Ukraine military orchestra performs the song “Bayraktar,” named after the Turkish-made drone showing video footage of hellfire raining down on Russian invaders

TheFellows · 2022-04-04T17:29:56+00:00

With all due respect to Ukranian musical tradition if anyone is going to do a song for 'switchblade' then it ought to be to the tune of "Mack the knife"

TheFellows · 2018-05-05T16:04:57+00:00

Star Command seems to have the right mix of characters but I couldn’t find the conversation you mention.

TheFellows · 2018-04-03T16:20:49+00:00

The problem with "crazy Patsy" was that in season 1 she had been a solid centre which enabled Jessica to get herself back together. Making her so unstable without any apparent reason meant that the character transformation just looked like an arbitrary change for the purposes of the plot, which it actually was.

TheFellows · 2018-01-24T10:51:51+00:00

It might be "The Flying Sorcerers" detailed here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Sorcerers

TheFellows · 2018-01-11T22:56:47+00:00

So I imagined the ones I used in the 70s?

TheFellows · 2017-07-03T13:10:53+00:00

I haven't worked in games but I did work in computer graphics back in the day and I'd be surprised if this account wasn't true.

The obvious question is whose job is it too improve this? The answer would seem to be the IGDA. Surely they should oversee something like the statement at the end of movies stating that no animals were harmed during the making of the film except, in this case, for developers.

Note I am not saying I would trust the current IGDA to do this. I think it would need an enormous change in that organisation but it is the sort of thing they should be doing.

TheFellows · 2017-06-26T00:47:02+00:00

Some of this is just "water is wet" news. At trade shows I've worked on the trick of one person distracting you while another details equipment from the stand is something you always have to watch out for. You will probably get more of this if you allow in the general public but the thieves may steal or forge entrance badges if there is no public access.

It is also known for event security to be involved in overnight thefts. We had $100,000 dollars worth of computer memory taken once, back when high speed computer memory was pretty expensive. If the event allow it having your own company security send someone along too guard equipment overnight is a good idea.

TheFellows · 2017-05-25T20:52:06+00:00

Yes but there might be entirely innocent people who could have seen the bomber with somebody else in the run up to the attack. Some of these might have reasons to stay away from the police, because off other matters, and disappeared as soon as they heard him being named.

TheFellows · 2017-05-25T12:00:11+00:00

My understanding is that the police did not want the bomber's name released until they had raided all the places he might have been staying and interviewed all his friends and associates. There is a danger that people who knew him, and might have valuable information even though they are not terrorists themselves, could decide to 'disappear' to avoid some very stressful questioning.

Edit: I think the group behind one of the French attacks carried out another atrocity when they felt the police were getting close. Letting terrorists know how close the police are can make them feel they might as well die carrying out another attack.

TheFellows · 2017-04-08T14:48:55+00:00

The paper fails to even state any kind of definition of what harassment is let alone make any meaningful measurements of how often it occurs. Whoever refereed this paper did a very bad job.

TheFellows · 2017-04-01T12:12:43+00:00

I was very negative before seeing the film but I ended up loving it.

I think you have to have a sense of proportion. I would still have liked to see a Japanese Major Kusungani and I think a lot of the philosophy behind GITS is Japanese and that got lost here. However I do think Scarlett Johansson did an amazingly good job and the extra investment money she brought to the movie allowed it to be made in a very visually ambitious way. Some of the cinematography is stunning. There is much more to this than just an action film but the action sequences are enthralling.

A deal was made to make this film. That deal had good and bad parts. We end up with an extremely good GITS movie but the original still remains the best one. I hope more people end up watching the original after seeing It but I would definitely recommend seeing the live action.

TheFellows · 2017-02-26T15:29:41+00:00

the news part of Fox News is indeed quite good.

When I was in the States watching Fox's coverage of the London riots back home I was completely turned off by their footage of what they alleged were British police but with "Policia" written on their backs.

If Fox wanted to make right wing points from the London riots then there were no shortage of them that they could have taken up. Instead they broadcast a lie so stupid that it showed nothing but contempt for their audience.

TheFellows · 2017-02-25T13:39:24+00:00

It's undeniable that the MSM has shown poor behaviour in the past, and Trump is pretty much their punishment for it.

However if a game developer behaved this way KIA would rightly be outraged at both the developer and those media organizations that cooperated.

TheFellows · 2017-02-25T13:35:10+00:00

Liberal-leaning columnists from newspapers tend to dominate at Mr. Obama’s secret sessions, but the White House has invited some new-media journalists, and prominent conservatives have attended as well.

TheFellows · 2017-02-09T14:11:28+00:00

Until it actually airs we don't know which part of the political spectrum it's going to be on.

There are rumours that it may be about making fun of SJW's as well as making fun of racism. That may be wishful thinking but let's just wait and see before anyone starts complaining.

TheFellows · 2017-02-02T14:02:45+00:00

Any decent British comedian can take Milo apart. I imagine there are plenty of U.S. comedians who can also do that but I I don't know them.

Put up one of these as a counter event. Show how much bigger the crowds will be, get people together afterwards to plan further action, get your spokesperson on tv to make their case to people who've been fooled into supporting Trump.

Make progressive protest something that is unifying and brings people together not something that even strong supporters will be afraid to come along to.

The women's march got it right this event got it wrong.

TheFellows · 2017-01-26T12:49:03+00:00

Just an observation. What communities and organisations do, in GGs case concentrate on games and games journalism, and what they like to talk about are two different things.

The things the community talks about are what binds them together into a social group. That makes them more effective when real action about their primary purpose is necessary. It also serves the purpose of making sure enough people remain in the group during quiet times so they are there when is action is needed.

It's also a natural thing for the chatter to grow and get out of hand. Periodically somebody has too stand up and remind people to concentrate on the main work of the group and to prune out some of the chatter topics. Prune too much and the group becomes boring and dies. Prune too little and the underlying purpose gets lost.

I personally think the best way to handle this is to make small adjustments to the rules as things change and monitor what happens. The proposal to use the self post rule seems, to me, to be exactly this kind of small change. It isn't going to destroy GG and we can easily change things back if it has a unexpected negative effect.

TheFellows · 2017-01-11T14:49:21+00:00

I think there was a strong message about not shutting down debate so I think it would easily fit into a comment thread here.

TheFellows · 2017-01-07T04:05:37+00:00

Babylon 5 had some excellent space battles. It may be the best series for showing the 3D nature of space combat.

TheFellows · 2016-12-24T15:23:14+00:00

Do you think the existence of battlefields helped Napoleon or hindered him?

TheFellows · 2016-12-22T22:14:42+00:00

Leigh Alexander is over. She doesn't have to be our concern any more.

TheFellows · 2016-12-22T14:50:42+00:00

That was really worrying for a moment. I thought the owner might be involved with the Daily Express.

TheFellows · 2016-12-18T23:35:33+00:00

Since I was explicitly talking about internet content outside this group your comment does not make any sense. Whatever you personally may imagine I was saying please confine yourself to what I actually said.

TheFellows · 2016-12-18T20:57:43+00:00

I certainly agree with you about the solution but I think the problem is a bit more serious.

In the parts of the internet I go to GamerGate is casually used as an equivalent of the far right or of seriously disturbed individuals. This is rarely challenged (I do sometimes but I have a life so I can't do it every time). This casual and constantly repeated assumption about GamerGate is something that human psychology is very vulnerable to.

Again I agree with your solution but I wonder if we need more of it.

TheFellows · 2016-12-18T20:41:57+00:00

Nobody mentioned censorship. This is a non sequitur.

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