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At 11/21/13 10:07 AM, Moebius wrote: How about you stop censoring comments on movies and games? For a website with content borderline offensive, you're pretty prudish when it comes to comments.

I suspect that's a programming fault. Many of my flash reviews have been deleted by M-bot (Or S-bot, or something like that) even though there wasn't anything offensive or rude in them.

I just read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Tech_Rampage
Which says a few things about the author of both the game that's being discussed here and an earlier game called "V-Tech rampage". It seems this guy is a sadistic asshole who has no good intentions whatsoever with his games. The Wiki page even mentions he wanted a $1000 to apologize. Just... unbelievable.

At 11/18/13 12:27 PM, ZJ wrote:

At 11/18/13 12:20 PM, Fim wrote: My sympathy is completely with the parents of the Sandy Hook victims, who are undoubtedly going through hell right now. It's the least you can do for them to remove a silly game that is causing them heartache.

Okay, I'm gonna stop you there. Where was Tom when his "silly game" called Pico's School was released in 1999? That could have just as easily pissed off parents of the Columbine massacre that happened THAT YEAR. Sure it didn't call out Columbine by name, but it wouldn't take a genius to associate the game with the shooting tragedy. Plus, in terms of quality, that game was pretty advanced for that time in terms of realism, just as this game is for this time.

It's not as simple as it appears. There's decent reasons to get mad at Tom for taking down a game that had effort put into it and wasn't breaking serious rules.

I seriously doubt Pico was made with any real school shooting in mind. It is a game just for fun, with no message or whatsoever. You might want to criticize the Call of Duty franchise as well for being related to wars.

At 11/18/13 12:24 PM, Sequenced wrote: People getting offended and asking admins to remove content from the internet is completely insane. Those folks should just unplug if they keep finding things that insult them.

I'm not gonna say whether it was the right thing to do or not, but I really wish people would stop getting offended from what they see online.

It's not insane, they have a good reason for it. And you talk about 'pulling the plug', but what is seen cannot be unseen. Plus, they don't ask it so that THEY don't have to see it, but for the sake of everyone else who does.
I haven't seen the submission myself, but it's easy to be affected by something if your child was murdered. It hurts.

At 11/18/13 12:18 PM, thekillzar wrote: I think you did the right thing. There was an incident like this years ago where some guy made an RPG based off of the Columbine High school massacre and generated a ton of controversy because people couldn't see the point it was trying to make (and also because they were justifiably upset over it). It attempted to portray the killers in a new light by getting players to see it from their perspective, but that's really tough to look at when some of the audience were personally affected by the people responsible for the tragedy.

Artistic integrity is not enough to protect the game from being taken down. It's something a little too touchy since the victims in this event were very young children. It doesn't matter how you can choose to see it, it's sad and extremely inappropriate. There's no trying to see it from the killer's view. They were kids, they didn't deserve to die.

That's how I think about it, so I'm not sure what the other perspective on it looks like. I support your decision Tom.

I haven't played it, but I honestly don't see the point of trying to get empathy for mass murderers. Most criminals act wrongly due to certain things that happened to them, but mass murderers are by definition out of their minds and evil. I can't put it any differently.

At 11/18/13 12:12 PM, ZJ wrote: I've talked about this in more private places, but I'll repeat some of it here. I think you've opened up floodgates, Tom. I understand your concerns about this game, but I feel like you're allowing for various groups of people to want various forms of content removed in the future and they'll be more justified in their request since this was taken down.

And let me put this bluntly: Who will bring more views to this website? PiGPEN or those angry parents? Can modern NG really afford to piss off its content creators?

I dunno. It's a rough spot. I feel for you Tom.

This is not about site visitors ZJ. This is about keeping NG a happy place that doesn't offend or hurt people. I am glad to see Tom still gets involved with NG's visitors and shows humanity, rather than acting like some random corporate businessman.

At 6/17/13 05:57 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 6/17/13 05:52 PM, tjardo wrote:

Steve Jobs never wanted people to play web games on their phones, he wanted them to buy them through Apple from the App store.

That may be partly true, but it's not what he said. On the Apple website there is -or was, at least- an article (or 'rant') by Steve Jobs on Flash and iPhones, and here he only rambled on about how Flash doesn't work properly on mobile devices. Quite the hypocrite, wasn't he?
Also, don't forget that Flash is more than just games ;)

Jobs also had a noted grudge against Adobe - when he returned to Apple he made a personal plea for them to start making Mac software again, but at the time they said no and he hated them ever since for it.

Interesting.. Very professional of Jobs (not). The worst thing however, is that he did have a lot of influence, despite his lack of reasoning. Maybe his grudge was the key reason for the popularity of html5, and the crowd saying it'll be the replacement of Flash.

At 4/15/13 10:05 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 4/15/13 06:43 AM, tjardo wrote: Yeah, iPhones... Steve Jobs first kills further Flash development with his arrogance, then its so-called 'replacer' doesn't work on iPhones either.... What an embarrassment.

Steve Jobs never wanted people to play web games on their phones, he wanted them to buy them through Apple from the App store.

That may be partly true, but it's not what he said. On the Apple website there is -or was, at least- an article (or 'rant') by Steve Jobs on Flash and iPhones, and here he only rambled on about how Flash doesn't work properly on mobile devices. Quite the hypocrite, wasn't he?
Also, don't forget that Flash is more than just games ;)

At 4/8/13 07:49 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: theres your problem Tom its your phone if you used a good Android phone and installed a modified Flash program you wouldn't have that problem!

Flash isn't really the issue here, and I certainly don't think you need to tell Tom about Flash... But yeah I do prefer Flash too, there's nothing great about html5...

At 4/9/13 09:38 AM, Kajenx wrote: I'm on an 11 y/o laptop with limited and outdated drivers. My biggest problem with HTML5 is memory usage, second is the audio cutting out. How dependent is HTML5 on the capabilities of the hardware? I don't even have DirectX support on FF 20...

Drivers should always be update-able right?

Yeah, iPhones... Steve Jobs first kills further Flash development with his arrogance, then its so-called 'replacer' doesn't work on iPhones either.... What an embarrassment.

I honestly don't give that much about april fools' day