What we need, and never will get, is a law passed to end line item bills!
We have two huge bills here that are a disaster. Following “stimulus” bills that were disasters.
What this does is force politicians to make the same choices the population makes when you get someone like Trump elected based on two or three issues alone.
Or someone like Biden elected based on one issue alone (not Trump).
Congress will vote for the bill based on the one thing they like in it. The rest be damned.
I just see that there is a possibility. And if there is any potential, I believe in innocent until proven guilty.
See, the right way to do this would have been:
This is the location of the machine, come verify it.
He didn’t do that. So now we all get to watch him prove he’s a simple idiot (by not taking the easy route) that is good at games… or a fraud.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t know. And I don’t defend it without knowing. As I said, I hope for his sake. He’s got one hell of an uphill battle because despite what Anonymous Coward thinks, this is a very powerful and influential group, as a whole.
And a very skilled one.
As far as I can tell:
There IS the possibility this was an original rom used in a multi-unit board. Which would technically make it legitimate(ish).
There’s real commercial boards that use MAME too. Again still, legitimate(ish).
NO ONE FUCKING CARES ABOUT YOUR VIDEO GAME RECORD BUT YOU DIPSHIT.
You’re quite mistaken on that.
You don’t care.
Ultimately I don’t care either. Other than we have a fraud OR a rigged organisation that takes out its disllike of someone by breaking its own rules.
It may not be front page news, but along with speed runs, high score records make major bank for those that reach there. The award is the equivalent of a degree.
It’s like nascar in the sponsorship idea. They get free equipment. Paid endorsements. Commercial advertising.
To be called out as a fraud is very dangerous in a community where multi-thousand point Scot’s are sorted by 1 or 2 points difference. Where completion times can be measured in nanoseconds.
A score can be tossed just by the date of the cartridge or arcade board. The rom (chip) revision. Etc.
This is a small but extremely expensive subset of the game community. And the top level is extremely profitable for all involved.
So there’s multiple issues here.
A) what is meant by emulation. Is it running game A rom on board B?
Or is it running game rom c on a computer via software emulation.
The latter is absolutely taboo in this context.
The former. Running an Atari chip from a stand-alone unit in an Atari made multi game unit machine is generally acceptable.
Running that rom chip in a 3rd party reproduction condensed board, frowned upon.
All is technically a degree of emulation, but misusing the term could break the career of a gamer.
Considering that two types are par for the corse in an industry that still depends on some 1970s equipment that can’t be original-parts replaced; the term carries heavy consequences.
So ultimately, saying emulation meaning anything other than software level reproduction is absolutely an attack on the gamer.
One with disastrous consequences.
Financial consequences!
You don’t need to agree with the industry and it’s multi-million-dollar level of elites. I don’t.
But this is more than a simple “he bad man” statement.
—
I just hope he has proof, for his sake. Because this went from a regional dispute that could have been handled within the industry to mainstream news with the lawsuit.
He doesn’t need to just convince the jury/court now. He needs to convince every gamer, every game company, every peripheral manufacturer…everyone!
“Though, who knows if that’ll happen anytime soon”
This is someone who could pull it off. A huge following across multiple platforms.
I think the internet, the mainstream internet, has become to common centrist! (Yes I’m limiting this to American companies conforming to American views).
The problem isn’t who is getting banned, or even how or why. It’s the machete method. It’s like a real life Jason or Mike. Slaughter everything:silently.
Both parties here are at fault. It’s a bloody fucking arse. And it’s sexual.
So what?
I hope she does create a new platform. It’s about time we get another IDGAF platform.
One made by a content creator who has been banned!
With good communication, logical rules, and a motivation to filter and move, over deletion.
Because I get it. Yoga pants bother your Victorian prudish lack of sensibilities.
Omg, front page war. The horror!
Ped pizza.
Ban it all culture! That’s what we’re looking at today. That’s what we have today.
Race notices on every film. Gender warnings before a show starts.
Ban any discussion that doesn’t fit the host as conspiracy. Left or right. Doesn’t matter.
2 years ago I warned on this very site this was coming.
Now everyone just bans everything and nobody knows why! Well, they do, to some degree but creators aren’t told anything.
Yes, these people push the boundaries. That’s what a liberal society does! Test the boundaries. Be it science or sex. That’s how we grow. Learn. And when necessary, adapt!
The problem with censorship is €{}*+#%=
At least have the strength to say WHY someone was cut off!
I recall a handfuls.
TD turned me into a follower for her.
Not because of the actual content but because she’s just… strange? It’s fun to watch someone bounce from quite normal to wow, that’s bizarre.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Here's the difference though
overturning the government and abolishing a democratic election
Well, the call was for an investigation. For a clear and through investigation. And many demanded recounts, or new elections.
This is part of the problem! It’s propaganda!
Very, very, few said remove Biden and seat Trump. With no other steps.
Floyd, Rodney King...again and again and again.
Jan 6, A16, May Day, King, the liquor sellers… same again and again…
Protests turn to riots when nobody listens.
I’m with you on that aspect. But it’s non partisan!
equating two extremely different situations with different stakes, different means…
The means are the same. Violence.
As soon as it turns to violence you have lost your moral high ground.
You forget just how quick the Democrats, rightfully, we’re to contes 2000 and 2004.
If Trump had been declared the 20 winner I have no doubt the situation would be the same and the protestors would have been party swapped.
But the way it’s been painted as an insurrection… it’s just not accurate.
The demand was to verify each and every vote by hand with within-sight auditors. At least.
Or revote: in person, at best.
Obviously a hundred news channels were all sending a real-timed deep fake then.
The obvious is it’s apparently Ohkay to call a protest a riot based on the lesser subsection there, as long as it’s something you directly support. As done as something you don’t support turns…?
I’n not denying violent actors. I’m defending the non-violent protest.
The vast majority of the the whole that day.
The vast majority did not go beyond civil protest.
It’s the hypocrisy of reaction that has me pissed of so royally!
Violent or not. Police shot a woman. But it’s ohkay because the unarmed woman had a chair. And broke a window. No discussion on lethality here.
We had vandalism, not arson.
I’d go so far as to say some, a literally half dozen, should likely be charged for domestic terrorism.
But where is the commission on the torching of the federal courthouse, with people inside? Where the commission on the on the billion plus dollar riots in Chicago. Where’s the commissioner on the illegal occupation of an armed group in Washington?
How about the republican senator assaulted in DC on their way to dinner by undeniably BLM protestors, not “plants”.
Yes, there was criminal unrest during a protest at the capital building. But this is being played far greater than it was in reality.
And the Republican pushback is not denying it happened. It’s fighting against a smear campaign that is
a, over casting on actors, and
b, focusing on the act and not a solution.
The pushback is the overreaction to this incident after all the other violence, including outright terrorism, since the death of Floyd.
The claims of “last straw” or “but it’s the Capital” or “but…but…”.
That you can’t even understand my own annoyance without immediately throwing me into some illicit grouping is clear evidence of the problem.
It’s an overreaction to a single case and an underreaction to the whole situation nationwide.
One has to wonder though; at what point is a computer search within the realm of human search?
Because google here already did multiple “searches” and “scans”.
Google’s AI scanned the text for advertising. So a computer has read the email. Google scanned the attachments to look for viri. Se that’s another scan. Then it ran the images against a known series of other CSB materials.
So what we have here is the digital equivalent of:
Went to the mail box. Opened up the box. Read the letter. Washed the contents. And looked to see if it matched known illegal material. Then put it all back together with some new tape.
Not only that, they duplicated the material by sending it to another party.
Is there a point where such actions can become the equivalent of a human search in the first place?
All the same things were done that a human could/would do in a private non-destructive search.
I know I’m turning slightly towards rights for AI as a separate being but I’m trying to dodge that here. At some point… can a computer doing the exact same things reach equivalence?
This is the first time I’ve come across seeing the name of this group. And all I can go by off hand is what is linked in the article.
As far as what they say? This one doesn’t look bad. As for what they do? No idea. Never heard of them.
Election is overseen by monitors from both parties.
Unfortunately 2 didn’t happen in many places. 3 neither.
Poll watchers were too far away to see actual ballots. When they were in the same room at all.
And that is where this started. Not only did you have unrequested ballots sent out to less than reliable addresses of poll records; you had counts that weren’t properly monitored.
And 7 is wrong. Signs of fraud were found. There’s always fraud in elections. It just didn’t amount to anything statistically countable.
From partisan harvesting to dumped mail to back dating postage cancellation to pre completed ballots being signed by homeless in exchange for food or money.
It didn’t change the results, but it did happen.
I don’t support breaking the law. Those that do should be held accountable!
I will defend the the right to protest though. Even if you protest against me.
That the media can’t sort out the facts -or more likely doesn’t care- to understand that multiple groups came together for similar reasons with different intentions… nothing I can do.
Some were violent. Most were not.
I don’t doubt there were a few idiots looking at revolution too. But again, don’t see that being any majority here.
Not only is this a good chance to look at the security of the capital, once again it was easily penetrated illegally, but we have a multi trillion dollar infrastructure package. We could put an end to all in person fraud by funding realid for every US citizen and legal resident.
I be the whole debate on that. But no. Why do something useful like that?!
A thousand people didn’t storm into the capital. Thousands of people we ate the rally, and the following protest yes.
But thousands did NOT enter the capital by any means.
A few dozen, not several hundred, through the entry. As the security footage confirms.
The story of the media and the reality are two separate things.
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Re: Create Urgency
That’s so believe that’s exactly what Koby said. Yet they get downvoted?
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Line item bills
What we need, and never will get, is a law passed to end line item bills!
We have two huge bills here that are a disaster. Following “stimulus” bills that were disasters.
What this does is force politicians to make the same choices the population makes when you get someone like Trump elected based on two or three issues alone.
Or someone like Biden elected based on one issue alone (not Trump).
Congress will vote for the bill based on the one thing they like in it. The rest be damned.
These mega bills need to be stopped.
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Re:
Lol!
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Re:
But with the emissions rules, mpg rules, etc, they intend to kill off the used car market. Sorry, no fall back there.
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Re: Re: Re:
For the most part, I’m with you.
I just see that there is a possibility. And if there is any potential, I believe in innocent until proven guilty.
See, the right way to do this would have been:
This is the location of the machine, come verify it.
He didn’t do that. So now we all get to watch him prove he’s a simple idiot (by not taking the easy route) that is good at games… or a fraud.
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Re:
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t know. And I don’t defend it without knowing. As I said, I hope for his sake. He’s got one hell of an uphill battle because despite what Anonymous Coward thinks, this is a very powerful and influential group, as a whole.
And a very skilled one.
As far as I can tell:
There IS the possibility this was an original rom used in a multi-unit board. Which would technically make it legitimate(ish).
There’s real commercial boards that use MAME too. Again still, legitimate(ish).
But produce the rom and board or sod off.
It’s that simple.
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Re: Re: Re:
Well… again… matter to you
On the other hand there’s tens of thousands of top level professional gamers who disagree with your opinion.
So “no one” is factually incorrect. In fact, the existence of this law suite proves you wrong.
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Re:
You’re quite mistaken on that.
You don’t care.
Ultimately I don’t care either. Other than we have a fraud OR a rigged organisation that takes out its disllike of someone by breaking its own rules.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211014/10390647748/billy-mitchell-survives-anti-slapp-motion-tw in-galaxies-second-time.shtml#c231
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The consequences are major
It may not be front page news, but along with speed runs, high score records make major bank for those that reach there. The award is the equivalent of a degree.
It’s like nascar in the sponsorship idea. They get free equipment. Paid endorsements. Commercial advertising.
To be called out as a fraud is very dangerous in a community where multi-thousand point Scot’s are sorted by 1 or 2 points difference. Where completion times can be measured in nanoseconds.
A score can be tossed just by the date of the cartridge or arcade board. The rom (chip) revision. Etc.
This is a small but extremely expensive subset of the game community. And the top level is extremely profitable for all involved.
So there’s multiple issues here.
A) what is meant by emulation. Is it running game A rom on board B?
Or is it running game rom c on a computer via software emulation.
The latter is absolutely taboo in this context.
The former. Running an Atari chip from a stand-alone unit in an Atari made multi game unit machine is generally acceptable.
Running that rom chip in a 3rd party reproduction condensed board, frowned upon.
All is technically a degree of emulation, but misusing the term could break the career of a gamer.
Considering that two types are par for the corse in an industry that still depends on some 1970s equipment that can’t be original-parts replaced; the term carries heavy consequences.
So ultimately, saying emulation meaning anything other than software level reproduction is absolutely an attack on the gamer.
One with disastrous consequences.
Financial consequences!
You don’t need to agree with the industry and it’s multi-million-dollar level of elites. I don’t.
But this is more than a simple “he bad man” statement.
—
I just hope he has proof, for his sake. Because this went from a regional dispute that could have been handled within the industry to mainstream news with the lawsuit.
He doesn’t need to just convince the jury/court now. He needs to convince every gamer, every game company, every peripheral manufacturer…everyone!
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You know…
This is someone who could pull it off. A huge following across multiple platforms.
I think the internet, the mainstream internet, has become to common centrist! (Yes I’m limiting this to American companies conforming to American views).
The problem isn’t who is getting banned, or even how or why. It’s the machete method. It’s like a real life Jason or Mike. Slaughter everything:silently.
Both parties here are at fault. It’s a bloody fucking arse. And it’s sexual.
So what?
I hope she does create a new platform. It’s about time we get another IDGAF platform.
One made by a content creator who has been banned!
With good communication, logical rules, and a motivation to filter and move, over deletion.
Because I get it. Yoga pants bother your Victorian prudish lack of sensibilities.
Omg, front page war. The horror!
Ped pizza.
Ban it all culture! That’s what we’re looking at today. That’s what we have today.
Race notices on every film. Gender warnings before a show starts.
Ban any discussion that doesn’t fit the host as conspiracy. Left or right. Doesn’t matter.
2 years ago I warned on this very site this was coming.
Now everyone just bans everything and nobody knows why! Well, they do, to some degree but creators aren’t told anything.
Yes, these people push the boundaries. That’s what a liberal society does! Test the boundaries. Be it science or sex. That’s how we grow. Learn. And when necessary, adapt!
The problem with censorship is €{}*+#%=
At least have the strength to say WHY someone was cut off!
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Re: Re: Re: Why do they need a reason?
A crotch oh, the horror!!!
Then they should say…
Something.
Anything!
Instead… 🦗
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Re: Regular readers?
I recall a handfuls.
TD turned me into a follower for her.
Not because of the actual content but because she’s just… strange? It’s fun to watch someone bounce from quite normal to wow, that’s bizarre.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Here's the difference though
Well, the call was for an investigation. For a clear and through investigation. And many demanded recounts, or new elections.
This is part of the problem! It’s propaganda!
Very, very, few said remove Biden and seat Trump. With no other steps.
Jan 6, A16, May Day, King, the liquor sellers… same again and again…
Protests turn to riots when nobody listens.
I’m with you on that aspect. But it’s non partisan!
The means are the same. Violence.
As soon as it turns to violence you have lost your moral high ground.
You forget just how quick the Democrats, rightfully, we’re to contes 2000 and 2004.
If Trump had been declared the 20 winner I have no doubt the situation would be the same and the protestors would have been party swapped.
But the way it’s been painted as an insurrection… it’s just not accurate.
The demand was to verify each and every vote by hand with within-sight auditors. At least.
Or revote: in person, at best.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Here's the difference though
The obvious is it’s apparently Ohkay to call a protest a riot based on the lesser subsection there, as long as it’s something you directly support. As done as something you don’t support turns…?
I’n not denying violent actors. I’m defending the non-violent protest.
The vast majority of the the whole that day.
The vast majority did not go beyond civil protest.
It’s the hypocrisy of reaction that has me pissed of so royally!
Violent or not. Police shot a woman. But it’s ohkay because the unarmed woman had a chair. And broke a window. No discussion on lethality here.
We had vandalism, not arson.
I’d go so far as to say some, a literally half dozen, should likely be charged for domestic terrorism.
But where is the commission on the torching of the federal courthouse, with people inside? Where the commission on the on the billion plus dollar riots in Chicago. Where’s the commissioner on the illegal occupation of an armed group in Washington?
How about the republican senator assaulted in DC on their way to dinner by undeniably BLM protestors, not “plants”.
Yes, there was criminal unrest during a protest at the capital building. But this is being played far greater than it was in reality.
And the Republican pushback is not denying it happened. It’s fighting against a smear campaign that is
a, over casting on actors, and
b, focusing on the act and not a solution.
The pushback is the overreaction to this incident after all the other violence, including outright terrorism, since the death of Floyd.
The claims of “last straw” or “but it’s the Capital” or “but…but…”.
That you can’t even understand my own annoyance without immediately throwing me into some illicit grouping is clear evidence of the problem.
It’s an overreaction to a single case and an underreaction to the whole situation nationwide.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Here's the difference though:
I don’t condemn the BLM rallies. Only the illegality attached to them.
Much like 1/6, I don’t condemn the rally, only the illegality attached to it.
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Re: the courts are drawing a funny distinction
One has to wonder though; at what point is a computer search within the realm of human search?
Because google here already did multiple “searches” and “scans”.
Google’s AI scanned the text for advertising. So a computer has read the email. Google scanned the attachments to look for viri. Se that’s another scan. Then it ran the images against a known series of other CSB materials.
So what we have here is the digital equivalent of:
Went to the mail box. Opened up the box. Read the letter. Washed the contents. And looked to see if it matched known illegal material. Then put it all back together with some new tape.
Not only that, they duplicated the material by sending it to another party.
Is there a point where such actions can become the equivalent of a human search in the first place?
All the same things were done that a human could/would do in a private non-destructive search.
I know I’m turning slightly towards rights for AI as a separate being but I’m trying to dodge that here. At some point… can a computer doing the exact same things reach equivalence?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
This is the first time I’ve come across seeing the name of this group. And all I can go by off hand is what is linked in the article.
As far as what they say? This one doesn’t look bad. As for what they do? No idea. Never heard of them.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Unfortunately 2 didn’t happen in many places. 3 neither.
Poll watchers were too far away to see actual ballots. When they were in the same room at all.
And that is where this started. Not only did you have unrequested ballots sent out to less than reliable addresses of poll records; you had counts that weren’t properly monitored.
And 7 is wrong. Signs of fraud were found. There’s always fraud in elections. It just didn’t amount to anything statistically countable.
From partisan harvesting to dumped mail to back dating postage cancellation to pre completed ballots being signed by homeless in exchange for food or money.
It didn’t change the results, but it did happen.
I don’t support breaking the law. Those that do should be held accountable!
I will defend the the right to protest though. Even if you protest against me.
That the media can’t sort out the facts -or more likely doesn’t care- to understand that multiple groups came together for similar reasons with different intentions… nothing I can do.
Some were violent. Most were not.
I don’t doubt there were a few idiots looking at revolution too. But again, don’t see that being any majority here.
Not only is this a good chance to look at the security of the capital, once again it was easily penetrated illegally, but we have a multi trillion dollar infrastructure package. We could put an end to all in person fraud by funding realid for every US citizen and legal resident.
I be the whole debate on that. But no. Why do something useful like that?!
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Re: Re: Re: Here's the difference though:
A thousand people didn’t storm into the capital. Thousands of people we ate the rally, and the following protest yes.
But thousands did NOT enter the capital by any means.
A few dozen, not several hundred, through the entry. As the security footage confirms.
The story of the media and the reality are two separate things.
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
Unlike PT you and I agree more than we don’t.
However;
There’s two issues you miss here.
The 1st is the majority of protest wanted nothing more than proof that the election was accurate.
The second is the OK, from their linked list of requirements, are not beyond the constitutional base.
At least at face value,
Excluding the definition limits of statehood: they’re on the surface simply constitutional defenders.
Until someone finds something to counter my post at the bottom… there’s little to go on here.
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