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Post by Jeshin on Feb 21, 2016 19:00:21 GMT -5
I would actually love to know why Nergal (Arm Staffer) is coming after me specifically on TMC. As far as participation in this community goes, I've always been on the moderate end.
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 21, 2016 18:13:40 GMT -5
You don't anymore. It has been taken down as Barka has stepped back from his previous decisions.
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 21, 2016 17:42:58 GMT -5
Well... No you can get a cease and desist from anyone. Whether it's a valid cease and desist is another matter.
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 21, 2016 17:29:01 GMT -5
Okay well I can't find where Barka may have said that because he's deleted his account and it looks like a good majority of his posts.
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 21, 2016 17:25:43 GMT -5
I believe whoever posted it stated he obtained the wiki via a php injection? Lemme go look.
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 21, 2016 16:39:16 GMT -5
I just want to know. How is it that 1 persons posts the information and 1 person hosts the information and the community discusses it where some say this is bad and some say this is whatever and some say this is the best thing since sliced bread. How is that reflective of the entire community supporting something or being complicit in the posting or hosting of the information? I mean look at Facebook with its frontpage changes, privacy violations, sketchy data mining practices, and straightup falsifying click through rates to its advertisers. No one says, you should get off Facebook or you implicitly support all of these things.
If that were the case every gamer in the world would have to get off whatever EAs digital distribution platform is and never buy there games again, completely on principal.
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 21, 2016 16:05:15 GMT -5
Jcarter, you and me are getting sued buddy.
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 21, 2016 1:55:10 GMT -5
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 21, 2016 1:49:13 GMT -5
And according to the DMCA if the staff wiki is considered copyrighted information, than hacking (via a PHP injection tool) it and posting it is also in violation of it.
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 21, 2016 1:45:10 GMT -5
Sadly the release of personal information is not illegal. It is however unethical (which is probably why he removed it).
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 20, 2016 23:41:20 GMT -5
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 20, 2016 23:12:39 GMT -5
No obviously releasing of real time information is not ideal or beneficial for the game, but...
1 - You can read books, comics, listen to music, and watch movies while knowing things about them BEFORE experiencing them. While you may not be achieving the artists intended experience by having no foreknowledge you can still enjoy it.
2 - You should still be capable of adjusting plots, NPCs, whatever as needed if there is a leak. I mean if someone leaks like... The Templar Handbook of secret passages in and out of Allanak. Then that's kind of a pain, because you don't want to update those, but you also don't want to remove them completely, so maybe just look for people using them who do not have the appropriate templar rank and punish them?
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 20, 2016 22:57:29 GMT -5
Barhin - The spawn of Barka and Jeshin. Known to pontificate endlessly about matters that have long been discussed by others. Occasionally finds valuable information and relics to trade to the collective known as the Shadow Boards. Their gender is unknown, but rumors have it that when they do find a lover they only sex while fully clothed possibly with multiple knives on them for pleasure and safety.
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 20, 2016 22:53:46 GMT -5
PS - NPCs are expendable to further plots, to nosey players, to the changing of staff overseeing them. No single NPC should be so important or so integral to the game that it cannot be replaced with a re-imagining or a completely different one. It doesn't take that much energy to think of new NPCs that fit the gameworld as it exists today instead of how it existed years ago.
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 20, 2016 22:51:45 GMT -5
That depends Oldtwink. 1 - What was the last PC to meet Simul and actually have any significant interactions with them? 2 - How old is Simul is he like all NPCs who remain ageless and in stasis? 3 - If he is of such an age that you could just assume he's died by now or he has not been brought out to players in awhile you can easily rename him, give him a different special title, and possibly even change him from a drovian to a mindbender or a nilazi or a whiran or a mundane assassin. 4 - Taking actions out of character based on OOC information trying to guess who Simul is and game IC flow of actions is actually a pretty good way for sussing out irresponsible roleplayers who maybe shouldn't be trusted with sponsored roles  |
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