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Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Grey Wolf on September 08, 2005, 07:54:35 pm
Have your choice of articles:
http://cube.ign.com/articles/649/649242p1.html
http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2005-09-08T194456Z_01_N08241094_RTRIDST_0_MEDIA-NEWSCORP-UPDATE-3.XML
http://www.forbes.com/2005/09/08/mudoch-gaming-ign-cx_pak_0908autofacescan10.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168769,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4226170.stm

Discuss.
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: achtung on September 08, 2005, 08:07:39 pm
I can hear the fox haters now.:doubt:
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Deepblue on September 08, 2005, 08:33:55 pm
Does this change anything?
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 08, 2005, 08:41:26 pm
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Originally posted by Deepblue
Does this change anything?
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: vyper on September 09, 2005, 09:01:33 am
All games with liberal leaning producers will be given crappy ratings? :lol:
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: aldo_14 on September 09, 2005, 09:07:28 am
Abandon ship!

I already posted this on bluesnews, but I'm really bored, so......

[q]     IGN Fox Reviews;
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat

Too many Arabs and Commies. Provision of medics and rewarding of teamwork is dangerously liberal and amounts to a welfare state.

IL-2
Too many commies. Implies the US did not singlehandedly win world war 2

Halo
Blasphemy. Has..er...a halo without angels to match. And guns (which are ok to own, but not see in a videogame).

SimCity
Implies any ordinary person can do a better job than Our Beloved President. Clearly an enemy of freedom.

Half Life 2
Encourages liberal rebellion and freedom of speech in a time of danger; implies oppression is not a fair price for security. Clearly unpatriotic.

Sims 2
Freedom of behaviour and choice? The commie pinko bastards![/q]
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Turnsky on September 09, 2005, 09:20:46 am
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Originally posted by vyper
All games with liberal leaning producers will be given crappy ratings? :lol:


and this is different from the way GS reviews things HOW? :p
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Fragrag on September 09, 2005, 09:21:34 am
I hope this doesn' change anything, as long as the Gamespy Forums stay free!

@Aldo

:lol:
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: aldo_14 on September 09, 2005, 09:52:10 am
It's clever, really.  IGN reviews the games, points out the bits that justified the rating, and FOX News covers the 'outrage' (http://culture.joystiq.com/entry/1234000370053344/) (well, Jack Thomspoons insane rantings).

It's like a perpetual motion news...sorry, "moral outrage"* machine.

*news would imply some degree of factual content, which is against the FOX Philosphy.  We can't have the proles actually getting educated, otherwise they might choose to vote for themselves.
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Ford Prefect on September 09, 2005, 11:31:09 am
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b319/Mistah_Kurtz/fox.jpg)
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Mongoose on September 09, 2005, 07:02:01 pm
If they try screwing with PlanetDescent or HLP, they're asking for it. :p
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Kie99 on September 09, 2005, 07:25:47 pm
Wondered why HLP kept going down...
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Unknown Target on September 09, 2005, 07:28:59 pm
Yea...must've been because of this merger...
We'll wait and see...but for some reason I have a bad feeling about what's gonna happen to HLP...
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Whitelight on September 09, 2005, 09:07:45 pm
Humfff... I`ll wait for an admin to post his thoughts before I say anything on the matter...

Waits  :D
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: NegspectahDek on September 10, 2005, 01:19:06 am
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Originally posted by Ford Prefect
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b319/Mistah_Kurtz/fox.jpg)


please tell me you made that??

I fell out of my chair
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Grey Wolf on September 10, 2005, 01:21:15 am
That's been posted before, not sure who originally made it.
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Sandwich on September 10, 2005, 05:15:12 am
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Originally posted by Whitelight
Humfff... I`ll wait for an admin to post his thoughts before I say anything on the matter...

Waits  :D


Personally I like FOX News.... granted I only get to see it every 2-3 years or so, when I visit relatives in the US, but still. :p

I don't care, really. I remember when GS was solo, before IGN bought them up. What's the difference that we'll be in the belly of an even bigger fish now?
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Turnsky on September 10, 2005, 05:27:11 am
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Originally posted by Sandwich


Personally I like FOX News.... granted I only get to see it every 2-3 years or so, when I visit relatives in the US, but still. :p

I don't care, really. I remember when GS was solo, before IGN bought them up. What's the difference that we'll be in the belly of an even bigger fish now?


that HLP will go largely unnoticed?..
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Sandwich on September 10, 2005, 05:37:15 am
That's a problem because...?
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Turnsky on September 10, 2005, 05:47:41 am
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Originally posted by Sandwich
That's a problem because...?


didn't say that's a problem, it's a good thing 'cuz we'd be less likely to be noticed by the powers that be. :nod:
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Descenterace on September 10, 2005, 06:37:05 am
*taking a ride in the Roflcopter after seeing aldo's comments*
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: vyper on September 10, 2005, 07:35:40 am
Hey they might change the ToS to include a page 3 girl in every hosted site! ;)
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Whitelight on September 10, 2005, 12:47:36 pm
Yes, I to remember HLP when it first hit the web... Boy did it change, it got better :D

I`m also happy to see the owner change may not mean anything...

Well i`ve got to admit, I seldom give in to change, hehe, except where the wife is concerned.. Sometimes you just have to take dissapointments and do your best to go with the flow.. Nothing wrong with that, no chip on my shoulder, sorta speak...

The truth is, I can`t say how i`d act or feel if HLP suddenly dissapeared.. I guess i`d move on, but without HLP i`d probably get into trouble because i`d get bored and check out some porn.  :nervous:  That would really piss off the wife because she`d think she wasen`t good enough, or say she was fat, or ugly, which she is not... So stay around and keep me on the path..
Pointed in the right direction, towards Hard Light Productions... :D :D
 Whitrelight out
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Saturn2004 on September 10, 2005, 07:08:22 pm
well all i have to say is if  somethin funky happens to gamespy and they close down the Forum servers  HLP is allways  welcome at my site  :D
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: Saturn2004 on September 10, 2005, 07:08:24 pm
ooops double post sorry my bad
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: pyro-manic on September 10, 2005, 07:22:30 pm
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Originally posted by NegspectahDek


please tell me you made that??

I fell out of my chair


'tis good, innit? :D
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: StratComm on September 11, 2005, 01:20:03 am
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Originally posted by Saturn2004
well all i have to say is if  somethin funky happens to gamespy and they close down the Forum servers  HLP is allways  welcome at my site  :D


Interestingly enough, I've experienced dynamic server flakyness for the past day.  Unrelated I'm sure but certainly an interesting coincidence.
Title: Gamespy bought by Ruper Murdoch
Post by: übermetroid on September 11, 2005, 09:50:21 am
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Originally posted by Whitelight
...That would really piss off the wife because she`d think she wasen`t good enough, or say she was fat, or ugly, which she is not...


Your married too?  :yes:

I wonder how many other HLP fokes are married.