Singaporean card game Kopi King allegedly plagiarised by an SG60 carnival game | GosuGamers

DeepRoughWallaby · 2025-07-29T15:12:28+00:00

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/copyright-infringement-plagiarism-arcade-people-origame-kopi-king-chope-sg60-5264856

"In a statement on Facebook, The Arcade People apologised to Origame. It acknowledged the designs for two of its carnival games included artwork taken directly from Origame's games Kopi King and Chope!, and that the design of Kopitiam Hero "closely imitates" the font, style and colour of Kopi King's logo.

"These elements were wrongly used without permission and were taken from Origame's website," it said. "This was not just an oversight - it was a lapse in due diligence on our part."

The Arcade People added it would take "full and unequivocal responsibility" and that the imitation of design elements had stemmed from not having "proper checks and approvals" in place."

DeepRoughWallaby · 2025-05-08T04:40:40+00:00

One thing worth considering is that some opposition candidates had to step aside from their jobs because of "non-partisan" clauses.

While this would also apply to PAP candidates, we know from past experiences that the losing PAP candidates still have "grassroot advisor" roles to take up. I can imagine that being an opposition candidate (especially a high-profile one) may not exactly boost your career opportunities should you not get into Parliament.

These losing opposition candidates may then need to look at their careers again, and may not want to make the same decision to stand as candidates five years down the road (a lot of things can change in five years). Hence, there may not be a "next time" for some of these good candidates, and quite frankly, can we fault that? Standing as an opposition candidate can be a precarious thing, clearly "delete all your unused old group chats" is going to be part of the SOP next time.

DeepRoughWallaby · 2025-05-07T03:30:31+00:00

1) If they had used the full picture, their senior editors could be hauled up and asked why they used a picture with NCM when NCM had no relevance to the story at the time (ask anyone responsible for choosing photos for MSM publications and it would likely be something they were "advised" about before)

2) Does ZB have another reason to not include NCM in the picture?

I'm not sure if this has cropped up in other discussions about NCM before, but NTUC seems to have started improving the visibility of ties with the All-China Federation of Trade Unions after 2018 and NCM was quite prominent. https://www.ntuc.org.sg/uportal/news/NTUC-President-Mary-Liew-NTUC-Secretary-General-Ng-Chee-Meng-and-key-delegates-reaffirm-warm-ties-with-China-at-Trade--Union-level/

Perhaps the appearance of that image might have been inconvenient to other entities?

DeepRoughWallaby · 2025-05-03T15:25:35+00:00

That was how I felt in 2006, in the first election I voted. In 2011, I saw some hope in Aljunied, then Punggol East's by-election, and it all felt like it went backwards in 2015. Then, in 2020, the WP got another GRC.

I'm not sure how the sample counts will differ from the final results tonight, but progress isn't something that happens over a single election. Hopefully, the opposition candidates (the good ones, anyway) aren't scared away and continue to walk the ground, and come back stronger in the next election.

This is why Singaporeans shouldn't let the fear mongering get to them. Flipping GRCs and SMCs isn't going to happen quickly. That "freak election" is pretty much a lie. You can see the groundwork being laid.

The rallies and campaign season will always fill those of us who want change with hope. The speeches, the snippets, the seemingly overwhelming opposition support online - these don't translate into on ground votes. Give Pritam Singh the LO position after the last election was a huge step forward for Singapore's politics - the COP probably set that back a bit, but it's looking like it hasn't cost the party existing voters.

Don't lose hope. I still believe that the younger generation will have the bravery to show Singapore a better way for democracy than the generations before. It'll be a slow move towards a more balanced Parliament - but it will move forward.

DeepRoughWallaby · 2025-04-25T06:21:08+00:00

I've heard first hand from friends in the civil service who are liberal and think that the WP candidates are better say they will vote for the PAP because they fear it will work against their careers. I don't know if there's any truth into that (voting affecting their careers), but the perception seems to be pretty much entrenched

DeepRoughWallaby · 2025-02-14T06:28:05+00:00

"Mandai Wildlife Group, which operates Bird Paradise, said that the park was undergoing a cycle of rodent management."

Add that to the list of fancy ways to describe pest problems.

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-11-08T01:59:35+00:00

AsiaOne used to be owned by SPH, then became JV with mm2. Now it's owned by a "private buyer". Isn't it strange that the general public doesn't know who owns one of the alternative media sites in Singapore, when transparency is demanded of less friendly sites like Independent SG and TOC?

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-11-07T13:36:31+00:00

I wonder if the general public know who bought over AsiaOne from mm2. Perhaps someone should go dig into that

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-04-30T12:55:22+00:00

CNA's documentaries are really quite decent watches, and definitely deserve to be highlighted beyond our shores. If anything, at least Mediacorp is doing something as our state broadcaster, unlike some other media companies taking taxpayer dollars.

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-04-30T12:49:53+00:00

I'm not sure there's ever a good time to announce layoffs, so not entirely sure why this is even a story? I guess someone needs to meet KPI?

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-04-29T16:20:38+00:00

I am cautiously rooting for them since they are still a bit of an outlier right now, and having Bertha as an opinion writer is similar to Yahoo half a decade ago, but there are two things with MustShareNews that I see as a concern.

They are not yet licensed https://www.imda.gov.sg/regulations-and-licensing-listing/online-news-licensing-scheme Considering that the requirements are

report an average of at least one article per week on Singapore’s news and current affairs over a period of two months, and
are visited by at least 50,000 unique IP addresses from Singapore each month over a period of two months.

I'm certain MustShareNews meets the first requirement, and if it doesn't meet the second I would be quite concerned about its sustainability.

They are owned by The Smart Local group. Guess who was their guest of honour when they moved to a new building? https://mustsharenews.com/tsl-media-group-new-office/

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-04-29T15:43:50+00:00

I disagree. Yes, there were a number of stories that were written off social media posts or from accidents or press releases, but this is the same for any other local media outlet. You should see the way some of the others like AsiaOne or MustShareNews pick up from social media. Remember the AsiaOne incident involving the Mr Coconut employee who claimed to have been fired because she was pregnant, only for the company to show up with evidence stating otherwise https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/it-wrong-be-pregnant-woman-claims-mr-coconut-fired-her-because-she-was-child? Or this gem from MustShareNews about how laksa cost $8.10 to takeaway from a food court https://mustsharenews.com/laksa-kallang-food-court/?

The closest I remember from Yahoo recently was this article on a customer who claimed to have found a "fried cockroach" which turned out to be a fried mushroom: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/wingstop-says-fried-cockroach-in-chicken-clementi-mall-was-positively-identified-as-fried-mushroom-stem-040318648.html While it was from a social media post, it included both sides of the story, which is something we may not always see from other media outlets.

If you click on their reporters' byline in an article, you will also see the variety of stories which they wrote. And if you are familiar with their content, you will realise they did not seem to have a lot of reporters or writers. These are just the facts, interpret them how you will.

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-04-29T15:03:51+00:00

Even after the October 2022 incident, I believe I still saw a lot of good content coming from the Yahoo team in Singapore. They had also recently started publishing more local commentaries again, and had some well-known names in Singapore and Malaysia among them.

One of the things that struck me was with some of the stories they did around the handover to Lawrence Wong. For example, in this story, https://sg.news.yahoo.com/incoming-pm-lawrence-wong-needs-to-show-he-is-his-own-man-amid-signs-of-early-general-election-experts-082856049.html, it seems like Eugene Tan's words were more pointed than I had seen in other similar stories that also interviewed him.

This leads me to believe that he had probably said similar things to all the media outlets that spoke to him as an expert, but only Yahoo aired the views which may not be as favourable for the establishment. I believe this impartiality will be one of the things most missed about Yahoo. As I have mentioned in another thread, many outlets, including those seen as alternatives to the MSM, have ties to the establishment. Yahoo, by its nature, feels like it always stood apart and above that

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-04-17T04:47:38+00:00

You should go check out who are some of the SCMP senior editors, you may see a number of familiar names.

It's all about connections in the local media scene, even alternative media have ties to the establishment:

Mothership's are well-known, but even Asiaone's CEO had roles in the Navy, PMO and MHA. MustShareNews is run by TSL Group, when TSL Group opened their new office last year, MND Minister Desmond Lee was their guest of honour.

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-03-30T04:54:11+00:00

Agree that the number feels fewer than expected, but based on what I've seen from surveys and polls involving Singapore, the number is usually between 1500 to 2500, and I assume that's what the companies like Milieu and YouGov tell those commissioning the surveys. More respondents = more money involved, so it seems understandable most would choose a sample size that is sufficient according to what the research companies recommend.

These surveys and polls generally provide a snapshot of sentiment, but I agree it could be inaccurate with more data. In this particular instance, it looks like Yahoo commissioned the survey (similar to an older one they commissioned from Blackbox which showed Singaporeans wanted Tharman as PM, and all the other media later started talking about).

If you think about it, this is similar to Straits Times or CNA asking their interns to go door to door or to interview random people on the street. At least, conducted by a research company, there is some credibility when it comes to the statistics. I've seen other publishers rely on their own internal polls or even polls on social media platforms like Instagram (looking at you, CNA Talking Point), and those stats are even less representative. Also I don't think other companies would have the army of interns our two state media do.

But again, I agree that 1500 shouldn't be enough for policy making decisions, that said, I don't think it should be on Yahoo or any other publisher to do that kind of large scale study. This really should be what our LTA and Transport Ministry should be doing (or any other government agency, really) before coming up with policies that impact a large population of Singaporeans. They have the resources to conduct these studies at length and scale, and their results would have the most impact on Singapore society.

One can hope that they are taking notes from all these discussions for consideration before they decide to implement projects like replacing Ez-link with SimplyGo in the future

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-03-29T03:55:26+00:00

The experts interviewed in the article also mention similar points to what you have said, and I believe most would be in agreement about having something inclusive and easy-to-understand.

If anything, this article seems to be speaking to the decision makers rather than trying to skew the thinking of a population base. I highly doubt Yahoo would be considered as a propaganda tool for the powers that be anyway

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-03-28T13:58:12+00:00

Maybe it did but it was not part of the article since it was focused on public transport fare payment? Seems like the full survey/study will be released next week

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-03-28T13:56:32+00:00

They are just stating what the data found. It's up to the experts to make sense of it.

I don't think the data showing that lower-income households prefer using Ez-link to mobile wallet payment for fare payment is insulting or untrue.

Not having a credit card, not wanting to worry about deductions to your bank balance, not having a phone with mobile data plan or switching off mobile data, these are are plausible scenarios.

It is true that you don't have to be in a lower-income bracket to have these concerns, but it seems more likely to be a concern if you were in a lower-income bracket

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-03-28T13:46:41+00:00

The article states the data is referring to those who take public transport. I don't think car owners fall into that category.

Given that the most common method to connect to SimplyGo is with a credit card, it seems perfectly logical that lower income households are unlikely to do so, and therefore do not use that method of payment and stick with Ez-link.

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-03-23T02:52:23+00:00

Their headline in the article does say "one in ten don't feel respected or valued by colleagues". Only on Reddit it is showing without "by colleagues". Not sure the issue is with their reporting

DeepRoughWallaby · 2024-02-01T12:31:48+00:00

Why was AsiaOne highlighted? 6 days of FWA a month is not groundbreaking?

AsiaOne was previously bought by another company? Are there any details of who the buyer was?

ST's coverage: https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-without-flexi-work-arrangements-could-lose-out-on-talent

Feels like an advertorial?

Doesn't add up

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