I wrote a crack for DWANGO which got me a cease-and-desist letter from their law firm. DWANGO had a 30-minute trial which identified your PC by its hard drive serial number or a similar variable (its been a while).

I found a way to change this variable. So you run my program, it changes the identifier, becomes a TSR (stays in memory), DWANGO launches, the program automatically travels through all the boxes and signs up for a new trial account using random names and addresses (and phone numbers which were mostly valid), and you're in.

Their time would be more productively spent investigating Twitter's involvement in Twitter.

NKD wrote on Jan 20, 2018, 21:52:

Simon Says wrote on Jan 20, 2018, 19:48:

The whole world is laughing at you USA.

I can't blame them. I'd laugh at a country that elected someone like Trump too.

Oh look, more snowflake butthurt.

That "overhyped" list was created by SomethingAwful-type edgetards.

Last time I checked, original devs were STILL supporting BZ2 with patches up to this day. Why is this even a thing?

STD is one show that should've been canceled after the pilot. Long live The Orville, a.k.a. the real Star Trek.

They're gonna tackle it, use a double-leg takedown, get it in side control, take the back, and then choke it to death.

"History teaches us that [...] people love to believe they are intrinsically better, and somebody else is intrinsically worse, regardless of whatever else is going on in their lives."

Finally you're beginning to understand the core of political correctness . It has become a dangerous religious cult of virtue-signaling due to its appeal to vanity, and the young are most susceptible to it.

Thus, vapid cries of "racism" have replaced the middle-ages cries of "heretic", before someone got burned at the stake.

This is how the Google engineer got fired - their religious dogma went against the science, actual evidence-supported, solid science that he used in his essay.

This country is now in full 1984 mode. You're just not on the side you think you are.

Diablo 3 tries to dig itself out of the grave by introducing a class that digs things out of graves.

Tribes Ascend. Never forget.

The irony of that Oatmeal cartoon is that the author's own core belief is boldly and prominently featured, and if this self-aggrandizing fantasy of enlightement and transcendence is challenged, he's going to screech just like the "7.5 billion" of humans who have supposedly failed to reach his evolutional apex.

When you lose the election... accuse the opposition of being Nazis, and blame Russia. LOL

Nintendo Switch will also be fastest-dead console in Nintendo history.

Warskull wrote on Feb 5, 2017, 21:05:
Seems like a case of too little to late. With all the fantastic shooters we've seen since Dirty Bombs release I don't seen anyone going back to it. The most hardcore fans will continue to play it, but being a pretty good shooter doesn't cut it when you have a number of fantastic shooters out there.

Fantastic shooters? Asides from Overwatch, what other "fantastic shooters" are out there?

Great stuff!

Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 23, 2017, 22:35:
Okay -- if you bought the game straight out of the gate, yeah it might have been tough to get $60 worth of gaming out of D3. But if you waited a bit... then it was pretty easy to get at least that much out of it.

Was it everything, everyone was hoping for? Nope. It never could have been. And this commentary by Jay Wilson illustrates one of the reasons why it never could.

I've installed it several times since then, including a few months ago. Shit's still all retarded.

if I quit then Diablo 3 might not have happened

And I would've saved $50 or $60 or whatever it was.

VaranDragon wrote on Dec 1, 2016, 06:18:
The only one using labels here is you, hence the irony. You posted a link to an article that links to other behavioural research articles to reinforce a belief, sorry your belief, but it does no such thing. It doesn't label people, it doesn't judge, it simply states that older people tend to be more conservative. I don't see anyone being labeled a biggot, or a Nazi or whatever. It doesn't stop you from judging it did. Thats fine, most people judge according to what they believe. You feel threatened, and you resort to hyperbole. But that's also fine.

Oh I read it, and I read it thoroughly. DID YOU? The fact that you're absolutely and totally blind to the bigotry in the article is what's frightening. It is so imprinted in you that you don't even register it as a red flag.

First of all, the article paints a strawman target of what "conservatism" is. It certainly does not represent me as a conservative, or any other conservative I know.

It associates this faux notion of conservatism with broadly painted personal traits, such as being "slower", "more rigid", "less open to new experiences".

Then, it proceeds to use studies which support the fact that people are "slower", "more rigid" and "less open to experiences" with age (DUH), therefore it draws conclusions that they are more "conservative" in the strawman definition of the term.

What is insinuated in this article is that conservatism is product of old age and the associated -mental decline-, and liberalism is a trait of the young people who are open to new experiences, creative and enterpreneural (his words, not mine), and prone to anti-conformist attitudes.

Oh wait, Trump the political outsider, the wildcard, the non-PC, insult-throwing rabble-rouser, the definition of a disruptive rebellious candidate, got 20000 people on his rallies, and destroyed the other candidates. Talk about anti-conformist.

If this article was any indication, we "conservatives" (sigh), would've overwhelmingly propped up Jeb Bush. DOES NOT COMPUTE.

And what of young enterpreneural, creative conservatives who LIKE scuba diving and other adrenal experiences? How does that fit this horrendous series of cliches?

What about the distinction between cultural conservatives and fiscal conservatives? Why does this article pretend to be scientific when it paints a caricature of both parties?

The truth is, the article is mirroring the propaganda that was done to us Pioneers in the Soviet Union. We the young ones are the future, and the shit we're brainwashed with, is the ideology of the future. The "old guard" are untermensch.

Open your eyes, people. If you see nothing wrong with this article, then you're simply on the same wavelength of bigotry as its author.

Former KGB agent Bezmenov described what my former country has done to your country since the 1960s. Unfortunately we now see the fruits of this process. A whole self-supporting ecosystem of lies and destructive beliefs. You should heed the advice from those of us who lived in totalitarian regimes, because you are not immune to this shit at all, and it has you now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlpODYhnPEo

It pains me to see how much the demoralization is thriving in America, outliving the USSR itself.

As Bezmenov said, once the generation has been demoralized, they will ignore any facts presented to them. None of you will even finish watching that 5-minute video, because your programming will resist it violently. Oh, the cynicism boiling up inside you within the first 15 seconds of looking at that "clueless old fart", the sharp comebacks.

There will be more tragically misplaced ridicule in this thread. If it was an exchange between me and one other person, I would've bothered, but that's not what happens on these forums. So I'm leaving this discussion behind once again.

This comment was edited on Dec 1, 2016, 08:13.

VaranDragon wrote on Dec 1, 2016, 04:49:

shiho wrote on Dec 1, 2016, 04:35:
Down with them conservative stupid fascist misogynist racist xenophobic rednecks! Yeah! Let's demonize the opposition, paint them with bold, uniform colors as subhuman pigs!

Oh, the irony is strong with this one.

No, it is not. I specifically iterated in the post that I don't think people who fall for this propaganda (aka Democrats currently) are inherently stupid.

I can separate the people and their mental capacity, from their conditioning.

I could say "Democrats are dumb", as an insult/joke maybe, but I would not post in serious fashion these articles about the so-called "opposition", insinuating that they are inherently mentally inferior.

You know, like that "Conservatives are inherently gullible" article, or bigoted shit like this:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mr-personality/201410/why-are-older-people-more-conservative

(^^^ apparently we are not enterpreneural, not creative, don't take risks, and love totalitarianism)

If these sentiments of mine strike you as silly, you need to research on how totalitarian governments manipulate people. Bigotry is how it starts. You're the ubermensch, they're the untermensch. Once a group of people is declared subhuman, it's easier to discard them.

Like I said, beware of ANY ideology which CONDITIONS you to, in your heart of hearts, even remotely start entertaining the idea of labeling millions of people as feebleminded. Not merely misinformed - but inherently mentally inferior to yourself.

jdreyer wrote on Dec 1, 2016, 03:14:
Again with "both sides do it."

Here's a guy who actually writes fake news for a living:

During the run-up to the presidential election, fake news really took off. "It was just anybody with a blog can get on there and find a big, huge Facebook group of kind of rabid Trump supporters just waiting to eat up this red meat that they're about to get served," Coler says. "It caused an explosion in the number of sites. I mean, my gosh, the number of just fake accounts on Facebook exploded during the Trump election."

Coler says his writers have tried to write fake news for liberals — but they just never take the bait.

The definition of irony is a fake news article talking about fake news articles. That Coler guy is a Democrat, which automatically gives his "fair and balanced comparisons" zero credibility. You want to have real science? Real science requires large sample sizes and a completely impartial source.

Frankly, one of the reasons why I am scared of modern "Democrats", is this particular elitist undercurrent. They're very keen on spreading THIS kind of "fake news" - Facebook articles on how much more mentally superior they all are. Bigoted articles on how conservatism is for old people, "Buzzfeed research" on how more Conservatives click on "fake news"... 'cuz they're inherently dumb, see?

To that I have to say - if 20th century taught us anything - BEWARE of an ideology which conditions you to label millions of people as "feebleminded".

There's been at least two in the 20th century, and I've had the "privilege" of being raised in one of them. We were the Soviet "Pioneers" - the new, progressive generation, wiser, more humane and vigilant than "those old guard".

The Germans in 1930s weren't stupid. The Soviets weren't stupid. The Chinese and the Cubans weren't stupid. They all fell for this shit.

It's just that people never change. They don't get "better" - but they do get easily programmed by being hit right into their vanity, something that lets them confirm their inherent superiority. And they just don't see it coming, because the ideology wears a slightly different face than earlier in history.

Down with them conservative stupid fascist misogynist racist xenophobic rednecks! Yeah! Let's demonize the opposition, paint them with bold, uniform colors as subhuman pigs!

Seeing this kind of REAL, dangerous bigotry on my FB feed is what alarms me greatly. Modern Democrats who tow this line, need a long hard moment of introspection.

This comment was edited on Dec 1, 2016, 04:46.