Just because it happened on an ice rink does not lessen the crime. There are victims.
If some real person spent the first period of the game working to get an the puck, and then someone used a STICK to steal that puck and then score on him, that is theft. The first person is out the 20 minutes of work it took.
Your logic is flawless. Everybody who plays a zero sum game with other players is a criminal and must be punished.
If you look through the archives you'll find a list of bannable offenses in one of the early patch messages. "Thou shalt not kill", "Thou shalt not steal" and... um... something like "Thou shalt not covet they neighbour's ass" are all in there. Mess with that and you're in danger of having your account suspended.
The dev team is really too busy to go around policing every player so there are teams of volunteer guides who wear blue robes and hats to take care of that kind of thing. They don't have GM powers but the online community generally supports them in what they do.
Getting back to the original story, I was not aware that "Using an automated system to play an online game" was a criminal offense in Japan. If it is then this guy got what was coming to him. If not then someone is either making up ex post facto laws or pulling them ex rectum.
I have played Lineage II. It's a game _about_ beating up other players' characters and taking their lunch money. That's the whole point of the game.
What's next? Will a man be sentenced to community service for turning over cards in Solitaire? Arrested for playing Minesweeper in an airport? Sued for using the "Undo" feature in Spider?
Yeah, because I know all my home appliances are controlled by the government.
Look very closely at those appliances some time. Unless you built them yourself or have scrupulously filed off the serial numbers and destroyed the original labels chances are that you will find a number of stamps and logos which show that the government has inspected and approved them.
Just because something works and doesn't make your life a living hell doesn't mean that it isn't controlled by a government agency.
The lion and the eagle don't pump their meat full of drugs before they eat it. My ancestors who ate meat before me didn't shoot their cattle up with recombinant bovine growth hormone. Historical records show that cattle were originally the size of sheep. Calling modern livestock "natural" is about as honest as saying that elements like carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen are products of nature, therefore sarin gas is "by defintion natural".
Calling someone a troll because you can't comprehend what they are talking about doesn't make you intellectually superior to anything.
I think this exercise was kind of silly, "Look, these cadets in an ARMY SCHOOL will follow what a SUPERIOR tells them to do!"
The point was that it was a fictional superior who sent email from outside of their network. The excercise was the online equivalent of having a complete stranger show up at the front gate dressed in a colonel's uniform and flip flops, demanding access to the armoury.
So what she's saying is "We can do this, it will work for a while, and by the time it falls apart it will be somebody else's problem because we'll all be long gone."
I think I can stand behind that kind of reasoning.
That means that it's a good time to play a red or blue card with at least three points of Concern or a Toughness special ability. With the right card in tyour hand you could win the round quickly.
Here's the real deal. FedEx doesn't want to be providing thousands to millions of boxes to people who won't be paying to use them to ship items via FedEx.
Then perhaps they should stop giving them away for free to anybody who asks for them.
The Computer knows that you don't want to worry about this and will ensure that anyone who disturbs your tranquility, including you, will be used as reactor shielding.
That's using Logitech Mouseware. It keeps separate profiles for each user and has some support for non-Logitech devices, but they are mostly treated as standard two button mice.
That's exactly what I have been doing with XP for years. When I log in every button on my mouse has a different function -- left click, right click, middle click, escape, shift... I think one button will even make me coffee.
When my son signs on every button is set to do the same thing -- left click. Anything else just makes for a confusing mess.
It's like magic, but it didn't take Apple to do it.
This isn't anything new. About three years ago I was staying at a hotel on business and started playing around with the TV. It had been poorly locked down so I was able to view the movies, web browsers and other on-screen information for everybody on the floor.
I really had no interest in watching people read their email or check out, but it was entertaining to see which pay-per-view porn movies were the most popular among my fellow travellers.
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The point is that NCSoft gets your 1000 yen every month. Anything else is just window dressing.
If some real person spent the first period of the game working to get an the puck, and then someone used a STICK to steal that puck and then score on him, that is theft. The first person is out the 20 minutes of work it took.
Your logic is flawless. Everybody who plays a zero sum game with other players is a criminal and must be punished.
So ban his account. Unless NCSoft recently acquired the Prime Minister of Japan the rules of the game are completely seperate from criminal law.
The dev team is really too busy to go around policing every player so there are teams of volunteer guides who wear blue robes and hats to take care of that kind of thing. They don't have GM powers but the online community generally supports them in what they do.
Getting back to the original story, I was not aware that "Using an automated system to play an online game" was a criminal offense in Japan. If it is then this guy got what was coming to him. If not then someone is either making up ex post facto laws or pulling them ex rectum.
What's next? Will a man be sentenced to community service for turning over cards in Solitaire? Arrested for playing Minesweeper in an airport? Sued for using the "Undo" feature in Spider?
Look very closely at those appliances some time. Unless you built them yourself or have scrupulously filed off the serial numbers and destroyed the original labels chances are that you will find a number of stamps and logos which show that the government has inspected and approved them.
Just because something works and doesn't make your life a living hell doesn't mean that it isn't controlled by a government agency.
The sad thing is that you probably don't even understand that you just agreed with my original point.
Calling someone a troll because you can't comprehend what they are talking about doesn't make you intellectually superior to anything.
And this is Bob Barker reminding you to help control the pet population -- spank it like a wild monkey today.
Where exactly did you get the idea that the meat you were eating now was somehow natural?
The point was that it was a fictional superior who sent email from outside of their network. The excercise was the online equivalent of having a complete stranger show up at the front gate dressed in a colonel's uniform and flip flops, demanding access to the armoury.
Read the Constitution? Nobody does that any more.
I think I can stand behind that kind of reasoning.
Disability? I thought it was a prerequisite.
That means that it's a good time to play a red or blue card with at least three points of Concern or a Toughness special ability. With the right card in tyour hand you could win the round quickly.
Here's the real deal. FedEx doesn't want to be providing thousands to millions of boxes to people who won't be paying to use them to ship items via FedEx. Then perhaps they should stop giving them away for free to anybody who asks for them.
The Computer knows that you don't want to worry about this and will ensure that anyone who disturbs your tranquility, including you, will be used as reactor shielding.
The Computer is your friend. Trust the Computer.
That's using Logitech Mouseware. It keeps separate profiles for each user and has some support for non-Logitech devices, but they are mostly treated as standard two button mice.
When my son signs on every button is set to do the same thing -- left click. Anything else just makes for a confusing mess.
It's like magic, but it didn't take Apple to do it.
As long as you don't try anything dangerous like sliding the shuttle over the edge of a table.
I really had no interest in watching people read their email or check out, but it was entertaining to see which pay-per-view porn movies were the most popular among my fellow travellers.
Well Happy Conslutants' Day to you too.
Heck, with that kind of connectivity you could probably meet the orange book requirements for C2 security.
"Make fuck, not kill."
Either way your plan has merit, and I intend to give it a try.
"So this is how liberty dies. Naked, petrified and covered with hot grits."