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Posted by: whybanme - 2008-07-19, 01:03 PM - Forum: Shenanigans
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Most of the ones on myspace are stupid enough to make me LOL, but today I saw this one on sleepywood.
Nothing against gay people, sorry >_>
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Posted by: IsaacGS - 2008-07-19, 06:29 AM - Forum: Maplestory Discussion
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Since MapleSEA got the Area Bosses batch 1 in their most recent patch, I went to delve through their new quests to see if I could learn some more storyline (By far the most interesting is the tale relating to Eliza and Snowman, but that's for another thread.) I was surprised to discover that one very neat thing slipped through: A quest from the Pirates' Pre-release event. If you aren't aware, CMS and TMS did a special event revealing the upcoming Pirates and their storyline in the patch before Pirates were added. This confused some of us as we were thinking that Pirates had already come out, when in fact it was just revealing that they would be soon. I had expressed interest in seeing these before, and hoped that GMS/MSEA would use them when it came time for Pirates to be released. Fortunately, this seems to be the case!
The quest is called:
Strange Omen.
Start this quest by talking to Lisa of Orbis.
[spoiler=Lisa's Dialog]
Lisa: I’ve seen a strange creature while flying over the sea just a few days ago. Its body was wide as a village, black and hard like a lump of metal, and it swam at the speed of a very fast flying bird.
Lisa: I got this strange feeling of danger, and followed it to Victoria Island. Could it be... a new monster waiting to attack Henesys? Oh, I’m feeling uneasy all of a sudden!
Lisa: If you don’t mind, will you go to Victoria Island to investigate what the strange creature could be?
Lisa: Ah, thank you. The creature stopped at The Forest East of Henesys, next to a village called Henesys in Victoria Island. I don’t know what the creature’s intentions are, but it just stood there still. Please find out whether or not the creature is dangerous.
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From here, you must journey to the map specified to find the Pirate NPC, Bart. You've all seen Bart before: He was on the "Bug Report Winners!" banner.
[spoiler=Bart's Dialog]
Bart: Who are you?! Name and position! I, Bart, will protect Nautilus and Kyrin! Remember the pirate hero, Bart! Hahaha! ...ha... hmm… strange. When did you use such a harassing tactic? But I, Bart, will not yield to your foolish plan!
Bart: What? Say that again? You came just to investigate on a suspicious person? Ahem... should have said that in the first place. We aren’t suspicious people. We’re just pirates. You’re not thinking that we’re some kind of looters or vicious gang like… like Debby Johns? Isaac's Note: Rofl, I love MapleSEA's horrible translations. Try Davy Jones, MSEA!
Bart: We travel far and wide through the seas of Maple World with our captain Kyrin on our Nautilus, and look for traces of the Black Magician. We are cleaning the seas of Maple World from evil forces with only our knuckles and guns to count on!
Bart: As the Job Advancement Officers of Victoria Island are gathering power to prepare themselves when the Black Magician reappears, Captain Kyrin is also doing her best to block evil forces. Even at such a young age... I am so proud to serve under her.Isaac's Note: And they called Kyrin a man again (I fixed it). Someone needs to learn how to translate genders. Or look at pictures.
Bart: So please, we aren’t suspicious at all! We will never do anything to hurt anyone else. I vow that upon my captain Kyrin’s name.
Bart: Preparations are slow so I can’t show you, but… you can look forward to seeing it, since we’re on the same side now! If you’re interested in becoming heroes of the sea with our captain Kyrin, feel free to come by anytime. We’ll start soon enough!
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Hopefully this is something that we, too, can look forward to. There's 3 other quests (One for Leafre, Henesys, and Ludibrium, in addition to this one for Orbis.) which are not present yet, and there's no sign that the pirate gate has appeared (which is directly referenced in the text of the Quest Log), so this is certainly not available in game yet. Still, looks like English pirates are just around the corner. Additionally, note our current translation is "Kyrin". Then needless to say the valuable information there about the Black Magician which confirms some suspicions and rumors.
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| [News Article] Have no fear! Your friendly neighborhood Prosecutors are here! |
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Posted by: Cactuar - 2008-07-18, 11:26 PM - Forum: The Speakeasy
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/18/face...index.html
CNN Article Wrote: PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) -- Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."
Prosecutors pounced when this party photo of Joshua Lipton in a "Jail Bird" costume appeared on Facebook.
In the age of the Internet, it might not be hard to guess what happened to those pictures: Someone posted them on the social networking site Facebook. And that offered remarkable evidence for Jay Sullivan, the prosecutor handling Lipton's drunken-driving case.
Sullivan used the pictures to paint Lipton as an unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital. A judge agreed, calling the pictures depraved when sentencing Lipton to two years in prison.
Online hangouts like Facebook and MySpace have offered crime-solving help to detectives and become a resource for employers vetting job applicants. Now the sites are proving fruitful for prosecutors, who have used damaging Internet photos of defendants to cast doubt on their character during sentencing hearings and argue for harsher punishment.
"Social networking sites are just another way that people say things or do things that come back and haunt them," said Phil Malone, director of the cyberlaw clinic at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. "The things that people say online or leave online are pretty permanent."
The pictures, when shown at sentencing, not only embarrass defendants but can make it harder for them to convince a judge that they're remorseful or that their drunken behavior was an aberration. (Of course, the sites are also valuable for defense lawyers looking to dig up dirt to undercut the credibility of a star prosecution witness.)
Prosecutors do not appear to be scouring networking sites while preparing for every sentencing, even though telling photos of criminal defendants are sometimes available in plain sight and accessible under a person's real name. But in cases where they've had reason to suspect incriminating pictures online, or have been tipped off to a particular person's MySpace or Facebook page, the sites have yielded critical character evidence.
"It's not possible to do it in every case," said Darryl Perlin, a senior prosecutor in Santa Barbara County, California. "But certain cases, it does become relevant."
Perlin said he was willing to recommend probation for Lara Buys for a drunken driving crash that killed her passenger last year, until he thought to check her MySpace page while preparing for sentencing.
The page featured photos of Buys, taken after the crash but before sentencing, holding a glass of wine as well as joking comments about drinking. Perlin used the photos to argue for a jail sentence instead of probation, and Buys, then 22, got two years in prison.
"Pending sentencing, you should be going to [Alcoholics Anonymous]; you should be in therapy; you should be in a program to learn to deal with drinking and driving," Perlin said. "She was doing nothing other than having a good old time."
Santa Barbara defense lawyer Steve Balash said the day he met client Jessica Binkerd, a recent college graduate charged in a fatal drunken driving crash, he asked whether she had a MySpace page. When she said yes, he told her to take it down because he figured it might have pictures that cast her in a bad light.
But she didn't remove the page. And right before Binkerd was sentenced in January 2007, the attorney said, he was "blindsided" by a presentencing report from prosecutors that featured photos posted on MySpace after the crash.
One showed Binkerd holding a beer bottle. Others had her wearing a shirt advertising tequila and a belt bearing plastic shot glasses.
Binkerd wasn't doing anything illegal, but Balash said the photos hurt her anyway. She was given more than five years in prison, though the sentence was later shortened for unrelated reasons.
"When you take those pictures like that, it's a hell of an impact," he said.
Rhode Island prosecutors say Lipton was drunk and speeding near his school, Bryant University in Smithfield, in October 2006 when he triggered a three-car collision that left 20-year-old Jade Combies hospitalized for weeks.
Sullivan, the prosecutor, said another victim of the crash gave him copies of photographs from Lipton's Facebook page that were posted after the collision. Sullivan assembled the pictures, which were posted by someone else but accessible on Lipton's page, into a PowerPoint presentation at sentencing.
One image shows a smiling Lipton at the Halloween party, clutching cans of the energy drink Red Bull with his arm draped around a young woman in a sorority T-shirt. Above it, Sullivan rhetorically wrote, "Remorseful?"
Superior Court Judge Daniel Procaccini said the prosecutor's slide show influenced his decision to sentence Lipton.
"I did feel that gave me some indication of how that young man was feeling a short time after a near-fatal accident, that he thought it was appropriate to joke and mock about the possibility of going to prison," the judge said.
Kevin Bristow, Lipton's attorney, said the photos didn't accurately reflect his client's character or level of remorse and made it more likely he'd get prison over probation.
"The pictures showed a kid who didn't know what to do two weeks after this accident," Bristow said, adding that Lipton wrote apologetic letters to the victim and her family and was so upset that he left college. "He didn't know how to react."
Still, he uses the incident as an example to his own teenage children to watch what they post online.
"If it shows up under your name, you own it," he said, "and you better understand that people look for that stuff."
What are your views on this? Personally, I think that it should be illegal in some cases.
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| Putting the "Monster" in "Pocket Monsters" |
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Posted by: IsaacGS - 2008-07-18, 10:12 PM - Forum: Shenanigans
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Skip to 4:34. That "Pikadorf" is the most disturbing thing I've ever seen in a video game.
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