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by Xav de Matos, Jan 28, 2011 5:00am PSTLast night I finally watched the Coen Brothers adaptation of True Grit. I was a big fan of the flick and, as I suspected it would, by the end I wanted to race home and play some more Red Dead Redemption.
It's a little sad that the wild west has fallen off as a setting for films. When Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven came out, I remember some referring to it as the last great western. Looking back at film history, there's a deluge of movies taking place in the era.
I suppose it falls into the category of American Exceptionalism--what, in story terms, separates America as a nation from others. How men from very little will often rise to the occasion and become a hero in the face of evil. That's what I'm told, at least. I'm Canadian.
What is also does is offer the modern gamer a glance at a time where survival skills, honor, and reputation were the things that defined a man.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it but the western is a fantastic place to show the rise and fall of our favorite characters.
Except that Insane Clown Posse movie "Big Money Rustlas." That doesn't work as an example of anything. Entertainment included.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/two-real-guns-pointed-at-me-how-the-fbi-raided-anonymous.ars
I have zero sympathy for their conduct in Operation Payback.
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Back in the dayâ„¢, I was in the USAF and lived in a small apartment over some shops in a small town in England, had a old school coax cable run out of my living room window, across about a block of shops and into my buddies house so we can play IPX Doom and such.
Well, this idiot was a hard-core IRC idler that set up bots to ratio-trade porn jpg and gif files. He ran it pretty much all night most nights (back in the modem dial-up days)
Seems his /incoming/unsorted directory got full of several thousand pictures, some of which were of an "age undetermined" category.
One thing led to another and he got a visit by a white van full of OSI (Office of Special Investigations) folks and other various 'specialists" from both the local law and stateside folks brought in to investigate (oh yeah, our Commander as well, this was mid afternoon on a Sunday IIRC)
As they proceeded to turn his entire house upside down (including doing such things as un-stuffing his couch, emptying cereal boxes and poking pencils into his fucking mustard bottles in his fridge) they noticed the cable heading out of his window.
Needless to say, I got a knock on the door a few minutes later with two very pleasant folks asking if they could take a look at my computer.
They did not have a warrant, but they did have my Commander with them, and a warrant would only be a few minutes away if i refused of course, and the commander was gonna stay at my place with these folks while that happened.
I asked them what they were looking for, and they said child porn and is there anything i needed to tell them about my computer, i said no, but I did say that in truth i did have a bit of pirated stuff (only a few games and a beginning rom collection) they said not to worry, that were not interested in that stuff and proceeded to put in their magic boot floppy and started looking for *gif, *bmp , *jpg etc.
They did find my NWS safe stuff, but once they saw it was basically BBS Sam Fox stuff that was prevalent in the day the tone in the room got a lot lighter.
Well, they eventually went away (taking all my buddies stuff with them) and I never heard another word about it. I think they spent maybe 2 hours with me, a couple different tech folks ran scans of my machine.
My buddy got tried by the military folks and they (and I) believed him that those pics were placed there by the irc trader folks (thankfully that folder didn't seem to have been accessed by him after the files creation dates). he got punished by loss of a few stripes(E4 to E2) and kicked out of the service. Took years for him to get his computer(minus HDD) back.
Needless to say, scared the living shit out of me.
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