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« on: August 18, 2016, 07:04:29 PM »
http://www.wired.com/2016/08/peter-thiel-just-got-wish-gawker-shutting/Spoiler AFTER A 14-YEAR run, Gawker.com is shutting down next week. Gawker Media’s new owner, US Spanish-language TV network Univision, made the decision to shut down the site after bidding $135 million for the web publisher’s seven-site portfolio in a bankruptcy auction earlier this week. (A bankruptcy judge is set to approve the final sale later today.) Gawker’s outgoing CEO Nick Denton broke the news to staffers in Gawker’s Manhattan office today.
The end of Gawker is also the end of an era in the web’s short history. As one of the original online journalism upstarts, Gawker pushed editorial boundaries beyond the niceties of traditional mainstream journalism in a way that has come to define the tone and style of news on the web. At its worst, Gawker published articles with seemingly little news value, like its purported outing of a Condé Nast executive (Condé Nast is WIRED’s parent company). At its best, Gawker punched up with a vengeance, holding powerful public figures and institutions accountable. In the process, Gawker often angered those same powerful people, including two fateful posts that led to its undoing: one that identified billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel as gay, and another that excerpted a Hulk Hogan sex tape. Thiel secretly bankrolled Hogan’s invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker, and Hogan won in court. The $140 million judgment against Gawker eventually bankrupted the company, forcing it to sell its editorial assets. Now Gawker.com is no more.
Gawker writers will reportedly keep their jobs at one of Gawker Media’s six other sites, or at other properties owned by Univision. (The TV network also owns the tech-centric Fusion, the black news and culture site The Root, as well as a minority stake in The Onion.)
Wherever those writers land, Gawker’s shuttering is a sobering reality check not just for its own employees but journalists in general. Whether or not you agreed with its approach, Gawker’s willingness to push limits and stir controversy underscores the whole point of the First Amendment. “The biggest [downside] is losing the financial independence that let us write whatever we want without any fear of corporate overlords trying to quash us,” one Gawker Media writer told WIRED when the company declared bankruptcy. Now, it seems, those outside forces—with the help of a powerful tech tycoon—accomplished just that. Any thoughts?
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« on: August 17, 2016, 09:45:31 PM »
I think you've had enough to drink for tonight, Door.
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« on: August 17, 2016, 09:30:16 PM »
Off to solitary confinement hopefully, prisons are already jihadi recruitment centres imagine what they'll be like with Choudary
The inmates will probably give him a red carpet.
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« on: August 17, 2016, 05:49:11 PM »
 This stuff is god tier.
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« on: August 17, 2016, 05:37:36 PM »
 This stuff works great for me during the summers when it's hot and muggy outside.
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« on: August 12, 2016, 03:32:25 PM »
Game is nothing but crashing. £39.99 for a game thats been in development since 2008, delayed multiple times and it still does not work, I want a refund You're severly wrong about the minimum system requirements, replace them with this-
Mimimun-
A computer made by jesus christ himself but it'll still struggle to hit 20 fps i7 5820K @ 5ghz and 2 Gtx 980ti's and I can't hit a stable 60fps... 
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« on: August 12, 2016, 03:26:46 PM »
Apparently it got a completely half ass PC port
I'm not surprised. Either way, back to Witcher 3 and other games.
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« on: August 12, 2016, 03:19:52 PM »
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« on: August 12, 2016, 02:44:36 AM »
That review was honestly better than everything I've ever read on Kotaku and IGN.
Somebody hire Jester as a game journo.
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« on: August 10, 2016, 07:22:30 PM »
Inb4 Class
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« on: August 09, 2016, 09:31:32 PM »
You clearly got beat, give it up.
No, YOU'RE clearly getting beat. I'm shredding apart each and every single one of his shitty points.
Delusions of Grandeur are not counters.
Misuse of psychological terms in a futile effort to sound intelligent doesn't make you so.
He already conceded defeat. Now it's your turn.
If you're merely talking about expressing your displeasure with something in a game then I concede.
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« on: August 09, 2016, 09:23:18 PM »
You can express whatever asinine opinions you want. I never said that you can't be your shitty self. Just don't go fucking with people's lives and trying to prevent people from living their lives.
Which I never do anyway, and never would. So what have you contributed to this thread? As usual, nothing.
Oh well. Thanks for admitting that I'm right.
Anyhow, good night to you too.
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« on: August 09, 2016, 09:16:57 PM »
Also, you and your opinions don't frighten and/or upset anyone.
Yet you're somehow implying that they COULD frighten or upset people, and that I shouldn't have the right to say what I want to say, because that would be "CENSORSHIP."
You're a joke.
You can express whatever asinine opinions you want. I never said that you can't be your shitty self. Just don't go fucking with people's lives and trying to prevent people from living their lives.
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« on: August 09, 2016, 09:06:40 PM »
I specifically said they're not having knives held to their throats. Then it can't be described as censorship. Being "intimidated" into doing something without being threatened to do so does not constitute censorship, and I don't give a fuck what the ACLU thinks of that. Free speech is free speech. If I don't like something, I'm going to speak out against it to have it fucking changed.
It doesn't become censorship until I start using threats, which would be wrong.
But if my opinions intimidate you, I don't give a fuck. Fuck you and your feelings.
The "private pressure group" in this type of situation is merely the types of angry Twitter mobs that you'd most likely gleefully take part in so you can feel morally righteous and like you just did something important. Just because they're not having their lives or their company's existence directly threatened doesn't mean they can't be pressured into submitting via badgering. I don't care. People have the right to badger the living fuck out of whatever they want, as long as they're not crossing the line into harassment and threatening territory.
Having toxic vitriol spewed at the developers from every direction, trying to go after their employment, and trying to pry into their real life so you can silence whatever perceived wrongdoing they may have committed is basically a method of censorship. The ACLU is also one of the most well-known and respected non-profit organizations in the country, so you can't just say "Oh, fuck them, they don't matter." We can express our distaste for something all we want(Fuck, we do all the time on here), but when we start mobbing someone into conformity and trying to silence them via social and economic means because they put something in a product that some political group didn't like, then we're going into fucktard territory. Also, you and your opinions don't frighten and/or upset anyone.
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« on: August 09, 2016, 08:44:44 PM »
"Censorship can be carried out by the government as well as private pressure groups." And that's not what's happening. There are no private pressure groups. No one is holding a gun to a Capcom developer's head and saying "Change this or die."
I specifically said they're not having knives held to their throats. The "private pressure group" in this type of situation is merely the types of angry Twitter mobs that you'd most likely gleefully take part in so you can feel morally righteous and like you just did something important. Just because they're not having their lives or their company's existence directly threatened doesn't mean they can't be pressured into submitting via badgering. Moreover, just because the state isn't carrying it out doesn't mean it can't be considered censorship.
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« on: August 09, 2016, 08:25:44 PM »
Localization where they censor the medium just because some are offended = censorship.
When people are harassing devs, and they submit = censorship.
The reasoning is irrelevant. If the developer mandates the change, it's not censorship. Period.
If anything, a developer submitting to the deeds of their buyers is the exact opposite of censorship.
If it's people who are not the devs who want change, and the devs have to change it because of those people = censorship.
They DON'T have to change it. Ever. They do it because they want to.
What you're basically arguing is that game developers don't have a right to personal autonomy when it comes to their own products. They're not ALLOWED to change their products, because YOU said so. You fascist pig.
They do it because hordes of neurotic busybodies like yourself will flood their social media and corporate sites with vitriol demanding they change whatever triviality might have offended their rigid code of acceptability.
And they have every goddamn right to do that.
That doesn't mean they're being forced, and it doesn't make it censorship.
They do it because they're being shouted down by perceived customers to specifically tailor whatever it is they're selling to whatever political ideal said screeching morons desire. While they may not have a knife being held to their throats, they're still nonetheless being intimidated. Furthermore, here's a link to the ACLU's website that defines what censorship is. It specifically mentions that censorship can be carried out via private means.
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« on: August 09, 2016, 08:08:14 PM »
Localization where they censor the medium just because some are offended = censorship.
When people are harassing devs, and they submit = censorship.
The reasoning is irrelevant. If the developer mandates the change, it's not censorship. Period.
If anything, a developer submitting to the deeds of their buyers is the exact opposite of censorship.
If it's people who are not the devs who want change, and the devs have to change it because of those people = censorship.
They DON'T have to change it. Ever. They do it because they want to.
What you're basically arguing is that game developers don't have a right to personal autonomy when it comes to their own products. They're not ALLOWED to change their products, because YOU said so. You fascist pig.
They do it because hordes of neurotic busybodies like yourself will flood their social media and corporate sites with vitriol demanding they change whatever triviality might have offended their rigid code of acceptability.
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« on: August 09, 2016, 07:54:19 PM »
Censorship is acceptable in several different scenarios, such as incitement to violence, NDA's, security clearance, intellectual property rights, harassment, defamation, licensing, endangerment...
So I'm not going to vote, because the poll is lacking and doesn't include a "yes, in certain cases" option.
/thread
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« on: August 09, 2016, 06:32:14 PM »
 Sorry for what?
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« on: July 29, 2016, 06:08:28 PM »
"omg how dare the world give the disadvantaged an advantage!?! I'm the only one who deserves to be overprivileged!!"
[cuckolding intensifies]
oh my god he called me a cuck how will I ever recover from this
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« on: July 29, 2016, 06:05:03 PM »
"omg how dare the world give the disadvantaged an advantage!?! I'm the only one who deserves to be overprivileged!!"
[cuckolding intensifies]
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« on: July 27, 2016, 07:48:23 PM »
what if questions re: history are always fucking retarded and usually answered based on nothing but conjecture. this is a dumb thread.
Everybody knows that alternate history scenarios are based on conjecture and imagination. That doesn't mean they aren't useful or fun. There's no need to be sour towards everyone for no reason.
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« on: July 25, 2016, 06:16:01 PM »
Why are you going up to Canada?
Because I have never been and I don't have to work.
What sites do you plan to see?
Went to this famous garden place today and probably half the people there were Asian.
Gonna bum around tonight and get on a bus tomorrow to Vancouver. Then go back to Seattle and see the Space needle and stuff before heading back.
Sounds like you're having a good time. Where do you plan to go on vacation next time around?
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« on: July 25, 2016, 05:47:18 PM »
Why are you going up to Canada?
Because I have never been and I don't have to work.
What sites do you plan to see?
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« on: July 25, 2016, 05:36:55 PM »
Why are you going up to Canada?
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« on: July 23, 2016, 12:01:31 PM »
What you're describing is avarice, which is a personal flaw.
Enabled by capitalism.
Avarice is a human flaw that predates capitalism and is recorded throughout human history. That's something that will never go away.
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« on: July 23, 2016, 11:48:14 AM »
What you're describing is avarice, which is a personal flaw. Capitalism is merely an economic system in which the means of production are operated by private citizens for profit rather than by an entity like the state. It is, despite its flaws, the most successful economic system in human history.
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« on: July 21, 2016, 05:42:12 PM »
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« on: July 18, 2016, 05:11:52 AM »
Is there even any confirmation that the shooter was affiliated with the BLM movement?
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