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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!paulhtc
From: paulhtc@netcom.com (Paul Hitchcock)
Subject: Re: People who are screwing us over - DOOM II
Message-ID: <paulhtcCvnCr4.Erv@netcom.com>
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References: <8iOWBAW00iV9I3HF8G@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 07:57:03 GMT
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David Reeve Sward (sward+@CMU.EDU) wrote:
: Excerpts from netnews.alt.games.doom: 4-Sep-94 Re: People who are
: screwing.. by Paul Hitchcock@netcom.co
: [yet another bad analogy to what's happening with DOOM II deleted]
: > listen to the f*cking thing right now. Like, who's being hurt, I said, I
: > mean the store will get the money EVENTUALLY, right?
: WRONG. Better analogy: the CD player isn't even for sale yet, but you
: already sent in the money for yours. It hasn't been delivered yet, but
: you find an exact clone of one - in fact, the total number of CD players
: in the world (of that type) has just increased by one. You use your
: clone of the CD player until your own paid-for CD player arrives, then
: you start using it and get rid of the clone.
In the first place, it was a metaphor (or a parable,if you prefer) not an
analogy. In the second place, your "correction" is so absurdly
far-fetched as to be laughable: Software is not just the physical media
upon which it resides! The authors of DOOM are selling a ticket to an
experience, not just a packet of paper wrapped around a floppy disk! Or
would you, after sneaking into a theater, complain you didn't do anything
wrong because the management still had physical possession of the ticket
you didn't buy?
The comparison is completely appropriate-- an example of making use of
the creative labors of others while making a weak promise to pay later.
: > Well, this guy is so UNTRUSTING and MORALLY BACKWARD and CAN'T SEE THE
: > FINE DISTINCTIONS, so like he calls the police anyway and there's a big
: > hassle and my ass gets slammed in the can, anyway. I mean, like, why are
: > there so many SMALL MINDS in the world?
: Oh, love those caps for emphasis. Yep, if you CAPITALIZE every OTHER
: word YOU get MORE people TO believe WHAT you WRITE.
: --
: David Sward sward+@cmu.edu
And thank you very much for the capitalization flame. The words were
placed in caps to give the reader some insight into the *fictional*
"character" delivering the piece. Feel free to criticize the style, Dr.
Dave, but first be intelligent enough to recognize the difference between
an attempt at the latter and mere punctuation.