For those who still don't realize it, toonami is not the only source of anime on US tv. PBS has showings every once in a while, and the International Channel is currently showing Irresponsible Captain Tylor subbed. Just take a glace through your TV guide every once in a while. You might be surprised what you find.
There is a very famous incident of this happening in Ultima online. I don't have links handy, but check out the archives on lumthemad.net for more info.
The infamous rant site lumthemad.net decided to put their two cents on this issue at http://lumthemad.net/story.php?story=2252, from the "other" side. It's an interesting read.
A little story. A couple of years ago I was playing a farily popular MUD, and went over to hotmail.com and grabbed an account with a popular NPC's name as the user name.
Well, someone else wanted this account too, and e-mailed me offering to trade something for it. I said no, and he said if I didn't give it up, he'd make sure I wasn't able to use it. I just deleted the message.
A couple days later, the spam started to POUR in. And it kept getting worse. It went from 5 letters a day to 10 to 20 to well over 50 before I stopped keeping track. What I figured he did is pick out some of those harveting sites (lottery sites are infamous for this, as the article notes) and stuck my e-mail on every one. The end result, one week later the box was completly unusable. What can stop this sort of attack?
Here's the thing though. The only things that unite the Final Fantasy games is the EXTREEMLY linear storyline and some basic physics. All the above movies sucked because they decided to recreate the game on the screen, which doesn't work. With Final Fantasy, they are not (and to a certain extent, cannot) just take the game, rehash it, and stick it up on the screen. Because of this, comparing it to other video game movies just doesn't work.
Please don't do this. Sending the envelope back empty or with a note (which they won't care about, the envelope itself is message enough) does hurt the company. On the other hand, sending the letter back stuffed with something more nefarious like sand or glitter, or something rotting is just hurting the people who process the things. Know your enemy . . .
Slashdot Mirror
For those who still don't realize it, toonami is not the only source of anime on US tv. PBS has showings every once in a while, and the International Channel is currently showing Irresponsible Captain Tylor subbed. Just take a glace through your TV guide every once in a while. You might be surprised what you find.
There is a very famous incident of this happening in Ultima online. I don't have links handy, but check out the archives on lumthemad.net for more info.
-Chu
The infamous rant site lumthemad.net decided to put their two cents on this issue at http://lumthemad.net/story.php?story=2252, from the "other" side. It's an interesting read.
-Chu
Time to watch the /. effect in action!
A little story. A couple of years ago I was playing a farily popular MUD, and went over to hotmail.com and grabbed an account with a popular NPC's name as the user name. Well, someone else wanted this account too, and e-mailed me offering to trade something for it. I said no, and he said if I didn't give it up, he'd make sure I wasn't able to use it. I just deleted the message. A couple days later, the spam started to POUR in. And it kept getting worse. It went from 5 letters a day to 10 to 20 to well over 50 before I stopped keeping track. What I figured he did is pick out some of those harveting sites (lottery sites are infamous for this, as the article notes) and stuck my e-mail on every one. The end result, one week later the box was completly unusable. What can stop this sort of attack?
Here's the thing though. The only things that unite the Final Fantasy games is the EXTREEMLY linear storyline and some basic physics. All the above movies sucked because they decided to recreate the game on the screen, which doesn't work. With Final Fantasy, they are not (and to a certain extent, cannot) just take the game, rehash it, and stick it up on the screen. Because of this, comparing it to other video game movies just doesn't work.
Please don't do this. Sending the envelope back empty or with a note (which they won't care about, the envelope itself is message enough) does hurt the company. On the other hand, sending the letter back stuffed with something more nefarious like sand or glitter, or something rotting is just hurting the people who process the things. Know your enemy . . .
-Chu