So, he's arguing the game is a public nuisance because you can choose non-violent solutions?
No, he's saying the employee would be biased.
So the game would be a public nuisance because the employee would be biased, then? Riiiiight. Sure.
Sigh. He's saying the employee would be biased? DUH! Wow, your reply sure is super extra insightfull and not at all a useless stating of the obvious completely missing the point of what you replied to!/sarcasm
Thompson is trying to get the game banned on the insane notion that videogames hypnotises kids and turns them into mindless killers unable to refrain from acting out the violent acts the game conditioned them to emulate. That can't be if the game allows you to choose the peace&love way, then the kids would have to be concious entities making choices of their own free will.
So I repeat the question: Does anybody really not think wireless will soon be a mandatory feature for all portable media players?
No, I don't think it will be a mandatory feature of all players. If someone comes up with an implementation that doesn't suck, that's actually usefull, and that is not just a gee-whizz false promise of wireless wonders, then it will be quite popular, and then copied across the board, but this one sucks, so we'll keep making fun of them for making something that sucks, thank you very much.
I know that must just fry you--that there are people out there in the world who are at least reasonably smart and reasonably socialized, and who look at their introverted and prideful intelligent brothers with pity.
Introverts are to be pitied?
Unsurprisingly, this is coming from a man who steals his neighbour's mail and makes fun of how nerds dress. Clearly, your feelings of superiority are quite warranted.
You need to fill a page with quotes (none of which I bothered to read) of how bad a mand-dictator run country is when someone mentions another country threatning it is a bully?
You're right, N.K. is a mess. They're STILL getting empty threats by the giant global bully, because north Korea's nature doesn't change anyone else's nature. The bully picked on richer, weaker kid for his lunch money, while north korea is a poor, nasty kid not worth the trouble. For your future empty, meaningless, braindead bouts of patriotism, go swear things to a pretty, pretty flag, and don't waste your time quoting how other people are bad too.
I hate to introduce politics, but it has to be said, Saddam maybe, could have, possibly, been working on something, if you look at the intelligence "just so." North Korea, has been openly saying they are working on these bombs.
Which is why Kim Jong Il is still in power and Saddam isn't. Bullies don't pick on those who could seriously fight back.
Its my right to hate who ever i want, for any reason i want, AND to tell people about it. You dont like what i say? Then dont read/listen.. pretty simple.
It is not your right to go on a private board dedicated to a murder victim to threaten his family, a board where you know it WILL be read by his relatives.
Your right to free speech is on YOUR board, where people opt-in to you read your worthless thougths.
The issue here is not whether people should sympathize with the troll, it's whether people should imprison him for three years. Of course he's contemptible. That can be different from being criminal.
Criminal behaviour is anything society deems so unaceptable that an organised form of punishment needs to be set up to discourage people from acting that way.
Harassing grieving families with threatning comments falls in that category.
the Amish community would have simply shunned such a foul-mouthed fool, without putting money into lawyer's pockets, or wasting real estate on a prison.
So it's better to just unload your problem cases on the next community over? Because that's what they're doing, shunning is sending the guy in exile to mess up another community.
Would reading Huckleberry Finn also be a crime in Britain since it contains the N word and an aborted lynching scene?
Reading a book with the word "nigger" in it (oh GROW UP already, it's just a damn word), is nowhere, not anywhere, not even close to being near what that jerk did. That jerk went on a board set up in support of a guy that was murdered and he claimed it was great, and the the victims' family ought to be murdered too.
I'm pretty sure the point of the aborted lynching scene is NOT that all niggers must burn, and that you wouldn't make anyone genuinly feel threatened for their safety by reading your book.
The lack of dialogue in the Episode I Darth Maul finale is what I loved most about that movie. You didn't need words. The foreshadowing tells you what's about to happen.
8 months of previews plastered every 30 seconds on each and every available media isn't "foreshadowing".
Abe's Exoddus was more of the same, with some coolness on top, so it supported the "we love sequels" theory.
Then came the bloody third [...] and they totally ditched the slick-platform style
I think this kinda proves my point. The second game was the same gameplay, but without the bad elements of the first. The third only kept the brand, the name and general look, and dropped all the gameplay! By that time, it's not a sequel, it's a franchise.
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should we ban real life as well?
;-)
It's certainly unsuitable for children; mandatory sterilisation for all!
So the game would be a public nuisance because the employee would be biased, then?
Riiiiight. Sure.
Sigh. He's saying the employee would be biased? DUH!
Wow, your reply sure is super extra insightfull and not at all a useless stating of the obvious completely missing the point of what you replied to!
Thompson is trying to get the game banned on the insane notion that videogames hypnotises kids and turns them into mindless killers unable to refrain from acting out the violent acts the game conditioned them to emulate.
That can't be if the game allows you to choose the peace&love way, then the kids would have to be concious entities making choices of their own free will.
Mr Thompson criticised the decision to have an employee take him through the game, arguing he could have avoided making violent choices.
So, he's arguing the game is a public nuisance because you can choose non-violent solutions?
That guy is really an insane jackass.
So I repeat the question: Does anybody really not think wireless will soon be a mandatory feature for all portable media players?
No, I don't think it will be a mandatory feature of all players.
If someone comes up with an implementation that doesn't suck, that's actually usefull, and that is not just a gee-whizz false promise of wireless wonders, then it will be quite popular, and then copied across the board, but this one sucks, so we'll keep making fun of them for making something that sucks, thank you very much.
I doubt he used introverted in the literal sense
I doupt he knows the literal sense.
Not to mention that you basically ignored all the points he made.
That I did, that I did.
He's an ass, you're a troll, and any "point" made by an ass is better ignored.
So rich third world countries too?
I know that must just fry you--that there are people out there in the world who are at least reasonably smart and reasonably socialized, and who look at their introverted and prideful intelligent brothers with pity.
Introverts are to be pitied?
Unsurprisingly, this is coming from a man who steals his neighbour's mail and makes fun of how nerds dress. Clearly, your feelings of superiority are quite warranted.
your false pride and wanton disdain for others
Yeaaaah... about that: takes one to know one.
When was the last time you saw a (pay) telephone booth?
About an hour ago.
If they were smart, they'd take better care of themselves.
WTF?
You need to fill a page with quotes (none of which I bothered to read) of how bad a mand-dictator run country is when someone mentions another country threatning it is a bully?
You're right, N.K. is a mess. They're STILL getting empty threats by the giant global bully, because north Korea's nature doesn't change anyone else's nature. The bully picked on richer, weaker kid for his lunch money, while north korea is a poor, nasty kid not worth the trouble. For your future empty, meaningless, braindead bouts of patriotism, go swear things to a pretty, pretty flag, and don't waste your time quoting how other people are bad too.
I hate to introduce politics, but it has to be said, Saddam maybe, could have, possibly, been working on something, if you look at the intelligence "just so." North Korea, has been openly saying they are working on these bombs.
Which is why Kim Jong Il is still in power and Saddam isn't.
Bullies don't pick on those who could seriously fight back.
Are we justified sanctioning and otherwise punishing it, even if it lied?
No yelling "FIRE!" in crowded theatres, no yelling "A-Bomb!" at the UN.
This is what happens when editors don't do their job and actually *edit* the title to reflect what the article is about.
/. community for protecting freedom of speech and thus all the responses are
That is not their job. Their job is to provide page views to their advertising clients.
the title tries to incite the deep feelings of the
Profitable.
Its my right to hate who ever i want, for any reason i want, AND to tell people about it. You dont like what i say? Then dont read/listen .. pretty simple.
It is not your right to go on a private board dedicated to a murder victim to threaten his family, a board where you know it WILL be read by his relatives.
Your right to free speech is on YOUR board, where people opt-in to you read your worthless thougths.
I'm guessing that higher violent crime rates are due to a much higher urban population compared to the US, rather than gun control.
Go look at Tokyo's crime statistics.
The issue here is not whether people should sympathize with the troll, it's whether people should imprison him for three years. Of course he's contemptible. That can be different from being criminal.
Criminal behaviour is anything society deems so unaceptable that an organised form of punishment needs to be set up to discourage people from acting that way.
Harassing grieving families with threatning comments falls in that category.
the Amish community would have simply shunned such a foul-mouthed fool, without putting money into lawyer's pockets, or wasting real estate on a prison.
So it's better to just unload your problem cases on the next community over? Because that's what they're doing, shunning is sending the guy in exile to mess up another community.
Would reading Huckleberry Finn also be a crime in Britain since it contains the N word and an aborted lynching scene?
Reading a book with the word "nigger" in it (oh GROW UP already, it's just a damn word), is nowhere, not anywhere, not even close to being near what that jerk did. That jerk went on a board set up in support of a guy that was murdered and he claimed it was great, and the the victims' family ought to be murdered too.
I'm pretty sure the point of the aborted lynching scene is NOT that all niggers must burn, and that you wouldn't make anyone genuinly feel threatened for their safety by reading your book.
Millions of people [...] were not punished for it.
That's the beauty of wide-scale civil disobedience.
The lack of dialogue in the Episode I Darth Maul finale is what I loved most about that movie. You didn't need words. The foreshadowing tells you what's about to happen.
8 months of previews plastered every 30 seconds on each and every available media isn't "foreshadowing".
Abe's Exoddus was more of the same, with some coolness on top, so it supported the "we love sequels" theory.
Then came the bloody third [...] and they totally ditched the slick-platform style
I think this kinda proves my point. The second game was the same gameplay, but without the bad elements of the first.
The third only kept the brand, the name and general look, and dropped all the gameplay!
By that time, it's not a sequel, it's a franchise.
Whatever was wrong with the original, that got rushed through production, is probably sorted out by the time the sequel comes out.
See: Oddworld's save system.
Forget the pirates, You should see what zombies do to windows!
might actually be pretty useful against the Swiss
Oh I don't think so.
Chuck one of those at the thing and it's sure to go down.
Military drones fly at extremely high altitudes.
completely retarded.