Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I approve.

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  • SNESSNES Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    For some reason, this makes me laugh.

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  • AHH!AHH! Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    they said "hojillion" again finally

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    this guy looks exactly like my district manager at Gamestop too

    uncanny

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  • BogdanichBogdanich Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    multiply that by sweet, bee-fresh honey

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  • DranoDrano __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2007
    i like it

    Drano on
  • FCDFCD Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Wha? Stores made of...Bbbrick? What is this deviltry? Is it from the Before Time, when online stores were yet to be? ::shudder::

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  • Drunken BastardDrunken Bastard Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Is...is that Xerxes' throne from 300 ? :shock:

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    i love that he's sitting on the xerxes throne

    i want one of those god damn things

    Pony on
  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Pony wrote: »
    i love that he's sitting on the xerxes throne

    i want one of those god damn things

    haha, i hadn't noticed that

    There should be barely visible heads of slaves carrying it in the first panel

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Who's the guy at the foot of the altar supposed to be?

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Madness/blasphemy

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Butler wrote: »
    Who's the guy at the foot of the altar supposed to be?

    looks like Fry

    #pipe on
  • Abdul the TerribleAbdul the Terrible Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Dija whoziwhat made me laugh.

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  • vrstvrst Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I will always prefer a game which I can hold in my hands and has a box and a manual over a crappy digital version.

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    this guy looks exactly like my district manager at Gamestop too

    uncanny

    you have your own personal district manager

    or worse, you WORK there? I can only hope it's not an unholy hell like the local cesspools.

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  • StratoStrato Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Awesome strip. Xerxes's throne seals the deal.

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    God I love to see greedy people get it in the ass



    Also thumbs up for the 300 throne. Ridin Dirty

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    trentsteel wrote: »
    God I love to see greedy people get it in the ass



    Also thumbs up for the 300 throne. Ridin Dirty

    yeah but there's no ass pounding at this moment

    right now they're swimming in gold coins like Scrooge McDuck

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  • vrstvrst Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    ZeroFill wrote: »
    trentsteel wrote: »
    God I love to see greedy people get it in the ass



    Also thumbs up for the 300 throne. Ridin Dirty

    yeah but there's no ass pounding at this moment

    right now they're swimming in gold coins like Scrooge McDuck

    Yes, and then went shit gets hot they will sell the company/their shares and be rich, while the people at the bottom get fucked up the ass.

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    vrst wrote: »
    ZeroFill wrote: »
    trentsteel wrote: »
    God I love to see greedy people get it in the ass



    Also thumbs up for the 300 throne. Ridin Dirty

    yeah but there's no ass pounding at this moment

    right now they're swimming in gold coins like Scrooge McDuck

    Yes, and then went shit gets hot they will sell the company/their shares and be rich, while the people at the bottom get fucked up the ass.

    Who's on bottom?

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  • vrstvrst Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    ZeroFill wrote: »
    vrst wrote: »
    ZeroFill wrote: »
    trentsteel wrote: »
    God I love to see greedy people get it in the ass



    Also thumbs up for the 300 throne. Ridin Dirty

    yeah but there's no ass pounding at this moment

    right now they're swimming in gold coins like Scrooge McDuck

    Yes, and then went shit gets hot they will sell the company/their shares and be rich, while the people at the bottom get fucked up the ass.

    Who's on bottom?

    Your mom.

    vrst on
  • tardcoretardcore Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Gamestop
    Futurama
    300

    ALL IN ONE FUCKING COMIC!!!

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    The bottom people get fucked?


    Fuck I hate this side of the world sometimes.

    Those dudes will be sitting back enjoying cocaine and whores and the guys working in the stores will be like, "Fuck, I hope I can get a job washing dishes somewhere."

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  • wombatwombat __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2007
    the first panel made me laugh so hard

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    vrst wrote: »
    ZeroFill wrote: »
    vrst wrote: »
    ZeroFill wrote: »
    trentsteel wrote: »
    God I love to see greedy people get it in the ass



    Also thumbs up for the 300 throne. Ridin Dirty

    yeah but there's no ass pounding at this moment

    right now they're swimming in gold coins like Scrooge McDuck

    Yes, and then went shit gets hot they will sell the company/their shares and be rich, while the people at the bottom get fucked up the ass.

    Who's on bottom?

    Your mom.

    you sir are ahead of your time

    a true renaissance man

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited March 2007
    ZeroFill wrote: »
    this guy looks exactly like my district manager at Gamestop too

    uncanny

    you have your own personal district manager

    or worse, you WORK there? I can only hope it's not an unholy hell like the local cesspools.

    you'd think that gamestop employees are terrible


    but then you meet gamestop customers and think "man, they're actually holding in there pretty well"

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  • tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Pony wrote: »
    i love that he's sitting on the xerxes throne

    i want one of those god damn things

    haha, i hadn't noticed that

    There should be barely visible heads of slaves carrying it in the first panel

    and a goat man playing a flute

    tsplitter on
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  • MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Whoza what now?

    I liked it, especially for Xerxes throne.

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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    It really has been a goddamn long time coming for digital distro. I've wanted that for so many years now.

    Defender on
  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Keith wrote: »
    ZeroFill wrote: »
    this guy looks exactly like my district manager at Gamestop too

    uncanny

    you have your own personal district manager

    or worse, you WORK there? I can only hope it's not an unholy hell like the local cesspools.

    you'd think that gamestop employees are terrible


    but then you meet gamestop customers and think "man, they're actually holding in there pretty well"

    Basically I feel sorry for them

    I know they have to push their pre-orders and what not and it sucks all around

    but if I have to listen to some fat lard bitch at the register about "don't try to sell me anything else slobber drool/snort" I'm going to gut them like a sacrificial lamb and use their blood to lay a ward in the ground to scare off it's bretheren.

    ZeroFill on
  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    Defender wrote: »
    It really has been a goddamn long time coming for digital distro. I've wanted that for so many years now.

    I have absolute confidence that businesses will figure out a way to fuck this up as well.

    Druhim on
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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Druhim wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »
    It really has been a goddamn long time coming for digital distro. I've wanted that for so many years now.

    I have absolute confidence that businesses will figure out a way to fuck this up as well.

    As long as the customer is capable of going to any website they want and downloading shit, it seems like it should be basically impossible to fuck it up; somebody will figure out the right way, do it, and make sales.

    Defender on
  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Defender wrote: »
    It really has been a goddamn long time coming for digital distro. I've wanted that for so many years now.

    But Defender most people (me included) want to own a tangible physical copy of our stuff.

    Now, if there was digital distribution and you could pay a little extra at any time to get a printed disc of the game you bought over the internet I'd go woo and go with it.

    Pata on
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  • Stark RhavynStark Rhavyn Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Am I missing something here?
    How is digital distribution, straight from the developer, a good thing?
    Yeah, it'll lower costs to distribute games, but there is no way customers are going to be able to buy those games for any less. The developers will just be able to keep more profit by cutting out the middle man. They're still going to sell them for $50-60 per. Meanwhile, those of us who really enjoy being able to buy used disks for a quarter of what the game cost when it was new will miss out.
    Alright, yes GameStop and all the other stores don't give you shit for game when you go to sell it, but at least it's something! Try to sell back a digital version of that $60 game you just bought online.

    I haven't bought a new game for about 2 years, because $15 for a game I'll be bored of in a month is much more reasonable to me than $60.

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Defender wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »
    It really has been a goddamn long time coming for digital distro. I've wanted that for so many years now.

    I have absolute confidence that businesses will figure out a way to fuck this up as well.

    As long as the customer is capable of going to any website they want and downloading shit, it seems like it should be basically impossible to fuck it up; somebody will figure out the right way, do it, and make sales.

    Steam does an ok job

    but valve is pretty free with their content, most developers are going to want to lock it down more tightly with anti-piracy measures and such.

    It will only really take off if it can be boiled down to a few channels, if I have to download some crappy front-end rip off of steam for every publisher out there, it's going to get old quickly (thanks EA)

    there also needs to be some incentive other than "don't have to drag my lazy ass to the store". They're saving money on distribution, advertising, and material. Some of that needs to be passed on to the consumer. Then the retail outlets will fall quickly.

    ZeroFill on
  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Am I missing something here?
    How is digital distribution, straight from the developer, a good thing?
    Yeah, it'll lower costs to distribute games, but there is no way customers are going to be able to buy those games for any less. The developers will just be able to keep more profit by cutting out the middle man.

    What? WHAT?

    First off, no it won't. Digital distro on music, for example, is way cheaper. A whole album on iTunes or whatever is like 5 or 10 dollars, instead of 20 at a record store.

    And secondly, why do you WANT to have a middle man? That's like complaining that recording artists will get to keep more money from their albums instead of record companies. You should WANT developers to receive profit, because they're the part of the industry that actually makes the fucking product!

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