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From: vx@teleport.com (V-X)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: People who are screwing us over - DOOM II
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 02:28:58 +1000
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In article <paulhtcCvnCr4.Erv@netcom.com> paulhtc@netcom.com (Paul Hitchcock) writes:
>From: paulhtc@netcom.com (Paul Hitchcock)
>Subject: Re: People who are screwing us over - DOOM II
>Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 07:57:03 GMT
>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.
No, wait--I have the best analogy. Let's say you live on a world where there
are creatures like horses, but they reproduce asexually, by splitting like
amoebas or something. They're big amoebas, and people ride them, and they use
them as pack animals, and they're valuable. Now let's say the penalty for
stealing one of these giant amoebas is death, like in the old west. Oh, wait,
that's just complicating things. Forget that. There is no penalty. I mean,
there is one, and it could be death, but it doesn't matter to this analogy,
okay?
Where was I?
WHERRRE'S MY GOLDEN AAARRMMMM????