Oh dear, I’m now about to attempt nuance on the internet. At Kotaku too. This... will probably not go well. But I’m going to try all the same.

Do ask if there’s anything you need clarifying; also I’m only grey because Kotaku tries to redirect me to Kotaku UK, but hardly anyone reads that :P

It’s not legally enforceable but it’s practically so; I have direct experience of this, but I’m finding it impossible to get the story out into the media.

“It’s a controversial practice that pushes complaints into an extra-legal system with no jury or judge.”

You’re dependent on how much about cyber-law your lawyer knows, and as the entire genre of law is being re-written daily, or is even completely non-existent, it’s a total crap shoot how good your advice is; but under the US system you NEED a lawyer.

CECILIA: You asked me to contact you once regarding my story of harassment, but I never heard from you after. I ended up taking Portalarium to the American Arbitration Association over their actions, so I can further inform this story. Please indicate if you wish me to contact you again.

A fine achievement, but not something that wasn’t known to be within the capabilities of the C64 at the time; in particular, a clone of Super Mario Bros was out briefly in 1987 before Nintendo quietly had it withdrawn;

“depicted a gun in the officer’s mouth rather than a doughnut, and

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It’s a moving video... but most of the power comes from the original soundtrack to Battlefield 1, so I’m not sure you can give too much credit to the video’s director.

Not mentioned in this review; that very first GIF is of a Pre-order only unlock. And there’s also a Season Pass pushing the price from £39.99 to £69.99, which is an insane price.

The Ys series of games have always had incredible soundtracks, just two samples from the modern remake of the original game...

I adored the Ultima series of games. So much so that I worked on Ultima Online myself for just over a year. And I backed Shroud of the Avatar during it’s Kickstarter.

Coming to this late, sorry.

You never followed up on this, unfortunately. The story has since advanced further, with Portalarium actually openly communicating with the person stalking and harassing myself and others, and with my then having to go the American Arbitration Association...

The most insidious thing about this perspective is that it becomes self-fulfilling, because it’s exceptionally easy to “other” people, not just in your own eyes, but through the infectiousness of evil, to encourage other people to other those you hate in turn.

This is a whole lot of intellectualising over what is ultimately a few very, very simple facts;

Sadly not, as per my story immediately below yours. Unless the person who called it in was provably in the UK, or the company through whom any data originated was based here, AND the crime rose to the level of extradition, our laws don’t allow the police to even investigate.

There’s an entire generation of people who have sunk so far into the toxic bubbles of certain online communities, they no longer understand any connection with reality outside of it any more... they think that because they’ve thrown that kind of abuse around themselves, and encouraged people to ever worse…

“SotA has made far fewer big failed systems,” he said. Since the game is updated each month, players can weigh in with their thoughts, and Garriott’s team can course-correct immediately”