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Bad Press For Gold Farmers Affects Chinese Players
Next Generation is running a piece entitled Why PC Gamer Kicked Out Gold Farmers. Editor-in-chief Greg Vederman talks about why they decided to no longer accept advertising from 'Gold Farming' services for Massively Multiplayer games like World of Warcraft. Though there are moral grounds for this decision, it contrasts with a Eurogamer piece on the negative reactions Chinese players recieve on English-speaking servers. From that article:"Apparently there is a common belief among English speaking players that most non-English speakers are gold farmers and are only playing for commercial gain. As a result, players are asking anyone who wants to join a group to type one or two sentences in English. If the sentences contain spelling or grammar mistakes, the player is rejected. Since you have to join groups to complete certain quests in WOW, this is presenting many Chinese players with a serious problem. "
Without foreigners making English spelling and grammar mistakes, we'd never be able to tell them apart from us native speakers on the internet. Don't learn Esperanto, it evilly equalizes us all!
20 mil and I will! Learn Esperanto with 20M others.
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"The War"
Which war? Please tell me which declared war you support. Presumably you mean World War Two, because that was the last legally declared American War. The current cockup is pure militaristic adventuring combined with a poorly considered attack on the inanimate noun 'terror'.
b.) support the war.
This is not a flame, nor am I going to argue with you no matter what you say....
How exactly do you support the war? Besides with taxes I mean.
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Was the "evidence" faked? Yes, the Iraq attempted Niger buy documents were faked. The US is very uninterested in determining who faked the docs. Things that make you wonder.
I don't argue that at least some of the evidence were faked. But some of it were not faked. There exists evidence that shows that Saddam himself may have thought he had weapons of mass distruction, or at least acted as such in order to posture.
I meant "support the war" the same way the bigotted idiot meant "support the war".
Would people have been happier if I had just wrote that:
I had "supported the war".
Seriously, it's all about semantics. If you didn't look that hard at the evidence then you would be easily convinced. I was just of the opinion that my nation wouldn't decieve me. Call it naive, but it's just as stupid to naively assume that your government is lying about (most) everything.
So, I was stupid enough to fall for exactly the PR line that they setup, so what? Advertisement convinces more people to do stupid shit than "support the war". Why don't people get so upset about people being stupid enough to buy an extended warranty on electronics?
I am unamerican, and proud of it!
BTW, there was no other tangible evidence. The British "corroborating" evidence was the same Niger forgeries, this time routed through British intelligence.
At the very least nearly every country, their leaders liberal or conservative, believed Saddam had nukes. There is no evidence for instance, that the weapons were destroyed years ago (it is a very strict requirement that photos of the destruction etc. are supplied to the UN, for obvious reasons). But I agree it was no reason to invade (I never saw anything that proved he still had them).
A good reason to invade however was that he was murdering civilians who believed in a different political strain than his (documented with plenty of _real_ evidence), torturing the families of those innocent civilians who had the nerve to have differing beliefs.
Some documented forms of torture used were deadly amounts electricity to the body and head, rape of wives and daughters in front of families, decapitation and other awful things. These are fully documented and further documented by the many mass graves and anecdotes of victims who made it out alive.
This is all real, and should at least be glanced over by anyone objecting the invasion, at least if they wish to feel objective about the matter. After all, it is only fair to take allegations of genocide seriously before forming a strong opinion.
oh to have modpoints. This is a +5 insightful if I've ever seen it...
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After multiple bad relationships I'll just stay happy being single with a harem of computers.
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At least when I turn them off it's intentional.
Maybe because extended warranties on electronics don't result in the deaths of countless innocent Iraqi civilians, coalition soldiers, and hell, Iraqi soldiers too. Maybe it's because they don't result in a society so chaotic that people are afraid to go outside -- say what you will about Saddam and his evil (no argument from me regarding that fact) but at least, under his regime, 95% of the populace could go to the market and buy fruit without fearing for their lives.
Having said that though, I agree with a comment you made in another post in this thread: the merits of the inital invasion aside, the US should absolutely not pull out until Iraq is stable. To do otherwise would be akin to sacking a man's house under false pretences, and then not having the decency to make sure it's rebuilt.