Okay, if any of you happened to swing by the Redeemer and discovered a 404 in its place, here's the skinny.
A site hosted on another Gamespy server (Matrix Half-Life @ www.planethalflife.com/matrix/) took it upon itself to flame a then non-staff member of The Redeemer, PACMAN. Apparently they did not like it to much when PACMAN received a medium with which to retaliate (The Redeemer.) They made the claim that PACMAN posted "slanderous material" (which is a: wholly untrue since slander is not possible in reference to a nickname and b: if his material was slanderous, their material posted about him was equally as slanderous.)
Anyways, they then took it upon themselves to contact planetunreal. (Apparently unable to fight for themselves, they had to call in the head honcho to "slap his kids.")
This is not cool, since we've been 404'd. All potentially offensive material was given a disclaimer on our site, something we took the initiative to do ourselves, and as we understood it (As explained to us by QAPete) so long as the main site and the review sections (admittedly the main features of our site) did not contain anything but relevent, inoffensive content, all was well.
If you wanna see the site (if you haven't already been there,) you can locate it at www.planetunreal.com/redeemer-backup.
I'm not telling you to jump to our defense, I'm not telling you to go spam MHL's message boards. I just want you all too know why the site is gone, and just why I think its not cool (in my country, Canada, a socialist country, the "f" word and "shit" appear on the front page of the newspaper, and its not considered "nudity" unless its showing the genitals -- raised this way, and knowing how peaceful our country still is, you can see why I'm an advocate for free speech.)
I don't like this. Everything about this rubs me the wrong way. People wanted to pull the plug on Howard Stern. He ended up generating insane ratings. South Park, anybody? Stileproject? Badassmofo? Rotten.com? All these things contain 1) disclaimers letting people know their goods may be considered offensive, 2) alot of quality, entertaining content, and 3) massive ratings and followings. It just seems to me that somebody upstairs is missing the point here. Yiah, alot of the stuff I said contained what could be considered vulgar language, alot of the stuff I said could be construed as offensive. But when the time came to be professional (as in the interview with Warren or the map reviews) I did nothing but my best.
God, I'm rambling here. This is just plain not cool.
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Another funky radical bombtrack started as a sketch in my notebook
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A site hosted on another Gamespy server (Matrix Half-Life @ www.planethalflife.com/matrix/) took it upon itself to flame a then non-staff member of The Redeemer, PACMAN. Apparently they did not like it to much when PACMAN received a medium with which to retaliate (The Redeemer.) They made the claim that PACMAN posted "slanderous material" (which is a: wholly untrue since slander is not possible in reference to a nickname and b: if his material was slanderous, their material posted about him was equally as slanderous.)
Anyways, they then took it upon themselves to contact planetunreal. (Apparently unable to fight for themselves, they had to call in the head honcho to "slap his kids.")
This is not cool, since we've been 404'd. All potentially offensive material was given a disclaimer on our site, something we took the initiative to do ourselves, and as we understood it (As explained to us by QAPete) so long as the main site and the review sections (admittedly the main features of our site) did not contain anything but relevent, inoffensive content, all was well.
If you wanna see the site (if you haven't already been there,) you can locate it at www.planetunreal.com/redeemer-backup.
I'm not telling you to jump to our defense, I'm not telling you to go spam MHL's message boards. I just want you all too know why the site is gone, and just why I think its not cool (in my country, Canada, a socialist country, the "f" word and "shit" appear on the front page of the newspaper, and its not considered "nudity" unless its showing the genitals -- raised this way, and knowing how peaceful our country still is, you can see why I'm an advocate for free speech.)
I don't like this. Everything about this rubs me the wrong way. People wanted to pull the plug on Howard Stern. He ended up generating insane ratings. South Park, anybody? Stileproject? Badassmofo? Rotten.com? All these things contain 1) disclaimers letting people know their goods may be considered offensive, 2) alot of quality, entertaining content, and 3) massive ratings and followings. It just seems to me that somebody upstairs is missing the point here. Yiah, alot of the stuff I said contained what could be considered vulgar language, alot of the stuff I said could be construed as offensive. But when the time came to be professional (as in the interview with Warren or the map reviews) I did nothing but my best.
God, I'm rambling here. This is just plain not cool.
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Another funky radical bombtrack started as a sketch in my notebook
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