Geohot Hints at Plans After Sony Settlement
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I can't rebut you. I'm too busy wondering how you ever learned to ride your bicycle into a puddle of fail and then immediately start to back-pedal your way out of it. That's an impressive trick and one that has rendered me speechless in amazement at your pedaling skills.DTWolfwood said:what no rebuttal?JDKJ said:
So his lawyers worked for free all this time?
By that logic, a gun manufacturer could be facilitating murder, armed robbery, etc., since, after all, they put the item out there. That's the same thought process people use to say violent games make people violent. Just because someone puts out an idea or product, you can't say what crimes people may commit with/because of it makes the creator culpable for those individuals' actions.JDKJ said:
Oh, Lord, here we go again with the apples and the oranges.Sylveria said:
And what's up with the complete absence of any originality?! Why do all the apples to oranges comparisons have to involve either cars or guns?! It's bad enough that the ill-placed comparisons are invariably made, but do they also invariable have to involve cars and guns?
Lord, have mercy and give me strength!
There's also the the part where he clearly and unequivocally stated that any monies left over would be donated to the EFF. I ain't heard a peep outta him about any donation being made to the EFF. If I was the EFF, I'd be picking up the phone to ask him what's up my fucking money and when I'm gonna get it.LastGreatBlasphemer said:
You seem to be confusing my refusal to let someone else dictate the terms of the debate with sloppy rhetorics (that's you) with "a force of habit" of my own, and that would be expected of someone as ego-centric as you have proven yourself to be. I may not be slick, but you aren't any sort of authority on basically anything, either. That's where we are similar. The difference between us is this: I'm not trying to be slick.JDKJ said:
I just caught this. Syl, notice he never actually addressed your argument here, he just ridiculed you for making it.JDKJ said:
Although I sincerely doubt that you aren't trying to be slick, whatever you're trying to do has the consequence -- whether intended or unintended -- of rendering you, in my opinion, a complete and utter bore. I don't say so to be impolite or insulting. The simply fact of the matter is that I, for all my previously stated reasons, have come to find discourse with you a wearisome ordeal. And, as far as I'm concerned, whether you are in fact a complete and utter bore is of little import. Perceptions are oftentimes more important than the reality and, unfortunately, I have come to perceive you as a bore. Therefore, I've no doubt that you will not be hard-pressed to understand my disinclination towards further discourse with you and the weariness I invariable suffer as a result of that discourse.Emergent said:
All that being now said, if you don't want to further trade posts with me, I'll perfectly understand that and, rest assured, will in no way see that that as any sort of negative reflection upon you.
As an emotional appeal, based solely on your feelings, there is really nothing said here that requires or deserves a response. That said, yes, I understand that you are disinclined to like people who call out your petty bullshit for what it is: some random guy on the internet's attempt at making himself feel relevant, or important, or whatever. I bet that does get wearisome. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop, though, at least not as long as you keep spewing your particular brand of vitriol in places I happen to visit.JDKJ said:
Lord, I was hoping that "there is really nothing said here that requires or deserves a response" would have, in fact, truly been the case. So much for hopes.Emergent said:
As I previously said, you are a victim of you own force of habit. You can no more cease your behavior than a leopard can change its spots. If I had a soft spot in my heart, I'd actually feel pity for you but, unfortunately, my heart's rock-hard (too much fried food).
I don't think you're qualified to know what my habits are, at least, not without stretching the meaning of the word "habit" beyond any useful definition. The rest is just more of your incessant emotional appeals. They aren't really that important.JDKJ said:
You mean beyond my receipt of the skatey-eight million posts in which you quote me and then exhibit over and over and over and over and over and over again the same habitual conduct?Emergent said:
hab·it n. A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition.
force of hab·it n. Behavior that has become automatic through long practice or frequent repetition.
You got a lotta nerve.Emergent said:
I made clear to you, repeatedly and in no uncertain terms, that I'm not interested in discourse with you and, as politely as polite could have been, invited you to piss off and just leave me alone, but you ignored me and declined the invitation and, instead, insisted that you won't piss off and will continue jockin' me. And now you wanna talk about your patience been tried? If you weren't in it to have your patience tried, then why didn't you just piss off and leave me alone as invited? Yeah, I know, you're Batman in his cape protecting the hallowed halls of the Escapist's forums from my vitriol (while, ironically, you're also in the process turning the hallowed halls of the Escapist's forums into your personal battlefield upon which to wage your personal vendetta against me and, coincidentally, co-opting a thread that has nothing to do with either me or you and everything to do with George Hotz). Fine. Be Batman, if you so choose. But then you're left no room in which to fairly complain when I choose to be the Joker. That's on you. You can't have your cake and eat it, too.
Perhaps this a good time for me to refresh my invitation that you piss off and leave me alone?
Yes, I do. Thank you. As to the rest: more emotional appeals, it is irrelevant that you don't like it when someone else points out that you are behaving like an abusive ass, all you have to do is cease, and I have no argument to make. As it is, it's a good argument, and you yourself provide all the evidence anyone needs to see it.JDKJ said:
Fine. Then I guess you, like the Biblical Job, have now resolved to having your patience tried and will no longer be bellyaching to me (who, truth be told, couldn't care less) when it is tried.Emergent said:
And if, as you claim, I'm "an abusive ass," then, instead of taking it upon yourself to be the Escapist's Batman in a cape with a gadget-laden utility belt, why don't you simply click that big, red REPORT button that pops up with each and every one of my posts? Or have you you already tried that route and had the mods completely ignore you? Maybe you should look into becoming a mod here? You're certainly willing to be a self-deputized one. But the line between a self-deputized mod and an annoying troll is a very thin one. And apparently easily crossed. I think you'd benefit from a more official status. Maybe they'll let you have one of those shiny silver Escapist Moderator badges that you can then hang off your utility belt. That'd be cool, wouldn't it?
There once was a Great King named Sony. Sony was beloved by all his people, and his kingdom was safe from harm.
But one day king Sony found out that Marauders* had been using the roads he had built in the OtherOS Forest to raid shipments passing through the kingdom. Outraged, king Sony outlawed the use of the roads. But the roads in otherOS forest were held dearly to the hearts of the citizens as they used them to get useful goods in the northern sea, and so they cursed King Sony's name for his rash actions. King Sony was displeased, but happy his kingdom was secure.
One day, an adventurer name George Hotz came across a trail leading around The old roads. He realized that the King could not outlaw a trail and so he explored it and found it lead to the bountiful Northern sea.. The people could finally have access to the northern sea again! He ran back and told everyone in the kingdom of his great discovery. Unfortunately, the marauders also heard of the trail, now they could regain access to the kingdom...
King Sony heard of George's discovery and was outraged. The marauders would once again plauge the land. He sent his guard to arrest George, and George pleaded to the people for aid. King Sony locked up George but several villages begged for his release. On a dark night, George emerged from the dungeons, the people asked why the King let him go, but he did not answer them. The king never spoke of the event either. But George still bore a hatred towards the King who had persecuted him, and so he roamed from village to village preaching how the villagers should be able to use whatever roads they wished and that the King was a tyrant.
Meanwhile, the King rode to the trail to defend the northern borders from an oncoming wave of bloodthirsty marauders.
*though the Mauraders were vicious in their pillaging, many were impoverished remnants of an old country that had fallen long ago. They simply were trying to scrounge a living In the harsh wilderness. However, the most vicious of their bands were of noble background. The members were just unwilling to pay for the goods, and so they stole them Instead.
But one day king Sony found out that Marauders* had been using the roads he had built in the OtherOS Forest to raid shipments passing through the kingdom. Outraged, king Sony outlawed the use of the roads. But the roads in otherOS forest were held dearly to the hearts of the citizens as they used them to get useful goods in the northern sea, and so they cursed King Sony's name for his rash actions. King Sony was displeased, but happy his kingdom was secure.
One day, an adventurer name George Hotz came across a trail leading around The old roads. He realized that the King could not outlaw a trail and so he explored it and found it lead to the bountiful Northern sea.. The people could finally have access to the northern sea again! He ran back and told everyone in the kingdom of his great discovery. Unfortunately, the marauders also heard of the trail, now they could regain access to the kingdom...
King Sony heard of George's discovery and was outraged. The marauders would once again plauge the land. He sent his guard to arrest George, and George pleaded to the people for aid. King Sony locked up George but several villages begged for his release. On a dark night, George emerged from the dungeons, the people asked why the King let him go, but he did not answer them. The king never spoke of the event either. But George still bore a hatred towards the King who had persecuted him, and so he roamed from village to village preaching how the villagers should be able to use whatever roads they wished and that the King was a tyrant.
Meanwhile, the King rode to the trail to defend the northern borders from an oncoming wave of bloodthirsty marauders.
*though the Mauraders were vicious in their pillaging, many were impoverished remnants of an old country that had fallen long ago. They simply were trying to scrounge a living In the harsh wilderness. However, the most vicious of their bands were of noble background. The members were just unwilling to pay for the goods, and so they stole them Instead.