Rez said:DDOS?
r1chard said:What, was the fucking WA AG taken by surprise by the R18+ discussion, that he needs to go back to WA and talk it through some more??!?!
distributed denial-of-service attackRez said:DDOS?
trinest said:distributed denial-of-service attack
"The extra 'B' stands for 'BYOBB'"DualShadow said:Oops I forgot about the first 'D' :lol
Any using the green/yellow scheme?legend166 said:So next year in the F1 we'll have Lotus Renault GP AND Team Lotus powered by a Renault engine.
Too confusing.
Choc said:Announcement or yes/no/delay 4pm AEDST
Why does it have to be announced when I got to go to work :/Choc said:Announcement or yes/no/delay 4pm AEDST
Shaneus said:"The extra 'B' stands for 'BYOBB'"
"What's *that* 'B' for?"
"That's a typo" :lol
Any using the green/yellow scheme?
Sounds like education. I know higher education has its funding in calendar years as opposed to 'regular' financial years.Kritz said:$20,000 of it budget gone.![]()
:lolpilonv1 said:DDOS
D DOS RUN
RUN DOS RUN
the hell? :lolpilonv1 said:DDOS
D DOS RUN
RUN DOS RUN
I think they only meet twice a year.Clipper said:Is the length of the rumoured delay known yet? When is the next meeting?
Simpsons referenceYdahs said:the hell? :lol
Thats older than the simpsons.Shaneus said:Simpsons reference![]()
Kritz said:In short: the autocorrect seems really Wonkey, virtual keyboards are pretty garbage, it really lacks an apostrophe key on thhe main keyboard, and... Its way too easy to accidentally delete entire posts.
shake it for undoKritz said:So I just wrote up a bif old iPad impressions list and then accidentally hit the undo button, erasing my entire post with no obvious way to grt it back, oh well.
In short: the autocorrect seems really Wonkey, virtual keyboards are pretty garbage, it really lacks an apostrophe key on thhe main keyboard, and... Its way too easy to accidentally delete entire posts.
Also it's really easy to make typos and have complete apathy to go back and correct them due to the longer than expected process.
how do you do ellipses on a pc, while we're at it?Kritz said:Almighty, let's try out the undo feature.,,, oh hey it works. But also really annoying! Huh.
Also this thing needs to learn that an ellipses is not an end of a sentence... It's really annoying. (yes I know how to tell it not to.)
three periods usually auto-corrects to it in most word processors.rass said:how do you do ellipses on a pc, while we're at it?
on a mac it's "option ;"
is there a pc equivalent?
I guess I'm not sure why you wouldn't just press full stop three times.rass said:how do you do ellipses on a pc, while we're at it?
Choc said:expect the internet to go down tonight
Delay confirmed. and mark said democracy inaction on kotaku pilon
so democracy fails.
however this is not as bad as a No, its just a delay
a six month delay but a delay all the same
EDIT
In summary, AGs have asked for better guidelines on how the possible intro of an R18+ would affect current rating
dear AGs why waste money on this UNTIL you can see the impact. So they are asking for a rewrite of the classification laws without approving it to see how it changes
fuck.me.
EDIT 2:
There was a vote. apparent result was 6-1.
WA voted no as they want more time
EDIT 3:
oflc.gov.au is down. hopefully 'gamers' are not being dicks and ddos'ing it
as well as this the reactions on twitter make me a very sad man and worried about all of it. People are vowing to do to WA AG what they did to Atkinson. This is not good
Rezbit said:But what's the point if at the next meeting the same WA AG says "Hmm, nope." All a waste of time and resources, yet again.
Source? Unverified tweets on Twitter claim more than one vote against it.Choc said:There was a vote. apparent result was 6-1.
WA voted no as they want more time
No. Trust me, I was born there, I have been to school there, and I was in the army there. The are the most ignorant people on the planet. Most of them are incredibly nice on a personal level, absolutely, but once they have to deal with something outside their immediate circle they become bad horrible people, with no interest in learning anything at all.Bernbaum said:People are pretty much the same anywhere.
In any population, you get about 10% supercool champs and 10% douchebags. Americans get a bad rap because so much of their entertainment media dominates our culture, and we mentally pick out the extreme cases in any group of people with which we're not familiar.
The most horrible unfriendly people I've met have been Australians, because statistically I've spent more time with Aussies than other demographic and there has been more chances to see the upper end of the arsehole scale.
Ugh.Choc said:apparently WA AG has asked for more time before making a decision
its not hard my friend. You are the AG of the state that wanted it the most. That right there should be decision done.
sigh
can't say i am surprised.
The only merit in that argument is if you assume no more games will ever be released that straddle the borderline of MA15+.Jintor said:Can I get a source for the votes? Gamespot_AU is reporting that no indication of who voted what was provided, though I can guess that WA was probably against it
Thinking about it I can see the merit in the arguement that the introduction of the R18+ rating won't really affect what's already in MA15+ rating boxes too much... and I think a lot of the arguement so far has been somewhat undirected in that regard.
Think of it from my position- the most annoying arrogant people I've met have been from Australia.Dead Man said:No. Trust me, I was born there, I have been to school there, and I was in the army there. The are the most ignorant people on the planet. Most of them are incredibly nice on a personal level, absolutely, but once they have to deal with something outside their immediate circle they become bad horrible people, with no interest in learning anything at all.
Ugh.
I agree with that, but the mattress thick layers of cultural differences in this case includes xenophobia when not speaking to an individual, and masses of ignorance in general.Bernbaum said:Think of it from my position- the most annoying arrogant people I've met have been from Australia.
Trust me, I was born there, I have been to school there, and I was in the armythere.of lightsaber-wielding dinosaur knights in my imagination
Possibly a circular argument, and I have no way of fully understanding your circumstances, but I stand by my argument that the human being - under the mattress-thick layers of language and cultural differences - is roughly the same beast no matter where you travel.
Fair call. I don't deny Australia has plenty of idiots too, but they make up a far larger proportion of the population in the US, at least when measured by ignorance.Rez said:I feel likewe don't get to say we're not a country full of racist bigots and then also say that the US is full of close-minded conservative 'fucking yanks' nut-jobs.
:lolfappenmeister said:Disappointing because of the lack of an immediate outcome, but if all works well then six months really isn't a long time to wait.