First off, Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison, and all I can say is who the hell cares. It is hardly a fitting punishment for a guy that stole billions of dollars. If I had my way, and I was forced to recognize the eighth amendment, I would have happily sentenced him to spending the rest of his days in nursing home with his less affluent peers and working as a door greeter at Wal-Mart. Even that right wing GW pawn whack job John Roberts would have little say on the punishment. It would be tough to convince anyone that such a sentence could be cruel or unusual when we subject many of our seniors to such a lifestyle everyday. Instead, Madoff will serve a 150 year sentence like he’s going to live as long as Abraham in the Old Testament, and his wife is working on keeping enough money to maintain her current lifestyle.
Oh ya, this is definitely justice.
In WoW related news, Exodus has been given a 72 hour ban for what Blizzard has deemed a cheat. Exodus has released an official statement on their site. Now, there have been several reports that Exodus remained silent about the bug, but the official statement say that a ticket was in fact submitted. If Exodus is to be believed, and there is little evidence to suggest otherwise, then the accusations of “bad form” are completely unfounded. Let’s assume for a second that they bug report never happened, then yes, Exodus is indeed guilty of bad form. The problem is that bad form doesn’t violate the ToS. If it did, every jack ass in trade spamming Obamanation, hitting people with their STFU truck, or begging for runs through DM would receive 72 hour bans.
So what did Exodus do wrong? Well they exploited an in game bug. To some people, like the Ensidia fanboys, this is different than exploiting a game mechanic. Freya trash for Hodir is ok because, well, that was a coding error that allowed mages to spellsteal a buff and pump out nasty DPS that wasn’t intended to happen. Using an evade mechanic, well that’s not ok because it wasn’t intended to happen. HUH? It becomes even more confusing if you believe that Exodus did in fact report the bug to Blizzard.
Though I have yet to see how Ensidia knew about the bug and was able to call out Exodus on it when Exodus had not released any information about the kill, one of the most basic conspiracies is that someone at Blizzard tipped off Ensidia. This, of course, then reinforces the idea that Exodus has the integrity to report the bug. I know, I know, they had the integrity after they “exploited” the bug, but that is not uncommon in the World of Warcraft firsts, so get off my ass because that is as much integrity that is ever expected from the world’s top guilds. Can anyone else hear Ice-T? “Don’t hate the playa, hate the game.”
Ensidia has become my little sister. She constantly annoys you, and does things you know that you know if you were caught doing, you would have the shit knocked outta you, but you don’t go whining to mom and dad because snitches are even more annoying. When you finally do something of a similar nature, she goes running to mom and dad and you get in trouble. I, for one, am completely elated that Blizzard has decided to treat Ensidia like a 7 y/o little girl who gets upset and cries and whines. They have, essentially, knocked the shit out of Exodus, then turned around, put on their happy face and patted Ensidia on the head and said, “there, there, you will get the world firsts, don’t you worry.” I can only imagine how they plan to handle Ensidia when they are old enough to start menstruating. Let’s hope Blizzard knows what PMS on an overly spoiled 14 y/o is like, and if they don’t, well all the better.
Oh ya, this definitely justice too.
I can’t wait until daddies little girl Ensidia breaks papa Blizzards heart when she decides to start dating boys. Anyone else think she has her eye on a certain maturing Old Republic?
-Rhab
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ReplyDeleteIn Skraps America Madoff would be an endentured servant. As well as all of his cronies. There would be a group of people that worked with/for him that would be assigned to servitude either public or private for the rest of their days.
It's a good think Madoff never donated $173,500 to Democrats and their causes or you'd look like completely uninformed partisan hack. Oh wait...
ReplyDelete1st I never pretended not to be partisan. I also never mentioned the money because it is really irrelevant to the overall message. In fact, I said if I was forced to recognize the 8th amendment, which for all my liberalism, I’d be willing to sweep under the rug for this guy. I was in fact admitting that Roberts was more likely to defend the constitution even if there are some amendments he may not like. Partisan? Yes! Uninformed? Depends on your perspective.
ReplyDelete2nd Roberts is a whack job and part of me wonders if the didn’t fumble the inauguration on purpose. It’s well known that he and President Obama are not the closest of friends, and had Obama corrected him (acknowledging that he caught the fumble) it would have appeared a little odd for the president to not actually repeat the chief justice as is protocol.