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EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
Vicious Vending

Introduction

Each of the four capsules is shown inside the vending machine as the camera then zooms outside and shows the four players stopping in front of their machines as the game starts.
Gameplay

Each player must turn the handle on the machine to receive a capsule that contains something in five seconds. A small capsule then emerges from the machine, followed by the large capsule that gives the player their reward. The capsule might contain a Thwomp, a single Coin, ten Coins, or twenty coins.

One player always receives ten coins, while a second player gets twenty coins, leaving the other two players with Thwomps. Sometimes the one coin capsule, the ten coin capsule and the twenty coin capsule all appear, leaving only one Thwomp.
Ending

All the players that obtained coins celebrate.
Controls

Control Stick – Rotate Lever

In-Game Text

Rules – "Rotate the lever to get a capsule. Whatever comes out is a complete surprise...and yours to keep!"
Advice – "Just rotate the lever within the time limit."

Names in other languages
Language Name Meaning
Japanese ラッキー!コインマシーン
Rakkī! Koin Mashīn
Lucky! Coin Machine

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LordSaturn
Aug 12, 2007

sadly unfunny

is anybody else in the YOSPOS discord who can confirm whether the Seraph in there is the bitcoin/star citizen Seraph

he's not ACTING like seraph, but it's giving me the creeps

Hammerite
Mar 9, 2007

And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.
Jade Ear Joe

LordSaturn posted:

is anybody else in the YOSPOS discord who can confirm whether the Seraph in there is the bitcoin/star citizen Seraph

he's not ACTING like seraph, but it's giving me the creeps

If they're not constantly making the whole thing about them, then they're not seraph

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



remember last time he came back he was on meds and somewhat less over the top than usual.

lol at whoever approved that invite request though.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
didn't he pretend to not be himself for like a year and no one noticed or cared?

Hammerite
Mar 9, 2007

And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.
Jade Ear Joe

Boxturret posted:

didn't he pretend to not be himself for like a year and no one noticed or cared?

He still ended up making the GBS thread about him for like 3 months until someone figured out who he was.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
djee...bee....ess???:confused:

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.

Hammerite posted:

He still ended up making the GBS thread about him for like 3 months until someone figured out who he was.

One time he also referred to himself in third person using a sock puppet account in QCS to argue that he should be allowed to post unhindered on the forums.

Although he hates me most of all specifically for some reason and me posting about him right now ITT has a non-zero percent chance of him rage re-regging and yelling at me for better or for worse

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



EorayMel posted:

One time he also referred to himself in third person using a sock puppet account in QCS to argue that he should be allowed to post unhindered on the forums.

Although he hates me most of all specifically for some reason and me posting about him right now ITT has a non-zero percent chance of him rage re-regging and yelling at me for better or for worse

What would him reregging do for buttcoin though?

it would go up, to the moon, baby

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

EorayMel posted:

One time he also referred to himself in third person using a sock puppet account in QCS to argue that he should be allowed to post unhindered on the forums.

Although he hates me most of all specifically for some reason and me posting about him right now ITT has a non-zero percent chance of him rage re-regging and yelling at me for better or for worse

oh, i saw that. what a weird man

i hear he's also personally donated exceedingly large amounts of money to a known domestic abuser

LethalGeek
Nov 4, 2009

People like that absolutely can't handle someone who sees right through them so hard they might as well be glass. Hopefully the meds help that.

Computer Serf
May 14, 2005
Buglord
remember that shitcoin that was so lazy it copied pages from other shitcoin white papers and didn’t even try to hide it and then bought bittorrent?

https://www.theverge.com/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisition-justin-sun-us-china

quote:

A former employee says when Tron was pilloried on a popular Reddit thread, Tron paid the moderator, “perogies,” to allow the company to erase negative posts. A former employee said perogies was actually “a hardcore-loving-Redditor to the bone, all about free speech.” Free speech is part of the ideology of decentralization, where ideas flow without gatekeepers. Tron started deleting any post it wanted. Bristling, perogies threatened to reveal his payments publicly. The Beijing office took over, the former employee said, “and he disappeared into the loving night, never heard from him again.”


quote:

Even though Sun went to extremes to control Tron’s public image, his own app store, called the Tron Network, was a free-for-all. Users purchased some apps with Tron’s cryptocurrency, and the company sometimes took a sliver of the app’s revenue. The most successful were gambling apps, employees told me, and Tron preferred to “squash” any app by imitating it. Sun eventually built an office in Shenzhen, China, where programmers worked on copycats. Meanwhile, questionable developers gathered on the Tron Network like ants to sugar. “We didn’t know who they were. We had zero way of contacting them. So these people would get on our blockchain and scam. Scam all day, 24/7. It never ended,” a former employee said. Complaints streamed in, like, “Hey, I just lost my life savings!” A former employee recalled Sun and the senior Beijing employees ignoring the scam warnings during weekly meetings and sometimes mocking English-only employees’ ideas in Mandarin, before telling the interpreter, “Don’t translate that.”

Scammed users tried to fight back. Letters from the Better Business Bureau arrived in Tron’s San Francisco office one month. “They were coming in quite frequently,” said a former employee, “like, piles building up.”

NearlyNearly everyone I talked to said the cornerstone of Sun’s business wasn’t necessarily technology, but using marketing to extract money from users. In a meeting, Sun once compared the marketing team’s objectives to the business of a “whorehouse.” With the failure of the Tesla stunt, the answer, to Sun, was to pursue a bigger, even flashier stunt: be the highest bidders at a charity auction for lunch with Warren Buffett.

“He thrived on just doing anything for attention and clout,” a former employee says. “Clout-chasing, as the kids call it.”

Sun won the auction, costing him $4.57 million — roughly the value of 130 Teslas. When the marketing department asked Sun how high he was willing to bid, Sun replied, “I don’t care, I want to win it regardless.” There was no cap. “It’s hard to get him to pay a bill but it’s easy to get him to spend money.”

The media hype was considerable. But as a CNBC interviewer pointed out to Sun, Buffett had “compared Bitcoin to gambling in Las Vegas” and said cryptocurrency was “rat poison squared.” Sun gamely laughed and insisted that one of the world’s most successful investors didn’t have the right sources of information.

A week later, Tron’s Twitter account announced the lunch was postponed because Sun had kidney stones. The next day, Chinese newspapers published stories that Sun was not only suspected of illegal fundraising, gambling, and money laundering, but supposedly detained by Chinese authorities in Beijing.

Employees told me what actually transpired. The Chinese authorities had been calling Sun for weeks, “essentially saying, you can’t have this lunch,” a former employee says, because Buffett was a “capitalist pig symbol.” Things boiled over when Sun invited Trump. It was apparently intolerable for a Chinese citizen to lunch with the US president during the trade war. The Chinese government kept calling Sun, “and he had been essentially ignoring them,” a former employee says.

The authorities targeted Tron. In Beijing, “they raided the office and took six top employees.” They even found Sun’s estranged father in whichever province he was living and detained him, too. Their phones were confiscated, and they were told Justin Sun was under investigation for corruption. One of the detained employees was so scared she began crying. Six hours later, the authorities returned and said, “Here’s your phones back if somebody wanted to call Justin and mention that maybe you shouldn’t have this lunch with Trump.” Their final message: “You can’t mention this to the press.”

Tron convened an emergency “war council,” and they allegedly advised him to concoct a medical excuse to get out of lunch with Buffett. Kidney stones were the result. The stories emerging in the Chinese press were also false. “China decided they were going to get even with him in the state newspaper,” a former employee recalled, “basically saying that he was a crook.”

Sun gathered the company for an all-hands. He sauntered in, laughing. “Now I understand why they say fake news, right?” he said, assuring the workforce the stories were untrue. “My jaw just hit the floor,” an employee said. Only hours before, they were told Sun had kidney stones, yet here he was, in perfectly good health. “It’s like a whole company full of people standing there being lied to.”

The lunch was postponed indefinitely. A day later, Sun made a long and strange post to his millions of followers on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent to Twitter. “I didn’t sleep all night yesterday, and deeply reflected on my memories and was introspective of my behavior and words — I felt ashamed for my over-marketing,” he said, according to a translation. Sun called Chinese regulators “elders” to whom he would “open my heart” and heralded “the rapid development of socialism with Chinese characteristics in our country’s new era.” He closed with a promise: “I will repair my shortcomings, reduce my vocalizations on Weibo, shut the door and decline visitors, reduce the media interviews” in the name of “national interests.”

It was the most uncharacteristic apology Justin Sun had ever posted. He deleted it shortly after.

:bitcoin:

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Computer Serf posted:

Tron paid the moderator, “perogies,” to allow the company to erase negative posts.

i misread this sentence at first and got really disappointed later on

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
i truly believe in free speech. oh what's that you want to pay me to let you censor something i'm overseeing, sure! wait a minute why are you censoring stuff that gets me angry:mad:

CampingCarl
Apr 28, 2008




free as in you buy me a beer.

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
I love pierogies.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Paladinus posted:

I love pieorgies.

...ok

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

Paladinus posted:

I love pierogies.

same

I swear, I’m already cross about brexit but if we send so many people back to Poland that my local shop stops stocking pierogies, I shall be writing a very stern letter to my mp

Munkeymon
Aug 14, 2003

Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.



Midjack posted:

remember last time he came back he was on meds and somewhat less over the top than usual.

lol at whoever approved that invite request though.

it's automatic for anyone with a forum account and doesn't monitor bans

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Computer Serf posted:

remember that shitcoin that was so lazy it copied pages from other shitcoin white papers and didn’t even try to hide it and then bought bittorrent?

https://www.theverge.com/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisition-justin-sun-us-china

:bitcoin:

San Francisco employees tried commiserating with the head of BT Live’s engineering and product team in China, whose name is Garlic.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

unpacked robinhood posted:

San Francisco employees tried commiserating with the head of BT Live’s engineering and product team in China, whose name is Garlic.

i have met someone whose last name was garlic and someone whose last name was lasagna

it is a great failure of my life that i did not convince them to marry and hyphenate

KnifeWrench
May 25, 2007

Practical and safe.

Bleak Gremlin

AlbieQuirky posted:

i have met someone whose last name was garlic and someone whose last name was lasagna

it is a great failure of my life that i did not convince them to marry and hyphenate

very off topic, but I indirectly knew a couple named poon and tang. it was college, so they leaned into the humor of it, but sadly, they eventually broke up

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

somewhere in the world there is a couple that got married chiefly for how excellent the hyphenation of their names is, and is now stuck in a loveless marriage forever because they can't possibly bring themselves to ruin it

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


In what can only be good news for Bitcoin, OFAC just published an advisory warning companies that they face liability for sanctions evasions if they make ransomware payments to an entity with a nexus to a sanctioned entity. Or in English, it is now the US Treasury Department's stance that companies paying a ransomware ransom, and all companies facilitating the payment, can be charged with sanctions violations if the payment is to the north koreans or one of the sanctioned russian cybercrime groups or any other cybercrime group with financial ties to those groups, whether or not those times were known at the time.

Link: https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/ofac_ransomware_advisory_10012020_1.pdf

KnifeWrench
May 25, 2007

Practical and safe.

Bleak Gremlin

Soylent Pudding posted:

In what can only be good news for Bitcoin, OFAC just published an advisory warning companies that they face liability for sanctions evasions if they make ransomware payments to an entity with a nexus to a sanctioned entity. Or in English, it is now the US Treasury Department's stance that companies paying a ransomware ransom, and all companies facilitating the payment, can be charged with sanctions violations if the payment is to the north koreans or one of the sanctioned russian cybercrime groups or any other cybercrime group with financial ties to those groups, whether or not those times were known at the time.

Link: https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/ofac_ransomware_advisory_10012020_1.pdf

yikes. way to make a bad day worse for the ransomer

great for bitcoin though

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
oh no one of bitcoin's most popular use cases is illegal now...

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
They added the blockchain into Super Smash Brothers Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch.

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
current job has a Mr. BUTT, Mr KISS, and a Von PEE

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
my highschool had a guy named randy dick

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar

Soylent Pudding posted:

In what can only be good news for Bitcoin, OFAC just published an advisory warning companies that they face liability for sanctions evasions if they make ransomware payments to an entity with a nexus to a sanctioned entity. Or in English, it is now the US Treasury Department's stance that companies paying a ransomware ransom, and all companies facilitating the payment, can be charged with sanctions violations if the payment is to the north koreans or one of the sanctioned russian cybercrime groups or any other cybercrime group with financial ties to those groups, whether or not those times were known at the time.

Link: https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/ofac_ransomware_advisory_10012020_1.pdf

on one hand lol at ransomware payments not going to one of these groups but on the other hand

quote:

whether or not those times were known at the time

this seems kinda hosed up

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


My understanding is that most sanctions violations are strict liability offenses. So it's not just whether you knew or should have have known, just did you do it. However OFAC will take diligence into account when assessing penalties. So a company with a strong compliance program that exercised strong care will get a much lighter fine than a company that YOLOs it. In the advisory they say that involving law enforcement early on will likely mitigate consequences down the line for example.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
if they outlaw paying ransoms then only outlaws will pay ransoms

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

Boxturret posted:

if they outlaw paying ransoms then only outlaws will pay ransoms

...while shouting "OFAC."

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!
ahahaha BitMEX are hosed

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8270-20

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-executives-shore-cryptocurrency-derivatives-exchange-charged-violation

KnifeWrench
May 25, 2007

Practical and safe.

Bleak Gremlin

well I for one am shocked

nobody could have predicted this

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
i can't believe that bit(random word fragment) are (scammers|arreseted|dead)

KnifeWrench
May 25, 2007

Practical and safe.

Bleak Gremlin

Boxturret posted:

i can't believe that bit(random word fragment) are (scammers|arreseted|dead)

til that bitmex isn't based out of mexico

Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



i can't believe that the cftc and doj are hacking bitmex to steal all their bitcoins

what are the ransom terms???

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill
Thanks to the diligent work of our agents, analysts, and partners with the CFTC, they will soon learn the price of their alleged crimes will not be paid with tropical fruit

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orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Soricidus posted:

Thanks to the diligent work of our agents, analysts, and partners with the CFTC, they will soon learn the price of their alleged crimes will not be paid with tropical fruit

Rip bananacoin

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