Retail Sims

[jesserocket]

Yeah, a good friend of mine is on a semi-professional HalfLife 2 mods team, I don't play HalfLife myself, but the stuff they make is bloody incredible, right up to the standards of official maps...they make no money from it at all, unless someone chooses to commission them, and then, well, there's a reason it's a team, there's like, 15 of them, all of them working hard on their respective bits for months on end, to create this realy good end-result...they get paid, once, to split among all of them, but they do it because they love doing it, and for enough experience to get together a portfolio to actually GET a job with a games company, not just bashing something out in Photoshop (I have no skill, I appreciate creating content isn't actually as simple as that, but you get what I'm saying...) and expecting a whole community to pay over and over...

[Surelyfunke]

New update:

THIS ISN'T ABOUT MY ONE MEASLY DONATION FILE.

IT IS ABOUT INTEGRITY - MY INTEGRITY AND THAT OF EVERY CONTENT CREATOR OUT THERE.

I WILL NOT BE FORCED TO SHARE MY CONTENT ACCORDING TO THE WHIMS OF A SECOND-RATER.  NOT NOW, NOT EVER.   MY CONTENT CAN ONLY BE DISTRIBUTED ACCORDING TO MY WILL AND MY WILL ALONE SO LONG AS MY METHOD(S) DOES NOT VIOLATE THE RULES OF ELECTRONIC ARTS, INC. OR MAXIS.  SINCE J.M. PESCADO REMOVED MY FREEDOM TO CHOOSE HOW I DISTRIBUTE MY WORK I HAVE CHOSEN TO NO LONGER DISTRIBUTE MY WORK.  IT'S THAT SIMPLE.

INTEGRITY:   Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.

What is a black hat?  It is a type of hacker that does not operate within the boundaries of the law.  A black hat is often a malicious hacker who seeks to tamper with and / or exploit a program, file, server or other media (hardware or software) for personal gain or just for the fuck of it.  White hats, by comparison, are "good guy" hackers (who work to improve security).  Grey Hats fall in between.

The leader of the group who is stealing files suggested to me that I did not know what a black hat was when I mentioned (repeatedly) that I would love to find one to fuck up the files he's serving with some very nasty viruses.  Unfortunately for him I know very well what black hats are.  My husband, depending on your perspective, is one. If my husband did not have a high security government job this would not be a discussion and the files on that site would have been infected with a series of viruses designed to destroy a computer - not merely correctable by a format and reinstall.  Once he went legit I had to remove myself from any and all contacts with 'undesirable' types and most foreigners.  J.M. Pescado and everyone who downloads those stolen files should consider themselves lucky that this didn't happen a few years earlier  Than again, you never know when an old friend may crawl out of the woodwork or when a bunch come to town for a Black Hat Convention (I can damn near throw a rock at that hotel from my balcony).  I can't stop J.M. Pescado or those like them but I can fuck with stolen goods all I want.  Consider yourself warned.

OH AND DON'T FUCKING EMAIL ME TO ASK FOR THE LINK TO THE SITE IN QUESTION.  WTF IS WRONG WITH SOME OF YOU PEOPLE?!?!?!?!

BTW,  all of my content has been removed from MTS2 as 11/5/06.

[coliss]

Lol, some people actually asked her the link of the website. That's funny. XD

[jesserocket]

Gosh, she got all sorts of sweary.

Also, how lame, she's not allowed to talk to most foreigners. That's because most foreigners in the world are EVIL.

[Solowren]

Gosh, she got all sorts of sweary.

Also, how lame, she's not allowed to talk to most foreigners. That's because most foreigners in the world are EVIL.

Darn those evil foreigners! :O

[jesserocket]

*foreigns around menacingly*

[simminggramma]

I'm no legal whiz or anything like that, but can't what she posted be considered a terroristic threat?  Whether or not she could actually do it is beside the point.

[jesserocket]

You may well be right...It is, at least, a threat of illegal action, involving someone in a government position...

[fourohfourerror]

My husband has a government job as well, and the FBI will randomly monitor your activity, be it online or IRL.  So I would be careful if I were her.  They're always watching...

I signed her guestbook!  Don't know how long it will stay up.

Paysites Must Be Destroyed is where you can get all the donation items you ever wanted!!!

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[Solowren]

My husband has a government job as well, and the FBI will randomly monitor your activity, be it online or IRL.  So I would be careful if I were her.  Their always watching...

I signed her guestbook!  Don't know how long it will stay up.

Paysites Must Be Destroyed is where you can get all the donation items you ever wanted!!!

http://paysites.mustbedestroyed.org/phorum
http://paysites.mustbedestroyed.org/phorum
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HAH!

I love you.

[coliss]

fourohfourerror, you do realize you linked to the forum? :lol:

[jesserocket]

NOICE.  

Also, a bit from her message, at the very bottom, that I didn't notice before...

You know what the best part of this is, if there is one?  Knowing that I caused people to utter the question "who is John Galt?"   Oh does that make me giggle every time I think about it.  Who is John Galt indeed.

Oh, and just be glad this protest removal of work is confined, at the moment, to my Sims 2 fansite.  Just imagine if the captains of industry and the geniuses of this world decided to tell the "average" and "below average" people of the world to fuck off.  I'm counting the minutes until Atlas Shrugs.  

........God, Ayn Rand is dull.

[Surelyfunke]

Can we say, delusions of grandeur?  :roll:

[Cyberdodo]

This is all really quite amusing
*continues munching popcorn*

[neriana]

Gosh, she got all sorts of sweary.

Also, how lame, she's not allowed to talk to most foreigners. That's because most foreigners in the world are EVIL.

She's lying. Also paranoid, greedy, and deeply stupid. This is not surprising from an Ayn Randite, though.