06/22/02
Pay? For this SHIT?
  
    I've decided that if I ever come to the point where I have to beg users every 
day to give me money through Paypal or ask them to buy my used garbage off of E-bay, 
I'll know it's time to close down the site and give it up. I mean really, this is 
sort of a hobby. When my other hobbies but into things like food, rent, gas, school, 
or drinking money, then I give up those hobbies for a bit till I have the cash. 
Golly gee, I'd love to buy that new PS2 game but it would mean not eating for a 
month, maybe I better just play some game I already own.
  
    With that in mind the thing anymore seems to be that you can sucker readers 
for money just by putting a Paypal banner on your website. Then you also have to 
beg them to click it each update and include a clever little graph showing the 
progress made this month towards the 2000 dollars you need to keep open. Let me 
repeat that. 2000 dollars a month to run what amounts to one or two free webpages 
on Geocities or Tripod. Or if you prefer, one 20 dollar a month Geocities page.
  
    Webcomics seem to be the major culprit of this activity. I suppose making a 
comic is a bit more work than just bitching about whatever the hell you feel like 
bitching about on a webpage, and the bandwidth issue could be a bit more assuming 
all your readers are reading the entire archive daily every month or some shit. 
Basically I fail to see how any page short of www..com could need that much money 
to operate. What exactly are you spending this money on?
  
    It could be worse actually. I mean they could be forcing you to pay to see 
anything. This trend has been big lately with gaming websites. As much as I hated 
The GIA before it died, it's good to see they have the decency to just give it up 
instead of begging the readers for cash. Instead you have sights like Gamespot and 
IGN that make you pay for older information. They seem to forget that chances are 
there are at least a dozen websites out there with the exact same information for 
any given subject you may be looking for. Only a complete fucking idiot would pay 
for this sort of service. Maybe instead they could cut down on their bandwidth by 
loosing a few dozen of the ad banners on every one of thier pages. Maybe they don't 
realize that graphics take up the most bandwidth. You can fit a dozen or more text 
pages in one banner graphic.
  
    So next time you feel the need to be a sucker and pay for shit on the internet 
take the following steps. 1) Punch yourself in the face to knock some sense back 
into your head then 2) if you still feel like burning money, just send it to me 
instead and I'll send some BS made up information back to you eventually. I'll be 
sure to spend it on shit like NES games and Spiderman action figures instead of 
some shit webpage.