/r/Games Meta Discussion: 500,000 Readers, Zoe Quinn, and the Wiki by XavierMendel in Games

[–]goldcakes 1268 points1269 points  (0 children)

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I disagree. I think that the Zoe Quinn affairs have noteworthy relevance to gaming, as it involved game journalists and editors in a context that questions journalism integrity in a field that is already plagued with exorbitant review trip perks and gifts bribes.

If a producer slept with a movie critic, it will be news. If an author slept with a book reviewer, it will be news. How does the medium of video games change anything?

There are two parts to any discussion about Zoe Quinn's alleged affairs (which have been substantiated with incriminating facebook chats, so basically confirmed):

  • discussion about Zoe Quinn's affairs in relation to video game journalism, as well as the overly friendly 'relationships' and bonds between game journalists and game developers/publishers

  • discussion about Zoe Quinn's affairs in relation to Zoe Quinn

The latter has no relevance to gaming and shouldn't be here, or anywhere. But the former is what I've saw most discussions (before they were deleted about). Before the mass censorship, website takedowns, etc, people weren't talking about Zoe Quinn because of her. People were mainly talking about her in the context of video game journalism.

I think that's worthy of discussing, and deleting everything absolutely made it worse.

TotalBiscuit discusses the state of games journalism, Steam Greenlight, ethics, DMCA abuse and Depression Quest. by SpiritualSuccessors in gaming

[–]goldcakes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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REACH 20K COMMENTS

http://thezoepost.wordpress.com/

http://thezoepost.wordpress.com/

http://thezoepost.wordpress.com/

Mods turned on auto-delete to censor this thread and cover Zoey Quinn's ass. Just try a silence us. We will not be silenced! WE WILL FIGHT!

http://i.imgur.com/0ZAaahT.png[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Cynicalbrit/comments/2dym6u/tb_opinion_on_the_zoey_quinn_scandal/[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-51PfwI3M[3] http://imgur.com/1fdvlxz[4] Mod Response: http://i.imgur.com/1fdvlxz.png[5] I have a question for the moderators of /r/gaming[6] : what blatant infringement happened here that warranted the removal of what looks like thousands of comments?

REACH 10K COMMENTS!

So, why is there no discussion on the "Quinn" scandal that has recently come to light? by AnExoticLlama in Games

[–]goldcakes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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Mods are censoring all information on it. Here is the original blog:

http://thezoepost.wordpress.com/

There is PLENTY of proof there

TotalBiscuit discusses the state of games journalism, Steam Greenlight, ethics, DMCA abuse and Depression Quest. by SpiritualSuccessors in gaming

[–]goldcakes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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REACH 10K COMMENTS Mods turned on auto-delete to censor this thread and cover Zoey Quinn's ass. Just try a silence us. We will not be silenced! WE WILL FIGHT! http://i.imgur.com/0ZAaahT.png[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Cynicalbrit/comments/2dym6u/tb_opinion_on_the_zoey_quinn_scandal/[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-51PfwI3M[3] http://imgur.com/1fdvlxz[4] Mod Response: http://i.imgur.com/1fdvlxz.png[5] I have a question for the moderators of /r/gaming[6] : what blatant infringement happened here that warranted the removal of what looks like thousands of comments? REACH 10K COMMENTS!

/u/rafstar gets scammed out of a 400$ phone, uses Google Street View to find scammer and gets him arrested. by Markars in bestof

[–]goldcakes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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Stupid thief - same desktop, wallpaper?

Blemishes / marks / damage on certain parts that are easily identifiable?

Why in the world does Theymos have the private key to send bitcoin alerts? by btcHIM in Bitcoin

[–]goldcakes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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Very little altcoins innovative. They generally simply add new gimmicky features that serve little purpose other than as a marketing ploy.

Gavin Andresen on Cloud Mining and its ability to practice "Fractional Reserve Mining" by ugtarmas in Bitcoin

[–]goldcakes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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I don't think you understand. The only way to perform 'fractional reserve mining' is on pools THEY claim to be mining at.

And yes, most pools have graphs showing your mining output, and if it's an external pool, they must actually do the work (hash) for you to get paid. So you'd notice from the lower hashrates / payout.

Gavin Andresen on Cloud Mining and its ability to practice "Fractional Reserve Mining" by ugtarmas in Bitcoin

[–]goldcakes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Because if it hits a pool you choose (or run youtself), you see it submitting shares proving it is hashing.

You spoke, we listened: Hive Android now requires only a single major permission from you - access to your camera. By permission count, that makes us the most privacy-conscious app among the top ten Android wallets. (Besides Coinbase, but well, they tell Ben Lawsky about you ;-) .) by jav_rddt in Bitcoin

[–]goldcakes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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Because my screen and user interface is wasted with 0 LTC, 0 DOGE. Same for the send interfaces, etc. It's not a choice, it's being forced upon you like these shitcoin have utility.

Boston Police Used Facial Recognition Software To Grab Photos Of Every Person Attending Local Music Festivals by davidreiss666 in privacy

[–]goldcakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Any links to the 50 hours of recording? I'm interested in the quality, frame rate, etc.

You spoke, we listened: Hive Android now requires only a single major permission from you - access to your camera. By permission count, that makes us the most privacy-conscious app among the top ten Android wallets. (Besides Coinbase, but well, they tell Ben Lawsky about you ;-) .) by jav_rddt in Bitcoin

[–]goldcakes -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

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It supports a bunch of crappy altcoins. Not the best for a variety of reasons, considering that most altcoins (including Bitcoin PoW variants) have no utility.

Metadata emerging as a major tool in ICAC investigations of Liberal MPs by Evadregand in australia

[–]goldcakes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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Broadcast: 10/08/2014

LNP have since then said that they don't mean the address, just the client assigned IP.

By the way, since you're downvoting me I'll return the favour.

Metadata emerging as a major tool in ICAC investigations of Liberal MPs by Evadregand in australia

[–]goldcakes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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He explicitly said that they're not tracking the addresses of the sites you visit.

I'm a Greens supporter but please don't spread FUD.

One-punch killers to get 10 years' jail in Victoria by Evadregand in australia

[–]goldcakes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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These laws don't make it murder. They are minimum mandatory sentences for manslaughter.

Julian Assange to leave embassy by loklanc in australia

[–]goldcakes 18 points19 points  (0 children)

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  1. You have sex with someone who later becomes politcally vulnerable.

  2. You call out rape, years later.

  3. ???

  4. Profit.

Julian Assange to leave embassy by loklanc in australia

[–]goldcakes 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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Support the mission of revealing government secrecy used to hide wrongs.

The best thing you can do is people who risk their freedom to whistleblow, make your opinions quietly but firmly heard (to everyone you know, but quietly as in when it's a good place to talk about it), and when you're faced with the opportunity whistleblow.

One-punch killers to get 10 years' jail in Victoria by Evadregand in australia

[–]goldcakes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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Number if people that punches someone somewhere other than the face because of this mandatory sentence: >0

One-punch killers to get 10 years' jail in Victoria by Evadregand in australia

[–]goldcakes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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Then don't punch someone in the face. I don't think that's something unreasonable to expect from society, when it has been shown again and again that otherwise healthy people die because some jackass fatally punches someone.

(Have you also thought that punches have different intensities, and a punch that a typical person might throw can be very different in strength to a punch that results in a fatal killing?)

As you've said, it's "high unlikely" (pure number wise. I'm sure there are people that can throw single punches that kills the majority of the time), so what's the issue with a small portion of society being made an example of to discourage this behaviour?

As quoted from the article:

"This law will send a very clear and simple message: a punch to the head is a dangerous act that can kill.

"Would-be offenders need to get their message and step back and think before they throw that punch."

I support this message. 'Violent pub culture' does not excuse you from refraining from taking actions that has a small, but still considerable, chance of killing someone.

Metadata emerging as a major tool in ICAC investigations of Liberal MPs by Evadregand in australia

[–]goldcakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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No, it's not.

“One of the difficulties with a term like metadata is it can be different things to different people and we have to be very clear with what we mean," he said.

“They also want the IP address - the number assigned to your phone or computer when you go online by your ISP so you can be connected to the internet. The ISP knows that address is connected to your account, and [the agencies] want that information to be kept for two years,” Turnbull said.

Specially:

“There has been some concern expressed that the Government is proposing telcos should retain for two years a record of the websites you visit when you’re online, whether that’s expressed in the form of their domain names or IP addresses, that there would be a requirement to retain a two year record of your web browsing history - that is not the case,” Turnbull said.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/390808,turnbull-offers-metadata-definition.aspx

Metadata emerging as a major tool in ICAC investigations of Liberal MPs by Evadregand in australia

[–]goldcakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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It's only the IP you are assigned with. It does not include IPs you visit.

Metadata emerging as a major tool in ICAC investigations of Liberal MPs by Evadregand in australia

[–]goldcakes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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Not that I support it, but URLs are considered data.

This shit is scary. Almost sub $4 ? :( I mean, I said I'll buy all the way down. But much lower can it go? by Kurdish-Nationalist in litecoin

[–]goldcakes -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

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No, bitcoin did not go $30 to $1. The Mtgox hack trades were not legitimate.

This shit is scary. Almost sub $4 ? :( I mean, I said I'll buy all the way down. But much lower can it go? by Kurdish-Nationalist in litecoin

[–]goldcakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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The reason why BTC went down is because people bought stuff with BTC, which has the same effect as selling BTC short term. Long term, user adoption of merchant services is good for the viability.

The same isn't happening for Litecoin.

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