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Howdy. Big strip #300 today, believe it or not: can you tell the extra effort I put into it? It's because I love you guys. Honestly. Not kiss-on-the-lips love, but love you can see the proof of every time you look at this page. Reader-love. And yep, 300 big ones. And on November 6, we'll be three years old, which should cause the celebrations to happen and the guest strips to roll in! ...only probably not, but eh, that's fine too ::grin:: But yeah. 300 strips, wooooooo. Moving on!
I bought a "Power Pellets" shirt from Josh Mirman of Punks and Nerds (not to mention Stubble), and sheeeeeit, people, it is AWESOME. The fit and fabric and color are all great, and plus, how can you go wrong with that design? No sir. Fine-ass tee I'm wearin' on me right now. Rar. You can pick one up for a mere pittiance, and I suggest you all do so forthwith. Forthwith I tell you!
OH! Importantness. Read.
So last week Halo 2 gets stolen - nabbed somewhere in France and posted to TEH INTARWEB. And now guess what? Irony of ironies, the latest Grand Theft Auto - a monster of a game called San Andreas (for the two of you who haven't yet heard of it) - has also gotten jacked. What the fuck, people. Stop stealin' shit. Didn't your parents teach you nuthin'? Jeebus. I know you all think "oh this is a victimless crime" but that's stupid talk and you know it. Shit, I work for a game developer (on my way to becoming a game designer, oh I hopes precioussss yes I does), and I know for CERTAIN how this impacts us. You think that game prices are high? That's stupid, YOU'RE stupid.
[activate 'in my day' lecture]
Why in MY day games didn't HAVE no real SET PRICE, it was all supply and demand, and cripes if you didn't have things like Aladdin being $40 when it came out, and then everyone sold out, and if Target had like 2 copies left they'd jack the price up to SIXTY-FIVE DOLLARS and nail you in the ass! YOU THINK I'M JOKIN?? And we didn't have no fancy 're-releases,' if you didn't get Final Fantasy Tactics the first time through, you'd have to cough up $100 to some punk on the Internet for his shitty used copy! I'm not lyin' here! And shit, game price has been dropping! Not everything is $49.99 anymore! Good games are becoming $39.99, $29.99, $19.99 even! If you can't afford that shit then work for it! And what ever happened to borrowing games anymore? Shit, in MY day, my brother n' I didn't own but FIVE NINTENDO GAMES, and we played new ones by swapping with friends! Worked just fine! Didn't need to do no stealin' off the Internet - holy cripes we didn't HAVE NO INTERNET! - we'd a gotten the flat o' my daddy's hand 'cross our butts, my brother n' I, if we'd done stole something, you see if we wouldn't've!
[end 'in my day' lecture]
Anyhow. Don't steal. Just... don't. Honestly, speaking from the point of view of someone who all her college years couldn't afford to buy more than ONE GAME for a system I didn't even own until my senior year (and only then was a kind gift from my husband's younger brother - shout-out to Julian for it), it's not fair to those who put in so much time and effort into making games. We're not some big, faceless corporation. We're not Hollywood actors who get paid millions no matter what. If games don't sell, publishers don't get money, which means they can't hire developers to make games for them, meaning I and other hard-working people don't get to make the games you complain about not getting. Example: Max Payne 2 was a great game, looked gorgeous... and was maybe 4 hours long. They couldn't afford to make it longer. Piracy is making developers have to choose between things like graphical quality and game length, and if you ever want this to improve, stop stealing shit. If your friends hit the Warez, just please, encourage them to stop. Gank movies or music**, but please be kinder to games. Biased perspective here, but hey, it's not just my job, it's what I love. If someone stole the game we're working on, it'd break my heart. And I'd also start breaking FACES. So yeah. Don't do it.
ANYHOW! Moving on. Once again. Lots of moving. But this is to some hella nifty links:
* OMG EWOK DEATH. Well, not directly, but it does detail what would theoretically happen if indeed Death Star #2 was a-sploded over the moon of Endor, and the sad, sad result of such on the wee little Ewoks. It's a lot of catastrophe. But a very interesting read.
* Everyone knows about I Love Bees
but here Samus has her own say. You go, girl. You know I've got Metroid Prime 2: Echoes pre-ordered? This should surprise approximately nobody at all.
* This really nifty webpage has - through a secret mathematical method derived to judge the Bible - determined that this here webcomic is 75% EVIL! You know what this means? I need to be working harder! Let's get that up to 100%, people! Woo!
* What better to do, after reading the current I'm Blue storyline, than make up your own hilariously offensive comic making fun of George Lucas? It's a hoot! And now kill me for referring to something as "a hoot"! Oh, and check out the rest of their stuff, too - 's funny.
A'ight. That's it for me this fine Friday. Take care, be well, have a good weekend, and you know... stuff on Tuesday. Bloop!
Winging it,
Annie "Blue" C
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
- Green Day
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
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