EMMJAY

These next couple of weeks are basically going to be an academic write off so I may as well start them tonight and blog instead of doing my mind blowing amounts of homework.

First and foremost, tomorrow night at 6:00, I'm picking up my Japanese home stay kids who are going to be here until the 25^th. Of course, being Japanese and everything, they're going to be absolutely WHACK. More or less really polite and easygoing but just you wait my radiant darlings of the orient, I pledge to make your Canadian field trip experience WHACK (Also, I solemnly swear to kill you both or set you into a coma by feeding you copious amounts of carbohydrates, cholesterol and the meats)

Next of all, my IB Art exam is this Tuesday so I get to put my heart out on a plate and explain why I draw on sticky notes everyday and how that relates to justifying human values. Just thought you should be in that loop.

Today I also found out that my Hot Topic order from January 18^th has been sent back to the states, ONCE AGAIN. You see, my aunt's mail carrier is a douche vat and didn't put the "We kindly urge you to pick up your parcel" tag on my aunts door back in February when the order came so it got signed for in Tennessee and then returned to the company where they tried to re-send it to us in Canada and the mail carrier didn't drop off the tag yet again. Thus my $250 order resides in Toronto and they aren't allowed to just ship it back to us. It has to go back to the states and then re-sent back to Canada. Best of all, we aren't allowed to issue complaints, only Hot Topic is authorized to. I'm a have to pull open a can of "public interest story on Global news of corporate injustice" on this bastard, I will. And everybody said... YATTA!!

Also, barely related to my first point, I found some Manic Panic in my closet from Grade 9 and died my hair since Japanese kids make it so I don't have to work for the next two weeks.


YEAAAAAH.

So it appears that in the short period of time (Less than a month) that my latest flash game (Space Channel 5 Dress Up) has been up, it appears to have made it around the internet. Sure, in any situation I would take this as flattery; people love my work. But in this case I’m beyond aggravated because right inside the game under the “Credits” section is this paragraph advising otherwise:



Simple enough to understand, yes? No means no. Well that is unless you’re one of the German porn sites that is hosting my game and has more than eight times as many hits as the original version. Don’t believe me? Behold this wall of shame:

Flash Games – Erotik Spiele
Although I find what Babbel Fish permitted me to translate from their summary quite kind, taking my game without my permission which I wouldn’t have granted anyway is not.

Free-Sex Games
Oh look, another German porn site which links to the site above. Funny because you can’t even get into her underwear in the game.

Play Online Games
Oh look! Another one!

HallPass
Well, at least this site gives credit to my LiveJournal but that doesn’t justify disobeying what I thought to be an explicit warning in my disclaimer. The 19,304 hits sadden me.

Flash Game Land
These sites obviously don’t care what they’re putting up because if they had taken the time to READ THE INSTRUCTIONS, there wouldn’t be this problem.

U Play Online
This site looks like some kind of mirror to the above. Double offence.

This is honestly not cool at all. I’m 16. I make these games because I like doing it. Is it too much to ask for to have my games remain in a controlled environment? Now my name (those who bother crediting me) will forever be associated with sleaze. There are other sites out there which have not hosted but rather linked to my dress-up games. I am totally fine with so long as they don’t claim them as their own. Also, I didn’t specify that I don’t want people to re-distribute MY work so I guess that’s fair game.

Any way, what I’m also wondering is if there is anybody out there in LiveJournal-Land who could do a decent (not necessarily perfect) translation for me of an e-mail to the administration of the German porn sites. I’m going to have to do some other e-mailing around later tonight...

And the moral story?

Don’t take my work when I specifically tell you not to, because I can take legal action against you.