Hard coded IP addresses are easy to deal with. Replace with 127.0.0.1 and run a local proxy.
Hard coded domain names can usually be found as an explicit string which can be replaced. It's rare to see much security here.
It's actually quite possible that it will be embedded in a config file though This can sometimes be more difficult. Data files are often obfuscated. Maybe not through any complex scheme. It's usually just to deter casual cheaters. While there's no specific reason to obscure the IP address or domain in this way, they just obfuscate the entire file.
Still, private servers do exist and have existed for a while.
Most people don't care. They're happy to consue whatever media the mainstream offers them. It doesn't even occur to them that there is such a thing as public domain, except in a vague way, an awareness that some stories are so old that anyone can tell them. Even then I think they usually think that the rights to Snow White are owned by Disney.
I'm still confused about whether Gamergate really does care about ethics rather than third wave feminism.
Your argument suggests it's both. If this is the case you're a bunch of fucking morons. Do you know nothing of rhetoric and persuasion? You want to get people onto your side! I hate to use the socially inept nerd stereotype, but you have absolutely no fucking idea how people think! And this is the bit problem with Gamergate. It's made up primarily of nerds in their own echo chamber.
Has anyone on your side argues with or disagreed with your views here? If not ask yourself why that is? Healthy discussion has a lot of disagreement. I don't see this in GG.
I guess it depends on your defintion of "wing" and possibly of "plane".
On one hand, you might consider wings to be appendages sticking out the side. So it's wingless. On the other hand you might consider a lifting body itself to be a wing. Of course if a plane is "a fixed wing aircraft" then it needs a wing in order to be a plane.
Still, we know what they mean. It's a plane that doesn't have any distinction between wing and fuselage.
Well, tough shit! I'm the sort of person you need to persuade. Maybe my requirements are arbitrary. So are everyone else's! What I'm trying to get across to you is that whatever you think you're doing with this crusade, you're doing it really badly!
It's pretty obvious there's this clique at the centre of Indy gaming. This is a problem. Calling it "Blacklisting, bribery, blackmail, collusion, favoritism, plagiarism, theft," is no good unless you can point to some specific example!
I still don't see why I should give a fuck about Brianna Wu or Anita Sarkeesian in videogame ethics. Are you telling me that the entire problem is caused by two people?
And yes, they do have a cult like ideology. But it's a cult like ideology with good PR! Public perception matters, and I'm telling you, this member of the public thinks you're coming across as a crazy conspiracy theorist!
How do you explain the research that certainly strongly suggests there is such a bias? And given that the bias is assumed to be unconscious, how can you be sure that you don't also have similar biases, affecting your judgement?
Octopus is English from Greek extraction. Octopi is usually accepted and since English is by consensus rather than ordained by some authority all are valid.
1. The principal grievances are against the major gaming journalism websites and leading members of the leaked GameJournoPros list, parallel to that is the issue of an incredibly toxic and bigoted cult-like ideology which masquerades as "feminism" or "social justice"
This is where I see the first problem. Are you about ethics in gaming journalism, or are you against third wave feminism? Pick one or the other, or stop complaining when your movement is seen as anti-feminist rather than about ethics.
I asked for specifics! Since some of those are crimes, contact the police!
3. All attempts over the years at asking for self policing, ditching the toxicity, and reform have utterly failed and resulted in severe backlash from those involved in the corruption.
So that obviously isn't working. What will work?
It requires a combination of claiming "feminism" no longer being an instant "I Win" button in any situation and widespread recognition of the facts.
So you need to get some actual feminists on board. #NotYourShield and getting CHSommers on side helps a little (except most third wavers hate her). Great! Promote feminism! Try and entice some third wavers! Not into gamergate. That's toxic. Just into the ethics in video games narrative. Except even that's toxic. Find a related topic that they will care about.
4b.The FTC is in a position to address to address some concerns which fall under their regulatory purview, which they in fact have.
Good.
In a perfect world they all break free of the unhealthy and violent cult that they've joined
They won't though will they?
Since that's almost certainly not going to happen the next best thing is these bigots and con artists being seen for what they are and at least abandoned and left to wither like Jack Thompson was, with their rhetoric of fear, hate, and disempowerment largely discredited.
How's that stage going for you? Because from where I'm standing it looks
like you're really just beating your heads against the SJW wall.
but actually succeeding in getting games censored and pulled from shelves,
Which has nothing to do with ethics in game journalism!
, and increasingly there's evidence for racketeering six digit sums or more.
What is the evidence?
And all of this is before you consider the outright criminal attacks against those protesting them which have included people getting their bank accounts hacked, losing jobs to racially targeted harassment, and getting knives, syringes, and dead animals in the mail.
Which is something that the media needs to be made aware of, I agree, but that's trolls. The idiots exist on both sides.
6a. Very effective actually. The sheer level of violence, hate, and toxicity coming from the GJP supporters and SJWs has discredited them in the eyes of many and the sheer quantity and depth of their lies has led to a lot of the general public learning just how much the media lies to them (at least on these subjects). It's becoming routine for the latest lie filled hit-piece to come out and a few hundred to a few thousand people to join gamergate in disgust.
Not from where I'm standing. Apart from a few, traditionally right wing, outlets, the mainstream media is obsessed with this "Gamergate are trolls" narrative. Even tech savvy sites like/. go along with it.
6b. A majority of major gaming journalism websites have either voluntarily undertaken ethical reforms, or they were forced by the FTC to at the very leas
Okay, this is getting nowhere. Gamergate is not a police force.
I want to point out here, I am actually on your side. I dislike these people and I dislike the corruption. I really get upset that gamers - my tribe - is being painted this way. I'm just suspicious about what I perceive to be your goals and methods, but perhaps I'm mistaken.
So what's your gameplan here? Specifically:
Who are the individuals? you have a grievance with
What, specifically, have they done that needs to be addressed?
What, specifically, needs to be done to address this?
I'd say a fungus is a pretty apt analogy. People get their behaviour from the community. It's why some countries are more corrupt than others. If everyone else is cheating people feel encouraged to do the same. These specific examples don't just occur in a vacuum. They're a symptom of the underlying issue.
It's not like Quinn and Wu are the only people involved. They just happen to be the ones we noticed, and they seem to have got a lot more press than their co-collaborators. It wasn't until recently that anyone even pointed out that perhaps there was something wrong with this. The culture has been one of journalists writing about their friends, and indy devs calling on their media buddies to promote their games. A rot set in and crept so slowly nobody noticed.
So what can we do? We can ask the magazines to be honest. We can make them police themselves. If you want to go after the magazines and websites, then that's great! If you want to put a spotlight on every case of cronyism, then that's good too but don't obsess about the individuals! You've shone your spotlight on Depression Quest , Fez, and Revolution 60. Are these the only indy games that are involved in this corruption?
Corruption doesn't have "leaders". It's a cultural thing, not some sort of formal organisation. Your focussing on individuals, and then acting surprised that Gamergate is accused of being a harassment group. The two names I mentioned may well not be shining beacons of humanity, but the problem is endemic. Not just about a couple of third rate indy devs.
Focus on the media outlets who are giving them too much press, and defending their buddies when they steal content. Focus on the whole, and not the individuals!
Who are these "violent racists"? Who has been physically attacked by them on account of race?
GG's biggest problem after the trolls is the conspiracy theorists.
It doesn't require any complicated research. Indie game developers and game journalists are all buddies with each other! They are literally in bed with each other a lot of the time. This has become so much the norm that it's become accepted within the industry. How hard is that to explain?
You can find examples of this sort of thing quite easily. You don't even need to choose Depression Quest; In fact you shouldn't. Whatever Zoe Quinn's indiscretions may or may not be, it's just a single factor in the bigger picture, and the fixation with the player rather than the game makes GG look like it's all about harassment.
So let's talk about the conspiracy theory stuff;
What's more likely - that/r/gaming admins want to talk about games rather than FemFreq and a couple of indy developers that GG fixates on, or there's this massive conspiracy? That Brololz is an intentional satire account as Wu says, or that she is unable to get people to harass her on the internet? That the "Gay Nigger Association of America" was behind claims that they were paid or that we should trust trolls to be honest? I have no idea who the "violent racist" and "neo-nazi" are but nor do I care. This is meant to be about the corruption in gaming media. The politics of individuals are irrelevant. I can see how it might expose hypocrisy but I already know they're a bunch of hypocrites! They can afford to be! They have better press!
If you're looking for a conspiracy you can find it everywhere. It's not "hard research". It's digging! Even if it is absolutely 100% the truth, it still makes you come across as paranoid and delusional. Focus on coming across as plausible and focus on the core aims. The core aims are not Depression Quest or Revolution 60, or Anita Sarkeesian, who is taking all this hatred to the bank!
Okay, how about we send you to talk some sense into Daesh
Can't see an aircraft carrier being much use there either though.
Putin has also been calling for your input a lot, explain to him why he shouldn't have half of Ukraine.
We realy don't want a war against Russia. You can be assured that there's a lot of negotiation going on here.
Lil' Kimmy's a nice guy, could you please go over there and talk him out of his nukes.
China's better positioned to explain that one. But invasion here seems pretty unlikely.
While you are on your world tour, please explain to the Iranians that achieving hegemony over its neighbors is a losing strategy and nukes won't help them.
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Hard coded IP addresses are easy to deal with. Replace with 127.0.0.1 and run a local proxy.
Hard coded domain names can usually be found as an explicit string which can be replaced. It's rare to see much security here.
It's actually quite possible that it will be embedded in a config file though This can sometimes be more difficult. Data files are often obfuscated. Maybe not through any complex scheme. It's usually just to deter casual cheaters. While there's no specific reason to obscure the IP address or domain in this way, they just obfuscate the entire file.
Still, private servers do exist and have existed for a while.
They'll only refund the difference between the amount you paid for the game and the amount of time you might reasonably expect from it.
Unless you bought the game, new, and they turned the server off in a couple of months, I don't think you'll have a leg to stand on.
Most people don't care. They're happy to consue whatever media the mainstream offers them. It doesn't even occur to them that there is such a thing as public domain, except in a vague way, an awareness that some stories are so old that anyone can tell them. Even then I think they usually think that the rights to Snow White are owned by Disney.
I'm still confused about whether Gamergate really does care about ethics rather than third wave feminism.
Your argument suggests it's both. If this is the case you're a bunch of fucking morons. Do you know nothing of rhetoric and persuasion? You want to get people onto your side! I hate to use the socially inept nerd stereotype, but you have absolutely no fucking idea how people think! And this is the bit problem with Gamergate. It's made up primarily of nerds in their own echo chamber.
Has anyone on your side argues with or disagreed with your views here? If not ask yourself why that is? Healthy discussion has a lot of disagreement. I don't see this in GG.
I guess it depends on your defintion of "wing" and possibly of "plane".
On one hand, you might consider wings to be appendages sticking out the side. So it's wingless. On the other hand you might consider a lifting body itself to be a wing. Of course if a plane is "a fixed wing aircraft" then it needs a wing in order to be a plane.
Still, we know what they mean. It's a plane that doesn't have any distinction between wing and fuselage.
But if you use this cable, for every 4 pings you send, you'll get 5 responses!
There's heaps of error correction on Audio CDs! 180 bits after every 408 bit frame.
And multipass really isn't needed. Tried this myself. Same CD, ripped twice gave identical files.
I didn't say everything is valid. I said English is by consensus.
If there is a consensus amongst English speakers that that is valid, then it is valid.
There isn't so it isn't.
Well, tough shit! I'm the sort of person you need to persuade. Maybe my requirements are arbitrary. So are everyone else's! What I'm trying to get across to you is that whatever you think you're doing with this crusade, you're doing it really badly!
It's pretty obvious there's this clique at the centre of Indy gaming. This is a problem. Calling it "Blacklisting, bribery, blackmail, collusion, favoritism, plagiarism, theft," is no good unless you can point to some specific example!
I still don't see why I should give a fuck about Brianna Wu or Anita Sarkeesian in videogame ethics. Are you telling me that the entire problem is caused by two people?
And yes, they do have a cult like ideology. But it's a cult like ideology with good PR! Public perception matters, and I'm telling you, this member of the public thinks you're coming across as a crazy conspiracy theorist!
Interesting. So what are you suggesting they did to force the results in this way?
Well, yes, but this wouldn't explain why, when the papers were anonymous, girls did better.
How do you explain the research that certainly strongly suggests there is such a bias? And given that the bias is assumed to be unconscious, how can you be sure that you don't also have similar biases, affecting your judgement?
Perhaps, but that wouldn't explain the results of the difference in grading. It's a factor, and one that really ought to be addressed.
Octopus is English from Greek extraction. Octopi is usually accepted and since English is by consensus rather than ordained by some authority all are valid.
This is where I see the first problem. Are you about ethics in gaming journalism, or are you against third wave feminism? Pick one or the other, or stop complaining when your movement is seen as anti-feminist rather than about ethics.
I asked for specifics! Since some of those are crimes, contact the police!
So that obviously isn't working. What will work?
So you need to get some actual feminists on board. #NotYourShield and getting CHSommers on side helps a little (except most third wavers hate her). Great! Promote feminism! Try and entice some third wavers! Not into gamergate. That's toxic. Just into the ethics in video games narrative. Except even that's toxic. Find a related topic that they will care about.
Good.
They won't though will they?
How's that stage going for you? Because from where I'm standing it looks like you're really just beating your heads against the SJW wall.
Which has nothing to do with ethics in game journalism!
What is the evidence?
Which is something that the media needs to be made aware of, I agree, but that's trolls. The idiots exist on both sides.
Not from where I'm standing. Apart from a few, traditionally right wing, outlets, the mainstream media is obsessed with this "Gamergate are trolls" narrative. Even tech savvy sites like /. go along with it.
I want to point out here, I am actually on your side. I dislike these people and I dislike the corruption. I really get upset that gamers - my tribe - is being painted this way. I'm just suspicious about what I perceive to be your goals and methods, but perhaps I'm mistaken.
So what's your gameplan here? Specifically:
I'd say a fungus is a pretty apt analogy. People get their behaviour from the community. It's why some countries are more corrupt than others. If everyone else is cheating people feel encouraged to do the same. These specific examples don't just occur in a vacuum. They're a symptom of the underlying issue.
It's not like Quinn and Wu are the only people involved. They just happen to be the ones we noticed, and they seem to have got a lot more press than their co-collaborators. It wasn't until recently that anyone even pointed out that perhaps there was something wrong with this. The culture has been one of journalists writing about their friends, and indy devs calling on their media buddies to promote their games. A rot set in and crept so slowly nobody noticed.
So what can we do? We can ask the magazines to be honest. We can make them police themselves. If you want to go after the magazines and websites, then that's great! If you want to put a spotlight on every case of cronyism, then that's good too but don't obsess about the individuals! You've shone your spotlight on Depression Quest , Fez, and Revolution 60. Are these the only indy games that are involved in this corruption?
Corruption doesn't have "leaders". It's a cultural thing, not some sort of formal organisation. Your focussing on individuals, and then acting surprised that Gamergate is accused of being a harassment group. The two names I mentioned may well not be shining beacons of humanity, but the problem is endemic. Not just about a couple of third rate indy devs.
Focus on the media outlets who are giving them too much press, and defending their buddies when they steal content. Focus on the whole, and not the individuals!
Who are these "violent racists"? Who has been physically attacked by them on account of race?
It was more to explain my point than get into a debate about gender equality and rape but I accept your point.
GG's biggest problem after the trolls is the conspiracy theorists.
/r/gaming admins want to talk about games rather than FemFreq and a couple of indy developers that GG fixates on, or there's this massive conspiracy? That Brololz is an intentional satire account as Wu says, or that she is unable to get people to harass her on the internet? That the "Gay Nigger Association of America" was behind claims that they were paid or that we should trust trolls to be honest? I have no idea who the "violent racist" and "neo-nazi" are but nor do I care. This is meant to be about the corruption in gaming media. The politics of individuals are irrelevant. I can see how it might expose hypocrisy but I already know they're a bunch of hypocrites! They can afford to be! They have better press!
It doesn't require any complicated research. Indie game developers and game journalists are all buddies with each other! They are literally in bed with each other a lot of the time. This has become so much the norm that it's become accepted within the industry. How hard is that to explain?
You can find examples of this sort of thing quite easily. You don't even need to choose Depression Quest; In fact you shouldn't. Whatever Zoe Quinn's indiscretions may or may not be, it's just a single factor in the bigger picture, and the fixation with the player rather than the game makes GG look like it's all about harassment.
So let's talk about the conspiracy theory stuff;
What's more likely - that
If you're looking for a conspiracy you can find it everywhere. It's not "hard research". It's digging! Even if it is absolutely 100% the truth, it still makes you come across as paranoid and delusional. Focus on coming across as plausible and focus on the core aims. The core aims are not Depression Quest or Revolution 60, or Anita Sarkeesian, who is taking all this hatred to the bank!
It would prevent rape. The question is whether it's a proportionate response.
SJWs didn't give themselves the label.
Can't see an aircraft carrier being much use there either though.
We realy don't want a war against Russia. You can be assured that there's a lot of negotiation going on here.
China's better positioned to explain that one. But invasion here seems pretty unlikely.
Diplomacy seems to be working pretty well there.
So the government changes its mind and is only charged 323249084036540820147086e+37 pounds as part of the feasability study.
Uhm... Don't you mean two overpriced aircraft carriers?