Friday, July 1, 2011

Dueling banjos - I mean Analogs

Some quick points about this posting at Steve Napierski's "Dueling Analogs":

Honestly not sure that a downloadable content (DLC) model would even work for webcomics. Maybe if Alan Moore had released The Watchmen as a webcomic and the first eleven issues were free and the twelve you had to pay for…Maybe that would have worked.

Ignoring the fact that Steve omits the subject and verb in the first clause ("I'm honestly not sure..."), he goes on to use the cardinal form of the number twelve, rather than the ordinal version 'twelfth,' unintentionally implying that there are twelve more issues after the eleven free ones, instead of a single twelfth issue.

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That of course means that people even knows that your webcomic exists in the first place, but that’s a completely different story.

The word 'people' is, of course, the plural form of 'person,' which requires the plural verb 'know.'

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Some of it I’m not so sure about or just think are flat out a scam.

Another case of subject-verb mismatch. In this case, the subject is the pronoun 'some,' which oddly enough, indicates a plurality of objects, but is nonetheless singular. The correct verb here is 'is.'

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I’m a huge fan of the Katamari Damacy fan, but they DLC of Beautiful Katamari wasn’t really DLC, but already existing content that the developer had created, was actually on the physical disc you purchased andt that you had to pay for to unlock.

Welcome to the Department of Redundancy Department. He should omit the second 'fan' unless he actually means that he is a fan of people who are fans of Katamari Damacy. Oh, and we can't forget the typo!

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Pretty much when the content you download in needed to make the game complete, or good even, and just should have been originally part of the game initially that’s when I have a problem with it.

Ignoring for a moment the horrible punctuation in the second clause, there is a simple misuse of words here. He mistakenly uses the preposition 'in' instead fo the verb 'is.' Spellcheck won't catch that!

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One day we’ll be explaining to our grand kids that when we were their age we actually had to touch the physical media the game came on and they’ll response, “OMGSTFUIDBULOL”. Because by then everything will be digital and the spoken language will have degraded into a string of textese.

And, last but not least, we have the use of the noun 'response' instead of the related verb 'respond.'

Source: http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2011/06/30/if-webcomics-had-dlc/

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