Out of the Blue

[Oct 24, 2008, 12:00 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Following a request from the forums, it is now easier to browse through user posting history, as Frans has added more posts to each page and created an index to navigate between pages of posts.

Historical Links:	Thanks Ant and Mike Martinez.
Play:	SHIFT 3.
Links:	Street Fighter Halloween Costumes. James Bond and Ian Fleming Exhibition. Thanks Acleacius.
Stories:	Bartlett's steal of a deal for America.
Science:	Never Say Die- Why We Can't Imagine Death. Thanks j.c.f. Scientists try to stop hunger with retooled foods. What Is the Future of Time? Thanks j.c.f.
Images:	Giant spider eating a bird caught on camera. Thanks Digg.
Media:	How To Use Video Games To Keep Fit. Mac vs. PC meets West Side Story meets Lucio Fulci. The Dark Knight Meets Superman.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 25, 2008, 14:25

Dev

Blue: thanks for the info on user history. re the data. Yeah its not worth the legal hassle. Keep in mind that IGN could sue regardless of if they are justified in doing so. And a big legal controversy right now is if you can copyright "databases" of data thats otherwise perhaps publically availible. For instance, MythTV and the TV listings, I know there's been legal things involved there. It doesn't make sense for blue to risk any of that to satisfy one users curiosity. Sorry

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 25, 2008, 10:17

Xymph

IGN can not own a list of games release dates. That is all I want really.

Not as such, but if that list would be a direct extract of the data that was part of the original sale, then we'd get into the legal interpretation headaches that I just have no interest in getting involved with. I'm not saying IGN would actually bother to try and prove whether such a list is an extract or not, only that I have better things to do than to run that risk.

Btw, MobyGames has a lot of release date info, and you can also try digging into archive.org for old snapshots of 3D Gamers.




-- Frans

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 25, 2008, 09:33

Enahs

depending on how strictly IGN would interpret of those rights.

IGN can not own a list of games release dates. That is all I want really.




I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. - W. C. Fields

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 25, 2008, 04:52

Xymph

Nice one! I just noticed this now.

Great catch! It is, after all, in a totally inconspicuous spot, right next to the post button, and also was formally announced... a week ago. Rolleyes2




-- Frans

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 25, 2008, 04:47

Xymph

You would not happen to have and old copy of your site with that list? It would be awesome to have that list (even without links to more content).

When we sold the site, that included all its content and the rights to that content. So even if I were able to put back that list online, it might be illegal to do so, depending on how strictly IGN would interpret of those rights. I'm just not going to bother to find out.




-- Frans

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 25, 2008, 00:54

Krovven

Email me when this topic is updated. Nice one! I just noticed this now.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 24, 2008, 19:39

Enahs

That would have been in vein, as I didn't have time for all this back then.

Speaking of back then.

The thing I loved about your old site before you sold it (and then it become another clone site) was that you could list games by years, and further deep.
You would not happen to have and old copy of your site with that list? It would be awesome to have that list (even without links to more content).

Even if it had to be hosted on a site like *shudders* MySpace, having access to that list would be awesome.
Blue might even allow a list like that to be hosted on his site?




I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. - W. C. Fields

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 24, 2008, 17:50

Xymph

I shoulda asked about that years ago

That would have been in vein, as I didn't have time for all this back then.




-- Frans

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 24, 2008, 13:40

Krovven

Frans has added more posts to each page and created an index to navigate between pages of posts. Awesome, thanks Frans! I shoulda asked about that years ago

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 24, 2008, 13:10

I think SHIFT 3 is a repost, but a very good game. I'm not sure if I've seen the very well done Batman v Toy Story vid on here: http://www.youtube.com/v/7QFWBFIEuig

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 24, 2008, 10:43

xXBatmanXx

I call BS on that vid of the spider and bird......i find it very hard to believe that a bird wuold get stuck in that web......almost as though it was already dead and was placed in the web.




In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. / Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder. Playing: RL

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 24, 2008, 10:11

Blue

If someone could tell me where it is I'd appreciate it

Click on your name.

http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=userinfo&user=22548&boardid=1




Stephen "Blue" Heaslip Blue's News Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, El Presidente for Life

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 24, 2008, 09:56

Dev

Wait what? User post history? I wasn't aware blue even had that, and I've wanted it before (to see if ppl made replies to mine, etc). If someone could tell me where it is I'd appreciate it

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Re: Monster spider

Oct 24, 2008, 08:48

PHJF

Except you sure as hell don't wake up after death.




Steam + PSN: PHJF

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Re: Monster spider

Oct 24, 2008, 07:42

InBlack

I dont think spiders have skin, they have a chitinous carapace if memory serves me right. As for the bird it looks for lack of a better word....dead.




I have a nifty blue line!

Monster spider

Oct 24, 2008, 07:00

Kxmode

Something about that photo feels fake. Like the spider looks like some sort of model? Like it looks plastic? Like it doesn't have "fleshy" skin? And the same thing with the bird. I think I'll believe it if there was actual video footage.

Re: Never Say Die

Oct 24, 2008, 06:54

LemonJoose

If you have ever been put under general anesthesia for surgery, then you have a sense of what the non-existence of death means. One moment the anesthesiologist is putting a mask over your face and asking you to breathe and count to ten. You might get to 3 or 4, and then, immediately you are waking up in the recovery room with no perception of any time passing whatsoever, even though your surgery might have taken hours. At least to me, this experience of "lost ime" was much different than even a deep, dreamless sleep.

Re: Never Say Die

Oct 24, 2008, 06:21

InBlack

Monster spider that, I used to have arachnophobia as a kid, now Im actually kind of fond of spiders, but that one is a bit ahem, big.

+1 on that article Hump!




I have a nifty blue line!

Re: Never Say Die

Oct 24, 2008, 05:57

PHJF

Don't really need that article, this video is plenty enough to explain death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOY-jJeOeBk




Steam + PSN: PHJF

Never Say Die

Oct 24, 2008, 04:52

Hump

That article should be required reading for everyone.




---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Both the “left” and the “right” pretend they have the answer, but they are mere flippers on the same thalidomide baby, and the truth is that neither side has a clue." - Jim Goad

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