Agnew

My hand holding up a slim hardback copy of One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad. It’s a red dust jacket and the title in white letter, but in between the first two words of the title and the rest, in dark red, is written “when it is safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable”

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I blame The Last of Us, personally.

Remember when the original Spider Man 2 came out? Remember hiw after its release, publishers stopped showing it off at conferences and making trailers? I don't know when this Spider Man 2 came out, but I know Sony have been telling me it's out and I should play it for years now.

Looks great, can't believe they even got the OG VA's.

They'd seen your tweets.

Ominous.

It's too late for me. I think every new game that looks like it was on the PS1 looks amazing and will be worth full price.

"Shit, that combat looks a bit like Parasite EVE, best make sure I've got an evening free for its release."

True.

People still getting angry over a video's title.

He changed his mind about the address after everyone assumed and got excited about it being his resignation.

He's not going, he's going to point to his Chief of Staff's resignation as him taking responsibility, how it's time to move past it, and he's going to get back to blah blah blah. He's not letting go until he's dragged kicking and screaming.

Nice one.

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Sky News is being extra weird about the Epstein files.

Considering everything that's happened with the Epstein horror show, I've never been more confident that David Cameron fucked that pig.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

The only man I know of in the entire world to be permanently banned.

Every time.

I would love nothing more than to see Trump have to sit through Glass' Music in Twelve Parts. It would kill him.

We were having a discussion about how the two scenarios differ, yeah. You said one had "nefarious means" and now you're saying that term meant nothing.

I'm not ignoring it, I'm specifically telling you it has no relevance.

What relevance does "official" have here?

Great. So you agree with my original point, that people playing specific game are now under legal threat for engaging in a part of the game's design and genre?

If its not the legal definition then why did you use it to explain the difference between the two scenarios and the precedent were discussing? Waste of time.

So something that made a game special, the key part of it, is now under legal threat. That's bad, yes?

The theft is literally just an in game freemium currency. That's the entire issue here, Mark.

EVE players have committed many "nefarious" acts "outside of any gameplay". No? Gaining access to someone else's accounts and resources for their own illicit purposes is still hacking, so what protects those EVE players?

I think "nefarious" describes those actions well. So, again, what keeps them from being prosecuted?

VIP membership? None that in familiar with. I game times with monetary value? Many, but back to the actual discussion. "Nefarious means" is a broad term. Not sure if you're familiar with the many things people do outside of the game to gain an edge on the competitors, to destroy and steal things.

The thing being stolen can be used to purchase VIP membership, exactly like Ruenscape. So why can't players be prosecuted for that?