funny but bulls**t
thank god i live in the UK your goverment sucks (so does mine but not as much as yours) i feel for you if those F**kers get what they want. SOPA is the biggest load of crap ever what gives them the right to mess with with stuff that isnt theirs
Regarding the author comments
Actually you do see comments in support of SOPA. They're from the government and entertainment companies.
Playing the devil's advocate is all good and well when there's a debate going on and you want to get as close to the truth as possible. But in this case, being a contrarian just to spite people would have severe consequences. The only way we managed to beat SOPA was by uniting against it. The sheer overwhelming volume of the voices opposed to SOPA was necessary to get the ball rolling in the right direction. This was definitely not the time to be unfashionable just to make people mad.
I'm sure you think my response is "funny" because I'm siding with the masses and am therefore deluded, but I hope you'll think this through a little more.
You don't see comments in support of SOPA, you see a press release and a blog post saying "This company is in support of SOPA, let's boycott them." That's not people talking, that's paperwork.
Here's where I'm coming from: I'm not gonna change anyone's mind about the Stop Online Piracy Act with this game.
Nobody. Not one person.
Nobody's getting informed because of this game, nobody's re-thinking their stance after playing it, the message is a shallow one that's just repeating things that people already know. Censorship is bad? Good job I_smell, you're really pushing the boundaries.
In that sense it's a waste. It's just re-assuring people who've already chosen a side.
Whether or not SOPA passes is a surface issue, someone smarter than me would've asked much scarier questions that actually get people thinking. Like "Are we actually pirating too much?" or "Did any of you READ the act and consider both sides before jumping on-board?" or "Isn't it insane how many people you can get behind you just by being Anti-Government?"
Nobody's TALKING about SOPA in that way, they're all just changing their fuckin avatars for a day and signing the petition, saying "YEAH MAN, FUCK THIS!! #stopSOPA". I know this because I am one of these people: I made the game. If you zoom out for a sec, do you think this 15-yr-old girl is passionate about where to draw the line on safety and liberties? No, fuck no, she's just saying "SOPA is the biggest load of crap ever" cos that's what's for dinner this week, and your only argument against that is "we need the numbers".
Yes we need the numbers, but if all it takes is switching off Wikipedia for a day to get the whole world writing passionate dissertations about something they haven't really looked into, isn't the kind of omnipotent control we're all against already working?
THAT'S THE GAME I SHOULD'VE MADE. Next to that, "Censorship is bad" was a braindead idea.
I agree with the meme guy, this game is a shallow also-ran that doesn't do anything interesting at all.
LOL
This game is impossible, but the joke in it is awesome! there should be a 2d adventure game like this.
Thanks!
This was poignant and I appreciated losing.
clever
honestly liked it a lot. nice rip apart too. i don't even know what half the new memes are or when/how they got started and im in friggin highschool and part of an anime club. i think most "memes" are annoying and the stupid mainstream fads are attempts at killing brains like most television broadcasts these days. LONG LIVE CLASSIC GAMES go buy an atari disc or some thing like NES or those old saga multi-game TV plug-ins
bravo my friend on something so simple
Don't worry about any joke on the internet being mainstream, cos it isn't.