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Sideways:
I'll provide the link, although I actually don't want to encourage traffic to his site, he has rigged his images and links in such a way that they cannot be posted separately...

http://www.squidi.net

To celebrate the 4th of July, he burned an American flag.

Now... in your humble opinions, is this a publicity-stunt, or is Sean Howard totally batshit insane?

Keep in mind this is the same guy who threatened to "Shut Penny Arcade Down" because someone in the PA forums was ripping of his 'art'.

By 'art' I mean; someone was drawing pixel-art characters, resembling Final Fantasy 6 in style, and their feet happened to look like Sean Howard's OWN FF6 rip-off.

But I won't get into the whole "Is pixel-art... art?" thing (Yes, it is, when it's original - see Diesel Sweeties - not when it's merely ripping-off every SNES RPG ever made).

Whoops, I got into it after-all.

So do you think this guy is nutty, or what?

My Aim Is True:
i have no clue about the drama, and no desire to find out, but I see nothing wrong with flag burning.

ForteBass:
Any time Sean Howard is brought up the conversation has no possibility of ending well.

twentyfour:
He's crazy as a loon, and everyone knows doing something like this will get plentry of threads about you and your wacky ways. Thanks for proving his advertising scheme works S.W. :) ....well... Gabe proved that LOOOONG ago actually.

I should do something really controversial, like eat a baby, that'll get me some traffic!

Sideways:
I posted that I lamented having to link his site, in order to illustrate what I was talking about.

And THIS time, it wasn't just me playing Devil's Advocate, and attempting to spark a debate.

Is he really batshit insane, or is it publicity?

I still check his site out, usually once a month, and when I saw that, my reaction was... WTF?!

Reading his 'explanation' of his flag-burning clarified some things... and while I actually (*shudder*) agree with many of his points... there's one thing he's missing;

Isn't that a Federal crime?

Freedom of speech (the 5th Amendment) does not protect against flag-burning.

Could this loon finally have crossed the line?

Is he going to meet up with a big black dude named Bubba, and become someone's 'special friend'?

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