At 10/3/07 04:56 PM, jmtb02 wrote:
Dodgeball
Goddamn, I really want to play dodgeball or kickball. If I ever get to meet more than one of you, I am personally organizing a game of either dodgeball or Kickball, depending on the circumstances of location and time. My inner child is screaming for attention.
Ha. Reminds me of a card game my friends and I play. The game is called Mao (like the Chinese Communist Leader). Basically, you have to get rid of all your cards first. But there are rules that are up to the dealer (who plays more like a referee), and the dealer can make any rules s/he wants. The catch is, the ruler doesn't tell anyone the rules. If the rules happen to be broken, the dealer states that the rule was broken (ex. "Failure to say 'Luis has a huge cock for a level 1 User1' after playing an ace card).
It's a bit hard to explain since I can't a) play the game with you and b) the first rule and only rule you are allowed to tell people is that you can't tll them the rules.
Regardless, we've joked about going in public and docking people cards for shit randomly, for kick.
We did it at school and got detentions for it XD
Veoh
So, if you haven't heard, Veoh is now putting a cap on videos over 20 minutes long. To watch them, you have to download their player. Yep, and it's shit too. Otherwise, you get a 5 minute teaser. That's it.
So, pretty much everyone who watches anime on Veoh is pissed (which is almost all it's users because Veoh doesn't delete anime regardless of copyrights usually, which is tits).
The best part is how some of the staff is taking it. Their main complaint is that "with so much user generated input and bandwith usage, it's getting expensive". Bullshit. Put some ads up or maybe a 10 second clip in front of the movie. Seriously, has Tom EVER fucking complained about shit like this? NO. That's one of the things that pisses me off. These guys are being fags about that.
The best part is on their forums, where I went to learn more about this shit, they made a thread to discuss. I'm going to copypasta the best thing they said. Trust me, I gave them an earful. Tell me if you agree with this:
"Also this isn't a democracy. We needed to change this and we can't just put it back. We listen to all of you but it's either this or no Veoh.com. Which one would you like?
I personally didn't ask for this and it does make my job more difficult responding and making sure this issue doesn't get out of control. It's what's needed though and we still have the largest site that allows unlimited size/length uploads to our site. Once the Watch Now problems are sorted out (our servers are taking a hit right now) the videos will still be able to be watched through our player in their full version." -Veohstaff
If it's not a democracy, then why make the fucking topic? You knew everyone was going to complain. Even most of us are being reasonable, saying make the limit 30 minutes, even 25. They had a 1 hour cap, then a 45 minute cap, and now they have a 20 minute cap. That's a big jump.
In short, Veoh is fucking themselves big time, refusing to admit it, and pissing off most of their userbase.
Discuss.