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Totally unrelated, but figured I’d post about em both at one time, as I’m in hurry and at work and what not.

So…the big thing on penny arcade, slashdot, etc., is about this guy jack thompson who’s saying essentially GTA and other games of that type are the root of all evil that is American (go ‘merica!) or whatever. See this and this for background information. A lot of people are saying that this is just what he wants though - attention. Just to see what other people think of this (and how else it can be used), this is sorta a variation on a drinking game - the kind where every time you see x on a show or whatever, you take a drink. What I’ve seen done in Durham when Fred Phelps came to town was that people would donate a certain amount of money (say, anywhere from a dime to a couple bucks) for every minute he hate-mongered (you know, the usual “the Pope is Satan”, gay stuff I won’t mention here, etc.). In Durham, where his extended clan picketed the Durham School of the Arts’ production of ‘The Laramie Project,’ I believe the tally was something like $75-100 dollars for every minute they protested. The money then goes to a local non-profit, in this case a LGBT one, in his name. This riles em up real good and at the same time encourages them to make their picketing as brief as possible, which is good too. So either way, picketing or not, people are happy. And when you’re getting $100 a minute for an hour and giving to a non-profit whose typical annual budget is in the $100-200k range, that donation’s not much to sniff at.

Secondly, about the whole terrorism cell thing (which, I believe, was used similarly in the Resistance in France during WWII or in the Underground Railway) - wouldn’t it be scary if the US/UK/NATO people decided to follow suit and create cells in the community rather than a standing army? Man…you wouldn’t know who you were talking to, even. Scary shit.

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I’m sure this idea has already been thought by someone else, as I seem to be good at coming up with ideas after people but here it is anyway…why aren’t comics digitally distributed? I’ve been told that having comics in PDF format results in much sharper images (and without the washed-out colors you would presumably get in the cheap newsprint weekly ones) and can be distributed at what I’d think would be a minimum of cost, as quite a few series now are colored or drawn on computers.

One magazine I’m subscribed to (make) has a “digital edition” which ostensibly is so I can print out articles flat for use in, well, making things. It’s the entire magazine online, plus extras that weren’t published. The more interesting feature, I think, is that I can “share” articles with friends. I can designate an article I think a friend would particularly like, and they get something like 3-day access to it, though they don’t have the print option. From what I’ve seen and heard about people getting other people into particular comics series, this would be a great option if comics were also distributed online. I could send a segment of Fable or Ex Machina or Tom Strong to a friend, who would then ideally become hooked

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