This is Looney Tunes. No seriously, I could swear there's an episode of it somewhere. It even has the catch phrase "Of course you know, this means war!"
ESA Calls The Cops on Ouya's Parking Lot E3 Booth
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Honestly the fact that the people in charge of E3 took it upon themselves to block the Ouya stand at any means necessary despite beingpiinyouri said:
Yeah that's pretty shitty though. I'm not even a fan of the thing and I still think this stinks on ESA's part.
ESA just comes off looking bitter and petty.
1) Across the street and
2) Have every legal right to occupy that spot
Tells me that they are the true assholes of this situation. That booth is about as big as a hotdog stand. Give them a fucking break.
They aren't diverting your precious revenue.
The issue is is that if I remember correctly they were barred from having a booth at E3 anyway.Sol_HSA said:
Also they LEGALLY paid money to have the right to set up a booth across the street from the convention center. They had papers and everything. Which is why the LAPD didn't do anything about it.
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Maybe it's just me, but this smells of a publicity stunt. Why the hell should the ESA care about the Ouya? It's more likely Ouya did this all themselves. First they get a booth outside E3 because they're edgy and rebels. The someone used tractor tailors to block the view of their booth across the fucking street, not because that was the only reasonable place to park tractor trailers or any other reason that had nothing to do with these chodes across the street pretending to be edgy rebels. Now someone calls the police which would be the most petty thing anyone could do. With nearly every video game commentator and a good deal of the public thinking people will waste $100 on a Ouya and then absolutely forget about it six months later, these chodes are not a threat to the industry at all. Even the idea of an open platform is not a threat. A threat would be a game system that does something cool that other systems don't and plays great games on it. Best the Ouya could do is start a cottage industry of people making and building their own Android console. But such a thing will forever be the realm of the tech heads. The ubiquitousness of the PC has not led people to build their own PC or even use services where they have tech heads build their own PC for them. People still just buy off the shelf because they don't want to have to know that much about computers. So even the most impact the Ouya could hope to have is going to be a damp squib. Unless one of the developers manages to make a killer app. Without a killer app, this console generation is dead in the water.
Smells like BS to me. They have not given proof that the ESA called the cops. They seem to be playing up the rebel angle. Let's be honest, while the Kickstarter for this thing succeeded, the reaction to the hands on previews of the Ouya was very mediocre. And being in the parking lot across the street is a little obnoxious to do.
Cmon Thri!ThriKreen said:
I seriously had it on my mind that the ESA didnt like people going against their norm and was trying to shut them out...
Then you give me that point of view, and hell! Now I cant complain about the ESA or Ouya since I dont know the situation.
Blah. Logic.
Well they can't do too much worse to make themselves look bad outside of a kitten eating contest.Vault Citizen said:
OT: Let's give a nice slow clap to the ESA for being the kind of immature morons that the mainstream believes the gaming industry to be.
Please send ten more trucks, ESA. I really want to see what the Ouya guys do next. I'm liking this a lot.
To be honest I haven't been following the Ouya close enough to take sides. Renting parking space... twice, is not cheap to do especially when it's prime real estate. I'd have to ask that if they are willing to spend this kind of money they didn't just pay for space in E3. This leads me to wonder if they were banned from E3, told no they couldn't come, or whatever else, and what the reasons for doing so were. It's really hard to say if I should be upset with the ESA for being bullies, or if the Ouya guys were themselves being a bunch of jerks.
As far as the bit with the segways, I did not use one when I worked casino security, but I very much "get" what it's all about. To put it simply the point is that they are small enough where you can get off them to chase someone almost instantly and not leave behind a hazard the side of a bike (which can tip over) for passing people in a crowd or whatever. When your on hard concrete for 8+ hours a day, running back and forth to respond to every little thing, it takes a toll, and having a Segway is actually an efficient way of taking some pressure off of the feet of patrollers. Understand that people that do this wind up with a lot of foot injuries, and as ironic as it might sound, after god knows how many hours of zipping back and forth on foot, you can wind up with very tired security guys which can be bad if they suddenly have to chase a shoplifter or whatever. If you've never done that, well... I suppose for many it's
hard to really visualize. Cover the length of a mall 8 or 9 times inside of an hour, having to rush each time, and see how you feel.
As far as segways that can do stairs... lol... well going up 20 flights of stairs a bunch of times in a hotel on a regular basis I kind of wish I had one. I don't care what kind of shape your in, that sucks... and it was a nessicary part of patrol roots to make sure nobody was doing anything in those stairwells. You'd typically go up one side, and then down the other (ie up a flight of stairs, cross the level of the hotel to another stairwell, up those stairs, ad infinium, get to the top, then do it in reverse back down... again and again for however long your post was).
In short I'm 100% in support of these for police and security use, and actually a bit envious. Should those in the peanut gallery ever wind up doing this kind of thing seriously they won't think it's so funny.
As far as the bit with the segways, I did not use one when I worked casino security, but I very much "get" what it's all about. To put it simply the point is that they are small enough where you can get off them to chase someone almost instantly and not leave behind a hazard the side of a bike (which can tip over) for passing people in a crowd or whatever. When your on hard concrete for 8+ hours a day, running back and forth to respond to every little thing, it takes a toll, and having a Segway is actually an efficient way of taking some pressure off of the feet of patrollers. Understand that people that do this wind up with a lot of foot injuries, and as ironic as it might sound, after god knows how many hours of zipping back and forth on foot, you can wind up with very tired security guys which can be bad if they suddenly have to chase a shoplifter or whatever. If you've never done that, well... I suppose for many it's
hard to really visualize. Cover the length of a mall 8 or 9 times inside of an hour, having to rush each time, and see how you feel.
As far as segways that can do stairs... lol... well going up 20 flights of stairs a bunch of times in a hotel on a regular basis I kind of wish I had one. I don't care what kind of shape your in, that sucks... and it was a nessicary part of patrol roots to make sure nobody was doing anything in those stairwells. You'd typically go up one side, and then down the other (ie up a flight of stairs, cross the level of the hotel to another stairwell, up those stairs, ad infinium, get to the top, then do it in reverse back down... again and again for however long your post was).
In short I'm 100% in support of these for police and security use, and actually a bit envious. Should those in the peanut gallery ever wind up doing this kind of thing seriously they won't think it's so funny.
I'm sorry everyone. I know I should be angry about ESA's continued asshattery (first backing SOPA, now this) or I should be saying something about Ouya's publicity now skyrocketing, but all I can think about are those cop segways.
Seriously, cop tricycle segways. What's wrong with a motorcycle? Or your feet?
Seriously, cop tricycle segways. What's wrong with a motorcycle? Or your feet?
Well, as it turns out, the policing in that parking lot got nothing on the heavy-handed policing in, say, Germany.
I just got word that plenty of Ouya kickstarter backers will remain to be wannabe Oyua owners, as customs are holding their gear back, with the intention to DESTROY the OUYA units as per procedure. Looks like the controller as well as the console feature the CE logo, but the power supply does not seem to feature a CE logo. That, and the fact that there is no appointed representative in the EU seems to get the OUYA a treatment less favourable than that of a majority of knockoffs, fakes and containers full of cheap Chinese clothing.
Users are trying to fight/appeal and whatnot, but it currently does not look good.
Some counties seem to go at it in the most heavy-handed way possible (OUYA? NO SUCH THING! DESTROY!), others have declared to keep the consoles back for 'further testing'. This may or may not prove to be a good thing, as I have not yet seen any of this 'testing' to come free of charge, even if the tests prove the OUYA and the enclosed power supply to be A-OK.
Sauce: http://www.golem.de/news/android-spielekonsole-ouya-die-zollprobleme-und-wie-sie-vermieden-werden-1306-99977.html
I just got word that plenty of Ouya kickstarter backers will remain to be wannabe Oyua owners, as customs are holding their gear back, with the intention to DESTROY the OUYA units as per procedure. Looks like the controller as well as the console feature the CE logo, but the power supply does not seem to feature a CE logo. That, and the fact that there is no appointed representative in the EU seems to get the OUYA a treatment less favourable than that of a majority of knockoffs, fakes and containers full of cheap Chinese clothing.
Users are trying to fight/appeal and whatnot, but it currently does not look good.
Some counties seem to go at it in the most heavy-handed way possible (OUYA? NO SUCH THING! DESTROY!), others have declared to keep the consoles back for 'further testing'. This may or may not prove to be a good thing, as I have not yet seen any of this 'testing' to come free of charge, even if the tests prove the OUYA and the enclosed power supply to be A-OK.
Sauce: http://www.golem.de/news/android-spielekonsole-ouya-die-zollprobleme-und-wie-sie-vermieden-werden-1306-99977.html