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• On the post: International Crisis: North Korea Is Getting Even Worse At Photoshop

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2013 @ 09:38pm

  I can tell it's a fake. Because of the pixels... and the fact that Kim's head is a raptor.
  
  http://i.imgur.com/BnelFcl.jpg

• On the post: Silk Road Sellers Around The Globe Getting Arrested

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2013 @ 02:58pm

  This is a good thing though, right?

• On the post: Red Cross Pushing For War Crimes In Video Games To Be Punished In Video Games

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2013 @ 11:21pm

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  Yes! That is the word, Thanks!

• On the post: Red Cross Pushing For War Crimes In Video Games To Be Punished In Video Games

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2013 @ 05:43pm

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  your likining* of the ICRC to the CCA

• On the post: Red Cross Pushing For War Crimes In Video Games To Be Punished In Video Games

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2013 @ 05:43pm

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  What? No. I meant relating what the red cross is doing to the comic code authority is a slippery slope. The CCA banned the words "crime", "terror", etc... The ICRC mearly wants humanitarian law recognized in games, rather than ignored entirely. Also, the CCA was mandatory, ICRC is talking to publishers who have the right to refuse. Comparing the two is like saying an ant bite is the same as a snake bite.
  
  According to the ICRC article the quote above is from. Here
  
  Won't this make the games preachy or boring?
  "Our intention is not to spoil player's enjoyment by for example, interrupting the game with pop-up messages listing legal provisions or lecturing gamers on the law of armed conflict..."
  
  Therefore, your liking of the ICRC to the CCA is an overreaction.
  
  Bam!
  
  /argument

• On the post: Red Cross Pushing For War Crimes In Video Games To Be Punished In Video Games

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2013 @ 08:11am

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  Honestly... probably not. Besides I prefer the Swiss flag anyway, much more aesthetic!

• On the post: Red Cross Pushing For War Crimes In Video Games To Be Punished In Video Games

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2013 @ 07:10am

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  Perhaps I should rephrase it to "realistic" war simulations? The semantics are irrelevant, I'm trying to aptly describe games based on real world conflicts based in past, present, or realistic near futures.

• On the post: Red Cross Pushing For War Crimes In Video Games To Be Punished In Video Games

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2013 @ 07:02am

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  A slippery slope. try again.

• On the post: Red Cross Pushing For War Crimes In Video Games To Be Punished In Video Games

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2013 @ 06:08am

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  but "required" is what they implied when they suggested government regulation. On the bright side though, that was from almost two years ago and there is no mention of it in the more recent article.

• On the post: Red Cross Pushing For War Crimes In Video Games To Be Punished In Video Games

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2013 @ 06:05am

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  The ICRC is actually only pushing this for "real-war" simulations. I don't think Madworld is very realistic, as much as I'd love my own chainsaw gauntlet.
  
  Though I don't agree with the whole lobbying congress to make it law thing, I think it could work for some games. As long as the developers are ok with it, adding war crime laws to video games could be educational and add to the realism.

• On the post: FBI Wants More Than $270,000 To Respond To FOIA Request About Booz Allen

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2013 @ 10:07am

  Well if you consider it'll probably take the FBI a couple years to release the info anyway it's only about 70k a year! Standard salary for a government worker isn't it?

• On the post: Anonymous Cop Claims Anonymity Is Bad, Proposes National Email Registry For Internet Users

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2013 @ 11:50am

  I SWEAR I'M NOT TROLLING MY CAPS LOCK IS JUST BROKEN! WITH THAT SAID, I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THEY'VE SHUT DOWN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THAT ARTICLE ON KSL.COM PERHAPS THEY HAD TOO MANY TROLLS?

• On the post: School Suspends Students For Playing With Airsoft Guns In Their Own Yard

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2013 @ 10:46am

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  I think he meant if he saw it and couldn't tell if it was a toy. Which could happen on the non clear-plastic guns if the orange tip is obscured or fallen off.

• On the post: Border Patrol's Horrific Treatment Of On The Media's Producer, Family & Friends Highlights The Lack Of Accountability From DHS

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2013 @ 10:50am

  absolutely despicable!

• On the post: Not Content With Gutting The Fourth Amendment, The Government Continues Its Attack On The Fifth And Sixth

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2013 @ 02:27pm

  God forbid you touch the second amendment though! That's just un-American!

• On the post: Reporter Barton Gellman Explains Why It's Extremely Unlikely The Russians Or Chinese Have Snowden's Documents

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2013 @ 04:07pm

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• On the post: Reporter Barton Gellman Explains Why It's Extremely Unlikely The Russians Or Chinese Have Snowden's Documents

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2013 @ 04:04pm

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  ""

• On the post: Reporter Barton Gellman Explains Why It's Extremely Unlikely The Russians Or Chinese Have Snowden's Documents

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2013 @ 04:03pm

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  If you click play it opens up a player in a new window. The player in that new window has an embed button.

• On the post: Reporter Barton Gellman Explains Why It's Extremely Unlikely The Russians Or Chinese Have Snowden's Documents

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2013 @ 11:32am

  Re: Wouldn't it be ironic...

  The NSA didn't weaken encryption itself, just the standards of encryption, they're not the only way to encrypt things.

• On the post: Reporter Barton Gellman Explains Why It's Extremely Unlikely The Russians Or Chinese Have Snowden's Documents

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2013 @ 11:26am

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  I think "impulsive" narcissism can be ruled out. I'm not saying narcissism has absolutely zero to do with it. But Snowden joined the NSA because he was planning to find and release info on NSA's abuses if they existed, so it was anything but the impulsive nature of any ordinary disgruntled NSA employee.

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