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Stolen from xkcd:

I've been reading Backwards Compatible and Ding for a bit over at Crispy Gamer for a few weeks now and I really enjoy them. (OK, I wish Ding had more back story and published more often.  I'll admit to that.)  Imagine my surprise though to see in this comic a 30 day trial message for what I'm assuming to be the image uploader or ftp software.  Something labeled RADActive I-Load.  There's no less than 4 of the comics like that.

Now I don't mind folks using trial software.  Right now I'm using the 2nd release candidate of Movable Type 4.2. (And I just love how the auto-save sends the cursor to the front of the post every time it goes off.) I just would think that one should make sure stuff like that would be visible in a production environment.

Not being negative by the way.  It just bothers me.  Go read the comics. They're good for some laughs.

I was going to promote Shamus Young's webcomic Chainmail Bikini but it appears he's no longer going to continue it.  Pity.

I will mention though that he has a pair of interesting articles posted about his take on Video Game Piracy and Digital Rights Management that may be of interest.  He even takes a shot at Penny Arcade's new game, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness.

I don't run into the problem of re-registering my games that much.  The computer I have at home is fairly old and most of the games I play came out when DRM hadn't been created as a anti-piracy program.  I think the newest game I play is Morrowind and that came out in 2002. (I do have Oblivion but I know my system can't handle the graphics. Maybe in a few years.) I'm still going through the old Dungeon and Dragon's Gold Box games from way back when and those sit on my flash drive.  I have to type in a CD key when I install something but I don't mind doing that.

One comment that bothers me is how some folks who have purchased the game have to obtain a crack just to get around the security program.  I had that issue way back when when CD games first came out. (Trying to remember what game it was.  Maybe Pizza Tycoon?) I had a CD burner in that computer at the time and the game saw it and refused to play.

edit: Oh, forgot to mention that Mr. Young also did a Lord of the Rings Photoshop'ed webcomic called DM of the Rings.  It's finished now but it's a good read.  I wonder if he'll start a new one of the Hobbit.

Image from here.

So what happens when you take Garfield, the cat, out of Garfield, the comic?  You get an "even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life."

Garfield Minus Garfield

edit: Discovered here.

Edit: Oops forgot the link.

You're going to have issues going back through the archives but I wanted to give a quick plug for Half Baked, a webcomic that was suggested to me.  The back and forward arrows sometimes don't work but you can manually edit the URL to see the next comic.  Give it a try.

And if you like that one, they have more webcomics on their main site.