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minus-squarefunkajunk@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoI know it says “based on” an xkcd comic, but this feels like a blatant ripoff
minus-squareAkatsuki Levi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoI mean, the author was good enough to actually made a decent edit of it that doesn’t feel cheap, and did put proper credits at it Hard for me to consider it a ripoff
minus-squarefunkajunk@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoIt’s literally the same punchline. No innovation whatsoever.
minus-squareNate Cox@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoThat… that is the punchline. It being the same punchline is the punchline of this joke. It’s commentary as humor.
minus-squareJeena@piefed.jeena.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoSo how would you make a homage at an old jobs by bringing it into the now times without copying the joke and replacing parts of it?
minus-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoXkcd comics are published under one of the CC licenses (forget which one). It’s arguable this kind of thing may be an intended reuse.
I know it says “based on” an xkcd comic, but this feels like a blatant ripoff
I mean, the author was good enough to actually made a decent edit of it that doesn’t feel cheap, and did put proper credits at it Hard for me to consider it a ripoff
It’s literally the same punchline. No innovation whatsoever.
That… that is the punchline. It being the same punchline is the punchline of this joke. It’s commentary as humor.
So how would you make a homage at an old jobs by bringing it into the now times without copying the joke and replacing parts of it?
its a cover
Xkcd comics are published under one of the CC licenses (forget which one). It’s arguable this kind of thing may be an intended reuse.