Thursday, November 21, 2002 |
09:59 - Generation Xbox
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That's what I'm going to start calling the invincible army of scaly little toad-children who crawl around the Internet, leaving slug-trails behind them all over the sites they infest, operating under the conviction that it's okay to steal a piece of artwork that someone has posted, remove the signature and copyright notice in a pirated copy of Photoshop, and then upload it to other sites like Neopets.com (or even the same site they got it from) under their own name.
And they've learned this code of ethics before they have attained two digits of age. And they never learn any better, in a distressing proportion of cases.
These are the same people who call me names for posting negative things about Microsoft, by the way, because hey, m1cr05oPh+ m4k3z the Xb0x-- and making a fucking video game system (and buying up independent multi-platform game companies in order to brute-force a saleable exclusive platform, and dumping it onto the market with prices subsidized by money obtained elsewhere in the conglomerate, just so as to undersell the established players and eventually own this market too) trumps any other alleged unethical behavior by the company. To them, any technical, legal, or ethical shortcomings of the company are rendered irrelevant, and and they'll grow up feeling benevolent toward Microsoft because Microsoft provided them their soma during their pre-teen years.
Ugh. Some days my inbox is just not a pleasant thing to wake up to.
Yes, I know that the Xbox has certain qualities-- both in its development style and in its target audience-- that set it apart from what usually characterizes Microsoft. And I don't mean to antagonize readers who have Xboxes but don't fit the description above-- they're cool.
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