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The funny thing is the word bitch was allowed, because context matters (the context being referring to a female dog).
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dumb. posted:Makes me think of how recently the word 'dick' became ok to say on tv so now it seems in practically every episode of every prime time show they say dick at least once. The first time I heard "tits" on TV was an episode of Upright Citizen's Brigade and it really surprised me. Granted, this was Comedy Central on cable, so not exactly that regulated.
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Nov 13, 2017 18:43
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Safe harbor only applied to broadcast TV and radio. Cable TV and satellite radio weren't bound to it, which allowed Howard Stern to take his show to Sirius and not run into legal problems. Naturally, you're not going to be too successful if you're basic cable and you have people dropping gently caress in the middle of the day, so most cable stations adhered to safe harbor anyway. HBO and Cinemax obviously said gently caress that and went full on porn at night, but they were premium channels and could get away with it.
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Trig Discipline posted:Excuse me but I grew up in Oklahoma and I was called a spaz constantly. California, and my nickname in high school was Spaz. Even from my friends...
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dumb. posted:Makes me think of how recently the word 'dick' became ok to say on tv so now it seems in practically every episode of every prime time show they say dick at least once. iospace posted:The funny thing is the word bitch was allowed, because context matters (the context being referring to a female dog). One of my favorite things about radio today is that you can kind of tell when a song was released by which words are censored in it, and also whether anyone managed to get an updated radio version. In the previously mentioned Teenage Dirtbag, the work "dick" is not censored, but the word "gun" is. But the Offspring song Why Don't You Get a Job?, released a year earlier, has the word "dick" censored, but not the word "bitch". It's kind of strange. My favorite is still Undone by Weezer, where one of the first lines in the song is "god drat". Rather than do any sort of masking or bleeping, some edits just remove the line entirely and mess up the rhythm of the song.
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Someone post the Fatman swearing program video where one of his swear words is "vagina".
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Grey Fox posted:This is all well and good, but people need to stop resorting to death threats whenever a random dev dares to open their mouth. https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/930064582709784577 https://twitter.com/BiggSean66/status/930058496216670211 Because, as we all know, devs have ALL the power at big companies like EA... EDIT: Capitalize right! Samizdata has a new favorite as of 19:24 on Nov 13, 2017 |
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Samizdata posted:Because, as we all know, devs have ALL the power at big companies like EA... Yeah, it's like people yelling at a cashier at a supermarket because of the price of milk. Even if I don't necessarily agree with their weird loot system or whatever, targeting developers for decisions made by a huge game publisher and an even bigger entertainment conglomerate is really the stupidest thing.
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SpacePig posted:Yeah, it's like people yelling at a cashier at a supermarket because of the price of milk. Even if I don't necessarily agree with their weird loot system or whatever, targeting developers for decisions made by a huge game publisher and an even bigger entertainment conglomerate is really the stupidest thing. I've found in my experience the moment you say "I don't set the prices", those sort of people tend to shut up. Not always, and they're not always angry nerds either.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:The first time I heard "tits" on TV was an episode of Upright Citizen's Brigade and it really surprised me. Granted, this was Comedy Central on cable, so not exactly that regulated. I remember Comedy Central used to have a late night "WERE NOT CENSORING ANYTHING" hour or whatever. I watched it once and it was a Bo Burnham special and they bleeped a joke about the Holocaust during their non-bleeping hour so I guess I didn't really understand the point.
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SpacePig posted:Yeah, it's like people yelling at a cashier at a supermarket because of the price of milk. Even if I don't necessarily agree with their weird loot system or whatever, targeting developers for decisions made by a huge game publisher and an even bigger entertainment conglomerate is really the stupidest thing. It just sucks because the system EA has in place (decision-makers never have to explain themselves to the customers, PR team is deliberately left in the dark) is working exactly as intended for a huge company and a whoooole lot of very angry people don't seem to get it. edit: I can't stop cringing at this poo poo, oh my god quote:So, u/EACommunityTeam Grey Fox has a new favorite as of 20:04 on Nov 13, 2017 |
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Grey Fox posted:Reddit is now demanding an Ask Me Anything session with EACommunity like the PR team is going to be able to discuss motivations and processes around business decisions. To me it seems like GAMERS just refuse to learn anything even though educating yourself about these matters is relatively simple. Reading Reddit today has been embarrassing. Edit: GAMERS Sininu has a new favorite as of 20:09 on Nov 13, 2017 |
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Nov 13, 2017 20:06
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SpacePig posted:One of my favorite things about radio today is that you can kind of tell when a song was released by which words are censored in it, and also whether anyone managed to get an updated radio version. What's the explanation for why Pigs by Pink Floyd never gets censored for radio play, for as far back as I can remember? Is it just a totally arbitrary case by case thing?
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SpacePig posted:One of my favorite things about radio today is that you can kind of tell when a song was released by which words are censored in it, and also whether anyone managed to get an updated radio version. In the previously mentioned Teenage Dirtbag, the work "dick" is not censored, but the word "gun" is. But the Offspring song Why Don't You Get a Job?, released a year earlier, has the word "dick" censored, but not the word "bitch". It's kind of strange. Something that really makes me scratch me head is that when the radio here plays Nickelback (which they do 30% of the time, because Canada.  ), they bleep the word "drugs". And every single Nickelback song is about drugs.They don't bother to cover it up with anything, they just leave a conspicuous hole in the song. So it's like "The girls come easy and the ___ come cheap." "We've all got a ___ dealer on speed dial." If only they'd censor the rest of the song, too...
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NERD ALERT The Battlefront 2 stuff is a shitshow, but it's still funny that EA wants players to pay 40,000 credits for Chewbacca when Jabba only offered as much as 35,000 with an armed bomb in his face. Grey Fox has a new favorite as of 20:45 on Nov 13, 2017 |
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Isn't that just like every EA game that's been released in the past 5 years? Stop buying their loving games you idiots.
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Grey Fox posted:Reddit is now demanding an Ask Me Anything session with EACommunity like the PR team is going to be able to discuss motivations and processes around business decisions. Lmao at this dude trying to ask questions as if EA isn't a giant company whose end goal is to make money. Does he not understand how businesses work?
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belt posted:Isn't that just like every EA game that's been released in the past 5 years? Liker they have a choice, they are GAMERS!
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Poops Mcgoots posted:Lmao at this dude trying to ask questions as if EA isn't a giant company whose end goal is to make money. Does he not understand how businesses work? They are totally okay with the concept of businesses making money, not just when the "business gains X dollars" equates to "I have lose X dollars". Plus, there's an underlying dissonance, because deep down they understand that their personal pet beef isn't going to become a thing that causes a game to fail. They'd love for it to happen, thus vindicating their position, but they know it won't. Like, how long ago was it that some folks were furiously waiting for the day where DRM was going to make a mainstream game fail, because surely everyone thinks like them about it?
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It looks like a bunch of kids getting off a bus that doesn't look like a school bus, which is a shame, because you have stop when a school bus stops in the opposite lane specifically so situations like this don't happen.
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Holy jeez the reflexes on that trucker (and the brakes on that truck). Good job not killin' those dumb kids. 
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MisterBibs posted:They are totally okay with the concept of businesses making money, not just when the "business gains X dollars" equates to "I have lose X dollars".
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Holy moly. That's why around here it is the law that you have to stop when a school bus is dropping off kids. Is that just a regular bus? That must lead to lots of tragedies.
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MisterBibs posted:They are totally okay with the concept of businesses making money, not just when the "business gains X dollars" equates to "I have lose X dollars". I'm not really sure what you mean with this, because that's just how transactions work. Their contention isn't that they have to spend money, it's that EA is "forcing" them to pay money to play as Darth Vader, or spend an inordinate amount of time playing the game. So the company either takes their money, or takes their time, to unlock a thing that they think they should have for free. I don't necessarily agree with what EA is doing, but it is absolutely people mad that EA wants to make money. MisterBibs posted:Plus, there's an underlying dissonance, because deep down they understand that their personal pet beef isn't going to become a thing that causes a game to fail. They'd love for it to happen, thus vindicating their position, but they know it won't. Then don't buy the fuckin' game. Boycott it as much as you want. But these people are threatening developers because of Star Wars, and at this point I hope EA doesn't cave and change the system because that'll be a real bad precedent.
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Besesoth posted:Holy jeez the reflexes on that trucker (and the brakes on that truck). Good job not killin' those dumb kids. it's an automated emergency braking system
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I'm gonna assume they're backpackers from some hosed up country like the UK so they looked down the road to the left and saw nothing coming and went for it.
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SpacePig posted:I'm not really sure what you mean with this, because that's just how transactions work. I think they are OK with businesses making money in the theoretical, but not when they are the source of that money-making. Sorta like the cliché of a left-wing person being increasingly anti-tax when they are the ones taxed more. SpacePig posted:Then don't buy the fuckin' game. Boycott it as much as you want. As someone joked about above, if they did that they'd have to stick to that principle, and all the other stuff they want out of the game is ultimately worth more than that principle. Since this is the schadenfreude thread and related to the discussion: 
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Jared just can't cut a break: https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/930173592012070912
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sudonim posted:It looks like a bunch of kids getting off a bus that doesn't look like a school bus, which is a shame, because you have stop when a school bus stops in the opposite lane specifically so situations like this don't happen. marshmallow creep posted:Holy moly. That's why around here it is the law that you have to stop when a school bus is dropping off kids. Is that just a regular bus? That must lead to lots of tragedies. This is in Norway, outside of possibly a few specific instances, there are no school buses. There's just an arrangement between the schools and the local bus companies, and kids take the normal bus to/from school, usually with an extra route to match up with when school begins/ends. And surprisingly few tragedies, though this will hopefully get people to talk about how to make it safer. ( -atleast for idiot kids who run over the road without looking. )
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Transphobes owning themselves: https://twitter.com/AliceAvizandum/status/822416158058024961 https://twitter.com/AmyZenunim/status/929926610781949953
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Italy, a very proud soccer nation, will not be playing in the next world cup https://twitter.com/Vivo_Azzurro/status/930188986064232454
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I just dropped in to say that Misterbibs is a capitalism fellating, idiot who doesn't understand that gambling and videogame addictions are real. Namaste. Edit: someone make a gif where the girl's eyes are real shifty.
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minato posted:Jared just can't cut a break: http://www.fzsurvivors.com/2015/06/05/freezoner-frank-pate-convicted-by-federal-jury/
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Sarcopenia posted:I just dropped in to say that Misterbibs is a capitalism fellating, idiot who doesn't understand that gambling and videogame addictions are real. Namaste. The generations-long commitment in the USA to taking every step possible so that people don't learn anything about their bodies is almost admirable.
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minato posted:Jared just can't cut a break: Your Honor, those children had gold fringe around them.
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I should specify that yes, loot boxes are garbage and there's way too much grind in battlefront 2 to get the hero characters, but "Is profit really the only driving factor in making games, or does it just seem that way to an outside source?" is a really naive question to ask a business.
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