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To be fair, Walker's tirade has been ignored on RPS for a while. One mod tried to reinstate the ban a couple of days ago because he was bored of the discussion or something... and another mod then started a topic ignoring that nearly immediately. It's rather ironic that all the defenders there seem to actively want it to be all about Quinn so they can legitimately shut it down/ high horse about privacy, and they tend to be the ones going on about that particular aspect. Many of the others including long time members are trawling through RPS articles looking for when RPS 'invaded privacy' (as with Max wossname) or complained about tactics they themselves have used on this issue ('The Silence'). RPS is also one of the few sites I have some sympathy for being defensive as they're in a bad position. Serves them right for being illogical and unapologetic SJW (and holy asterisks did Grayson, primarily, annoy me by shoehorning SJW into every interview he did) but, you should not slag off former employees except with very good reason, and at present the reason falls short of good.

Oh dear, and Bruce was doing so well. Now he's back to "I'm leaving the thread forever. Or ten minutes, whichever is longer" Yeah, but nobody would think there was significant impropriety there if they hadn't become an item. That isn't really asking for 'appearance of propriety', at the time, it's asking for retroactive appearance of propriety due to something that happened in the future. Journalists and devs meet and socialise at conventions, it's part of the reason for having them. Given the nature of the game footage and screenshots are essentially the same thing. But in any case the screenshots are still copyrighted.

The really ironic thing and best illustration given the subject matter is that if you'd talked about the things that Manning or Snowden revealed, prior to them being revealed, chances are you'd have been labelled a conspiracy theorist- despite them being correct.

The DMCA was probably legitimate, as the original video did use game footage from Depression Quest. Bit of an own goal in any case, due to the Streisand Effect.

Meh, that spoilered stuff is suggestive only. If I'm going to hang someone for such things I want a bit more conclusiveness than a quarter of a head in a picture and some people obviously knowing each other. Frankly, I'd be surprised if games journalists didn't know and interact with a lot of game devs, that is legitimately a part of what covering games entails. I'd accept that it certainly looks like several of the other 5 were genuinely compromised, I just don't find the case against Grayson compelling- though I'll admit that 'zero evidence' is a bit strong, zero compelling evidence would be more accurate. Easy for me to not care anyway, I actively avoid reading Kotaku and was not exactly enamoured with Grayson from his RPS output.

Ah, but surely the interview they formally want him for is also just a formality as well? They have, after all, interviewed him previously (then let him leave the country while, yes ironically, leaking the interview) and can/ have held interviews in other countries, in other cases. Given the somewhat... unusual treatment of his case I don't see why he should trust the system at all. While it is a rather roundabout way of doing so getting him to Sweden then not charging him but having a sweetheart extradition to the US would certainly be a legitimate fear, from his perspective.

If you're close to the sea you always have relatively high humidity though- take Mumbai for example, it's on pretty much exactly the same latitude as Nagpur but is on the coast rather than inland, has the same monsoonal climate just more extreme (drier when dry, wetter when wet) yet its lowest average humidity is 67%. It's that humidity where the water comes from. Even in drought conditions Florida or Mumbai will get humidity from the sea so there's plenty of 'easy' water to extract, you cannot say the same for inland places with humidity in the 20s. I'm not saying that this device is useless or anything, just that it is likely not to work as well in areas where it would really be useful.

Bruce actually disowned the whole mess, and he has stayed out of it too. Appropriate kudos must be given and there's no need to drag him in. And to be fair to Nathan Grayson- who I dislike from his time on RPS- there has been zero evidence that he broke ethics either. It's gone well beyond that. If it was just some indie dev bonking journalists that would be one thing, and it probably would have blown out by now. Probably not enough public interest, might inflame some rabid MRA types but then they're basically reverse SJWs and get inflamed randomly at trivial stuff. Certainly I didn't care at the beginning, besides it reinforcing my already low view of the gaming journalist fraternity sorority consanguinity- I have even agreed with SJW types on some things like the Dead Island Torso and Twitcher booby cards. As it stands though the attempts to censor the whole thing and to couch it only in the terms of sexism has backfired massively and it's now far more about censorship and hypocrisy (not just 'liberals' trying to silence critics, but also that SJWs have used similar, personal, stuff to smear people themselves) than the original incident. At this point the SJWs are doing an excellent job of making enemies who don't care much at all about the typical SJW issues. Said it in the RVGN thread in GG but the whole [ech, overstatement, and given Bruce's contribution unfair. The SJW crowd participating in this incident at least] SJW crowd is coming across as cult or Scientology like.

He hasn't been charged with any crime.

Florida is, basically, a big swamp next to the sea, with appropriate apologies to Floridians for the rather blunt and stereotypical description. Florida does not match many places where water would be needed very closely at all- which are, basically, monsoonal, ie lots of water when there's lots of water, otherwise near desert. Somewhere like Nagpur in India is hundred of km from the sea and has up to 45 degree heats (up to 35 degree mean daily temperature) in summer with 27% average humidity, and seven months with less than 20mm average monthly precipitation. Tampa, say, does get to an average mean temp of 32 degrees, but average humidity never drops below 69% and it has seven months of less than 70mm rainfall, which is still quite a lot especially if you have high humidity which retards evaporation. So the question is whether that device could efficiently work in Nagpur's significantly different conditions- fundamentally, there's no shortage of water in Florida, just shortage of potable/ fresh water whereas there is, fundamentally, a seasonal shortage of water in Nagpur.

You can get some 'free' energy out of heat pumps via entropy, iirc, so in theory you can get very efficient heating/ chilling cycling. The question is whether it works well in appropriate conditions. You want something that produces water well in the dry season when humidity is low and temperatures high, something that produces water well only when humidity is high such as during/ after rain or monsoon is a lot less useful.

Wouldn't count Romero, personally, main thing he did was be frontman for an ad campaign for a much delayed, buggy, mediocre game- and indirectly make it so that Eidos couldn't buy out Looking Glass- but at heart he was no worse than, say, Mike 'awesome button' Laidlaw fronting DA2 promos. I expect people to promote their products. Derek Smart PhD, Cleve, in a different way Tim Langdell, they all trolled like the Japanese fishing fleet chasing the last tuna in existence.

Yeah, it did. That has some relevance to the current situation as well, given that the same accusations are being made again.

A poster on a board has no obligation to respect others- within reasonable limits- and Nonek didn't go to BSN or whatever to make his comment. A journalist at least theoretically does have one, as well as obligations towards being honest and objective. But games journalism isn't really journalism in the classic sense anyway. Indeed, the response of some to the current scandal is more reminiscent of someone defending Scientology or a cult- varying from the equivalent of sticking fingers in ears and yelling "Nahnahnah I can't hear you" to trying to silence others even using illegal methods and threats. In the end, the initial stuff is primarily a question of morality and integrity, plus elements of applying what you preach; but some of the acts leading on from that on the other hand go far beyond those sorts of issues. I don't even care particularly about SJW, I just turn on the brain filter and don't engage most of the time.

An article from a Polish (albeit english language) website that mentions the previous Witcher movie? Pretty irresponsible given that 'The *****' caused PTSD in a third of the people who saw it.

Excellent, more money for us, and with world dairy prices dropping as well. Jolly decent of the EU to throw our farmers a bone and hand us a market like that. Still doesn't make up for the CAP though. And in slightly more relevant news, Ukraine has been invaded by perfidious Russians intent on spreading mischief and mayhem. Or alternatively Russia has got tired of Ukrainian stonewalling and sent their aid convoy in without waiting yet longer than the week it's already been for permission. Either way, things are going to get interesting.

I don't block anyone- even gimmick accounts who commit grievous insults against the purity of dear sweet logic. If you don't have the discipline not to reply to something pointless you're either taking things far too seriously or should remove yourself from the internet for your own sanity. Or you have far too much time on your hands.

Not really, Gromnir brought it up previously and basically no one else has said anything, except Nepenthe noting it wasn't a very flattering comparison for US police. Given the context I wouldn't be surprised if he thought I was Russian rather than being a proud citizen of the least corrupt* nation of earth**, and he was Scoring a Point by mentioning eastern Europe's police. *alternative interpretation since it's a perception index: country best at self delusion, burying their head in the sand and being smug about not being corrupt. **OK, equal with Denmark. Bloody Scandics, always getting in our way on the indices.

But if the 90% of 'good' cops protect the 10% of 'bad' cops or even just turn a blind eye how can you judge the 90% to be 'good'? They would be protecting- potentially- murderers, racists, extortioners or whatever else the 'bad' cops get up to just because they are cops, and that is as bad as (if not worse than) protecting murderers, racists, extortioners etc who are private citizens. That's the heart of the matter, these people are entrusted with power and trust. When they abuse it- or allow it to be abused- that is a fundamentally Bad Thing because it erodes that trust, breeds corruption and allows people who have committed crimes to escape punishment and go on to commit more. This isn't isolated to any particular country either. We've had plenty of examples here as well, perhaps most famously where a group of police were alleged to have spent at least five years raping women, with impunity. Two were eventually convicted of one crime, 16 years later, the third was never convicted but was set to be made our top cop just prior to the whole affair blowing up- and after the other two had been convicted. A fourth avoided conviction due to another policeman deliberately aborting two trials by giving hearsay evidence, he had also covered up the original complaint against the other three. Last year we had a similar multiple instance incident involving a policeman's son where they claimed no complaint was ever laid. In reality, four were but they were never properly investigated. It's ironic really, one of the arguments used for why the police can't just let things slide a bit in Ferguson is because they have to maintain control and not give the green light to bad behaviour by ignoring it. If only they applied the same logic to themselves things would be a lot better; and in the end they'd be a whole lot better for the good cops since they wouldn't be tarred by the bad eggs.

You're arguing the difference between a (morally) good leader and an effective leader. Look at Churchill- effective, sure, if you exclude the Dardanelles, Dieppe and a few other follies; but then you have to exclude a fair few mistakes for Stalin as well. Morally good? Nah, to both. Churchill wanted to gas Iraqis for having the temerity of being brown, uppity and sitting on his oil and he was PM when millions of Indians died in famine as a result of deliberate inaction. Of course, the millions dead there were Indians and Churchill was a hero, democrat, capitalist and westerner, as opposed to Stalin, so people only care about the dead that are politically expedient to care about.

Yeah, not like Iran doesn't have reasons for being hostile- though there'd almost certainly be a lot less hostility if points 6-8 in the Parker Manifesto had been adhered to historically. They won't ever be a superpower though, just a regional one.

They've got too many employees now to just focus on Cyberpunk anyway. If not Twitcher4 they would need another title to develop, so they may as well go for one they know has a market. Not like we've had saturation Twitcher either, it isn't annualised like an Assassin's Creed or CoD so it'll be 3 games in near eight years.

Cyril Ramaphosa. What's happening in Ferguson is mainly just 'respect my authoritah' from police who have got used to people kowtowing because anything else is too much bother and want to intimidate the resistance out of anyone who doesn't. It's crappy for sure, but they haven't actually been using their AR15s etc for direct personal gain or to attack the crowds with live fire with 'proper' bullets. OTOH Cyril Ramaphosa, deputy President of RSA- and board member and large shareholder of the Marakana mine's owner Lonmin- called on the police to end the strike. On August 15. The mass shooting's date? August 16. Of course, it's possible that those dates are coincidence, but if so it's one hell of a coincidence.

Oh, it certainly wasn't without irony that the leaker got leaked, that's for sure. The argument is of course that there is no 'public good'/ need to know justification for those particular leaks, as the wikileaks leaks were 'historic' and 'public/ governmental' rather than 'current' and 'private'- rules of confidentiality in judicial cases also aren't there just to protect the alleged perpetrator from having their reputation unfairly impugned by accusations that potentially turn out to be unsupported, but also to protect the alleged victims; and to prevent jury influence, where relevant (not here, iirc). Assange's alleged victims were identified pretty quickly once he had been identified, and I'd imagine they did not want to be. I'd also imagine they wouldn't want their statements leaked, much as Assange wouldn't. But in any case support for leaks is based on circumstance and personal opinion, always is. If you think that secrecy/ privacy concerns outweigh public right to know you oppose that specific leak, if the reverse you support it.

There's also, er, Arrival for ME2, as without that you don't know why you're in the brig at the start of ME3. Witch Hunt could have been- still might, at a stretch- for DA as well. DLC is easy to hate on in any case. Have it be essential to the story and you're chopping critical stuff out to sell separately and confusing people who don't have it; have it be extraneous or trivial and your're trying to sell irrelevant stuff unconnected to the story or Horse Armour. There's a very fine line between the two.