For the record, Martha Stewart went to jail for Perjury and Obstruction of Justice as a result of being INVESTIGATED for insider trading. Let's get the facts straight before we start making comparisons.
I think it's going to be very hard to get legislators and the media to think about independent games as separate from commercial products. I see the situation as analogous to someone self-publishing a novel versus writing one for a big publisher; wouldn't there have been an equal uproar about OJ Simpsons' book if he had written it himself and posted it as a PDF on the Internet?
I hate to be "that guy" here, but the Mega Man villains really aren't that funny. The strip is occasionally inspired, but most of the time it's rather shruggable.
"Malfunctioning" is the absolute wrong word to use here. Clearly the wrist strap wasn't designed to withstand the force that some of these idiots are using. Let's get a grip here, folks. Don't be a moron and your strap won't break.
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