Pixel Thief  Posts: 426 Joined: 7 Jul 2008     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2034 Joined: 14 Oct 2008    | Yes seriously valve, what the hell? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1810 Joined: 8 Apr 2008    | Duke Nukem Tycoon sounds oddly compelling. Keep the DNF team alive for twelve more years while keeping their creativity elevated so they can finish the game! |
Beat Writer  Posts: 171 Joined: 6 Aug 2008    | I want to read that mag now. You really need to go into PR Shamus. |
Paperboy  Posts: 25 Joined: 22 Jul 2008     | Leisure Suit Larry with a light saber? I'd play that. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 484 Joined: 3 May 2009     | Fantastic Shamus! Nice to see Travis is still keeping busy, even if that just means being off his face... |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 914 Joined: 1 Apr 2009    | Print is not dead, nor will it ever die. This is for one simple reason: the domain name service. The domain name service, you see, has within its servers a massive database that links the numeric IP adresses to the more easy-to-remember written web addresses we take for granted. And while the domain name service does have multiple server/databases spread out across America, and parts of Europe (I also believe they are working on setting up shop in China as well), these servers are still prime targets for anti-globalization terrorists. If such a group were successful in shutting down or worse, destroying these server/databases, the internet as we know it would cease to exist, and any data that we had had on it, would be lost forever (unless of course, you had kept the data for your site on a hard drive somewhere). You may be wondering why I would have devoted time to working out how to destroy the internet... Well, you see, after taking an internet class at UCR, I got involved in creating a new table-top RPG (there was talk of adapting it to a LARP, but I don't think that'll pan out very well) based around modern espionage. Naturally, such an RPG would involve stopping (or aiding) terrorists at some point, and I thought that this DNS scenario would be more interesting than the typical "disarm the bomb already you fuck-tard". |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3912 Joined: 7 Nov 2007   | Shamus, shut up and go make that magazine! I don't care if it's all fiction. |
Paperboy  Posts: 15 Joined: 4 May 2009   |
The DNS doesn't work like that. Like the rest of the Internet, it is designed to be decentralised. In the worst case of the destruction of a toplevel domain name server, it will be a matter of minutes (if not seconds) for the DNS servers to be updated with a new server to act as the toplevel name server. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2194 Joined: 3 Mar 2009    | I would sooo like to subscribe to that magazine, even if it wasn't cheap. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 80 Joined: 16 Jan 2009    |
I was about to comment just this. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 765 Joined: 20 Jan 2009  | Yay for redirecting to escapist! :P |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2873 Joined: 21 May 2008  | I never laughed like that since that Silent Homecoming one with Pyramid Head. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 708 Joined: 24 Mar 2009   | I would boycott the Leisure Suit Larry/Star Wars crossover just so someone did, hyping up its publicity. When people would ask me why I was boycotting it, I would tell them because Larry was miscast. He's too scruffy looking of a nerfherder to be a Jedi! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4269 Joined: 13 Aug 2008    | This Gamepunk thing seems oddly reminiscent of the official xbox 360 magazine. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 56 Joined: 6 Mar 2009 |
Lar-do Calrissian? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 179 Joined: 1 Jun 2009   | "Halo, why you should buy two copies". That was a painful reminder of the fact I know someone who did. ¬_¬ |
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Stolen Pixels #91: Print is Dead
Veteran game journalist Travis Taylor is back with more...um...let's call it "wisdom."
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