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Have you seen how SA (and lawyer Leonard "J." Crabs) treats legal threats? It's a thing of beauty. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/legal-threats/inde x.php My personal favorite is here: http://i.somethingawful.com/images/lawsuit-10.jpg

Have you seen how SA (and lawyer Leonard "J." Crabs) treats legal threats? It's a thing of beauty. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/legal-threats/inde x.php My personal favorite is here: http://i.somethingawful.com/images/lawsuit-10.jpg

Oh but it is true. Here a link to David "Shmorky" Kelly's original thread on SA: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=2416213. For you freeBSD fans, go check out page 98.

When I close my eyes, I see fire... and bees http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=2243176

someone already said cd lamp, here's another version http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=2425725

pak chooie unf!

Here are a few links, deteriorating in horror and decrepitude about the online sensation known as second life.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,69878-0.html

http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=4410

http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh...ay_in_seco.h tml

http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh...al_child_p.h tml

This is beyond sad & lonely. I'm not judging the depravity of the acts, which given 10 minutes I could dream up much worse. What I'm amazed by is that this fringe world is a nexus for like-minded people to act out THE SAME fantasies. You'd think in perversion and depravity people would finally truly be unique. It turns out there's a whole alternate universe of people just like them. Welcome to the fringes of conformity?

it seems that despite the interweb bringing us all closer together, humans seem to be getting lonelier all the time. the irony is that the more self-absorbed we get, the more we want to share our self-absorption with others.

Solipsism loves company

Richard Kyanka has, what I think, a better reaction to the situation.

http://www.xkcd.com/ - Fun, nerdy webcomic.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/ - Has likely the best general automotive and games forums around.
http://www.dealmein.net/ / http://www.slickdeals.net/ / http://www.bensbargains.net/ - The sites that post deals every day have gotten me some awesome bargains in the past.
http://news.google.com/ - Duh.
http://slashdot.org/ - Duh x 2.

Informed

• BBC news
• Slashdot
• Distrowatch
• Linux.com
• Newsforge
• El Tiempo

Entertained

• SA
• Digg
• Degenerate Cesspool
• CTRL+ALT+DEL
• questionablecontent.net
• halturnershow.com

Contrary to current trends, the only site out of all of those in which I participate regularly is Slashdot. I don't even have accounts on any of the other forums. Some I only really visit because it's an old habit, notably the two webcomics and eltiempo.com. And yes, Digg is firmly in the 'entertainment' column, for its AWESOME PICTURES! and INCREDIBLY ADDICTIVE NEW FLASH GAMES OH EM GEE!

At the risk of whoring my own link, YouTube will blindly follow DMCA requests made by people who are claiming copyright protection over video of their Second Life avatars.

I didn't fight it, but it took Steve Hutcheon of The Age an EFF lawyer and several weeks to get his video back up.

...in the coffin of a slowly dying Photoshop Phriday?

As Photoshop and other tools have gotten into the hands of folks who don't design for a living, the quality of this once-hilarious feature has gone down. The recent giant pets theme was just...well, something awful.

As long as basic standards are upheld, the more OSes the merrier. This whole one above them all bullshit has got to stop. There is not one car that is the best (well sure it might have great grip, but it sucks in the glove compartment compartment (get it)). http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/ emot-iiaca.gif

Here's an answer to that question. Xvid and other codecs now up and running on AppleTV

AppleTV can now play Xvid -- http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=2391956

Haha, reminds me of this Something Awful article:

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/second-life-safari /mtv-virtual-worlds.php

He seduces a "lifeguard" (who's supposed to be keeping the game PG-13!)

i just canceled my account today, and i look and see that they are on slashdot, small world.
I'll just have to say that despite that the game play is innovative and different, and that they supply loads of free content upgrades their customer service is garbage. They treat you like you like scum if you ever deal with them directly. And GM's interfere with the game play playing favorites, on gm even is the ceo of a major alliance i hear tell!

Dear Mr Angry Internet Nerd,

Was this you being interviewed on Something Awful the other day?

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/warcraft-fron tline.php

Also you say they treat you like you like scum. Well, do you like scum or not bitch? If you don't specify then how can we tell whether they're being unfair?

Did someone say Holodeck? Someone has to run these things, you know...

There's been several comments related to pusher/shover robots, the terrible secret of space, and "pak chooie unf". For those who don't know what these refer to, see the ICQ prank that started it and the flash animation/song inspired by it.

Where's the bread?? What will it push down throats if not bread?

Ok, I'm sure there's someone out there who hasn't seen it yet...
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/icq-pranks/icq-tra nscript-space.php

pak chooie unf

How does this set any kind of precedent? It's certainly not the first MMO to ship before it's bug-free, or even feature-complete. Sony has a long history of releasing EQ expansions when they're ~50% complete, banking on it taking players N months to get to that point. This Anarchy Online review shows that it too fell victim to being pushed out the door well before its time. The only MMO game I've seen that was significantly complete at almost every step of the way has been WoW.

"you still had to kill yourself in the disintegration chamber"

Only if you don't posess the cheat codes, dude. I wonder will his first virtual town hall meeting be interrupted by flying penii or be attended by this constituent.

It's reported that the California trial was largely taken over by Scientologists, including the judge, who refused to admit any of his witnesses or defense evidence.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=2313191

Copy/pasted from http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?th readid=2280238&perpage=40&pagenumber=11#post322155 112 because it was deleted from the Eve-O forums when someone reposted it there,

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I no longer play Eve Online but I think some of you may find this interesting. In response to the BoB+Dev drama on the forums: I have been telling people there are high-up Polaris members, probably GMs, and possible Devs in the leadership of BoB for several years.
"Well yeah," you say, "so have tons of other people. What makes you so special?"

I was a forum moderator. Yep. I probably shouldn't say which one but I was. I also have many megabytes of IRC chatlogs from the private Polaris channels and thousands of emails sent to the moderator alias. Why am I mentioning this? There's something really really specific I want to address:

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Posted by: Eponine Astarte
Industrial Holdings Unlimited

I'm not bothered by there being devs in BoB. There should be devs involved in 0.0 politics, just as there should be devs who are high sec mission runners, low-sec pirates, and Jita industrialsits.

But here is what REALLY bothers me:

How did Dianbolic know that the person who petitioned Inos was an alt? The person who petitioned Inos did so anonymously because he feared that BoB would find out the identity of his main. The fact that a BoB director was able to identify who the alt was is pretty disturbing.

That, more than the mere existence of a BoB GM, shows how they are abusing their positions within CCP and using their jobs to gain an in-game advantage. Dianbolic should never have had any clue whatsoever as to who the petitioner was, yet lo and behold he did.
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I'll tell you exactly how he did this, because I did it once.

Petitions are tied to your account name. Normal forum moderators (like I was) can see your account name when we give you a warning on the forums. We cannot see what other characters are tied to that account name, but obviously it's pretty easy to identify an alt if you check the warning history on two different characters: not only will the warnings all be there (even though the names are blanked out for different characters) but their account name will be there if you try to send them an email.

There was once someone we suspected strongly as a traitor in an allied corporation. The enemy we'd been fighting was pretty well-informed as to our movements, and there was a certain character that always seemed to show up at the right time. So what did I do?

I looked up both characters on the forum. They were on a different account, sure, but the person behind them hadn't been real smart: one of the accounts simply had a "1" appended to the end of it. Nailed him.

We ended up luring his main character out and podding him in Yulai before booting him from the corp.

What I did was certainly an abuse of power, but trust me, it happens ALL the time. I had a friend in Aurora (the events program) who would feed me intel about where events would be and what they'd be like. I could just show up at the right time in the correct type of ship, participate, and snag the reward. I got a +4 implant that way before level 4 agents existed, much less loyalty points and rewards.

Everyone did this, and they've been doing it since the game came out. About 6 months into the game we were told not to use our Polaris character's /tr commands to scout the game for good mining spots. We still did it because nobody bothered to track us (even if they could--their tools were rudimentary at best back then).

In my IRC chat logs there is a good amount of circumstancial evidence of high-up Polaris members (people with more authority and rights than me) were in BoB (and others. I don't remember perfectly but I believe one of the ma

1. 1/6 staying is bad. It indicates a big barrier to entry that needs to be lowered (say by providing a web client instead of requiring a big install, or by making it easier to get around and find people/interesting things which isn't easy yet). On the other hand, it also means there is a ton of room to grow.

It also means that the current technology is terrible. Terrible. Forget web client. You need a mainframe. 2. Many new entries is a positive sign, unless there is some sinister data I don't know about that would normally be called effective PR or a growth curve.

Yes, there is. Try this article.

4. As for the overall context of this thread, this does not mean it is a pyramid scheme at all, simply that SL is enjoying lots of new entries at the moment, and has a lot of work to do.

Wrong. Because as even the most diehard SL fans have pointed out, much of the attraction of Second Life is pure hyperbole.

5. In addition I wouldn't say it depends on newbies but rather that the temporary statistic is that most people have joined in the past 4 months. And at what point do they stop being newbies? Isn't 4 months online not a newbie anymore for a community like this?

See the shirkly link. Those numbers are incredibly inflated even BEFORE you consider the 1/6 return ratio. Plus they don't include alternate accounts. A better explanation for what happened is that the news media reported on Second Life, people decided to sign up in droves, hated it, and never came back. Look, if the New York Times featured www.randomtoysite.com on their front page it would have more than a few million visitors from that coverage that day. If the site sucked, and most never bought anything, it would drop off the page. With SL, the site sucked, and most never bought anything, but it CONTINUES to be news.

6. I say temporary because obviously an exponential trend in new members is unsustainable. Either most people will no longer be newbies, and a stable membership will exist at some point due to improved content and services, or for some reason the current 2.9 million users will dry up and Linden won't be able to pay their bills. I'd need to see more info on what's happened to the 1 million people who logged in over the past 2 months. I see 20,000 people online now at about 9pm EST on Thursday which doesn't sound too great.. and I wonder where they all are. I think they need more transparency about that. Is that 20,000 developers building great stuff or 20,000 newbies bumbling around?

FYI, 20000 concurrent users is the most they've ever had online, and it completely destroys the game in terms of lag. It's almost literally unplayable. It's a lot of newbies, and it's a lot of people playing a dark, seedy side of the game that no one ever reports on.

In case Google takes that down to, the video is available here in the original article that started everything.

Mr. 'Makes Doom then Quake then Daikatana' Carmack?

Lordy, lordy. I think SA does it the best justice:
Here.

Good day for this story. somethingawful has a great article about this today. Quoth the website:

Section Two: Arranging my Funeral
When my body is prepared to my satisfaction, gather my people around it to weep and mourn and say their farewells. In the unlikely event that by the time of my death I have not become the leader of a people, please find those who love me best.

Go and read it.

I personally find somethingawful.com's Second Life Safari pretty hilarious, here are all the episodes so far, for those who missed them.

I personally find somethingawful.com's Second Life Safari pretty hilarious, here are all the episodes so far, for those who missed them.

Thank you. Your amazing insights gave me almost as much enjoyment as reading the saga of the Second Life Safari. I could tell you that I have in fact operated a few nuclear reactors, I could even divulge the exact chemistry control schemes used by (US) naval nuclear power plant systems but there's no point really. Have fun in your magical non-corrosive pool.

If you think THAT'S bad, check out what happened when a Linden Labs employee tried to get me to take down photos of his "mate's" babyfur child porn.

Or maybe every instance that Prokofy Neva has called me a virtual Leninist griefing scum terrorist or whatever else has been on her litany of overreactions.

Theres the video on Google Video.

And a week or so back, Something Awful's "Second Life Safari" documented it: http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=4336

Here is best explanation of what exactly Web 2.0 is that I've seen :) http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=4366

Okay, but you asked for it though:

Loving Choice Adoption in Second Life -- A virtual adoption agency where people wishing to sexually roleplay as children are able to meet pedophile partners.

I find their idea innovative too, and perhaps helpful especially to those not used to making well-formed queries. Besides, it can be a matter of convenience too. Sending away a question there for someone else to find something you believe might be annoying, and doing something else in another application meanwhile. Having said that, I also found Something Awful's coverage of the site funny too. :-)

• choice samples of AOL search queries
• mockery of the above, just for fun

was that it is a magnet for every sick and twisted loser the trolls around on the Internet. This article, and the articles it links to, should be enough for anyone to understand exactly what kind of person likes second life.

If you ever feel like heading out to the range and putting a few rounds into some targets, I'm sure there are people who would happily take you along. If you're in the bay area, I'm on that list. Come over to SomethingAwful's shooters' forum and say hi. We're nice to new folks, and December is "take a newbie shooting" month, so this offer is generally universal there. Sorry for the anon, my employer knows about my account, and doesn't like guns. :\

This about sums up the story in Zelda: Wand of Camelon for CD-i:
http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/zeldac di-remix.swf

You must be protected from the terrible secret of space.

Do you have stairs in your hours?

This happens: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=2183346

Selling them separately may or may not have been a bad idea, I don't know.

I'd say it was a good idea.

First, not all games require the nunchuck, right? If you have a 4 player game that doesn't require it, you can buy a couple of controllers without it and save some money. If you later find a 4 player game that requires it, you can buy a couple more then.

Second, with the main controller being exposed to so much movement, there might be issues with how well the cord attaching the nunchuck holds out. They might tend to develop shorts in the wiring (especially for people who play with overagressive movements...sometimes even aggressive enough to break the safety strap AND the TV screen). If that happens, it sure would be nice to just buy another $20 nunchuck rather that a $60 controller set.

form of violence. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=2183346

There is a video of something that looks rather similar here. Everyonr likes gremlins, right?

Some people have been talking it up ever since several SomethingAwful users ran afoul of Second Life admins.

It's also a haven for sleaze. Say what you want about people's right to free expression, but there is such a thing as going too far. It's no wonder that Second Life has attracted so much ire. It was a "dodgy online game" long before Copybot and grey goo hit the scene.

It's also a haven for sleaze. Say what you want about people's right to free expression, but there is such a thing as going too far. It's no wonder that Second Life has attracted so much ire. It was a "dodgy online game" long before Copybot and grey goo hit the scene.

Don't these people know how much work it takes to come up with a crude polygonal rendition of Lindsay Lohan making out with Christina Aguilera? They should maybe spend some time creating their own disturbing and mind-warping objects rather than stealing other peoples! And if you think I'm kidding about the mind warping bit, check out Something Awful's 'Second Life Safari', a look at well, the less savoury objects to be found around Second Life.. http://www.somethingawful.com/secondlifesafari