Recent posts by Frostbringer on Kongregate

Topic: Serious Discussion / International Media And Gezi Protests

Originally posted by Pulsaris:

To this day, I think nobody has ever conceived a workable way for that without making great sacrifice in human liberty and free will. Perhaps the difficulty isn’t in carrying it out, but in inventing it out of thin air.

So far the problem was, that the elite has pretty good protection against the common mob. Also, last time I checked the Nordic countric, France and Switzerland were doing pretty well. Damn well, to be exact. And they are pretty close to the republican/communistic ideal.

As sidenotes: Pure Communists are actually anti-democratic and have their system of councils and cambers; critic and self-critic. Someone who fights for democracy is actually called a republican. (As in someone who promotes a republic, the opposite of a monarchy.) But in reality I can’t remember meeting a single communist who argued against democracy. And because there is often confusion with an US-American party with same name but opposite goals, republicans tend to call themselves communists, or democratic socialists. There isn’t that much difference between them anyway. At least there aren’t any differences, that can’t be solved with a reasonable compromise, which is pretty much the favourite word of all socialists anyway.

Topic: Kongregate / Could Kongregate be a publisher like Adult Swim?

Some of the games from Kong are at Greenlight. Here is Epic Battle Fantasy as example:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=133229519&searchtext=epic+battle

and here you can read, how much success (or lack of it) it has:
http://www.deviantart.com/art/EBF4-post-mortem-376532871

Plus there is this ongoing controversy for streamlining the process of getting games to Steam. Which means, that having a publisher won’t be enough in the future. Adult swim games play even a massive role in this discussion, as you can read here: http://kotaku.com/steam-sends-indies-who-got-publishing-offer-back-to-gre-510922011 (There are other sites with better coverage, but here you can get the basic facts). Although there are games that are too good for greenlight, like for example cranky cat. Here is an 8 minute rant about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um_rftrTNcs . But in general Steam wants, that nice games need to get through the Greenlight-process, if they want to be on steam.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Fingerprint police state

Originally posted by vikaTae:

I’d be more worried about implanted electronic IDs or passive identity techniques like gait identification than fingerprinting.

I can only second this.

Although most people already carry an easily traceable personalised object with them all the time: A cellphone. And the newest generation of “smartphones” with GPS even create movement profiles. Implanted IDs that you can’t leave at home are only a little step forward. Compared to this, a fingerprint is pretty harmless.

Topic: Serious Discussion / How much should the goverment do to control extremist groups?

Originally posted by fma1:

The Bill of Rights guarantees the right to free speech. The law allows them to spit out all the racist bigotry they want. Unless they are actually attempting to harm someone, they are not breaking the law. The government can’t do much to control them since the foundation of all laws in this country gives them the right to say whatever they want as long as they are not harming people.

Sadly this is far from reality in the USA. The reality is, that companies fire their people for almost no reason, if they express any opinion in public that could be offensive to pretty much anyone. And considered how difficult it is to find a new job, especially if you are listed on one of the <sarcasm>non-existend</sarcasm> black lists, the situation there is pretty grave. There are other factors that limit the freedom of speech in this country by a lot. But I guess the fear that it would influence the career is the most relevant for the general public.

Topic: Astroflux / Glitches and Bugs

1) I can’t pick up more junk into my chargo
2) Maximum is 200
3) All added together I’m at almost 400
4) on the right upper corner it’s shows not even half full
5) when pressing C it says, over 60% is empty

???

Sorry, but the chargo-system makes no sense at all.

Topic: Astroflux / WHY & How to fix the PvP - a message to the developers.

I’m only in Arrenius and the situation is pretty bad here. Got killed 3 times in 10 minutes, once while I tried to get from the Recycling-station to the next red dot. And every enemy gives only a single point of XP, while I have only gathered about 10% of the resources for the next area. And because of the PVP-situation I should change one area back, which is laughable.

I really want to love this game and I really like this kind of game and also don’t mind PVP. Still, this game earned it’s 1/5 (would be a 3/5 without all it’s bugs) and I can do nothing but hoping that somebody else will do it better.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Why are breasts considered "private" parts?

How do women in the USA breast-feed their children? Because it’s a little difficult to feed them without showing their “private” parts. And I’m also pretty sure that the women don’t like to be locked into their house at this whole phase of their life. And it’s also pretty obvious, that women don’t let their children die from hunger either.

Just wondering …

Topic: Serious Discussion / Boston Marathon Double Explosions

Originally posted by PatriotSaint:

Here’s a page: http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/inspire2.jpeg

Also, if the producers wanted the bomb-makers to die while in construction it would be contradictory to the purpose of the article in the first place. Jihad manual~Al Qaeda magazine

Here is the front-cover of the magazine: http://gawker.com/5577082/make-a-bomb-in-the-kitchen-of-your-mom-al+qaedas-official-english+language-magazine . Which by the way has 64 sites in total. I only scanned through the magazine and as far as I read they were speaking only about pipe-bombs. And by the way, it only took me about 5 minutes of research (with Google!) to get my hand on a full unabridged version of this magazine. But truth to be told, this magazines changes it’s topic in the middle of the paragraph pretty often. Assuming that it stays on topic over several sites was a pretty huge error on my side.

And please, don’t be naive. All is fair in love and war. If you take the first instruction you can find with Google (a company that closely cooperate with anti-terrorist-organisations) and follow it, then you deserve your Darwin award. And no, I really don’t want to point out the sentence I’m referring to.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Boston Marathon Double Explosions

Originally posted by PatriotSaint:

Al Qaeda just happens to have an article in their magazine called “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom”. Featuring, specifically… pressure cooker bombs. What a coincidence.

“Just” in this case means Summer 2010. The magazine is called Inspire, you named the headline. The article is about a pipe-bomb. Same technology, but with a pipe instead of a pressure cooker. And as bonus I researched, that this article contains a very dangerous advice. If you are following everything point to point like an idiot, you will most likely blow yourself up in the workshop. (Or in this case: kitchen.) Which most likely is the very point of this magazine.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Boston Marathon Double Explosions

Originally posted by issendorf:

Gotta love how the media is already blaming it on those nasty Republicans and people on the far right. The lesson, as always, is to never let a tragedy go to waste.

To be honest, considering the nature of this event, a random right-wing hate-group is pretty high on my suspect-list. This race was always a topic, because it allowed Niggers pretty early. And that Bobbi was able to finish the Marathon, although women weren’t allowed, means also a lot. And the affords to hinder Switzer were medicore at best. (Instead of removing her from the race in all silence, she was unsuccessfully hindered in front of the camera – in my humble opinion a bad theatre play, but it did it’s job.) And countless other things happened in the history of this event, that aren’t in line with the common rigth-wing-agenda.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Questions about Copyrights and Fair Use [YT]

When it comes to Youtube, I guess uzzbuzz don’t need a lawyer, but a visionary. Because it’s not like this decisions are based on copyright laws, but Google rather exercises the property rights of their platform. First of all Google cares about pleasing the big content providers. And because there are many of them with opposing goals and ideologies, everything becomes very random. In case of doubt a video is removed and for sure Google won’t use their resources to make complex researches.

Topic: Serious Discussion / North Korea

Originally posted by dd790:

Well as it is a Democratic Republic then I guess he is president, though I think he prefers the title of supreme commander, or supreme overlord or Dr Evil or whatever crazy title these non-elected democratic leaders of republics prefer

North Korea has democratic elections. But because of their plurality voting system only two parties matter, with both reaching about 50%. Although because the two parties have both the same manifesto (save for unimportant details) and have members of the same family as figure head western media tend to add this two numbers together. Strictly spoken this is comparable to adding the results of Democrats and Republicans in the USA together. But in my personal opinion this is valid. I’m pretty sure if the other party would have won this election, the country would be 100% the same. With the same people with the same commands in the same positions.

And to be fair, the communistic press also writes, that the capitalistic party has reached 98.27% in the last US-American election. Which in fact are the votes of Obama and Romney added together. Although I’m not that sure if this is valid, because at least I can observe a certain difference between this parties and the situation isn’t as extreme as in North Korea. But I guess this is also a matter of personal taste. At least for someone outside the USA the fine differences between these two parties blur pretty fast and you only see one big capitalistic party.

Topic: Serious Discussion / North Korea

Originally posted by PatriotSaint:

According to the UN?

C’mon, the UN would fail at changing some lightbulbs, if it came to that. They aren’t exactly a very solid source.

The UN actually handled it pretty well to change the production methods of light-bulbs to reduce energy consumption. And even the USA finally broke down, although they where able to get longer deadlines. Just saying.

Topic: Serious Discussion / North Korea

Originally posted by PatriotSaint:

And… wrong.

If that’s true I wonder why so many countries participate in RIMPAC and other US hosted military training activities?

According to the UN the control over the seas is at the moment the most pressing topic of international politic. In the past nobody really cared owning the seas. But with things like deep sea mining, algae farms and even floating cities this changed. The RIMPAC is an absurdly complex political dance about this topic. Calling it military training activities is really missing the point of this insanity.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Oscar Pistorius.

To be honest, this men never was a good poster boy. His world view was strange at best and he also isn’t able to take the mildest form of critic.

But let’s wait for the trial and how everything turns out in the end.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Hey, you know that meteor that hit Russia?

We are actually speaking about the Russian Sarah Palin. Zhirinovsky is a clown and the representative of the right wing of a more then right wing party. Palin and Zhirinovsky actually even collided a few times. Zhirinovsky actually wanted to “retake” Alaska by force to free this state from their capitalistic/Jewish oppressors and make it the new home of the Ukrainians. And no, I don’t make this things up. If you care you can search the Internet for it. There is more then one nice gem in the clash of these clowns.

Here is his Wikpedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Zhirinovsky

Topic: Serious Discussion / Solution For Euro Crisis

The 30 year old BT copper network is pretty much everything Great Britain has for their last mile. The big majority of services advertised as “fibre power” use a regular copper subscriber line. And norrowband is data over voice over data. Or data over voice if the lines aren’t digitalised, which in GB was often delayed until the late 90s. Norrowband only exist, because telecommunication companies were unable to prevent dial in, because they couldn’t tell the difference between this and a regular phone call with the equipment of this time. And the pressure from the general public was also pretty heavy, so at some point the gave up and provided DSL. There a few high-speed projects, but they are only showcases.

LTE is a shared medium, that is pretty much used up by Smartphones alone. Beam radios also have their limits, if you don’t want to barbecue someone. Satellite are no competition, even with the weak other choices GB has at the moment. Also, EuroCore simple can’t handle much more data and the maintenance-tunnels are not thick enough for more fibre-cables. Most ISP try to avoid routing over GB for this reason. They all route over Sweden and Sweden earns a lot of money with this service.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Solution For Euro Crisis

When British Telecom was privatised they fired their whole Research and Development team (the same T-Mobile did in Germany) and they stopped maintaining their network. While they still got the income from licensing all the research that was done before. Great Britain was once absolutely leading in this field. Until 1982, when the roll-out of the telephone-book-terminals was stopped. Which was de-facto residential Internet! (The universities already had something similar to the Internet deployed.)

It’s actually pretty obvious that the USA wanted to stop this, because they had their own networks (namely MSN and AOL) that needed protection. Although MSN was delayed for over 10 years, because they had massive problems with their protocol. They thought that 256 addresses per node will be enough and every DSLAM gets his own MSN-server. Didn’t worked well, to say the least. But to defend Microsoft, at this time much more DSLAMs were planned. They didn’t knew, that there will be hardly a DSLAM with less then 2500 residential-lines present. And that their customers are at very most 0.5km from the DSLAM away is also pretty rare. Even in London you sometimes have 4-5 kilometres, which means 2MBit/s down / 500KBit/s up at most. That are the customers that BT gave up and now either have a cable provider, LTE or bad luck.

And by the way, the big development also never happened in the USA and other countries. Instead the Internet leaked into the residential market over narrowband. And in 1982 the VDSL-technology was available! (49Mbit/s down, 8Mbit/s up, not shared) That’s something many Internet User can only dream about at the moment. 1995 MSN was finally released in a hurry. I’m not a expert on AOL, so I can’t say anything about them. <sarcasm>But the MSN was great</sarcasm>: You only had few sites where you have to pay a monthly fee per site as subscription. Or you install Novel and you get a lot of sites plus every single site of the MS-Network for free. Needless to say, that the MSN didn’t last for long. And now in 2012 GB is finally at the same point as in 1982: Right before the roll-out of VDSL. But they have problems with the aged copper-network and a Backbone that is at it’s very limit.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Can Communism Work?

Originally posted by thijser:

OK why did you have to dig up a treat from 2011? And communism was inveted by Karl Marx in England.

I guess you missed this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-No%C3%ABl_Babeuf . Communism was actually around for a few generations before Marx was even born. And Marx himself was an economist, not a leading figure of any kind.

Topic: Bush Whacker 2 / Add me thread V2

I played 7 days in a row. So it’s most likely worth adding me.

Cheers,
Frosty

Topic: Serious Discussion / Palestine being recognized as a separate state

Originally posted by OmegaDoom:

^dude, you’re the one not being serious. you realise that Russia has far bigger ties with France than China, right?

Why do so many people from the USA (and other western countries) offensively ignore the SCO? Russia and China are on the way to become one and the same country. If they haven’t reached this point yet. And the media coverage about this is – non existent? Seriously, I simply can’t remember that I read anything about the SCO in the Western press. Ever. But to be fair, the SCO was founded with the very purpose to oppose the USA, so it’s no surprise that they don’t get to much love from this country. Just check their homepage and form your own opinion: www.sectsco.org .

Topic: Serious Discussion / Palestine being recognized as a separate state

Originally posted by Shadowhopeful:

I must be really out of touch, since I always thought and considered Palestine to be a separate state…

Your are not alone with your opinion. I even have a nice map. The green countries think that Palestine is a separate state:

Topic: Serious Discussion / 21 days left.

Normally I’m not a big fan of the NASA at all. But this stupid 2012-viral-campaign for some mediocre Hollywood-movie isn’t normal. So here I have a link: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html .

Topic: Serious Discussion / ARE We In The End Times?

Yesterday I got a pocket calendar for the year 2013 for free. Even one with a good leather binding, which you normally don’t get for below 20€. I thought this is fishy from the very beginning, but if the world ends at the end of this years this explains everything.

Topic: Serious Discussion / U.S. Presidential Election

Originally posted by MyTie:

I dislike the notion that the election of a politician validates that politician’s viewpoints. Hitler was elected. Stalin was elected. Did that mean they were right and the people who didn’t support them should reevaluate their viewpoints?

Not saying Obama is Hitler, just dismissing the idea that being elected is validation of leadership. Popularity does not make right.

Hitler wasn’t elected. He actually was able to ban all other other parties and take over the country in a combination of a lawsuit and brute force. On the last free election in Germany the NSDAP got 18,3 percent. (Or 16 percent, if you remove some obvious electoral fraud.) Which was more then underwhelming, given how much propaganda there was to back up their position. They actually had the biggest propaganda campaign ever going on, financed from money collected all over the world. Which turned into a heavy campaign against democracy itself afterwards.