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The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Retail Sims
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on: 2006 November 06, 07:02:03
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Her Christmas stuff preview wasn't all that, anyway *shrug* I'm really not a big Holidays type of person though. Really, I'll pass. No boohoo for me here  |
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The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Retail Sims
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on: 2006 November 06, 04:56:24
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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. |
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The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Another site goes free
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on: 2006 November 05, 16:53:50
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Aussie Topenders!
Hello Members,
Zita and Cathy would like to thank you all for your support of this
site.
Members who have purchased donation sets have helped this site meet
its bandwidth costs time and time again.
As a result, we are happy to announce that pay files will no longer be
needed in order to keep this site going!
Of course, it may be necessary to put up donation sets in the future,
but this is likely to be a very rare occurrence Smile
And so, thank you all for your support through this difficult time.
Zita, Cathy, and all of us here at Aussie TopEnders, are very grateful
for the assistance and kindness you have all given.
regards,
Savannah (Moderator Aussie TopEnders Yahoo Group)
I thought this was pretty awesome. It was received (not by me, sorry) via e-mail and not posted on their site. |
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The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Retail Sims
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on: 2006 November 05, 14:02:21
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Elmolovecyclops, I did not post that to mock or make light of people who have mental illnesses. I was trying show that here we have another example of someone using their illnesses and/or personal issues *as an excuse* to charge for their content. It is also worth pointing out that there are people out there who have physical and psychological disabilities who also do not charge for their content. I do not see how having a crappy life (which many of us here can empathize with) justifies "needing" to charge for content. As a community of Sims fans we do not owe our fellow community members money for indulging in their hobby.
It sucks that I am telling myself that "this is another ploy for us to fork over the money," rather than saying, "I feel bad for this person who is having a really shitty time." But my experience with paysite owners and their manipulation tactics, coupled with being jaded with all the fake internet deaths in the Sims 2 Community, has brought me to this conclusion. I wish it weren't so, but unfortunately I am extremely cynical at this point.
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The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Simsecrets now free, for the most part
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on: 2006 November 04, 05:34:08
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http://www.simsecrets.biz/ SimSecrets is FREE again! Enjoy all our premium collection for free ..
but to help us to cover our fees we've updated the site with a donation gift: The "Via Bella" living set [40 files included 18 New meshes!] Well, always that little caveat, I suppose. But they are for the most part free again. |
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The Pirate Ship / ARR! / For Lyriclee
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on: 2006 November 04, 05:03:13
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snadra, word of advice: don't post your username on here. I'm guessing that was pretty easy for MTS2 to find you. Lots of big site owners are on the prowl here and watching. I would not treat PMBD as a place to "come out" - there is already another site where you can do this, PMBD is too public for that.
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The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Retail Sims
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on: 2006 November 03, 05:58:16
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Just thought I would post a little something from Retail Sims that was posted awhile back: Personal update: I lost my job on June 15 which only added to some rather serious health issues (mental, not physical). I've had a lot of really bad events come at me all at once and considering the substantial mental (& physical) scars of a brutal childhood I discovered I had a limit to how much stress I could actually handle. I am in therapy and a small host of marvelously ineffective drugs, at least until my health insurance runs out. Doing this stuff keeps me from jumping off my 21st floor balcony or obsessing endlessly over every mistake I've every made in life, the death of every animal I've had (I had to put one of my cats down on the 14th of June, the day after my birthday), and every other bad event in my life. Oh yeah, I got engaged on June 21, 2006. Talk about a whirlwind. Anyways, the site should have quite a few updates for at least the next 3-4 weeks or until it becomes absolutely necessary for me to get another job (which causes a panic attack just thinking about it). At least I can pretend to be sane while I do this. *sigh* The bad news, for all of you, is that I may charge for some of the upcoming sets. I hate to do that but if it keeps me from having to leave the house for a job for a while I may have to resort to it. Of course that depends on my ability to figure out how to set that up. As you can tell I don't know a damn thing about web development so I wouldn't get too worried about having to pay for anything yet. Make of it what you will. To me, it smacks a little of LyricLee's whole "feed my kids!" argument. :roll: Bad shit happens to people time and time again, but we're all just a little tired of hearing about why we have to give them our money. |
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The Pirate Ship / ARR! / For Lyriclee
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on: 2006 October 30, 02:45:17
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Christmas presents from my relatives are incredibly predictable. Every year, I get towels  |
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The Pirate Ship / ARR! / For Lyriclee
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on: 2006 October 28, 09:30:28
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If they want to make money on objects creating, get a fucking job at EA Games.
Thats what Im planning to do :twisted: Not everyone lives in America or wants to move there. EA is an MNC, so don't let that stop any of the paysite owners from realizing their dreams to get paid for making their creations. Good luck getting through the door, though |
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The Pirate Ship / ARR! / For Lyriclee
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on: 2006 October 27, 12:35:58
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Do you *honestly* think people will stop producing Sims 2 content because we are not paying them for their creations? Not being compensated for their craft hasn't stopped creators from a bunch of other gaming communities. People are happy to do stuff for free, as long as other people are *using* their creations and enjoying them. There is tons of evidence within the Sims 2 community to support this.
You go ahead and believe what the paysites want you to believe.
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