Can Final Fantasy XIV Compete With World of Warcraft?

Final Fantasy XIV has registered over 5 million users worldwide. Considering Final Fantasy XIV was not well received in 2010 as the launch was a huge flop commercially. This is fantastic news for Square Enix and Final Fantasy finding a new playground to show off it’s universe. One question that keeps coming back is. Could Final Fantasy XIV be a competitor of the long reining tyrant on top World of Warcraft?

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Feminism Lies & Equality Truth

I want to tell you something before
I start today. You the good hearted honest people out there. That I
will be attacked in all manners below this video. Due to how I will
represent the truth in this insanely controversial topic. My methods
will not be orthodox. Simply because that kind of passive conformism
doesn’t mean or solve a damn thing in today’s politically correct
weak society. To be passive is to let evil prevail and run rampant in
our lives and our children’s lives… so ladies and gentlemen let it
be known that what you are about to watch may shock, offend and maybe
anger you. Hell, It might even get you think for yourself for once.
Because today I expose the socialist
feminist movement that is taking away our freedoms and right only so
our country may conform into what is the socialist agenda of the
feminist.
Welcome ladies and gentlemen. You know
in life there are few absolutes wouldn’t you agree? For instance are
you absolutely sure the place you work at will continue to stay in
business? No, you can’t be absolutely sure can you? So let’s clarify
for the sake of today’s topic that absolutes to me are things
presented that hold weight. Things that are based on evidence and
facts.. and let me go a step further to say that these facts and
evidence also have to be presented by unbiased party at that. You
want to see facts con-screwed to meet a reaching theory. Take a good
look at the flip flopping scientist’s today and how they change
stories more than they change their socks. But that’s another show..
for another time.

Listen today. There seems to be a certain
and I say it lightly “problem” going around largely in the world
today. It’s called the socialist feminist movement. Now feminism used
to serve a good purpose in the past and is the very reason why I have
the evidence I’m about to provide to you very soon. Just let it be
known that I very much support feminism in those times as the
movement was nothing but the fight for equality. Just as I support
and recognize that equality is in fact alive and breathing in America
already today. You see today, feminism is a very dirty word to those
who read between the lines. Because Feministic women today use the
face and graces that the term “equality” represents only as a
tool to push their own agenda’s. They claim and scream that they
don’t have equality to get what they want out of politics. To get
sympathy from the public. The media uses it as an outlet to draw
attention to their publications. Hillary Clinton is currently using
it to get votes. Look. This is the United States of America. It’s all
about Equality! Whether you’re a women or a man. Whether your black
red purple yellow or teal. There is a law that gave everyone equality
years ago, it’s fact! Don’t believe me? Well let me present the
evidence then if you don’t believe me. Well! Would you look at this!
It’s in the Constitution! It’s called the Equal Protection Clause.
What does it say?

All
persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the
State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law
which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life,
liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any
person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Now, let me also add that EQUAL
OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT is law ladies and gentlemen. It’s also not
just a law that protects just women. But protects the disabled, the
old, the black yada yada and wow… would you look at this it even
protects that vastly privileged white man too! Do you want to know
why it protects even a white man? Because it’s called EQUAL
OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT! Now and days the public. You people spend to
much time listening to the loud mouths of today’s modern society to
even consider looking at the source material. Feminism is dead and
has been for years! Feminism is now a weapon. I ask you people how in
the world can there be a socialist
feminist movement all about equality? If equality is already here?
Did you just not witness the truth in which I just presented to you?

Look. Damn it. The feminist status today: Is a small group of
“ladies” that are looking to push this false made up garbage
about how equality still isn’t present for females. That they make a
lesser wage. That they are constantly oppressed. Modern Feminist’s
are “Advocates
of women’s rights.”
They sure as
hell are not advocates of anybody else’s rights are they? If anything
they plan to take away all rights of everybody else so they may be on
top. Still don’t believe me? Ask yourself why does the socialist
feminist movement only care about the equal rights of women? Not
white men, not black men, not the purple, The yellow, the blue. Not
the disabled or the mental? Because they only want to make waves so
they push their agenda’s.

The feminist of a couple decades
ago didn’t even represent the views of the majority of american women
in the United States. Today they still don’t. The people who care
about equality are known as equalist or humanist. Do you see how the
word “fem” doesn’t fall into this labels? That’s because they
don’t fight for one side.

Now let’s take a look and some of the
highest pitched whines we here from modern feminist’s today. Let’s
start with the wage gap. Here’s one we’ve all heard before. “Women
make up 50% of the workforce. But they make 78 cents for every dollar
a man makes. Therefore women are not equal to me.”
Now when you hear this you say? Oh wow
is that so? Wow that isn’t equal is it? As always when you go to the
source you can usually find the lie. Let me ask you this. How
different are women and men when picking a career and job? The answer
is vastly different. Men are more likely to choose jobs like
Engineering, Science’s, Law Enforcement and Business management.
Women are more likely to choose social services, customer services,
accounting and arts. These jobs all pay differently due to what each
job carries in weight of worth. If women want to make more money than
men then choose jobs that pay more. This is America. You get what you
put in whether you got set of breasts or a sack of walnuts. If you
want to read the document that has closed shut the gender pay range
gap in since 2007.. go head and read the 93 page report which by the
American College of Healthcare. If do read it you’ll notice that the
garbage feminist have been using to further their goal for
“feminquality” is totally without fact and evidence.
Point is people. At the end of the day
women, men, blacks, whites and the disabled and whoever else. Are
equal because it is the law of the Untied States of America. So the
people from the socialist feminist movement. Here’s my final
departing words to you. You can yell and you can scream all you want
about something you pretend you don’t have. But everybody knows what
you really want and equality isn’t it. You can try to damage control
this video or try to personally attack and belittle me. But I’m just
going to let you know here and now! That it won’t mean a damn thing
to me. Cause all I care about is the truth… you should try it
sometime. I’ve been Craig and if you will drop me a like and
subscribe huh?  

Gamestop Scholarship is a Good PR Move

Gamestop and it’s scholarship program (Power to the Scholars scholarship program) have chosen 40 employees to get $2,500 each.

President of Gamer Fund Mike Buskey made a statement.

“Our objective with this program was to encourage our employees and their dependents to achieve their personal and professional goals through higher education.”

“At GameStop we are all about protecting the family, so, we are honored to be able to assist the scholarship recipients in their broader educational journeys, and look forward to seeing where they lead.”

While surely there are some higher ups at Gamestop probably do care about their employees educational goals and assisting them is the right thing to do. However as the saying goes Philanthropy is the newest form of PR.

This is still good for gamestop employees, the scholarship program was created in 2012 and has given more than $485,000 to them.

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John Smedley Quits Daybreak For Good & That’s Bad

As many know John Smedley has stepped down as president and CEO of Daybreak altogether.

Daybreak said in a statement.

“On behalf of Daybreak, we wish Smed well in his new endeavors. Any questions regarding his new business should be directed to him.”

After the problems and the huge twitter incident with a Lizard Squad hacker who grounded his plane after placing fake bomb threats, several DDOS attacks which were thought to be closely connected on top of various other cyber crime related offenses.  Smedley was very vocal in the lack of punishment given for the crimes.

We wish John Smedley the best of luck in his personal and future endeavors.

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Dead Realm Lack of Disclosure May Violate FTC Regulations Thoughts

Dead Realm on first looks doesn’t look like anything more than another passable horror game in the genre. YouTube influencers Adam Montoya (SeaNanners), Tom Cassell (TheSyndicateProject) and Evan Fong (VanossGaming) may be in some trouble when it comes to the realization that none of them have disclosed the very real financial ties to the game or how Cassell and Montoya are actually co-founders of publisher 3Blackdot.
There has been statements made from the Dead Realms publisher but it doesn’t answer the primary problem. Just because the niche audience this game captures knows doesn’t mean an outsider to the game would and could be swayed into believing in a product from a supposed “real” source rather than a co-founder masquerading as a let’s player who doesn’t have a particular agenda when it came to promoting the game itself. 
The FTC explains in it’s .com disclosures document. 
“Disclosures that are required to prevent an advertisement from being deceptive, unfair, or otherwise violative of a Commission rule, must be presented ‘clearly and conspicuously.” In the case of Dead Realms many of these videos lack clear transparency. 
It also says in a follow up FAQ, that single disclosure covering multiple videos is insufficient “because people visiting your site might read individual reviews or watch individual videos without seeing the disclosure on your home page.”
Right now this is still up in the air and unless this issue is sorted soon there will be more problems. 
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Nintendo Bootleg Amiiqo Falsifies Amiibo Data

Nintendo is not going to be happy about this. The unauthorized Amiiqo is available for pre-order which will allow consumers to spoof Nintendo’s Amiibo figures, tricking a Wii U into thinking that they are corresponding to official Amiibo products.  
The Amiiqo comes with ten Amiibo figures which can be used to store up to 200, with an accompanying Android app used to download data for new figures for transferal. That seriously sounds like theft. It’s not entirely clear if the Amiiqo is violating intellectual property or copyright laws but, Nintendo will definitely not appreciate this sort of thing. 
Interestingly enough the official Amiiqo.co.uk website is registered from an anonymous service to a guesthouse in Tokyo. This doesn’t paint the company in a good way at all. 
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Nintendo Files Patent For Disc-Less System

Nintendo filed for a patent on a disc-less system with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in February 2015.

“An example system includes an internal hard disk drive storing a program and/or data, a communication unit transmitting/receiving a program and/or data via a network, and a processor executing a program stored in the hard disk drive to perform game processing,” the application reads before getting to the key part: “The example system is not provided with an optical disk drive for reading out a program and/or data from an optical disk.”

Most likely we shouldn’t feed to much into this, it could be some time before this is made to completion. Interestingly enough when you think of card slots don’t you kind of associate that with a SD card? Interesting to say the least and worth keeping an eye on. Could this be the NX? Doubtful but completely in the realm of possibility.

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Two Armed Men Arrested After Threatening Pokemon Event Thoughts

18 year old Kevin Norton and 27 year old James Stumbo of Iowa have been arrested for allegedly making threats on social media against the Pokemon World Championships in Boston. What strike a little odd is both men were on  “Masters Division” of the tournament for the Pokemon Trading Card game. The very same championship they were supposedly threatening. They were arrested at a Saugus, Mass. hotel and were charged with Unlawful Possession of a Firearm, Unlawful Possession of Ammunition, and other firearm related charges.

 Here is the report from the Boston Police Department.

“On Thursday, August 20, 2015, members of the Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) received information from private sector public safety personnel at the Hynes Convention Center at 900 Boylston Street in District D-4 (South End) regarding threats of violence made over social media to attendees of the Pokemon World Championships,” a line from the release says.

“Security officers at the Hynes, officers in District D-4, and the BRIC immediately began investigation into these threats, and hours later, the two male suspects were stopped attempting to enter the event. BRIC and D-4 Detectives responded to further investigate,” the report goes on. “Detectives were informed that the suspects had driven to the event from Iowa and were in possession of several firearms in their vehicle. The suspects could not produce a License to Carry. Officers seized the vehicle, and the suspects were released pending a search warrant.”

It is a sad day for everyone when idiotic cretins will try and kill you for a choice in hobbies and entertainment paths we decide to dedicate our time to.

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The Rumandapples Show (RAS) #67

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Talking all things gaming with the traditional flair of insanity.Every Monday Rumandapples dives into news analysis about the gaming industry, entertainment, even MMA and pro wrestling.
 
This episode contains: Pokémon fighter Pokkén Tournament lands on Wii U in spring 2016, Sony announces a ridiculously expensive Metal Gear Solid 5-branded walkman, Dead Realm YouTubers’ lack of disclosure may violate FTC regulations, Final Fantasy XIV reaches 5 million registered users, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain makes you pay for PVP, Two Armed Men Arrested After Allegedly Threatening Pokemon Event thoughts, Nintendo Files for disc-less System, John Smedley leaves Daybreak forever, plus more. 
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