"Look at Dilbert or Calvin and Hobbes or, better yet, at the one that got attacked by both PvP Online and Penny Arcade: Non Sequitur. I'm not saying the individual comics are better, but I'm saying that they've produced one comic a day for years straight. No "shirt-guy stick-figures" filler strips, no "today (or this month) I don't have time to draw one", no "I forgot I was supposed to draw one in colour for today", no other excuses."
Dont be so sure that they never had there days where they couldnt get a strip out.. the difference between the paper published ones and the web ones are the web ones have the option of doing a filler.. while the published ones will just reprint an older comic.
Intellectual property which is owned by the company who created the game not the players.
The players have no right to "sell" the items it is against the EULA (unlike Everquest which has a system setup to do just that for real money)
If this happened in EQ I could see more merit for this being a criminal case since REAL money is officially used and approved by the company to purchase items in game. The game is moved closer to something like an online gambling site than a not for personal profit game.
Do we know who sicked the police on this guy? If it was the parent company than yes I can kinda see where this could be a crime.. in a way...
As well even if you where to decide to eat this "meat" you probably would get sick since your body hadnt digested and metabolized meat for such a long time.
I dont know about you but many times I have been lost in a torrent of unmanageable experiences on the internet only to be saved from the vast insansity of netspace by a few hundred doubleclick cookies..
I dont recall saying I advocate this type of action at all but considering people have been beaten or killed for less I could see this being something that may happen.
Spammers arent unreachable targets either,they are surrounded at all times by security or bodyguards (well maybe a paranoid few are) they are average joes for the most part how hard would it be to stalk one of these people beat them down and get away with it.
Personally I think the "worst kind" of vigilante approach would be getting the spammers home addresses and savagely beating them... or killing them. I dont think DDOSing some spammer pricks domain is that bad if you compare what could happen to these people.
I download music with no intent of paying for it, I go to live shows make bootlegs and sell them.. after stealing the bands equipment from the back of the van of course... I kick kittens and puppies and beat up old people while selling smack to their grand kids. Britney Spears and all those wonderfully manufactured musicians are going hungry because of me.
So on one hand we have GTA:SA a previous M rated game that involved various criminal acts and whatnot which had in its code a game where there is "OMG SEX" and badly simulated at that but was disabled and not available for whatever reason until some reasourceful people who where going through the PC version discovered it and using a patch, re-enable it.
(you can wax philosphy all day long about if it was meant to be found yadda yadda)
and then you have the SIMS2 which has various acts of living in your house flirting baby making and alien abductions.. which resourceful people can create various household items such and decorations outfits and skins for which may or may not have giant throbbin cocks or whatever on them.
One had the content and skins already in
The other has the skins and content created by the player..
We know the differences between the two, but who wants to guess which way the media, politicians and other twats like Thompson are going to go.
What the heck are you talking about. Its an effin gaming magazine, flip through it and you'll see more jugs and scantly clad women,who do those cater to kids as well?
Not exactly sure what specific ad your talking about but the shit I see for the GTA SA ads have been the game artwork of the main character or various characters mixed in with screenshots.
If there is an ad with fuzzy bunnies and lollypops with grover and elmo bustin caps and fuckin bitches then i'd like to see it.
and what they want to do with the computer and what they want to use it for. You bet you can get away with doing your email and typing up your resume with an older PC..
But I dont think alot of people doing graphic work want to be on an older slower PC, as well the gamers certainly dont want to be fraggin at 5 FPS.
You cant really make a blanket statement about it hurting sales since people have different uses for computers.
yea this would definately be a concern, unless the keyboard was sealed and waterproof I suspect you would have the same results when someone spills on a normal keyboard, cept in this case it would be more like a laptop keyboard.
I dont know about you but if I had this keyboard I would have a washable keyboard cover so my "smoke and food encrusted pubes" wouldnt clog up the board.
I dont blame em.. DVDA is something for a season pro not a tight young pop singer.
The reason IMO .. large cultural differences and
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a heck of alot of inside jokes.
Starting with cultural differces just take alook at the whole tenticle porn genre... that came about from censorship laws in Japan. There is tons of spiritual, historical and cultural based ties in anime that unless you have a background or understanding of the society you may miss alot.
As well there is years upon years of the stuff, and there is alot of inside jokes parodies and other things that feed off having previous seen what is being parodied or given tribute to.
that had the perspective from the non big name hollywood voice actors, was very good as well there is a recent addition responding to the personal attacks Wil recieved shortly after his orginal post.
I think we forget about the majority of actors that do voice actor.. I am not talking hollywood A-list types but the guy who does it along with working at Starbucks or where ever.
But i'd like to know more about what they are really demanding before I make my judgement.
They screw it up because once you patch the game you close the transfer because you want to play the game, most people playing wow dont leave it running.
I played FFXI and the forced grouping and tedious leveling to be a real determinent to the game. Definately had some great aspects.. the cutscene style story telling, and the beautiful graphics where a plus as well the class system while was pretty orginal (for a mmorpg)
As well maybe this time around they will put a stop to the farmers off the bat.
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"Look at Dilbert or Calvin and Hobbes or, better yet, at the one that got attacked by both PvP Online and Penny Arcade: Non Sequitur. I'm not saying the individual comics are better, but I'm saying that they've produced one comic a day for years straight. No "shirt-guy stick-figures" filler strips, no "today (or this month) I don't have time to draw one", no "I forgot I was supposed to draw one in colour for today", no other excuses."
Dont be so sure that they never had there days where they couldnt get a strip out.. the difference between the paper published ones and the web ones are the web ones have the option of doing a filler.. while the published ones will just reprint an older comic.
Intellectual property which is owned by the company who created the game not the players.
The players have no right to "sell" the items it is against the EULA (unlike Everquest which has a system setup to do just that for real money)
If this happened in EQ I could see more merit for this being a criminal case since REAL money is officially used and approved by the company to purchase items in game. The game is moved closer to something like an online gambling site than a not for personal profit game.
Do we know who sicked the police on this guy? If it was the parent company than yes I can kinda see where this could be a crime.. in a way...
As well even if you where to decide to eat this "meat" you probably would get sick since your body hadnt digested and metabolized meat for such a long time.
I dont know about you but many times I have been lost in a torrent of unmanageable experiences on the internet only to be saved from the vast insansity of netspace by a few hundred doubleclick cookies..
Save your mind! dont delete your cookies!
Really what where you guys thinking when you layed this class out.
I dont recall saying I advocate this type of action at all but considering people have been beaten or killed for less I could see this being something that may happen.
,they are surrounded at all times by security or bodyguards (well maybe a paranoid few are) they are average joes for the most part how hard would it be to stalk one of these people beat them down and get away with it.
Spammers arent unreachable targets either
Personally I think the "worst kind" of vigilante approach would be getting the spammers home addresses and savagely beating them... or killing them. I dont think DDOSing some spammer pricks domain is that bad if you compare what could happen to these people.
I was quite amazed to see some of my friends bands on the THUG and THUG2 soundtracks.
The Browns (from Calgary) in THUG
and Three Inches of Blood from Vancouver in THUG2
I guess some skater out there liked the stuff enough to put em in the game.
I download music with no intent of paying for it, I go to live shows make bootlegs and sell them.. after stealing the bands equipment from the back of the van of course... I kick kittens and puppies and beat up old people while selling smack to their grand kids. Britney Spears and all those wonderfully manufactured musicians are going hungry because of me.
I am evil hear me roar.
So on one hand we have GTA:SA a previous M rated game that involved various criminal acts and whatnot which had in its code a game where there is "OMG SEX" and badly simulated at that but was disabled and not available for whatever reason until some reasourceful people who where going through the PC version discovered it and using a patch, re-enable it.
(you can wax philosphy all day long about if it was meant to be found yadda yadda)
and then you have the SIMS2 which has various acts of living in your house flirting baby making and alien abductions.. which resourceful people can create various household items such and decorations outfits and skins for which may or may not have giant throbbin cocks or whatever on them.
One had the content and skins already in
The other has the skins and content created by the player..
We know the differences between the two, but who wants to guess which way the media, politicians and other twats like Thompson are going to go.
Who didnt see this coming.
Yea you know me
What the heck are you talking about. Its an effin gaming magazine, flip through it and you'll see more jugs and scantly clad women ,who do those cater to kids as well?
Not exactly sure what specific ad your talking about but the shit I see for the GTA SA ads have been the game artwork of the main character or various characters mixed in with screenshots.
If there is an ad with fuzzy bunnies and lollypops with grover and elmo bustin caps and fuckin bitches then i'd like to see it.
I must have missed that GTA San Andreas and Manhunt ads during saturday morning cartoons.
How exactly do they market to children.
and what they want to do with the computer and what they want to use it for. You bet you can get away with doing your email and typing up your resume with an older PC..
But I dont think alot of people doing graphic work want to be on an older slower PC, as well the gamers certainly dont want to be fraggin at 5 FPS.
You cant really make a blanket statement about it hurting sales since people have different uses for computers.
yea this would definately be a concern, unless the keyboard was sealed and waterproof I suspect you would have the same results when someone spills on a normal keyboard, cept in this case it would be more like a laptop keyboard.
I dont know about you but if I had this keyboard I would have a washable keyboard cover so my "smoke and food encrusted pubes" wouldnt clog up the board.
I dont blame em.. DVDA is something for a season pro not a tight young pop singer.
a heck of alot of inside jokes.
Starting with cultural differces just take alook at the whole tenticle porn genre... that came about from censorship laws in Japan.
There is tons of spiritual, historical and cultural based ties in anime that unless you have a background or understanding of the society you may miss alot.
As well there is years upon years of the stuff, and there is alot of inside jokes parodies and other things that feed off having previous seen what is being parodied or given tribute to.
Excel Saga is a prime example.
Well of course he swims fine through gold coins... he's a duck!
That saw the headline as.
"Windows XP busts a nut."
"Why? Because of some outdated concept that murder is wrong?"
Your a crackpot. Proof being your nutjob statement above.
Is the rejection based on them not getting the "residuals" or was there something more?
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I recall reading an entry on Wil's site
" http://www.wilwheaton.net/mt/archives/003293.php#
that had the perspective from the non big name hollywood voice actors, was very good as well there is a recent addition responding to the personal attacks Wil recieved shortly after his orginal post.
I think we forget about the majority of actors that do voice actor.. I am not talking hollywood A-list types but the guy who does it along with working at Starbucks or where ever.
But i'd like to know more about what they are really demanding before I make my judgement.
They screw it up because once you patch the game you close the transfer because you want to play the game, most people playing wow dont leave it running.
I played FFXI and the forced grouping and tedious leveling to be a real determinent to the game.
Definately had some great aspects.. the cutscene style story telling, and the beautiful graphics where a plus as well the class system while was pretty orginal (for a mmorpg)
As well maybe this time around they will put a stop to the farmers off the bat.