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mrford

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:04:15

http://www.reuters.com/...cle/idUSTRE70B5ZL20110112

that article has a pretty harsh undertone and it is clearly written by a member of this community. or one that has recently gained access.

way to go, we are trying to promote this game. not demonize it.

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Detmer

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:07:53

Originally posted by that reuters story:

In public message boards, other players worried that their game would come under unwelcome scrutiny in the wake of the shooting.

"so now we are all suspect to every political hate crime from here on out," one participant wrote.

Ouch. Harsh.

Junky

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:09:24

I don't think it was a person who plays in here... maybe someone who read alot of the back topics made with him in it.. and stating they are part of the game to make it sound more official, or whatnot.

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mrford

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:10:11

he had access to a clan site

some of those quotes i havnt seen

Swagger of a Chupacabra

[21:37:01] <&KILLERfluffY> when I was doing FA stuff for sof the person who gave me the longest angry rant was Mr Ford

ou812

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:12:33

The article states he was from Singapore.

Pain

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:12:54

find out if any members are named andy sullivan, john goh, or david storey.

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spawn

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:13:58

"His online chat sessions were available to members of the online gaming group, of which I am a member."

/slap iZarcon

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Junky

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:14:07

and then ban them for life

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Junky

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:15:13

well Pang did say he had a collective of stuff like that, and anyone who wanted to see could ask him. what if a reporter type dude had asked for the stuff?

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spawn

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:16:12

he didnt release it yet

if released it will be available to everyone

/slap iZarcon

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Pain

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:16:59

in all likelyhood they arent really a member, just some fluffbag reporter trying to put his own twist on it and trying to make it more believeable by claiming he plays the game.

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mrford

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:17:39

he has only released it to the FBI

he clearly asked pang for additional info

"A game administrator declined to provide more chat sessions to Reuters, saying he needed to speak with his lawyer first."

Swagger of a Chupacabra

[21:37:01] <&KILLERfluffY> when I was doing FA stuff for sof the person who gave me the longest angry rant was Mr Ford

Junky

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:18:37

either way, if they do play, ban em... if they don't write a strongly worded letter to both parties about mis representing us..

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kemo

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:24:03

i dont think a srong letter will get a single thing done. at most theyll shrug you off. pdm just needs to ab them

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Raf

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:33:33

fluff like this is going to keep happening. Nothing you can do.

+RAF

madjsp

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Jan 14th 2011, 0:40:02

Reporters suck.

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Pain

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Jan 14th 2011, 1:00:00

Originally posted by mrford:

pang posted publicly that he wanted to talk to his lawyers before he did anything with the posts. they could be putting a spin on it dont believe everything some reporter writes in an artcle.

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mrford

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Jan 14th 2011, 1:04:49

you are a stubborn mofo

all evidence points to the fact that he had access to at least one of the clan sites

all im saying

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[21:37:01] <&KILLERfluffY> when I was doing FA stuff for sof the person who gave me the longest angry rant was Mr Ford

Junky

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Jan 14th 2011, 4:45:15

Originally posted by mrford:

you are a stubborn mofo

all evidence points to the fact that he had access to at least one of the clan sites

all im saying

probly Sanct you know how those guys are.

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Dibs Ludicrous

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Jan 14th 2011, 5:02:08

SOL is ranked too high.

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gwagers

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Jan 14th 2011, 5:03:36

I suggest that as the papers' next headline.

Peloponnese (PEHL-oh-puh-NEES): a mythical land of cheesecake

"We cannot enter into alliance with neighboring princes until we are acquainted with their designs..."--Sun Tzu

Who has time for that? BLAST THEM ALL!

galleri

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Jan 14th 2011, 5:50:57

Honestly I see alot of the same lines from other news articles. But pretty fluffty of a member to do. And honestly if John Roh does not fess up.....my opinion he is a liar and not a member of the game....or he just joined minutes before he wrote the article.

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KeSSie

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Jan 14th 2011, 6:08:35

Originally posted by mrford:

I agree with you, Ford. The entire article rubbed me the wrong way. I don't care for the negative light it shines on our community, but what irks me more is the entirety of the article as a published piece. It almost HAD to be an Earther that wrote it. I can't believe that a true journalist could have possibly written it. I say that not for the "information" it contains, but because of how poorly it was written. It's all quite disjointed..not a good flow to it at all. Shame on the author for their nubbish attempt at writing an article, and shame on the editor for not doing their job catching it and appropriately depositing it into their circular file.

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locket

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Jan 14th 2011, 6:19:33

it could be the fact that someone said it is from singapore. Perhaps there are english issues :P

Dibs Ludicrous

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Jan 14th 2011, 6:24:04

LOL, yeah, it could be that english is their primary language. :-P

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Xintros

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Jan 14th 2011, 6:25:55

Originally posted by KeSSelaDaDarkAngel:

Originally posted by mrford:

It's all quite disjointed..not a good flow to it at all. Shame on the author for their nubbish attempt at writing an article, and shame on the editor for not doing their job catching it and appropriately depositing it into their circular file.

Very poor indeed. Jumping back and forth in that manner... It is just a terrible piece of (can't call it journalism) .... garbage?

It took three people to put that piece of crap together? *sighs

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Thomas

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Jan 14th 2011, 6:31:47

seems as though the quotes were from his alias 'Erad'. So where did he play as that name?

KeSSie

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Jan 14th 2011, 6:47:19

"(John Goh is a pictures editor based in Singapore)

(Writing by Andy Sullivan in Washington; Editing by David Storey)"

ahem..Locket..SUCK IT!..and don't ask me what "it" is! ;-D As far as I'm concerned, there are no excuses!

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galleri

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Jan 14th 2011, 6:48:56

Originally posted by KeSSelaDaDarkAngel:

EL YAY!!!

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KeSSie

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Jan 14th 2011, 6:52:05

EL YAY!!! :-D

I love that you use that at work, Galli hehe

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NOW3P

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Jan 14th 2011, 6:52:29

Whoever John Goh is, he's facebook friends w/ mdevol.

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locket

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Jan 14th 2011, 7:54:14

I was going by what they said above here kesse :P

galleri

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Jan 14th 2011, 7:58:17

He is friends with a few earthers on fb. So he must be a player....but this fluffed up that he did that.

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AxAlar

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Jan 14th 2011, 9:18:07

Heh it wasnt a Sancter. It was a SoLer, but from the looks of it, mums the word on who :P

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Dibs Ludicrous

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Jan 14th 2011, 9:21:20

the real question is, how many reps are they going to required to pay?

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enshula

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Jan 14th 2011, 10:05:58

chatroom implies irc logs

its probably just incompetance on the part of the reporter though

iTavi

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Jan 14th 2011, 10:14:22

the first thing that came up to me was indeed how poor the article was written. other than that, i don't really care much. imo we should keep in mind that irc logs / clanpage logs / other fluff are required since we're not talking about a game anymore, we're talking about a very tragic event where alot of persons lost their lives.

iZarcon

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Jan 14th 2011, 10:21:36

i agree tavi. the article was poorly written. noticed it yesterday, but didn't really find it worthy of being linked to from our boards.

I do hope the authorities get enough information from all the info we have to help prevent these types of events from happening.

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ou812

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Jan 14th 2011, 10:21:38

I thought they had said the reporter was from Singapore. Sorry I can't read :P

iZarcon

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Jan 14th 2011, 10:28:06

his facebook says he's from singapore as well.

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M m i x X

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Jan 14th 2011, 10:32:17

and he also likes to watch powerpuff girls...

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iZarcon

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Jan 14th 2011, 11:07:53

who doesn't?

... maybe i've said too much

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Dibs Ludicrous

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Jan 14th 2011, 11:10:55

think it's ok, as long as you don't try to undress them with your eyes?

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kemo

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Jan 14th 2011, 13:33:29

Originally posted by KeSSelaDaDarkAngel:

well what do texans know about writing anyway?

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TAN

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Jan 14th 2011, 13:36:58

As someone who works in the media field, I can tell you that he doesn't necessarily have to be employed by Reuters to publish an article there.

He could either be freelancing, or just wrote a one-off article that was relevant to the subject, of which he was given a slight monetary reward for writing.

It's still possible he works for Reuters, but there are alternate explanations.

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KeTcHuP

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Jan 14th 2011, 13:48:30

meh in my opinion that article wasnt that bad. Who cares? Everyones entittled to their opinion.

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snawdog

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Jan 14th 2011, 14:11:25

Yea, it could have been worse, could have said is was a 'war based text game'..
That would blow harder and farther..
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king7012

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Jan 14th 2011, 15:10:51

The name Andy Sullivan looks very familiar. I cant remember which alliance i saw that name it but it was quite a few years ago now. I remember it because people in the alliance were trying to find each other on Facebook and Andy Sullivan was one of the people. So from what i remember this could be an actual earther. Sadly

Pang

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Jan 14th 2011, 15:22:37

I'm busy working today, but I wouldn't really get upset at folks trying to do their job

just be respectful and if you don't want to talk to the media or anything, that's definitely well within your rights.

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Steeps

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Jan 14th 2011, 15:25:30

After reading this thread I think it shines a pretty accurate view of this game, yes it's unfortunate what's happened but after a "review" by a media outlet that wasn't even that damaging you've turned this thread into a witch hunt to find the writer and do god knows what to them and their "guild".