I said I would do nothing and that’s exactly what I did. Nothing with a capital N other than sit back, snack, drink whiskey and enjoy my own company. After 9 days that felt pretty fucking good. Wish I had one more day to myself but meh, I work two days then get another two days off. I might actually do something useful then too like work on a project or tidy up a bit. I’ve let the place go during my 9 days of insanity. Weird how that goes.
Better watch what you say. Sony sure is.
If you play any Sony online games then you might want to stop being an asshole on your twitter, because it could come back to haunt you.
“Not only will we ban your forum account, but if it’s serious enough we’ll call up customer service and have you banned from all of our games. We do not need those individuals as customers,” Carlson says of the most offensive and anti-social players. “A very influential player, high up in a huge guild – we’ll still ban them… In our games, if you are an exploiter we don’t care who you are, how big your guild is, how many people you threaten to take with you when you go.
“We can control anybody who’s playing our games…[but] if we know who you are and you’re abusing somebody on Twitter, we will ban your game account and we will not accept you as a customer ever again. It’s not always possible to identify people [in that way], but we take that seriously.”
I say this is a good idea. There are a lot of people out there online that think they can spew any bile they want about someone or certain groups of people (racism, sexism, whatever) and think they can get away with it. You can’t do this in real life, so why should you be able to do this online? I mean for example, if you go into a grocery store and start harassing customers or employees guess what? You’re going to get thrown out no questions asked. If you start talking smack about a certain company and someone from that company happens to hear you guess what? He/She has the right to refuse service! Welcome to the world of business.
As it is businesses keep tabs (if they can find you) on your facebook/twitter feeds anyway. Do one wrong thing on them and you’ll be out of a job (or if you’re stupid enough end up in jail). This really is no different at all.
Don’t go around saying that they’re stomping on your freedom of speech. You have every right to say whatever you want no matter how ridiculously stupid it is, just like companies (like Sony in this case) have every right to kick you out for being a douchecanoe.
One more day… I can do this… I can do this…
I keep telling myself that. At this point my brains are complete mush and hope for a two day sleep in. I’m not even going to make plans. I’m just gonna do whatever.
Gabe Newell: Linux and Open Source are the future of gaming
Gabe Newell made an appearance at LinuxCon in New Orleans:
In the video he makes an interesting point about today’s users being more like developers. Thanks to Valve people can make their own games with the Source Engine, game modes, game content for their favorite Steam Workshop games and of course videos with Source Filmmaker. Valve is an open minded company, and open minded companies benefit from Open Source programs. This is where Linux comes into play. At this point it has more of a future than Windows. Hell, even the Playstation 4 will be using a modified FreeBSD Linux distro. This could leave Microsoft at a bit of a disadvantage. If they’re not careful there is a large possibility that more developers will pull their focus towards OpenGL over Direct X. However, only time can tell us how that will pan out.
Back on topic, Gabe Newell also announced how Linux will be making it into our living rooms. Won’t that be kewl. :3
5 seconds of fame.
Aside from all the weirdness there was one cool thing that happened today. One of my steam buddies congratulated me about making the front page of Rock Paper Shotgun, this article to be exact. My map review of de_cyberwar was one of their choices. To be honest I was a bit blown away by it (and still am), because I never would have expected it. Still, pretty awesome. 😀
The constant flow of weirdness continues.
At the end of the night I was treated to an unpleasant strip tease… A woman decided she didn’t need a fitting room and wanted to try shirts on. She stripped all the way down to her two bras. Security informed us about it, we told her to stop but she kept going anyway… Then she complained about it to someone else because how dare anyone not want to look at her double bra titties.
That is my weird report for the day. Tune in tomorrow for more WTF.
Leftovers from Friday The 13th I guess.
I had a strange occurrence today, somone lady wanted into a fitting room and I needed to know how many items she was going to bring in (it’s a rule). She left them on our return bar to count, asked her how many and she said they were right there. So I began counting out loud and she said I was being sarcastic and threatened to tell my boss.
That’s new, I never thought sarcasm could be translated into counting. Why did I not get the memo on this? I counted loud enough so that she could hear how many items she has (it’s also a rule if I’m the one counting them). Some people are just overly sensitive.
The most of my Friday The 13th.
Ok, so after getting back from lunch I found out someone wiped their ass on a couple articles of clothing in one of the ladies fitting rooms (didn’t have to deal with it, we just threw them away)… then at the end of the night a lady wanted to buy a kilt. We don’t carry them and have never carried them. She seemed to be rather shocked about this and demanded to know if we even knew what a kilt was. I was oh so tempted to say “Uhhh, that’s what they wear in Japan amirite?”
Dumb fucks is dumb.