Crowbar Man
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Well, I was hoping to NOT be able to figure out this one and just give Lemon his stuff and pretend nothing happened, but someone did this AFTER I installed a new plugin to tell me whos done what, JUST a few days ago
Its kinda hard for me to swallow this new story, i mean, yesterday, someone hacked [new unnamed accused]'s account to specifically take Lemon's stuff?
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really?
I'm not trying to be tinfoil hat here, but come on.
I'll probably be installing a chest protection mod. Its sad this has to be done. We were all having fun times
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The whole reason we have a vouching process is to avoid issues. If you all seem to know that epicenter "is a moron" and" can't play video games" and" has no common sense" it would of been nice to have a heads up!
Either way most of this as mentioned seems to be a pile of miscommunication on every bodies part.
We will try not to let issues like this happen though again some communication to the admins would help. Gman is self admited "not good with people" but unless angry is very easy to talk to. Me I get stubborn but I hope that doesn't detour people from communicating with me.
A lot of yelling and heated conversations later now I have a better understanding of the situation
As mentioned earlier we welcome anybody to the server who isnt there to cause issues and we all like to have fun and enjoy this broken yet addicting game
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As stated, vacation was paid for back in November. None of the donated legal funds went to it. Besides, the ginormous ammount of the legal costs pale in comparison to a vacation.
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I've added /rules to the list of commands and to the MOTD
Also HalcyonSpirit: MM 1.04 has apparently now been updated, so feel free to test it
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geohotz is simply on a (previously planned before this fiasco) vacation. A lot of people are spreading this as "hes fled the country" because it sounds sensational. And probably beause Sony wants it to sound that way. Not the truth
Heres some better quotes:
"The 'integral components' SCEA is talking about are stock controller cards, not the hard drives themselves," Kellar told IGN in an e-mail. "The neutral subsequently had to explain to SCEA the form and function of hard drive controller cards. Those controller cards have since been provided to the neutral so the point is moot."Kellar also states Hotz is using the donation money he received for the lawsuit only and will donate any leftover funds after the case has been resolved.
"You can never take a vacation from a lawsuit. Mr. Hotz has had to make himself available 24/7 for this litigation, which has been quite demanding on him," he said. "You have to remember that Mr. Hotz didn't choose to fight this battle, but now that he has been sued, he has put his heart into fighting this case that has enormous implications for consumers world-wide."
"As for any question as to whether Mr. Hotz has used donation money to take a trip to South America, that's pretty silly. Litigating against a massive company like Sony, who is represented by five attorneys, is very costly for a 21-year-old," Kellar added. "The donation money George has received is being used exclusively for his legal defense. If there are any funds left after the lawsuit, George is planning to donate the money to the EFF [Electronic Frontier Foundation]."
Also, I highly doubt that account is his. People have pointed out the geotag on the image posted in this thread by some RANDOM guy Sony is using as 'evidence' , belongs to somewhere in Cambridge, MA. And I dont think his claim to fame is unlocking random dumbphones.
Edit: More quotes:
Stewart Kellar, Hotz’s attorney, said the issue is overblown.
“They didn’t have the controller card attached. That’s it,” Kellar said in a telephone interview Wednesday from his San Francisco office.
He said that Hotz has since turned over the cards, solving the problem.
Sony did not respond for comment.
Hotz, who is also well-known in iPhone hacking circles, so far is fighting the case on jurisdictional grounds, and maintains he should be sued in New Jersey instead of California.
As part of that battle, Sony claimed that it uncovered evidence that Hotz maintained an account on Sony’s PlayStation Network, which is based in Northern California. Hotz had denied holding a PSN account.
In its filing, Sony also pointed out that Hotz has left the country.
“Hotz conveniently traveled to South America in the midst of jurisdictional discovery, including his court-ordered deposition,” Sony said.
“I don’t want to comment on that stuff,” Kellar said. “He has done nothing to make himself unavailable.”
Apparently, I have fled the country. ROFLFactually, it's true I'm in South America, on a vacation I've had planned and paid for since November. I mean, it is Spring break; hacking isn't my life. Rest assured that not a dime of legal defense money would ever go toward something like this. And of course Townsend loves the idea of painting me as an international fugitive. I have been in contact with my lawyers almost every day; I would not let the case suffer. That said, I also won't let this ridiculous lawsuit run my life either. Then the fearmongerers win.
I will be back, I hear it's hard to come by the Xperia Play down here.
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Epicenter: I'm not convinced you AREN'T Brushfire
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I would like to think, overall, there is not any intention here of any wrong doing and we've all lost our way in the situation
Ban will definitely not be perm, heck may not even last the week
In the future, to avoid headaches, something like this should be alerted to an admin so we can just use my handy /give command to undo the damage.
We are fun people, honest!
But, just to be clear for everybody, as I will state in the rules sheet I will make here soon:
No Stealing.
No Walking 10,000 Blocks in a single direction making a ridiculous "arm"
No Forest Fires
No Greifing
No Brushfires
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Cyril:
Once Gman gets upset, everybody gets destroyed in her rage :/
But she is not the only one running the server. In fact her admin duties have been fairly light. The server once transfered to us, was setup, operated, and maintained by myself (and well, MPUK). Her duties are to look after things while I am at work and uh... host TNT parties. And maybe make the website look prettier than my barebones design but she has yet to do that
Not to say she isn't my equal because thats not true, and I would be murdered if I suggested as such
She is taking a break anyway, she just got caught up in the moment
Most of her anger is misdirected at this situation at being mad at me for paying too much attention to the server anyways
And now me paying attention to this situation has caused her more anger at me and everybody else.
Sorry to drag everybody into this.
I apologize for the situation that I've inadvertently caused
You make it sound like I am a criminal mastermind bringing people into a covert ops group dead set on destroying fun forever.Mad we saw through your scheme? Well, congratulations on a job well done.
Also, being lowly uncool people outside of the OCAD crew, we do not know the real names of people on the server/OCR, it would be nice instead if you refered to usernames. =P
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Cyril:
Gman is a bit upset about the whole situation. She doesn't control anger very well. Thats why I'm here!
I dont want you or anybody on OCAD to feel unwelcome.
We are however, worried if a group of people are going to ignore us and only listen to Brushfire if thats whats going on here. I dont think it is though, still a concern. Its something we've worried about since the entire OCAD crew moved over, and we were hoping we were worrying for no reason
We still might be. This might be an isolated incident, probably being blown out of proportion by misinformation or miscommunication.
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Not what I was told.
Im getting a lot of conflicting stories from various sources.
Not sure if I trust any of them. Dont trust you for sure
But something is wrong. Ban sticks for now, and I'll be creating a specific rule sheet to clarify things
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Well apparently we have a little more information:
Apparently Brushfire has been telling people its okay to steal from structures that people haven't played in a while.
Only thing is: Brush doesn't know who hasn't played in a while because he barely plays on our server. So I have no idea who hes told its okay to steal from.
This is not our rule, but one Brush has fabricated.
DO NOT STEAL. Period. It doesn't matter if the person hasn't logged in in a year, when they get back, their stuff should be there.
I don't know if this was some rule that was on when Fireslash was the host (i doubt it), but if it was never given to me, and im sure just a fabrication of Brushfire's.
Just don't steal. I give people what they want half the time, especially donators. and we have community chests.
Do Not Steal.
Thank you
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I find it odd he thinks just because the graphics were "2D" (they aren't really) the SNES could handle it... the backgrounds have really nice artwork and combine with polygonal cloth patches and vector-like uh yarn graphics. No way SNES could handle that. The game's graphics are praised by pretty much everybody, its about the only thing good about the game IMO.
But the lack of the ability to die, or use hardly any special powers in the game really makes it a kinda snore fest. Coop is also completely useless compared to other Kirby titles
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Alright Gman is letting her anger at me and the situation get a little out of hand.
I would like to comfirm with epicenter and maybe other ocad members that these are the truth to the events
I find three things wrong here overall:
Why would one walk into a giant elaborate castle open an iron door and take stuff out of chests "by accident"?
It sounds like at least some of ocad knew about this and just decided not to inform anybody
I believe epic was on when aba was reporting the theft yet said nothing
If brush is saying the truth I do want to thank him for being honest and saving me the hastle of trying to figure out this puzzle.
Im a litttle disapointed in the whole situation and will have to discuss matters with gman when I come home
The items aren't a big deal but I don't like the fact it seems things are being hidden from us. Especially since we usually go out of our way to make sure everybody is having fun
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You guys went way beyond the call of duty here providing even a .MID
Whoever was too lazy to learn what an IT file is should be thanking the Retro City Rampage Remix crew as much as they can
And if not, I will:
Thank you, brave knights of Retro Rampage Remix
Edit: Also should thank Mazedude for his earlier .MID post.
it is not reasonable to assume that every member of this community, even those that are posted remixers, can transcribe music by ear... how would one remix videogame music in the first place than? Games generally don't come with sheet music.
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Its sign commands specifically, I'll see if i can narrow down what/why
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I've installed MultiVerse on the server. We can now have multiple worlds and types.
I created a portal to Nether in front of my tower (/warp ToNether to get there), it leads into a world of Nether
Theres a portal back to the regular world ("world2") of course
Since only I can personally set up the portals, this works way better
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Maybe "center screen - shoot" is all there is in Multiplayer, but a lot of FPS have a single player component with a story, missions and what not, and some have puzzle elements (especially Half Life series).
Even in multiplayer, you have to sort out a strategy in some of the better ones. Especially if you get team / CTF / mission involvement. I haven't played Call of Duty or Battlefield so i have no idea if these games have any more than "Shoot", but I know there are games like Team Fortress, Enemy Territory, Tribes, etc where theres a little more than just "shoot things" going on.
I do agree the FPS genre as a whole is rather bland, but there are some diamonds in the rough.
There needs to be more FP RPG/Adventure games though like Oblivion, Fallout 3, Bioshock, Portal, Amnesia, etc.
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As stated by neblix, Portal 1 was rated T. It had some small ammount of blood, and very dark humor.
I'm kinda of put off by the fact Portal 2 is E. Either ESRB has lightened up, or Valve has ruined this game too much (I dont like what i've seen so far)
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Developer Jeb playing with the new pet wolves in the development version:
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Hmm not that I know of, but if Garou needs source blocks let me know
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Sorry BigGiantCircles i thought i already added you to the whitelist, added.
Brush: Are you vouching for Valentine?
Welcome all you newcommers! Hope the server meets your expectations, with Bukkit it can only get better
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Yet antoher fantastic release from the Ubiktune label. Great job
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Hum I wonder if its because of the server reset.
Ill fix it tonight
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Yeah the rule disappeared when the server reset, i'll see if i can make it permanent. Until then:
Fixed!
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Posted · Edited by Crowbar Man
What are you talking about now? Nobody has mentioned you in this new case. I know who the new person is. Its not you.
You can play if you want, once unbanned (probably just a week anyways), just please as mentioned, do not take things out of chests that arent yours, or aren't marked "Community" from now on, unless someone says you can. Thats all
If you don't want to play because of that, well I'm sorry.
I trust you wont do it again honestly. I don't think lowly of you, like uh most of your friends apparently do
Also blame Brushfire. I do.