Reno 911 was a parody on reality shows, it was a comedy shot as if it were a documentary on police in the city of Reno Nevada.
Cooking up a fake story and presenting it as real is how shows like Ancient Aliens and big foot hunters make their money, none of it is true, but many
of the viewers
want to believe it so they tune in. Most of the internet is not unlike TV, the funding comes from advertisements for the most
part, the content is just to get people to see the ads, purchase the products and keep the money changing hands. Doesn't matter if the content is
true, just needs to keep people coming.
My website is both free and ad-free. Lucky for me Weebly says they do not force ads onto the web-sites of their free users. Technically they put an
ad for themselves onto the free sites, but I was able to cut the ad out with HTML/CSS. They haven't complained to me about it and I assume they won't
because they promise no forced ads.
That web-site that my current game project is posted on is actually part of a string of gaming focused sites. Most of the sites offer game reviews
and previews to obtain viewership, the one I use offers some review content, but is mostly focused on offering actual games for download which is why
my game is posted there, I needed somewhere to host the download.
I am reminded of another tactic that company used with my game. They posted a review of my game on a french gaming site and gently implied that my
game plagiarized another very well established game, the comments section was far more blunt about the implication. At first I was taken back a bit
as my game is really nothing like the other game. Then I noticed the statistics on my game's page, that article generated a significant jump in
viewership to my game page. So why the false 'bad' publicity? They wanted people to think my game was like this other popular game, people really
like the other game and if they think my game is similar then they're quite likely to come check it out. Lo and behold they came.
I seriously considered, and am still considering, removing my game from that site. When I posted my game there I didn't consider that they might
resort to deceptive tactics to get my game out there, I wasn't even trying to "get my game out there," just thought if someone happened by it they
might enjoy it. Now here they are making money off of my work while I scrape food out of dumpsters.
Upon seeing me in my emaciated state they walked up to me and deceptively asked if I'd work harder for them.
Edit: For the record making a video game is not the world's easiest thing to do. Especially when done pretty much alone. Most games have a team of
modelers, texture artists, musicians, sound fx creators, story boarders, GUI programmers, AI programmers, level designers, etc. I do all of that by
myself... For free
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Edit: One more thing, just to add insult to injury there are many that consider it not even work simply because I don't make any money off of it.
Doin' the job of maybe 20-60 people and I'm apparently not working at all.
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Honestly... I do my best, constantly trying to improve myself. That's why I was so confused before, it's so obvious to me and it's as if this place
is trying to stop people from being honest. As if this place is purposely doing everything in its power to stop people from being good honest decent
human beings.
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Speaking of giving the people what they want... I wonder just why it is that so many people want doom, why so many want the world to
end...
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