counter: for a game where the story ended up being its strongest element, these are the worst terms.
Shekt
shekt
Why don’t publishers have the right to ignore gaming sites they don’t respect, or that don’t respect their rules - you are allowing Kotaku the right to act independently, but I don’t see how the publishers owe them anything or aren’t free to do the same.
Is it really? They are in the business of publishing games to make money. If something doesn’t help them do that they are under no obligation to continue that practice. In other words - Bethesda doesn’t owe Kotaku anything.
Yeah, my reply to this is that those companies don’t owe kotaku access. They don’t have to answer their questions or include them on their PR list. I don’t understand running to the readers for sympathy.
“After all, you’re in the business of gaming news and criticism. Kind of hard to sell your product if it has neither news nor criticism.”
Projecting what exactly? If I get the purpose of the article correctly it was meant to answer some questions the readers had regarding some stuff. Okay, it’s cool. But the more I read the more it sounded like something straight out of fiction where reporters are freedom fighters that uncover a secret lizard…
Considering that those Fallout 4 leaks were 100% spot on (the whole intro is word for word what was reported) I can sympathize with Bethesda. There should be some discrimination when posting things of that nature. That’s my two cents as a fan of both Bethesda and Kotaku.
Wanting to control when and how information about upcoming products makes it out to the public is an understandable desire. Ill timed leaks can play havoc with public expectations, which are, as we’ve seen with titles like Arkham Knight important to properly manage. Wanting to find ways to get around that to get…
If you’re pissing off large developers and getting access to them cut off, are you really serving your readers? Or are you sacrificing long-term relationships for a short-term boost to page hits?
Sure, it’s news. Sure, readers will want to know. But sometimes discretion is the better part of valor...and sometimes…
I don’t know. This seems so bitchy. If you pissed them off, great. Part of reporting is pissing people off and losing access. It’s part of the game. It’s unseemly to bitch about it like a little bitchy bitch.
Pissing people off isn’t doing good journalism. Informing people is doing good journalism. Going for information and appealing to smart discussions instead of clickbait is good journalism.
No, it’s not wrong, it’s based on diceware and the math is fine, but Munroe did not emphasize the key issue. The words must be random, and even knowing what dictionary I used won’t help. 7776 word dictionary of words, each word (and the length of the word is irrelevant) is worth 12.9 bits of entropy. Six words would…
Can you clarify? xkcd suggests using a phrase of randomly chosen words. A basic dictionary attack tries individual words. When you consider all the possible combinations of dictionary words, I don’t see at all how the math falls to pieces. It’s not like you know when you’ve got the first word in the phrase so you can…
Why does LifeHacker keep trying to make this person happen as some beloved, go-to expert in privacy security? He’s the most notorious spy of the modern age. If he were interested in exposing government snooping on citizens, he wouldn’t have stolen tons of sensitive classified data and run to America’s two most…
I get that they won’t want to devote a ton of database storage to people’s passwords, but come on
They’re stored as hashes, anyway, and the hash for everyone’s password - no matter what it is - is the same length. So it’s literally a completely arbitrary and insecure requirement.
There is a password system for summoning friends. You put in a password and when your friend puts the password in his search the game will match you together automatically. Very helpful!
Can we have badass female characters in shooters too please?