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Re:Not very "Family Friendly" either
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Just wondering, the rainbow-farting-bunnies are going to be in the first or the second half of the movie?
The first half, with the second half of the movie being spent on alluding to, but never quite explaining all the while going off on various tangents to other vaguely related surreal explanations of what everything might or might not be about, maybe, perhaps.
If anyone is wondering what POS is short for, it's "Player Owned Station".
Personally I think the article reads a lot better if you instead use "Piece Of Shit":
CCP Games explains the scenario from the ground up, detailing the POS game mechanics for those unfamiliar with the industrial side of the game, and pointing out how the POS exploit worked.
The proper order in which to evaluate a POS is essentially breadth-first traversal....
POS Reactors are complex beasts, but not quite so bad as POS Control Towers.
Since the overwhelming majority of politicians neither play, or possibly even understand, computer games*, they'll agree to whatever the minority holders of the balance of power in parliament ask for in exchange for support for other policies they're pushing.
Apparently the perfect attack is actually 'Slashdot in the Middle'
Torture was an important part of
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Torture in Games
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the Dungeon Keeper games. You built torture chambers in your dungeon so you could attract Dark Mistresses who helped torture your creatures to make them work harder, or your enemies creatures to make them reveal information, join your side or die and return as ghosts. Your own Dark Mistresses actually liked you more after you personally tortured them. The related torture animations and sounds were pretty cool, especially for back then. This was back before Bullfrog was acquired by EA, and Peter Molyneux was closer to delivering his promises.
Is here, in which an iiNet user pleads with them to not go ahead with the trial, and is replied to by Michael Malone (the head of iinet). Whirlpool is the main news / forum site on Australian broadband news and information.
I concur with the original poster, and that the ulterior motive is not about blocking child pornography, but instead about:
Trying to keep the independent senators who hold the balance of power happy, so they can get them on side to help push their other legislation through, (specifically Mr anti-gambling and Mr christian)
Give the government the ability to control access to information - there is no opt out. (Remember - we're not allowed to know what's on the blacklist). This is largely encouraged by:
Big media, who are slowly losing control over information as most of what they publish gets republished on the internet in some form, rendering their traditional distribution channels obsolete(and thus potential advertising revenue falls in a big way)
Australian censorship has always been pretty hopeless... - We still don't have an R18+ classification for games (although we do for movies, and print media), so games that would fall into that category are refused classification (and therefore can't be sold). This mandatory internet filtering would take things to a whole new (unwanted) level.
Unfortunately, despite Michael's best (and appreciated efforts), there's still nothing stopping them from continually moving the goalposts... and when challenged they'll continue with the "If you're not with us, then you're against us, which means you're pro-child porn" rubbish. Sounds kind of like the always attack never defend strategy endorsed by a certain science fiction author.
It also makes people watching go WTF*? when you remote desktop to 127.0.0.1:3390
* There's 2 variations of this - One for people who know what 127.0.0.1 means, and a more general one for people that have NFI what you are doing anyway.
And before Windows 95, they promised a badass new system codenamed Cairo, remember that? It would rival what NeXT and IBM had back then... and people believed that shit. Always keep in mind, Microsoft is a master in overpromise and underdelivery.
Imagine what would happen if they employed Peter Molyneux...
No - don't do this! Then your machine won't be part of the new zombie cloud, about to be launched as a new service called GoogleEvil (Beta) offering services to governments* and criminals alike.
With all that said, what I find interesting is that you quote passage after passage in the Bible, condemning Christians (and religions) about not being perfect, yet you forget one passage...
Matthew 7:5 - You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
I challenge you that, instead of complaining about how others are not doing the right thing, go out and do the right thing yourself. How much better would that make the world?
Just because he quotes from a religious text doesn't mean he either a) believes in it, or b) has to follow suggestions from it.
I only responded to this because I remembered the story from 25'ish years ago in a religous class from when I was around 8 or 9 I think. Except in my version it was to do with planks and splinters, not beams and specks... I did a bit of research and found the following:
The above links further led me to wonder about this mythical book called "The Bible". There's been so many variations and translations of it within, and across languages that they all have to have some serious problems somewhere, and there is no official/correct version. Even within a single version there's a large amount of inconsistency. (E.g. The four gospels don't agree on which Mary was where/when during the death and resurrection of J.C.).
BTW, not trying to be a hypocrite... I'm just a 'tooth fairy agnostic' trying to get people to critically think about what they're reading...
Slashdot Mirror
The app's existence is flawed... (according to Apple)
Flash mutilated those long before this so called '2.0'
The rest of the world doesn't want to have your privacy issues, U.S. - can you keep it national please? After all, the list is National List this, and National Register that...
KTHXBAI
Plus he occasionally exercises his right to use the alternative rolling method where he gets to roll 36d4 and pick the highest one.
So!
The first half, with the second half of the movie being spent on alluding to, but never quite explaining all the while going off on various tangents to other vaguely related surreal explanations of what everything might or might not be about, maybe, perhaps.
Game Over Man, Game Over!
Politicians are a "revolting and abhorrent phenomena" that "offend against the standards of morality".
I suspect this is a limitation imposed just as much by the desktop as it is by the game?
More cowbell? Maybe you should be fearing the reaper.
If anyone is wondering what POS is short for, it's "Player Owned Station".
Personally I think the article reads a lot better if you instead use "Piece Of Shit":
CCP Games explains the scenario from the ground up, detailing the POS game mechanics for those unfamiliar with the industrial side of the game, and pointing out how the POS exploit worked.
The proper order in which to evaluate a POS is essentially breadth-first traversal....
POS Reactors are complex beasts, but not quite so bad as POS Control Towers.
and so on.
Since the overwhelming majority of politicians neither play, or possibly even understand, computer games*, they'll agree to whatever the minority holders of the balance of power in parliament ask for in exchange for support for other policies they're pushing.
* Insert any minority concern here
There, fixed that for you.
Apparently the perfect attack is actually 'Slashdot in the Middle'
the Dungeon Keeper games. You built torture chambers in your dungeon so you could attract Dark Mistresses who helped torture your creatures to make them work harder, or your enemies creatures to make them reveal information, join your side or die and return as ghosts. Your own Dark Mistresses actually liked you more after you personally tortured them. The related torture animations and sounds were pretty cool, especially for back then. This was back before Bullfrog was acquired by EA, and Peter Molyneux was closer to delivering his promises.
Is here, in which an iiNet user pleads with them to not go ahead with the trial, and is replied to by Michael Malone (the head of iinet). Whirlpool is the main news / forum site on Australian broadband news and information.
I concur with the original poster, and that the ulterior motive is not about blocking child pornography, but instead about:
Australian censorship has always been pretty hopeless... - We still don't have an R18+ classification for games (although we do for movies, and print media), so games that would fall into that category are refused classification (and therefore can't be sold). This mandatory internet filtering would take things to a whole new (unwanted) level.
Unfortunately, despite Michael's best (and appreciated efforts), there's still nothing stopping them from continually moving the goalposts... and when challenged they'll continue with the "If you're not with us, then you're against us, which means you're pro-child porn" rubbish. Sounds kind of like the always attack never defend strategy endorsed by a certain science fiction author.
It also makes people watching go WTF*? when you remote desktop to 127.0.0.1:3390
* There's 2 variations of this - One for people who know what 127.0.0.1 means, and a more general one for people that have NFI what you are doing anyway.
This can basically be summarised as "Hindsight is a wonderful thing.....if only we knew then what we know now..."
This spurious argument also equally applies to:
amongst countless other things...
(Oh noes, someone is wrong on the internet)
Imagine what would happen if they employed Peter Molyneux...
Does it really matter? Either way you're going to be dealing with people in fat pants.
No - don't do this! Then your machine won't be part of the new zombie cloud, about to be launched as a new service called GoogleEvil (Beta) offering services to governments* and criminals alike.
* Yes, I know this is probably redundant...
No++. It's "C gives you enough rope to hang yourself. C++ gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
for Alan Moore. Somewhere, he's punching the air.
That, or whispering 'No'.
... (she's a graphic designer):
"Ooooooh!" (based on in-built Wacom thingie). - Interest level: High
Seconds later, "But it's not a Mac!" - Interest level: None
With all that said, what I find interesting is that you quote passage after passage in the Bible, condemning Christians (and religions) about not being perfect, yet you forget one passage... Matthew 7:5 - You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye. I challenge you that, instead of complaining about how others are not doing the right thing, go out and do the right thing yourself. How much better would that make the world?
Just because he quotes from a religious text doesn't mean he either a) believes in it, or b) has to follow suggestions from it.
I only responded to this because I remembered the story from 25'ish years ago in a religous class from when I was around 8 or 9 I think. Except in my version it was to do with planks and splinters, not beams and specks... I did a bit of research and found the following:
The above links further led me to wonder about this mythical book called "The Bible". There's been so many variations and translations of it within, and across languages that they all have to have some serious problems somewhere, and there is no official/correct version. Even within a single version there's a large amount of inconsistency. (E.g. The four gospels don't agree on which Mary was where/when during the death and resurrection of J.C.).
BTW, not trying to be a hypocrite... I'm just a 'tooth fairy agnostic' trying to get people to critically think about what they're reading...