Why is a group of whiners with no authority and no credibility with actual gamers given serious attention by Slashdot, much less Gamespot? Just because some front group calls themselves the "National Institute on X" does not make them an expert on X. Just because they have the ear of a senator does not mean they deserve respect.
Since they are a threat, their "report" deserves our attention, but reporting this as anything other than propoganda is playing directly into their hands. Would you give the same credulity to the press releases of creationists or animal rights activitsts? Why is their report reproduced without much analysis, criticism, and outright ridicule?
We win this battle by marginalizing our opponents, by chipping away the edifice on which they construct their credibility in public opinion. Jack Thompson the bafoon is their representative, not a faceless dispassionate scientific-sounding interest group.
It's pretty frikken' easy to stand at the sidelines and lob criticism at policymakers. After all, you're just some wanker on an anonymous login, YOU'LL never be tasked with the responsibility of actually making policy, right?
It's pretty easy to be a right-wing authoritarian tool who parrots what he hears on talk radio, too.
It's a shame that the criticism has been validated by deaths of thousands.
Here, I reformatted for you when the IGN review comes out:
This article is really just commercial FUD. The Army is notorious for lying to its recruitees and misrepresenting the reality of its operations. Complaining about these flaws which are really just standard military procedure is really just an excuse to excuse the US Army for making an unrealistic care-bear Command and Conquer clone.
Unfortunately there is nothing particularly "current" about that zeitgeist.
It is isn't the schools, it's American culture. The schools reflect the anti-intellectualism of the culture. Our schools suck because parents and communities are willing to blame everything but their own disinterest in education, and therefore do nothing to fix the problem.
How very true, and completely beside the point. Consensus is important because it is enough to justify action. The debate is not really about the "truth" of global warming, it is about the cost of preventative measures versus the cost of inaction for a range of possible scenarios. It is about risk assessment, it is about pinning down variables.
You had a nice little rant going until you claimed there were "anti-Christian" articles on slashdot. When your pogroms eliminate all the "false" Christians who believe in evolution an the big bang, that might be a true statement. Until then, that sentiment is the raving of a fundamentalist loon. Thank you for validating my previous post.
I guess because it feels good to insult thine enemy.
But I love my enemy. I hate the religion, not the religious. I love them so much I want to save them from their delusion of faith.
Agreed. Insanity, drug addiction, mental retardation, and the exploitation of an extreme power imbalance is beautiful thing. There is no greater joy than helping the universe punish the inferior.
Other platforms decrease the amount of games available by taking developer mindshare, and introduces the risk that your chosen platform might become unprofitable and discontinued. So, in a very real sense, each platform decreases the value of all the other platforms. Once you choose one, it is in your interests to promote it.
Fair use does not mean they have to make it easy for you to make a copy of those few seconds.
Actually, it does. That's kind of the whole point, one of the elephants in the corner that Sherman is trying so hard to ignore.
First sale is only meaningful for physical goods which you have bought rather than leased or licensed. Sure, you can own a CD, but you'll never own the bit pattern encoded within it.
Why? How do those other issues affect male twenty-something gamers with disposible income?
But really, even more relevent than the free speech concerns are the fact that this "issue" is nothing more than manufactured hysteria to drum up support from the "think of the children" crowd. It can be used as litmus test to distinguish people of (some) principle from the exploiters of opportunity.
When the iPod has 3% market share, that 3% will pay ridiculous premiums for new versions, they will put iPod stickers on their cars, they will contintue to tag articles like this "Fud", and they will continue to assert, using Apple's marketing as evidence, that their device is "cool" while all others are not.
Why do you people continually characterize contempt as the shrill whining of an activist? Most educated people have turned against you, yet you still trod out those talk radio stereotypes of the loony nut and the media bias conspiracy. Oh what have those innocent Republicans ever done to deserve such persecution!
And if the rubber band were on the other claw, do you honestly think the response would by anything less than a more effective googlebombing of the opponent?
Oh please. I'm sure there are so many gnome rogues because of the stat bonuses.
I actually rolled a dwarf hunter instead of night elf specifically because the model was so ridiculous looking. It was obvious then that their deviation from the "elf" archtype was dictated by the sexual insecurities of teenage boys, and that they confirm it by rescinding a more traditional design based on complaints is just plain offensive.
I mean, who do they think they kidding, anyway? Of those whose self-image reflects either Boromir or Legolas, which group do they think actually resembles the body-type in real life?
I love this class of response every time the subject of remuneration comes up: "I'm more willing to be exploited than you so you have no right to complain!"
When complaints effect change, they are not whining, they are action. If it results in a greater slice of the pie going to artists, programmers, what have you, it is a good thing. Telling people to quit whining is a submissive attitude and it actually serves to depress the salary of all of us, even those not willing to work in the game industry.
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Why is a group of whiners with no authority and no credibility with actual gamers given serious attention by Slashdot, much less Gamespot? Just because some front group calls themselves the "National Institute on X" does not make them an expert on X. Just because they have the ear of a senator does not mean they deserve respect.
Since they are a threat, their "report" deserves our attention, but reporting this as anything other than propoganda is playing directly into their hands. Would you give the same credulity to the press releases of creationists or animal rights activitsts? Why is their report reproduced without much analysis, criticism, and outright ridicule?
We win this battle by marginalizing our opponents, by chipping away the edifice on which they construct their credibility in public opinion. Jack Thompson the bafoon is their representative, not a faceless dispassionate scientific-sounding interest group.
forceful overthrow of the government is still treason.
Only if you lose.
It's pretty frikken' easy to stand at the sidelines and lob criticism at policymakers. After all, you're just some wanker on an anonymous login, YOU'LL never be tasked with the responsibility of actually making policy, right?
It's pretty easy to be a right-wing authoritarian tool who parrots what he hears on talk radio, too.
It's a shame that the criticism has been validated by deaths of thousands.
Here, I reformatted for you when the IGN review comes out:
This article is really just commercial FUD. The Army is notorious for lying to its recruitees and misrepresenting the reality of its operations. Complaining about these flaws which are really just standard military procedure is really just an excuse to excuse the US Army for making an unrealistic care-bear Command and Conquer clone.
Unfortunately there is nothing particularly "current" about that zeitgeist.
It is isn't the schools, it's American culture. The schools reflect the anti-intellectualism of the culture. Our schools suck because parents and communities are willing to blame everything but their own disinterest in education, and therefore do nothing to fix the problem.
How very true, and completely beside the point. Consensus is important because it is enough to justify action. The debate is not really about the "truth" of global warming, it is about the cost of preventative measures versus the cost of inaction for a range of possible scenarios. It is about risk assessment, it is about pinning down variables.
Hand in your Geek Card and pocket protector to Ted on 3rd, please. Security will escort you out of the building.
Where you will be summarily executed for misusing "begs the question".
You had a nice little rant going until you claimed there were "anti-Christian" articles on slashdot. When your pogroms eliminate all the "false" Christians who believe in evolution an the big bang, that might be a true statement. Until then, that sentiment is the raving of a fundamentalist loon. Thank you for validating my previous post.
I guess because it feels good to insult thine enemy.
But I love my enemy. I hate the religion, not the religious. I love them so much I want to save them from their delusion of faith.
Are you suggesting that this site be pro-religion? Are you going to equate unpopularity with oppression?
Go on, follow the script, serve your whiny cult of victimhood.
Agreed. Insanity, drug addiction, mental retardation, and the exploitation of an extreme power imbalance is beautiful thing. There is no greater joy than helping the universe punish the inferior.
Quick quick summary:
The PS3 is inferior to the X-box 360.
"Computer science" does not mean "numerical methods for physicists".
Other platforms decrease the amount of games available by taking developer mindshare, and introduces the risk that your chosen platform might become unprofitable and discontinued. So, in a very real sense, each platform decreases the value of all the other platforms. Once you choose one, it is in your interests to promote it.
Fair use does not mean they have to make it easy for you to make a copy of those few seconds.
Actually, it does. That's kind of the whole point, one of the elephants in the corner that Sherman is trying so hard to ignore.
First sale is only meaningful for physical goods which you have bought rather than leased or licensed. Sure, you can own a CD, but you'll never own the bit pattern encoded within it.
Indeed, only a hypocrite would point out Hilter was part Jewish in the effort to prevent the Holocaust.
Why? How do those other issues affect male twenty-something gamers with disposible income?
But really, even more relevent than the free speech concerns are the fact that this "issue" is nothing more than manufactured hysteria to drum up support from the "think of the children" crowd. It can be used as litmus test to distinguish people of (some) principle from the exploiters of opportunity.
Portions of it border on racism, emphasizing stereotypes of a "backwater" region that might need help rather than denigration.
Indeed, that southern plantation dinner party was rather pitiful. They're so poor, they don't even have servants for ass-wiping.
Are you surprised? Look at who wrote it - Declan McCullagh. He's the biggest LINO of them all, the John Stossel of Internet journalism.
When the iPod has 3% market share, that 3% will pay ridiculous premiums for new versions, they will put iPod stickers on their cars, they will contintue to tag articles like this "Fud", and they will continue to assert, using Apple's marketing as evidence, that their device is "cool" while all others are not.
Nobody here will ever understand that sexual metaphor!
Nah, we get it, Catholics have been ridiculed on Monty Python.
Watch who you call dumb. The face you put up on your Flicker stream does not look that smart to me.
OMG!!! He knows who you are!!!
Well, considering the audience of Howard Stern and the audience of public radio, why are you surprised they would characterize it this way?
Why do you people continually characterize contempt as the shrill whining of an activist? Most educated people have turned against you, yet you still trod out those talk radio stereotypes of the loony nut and the media bias conspiracy. Oh what have those innocent Republicans ever done to deserve such persecution!
And if the rubber band were on the other claw, do you honestly think the response would by anything less than a more effective googlebombing of the opponent?
Oh please. I'm sure there are so many gnome rogues because of the stat bonuses.
I actually rolled a dwarf hunter instead of night elf specifically because the model was so ridiculous looking. It was obvious then that their deviation from the "elf" archtype was dictated by the sexual insecurities of teenage boys, and that they confirm it by rescinding a more traditional design based on complaints is just plain offensive.
I mean, who do they think they kidding, anyway? Of those whose self-image reflects either Boromir or Legolas, which group do they think actually resembles the body-type in real life?
I love this class of response every time the subject of remuneration comes up: "I'm more willing to be exploited than you so you have no right to complain!"
When complaints effect change, they are not whining, they are action. If it results in a greater slice of the pie going to artists, programmers, what have you, it is a good thing. Telling people to quit whining is a submissive attitude and it actually serves to depress the salary of all of us, even those not willing to work in the game industry.