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tinyE: I hated the book.
Because Flores is a dude?
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Themken: R. A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers?
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tinyE: Well I was thinking of the movie. I hated the book.
Heresy. Book was great. Movie was a nonsensical turd.
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tinyE: I hated the book.
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grimwerk: Because Flores is a dude?
Because the book was paranoid right wing McCarthyism bullshit and the movie did a brilliant job of pointing out how insane that crap is.
Post edited November 11, 2015 by tinyE
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grimwerk: Because Flores is a dude?
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tinyE: Because the book was paranoid right wing McCarthyism bullshit and the movie did a brilliant job of pointing out how insane that crap is.
and all because...

Paul Verhoven - worlds greatest director of dystopic sci fi films.

Just dont get him invoved with any show girls!
low rated
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rampancy: Just because the insects still keep coming doesn't mean it's wrong to do something to try to keep them out.

In any case, they're not asking for an end to all giveaways: They're asking for people to simply stop posting codes openly (as well as trade openly with strangers) because they attract scammers and they encourage scamming behavior.
And yet having giveaways with effort is just as attractive a solution to these scammers. What they'll do? Oh, they'll just upgrade their smarts in order to overcome the new obstacles, and still manage to do their deeds. After all, scammers are humans, right? They'll find ways around your existing systems to get up your self-imposed knit.
In essence the argument seems to be that people should be allowed to continue to particpate in behaviour that is demonstrably known to be harmful to the community, in the name of personal freedom.
Oh please, I just told you that all giveaways are harmful because they attract the very phobia you fear. Just give them up. For me, let people who want to code drop do manage to code drop without having a plethora of desperate people smack them around and even try to make this desperate thread to smack them further, and for people who want to do an artwork contest, a first come first serve trick, or whatever else, do them as they wish. As long as they don't break the rules or break a 'gray area rule', they're clear to steer, regardless of what strange observations you have gathered and generalized.
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mike_cesara: I believe Sachys already explained the situation very well.
Sure, you can even drop your logins and passwords, just please, use relevant forum.
Of course nothing will stop you from supporting beings like this: I have grabbed games titles for over 2500 $ in cash for free
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PookaMustard: Really well? He's saying "this is our forums" as if suddenly a group of unnamed people suddenly owned the forums for themselves, himself included, when actually the forums are the property of the GOG.com staff and to use it is a privilege given by the staff and not a right, etc etc etc.

Until a staff member deems that dropping codes out in the open is a wrongdoing, who are they to say "this is our forums, please do not X, Y and Z"? That's the point.
oh dear..

And he's absolutely right, because people like him made this place unique.
Do you really think you can come to a squot and shit in the middle of the floor? Apparently you've never lived in one.
People are coming here not only because of games, also because of a bloody long list of members of this community they can count on.
This forum wouldn't be the same without them, so show a little bit of humility when you come to someone's place little man.

may gog have mercy on your soul..
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PookaMustard: Really well? He's saying "this is our forums" as if suddenly a group of unnamed people suddenly owned the forums for themselves, himself included, when actually the forums are the property of the GOG.com staff and to use it is a privilege given by the staff and not a right, etc etc etc.

Until a staff member deems that dropping codes out in the open is a wrongdoing, who are they to say "this is our forums, please do not X, Y and Z"? That's the point.
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mike_cesara: oh dear..

And he's absolutely right, because people like him made this place unique.
Do you really think you can come to a squot and shit in the middle of the floor? Apparently you've never lived in one.
People are coming here not only because of games, also because of a bloody long list of members of this community they can count on.
This forum wouldn't be the same without them, so show a little bit of humility when you come to someone's place little man.

may gog have mercy on your soul..
That being said, you're still an idiot if you think a Delorean can do 80 mph. :P
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PookaMustard: And yet having giveaways with effort is just as attractive a solution to these scammers. What they'll do? Oh, they'll just upgrade their smarts in order to overcome the new obstacles, and still manage to do their deeds. After all, scammers are humans, right? They'll find ways around your existing systems to get up your self-imposed knit.
Its not though. You should know by the lack of entries into your current (I presume its ongoing) GA that you do not get flooded by entries when you ask for some effort. I've seen some pretty big prizes go with a mere handfull of entries because the effort was too much for too many - and no scam accounts involved at all.

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PookaMustard: Oh please, I just told you that all giveaways are harmful because they attract the very phobia you fear.
That doesn't even make sense.
Post edited November 11, 2015 by Sachys
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PookaMustard: And yet having giveaways with effort is just as attractive a solution to these scammers. What they'll do? Oh, they'll just upgrade their smarts in order to overcome the new obstacles, and still manage to do their deeds. After all, scammers are humans, right? They'll find ways around your existing systems to get up your self-imposed knit.
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Sachys: Its not though. You should know by the lack of entries into your surrent (I presume its ongoing) GA that you do not get flooded by entries when you ask for some effort. I've seen some pretty big prizes go with a mere handfull of entries because the effort was too much for too many - and no scam accounts involved at all.

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PookaMustard: Oh please, I just told you that all giveaways are harmful because they attract the very phobia you fear.
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Sachys: That doesn't even make sense.
Actually, and this is from Wiki:

Phobophobia can also be defined as the fear of phobias or fear of developing a phobia.
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tinyE: Actually, and this is from Wiki:

Phobophobia can also be defined as the fear of phobias or fear of developing a phobia.
Which in context makes just as little sense.

Also, wikipedia - bad info all the time, everytime.
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mike_cesara: oh dear..

And he's absolutely right, because people like him made this place unique.
Do you really think you can come to a squot and shit in the middle of the floor? Apparently you've never lived in one.
People are coming here not only because of games, also because of a bloody long list of members of this community they can count on.
This forum wouldn't be the same without them, so show a little bit of humility when you come to someone's place little man.

may gog have mercy on your soul..
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tinyE: That being said, you're still an idiot if you think a Delorean can do 80 mph. :P
Obviously an American documentary movie I watched in the middle of eighties were terrible translated then..
Well, having in mind in what part of time I came to this world I shouldn't be surprised, I reckon ; )
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tinyE: Actually, and this is from Wiki:

Phobophobia can also be defined as the fear of phobias or fear of developing a phobia.
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Sachys: Also, wikipedia - bad info all the time, everytime.
That's why I stressed I got it from there. XD Hey, if my folks can use FoxNews as a source I can use Wiki. :D Come to think of it, if they can use FoxNews as a source I can use a piece of cheese.
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tinyE: I can use a piece of cheese.
O__________o

I hope you dont mean like foxworks - he does unspeakable things with his cheese!
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tinyE: I can use a piece of cheese.
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Sachys: O__________o

I hope you dont mean like foxworks - he does unspeakable things with his cheese!
Cheese!
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Sachys: O__________o

I hope you dont mean like foxworks - he does unspeakable things with his cheese!
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foxworks: Cheese!
*takes photo, sends it to the feds