Mojo (DayZ)

Huh. An analogy between intelligence and a light source. What was it a wise man said about analogies once? Please tell me this is supposed to be facetious. There is no way you think that the word "bright" used in this sense is an analogy. When I was 12 years old, I walked into an old folks home, took off my red-and-black striped hoodie, and proudly displayed my gynecomastia-induced breasts for the lonely old men. They stuffed folded, sweaty bills into my belt for the chance at a quick palm. I realised that for a 12-year-old with breasts, I was pretty rich. It dawned on me while I was counting my tips. Everybody likes tips, right? Here's a tip: When you grow out of your little j4g diapers, you will realize that one thing goons love more than anything else, more than gimmicks, more than convincing you j4gs to make your intro post in FYAD, is trolling other goons.

This is precisely what I was told -- that violating the EULA, TOS, and Privacy Policies from my publicly accessible TeamSpeak 3 server did not permit me from preventing users in flagrant breach of the covenant from accessing my chattel property. (Read: I couldn't ban people for breaking company rules, despite the company rules very clearly telling them that abuse of the terms would result in the server being rendered permanently inaccessible.) This very reason was why I stopped hosting a DayZ server and why I've consequently turned away all the people (hosts and players alike) having problems and asking for my help, it was far, far too overreaching in what the DevTeam thinks they can do with hosts. Now I'm being told that it isn't even true.

Huh. An analogy between intelligence and a light source. What was it a wise man said about analogies once? Oh right. That. Mojo: Smart enough to slowly collect the IPs of all goons and add them to firewall rules, but tragically too stupid to know how to remove them. Well, at least when you're sitting there with your brick, you can say "I KNEW I WAS RIGHT!" Isn't being right fun? Won't that be a good thing when I'm nice a dumb and you're suffering for it, but at least you'll be utterly, 100% correct that I'm retarded? I love you very much.

As far as I'm aware -- and correct me if I'm wrong here -- but video games exist in the real world and not a parallel dimension. I might be a Grade-A moron for using analogies (and here I thought they taught us how to construct valid analogies in University expressly for the purposes of illustrating the rightness of a concept' date=' not the wrongness of it) but I'm [i']pretty sure human norms apply broadly. I'm pretty sure that we can safely say video games were created by people, and if we know some other group of people governs by intent, and continues to govern by intent even when intent violates the letter as it exists, then it's normal to apply that intent-over-pure-function mentality to other things. Now then, since you're a Doctor of Stairs with a concentration in Having Them In Your House, perhaps you can educate me (and all my terribly stupid tenured professors) with a clear argu-- hahaha who am I kidding, of course you can't.

I do have most of what I think to be the good algorithms down for what I know exists, but I'm not sure the verbosity of the relevant logs so I'm wary to get too much into it before I know what data is available. I'd love to work with him though, what's his contact info? Yeah I know, I asked for fully verbose logging a while back and was told it was considered a waste of "time" and "memory". I feel your pain. Anyway, Owl is usually on the Chicago 1/20 TS at ts3.monolithservers.com. I'll also PM you his email, though with his work he doesn't check it too frequently, so you're probably better off catching him on TS.

Well, I spoke to Sykotix this morning, and if he's still game (my God, what am I volunteering you in to?) he'll be coordinating the effort from here on out. It's a matter of transcribing my notes from shorthand and giving him access to the assets. I EXPECT QUALITY ASSURANCE, SYK! Dear God don't let me give birth to some half-aborted thing. Red team QA the proofs if you need to (as a bonus, watching two groups fight over methodology and implementation is always hilarious), but please for the love of baby Jesus make it top-notch quality.

Pretty obvious, actually, given that I troubleshot him with machine translation. He posted about being unable to play for four days since the update, and that he was able to connect to the servers. Logical deduction lead me to believe I could troubleshoot him in English, since he had recognized the English word "troubleshooting" and posted a technical problem in there. Extending that logic, he didn't choose the forum at random, as he managed to find the correct forum instead of posting anywhere he pleased. The obvious conclusion is that, since the Russian boards are buried at the bottom of the forums, with no indication at the top of the forums (the first place a person would see relevant information such as localization options or where the localized forums were located) that there was a Russian-localized forum, he scrolled through the forums until he found that most fit his needs, operating under the assumption that the forums were primarily in English, and made an attempt to communicate. So when you ask "WHAT IS THIS?!", it's pretty fucking obvious what it is. A troubleshooting problem in a troubleshooting thread, correctly chosen, with an attempt to communicate in the only manner he knows.