Today, the German federal cabinet passed a new law to filter websites based on a secret list compiled by the Federal Criminal Police Office. The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs communicates the law as a remedy for the prevention of child pornography. While we strongly support any attempt to stop the abuse of humans and children in particular, we doubt that this is the real reason for the law.

For months, experts of all fields have impeached the facts and figures that were communicated by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs as well as the technical implementation of the filtering process. We mistrust the planned non-transparent process, we regard it as ineffective and amateurish and we believe it is counterproductive and a possible threat to democracy.

Since illegal sites on a list must be known beforehand, we urge the government to shut those sites down and prosecute the operators of those sites.

In times of a nationwide election campaign, we regard political populism as highly inappropriate when it should be about the fight against the abuse of minors.

Who would have thought that all these Science-Fiction movies about a total-control-government would some day become true. It’s sad, very sad that Germany is turning more and more into a state of total control. It’s almost like China and Great Britain combined.

Shivers me, it really does.

But as mentioned before: UNRELIABLE. I have seen myself waiting for over an hour and doing lots of calls to hear like five different excuses, of course all of them referring to someones elses fault, until I finally gave up.

It’s sad, and frankly a huge waste of my precious time. Even worse: they know it is.

In the words of Elliot Reid from Scrubs: “double frick on a stick with a brick”.

Deep Fields

Our boys at wetain showing off some nice screens from (sadly) just a prototype of an upcoming MMORPG they are planning to do. Looks nice nevertheless!

Underwater scene by ChrisB

A gorram shiny underwater scene by ChrisB, and amazing as it might look, it’s the Acknex engine! Finally someone who makes this engine look good!

And to even top that, even a shiny video!

Now the crazy talk:

"(LHC)Large Hadron Collider endangers earth" or "Fastlane vs. Why_do_I_die"

Having a great time, looking at a real life teacher (who knows what he’s talking about) arguing with some kind of I-don’t-even-know-what-to-call-him guy who knows absolutely nothing about what he’s talking about and arguing with groundless arguments.

Just having a great time reading how he embarrasses himself.

Enjoy the show here:
http://www.coniserver.net/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=202291

P.S.: And even if it would be true, dying by a black hole – can’t imagine a cooler way to die.

3DGS Game wins ties with World of Warcraft

… character wise. Hannah the horse from the 3DGS game "Zoo Race" ties with the same amount of votes like the horses from World of Warcraft in the "Greatest Animal In Video Game History"-Contest.

The horses from “World of Warcraft” tied with Hannah the Horse from “Zoo Race” for third place.

Ken Levine, 2K Boston:
My first choice, of course, is Hannah the Horse from “Zoo Race,” the biblically themed animal racing game.

Old forum Fragments

I’m not even gonna make up a cool title for this. It’s just plain and simple… old forum fragments from around the year 2000. Ahh, good ‘ol memories… Found by Firoball.

http://www.conitec.org/ubb/Forum8/HTML/000069.html

Try playing with the numbers to get other posts/threads/categories.

Now playing: Adam Baldwin – The Hero of Canton

P.S.: Firefly is the best series ever. Fuck you Fox Network! Haha! My Blog! I can swear! So heh, yeah fuck you for dropping the best show that ever aired on TV!!

Firstoff, Puppeteer’s 200-Spiders-Demo showing some awesome hell lot of spiders trying to avoid each other, with a fairly good FPS, considring that 200 entities have to constantly check for other spiders in their surrounding.
Check it out here.

Secondly we have a nicely done Batman model by Marin. Even though the neck is WAY too long, but generally it looks very nice! And even I have to admit that the shader looks quite good, even though im a hardcore normal-mapping-shader-enemy.

Thus we come to the highlight of last and this week.

The Emo Chronicles: Razor for my Valentine

HeelX showing off his new project inside the Trixie in Fairyland Universe but may not be confused with Trixie in Fairyland 2.
This one kinda runs on the storyline of the TiF comic, but I may not tell too much. Wait for the fun, be excited as you are creative!

And as kind as Spike is, he even posted a riddle for you folks to solve!

maybe some of your emo friends will help you? there is AVRIL, MATT, GERRY, JAERD, EDI, VILLE, GUY and and of course BILL.
Together, you could sing how awefull your life is and cut yourself in groups^^
have fun^^

ps.: now im really eager to see who knows all 7 (of 8) Lead Singers and the corresponding Bands. Note: Edi is the only Name on that list that is not in a band. Edi is far more famous/infamous than any other person this planet has ever seen.

It’s a bit macabre(the EDI thing…) but okay ;-)

So, until next weeks review, and hopefully some other posts inbetween.

I mean… you know? There are idiots all over the world, but if we would give up everytime some idiot ruins us, or everytime some idiot spreads bad rumors about you and talks bad about you behind your back… Seriousely, there wouldn’t be so many people on this world. But how can you convince someone to not give up? Everyone knows that, if you are mad and/or sad about someone you really feel that you are right about everything, that all the choices you are doing ARE the right ones, that everything you are going to do is correct. But… not every solution is the right solution. Maybe this gets this friend of mine out of this situation quickly (and indeed, it does); but there are so many other options to choose from. Just to stand up and fight for your right, clear up things, correct those rumors – Whatever.

But giving up… that so totally is NOT the right choice. Sometimes you really have to get over your prejudice of thinking that those people who belive these rumors can’t be convinced to not belive them. My friend, has friends, including me; and I’d do what I can, what I could if just my friend wouldn’t give up.

Hell, how do I solve that problem?

…

Well, anyway: An intresting video for you:

Sorry for bothering you.
Happy Valentines Day.