Ubersoft.net: Technology Is Not Your Friend

An Abrupt End

13 March 2008 - 7:38am — Christopher Wright

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Comic Transcript

VIKTOR SCHRECK: Your Honor, I regret to inform you that we are withdrawing our suit.

JUDGE: What?

ADALAI FOULE: What?

VIKTOR SCHRECK: After evaluating the case, Ubersoft has decided to offer to settle this matter out of court. As both the plaintiff and the defendant in this case, I approached myself with my offer earlier today, and after some consideration I grudgingly agreed to its terms.

VIKTOR SCHRECK: Ubersoft will not admit that I am innocent, but will waive any and all charges they’ve brought against me and will agree not to prosecute me for them in the future. I will not admit any guilt, but will agree and state on the record that intellectual property is very important and that Ubersoft has every right to defend it vigorously.

(Silence.)

VIKTOR SCHRECK: If that is unacceptable to you, I suppose I could introduce some more "secret evidence" and --

JUDGE: Case dismissed.

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Comments

Nicely Done. Very artful

13 March 2008 - 8:45am — ilec (not verified)

Nicely Done. Very artful

I think the judge's mind is

13 March 2008 - 9:12am — Strifer (not verified)

I think the judge's mind is now officially blown.

Oh, dear, I can hear the

13 March 2008 - 9:51am — hswoolve (not verified)

Oh, dear, I can hear the gears grinding in that poor judge's head.
He's really going to want a vacation now.
Or maybe just a case of scotch.

LOL

13 March 2008 - 9:53am — Angie K

I think the judge is just going to drink himself into a stupor and then never think about this case again. Either that, or be haunted by it.

It appears that he

13 March 2008 - 10:49am — Sadrach (not verified)

It appears that he wins.

Congrats to the 10% who sided with that option.

Oh come on...

13 March 2008 - 1:32pm — MuseUnchained

I knew he'd win somehow but I only went for the last option because it was the funniest :p

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"Desperately Unfunny."
- Someone on Dean's World

"The artwork is lame and repetitive, the 'jokes' are either inside software industry jokes or thinly disguised anti-capitalist rantings."
- Someone else on Dean's World

"Are there really 80 people who find any reference to Microsoft in a web comic funny?"
- Someone on Reddit

"Why has this been running since 1996? Who actually reads it? Who is the idiot who reads it every day and posts the 'good' ones up on reddit? Doesn't he realize he is wasting his time?"
- Someone else on Reddit

"My god, my eyes are bleeding now. To think that there are comics out there which are worse than User Friendly is every way, when User Friendly was already pretty bottom-of-the-barrel in all departments!"
- Someone on Slashdot (With apologies to User Friendly, who got hit in the crossfire.)

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