I mean I could replicate this thing with Inkscape in a matter of 20 minutes with text and all. If it becomes that easy to achieve the same results, should it really be copyrighted?

The real question here is whether Ellie looks more like Ellen Paige than Ashley Johnson.

When can we expect the follow-up story about all the different kinds of racist northerners?

Right. I'm sure this has nothing to do with the fact that starting some self-righteous beef with Penny Arcade will garner them more free publicity than they ever could have hoped to get from a single booth at PAX. Had anyone even heard of this game before this post?

I never said you didn't know the definition. I said you didn't know how to use the word properly.

I might get offended by your insults, except (since we're quoting):

It does if you're a sucker. Unfortunately the world is full of suckers.

Wow. I'd have said you couldn't get any dumber than your original comment...

Wow, what a brilliant counter-argument.

If I can buy it and resell it to a third party without any interference from MS or the publisher or any other party, then for all intents and purposes it is mine. You can point out all the legal loopholes you want, but in every way that matters I own the product. And the moment MS tries to force me to give up that…

if a company says you don't have the right to resell a program, you don't have that right.

Am I the only one who finds white folks getting offended on behalf of Native Americans almost more offensive than Depp in redface?

Yes because I get other benefits. It's a concession. A compromise.

I would have given up the right to sell via ebay, craigslist, yard sale because I still would have had an avenue to sell my games. You people act like you had no avenue.

So when you talk about consumers having the rights they fight for, I honestly have to believe you don't understand exactly what you're saying.

For the first time we would have had the ability to resell our digital content for some money back.

Please tell me why the consumer should have all rights and the creator should have none.

Uh....that's exactly what I'm doing. That's exactly what a lot of people were doing. That's why MS walked all this stuff back.

You dumbass, they're not my rights. They're our rights. If you're willing to give them up for a few shiny trinkets or to save a few nickels, then you're a moron.

As long as you had consistent internet. And those wouldn't be your games. They'd be games you were licensing from Microsoft. You would have had no ownership claim to them.