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http://www.somethingawful.co*/articles.php?a=954

and

http://www.somethingawful.co*/articles.php?a=1467

If these two articles seem familiar its because this idea was alreayd done in an infamous piece by Maddox from maddox.xmission.com (a.k.a The Best Page in the Universe)

http://maddox.xmission.com/irule.html

If you'll check the dates Maddox's piece was done back in June of 2002 as opposed to the SA versions appearing in the last couple of months. the two versions are too damn close in appearance to each other for it to be a coincidence.
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They look like similar themes, no more...
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Dalton wrote:They look like similar themes, no more...
That would be my opinion as well.
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Ripoff yes, plagiarism, no.
Maddox will have something very amusing to say about this, no doubt.
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As if everybody on the internet hasn't been stealing everybody elses' thunder since its inception...
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Okay, so maybe I should have said Ripoff Instead of plagarism, maybe a mod would be kind enough to correct my word selection error.

I did email Maddox about it and it seemed he was pissed when he replied.
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Of course he was pissed! That's his whole reason d'entre. I'd be suspicious if he wasn't!
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Post by Darth Fanboy »

The saga continues......

After recieving responses from both parties, (Maddox and Lowtax), I was enlightened when Lowtax asked me to check the dates more carefully on the first article.

Apparently the first of these articles was done in April of 2002, which predates Maddox's by about two months.

Now i'm realllllllllly freakin confused.

more on this as it develops.....
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the debate rages on, SAdotcom did the piece first, but got little success for it, apparently Maddox's version was similar in idea and intent, but not necessairly content. now SA is emulating that. Oyyyyyy
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