Dammit Nintendo, quit stopping my piracy!
Posted by SupSuper on 6th July , 2008Ah Internet, is there anything you can’t do? You’re already guilty for brain rot, assholery, illegality, paranoia, anonymity and overall rewarding people for being utter and complete idiots. What more is there?
I was looking on YouTube for videos of the new Dr. Mario on WiiWare (since their trailer is pretty rubbish) and I’m immediately met with a video titled "How to get Virtual Consle and WiiWare titles for free". My immediate thought was that this was a fake (because if there’s nothing people love more is completely mistitling their videos in an attempt to get attention or fool you, while they laugh maniacilly from their evil lair and their e-wang increases with every click).
But no, this was the real deal. A public video showing you step by step how to install hacks and exploit bugs in order to get free stuff on your Wii. You know, piracy. Not that anyone seemed to care. But wait, what’s this? Oh no, Nintendo released an update that stops the hack from working and even goes as far as to delete all your hacked stuff! Immediately the Internet screamed and cried in rage. DAMMIT NINTENDO, HOW DARE YOU, STOPPING MY HACKS FROM WORKING! I’M SO OUTRAGED I’M GONNA POST ALL ABOUT IT IN THE COMMENTS! WHY THAT’S THE LAST TIME I UPDATE MY WII!
Just how shameless can people get? I don’t think even real criminals are this stupid. Commit the crime, admit it, tell everybody how to do the same and whine when stopped! All publically! Yes, you’re on your way to internet stardom here. I always hate the strong sense of freedom and safety that internet anonymity gives people to the point that they think they’re kings of the world. Until shit hits the fan and they crawl back to their LiveJournals, anyways.
First of all, you’re doing something illegal. There’s no way around that, Virtual Console and WiiWare games are commercial and cost money. Even the hacks are probably some grey area given you’re exploiting bugs in the hardware. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with a billion reasons for why it isn’t, like that it lets people make and use free Homebrew Wii software. Of course, you’re forgetting the fact no matter how many good and legal uses it has, 99% of the people will not use them. See: Internet. As an example I couldn’t find one single source using the hack that didn’t involve pirating commercial games or using emulators to pirate even more commercial games.
Second, you’re being public about it. There used to be days where piracy was this big underground thing you only heard from some friend at school who knew people in the scene. These days, it’s a flea market. You’ll be hard pressed to find someone that doesn’t even remotely have an idea of how to get free stuff, and even if they don’t, they have all the shameless in the world to ask. With a million billion excuses on how it’s actually all legal and correct, of course. So you can’t exactly act surprised when Nintendo fixes the bug if you go around waving it in their face. And you can’t whine about it either because it’s their job, it’s their profit on the line. And here, once again, you’d come up with yet another excuse that Nintendo is this bigass company who has money to burn and piracy won’t even affect 1% of their sales. And again, that’s completely bull, considering that Virtual Console titles are old games sold for cheap that Nintendo went to the trouble of getting the rights to convert them to their console, and WiiWare games are mostly jobs done by independent companies out of their pockets who need every buck they can get.
Third, you are not anonymous. Sure, you’ve got yourself a competely baffling nickname, don’t disclose any of your personal details and you immediately think you’re Mr. Internet Tough Guy. Wrong. If computers weren’t tracable, the Internet wouldn’t work, because then information wouldn’t know where to go. Sure it’s just a bunch of numbers that is prone to change and nobody could do anything with them right? Wrong. Any IP can be tracable to its respective Internet Service Provider, and they can check the IP in their logs and match it to their customer for which they have all their billing information. Of course real criminals know how to get around this, but you’re not a real criminal, you’re probably just some kid living off his parents’ Internet without a care in the world. Of course that probably means no legal organization would bother to track you down for your petty crimes. Or would they?
Citrus fresh agony
Posted by SupSuper on 20th April , 2008You really gotta wonder who on those marketing teams suddenly goes "So, what if we make people’s hair smell like lemons?" and everyone nods in agreement instead of blasting them to the Moon.
It all sounds fine and dandy until you get that brilliant idea of a shampoo in your eyes. It only burns twice as much as regular kind, but don’t worry, that’s just the citrus freshness doing its job!
Well, it’s finally happened
Posted by SupSuper on 1st April , 2008My dad finally got fed up with having me around. Apparently I haven’t been pulling my weight around the house so he’s gonna pull me from college and in the next week I’m to get a job and start looking into a place to stay. I don’t know how long I’ll be able to stay on here, hopefully I can afford Internet at my new place. Otheriwse, well, farewell to everyone (zero) that reads this blog. Who knows when I’ll be back.
Edit: If you didn’t get it, April Fools.
Your TV Sucks and so does Simpsons
Posted by SupSuper on 28th November , 2007In fact, screw the politeness. It doesn’t suck. Suck was years ago. It’s freakin’ shit. Pure raw shit. Humanity’s creativity has been going down the drain for years and nobody cares. This applies to everything, but I wanna keep it brief, so I’ll take it out on TV. The new trend with TV seems to rehash everything old and washed away that’s been done to death, but… sprinkle it with DRAMA! It’s like they’re trying to shove reality shows into everything. It sucks. Heroes? Superheroes with drama! Simpsons? Comedy with drama! Shark? Lawyers with drama!
Oh, and that’s another thing. These days it’s all about crime. Let’s take every single job vaguely related with crime, and completely make them take over everyone else in a completely non-sensical manner. You have policemen, detectives, lawyers, investigators, negotiators, security personnel, antropologists… solve a crime all on their own. Oh, and don’t forget: sprinkle it with drama!
Dear FOX Portugal, the following shows suck:
- Bones
- Close to Home
- Cold Case
- Desperate Housewives
- E-Ring
- Heroes
- Invasion
- John Doe
- King of the Hill
- Law & Order
- Lost
- O.C.
- Reunion
- Shark
- Six Feet Under
- Standoff
- Surface
- The Dead Zone
- The Unit
- Tru Calling
(…)
Also, you suck for killing the following shows:
- Futurama
- Simpsons
Seriously, I’m fed up with your second-ass crime shows that just keep coming and coming which are basically some lame-ass person who is an asshat single-handedly solving crimes and bossing people around while still dealing with the ever-constant menace of family/love/friend/etc. drama! And the crimes are just more and more fucked up! They’re pratically a milimeter away from pedophilism. And in the meantime, the one funny crime show you’ve put on, Boston Legal, gets tossed away to some crazy AM schedule!
Also, Lost, WTF. Seriously, WTF.
Dear Cartoon Network, the following shows suck:
- Ben 10
- Class of 3000
- Juniper Lee
- King Arthur’s Disasters
- Robotboy
Also, you suck for killing the following shows:
- Courage the Cowardly Dog
- Dexter’s Laboratory
- Ed, Edd and Eddy
- Johnny Bravo
- Samurai Jack
(…)
Quit giving us more new shit cartoons with more new shit episodes when perfectly good shows keep getting canned or turned into shit. Quit kicking off the few good directors you have left just because Shitty McBarfPants will do a cheaper job!
Looks like you hit the tree, Jim
Posted by SupSuper on 22nd September , 2007Ah yes, golf. Sport of… rich bastards and big suits. I’ve always been more of a mini-golf kinda guy. It’s simpler and it’s got crazy obstacles to get around. It relies on timing and angles rather than being able to hit a long one.
Yet, somehow, I got addicted to a golf game. I blame my friend Zeor for this. Albatross18 is one of your traditional asian MMO games. You got your cutesy avatars, you got your purchasable items, and you’ve got huge servers with ranking. But instead of weapons and roleplaying, it’s got… golf. It’s crazy. And it’s fun. And I love it. Maybe it’s all the wacky character animations, the vast plentiful courses, or just the fact that I don’t totally suck at it. That and the zany hats. Gotta love’em.
If you feel like trying it, here’s a trailer of the upcoming Revolution (new swag) for you to enjoy:
Comboboxes are not navigation!
Posted by SupSuper on 20th August , 2007More and more I find people using comboboxes for navigation. It’s silly. It’s ridiculous. It’s probably the only thing abnormally wrong about the Penny Arcade site. In any case, comboboxes aren’t even really comboboxes, they’re just compact listboxes! In any case, comboboxes are meant for forms. They’re meant for selecting one time out of many. Stop using them as archives, indexes, lists, menus and what not. If you use them because the full list takes up too much space, use a freaking frame or iframe, or just use the CSS equivalent of a popup menu or such. Or just put it somewhere where you have space and link to it. Why? I’ll give you three:
1. JavaScript: Well ok I don’t mind JavaScript, but it can hinder users a lot in this case. Here you are using a javascript-based combobox for what’s virtually a list of links. If for some reason your code isn’t cross-browser or people disable it, whoop, there goes half your usability. Not to mention if you have one of those auto-jump comboboxes (that jump to the link as soon as you select it), you’re gonna annoy everyone that accidentally selects an option.
2. It’s a UI component, not a page: For this matter, you can’t view all the items at once, you can’t search through the combobox and you’ll have a hard time getting it to fit both with the website design and the standard UI for whichever OS is being used.
3. No control: Since a combobox doesn’t have links, users can’t click on multiple options. They can’t open links in new windows. They can’t copy the link address straight from the list. And so on. That’s User Usability 101 right there, and you’re making a mockery out of it!