I speak to you now on a laptop, in front of a dormant desktop monitor, that is currently piggybacking off of a generous (read: ignorant) neighbor’s wireless. There is a mug of milk laden with oreo residue to my left, and a distraught/disorganized mid-unpacking catastrophe desk beneath it all. Our internet evolves sometime at the end of this week, crawling ashore like the first reptiles back on pangea, and sometime later then that there may even be some television growth. For now we are without both, and there is a blissful prehistoric feeling to the whole ordeal.
I don’t suppose you’d get today’s comic without having played the gateway board game Settlers of Catan, but perhaps there is some other catch to it that is gotten, if so I’d love to know about it. Any inquiries into why the houses have become World of Warcraft characters, with guilds even, will be responded to in kind with a poisonous arrow to the face. It’s just silly, and obvious, that the Catan-ese who have settled are no less worthy of such spoils then we. If you look carefully you may recognize some of the beautifully rural landscape that is the great state of Maryland. With its steep mountains, fertile plains, desert and ocean. The lands beyond are simply called, in the native tongue, ‘table’. It is a desolate place, really, and we do not travel there for fear of attracting worms.
You may have noticed that we, more or less, ignored the launch of Burning Crusade altogether. The reasoning behind this is simple: those of us who don’t play, don’t really care.
Those of us who do play are busy slowing dying on the inside.
As a non-profit wireless internet provider, I resent your labeling of our kind as ignorant.
We prefer “communist wifi”
I use the word ‘ignorant’ simply because, as far as I guess, these people are not aware that we are stealing bandwidth that they are paying for. I assume this because if they were aware, I see little reason why they wouldn’t cut us off?
Perhaps they’re just generous, yes, but our use surely slows down their access to the internet as Becky and myself are what I’ll deem Internet Power Users, meaning we beat the living heck out of any internet connection we come in contact with. I’m not kidding, we almost single-handedly destroyed Comcast.
Well, they may be unaware, but not everyone cares that you use their wifi, and so even if they were they might not suddenly throw up security. They might not even be experiencing any slowness, unless you’re running bittorrent while playing WoW and streaming internet radio.
Communist wifi is definately applicable in this case. I mean just look at his house. It’s red.
In Settlers of Soviet Russia, road build you!