MetaSeraphim Wrote:I really don't understand why they fight so obsessively over the fact that they are worthless. Once you accept the fact that you're worthless you can let go of wanting acceptance and glory and recognition and then enter a state of elation that is far more rewarding than any other thing on Earth.

KhainiWest Wrote:Because they aren't fighting for themselves, they are fighting for everyone else

Quote:If you figured there was little chance Nick Denton was going to pay Hulk Hogan the millions of dollars he was awarded in a legal smackdown earlier this year, it's beginning to look like you were right.

The founder and CEO of the online media company Gawker on Monday filed for personal bankruptcy protection, listing Terry Bollea, aka the former professional wrestler Hogan, as his largest creditor. Bollea was awarded $140 million by a Florida jury trial in March after claiming Gawker violated his privacy in 2012 when it published a sex tape involving him and the now-estranged wife of a friend.

Denton's Chapter 11 petition filed with the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York listed his assets at between $10 million and $50 million and liabilities between $100 million and $500 million. The filing indicated that Denton was personally responsible for $125 million of the judgment.

In a tweet Monday, Denton took aim at Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire who has admitted being the bucks behind the defamation lawsuit, saying he was "consoled by the fact that my colleagues will soon be freed from this tech billionaire's vendetta."

Denton and Thiel have a history of animosity stretching back to at least 2007, when Gawker attempted to out Thiel, who is gay, before he was open about his sexuality. Two years later, Thiel told PEHub that Gawker's now-defunct Valleywag was "the Silicon Valley equivalent of Al Qaeda."

In June, Gawker filed for bankruptcy protection and agreed to sell itself to fellow digital publisher Ziff Davis.

Thiel did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

KhainiWest Wrote:And the leaked AGG logs proved pretty much what everyone was thinking, the main culprits to harassment, child porn, and just frankly everything they claim gamergate is, AGG is absolutely.
http://linkis.com/heatst.com/tech/ZbM18
https://sli.mg/a/GgUrrS

xparasite9 Wrote:isn't that basically a tactic in Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals? accuse your opponent of doing the nasty things you are doing in secret?

KhainiWest Wrote:Lookie who was in my discord chat;


I did confirm it was him

xparasite9 Wrote:it's really a useless fact if all you have is "hey ryulong aka michael cohen was in my discord"

KhainiWest Wrote:I didn't actually say it was anymore did I? It wasn't like "O, HES GOING AGAINST GG". Also yes, I did confirm what he was using it for and it's consistent. He posts a lot of..fan art, and he was trying to 'transparent' a background. He also had a mental breakdown after I said that. Apparently he's trying to remain under cover with little attention.

xparasite9 Wrote:boy I sure do enjoy preachy localization...

MetaSeraphim Wrote:Not even close to being wrong though. Gamers so badly need a kick in the ass when it comes to complaining about "MUH CENSORSHIP!".

MetaSeraphim Wrote:Not even close to being wrong though. Gamers so badly need a kick in the ass when it comes to complaining about "MUH CENSORSHIP!".

Flonne Wrote:grab random people off the street to do the VA work.

Flonne Wrote:How so? I feel that editing a game in any way from it's original content is inexcusable and generally pointless besides. If you can't rerelease it due to censorship laws without heavy editing, or if you do not have a competent team that is focused on portraying the original vision instead of inserting pomegranatety memes (and yes, I am aware some games use JP memes, direct TL is still best), don't buy the IP in the first place, it would be better to give people the kick in the pants to learn JP because nothing is getting localized than to let them continue to eat up the mediocrity of current localization. Nobody will listen to that rationalization because there is a lot of money in localizing games when you aren't paying anyone barely pomegranate to do any of the work and they grab random people off the street to do the VA work if there is any. Some easily recognizable companies have always been localizing games badly, and they have always been wrong for doing so.

ShinkuDragon Wrote:i disagree about keeping it 100%, some jokes are literally untranslatable and not funny in english, like japanese word puns, which if you translated 1:1 would make no sense/fun. or some joke referencing some jap prime minister sex scandal, most people would have zero idea about what it's talking about, change it to clinton and suddenly the joke is back with the same exact message.

that's what a good localization does, keeps the context, intact, but saves the message.

MetaSeraphim Wrote:Not even close to being wrong though. Gamers so badly need a kick in the ass when it comes to complaining about "MUH CENSORSHIP!".

xparasite9 Wrote:That's fine but I often see jokes inserted where there were none at all in the original.