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tinprathis is from a chat conversations, for which i apologize. i'm personally not a big fan of reading chat transcripts, not even my own. i also apologize for the idiocy of my male friends. hopefully they don't represent the entire male population, just their own misguided, sometimes amoral, selves.
Guy: Aloha.
Tin: hail
Guy: I've finished reading the novel. I look forward now to listening to it.
Tin: grrrrr
Tin: i can't believe you!
Guy: It was there. It's done.
Guy: I believe the people in Britain have had it for a week now, anyway.
Tin: just b/c it was there doesn't mean you had to read it
Tin: you big poop
Tin: oh foo!
Tin: have not
Guy: Well, it got put online somehow.
Tin: it's called a leak
Tin: and it totally ruins some of the magic and the fun of it
Tin: that the entire world opens the present all at once
at which point the conversation died until i took it upon myself to change the subject completely. That prompted me the other guy-friend who happened to be on at the moment...and got an even longer answer out of it which was just as bad - and interspersed with moments of attempted subject change. *sigh* What happened to waiting? To patience? What about solidarity among the fandom? Just because some greedy, look-what-i-did idiot leaked the book doesn't mean we had to read it. It's just three more days folks. Less if you're reading this on the other side of the world.
And then of course, me, I go and mentally extrapolate. Maybe this is too much or too far for lots of people, but what does this say about our morality in general? Fine it's just a book and a kids book at that, but isn't it easy to see how it goes from being "Well I just want to know how it ends, I won't tell anybody, no one cares anyway b/c it was already written" to something bigger? Something that's less esoteric, less "it's the principle of the thing" and more "but that's my money and my future and my livelihood, Enron"?
Maybe it's just me. *shrugs*
Guy: Aloha.
Tin: hail
Guy: I've finished reading the novel. I look forward now to listening to it.
Tin: grrrrr
Tin: i can't believe you!
Guy: It was there. It's done.
Guy: I believe the people in Britain have had it for a week now, anyway.
Tin: just b/c it was there doesn't mean you had to read it
Tin: you big poop
Tin: oh foo!
Tin: have not
Guy: Well, it got put online somehow.
Tin: it's called a leak
Tin: and it totally ruins some of the magic and the fun of it
Tin: that the entire world opens the present all at once
at which point the conversation died until i took it upon myself to change the subject completely. That prompted me the other guy-friend who happened to be on at the moment...and got an even longer answer out of it which was just as bad - and interspersed with moments of attempted subject change. *sigh* What happened to waiting? To patience? What about solidarity among the fandom? Just because some greedy, look-what-i-did idiot leaked the book doesn't mean we had to read it. It's just three more days folks. Less if you're reading this on the other side of the world.
And then of course, me, I go and mentally extrapolate. Maybe this is too much or too far for lots of people, but what does this say about our morality in general? Fine it's just a book and a kids book at that, but isn't it easy to see how it goes from being "Well I just want to know how it ends, I won't tell anybody, no one cares anyway b/c it was already written" to something bigger? Something that's less esoteric, less "it's the principle of the thing" and more "but that's my money and my future and my livelihood, Enron"?
Maybe it's just me. *shrugs*