The first thing that seems to leap into everyone's brain when seeing this is "Well, cars are expensive too, but you can't go and steal a BMW just because you can't afford it!" Regardless of my feelings on the issue, that's not a remotely aplicable allegory. If you steal my car, I'm out a car. If you copy my music, I lose jack and shit except for potential profit.
I really don't care about much else, I just want to stop seeing that stupid car analogy.
Anybody remember Escape From the Mind Master for the Starpath Supercharger add-on (for the Intellivision, I think. This stuff gets really hazy over time) That might have been the first first-person maze crawling wolfenstein/doom/quake whatever game, even though the mazes were just crappy wireframes and I don't even remember seeing anything to shoot at. What do you expect from a game on an audio cassette?
Maybe the guys who originated the genre with that game could inherit Carmack's fortune. If they weren't busy trying to live off dried bits of cheese they find in discarded pizza boxes. Actually, they're probably all working for slashdot and cursing my name.
"Leave us alone, you bastard. We have families, for chrissake! *sob*"
Who knows, next maybe film makers will be suing the creative geniuses behind such derivative masterpieces as "Forrest Hump", "Buttman", "Pulp Friction" and however many other name riding knockoffs you want to add.
On a more realistic note, for every Basic Instinct there's a Final Analysis. For every Bugs Life there's an Antz. For every Dazed and Confused, there's a Stoned Age. For every crappy-but-successful mainstream venture, there's a marginally shittier and less successful counterpart, sometimes predating the one everyone is familiar with. The difference is, the film industry is established and mature enough to know that suing over it is laughable.
I really hope someone at Sony decides to go the route of not making these mandatory, and just puts an expansion port somewhere on it. It seems almost every one of Nintendo's consoles have included this kind of expandability. Even the original NES did (Oh, how we kids used to speculate about what that secret port on the underside was for.) While the one on the old NES was never used for anything in the states, back in Japan they made keyboards and modem and harddrive perepherals. There were plans for making a CD drive for the SNES for a while, and the fallout from that deal led to the eventual development of the psx, along with a few extrodinarily shitty Mario and Zelda games for the CD-I (I always wondered why they gave out such good liscenses for that pile) Most recently, they made that graphic booster thingo for N64, and the disk drive that never happened. Pfft, Whatever. Anyway, my point before I got all distracted, was that yeah, it'd be groovin if they made these things optional add-ons like all the Japanese perepherals for the old NES. Those of us who already have a whiz-bang pc and don't want to shell out a few hundred extra for a modem and drive we aren't going to use could give it a miss. Even more importantly, Sony could still hold this over the X-Box release and say "Don't get it, we're coming out with a hard drive and modem next week!" for however long they like. That seems to be the point, anyway.
IANAY (I am not awake yet) but I remember hearing once that space at a small enough scale is all made up of a quantum foam of billions of tiny wormholes and cul-du-sacs. Isn't it not so much a question of if these things are around as whether or not it's practical enough to just grab one of the infinite number of them in a given space and pry the mouth open with something?
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I really don't care about much else, I just want to stop seeing that stupid car analogy.
Maybe the guys who originated the genre with that game could inherit Carmack's fortune. If they weren't busy trying to live off dried bits of cheese they find in discarded pizza boxes. Actually, they're probably all working for slashdot and cursing my name.
"Leave us alone, you bastard. We have families, for chrissake! *sob*"
On a more realistic note, for every Basic Instinct there's a Final Analysis. For every Bugs Life there's an Antz. For every Dazed and Confused, there's a Stoned Age. For every crappy-but-successful mainstream venture, there's a marginally shittier and less successful counterpart, sometimes predating the one everyone is familiar with. The difference is, the film industry is established and mature enough to know that suing over it is laughable.
I really hope someone at Sony decides to go the route of not making these mandatory, and just puts an expansion port somewhere on it. It seems almost every one of Nintendo's consoles have included this kind of expandability. Even the original NES did (Oh, how we kids used to speculate about what that secret port on the underside was for.) While the one on the old NES was never used for anything in the states, back in Japan they made keyboards and modem and harddrive perepherals. There were plans for making a CD drive for the SNES for a while, and the fallout from that deal led to the eventual development of the psx, along with a few extrodinarily shitty Mario and Zelda games for the CD-I (I always wondered why they gave out such good liscenses for that pile) Most recently, they made that graphic booster thingo for N64, and the disk drive that never happened. Pfft, Whatever. Anyway, my point before I got all distracted, was that yeah, it'd be groovin if they made these things optional add-ons like all the Japanese perepherals for the old NES. Those of us who already have a whiz-bang pc and don't want to shell out a few hundred extra for a modem and drive we aren't going to use could give it a miss. Even more importantly, Sony could still hold this over the X-Box release and say "Don't get it, we're coming out with a hard drive and modem next week!" for however long they like. That seems to be the point, anyway.
IANAY (I am not awake yet) but I remember hearing once that space at a small enough scale is all made up of a quantum foam of billions of tiny wormholes and cul-du-sacs. Isn't it not so much a question of if these things are around as whether or not it's practical enough to just grab one of the infinite number of them in a given space and pry the mouth open with something?