Different cultures and countries have different laws and ways of doing things. Do you honestly think that U.S. has the best laws in the world? That any single law or way of doing things isn't better anywhere else in the world?
China is a perfect example. They're slowly going towards free speech, but they can't make that change overnight. It would cause turmoil in the country. You have to remember that most Chinese actually positively agree about limiting free speech. Since China is a democratic country, shouldn't they be able to decide it themselves, without US trying to manipulate?
Besides, free speech in Western world is relative too. Just try yelling fire in a crowded theater. Or dance around a monument in US.
That's only because you're from the Western world and think so. You have to remember that Asians have a totally different culture. I just wish US people would understand that, and also understand that maybe everyone in the world don't want them to get involved in everything and try to force rest of the world act like them.
So you try to discredit his points by knowingly lying that Kim Jong II was a pedophile. Stick to facts and maybe then people would take you more seriously. If he indeed was such a bad guy, why do you have a need to lie about him?
A young buy wins a tour through the most magnificent cheese factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual cheese maker. A magical journey through a cheese factory on moon.
Are you implying that women are free? Last time I checked we were pretty expensive to keep around...
And this just shows that even women think they're selling themselves to men. Since the initial offering is an hoax to begin with, we should ban cosmetics and offer all the men refunds of their purchases.
I actually agree with this. I don't use clothes at home either (or when browsing Slashdot), and if the weather permits, why should I need to use them outside either? Besides, we can all agree that it's just nice to see good looking naked people.
Women's use of cosmetics bordens with pure fraud. They're faking themselves better looks than they really have to fraud men and thus try to gain money, power or anything else for their own advantage. It just isn't defined as fraud because the scheme has been going on for so long, but in reality it's the same. They're advertising something which they don't have and take advantage of men.
Same could be said for email. It adds nothing but bloat. I am an intelligent person, I can read. I don't need some fancy formatting. Forums are the same. Give me access to newsgroups and my client can format it the way I want to. No one else needs to define the look for me.
News, but also all the fun pictures and videos. Team Fortress 2 has great comedic gameplay value to it. TF2 also has item trading in the game and you understand the prices and what everything is worth if you read about it a lot.
I used to play TF2 when it came out, but then forgot about it only until trying it again shortly before it went free to play. It had changed and improved dramatically over the years, and whole time I kept getting special items I got when pre-ordering other games like Left4Dead. Long story short, I jumped into a game and someone saw me wearing Bill's hat and traded bunch of items for it. I just though "sure, why not" and only later realized it would had been worth much more and is a wanted item. These items are only given to someone who pre-orders game or for other time limited reasons, so you can only get them by trading now.
I heard same thing happened to lots of new players when Team Fortress 2 was released to Mac OSX, though. For some period during the launch players would get earbuds and old players would trade bunch of weapons for them, because they knew it's a limited item.
And of course, there's often discussions about in-game strategies that are good read, for example for spy which is noobs favorite class but also the hardest one to play as you need to understand how all the different classes play the game so you can mimic their actions realistically looking. One of my favorite spy items are Your Eternal Reward or Dead Ringer. First one allows great chain backstabs is extremely good in taking out enemy medic+heavy combos as upon backstab you immediately disguise as the player who killed. Problem with it is that you can't disguise as anything without backstabbing someone, so you need to get behind enemy lines and start taking them out from the last player (and hope no one runs behind him and surprise you). Dead Ringer on the other hand allows you to feign death on damage, which is extremely good for getting behind enemy lines fast. But you need to know how to use it, and most stupid mistake new players make is run towards the enemy as a spy and kill on single hit. You need disguise as other class of your own class first to make it look your death more natural. It's also your job to take out engineer sentry nests, which can sometimes keep your whole other team from forwarding. I've found that Reddit discussions always provide good gameplay tips to these.
So all in all, news, fun stuff and discussions all in one neat package.
They just didn't have a change. Personally, I've never heard about them either. If I had and they gave good content, I probably would.. but I never got there via any means. For the other internet age publications, I found Kotaku and RockPaperShotgun and they serve me gaming news just fine. As for TF2, Reddit does great job.
So, was there anything special Gamespy offered that the others didn't?
You don't need SSH open to the internet, especially if the server is running on internet network. Even then, it's good to assign it to random number and not 22.
It is implied when someone announces they are opening code that they are doing so because they are allowing the public to create new projects based on that code.
Really? Even GPL disagrees with that "here's the code, do whatever you want with it".
No it's not an advert. Well, I'm not directly benefiting from it anyway (except if I get to play some good mods people will make because they saw it!). And after getting called shill thousands of (I can remember at least Microsoft, Steam, [surprisingly] Red Hat, Spotify, Logitech..), this kind of thinking on slashdot gets really old. There's always someone pointing out how this person must be a shill (or that the story is an advert) because he said he likes something.
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Different cultures and countries have different laws and ways of doing things. Do you honestly think that U.S. has the best laws in the world? That any single law or way of doing things isn't better anywhere else in the world?
China is a perfect example. They're slowly going towards free speech, but they can't make that change overnight. It would cause turmoil in the country. You have to remember that most Chinese actually positively agree about limiting free speech. Since China is a democratic country, shouldn't they be able to decide it themselves, without US trying to manipulate?
Besides, free speech in Western world is relative too. Just try yelling fire in a crowded theater. Or dance around a monument in US.
After seeing SOPA, Protect IP and all other US bullshit, I think most of that is just US propaganda.
That's only because you're from the Western world and think so. You have to remember that Asians have a totally different culture. I just wish US people would understand that, and also understand that maybe everyone in the world don't want them to get involved in everything and try to force rest of the world act like them.
Too bad, I really liked the guy. He had a certain style, charisma.
So you try to discredit his points by knowingly lying that Kim Jong II was a pedophile. Stick to facts and maybe then people would take you more seriously. If he indeed was such a bad guy, why do you have a need to lie about him?
Exactly. It's like saying you have freedom of speech but you can only say what I want to hear.
A young buy wins a tour through the most magnificent cheese factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual cheese maker. A magical journey through a cheese factory on moon.
Are you implying that women are free? Last time I checked we were pretty expensive to keep around...
And this just shows that even women think they're selling themselves to men. Since the initial offering is an hoax to begin with, we should ban cosmetics and offer all the men refunds of their purchases.
Besides, we can all agree that it's just nice to see good looking naked people.
Should I link to goatse? Or would you propose to euthanise bad looking people? Or lock them out of sight?
BTW: what about the eye of the beholder?
Have you seen goatse? Because I've only seen one part of him. He might actually be very handsome guy.
Are you saying that if you get something for free, then there's no problem with fraud?
There are lots of cosmetics that target men too. It is quite common today for men to use cosmetics.
I actually agree with this. I don't use clothes at home either (or when browsing Slashdot), and if the weather permits, why should I need to use them outside either? Besides, we can all agree that it's just nice to see good looking naked people.
Why only girls? Are you saying women are somehow more stupid than men? Both are equally stupid.
You're right, but it still doesn't change the fact that cosmetics are practically real life version of Photoshop, and both are used to fake stuff.
Women's use of cosmetics bordens with pure fraud. They're faking themselves better looks than they really have to fraud men and thus try to gain money, power or anything else for their own advantage. It just isn't defined as fraud because the scheme has been going on for so long, but in reality it's the same. They're advertising something which they don't have and take advantage of men.
Same could be said for email. It adds nothing but bloat. I am an intelligent person, I can read. I don't need some fancy formatting. Forums are the same. Give me access to newsgroups and my client can format it the way I want to. No one else needs to define the look for me.
The Pirate Bay profits from their site too. Million dollars a year, as well.
News, but also all the fun pictures and videos. Team Fortress 2 has great comedic gameplay value to it. TF2 also has item trading in the game and you understand the prices and what everything is worth if you read about it a lot.
I used to play TF2 when it came out, but then forgot about it only until trying it again shortly before it went free to play. It had changed and improved dramatically over the years, and whole time I kept getting special items I got when pre-ordering other games like Left4Dead. Long story short, I jumped into a game and someone saw me wearing Bill's hat and traded bunch of items for it. I just though "sure, why not" and only later realized it would had been worth much more and is a wanted item. These items are only given to someone who pre-orders game or for other time limited reasons, so you can only get them by trading now.
I heard same thing happened to lots of new players when Team Fortress 2 was released to Mac OSX, though. For some period during the launch players would get earbuds and old players would trade bunch of weapons for them, because they knew it's a limited item.
And of course, there's often discussions about in-game strategies that are good read, for example for spy which is noobs favorite class but also the hardest one to play as you need to understand how all the different classes play the game so you can mimic their actions realistically looking. One of my favorite spy items are Your Eternal Reward or Dead Ringer. First one allows great chain backstabs is extremely good in taking out enemy medic+heavy combos as upon backstab you immediately disguise as the player who killed. Problem with it is that you can't disguise as anything without backstabbing someone, so you need to get behind enemy lines and start taking them out from the last player (and hope no one runs behind him and surprise you). Dead Ringer on the other hand allows you to feign death on damage, which is extremely good for getting behind enemy lines fast. But you need to know how to use it, and most stupid mistake new players make is run towards the enemy as a spy and kill on single hit. You need disguise as other class of your own class first to make it look your death more natural. It's also your job to take out engineer sentry nests, which can sometimes keep your whole other team from forwarding. I've found that Reddit discussions always provide good gameplay tips to these.
So all in all, news, fun stuff and discussions all in one neat package.
That is the sad news. They didn't gain enough visitors. If you look at their traffics and compare to other sites:
Gamepro: Alexa rank 6489
and competitors
IGN: Alexa rank 306
Gamespot: 412
They just didn't have a change. Personally, I've never heard about them either. If I had and they gave good content, I probably would.. but I never got there via any means. For the other internet age publications, I found Kotaku and RockPaperShotgun and they serve me gaming news just fine. As for TF2, Reddit does great job.
So, was there anything special Gamespy offered that the others didn't?
That damned preview and/or edit... internal network.
You don't need SSH open to the internet, especially if the server is running on internet network. Even then, it's good to assign it to random number and not 22.
It is implied when someone announces they are opening code that they are doing so because they are allowing the public to create new projects based on that code.
Really? Even GPL disagrees with that "here's the code, do whatever you want with it".
There's Slavehack. It's a bit different, but really fun too and you're competing against other players.
No it's not an advert. Well, I'm not directly benefiting from it anyway (except if I get to play some good mods people will make because they saw it!). And after getting called shill thousands of (I can remember at least Microsoft, Steam, [surprisingly] Red Hat, Spotify, Logitech..), this kind of thinking on slashdot gets really old. There's always someone pointing out how this person must be a shill (or that the story is an advert) because he said he likes something.