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Rudolf Rednose wrote:

www.google.com/amp/www.newsweek.com/2016...famp=1?client=safari

The dealings of the Trump Organization reach into so many countries that it is impossible to detail all the conflicts they present in a single issue of this magazine, but a Newsweek examination of the company has also found deep connections in China, Brazil, Bulgaria, Argentina, Canada, France, Germany and other countries.

[NLR]Jacob10000 wrote:

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[*M]TBUILT wrote:

{GI} E*A*G*L*E wrote: The reason people do things to insult others or troll a forum or chat room, is to get a rise out of people. If they were just ignored then they wouldn't get their jollies.

BHG you are one of the easiest to bait, because any little insult like black pigeon ghost throws you into a tantrum. Thus you make it easy for the trolls to get their jollies.

Also, please don't try and act innocent, you have shown over and over you are no different than they are.

When there is drama, BHG is sure to be around.

Oh there's a difference BHG is a kid still trying to figure out his place in life and has made a few mistakes along the way, unlike the adults in wc that troll on a daily basis looking for easy bait as you called it just to get a rise out of a teenager. BHG is a kid and has made a few mistakes as most kid's his age would so don't be so hard on him, now for you 40 + year old trolls what's your excuse? Just sayin

Back on topic or tooting my horn here, thee above coincides with the forum topic and falls within the question as to why? It points out the difference between kids over adults who should have the ability to conduct themselves in a more productive manner and or positive influence.

I used to be the ultimate troll back when I first got access to the Internet lol but even at 29 I'm just too old for that. I guess I am still not old enough to get my kicks sharing pictures of half nude models on a game forum yet. Maybe having daughters makes me show more respect for women than that. I would hate for my daughters to see me posting stuff online that makes them think I'm just another perverted old man, but to each their own.

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extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers
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causing extreme terror

W.D. Gaster wrote: I can see you now, sitting in your recliner, shoving cheese puffs into your face. You've been sweating in this chair for 3 hours, you probably couldn't pry yourself from the cushions if your house started on fire. "I'm an honorable player," you sob gently, caressing the picture of the wife who left you. "Why couldn't you see the honor in me?"

You've been flying headfirst into a virtual brick wall for the last indefinite period of time. You can't remember how long it's been, all the hours have been blending together as your neckbeard grows thicker. Fly straight, put a dozen bullets into 4 enemies, get shot, rinse and repeat.

You're happy that you don't have to think too much. You were probably dropped on your head at least a dozen times by your parents, who were probably dropped by their parents and think it's a perfectly normal thing to do. You just continue, tilting your tablet around like a homeless person trying to shake the last crumbs out of a takeout box he stole from somebody leaving a restaurant. You probably paid for the tablet with welfare to boot. That or your dad's insurance policy has paved the way for you to live a peaceful life.

Then something happens. After you shoot down some pilot, probably from NLR, you realize that they spawned a tank behind you. They've landed near the carrier and are shelling your carrier into oblivion.

"NO FAIR" you shriek, spewing cheese dust onto your screen. You then panic, licking the dust and spit back off of the touchpad. Can't let any of the precious cheesy nectar of life go to waste.

And suddenly, it's over. Your carrier just... gone. You sit in shocked silence.

"But... but..." tears fill your eyes. 137 kills. That's it? No way. How? But you'd played so hard, so... honorably! It's not fair. It's. Not. Fair. IT'S. NOT. FAIR!!!

You shriek aloud, slamming your iPad to the ground. Dust flies from underneath it, as you haven't vacuumed your pink carpet since the Nixon administration.

Finally you compose yourself. You stretch over, ignoring the popping noises emanating dangerously from your back, and open up the forum. "They used tactics. That's just wrong. WRONG. WRONG.

You manage to thumb-type a remarkably legible piece. After all, you've lived on your couch the last 23 years, you know a thing or two about writing. "I think it's a cop-out," you explain, tears of pain streaming down your face.

You know that you've got an equally indignant community to back you up. You're grateful nobody will give you the message you probably deserve to here:

"Get over it."

LiLBaDGaL wrote: Ive been lurking and watching and Ive noticed the things you all are saying to pple who request to join your ! I would say it is cruel and childish as far as the things you saying to pple ! let me ask are we not here to have fun and enjoy the game ? why insult those who say whats on their minds ? I think your full of arrogance and ignorance and shows the maturity of your squad ! its one thing to have fun but another to insult the ones who are kids and look up to your squad !

W.D. Gaster wrote: Tech talk time.

Dogfight is more than a mobile flight simator app, it's an online multiplayer fps (first-person shooter.) As such, there are a lot of variables that go into device advantage. Hopefully, these explanations will help.

When someone logs in and plays Dogfight, they are not playing on their device. The actual game is literally occuring on a server: an abstract virtual field physically represented by a black box, which wirelessly connects all players and inserts them into the same room. This server has a physical location. This is important. You device is merely the controller. You see a visual representation of what is virtually occurring on the server and react accordingly. The virtual "plane" reacts in accordance to your physical actions.

The place each player takes up on this server is a "hitbox:" the virtual space each plane takes up. The visual representation of the hitbox should be in the form of an airplane on your screen. Then you fire bullets at it. Then, if your virtual bullets collide with the enemy's hitbox, the enemy is forced back to wherever the coded rules of the server dictate.

Now, here is where the issues lie.

Different devices connect to the same servers in slightly different ways. True, all connect through the internet, but everybody has a massive variance in connectivity. The only way to create a truly even playing field is through LAN: having a certain number of identical devices directly connected to the same modem.

Take, for instance, my favorite game, Counterstrike. Olofmeister is regarded as the best player in the world, and is the 1-vs-1 champion. However, because he is Swedish, he lost a 1v1 battle against M0E. Everybody knows M0e is an inferior player. He isn't even technically a professional. But M0e hosted the server, and even though they both play on high-powered PCs, M0e had a distinct advantage.

When I started play CS, I used a laptop. I was at a disadvantage to those who used Alienware PCs. More on that to come.

So, there are many variables in a server. The ones that are applicable in the case of Dogfight are connectivity,processing, and location. A North American player in the Brazilian server has a distinct disadvantage. A player connected to a cable modem has a distinct advantage to a player using Wi-Fi. And a player using a PC has an advantage over a mobile user.

Now, PC players aren't necessarily faster than mobile players. In a wing race, no PC will win outright. Controls don't matter either. They can help, but that's surprising irrelevant.

The reason is this. Each device is equipped with a processor. The processor dictates the capability of each device to handle the information being streamed to it. Reaction time is closely tied in. Even if I move quicker than OddJob, he'll still be quicker. He's got a superior processor.

When a higher-powered processor goes up against a lower-powered processor, the discrepancy results in the server experiencing a little something called "lag." The mobile player sees the plane on his screen, and fires directly at it. The pc player isn't there. He tries to spin. But the PC player is moving more quickly. It's handling and responding to the information more efficiently.

Don't believe this? Look at Dogfight elite. It's only workable on high-end devices. Because low end devices can't process both graphics and server speed. Even in this game, mobile devices are capable of processing, but at nowhere near a similar level than the PC. All gaming experts agree that a PC is the ultimate gaming machine. Even consoles such as Xbox or PS4, which are made primarily for gaming, can't hold a candle to a good computer. Imagine the discrepancy we're dealing with here.

I hope this helps.

Trump is Fuc't.

Set aside anything to do with politics, campaign finance, collusion, political conspiracy or obstruction of justice. I'm not even touching on that here.

Ever hear of the RICO act?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influe...pt_Organizations_Act

RICO is a Federal legal mechanism that allows prosecutors to attach enhanced penalties and to include multiple separate transgressions into one case. It requires only that there is an established pattern of racketeering by one or more entities. It is specifically designed to attach crimes carried out by others at the request or benefit of a "Boss".


To be prosecuted under RICO, prosecutors must prove the organization has committed at least 2 instances of racketeering within a 10 year period. Racketeering can include Money laundering, Bank fraud, mortgage fraud, "Creative accounting",
academic dishonesty (Trump Academy), tax evasions, intimidation and several others. There are many publicly known investigations into Trump businesses and evidence of many below the radar. They ain't all Fake News.

Special features include extensions of the statute of limitations and the ability to collect compensation from the guilty party up to 3X the original damages in both criminal and civil cases.

From Wiki: "Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count. In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of "racketeering activity."

So, How many counts of racketeering and how much profit and business interest has Trump received through ill-gotten gains?
RICO is under federal jurisdiction so it is under the U.S. Justice Department, headed by the Attorney General. There are many details about possible pardons by Trump or by his successors, but the Civil cases would be exempt.

Even if he never does time for any of this, the civil cases could bankrupt the Trump empire, including him and his family.

[Thugz] KappaSpam wrote: The following is a letter I sent to Zuperman upon attempting to fly and finding my account banned.

"Dear Zuperman,

I figured I'd give this a shot. It's a long one. But nevertheless a shot.

If you look at this email, you may recognize it as one of the accounts of Mac, a player you banned a year back. Not because of excessive teamkilling. Not because of profane language, or even because of community behavior.

No, you banned me because I criticized you. I told you that charging for this game was foolish. I wrote a long poem (a parody of Eminem's Stan) describing your neglectful behavior. And you banned me.

This is not maintaining peace in the community. This is censorship. You didn't like what I'd said. What I'd said wasn't against the community guidelines, it wasn't even reprehensible. I criticized you, and you censored me. Banned me. Not just banned me, but dropped the most severe ban you're capable of. I could not create any account on that device I was using.

But, like all banned players, I came back.

And here's where my confusion begins. Dozens of players that have gotten banned return, some immediately. MORAF21, RickyRoo, the stache, Buckgeo, Spitfire... over a dozen that I know of have returned, and you HAVE to be aware of them, and you don't ban them.

So why me? I never broke a single community guideline. I never swore. I never behaved unfairly, spawnkilled, or team killed. You have all but rescinded half a dozen bans. I was gone for a YEAR. That's a while.

So here's the meat and potatoes of this message. Regarding the criticism that you so disgustingly censored.

I have played TOTALLY free games that were MUCH higher quality than Dogfight, and ALL of them have worked perfectly well on my phone. Even my old phone. I've played games with beautifully detailed maps, multiple game modes, and intricate design. You literally admit open to having clipping textures. If I were doing Dogfight on my games review blog, it would literally get a 1-star rating for clipping textures.

Truth is, you've been blessed. You have a little community that loves each other and kinda likes your game. You have something in the coding i can't figure out. Somehow you have created a game that took about half an hour to code the base physics and physical maps, and it takes more space and cpu than Europe's most popular PC game, Counterstrike: Global Offensive.

And you've made it clear you can't fix it. Whether it's lag, frame drop, graphical error, or pretty much anything, the answer is "your phone isn't powerful enough." You claim that you can't take the trees out of the lake at the risk of having the game work on only the BEST devices. That's literal bullshit. NOTHING in your game should take up 800 MB of RAM. It's stick unity assets piled on a stock map with no artistic cohesion. Don't deny it. You can't.

So, knowing your game is so flawed, how is your skin so thin? How is the penalty for mocking the game's many, many issues worse than the penalty for tank-spawnkilling? How is Zippy allowed to get back when he literally told the entire community to suck his dick, but I call zup a moron for not fixing the tank glitch for years and I'm done for life?

I'm not going to ask you to reinstate my account. But I'm going to ask you to do the ethical thing. My second account is currently named "Justin Sane." Please don't ban that account. I worked hard for this. You're censoring. You're a dictator. Stop banning me and get some thick skin. Accept the criticism and grow from it.

Sincerely,
Sir E. Brum."

And now it's time for a little bit of discussion regarding where a player has a right to demand and how criticism is handled in the gaming industry. Also, this is not just a little bit of discussion. This is an essay. So clench those glutes.

The games industry is a unique one. We have a massive business model, with many varying branches, walks, and styles. There is mobile gaming, console gaming, PC gaming, and vr gaming at the core. But the genres and styling are endless. Games are like movies, but better. You control the protagonist, and in the extremely rare and brilliant case of games such as "Undertale", you control the antagonist as well. There are even more genres of games than there are of movies. Things that would never sell from a viewership standpoint are wild successes based totally on interactivity.

All that said, the biggest debate to have been carried on in the gaming industry of recent years is entitlement of gamers, the ethics of critique and acceptance, and the line between editing and censorship. That is the line I believe zuperman has crossed.

Joaquin Grech has presented to us a business model. He has a product that he wants us to pay for, that he has created, that we can enjoy. That is the model at the center of all gaming. I believe that without exception, we all are fond of this particular business endeavor. Otherwise, you wouldn't be reading what I'm saying.

But as a consumer, who has played the full price for access to this business model, I believe both ethically and logically that I have the right to make comments, complaints, suggestions, and observations regarding the quality of this product or lack thereof. After all, I paid for it. I own it. I can state whatever I want regarding the product, so long as it is not personally harmful regarding zuperman's person, up until the point that he has given reason. That is a major point, as I feel zuperman has more than given us reason to do so. But that's not yet the point.

I have received a fairly standard response to my many criticisms for a game that undeniably deserves them: "if you don't like it, don't play." And that's where this foolish debate centers. Around the childish belief that if you don't like whatever the developer is doing, you can bugger right off.

That could not be more false or illogical. This isn't zuperman's game. This is our game. He created it for us. As the consumers, we have a logical right to critique and demand. That's how business works. If zuperman creates a bug where a tank can spawn invisible on an aircraft carrier, damn right we have the right to demand he fix it. He owes it to the consumers to make sure his game is in working order. It's simple respect. Instead, the largely inexperienced (in the way of gaming) community insists that these major, major issues can be continually swept under the rug.

I understand that many here do not know Mr. Grech's spotted history here, and don't care. But were you aware that we were GUARANTEED a full moderation board by AT LEAST September 2014? And yet, because our community is so lackadaisical regarding accountability in this business model, it's been 16 months and the promise is forgotten.

And that not entirely bad. As 6 Gin said earlier, "I don't care. I just play a game I like." But the issue is that you immediately flock to the errant party the moment someone DOES care. You don't have to criticise if you don't want to. But the fact that you take issue with someone willing to break the mold is troubling. I think what people fail to realize is that criticizing and disliking are not synonymous. I LOVE Dogfight. I think it's awesome. Totally broken, but awesome.

There are examples of situations similar to mine occuring. A standalone player is willing to criticise a totally broken game he enjoys. And the insecure developer sees it as a personal attack and immediately flies off the handle. The most famous case was Jim Sterling vs Digital Homicide, creators of "The Slaughtering Grounds." They took offense at legitimate critism and censored his review. He then proceeded to destroy their reputation and company. Obviously, I don't have the resources to do something similar. But in this type of situation, the majority of the gaming community will be fully aware that I am the correct party.

Zuperman's response to my criticism when he first banned me a year ago was this: "I cannot believe how insensitive some of these comments are. I have a family to feed."

And, however insensitive it sounds, Joaquin... I don't care. I don't have to care. I shouldn't care. You are a businessman. Don't cross that line by bringing your family into it. If you TRULY care, you'll fix issues instead of censoring those who complain then throwing a pity party.

To avoid criticisms, how about you FIX the game?

Of course, you may just be incapable.

You're probably incapable.

In which case, I'm vindicated.

Honestly, Dogfight Elite has vindicated me anyway.

D93 Big Gunzzz wrote: This is actually a revised version of my original post. The first one didn't fly too well and got deleted because of my choice words. So here's the altered version even though the first one truley expressed how I feel and this one is the polite version.

First let me say the only reason I am even posting anything is to say hi to all the players that have either emailed me or pm me. I never responded back for two reasons. One being this is the first time that I actually logged on since April. Also because I simply wanted nothing to do with Dodfight anymore. And by nothing that meant cutting off all ties associated with the game. No offense meant to all the players/people that are awesome in this game. You all know who you are and I had some great games and chats with you. Those were some fun and good times.

Truth be told though I just reached a point where I simply hated Dogfight. The game was over run by trashy players and people. Between all the trash being left on forum and 75% of games that I played in being ruined by players team killing, bombing own hangers, etc, you get the point, well I left the game. Glad I did too. I was even starting to leave posts being a dope in response to them and that was not like me. Well when push comes to shove, well you get what I am saying.

Anyway to all my brothers and sisters that I love in the game I just wanted to say hi and give you the heads up as to why I am not around. We had some good times and it was a pleasure meeting you all.

Acegirl posted me on how well players of The Foreign Legion are doing. Awesome guys. Good to hear that. To let you know the only reason I did stay in Dogfight as long as I did was because of the squad and you. I felt obligated to you all. Hope I was able to help some of you out while I was around. In fact I have to say that TFL is by far the best squad out there. Maybe not the best players, even though many players knew what it was like tasting my "GunZzz" (lol had to throw that in), but TFL had the best quality of players and people. Playing straight without cheating and not being idiots. When someone did, they were kicked from the squad, no exceptions. Always remember the only two things I ever asked of you to be in the squad, one-don't cheat and two-don't be an idiot. Other than that hope you all are having fun. Unlike squads out there that have these set rules to follow but the players never did. Funny stuff especially seeing the highest ranked players playing this way.

Well there was too much trash around here and since the garbage wasn't taken out, I got the heck out of this place.

Thanks to all of you that I loved catching up with here. Some great times. I am not gonna even try to name names since there are way too many and I know I would forget a few. Don't want that to happen so I won't try.

Will I ever be back to play? Can't say. I do know better to say never. Maybe one day I will. Guess it's a wait and see thing.

Cya ya all

D93 Big GunZzz

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