If You Were Admin of the Entire Internet ...
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In today's society, the fast and efficient transferal of information is vital for many aspects and businesses, and the internet is the best way to do that. If we lost all access to the internet somehow, multiple facets of society would be damaged, many beyond repair. The video game industry would crumble, and the rest of the entertainment industry would also take a massive hit. Transferring medical records would be far more difficult than what we've come to depend on, making medicare even harder to maintain. Normal monetary transactions that we can do with a couple little clicks now could take days or weeks. The ease of intercontinental human communication, as well as collecting information and knowledge, would disappear.The Virgo said:
The poster you're referring to did not once say "everything outside of it is shit". He never even implied that. He said "The internet isn't vital but it sure as shit is better than what they had before it." Which is 100% true. Society wouldn't fall apart without it, but it definitely wouldn't be as well developed or advanced or easy as it is now. And it already isn't that easy with today's economy.
You seem to be focused on the idea that I love 4chan, which isn't true. I haven't gone there in well over a year, and whenever I did before, it was only when I couldn't sleep and I needed a good chuckle, and I was seldom on for more than fifteen minutes. I just know that different boards on there aren't nearly as bad as many people on this site, as well as on others, make them out to be, and I don't believe on judging a whole based on a part. If you want to wallow in your own ignorance, be my guest. And as to why people are concentrating on you, this is your thread. It's that simple.
So, as I said before. Straw man arguments, attempts at rationalizing your own self imposed ignorance. It's sad, really.
I wouldn't really do anything very noticable, just troll most major websites (and their visitors).
Either that, or I would change the world in a Eliza Cassan (Deus Ex Human Revolution)-ish way; by informing the people in such a way that their view of the world becomes what I want it to be.
Either that, or I would change the world in a Eliza Cassan (Deus Ex Human Revolution)-ish way; by informing the people in such a way that their view of the world becomes what I want it to be.
Nothing, I would do absolutely nothing.
Seriously, many of you guys are talking about 'banning this' and 'taxing that,' then many of you complain about SOPA or censorship? Give me a break! Is there stuff on the internet that we may not like? Sure. Are there horrible criminal elements of the internet that should be protected against? I suppose. But is it our right to shut them down because we don't like them? No.
Frankly, if I woke up in this situation, I'd probably put my computer away for a few days until this little 'issue' went away.
Seriously, many of you guys are talking about 'banning this' and 'taxing that,' then many of you complain about SOPA or censorship? Give me a break! Is there stuff on the internet that we may not like? Sure. Are there horrible criminal elements of the internet that should be protected against? I suppose. But is it our right to shut them down because we don't like them? No.
Frankly, if I woke up in this situation, I'd probably put my computer away for a few days until this little 'issue' went away.
Alright, now this is something I will have a logical discussion about!ZeroMachine said:
Yes, you are right, no doubt about it, but also, before the internet, things took longer but you also had time to look things over. We now live in a "NOW!" society, where everything has to be instant. That puts pressure on things. I'll explain what I mean when I answer your next paragraph.
Yes and no. It would not "crumble", per se, but there would be a lot of positives and negatives that would come about as a result. The bad news would be that indie devs would have a much harder, if not impossible, time to get their games where the masses could see them. Thanks to Steam and other sites, great indie games like "The Binding of Issac" and Braid can be seen and played by everybody. A world without indie games would be a sad one! <:-(ZeroMachine said:
The good news, however, is that games would BE FORCED to ship finished. I've been playing games for years, first on a NES, then the SNES, Sega Dreamcast, PC (windows 98 FTW!) and so on and so forth. I'm always hearing about games shipping with horrible bugs (the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series is notorious for that), being practically unplayable at launch (there was a game by Stardock called Enchanted or something like that that was like that, and BRINK wouldn't work on ATI cards) or having buggy, unplayable multiplayer that constantly drops the player (Heroes of Stalingrad, Battlefield 3). Back in the old days, you had one chance and that was it. If there were bugs, they were small and were fixed with expansion packs that added a lot of content, unlike DLC. This means that designers would HAVE to release a finished game.
As for the entertainment industry, it would actually end up better without the internet. For starters, there would be less piracy (not eradicated, but a lot less) and just as many people would find out about movies, because they would see it on television, on billboards, in newspapers, from friends ... the industry has survived years without the internet. Yes, they rely on it a lot these days, but that's because the internet is huge. If the internet were to go away, it would be rough at first, but they could go back to the old way, which they still use those techniques. As for the music industry, it would also benefit from less piracy AND it would actually IMPROVE because people couldn't just spend 99 cents on a song. That's a huge problem with that sector right now.
Again, for both of those, less of an indie side, which is bad, but outside of that, things would improve overall.
No argument here.ZeroMachine said:
To an extent. We always have phones, but finding wouldn't be as easy, grantedZeroMachine said:
He kind of did, actually, but it wasn't that post. I think it was before that quote. I sadly do not have time to look at the moment, but I will later.ZeroMachine said:
I usually don't either, but when it comes to 4Chan, it's different. :-/ZeroMachine said:
I immediately establish my own police state on the internet.
I take control of all sites I enjoy and only allow the stuff I like.
Then I establish about twenty seven sites spouting conspiracy theories suggesting that I am a god.
I take control of all sites I enjoy and only allow the stuff I like.
Then I establish about twenty seven sites spouting conspiracy theories suggesting that I am a god.
Write my own Escapist articles, covering topical gaming issues. I wouldn't do anything to the others, I'd just throw my own column in there. It will be free of bias, and there will be no simple blanket bans for comments, save for those that exist only to harass other users.
Reopen comment threads on Project Zomboid blog posts, then (after posting something meaningful and supportive, or at least critical in a helpful manner) IP ban any of the kids who use the space to abuse Indie Stone.
Scan the entire internet- ALL of it- for uses of the word "Pubbie" in relation to gaming. That means chat screens inside games, gaming forums, whatever else. The people who use it? Will receive a 1 day ban from anything to do with gaming. I am so sick of the goddamn elitism that plagues online communities.
Other than that, I'd act on a case-by-case basis. I'll seek out evils, and put an end to them. Some might say that I'm abusing my power, but, then, it is MY power. I was chosen for a reason, no?
Reopen comment threads on Project Zomboid blog posts, then (after posting something meaningful and supportive, or at least critical in a helpful manner) IP ban any of the kids who use the space to abuse Indie Stone.
Scan the entire internet- ALL of it- for uses of the word "Pubbie" in relation to gaming. That means chat screens inside games, gaming forums, whatever else. The people who use it? Will receive a 1 day ban from anything to do with gaming. I am so sick of the goddamn elitism that plagues online communities.
Other than that, I'd act on a case-by-case basis. I'll seek out evils, and put an end to them. Some might say that I'm abusing my power, but, then, it is MY power. I was chosen for a reason, no?
Ok, wow, I gotta give it to you, that actually turned around my opinion on you. A lot of your points I somewhat agree with. I've been gaming since the NES days and I also miss the days when games were released with less bugs. But I don't think it'd necessarily be better to go back to those days. Bigger games mean bugs are more likely to slip through, and without the internet, even if they focused more on bug testing, some game breaking glitches may last forever, and a game may never recover.The Virgo said:
Just look at Skyward Sword's infamous glitch. Nintendo didn't know what to do as they've never had a patch system for their games on the Wii (just patches for the Wii itself) so they needed to make a dedicated channel in order to patch the individual save files instead of the game itself. In other words, the bug still exists, you just need to use a work around save file fixer. Without the internet, we wouldn't even have that.
Games would have to go back to the older days of less complexity. I love a good old game as much as the next guy (Chrono Trigger is, by far, my favorite game, even though I played it for the first time in 2007) but I love games like Skyrim, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and the Halos. Without the internet, those games could not exist. Well... Halo 1 could. Guess that's something.
But worse than all that is the fact that the current market DEPENDS on multiplayer. It's what brought gaming to the forefront of society and made it an acceptable hobby and passion. WoW, the CoDs, Halo 2 and, to a lesser extent, the Halos after it all contributed to the popularity of the medium BIG TIME not because of excellent stories (though I do love the Halo stories and I enjoy the CoD action movie stories/the Lore in WoW) but because of their multiplayer.
Multiplayer can exist in a non-internet state, obviously, but it wouldn't be nearly as popular, and a massive amount of companies would simply disappear.
You arguments about the movie and music industries, though... yeah. Totally right. Especially about the music one. I'd say that's what you'd call "acceptable losses" in the interim between the loss of the internet and getting things back in order, at least in their case.
RE: 4chan, though I'll leave the specific idea of 4chan out of it, it's a belief I hold dear that there is almost no greater way for someone to insult their own intelligence than to ignore facts they know are real, and to succumb to sweeping generalizations because they're easier. You're obviously a smart guy, you're obviously somewhat aware of the fact that you're doing this. Don't insult yourself like that.
I'm assuming that if we're admin of the internet we would have over Anonymous-level proxys and shit to hide behind? It'd be catastophic if this pwoer fell into the wrong hands...lolololimtotallythewronghands.
I'd start off by thinning the herd on Youtube, simply because I can. It might be petty, but I don't give a shit. Insult me? Being a racist/religious **** for no reason? Kiss your goddamn account goodbye. IP BAN!
Next I would begin a slow trudge over multiple sites I've visited over the years full of some of the lowest forms of humanity I've ever known. Say goodbye to your internet.
Next I'd make it a mandatory signup rule for just about any site that members must pass a small writing exam. Nothing too complex, but if the Grammar Hammer 9000 picks up more than five damned spelling mistakes in a sentence or bloody text-speak you will have your signup privileges revoked for anything other than the most necessary things such as search engines for one year. By the end of it perhaps the person has learned to type and will not cuase my eyes to bleed.
Afterward for awhile I'd probably just screw around. Mess with people for a bit, send messages from others accounts to people I dislike just to cause drama and controversy, because I'm a dick and enjoy watching assholes fight with each other.
Then if I became truly crazy I could go into the Pentagon's or, hell, any other country's computer systems and launch all of the active nuclear missiles alllll over the world, and burn it all to the ground. Rule the internet and you basically rule the world.
Totally hypothetically speaking, of course.
I'd start off by thinning the herd on Youtube, simply because I can. It might be petty, but I don't give a shit. Insult me? Being a racist/religious **** for no reason? Kiss your goddamn account goodbye. IP BAN!
Next I would begin a slow trudge over multiple sites I've visited over the years full of some of the lowest forms of humanity I've ever known. Say goodbye to your internet.
Next I'd make it a mandatory signup rule for just about any site that members must pass a small writing exam. Nothing too complex, but if the Grammar Hammer 9000 picks up more than five damned spelling mistakes in a sentence or bloody text-speak you will have your signup privileges revoked for anything other than the most necessary things such as search engines for one year. By the end of it perhaps the person has learned to type and will not cuase my eyes to bleed.
Afterward for awhile I'd probably just screw around. Mess with people for a bit, send messages from others accounts to people I dislike just to cause drama and controversy, because I'm a dick and enjoy watching assholes fight with each other.
Then if I became truly crazy I could go into the Pentagon's or, hell, any other country's computer systems and launch all of the active nuclear missiles alllll over the world, and burn it all to the ground. Rule the internet and you basically rule the world.
Totally hypothetically speaking, of course.
Um... the entire internet? I'm a shy, weak, and timid person who doesn't want that many people hating me...
I'll probably just get rid of all smut sites with very particularly creepy fetishes.
Maybe shut down Facebook for rage, and then turn it back up every so often.
I'd probably learn legal issues to prevent SOPA and stuff.
Uh, use everyone's stored information to take 1 to 10 cents (Currency exchange will be factored in) from bank accounts and grant me a huge sum of cash to live the rest of my life with.
Maybe support some websites I like and shut down some things that should never be on the internet, including more "BeST CoD KI!l EVveR GUIZZ!!11!"
Then, I'm say a meek "yay" and go back to my day job, for I long for social interaction.
I'll probably just get rid of all smut sites with very particularly creepy fetishes.
Maybe shut down Facebook for rage, and then turn it back up every so often.
I'd probably learn legal issues to prevent SOPA and stuff.
Uh, use everyone's stored information to take 1 to 10 cents (Currency exchange will be factored in) from bank accounts and grant me a huge sum of cash to live the rest of my life with.
Maybe support some websites I like and shut down some things that should never be on the internet, including more "BeST CoD KI!l EVveR GUIZZ!!11!"
Then, I'm say a meek "yay" and go back to my day job, for I long for social interaction.
Just mess with the swear filter. For shiggles.
For example, no one else is allowed to say "shiggles", it'll autocorrect to "cahoots", Anyone who I don't like will have their name corrected from "[name]" to "That git, [name]" and common misspellings will cause entire posts or emails to appear in bright pink comic sans.
For example, no one else is allowed to say "shiggles", it'll autocorrect to "cahoots", Anyone who I don't like will have their name corrected from "[name]" to "That git, [name]" and common misspellings will cause entire posts or emails to appear in bright pink comic sans.