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So far I've contacted,

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Various 'personalities' on Twitter including total biscuit, boogie2988 ... None of whom have replied or anything.

What, the champions of consumer justice and ethics haven't replied? Can't believe it...

Actually, it's about ethics in free speech fundamentalism to the point of funding the exchange of child exploitation imagery.

spoiler!

He's either a troll or from that ST:TOS mirror universe where everyone is evil.

Come to think of it the only place I ever see "ethical" gamergaters is when they're rushing to dismiss articles on the unethical ones. What else do they do with their time? Knit?

They spend lots of time making collages.

there was a Reddit AMA with Simon Barry

http://www.reddit.com/r/TheContinuum/comments/2p3fo9/i_am_simon_barry_the_creator_of_continuum_ask_me/

Last time I went to my local CAB I waited an hour to talk to a 16 year old. As much as it's about the principle really, there's only so much I'll do over £40.

Well quite, it's hardly worth you spending an hour on the phone, let alone queuing up in CAB or filing with small claims. If it were £400 it would be a different story. And they know that.

Really the bad press angle, which you're trying in cooperation with others, seems the best approach. Also contact Trading Standards. And maybe the police. If they're interested, great. If they're not interested you have more material for the press to run with: "... and what's worse is there is no practical way to hold Sony to account."

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Maybe contact self-proclaimed consumer justice warriors (CJW), too, like TotalBiscuit (over 300k Twitter followers and over 1m YouTube subscribers).

If they knew they would know who was guilty and who was innocent and would refund the latter.

I think you would. I'm not so sure about them evil multinational corporations.

I don't get the Sony bloke claiming that they get loads of people attempting to scam them? How do they know? And surely they can remove the game license when they issue a refund so there's no way to get a free game unless you disconnect the console from the net forever. Not much of a scam.

They claim they 'know'. It may be true. It may not be true. They may believe it to be true, or they may just say it because they think it's expedient. After all, no-one is likely to take them to court (even small claims), the authorities aren't interested unless there is a big enough fuss at which point Sony can say, "after careful consideration blah blah blah we have decided to refund these customers blah lessons have been learned." You know, the usual guff. They don't need to do anything until there is a big enough fuss.

Whatever; AFAICS, they are presently complicit in the fraud they agree is occurring and they have stolen money from the innocent customer.

They would be compelled to do something if the amount was ten or a hundred times as much.

When was the last time you saw Smitty contribute to a discussion? He's either trying to start something new or arguing with everyone. Every fucking time.

false

I didn't intend to suggest otherwise (although I wouldn't use the word leap).

But the coalition's filter wasn't conceived of internally, a very vocal, tiny minority persuaded the coalition to make ISPs deploy filters.

The slippery slope isn't always a fallacy.

Some of the people opposing the UK government's plans to filter extreme porn from the internet weren't concerned they would no longer be able to jerk off to extreme porn, they (rightly, as it turns out) feared other things would be filtered out including political speech and inoffensive things like Childline (yes, Childline the counselling service for children and young people, which was at one point filtered by O2).

Assuming you don't want what might be at the bottom of the slope it is wise to keep an eye on things like that and consider them carefully, even if you wouldn't go so far as Voltaire in being prepared to die for them.

They can see a fair distance from atop their ivory tower, you know.

No, those people come under 'liberals' who frequently find themselves being the enablers of actual fascists through application of their high ideals. Complete unrestricted freedom of speech is what allows fascists to organise and create support networks and cause direct harm to others. Hatred is obviously not on the same level as something like the Pegido march that's happening in Germany right now but it's being made by people whose politics are vile as an extension of those politics and is in fact being latched on to by gamergate types who are demanding that the developers add on levels where you can mow down 'SJWs' in addition to immigrants and whatever else. I have no truck whatsoever with people wanting to protect this game somehow out of some modified Niemoller argument; it's the complete wrong tree to bark up.

Oh, and with relation to my views on free speech in general, I'll gladly take some hypothetical future comeuppance over white supremacists and racists being allowed to spread their ideals and cause the deaths of innocents right now, which is the verifiable consequence of allowing fascists to organise under the umbrella of free speech.

... The fact that one or two people on the development team have 'liked' an organisation that may have less favourable political views from the perspective of our cushioned western european ivory tower ...

yeah, what do Western European ivory tower academics know about the suffering of Poland's ubermensch, eh?

"Captain Phasma"

phasma - abbr. phantasm

high ranking ghost, an allusion to the Holy Ghost.

/jerellis

They could publish it themselves online and receive 100% of the revenue instead of 70% (the remainder going to Steam).

13,000 at $10

$130,000

70% $91,000

30% $39,000

big difference. $39,000 is about median full time income in the USA, iow one person's salary for a year.

Diggle will catch Oliver and give him the magic healing soup from season 1.

It's really odd.

Why not watch a few episodes of ER or something?

quite, she was Queen of a planet at 14, represented the planet as Senator at the galactic senate or whatever at 24, worked for some galaxy-wide disaster relief organisation and went on lots of adventures across the galaxy, became pregnant with twins, had faith in her lover's essential goodness despite him becoming a baddy and beating her up and then... just gives up. Why did that make more sense to Lucas than her suffering a fatal injury that she bravely fought but her will and medical science were insufficient to save her life?

Yeah, they can't kill both black characters. And Mack's great, in any case.

A shame that Reed Diamond's Whitehall was so easily dispatched as well - I loved him in Dollhouse.

We don't know he's dead. He was shot and he was apparently incapacitated - that's all we saw.

She is the worst character.

At age nine you were proud of the small lightbulb that turned on in your elaborately decorated shoebox diorama.

your a elaborately decorated shoebox diorama