A rant on the reaction by Rupert Murdoch to the Sydney siege ending.
I’m sorry, were you expecting respect for the victims of this siege from the man who controls the majority of Australian newspaper circulation?
Never mind the fact that two innocent people lost their lives and another 15 will need counselling for as long as they live due to PTSD, Severe anxiety and whole crapload of other mental issues that crop up due to being held hostage, forced to read demands, the resulting shootout and so on.
No praise to the police for handling the situation as well as they did and attempting to de-escalate the situation with storming the cafe being an absolute last resort. And no concern about the officer who was injured after being shot in the face.
All that Rupert gives us is praise for his cameras catching the bloody aftermath first.
All of the stuff that happened about the sydney siege and they choose to not express any concern about the victims and their families and friends like any reasonable person would do. Instead they just congratulate their media team at the site for being the first people to record the brutal slaughter of an innocent person and a gunman.
This just really pisses me off to no end because you would think that the person at the head of a global media empire would know how such statements tend to go down with the community. Not only that but this lack of consideration of the victims of this tragic event is basically how a psychopath would behave. The enduring antisocial behavior, the lack of empathy and remorse and the disinhibited or bold behavior are all there.
This kind of thing is exactly why Rupert has been legally deemed unfit to run a company. And recent events have shown that his hold on his media empire is slipping as shareholders become increasingly frustrated with his bias. This could very well be the very thing that causes him to lose control of the whole lot and I really hope that does happen.
How this thing that calls itself Rupert is alive when it clearly does not have a heart is a mystery to me.
Well, this is embarassing…
I was hoping to have at least the first impressions of Watch_Dogs up by now but I am still waiting for the damn thing to download! I did the preorder via Green Man Gaming which gave me a key that I could redeem via uPlay for a direct download. I had a good experience with digital downloading of games with Steam so I thought that uPlay would be the same and I could rely on the game actually come down without me having to nurse the download every step of the way. Boy was I wrong!
uPlay is buggy, unreliable and the downtime it experienced when it was forced to handle half of the traffic that Steam handles on an hourly basis turned a simple overnight download into a 3-day marathon download which will hopefully be finished today. Matters were not helped by the fact that the Australian government has cancelled the NBN meaning that I will be stuck with a top download speed of 256KB/s for quite possibly the rest of my life!
Lesson learnt: Stick to Steam for digital downloads and physical media for anything larger than 6GB!
Matters were not helped when GMG failed to meet their promised key release time – their FAQ states that when a preorder is done the download code will be released in time for the game’s release where the download is occurring. I purchased the game on the /au subdomain so they knew that I would be downloading it in Australia however despite the fact that the game was due for release here at 00:01 AEST I thought that I would have the download code by the time I woke up on release day and could start downloading the game right away. WRONG! I had to wait for over 15 hours after the game was released here to get a code to download the game! In this day and age I can understand a 1 hour delay. 2 hours is pushing it but is tolerable… 15 hours is just unacceptable!
Lesson learnt: NEVER PREORDER FROM GMG!
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