Slashdot Mirror
Goodbye, "Majestic"
fonixmunkee writes: "Ack, looks like EA is stopping the very cool, ground-breaking game 'Majestic.' The article is here. I got hooked on this from the very start, and in turn got a bunch of friends into it. It's cool to be out for a fancy dinner and have the game calling you threatening your life. Oh well, I'm sure a new spinoff will rise up."
I'm pretty sure they have Slashdot in Russia.
-Legion
How about instead of ranting about what's wrong with slashdot and the media today, you tell us what is so goddamned important that we're all missing? How do we fix the problem that media is aimed at the -10 IQ segment? I think slashdot IS a solution. It's a website aimed at nothing more than exposing and socializing the geek agenda.
Yes it's no more accurate than CNN. No more thought provoking than 20/20, and has the same unbiased reporting methods as the National Enquirer. But, as you yourself agree, that's all there is. Mainstream media backs up big business: publishers, media conglomerates, big advertisers etc. You would probably agree that what these sources tell you to think is either wrong or very slanted, but beneficial to their constituants.
Slashdot is no better, but it caters to a different audience. We all collectively lie and find new ways to spin our ideas to propogate our agendas at the expense of our enemies. We call these "facts" although they're derived from out of context quotes, dubious statistics, anonymous sources and other material that'd be thrown out of any court. In other words, we use the same tools as the others.
The value of Slashdot, as well as the thousands of other online tabloids is that they all carry a DIFFERENT target audience, with DIFFERENT objectives and concerns. Each audience cares passionately about their subject, and probably has motivations for believing what they believe. Granted, most of it is biased or social brainwashing, certainly slashdot is. Further, most of the people who read slashdot, in spite of what they think or what their IQ test tells them, are average. They use this site to identify with their peers and become part of a group.
Intelligent people use slashdot, as well as these other targetted sites as data points or indicators. There is quite a lot of useful information to be gained from them, none of which will jump out at you by reading the articles. Since you profess to have such a keen intellect, you should know this already. You have to do a little WORK and take a little TIME from bitching to collect the data and use it. There is money to be had here, or if you're jsut interested in the truth and what you feel the "real danger" is, a chance to prove your own hypothesis.
No one has any interest in writing the truth directly. Many have interest in changing the truth to heir needs, or creating a new truth. Much like you, you write to persuade. In doing so you take bits of truth, mix them with speculation, lies, propoganda and emotionally charged statements and send it all to the world. Dumb people believe this, smart people listen for the important facts presented by everyone and draw their own conclusion. This is common sense.
You indeed have created a truth about yourself and your view. You're jealous of the Slashdot writers because they're making money on something (albeit stupid) that you didn't think up first. They're probably driving a nicer car at a younger age than you currently drive. And maybe the job you do isn't as hard as you think, if these guys can hack togetehr something that as far as I see is fully functional and easy to use, with nothing other than a bunch of old college projects and ill conceived ideas.
At my company stockholders are very smart people who don't want to pay a dime more for a person than they have to. They're not nice people, they're not friendly people, they're rich people wanting to get richer. Unless these guys have found some really stupid investors, I imagine they work very hard for their alleged millions. I suspect more that they work hard and are poorer than you think.