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Nintendo Gaming / Penny-Arcade: Gabes take on Wind Waker
« on: March 23, 2003, 01:07:30 PM »
mouse_clicker, let me tell you why you are wrong.
You can't compare online comics to newspaper comics. Those are two completely different industries. Online comics aren't given a yearly salary, they don't have a userbase that is gaurenteed X number of readers, they don't get paid vacation, etc etc etc. They pay for their own servers, they have to supply their own equipment, and they have to somehow advertise themselves. They also have loads more competition to deal with that newspaper comics. They are worlds apart from newspaper comics. You're comparing apples and oranges. In fact, you're comparing apples to oranges from outer space. Eeeeevil oranges from outer space.
As far as their wannabe competitor situation goes, that guy clearly ripped off Penny Arcade. You must have missed the part where Gabe put some 4 pics he drew of backgrounds for the comic against 4 from the other site. The similarities were uncanny, except the other guy clearly couldn't draw. And besides, I like how Gabe put it: "You wouldn't be happy if some guy walked into your house and started stealing your stuff and try to appease you by saying 'I love your stuff.'" In other words, you don't rip someone off and pretend it didn't happen. Gabe had every right to be pissed off. Also, and this is a personal opinion, the other site sucked. It's called movie comics or something. And if the author truly had respect, he wouldn't do it by ripping someone off. There's a difference between inspiration and blatently copying something. A huge difference. Monumental even.
Mega tokyo? That's Gabir and Tycho's personal opinion. But again you're missing the point. They bash them more because they don't update regularly, which is a cardinal sin in the online world. It's less a childish insult and more of a "this is the way we do things, and this is why we're regarded as a top online comic." If Starbucks bashed a competitor by saying that it's coffee sucked, that's one thing. But if they point out that they don't have good customer service, or their prices are all wrong, or it screws customers, etc., that's legitimate. It's called business. One company is always going to do something better than other companies. You can disagree that PA is a good comic or that it's funny, but you can't disagree that they run their operation smoothly and professionally. I'm not saying you dislike the comic =(you DO say, of course, that you do like it), I'm speaking from a hypothetical sense.
As far as Wind Waker goes, let's just say the kids that don't enjoy it are the same kids that can't enjoy old DOS, NES, and SNES games because they think 2D sucks. Just stfu, you have no credibility.
Btw, first post here, hi everyone, pleased to meet you, do you know my name?
-Strell
You can't compare online comics to newspaper comics. Those are two completely different industries. Online comics aren't given a yearly salary, they don't have a userbase that is gaurenteed X number of readers, they don't get paid vacation, etc etc etc. They pay for their own servers, they have to supply their own equipment, and they have to somehow advertise themselves. They also have loads more competition to deal with that newspaper comics. They are worlds apart from newspaper comics. You're comparing apples and oranges. In fact, you're comparing apples to oranges from outer space. Eeeeevil oranges from outer space.
As far as their wannabe competitor situation goes, that guy clearly ripped off Penny Arcade. You must have missed the part where Gabe put some 4 pics he drew of backgrounds for the comic against 4 from the other site. The similarities were uncanny, except the other guy clearly couldn't draw. And besides, I like how Gabe put it: "You wouldn't be happy if some guy walked into your house and started stealing your stuff and try to appease you by saying 'I love your stuff.'" In other words, you don't rip someone off and pretend it didn't happen. Gabe had every right to be pissed off. Also, and this is a personal opinion, the other site sucked. It's called movie comics or something. And if the author truly had respect, he wouldn't do it by ripping someone off. There's a difference between inspiration and blatently copying something. A huge difference. Monumental even.
Mega tokyo? That's Gabir and Tycho's personal opinion. But again you're missing the point. They bash them more because they don't update regularly, which is a cardinal sin in the online world. It's less a childish insult and more of a "this is the way we do things, and this is why we're regarded as a top online comic." If Starbucks bashed a competitor by saying that it's coffee sucked, that's one thing. But if they point out that they don't have good customer service, or their prices are all wrong, or it screws customers, etc., that's legitimate. It's called business. One company is always going to do something better than other companies. You can disagree that PA is a good comic or that it's funny, but you can't disagree that they run their operation smoothly and professionally. I'm not saying you dislike the comic =(you DO say, of course, that you do like it), I'm speaking from a hypothetical sense.
As far as Wind Waker goes, let's just say the kids that don't enjoy it are the same kids that can't enjoy old DOS, NES, and SNES games because they think 2D sucks. Just stfu, you have no credibility.
Btw, first post here, hi everyone, pleased to meet you, do you know my name?
-Strell
