Beating a Dead Horse... ROMS! Illegal vs legal with justifiable cause. IMO.

So i got to thinking today about how downloading ROM's effect us as the gamer vs large corps like Nintendo or Sony that sometimes like to milk a dead cow even more dry.

Here is a Article that pretty much covers the illegal concerns for downloading ROM's

So i will be using it as a reference point for the topic I'll be covering today.

DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT AN ATTORNEY - What i write from hereon is a opinion and not to be taken seriously. Take it with a grain of salt.

Aside from the fact of where you live, the courts work in most cases (at least where i live anyway in the USA) everything is based on justifiable cause and proven beyond reason of a doubt if you are able to get a competent judge and/or jury. The justice system has to be blind but have enough common sense to be fair, hence why everything has to be justifiable and proven beyond reasonable doubt.

Some would say you have better odds of defending your self in court if you have enough common sense to be able to give a statement to the court of reason why or why not in your own words (and honestly) where unlike a lawyer is a professional liar and word manipulator of the law its self. (in some cases can be a good thing) but the bottom line is: Proof, Justifiable Cause & Beyond reason of a doubt.

What does this all mean for people wanting to play ROM's?

Well as a person that believes in supporting by buying the game but not to be a fool to over pay for the same game on a new system with a game of its original counter part of same said graphics and such. I believe in both. I believe ROMs are justifiable in the sense that if X Company did not want the game to be a digital download they would still offer a remake of X system and support for ancient old said X system. However as things age and the cash cow drys up for it, they drop support. X years later then they re-release the game (example any NES game) at $10 US Dollars a pop. When most likely for a game so old, it should only be worth $0.99 US Cents. So when considering fair pricing under consumer law, X Company gets away with breaking such US Law because of X whatever reason. (Fill in "X" with any company or game or county/state you live in & reason to you that is justifiable on their behalf)

I'm not trying to slander any company but I will make it clear I do strongly disagree with how they do price ancient tech on modern systems. In a way its a scam but at the same time I understand they have to make a buck too but if let's say they did make 15 billion that year for said game, then the game its self has already paid for its creation and the time spent by said men and women in credits to making said game more or less in the cash flow life span of X game. So whats wrong with having a copy? Some people are careful not to break their CD's and others are not so much. What is better to do, get ripped off by cheap quality plastic of a CD by having to re-buy said game or to have a self copy so YOU as the consumer don't get ripped off again and again and again. What if you are disabled and you can't help it if you mistakenly run over your CD games with your wheel chair? This would be a Company at fault for making such cheap plastic that you can't roll over it but ripping off and taking advantage of the disabled that would have to re-buy the game again due to their disability that may or may not have been caused by the individual. (I.e. Getting hit by a car that made you wheel chair bound)

So is it fair? Common sense would say no on the fact of X Company making such cheap plastic  but then that leads to the disabled person should be more careful. Sure if every disabled person could afford a Personal Care Assistant (PCA). So as you can see there is the justifiable PROS & CONS of the coin and because of this, ROM's are fine in the justifiable sense that ANY COMPANY should not be allowed to rip off the consumer for as many years they have been regardless of if its replacing our favorite game or being unable to play said game because X Company dropped support for X System. In reality if X Company does not drop support of X system there would be no need to try to resell the game on a newer system and what the game makes as being re-sold on newer systems, X Company in theory could of made x30 times more in maint. and repair fees for older systems than what the game makes now being resold as a classic on a modern system. Fact is not everybody can maint/self repair older systems for whatever reason.

So yes ROM's are fine in justifiable sense to own and play on any desirable system if it be PC or hand held device of any kind in my opinion. Also in like 100+ years from now X Company will most likely not have a archive for that game where ROM sites will and future generations will be able to take a trip to the past virtually and see what made video games what they are today as a popular form of entertainment for their time. We as a gamer community in my opinion honor the creators and devs of X game by archiving it as a ROM to ensure their creation lasts for as long as the internet its self will last and the websites that keep archiving and holding on to ROM's or any newer version of such (ISO's, BIN's, CUE's)

But the website offering them for free makes money from it by running AD's!

Not true. If people in the world would just donate to their fav. website to help cover hosting costs for the domain, server space, bandwidth and over charge on bandwidth if they go over X Limit then there would be no need for AD's. Are you willing to give your money away? Most of you are like me and most likely can not afford to be giving money away like its going out of style. For those whom pull in the cash and bring home a check of 5k+ a month are not usually on the internet downloading ROMs and not giving to websites that need the community support to stay around. They can afford to keep replacing or whatever it is they choose to do with their money. Not saying ROMs are for poor people but I am saying the websites that do host the files need the AD's to keep the website going. No i am not saying it because i own said website for because I don't. I am saying it because X Company will try to say that X Site is making money off by offering X games for free by running AD's. That's not a justifiable cause when X Company knows it to be true because some X Company do host their own servers but need to pay the bills like everybody else. That defense is old and no longer a relevant justifiable cause when there are other reasons that show beyond reason of a doubt that any such accusations don't have any merit to them whats so ever to even begin to hold justifiable cause.

Its STILL Illegal to own any form of ROM

It is, but keep in mind that most laws are worded so broadly and out of date that is why the justice system has to take in to consideration justifiable reason & cause and not just follow whatever X law says. Laws are just guidelines for the courts to have something to follow but not a easy set in stone choice. If this was true then there be no need for lawyers or judges. It be ran by robots, punch in such law, scan in proof, closed case.

What are the courts going to do when a 8yr old has a ROM on any device they carry to play, let it slide because its just a kid or punish that kid and throwing them in jail because X Company wants to enforce zero tolerance? Either way no PR Department will be able to fend off the public outrage no matter what way it goes hence why its a law you honestly do not see enforced by actual local law enforcement agencies of any kind if be local police to the feds, they got pirated movies to worry about "huehuehue" *trollface here* but that's a subject for another time.



The point is, if X company did the right thing by this consumer, there be no need for ROM's in the first place other than to honor only the creators and devs of the game for creating such a great classic and all of us would pay actual cash no problem to forever own our fav. games..

It should be ILLEGAL to rip off the consumer more by re-releasing the old game that X Consumer paid full price for ages ago on a new system and over charge by 9.01. Where is the justice system now with its common sense? letting the consumer take it up the rear end with no vassline.

So i say keep downloading those ROM's in form of peaceful protest and that maybe one day we'll get a fair trial. I hope to god they catch that kid. What a riot that will be. Both the legal system and X Company will have no good ending from it.

BASETRADETV wait... SC2 Base Trade Channel?

No.

 A good new & upcoming channel on twitch that has consistent dual casting of different eSport events related mainly to Starcraft 2 but will do other random things.

Yours truly (Moi) has been following them recently and i must admit they're good and worth checking out. While there is plenty of good solo casters out there but looking to see or hear something better produced I'd for sure suggest BASE TRADE TV.

To give you a example of quality production they do you can check out their Starcraft Survival Show they do every week.



To sum up Starcraft Servival: Players from the professional players & known community names take on a challenge to out micro,macro, social engage their fellow players to become the last player standing and its done every week over the internet by skype & the batttle.net client for Starcraft.

With BASETRADETV i'm sure you will find something you will enjoy if it be their casting or the shows they currently produced related to eSports in one form or another and their caster vlogs found on Base Trade TV YouTube. I'm certain you will find something entertaining about them so be sure to follow them on their networks that you follow or part of as well!

Credits of events they have covered in their history of being around

WINGSOFLIBERTY

• • Dreamhack Valencia LIVE
  • TSL4 Qualifiers

  HEARTOFTHESWARM

  • Polt vs Jjakji
  • The AHGL
  • aAa Pro Challenge#2
  • IPTL Qualifiers
  • the NSL
  • WCS EU S1 Qualifiers
  • ZOTAC Monthly's
  • And many other vods can be found on Sc2links.com

Dream of becoming a eSports Player.

Not news today but this time a personal post!

I had a dream that i met EG Thorzain and he obs the game that would be one of three that would help determine if i would be joining Team EG.
In the dream the person from EG was a female that took care of all potential recruits. At the time in the dream IdrA and Stephano had already left EG but she informed me that EG wasn't looking for any members at that very moment but if I passed all the pre-recruiting exams that all the pre-interview potential data would be saved and i would be contacted later the moment a spot opened.

So after the first game, I ended up meating Temp0 and EG Machine & EG Suppy. Temp0 was there to take his test as well but it be a game vs me. This test had the same restraints as the first one, had to beat each other under 8mins but the map always starts you off as if you were already mid game, re-taking a base and maybe have one t3 and t2 units out on the map. This game i was zerg and Temp0 got stuck as Toss. The first game i was Terran.

This test was to see how well we did as a offrace. Temp0 massed zealots and i had made lings and temp0 ended up taking the win in that game.

Me and temp0 come to find out later the game was meant to be played with our main races and that the last game would be off race.

So me and temp end up having to wait around. As we're waiting Suppy and Machine are all hyped up and sure that both of us would get to join EG and that they were looking forward to training with us in the future.

I get called out first that evening to meet with the CEO of EG. He was in a limo as his office. He was busy and had things to get to right away after leaving the offices of EG that are located at the team house The Lair. The first question he asked me was why i would want to join EG and whatever answer i gave him was good and i got to join EG and that i would be coving their "Blue Team" in MLG.

What a crazy dream is that? then i woke up after that last part. I had to blog about it cause it was such a strange dream.

IdrA not leaving eSports

thank you all for the support, i will not be leaving esports
— Greg Fields (@idrajit) May 10, 2013

If you been sleeping under a rock, then that's OK. I'm here to inform ya IdrA is not leaving anytime soon.

I've tried reaching him for comment. I will update this article as soon as more info becomes readily available

@idrajit Will you be doing a Press Release on your future plans and your opinion on the whole matter at hand?
— DigitalChaos (@DigitalChaosSC) May 10, 2013

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EGIdrA has been released 

EGIdrA has been released

Today EG (Evil Geniuses) has release  Greg "IdrA" Fields. Their star marketing player because of the disrespect towards the community. A choice not easily made by Alexander Garfield, CEO of Evil Geniuses.according to his Press Release today on Team Liquid website.

It is said that for three years IdrA is known for his "choice of words" and how he treats his fellow players and even Alex says so him self.

As most of you are already aware, we let our players be themselves. We believe that our industry's diverse assortment of vibrant personalities plays a huge part in helping make eSports so much fun - for ourselves, and for the viewers. No great novel is without great characters, and we like to let our players find their own roles within the eSports storyline by showcasing the personalities they were born with. We have strict guidelines that regulate certain kinds of more extreme speech, and we take disciplinary action when those guidelines are violated, but for the most part, we stay out of the way. 

This is why it was never really an issue for us that Greg can be rude to his opponents in games, or that he usually speaks his mind very bluntly and directly. But, to us, there's a very big difference between a player being disrespectful to an opponent in a ladder match, and a player being disrespectful to the entire community of people who, via their own enthusiasm and passion for the entertainment product he creates, actually make his profession possible.

Could this be the real reason?



IdrA states a opinion on TL forums, more or less to me is part of his online persona. For example like Shock Jock Radio Host Howard Stern is known for his persona.

IdrA is right in the sense he was being paid for the past three years to carry out his persona but EG hides behind the fact they don't get in their players way.

We have built our company as a players-first organization. This is reflected in a number of already well-known benefits that our players receive, such as the attentiveness of our management, the quality of our on-site facilities, and excellent financial support. And while these are all vital parts of taking a players-first approach, we believe that one of the most important ways to support professional gamers is to stay out of their way. 

However if EG does have a strict policy as stated from the press release

The eSports industry, and companies like Evil Geniuses, would not be possible without the passion and support of our community. We, as a company, cannot and will not be supportive of anyone who does not show due respect and appreciation for the community that makes everything we do possible.

Then IdrA was aware of his choices of words and where they would lead him and it had to be obviously clear EG would have to make such a choice.

In this writers opinion: I firmly believe IdrA will be back. Having reached a fame for him self will not stop him from supporting him self and making a come back and perhaps go independent for sponsors only care about the views you can get and how much of a big plug you can give, not the performance you play at. Winning is only a small part of the whole picture. If IdrA can shake this off, he could make a joke out of the whole thing and make more than what any team could ever pay him.

2 yo girl shot dead by 5 yo brother.

Caroline Starks, 2, was fatally hit in the chest by her sibling’s .22 calibre rifle only moments after their mother stepped outside their home in Burkesville, Kentucky, yesterday.

Today the children’s grandmother Linda Riddle said: “It was just a tragic accident.

“I just know she is in heaven right now and I know she is in the good hands of the Lord.”

The boy, who has not been named, had been given the Crickett gun, branded “My First Rifle” as a gift.

The maker’s website features three different .22-calibre rifle models for children, with shoulder stock colours ranging from pink to red, white and blue swirls.

Cumberland County Coroner Gary White said the gun was kept in a corner and the family didn’t realise a shell was left inside it.

“It’s just one of those crazy accidents,” White said.

The shooting comes as President Obama continues to press for stricter gun controls in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre that left 20 pupils and six teachers dead in December.

Man wearing ‘jail sucks’ T-shirt arrested and sent to jail

Don Castner, wearing his "jail sucks!" T-shirt (Manatee sheriff's office)

Don Castner was already in danger of arousing the suspicions of the fashion police. But the 39-year-old Floridian got a taste of delicious irony when he was arrested Wednesday by the actual police while wearing a T-shirt that read, “jail sucks!”

The Smoking Gun reports that Castner was arrested on charges of welfare fraud as part of a Manatee County sheriff's office undercover sting entitled Operation Meal Ticket.

Manatee deputies arrested 40 other people Wednesday and have warrants out for dozens more in the undercover sting operation.

Castner is accused of selling Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards to undercover agents.

Manatee Sheriff Brad Steube said some of the people caught in the sting said they were using money from selling the cards to buy "rock cocaine, drugs and alcohol."

After he was booked, Castner was forced to ditch his ironic T-shirt for more traditional prison garb and a mug shot.

There is a feel-good angle to this story. WBTV reported that the sheriff’s office used $9,000 in recovered food stamp money to buy baby formula for the Manatee County food bank.

Email Anxiety? Apps to Help Fight Inbox Agita

They sit there, stacking up by the minute. I try to stay on top of them, but I can never arrange them by priority, and then I panic: What if in the mess I missed an important one from a friend or family member -- or both? What if I offend someone by not responding? What if I can never read all of these? What if everyone hates me?

It's called email anxiety. It might not be in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, but maybe it should be -- it sure feels like a psychological condition.

But over the past couple of months, a number of new email services and add-ons have come out or been freshened up in the hopes of assuaging email agita. Some aim to get your inbox down to zero, while others aim to simply organize the inbox mess.

Is there effective therapy or Xanax for email stress out there?

GMAIL, IPHONE ONLY

Mailbox

Introduced in February, Mailbox quickly became one of the hottest apps for the iPhone. It has one main goal: to get your inbox down to zero.

Log in with your Gmail account (it only supports Gmail right now) and you can do one of four things with each message: delete it, archive it, set a reminder about it or add it to a to-do list.

And you can do one of those four things in the cleanly designed app by swiping on the message. A long swipe to the left on top of a message lets you set a reminder about it. There you are presented with some options: you can decide to have it remind you later today, this evening, tomorrow, this weekend, next week, in a month, or at a later specific date.

An even longer swipe to the left on a message lets you add a message to a to-do list. For instance, I added a movie recommendation sent by a friend of mine to a "to watch later" list and made a new list called "to make plans with" for messages about potential drink dates.

The app is interesting and forces you to think about every message you get, but it can require a lot of work at first. I didn't just want to archive all the messages in my inbox, so I went through more than 400 messages. It also is limited now to just the iPhone and Gmail. But if you've got those two things, and a lot of time to manually sort through your messages, Mailbox is worth a try.

(For those that are looking for a similar solution for Gmail, but don't have an iPhone, Boomerang, a Gmail add-on for Chrome browsers, will let you set reminders on messages too.)

VARIOUS EMAIL PROVIDERS, WEB

Sanebox

If Mailbox is manual transmission, Sanebox is automatic. Log in to your Gmail, Yahoo, AOL or other email addresses through the web application, and the service works behind the scenes in your email to put unimportant messages in a "Sanelater" folder.

It took less than an hour for the service to go through my 79,000 emails in my entire Gmail inbox and archive. At the end it did a pretty good job of determining what was important, too, placing my Twitter notification emails and Facebook "like" or message alerts in the Sanelater folder or the label in my Gmail.

For the most part the service was good at figuring out what was important and what was unimportant, but at times I did find an email I would have liked to see at the top of my inbox in the Sanelater folder. You can specifiy though by e-mail address what should go where. It will also remind you with, yes, an email, when you haven't responded to an email.

The service will also cost you. It costs between $2.04 a month for one email account and five reminder emails a month. It costs $5.79 for two accounts and 250 reminder emails.

Unroll.me

But there's a free solution that might be the perfect thing to ease the anxiety of wading through all the marketing and newsletters that clog up your inbox.

Unroll.me rolls all your newsletters and other consistent emails from brands or social networks into one daily email. The service allows you to select what emails should go into the daily Rollup. For instance, I had it put all my sales or newsletter emails, ones from J.Crew, Dictonary.com, Fab.com, etc. into the daily digest.

It also has some other useful tricks: You can get a social digest, with just your social network notifications and also unsubscribe easily from newsletters you get.

Bottom Line

In the end I found Sanebox and Unroll.me to be the closest things to email therapy. Sanebox helped set priorities for the important emails and got the number of unread messages in my main inbox down, and Unroll.me wiped away all those newsletters and marketing emails and put them all into an easy-to-read digest.

tl:dr UNPLUG and go back to snail mail =)

There’s a New Version of The Wii Coming for Some Reason

Nintendo is rolling out a new version of the original Wii. Obvious question: why?

Nintendo will be releasing a new version of the Nintendo Wii, dubbed Wii Mini, on December 7th for $99, in Canada only, reports Best Buy. This version of the now-six-year-old console will come in red, and will include one nunchuk controller, one Wiimote Plus controller, a power adapter, a sensor bar and the standard composite cable. You won’t be able to take your Wii Mini online at all, nor will you be able to play original GameCube games.

This obviously begs the question: why? Nintendo just released the brand new Wii U, with some folks still confused about the difference is between it and the older Wii. The release of the Wii Mini in Canada might further facilitate that confusion – albeit in only one region – resulting in a lot of disappointed children over the holidays that asked for the brand-new Wii U, but instead got a shiny new Wii… Mini.

If Nintendo just wants to clear stock to make room for the Wii U, why not just reduce the price of the original Wii down to $99? Why does the company feel the need to release a redesigned version of the console? What’s Nintendo’s play here?

So. Many. Questions.

The Sinvicta Interview

Ladies & Gentlemen:

Glue your eye balls in to your sockets for they will be knocked out! I bring you a three course meal for your eyes to feast on. A full appetizer of eye candy reading enjoyment to be followed up by the main course, a succulent interview and for dessert a potential part two to salver over.

The Sinvicta interview is here! I've had the chance to sit down with the man of the hour to get to know who he is and what hes about, the man behind the mask of twitch.

Do you remember the moment that inspired you to take up video editing and do you follow anyone tips & tricks to editing. Was it self taught by books or just by exploring or the combo of anything thereof.

I got in to video editing on a whim. That's how i do anything creative. if something peaks my interest  enough to want to do something for my self, I'll start doing it. When anything peaks my interest like "Man i can do well with this.". This is where I've created my own style. You don't see anyone video editing the way i do, like how you don't see anyone playing Starcraft or WoW the same way I do. I do everything my own way and don't follow anyone path. Everything I'm doing now is self taught, same with my music playing. I was never taught how to play the drums or sing.

What was your original idea with the twitch channel and has anything changed.

 Actually i was never planning to be a streamer. Streaming seemed like it was already a mature market and I didn't think i had enough to offer people but I'm glad i did. The original idea when I started streaming was people would want to see me play WoW and see how a Warrior works in PvP and that sort of thing. You can see my first video on http://www.youtube.com/sinvicta316. It stayed pretty much the same from my first broadcast to now. The original premise of my channel has never changed. I am completely blown away that people enjoy watching me play these games, listen to the radio show and watch the replays. Its a dream come true as for being a twitch streamer. I would say i have a much bigger following thanks to Husky.

Have you tried or thought of joining Networks out there like TGS or Machinima. If not, do you plan to remain independent caster and if so where would you like to see it take you in five years from now or is it just a passion to just stream as a hobby solely and nothing else?

My original intention was to join The Game Station. That is founded by my two good friends Husky and David. That so far is the goal to be picked up by TGS.  I enjoy doing things my own way whether or not if it can be marketable and if its something other companies want to pick up, me as a personality or as a talent. I'm not against joining a organization. If I'm able to help to increase their product, to improve the quality of their product I would be more than happy to do that. If the cards come out of the deck to where as a independent caster i am able to do this and make my self more of a living financially speaking rather than joining a network who may be getting a cut from the revenue I'm making then i would remain as a independent caster. To simply put it i would like to join TGS, The Game Station but at this time i have no real plans to do so and don't mind being a independent caster but i would love to join a network that is out there if there is a mutual beneficial side to that happening. Where do i see my self in five years from now? I hope to see my self doing this full time. I see my self doing this and making a living out of it. I believe I am luckier than most people on the internet with the amount of friends I have and the amount of support I get. I see my self in five years continuing to do this, promoting eSports and doing my video editing. Maybe one day turning SS Radio in to a network. It is a passion and right now a full time hobby while staying afloat with donations. I do get them every now then but just recently started accepting donations. All this information can be found at http://www.twitch.tv/sinvicta/old for PayPal.

Between doing S S Radio & Lawder & now Husky Replay Filtering. Do you plan to use any of these talents to get you in to any form of media like the cable channel G4 for example

I have no interest to get in to big time media markets like television.  Radio i would be interested in but i would not want to be a on air or on camera talent but would like to do voice over work.  Now if talking promotional work for advertisements. I would be more than happy to do that. It would be really fun.

What gave you the idea to start S S Radio and do you have any previous work in radio? like from high school announcements or college radio or doing any short wave radio show. If anyone, who was your inspiration to get in to doing a radio show? Also what does "S S" mean?

[Laughs] That's like ten questions in one right there but i'll answer it as best as i can. The idea came in to my head one day and this is the gods honest truth, I was talking to my friend Sepercrod that is the former co-host of the show. We had been talking about it and with us both having similar interest, I wanted to provide AM sport talk type of gaming show but it would not only be just about gaming since there is plenty of gaming podcast's out there by a dime a dozen. What i wanted to do differently was the length of the show since three or four hour shows are not enjoyable to me and I like doing what I would enjoy listening to. The original inception of the podcast was to create a hour long show. Something that would cover gaming, sports, music and whatever else that's on myself or Spercrod mind. I wanted to give a honest radio professional-like forum for a podcast radio show. I know its called a radio podcast which is kind of a double negative on that but i think that is the appeal of S S Radio and its gone phenomenal and I hope to keep continuing to do it for a very very long time. I have done a couple of voice overs for commercials back in my college days, it wasn't for anything major. Most of my microphone work actually comes from being a bartender for so long and having to talk to many people and putting on a professional persona. Also I worked as a musical DJ in a couple of different clubs over the course of four and a half years. That's where most of my microphone skill comes from. As for inspiration, I guess if I had to draw one conclusion as for who I listen to a lot and I enjoy the way he presents himself, it would be the very well known sports caster Jim Rome who runs The Jim Rome Show. I been listen to him since i was in high school and i use a lot of techniques he uses and his delivery is something i would like to accomplish. I try to stay a little more pg-13 than he does and that is just because i want to give a wide appeal for my show. Not to be a shock jock or cursing and swearing every three words or using any sort of racial slang. I prefer to keep it friendly professional. I believe you can present a professional sounding and a professional looking product without having to be in your force cursing, going for that shock value. As for the SS in S S Radio it means Sepercrod & Sinvicta. Sepercrod was the name of the former co-host of the show and of course I'm Sinvicta  and once Sepercrod departed from the show, I decided to keep it because it was pretty well known at that time and its a cool name. I know there is a couple of other S S Radios that are existing out there but till I'm told i need to change it because of trade marking or whatever. Its the name I'll be going with. 

 While in any form of school, did you ever take anything in the performing arts that helped you get to what you are doing today?

I never taken any theater arts, public speaking classes. Speaking socially has always come naturally and that's not to say i was born with something like that. I had to literally force my self to get used to talking to people i don't know. Truth be told, i don't like talking a whole lot. I don't like the sound of my own voice and where i got the specific skill to talk the way that i do on microphone or show, i would attribute all that to from being a bartender for so long. Having to talk to people i don't know and having to listen to conversation and picking up on what people respond the most to for as far as what i say to them and what not.  So i would say bartending is the origin as to how i present my self when i talk and that sort of thing. 

With Lawder/TWOL, What gave you the idea to start it? it can be seen that its very popular video series, Do you plan to keep it alive as long as you can or do you plan to transition it in to something else? 

Well with The Word Of Law and Lawder specifically, the skinny of it is I've always wanted to do a PvP video of playing WoW. I've been playing since closed beta so over nine years now I've always wanted to do a PvP video but i was a rouge at the time and at that time there was so many good rouge videos. Like one of my favorite WoW Movie authors of all time is a guy by the name of Nair. He was really the inspiration for me for not only to do just videos but also the music he used. You can be presentable and entertaining WoW PvP video but use of heavy metal instead of the techno and trance stuff that was kinda going on at the time. I wanted to do something different, i know there wasn't a whole lot of offensive protection warriors that were making videos and I only played protection in WoW PvP since that's all I've played. A offensive tank in PvP is something I've always been doing in WoW and i figured the appeal was there to say "Hey this guy is a prot warrior and hes actually just blowing up nerds left and right in battle grounds"  and that is really what kind of made the series really take off because i do something not a whole lot of people have done before and even now there is not too many protection warriors out there that on top of making movies, they edit their stuff the way i do. As for the second part of the question, I actually attempted to transition out of World of Warcraft because that is somewhat a limited market and i wouldn't say it failed but it came at a bad time for me when i was unable to produce any more videos because at that time a couple of years ago i had recently gotten a full time job as a IT Professional and that cut in to literally all my free time. Every Word of Law Episode takes roughly sixiy to seventy hours on just editing. That does not include me playing the game, recording and going through clips and scrubbing through to see which clips are actually worth it or not. I kinda put the series on hold while i was doing my full time day job on that. I would love to keep it alive as long as i can. Currently right now i am in a little of a break period. I'm pre-burnt out on doing video editing. The Word Of Law Episode Fifteen was the latest episode that's been released at the time of this interview. Sixteen was supposed to come out a couple of days ago but unfortunately like i said i am personally burnt out on video editing just because it takes so much time to actually edit but i do plan on continuing it for as long as i can as long as it stays popular. 

Everything you're currently doing with the stream, do you plan to push it to where you make any form of monetary gain by showing live stream ad's for products or a personal line like how some casters sell t-shirts, mugs etc with their brand on it?

My dream is to do new media stuff. Regardless if its streaming, videos or radio. Streaming has just now recently becoming something more and more that seems like a good idea to have as a full time job I would love to do is streaming. More than anything else i enjoy interacting with my fans and the live chat. So to answer the question, would i push it to where i could make any form of monetary gain, of course financial gain is always something that is going to be a driving motivation in anything anyone does. I feel my attitude is a little bit more different about it because I'm not doing videos and I'm not streaming with the primary goal of me being I need to maximize my views to maximize my profits or anything like that. I'm not doing this with any sort of financial gain in mind. Is that the goal, is that the ultimate dream to actually support my self and stay independent without needing anyone help just from me doing videos like let's say Husky does. Yes, that is the ultimate goal but its not a goal I'm willing to force upon my fans or even my new fans right now. I'm still too new on the block to really start doing any major brand push like that but it is a goal of mine. What happens if not, i would still be entertaining doing the new media stuff as much as i can. I've been asked to do t-shirts before and i thought about it but right now i can't see a way where it would be financially worth it to do it. I'm pretty much a very not so well known internet celebrity right now. There would be plans later on but not right now is not one of my main goals.

As a fellow youtuber, do you plan to get in to youtube partner program and do the monetary gain based on per view you get?

Being a YouTuber partner is one of the bigger goals i have with my channel. There is a lot of issues going on right now and one of the reasons why i have not yet been picked up by any network such as TGS, is due to the fact that i use so much copyrighted music on it and that is a big problem and i do have a plan to rectify the situation. I'm currently in studio recording a full length album so i can use my own music in my warcraft and starcraft videos. Later on down the line i'll be offering that music as a free album for people to use in their own right for their own videos. Would i ever charge for the album? It's going to be free, it would be a free source of music but it would be pay what you feel basis. So people that wish to support the project are more than welcome to send donations to my PayPal account but to the ones that just want to use it for videos and not support is no problem at all, the only clearification is on what is allowed for what my music is allowed to be used for and what it's not allowed to be used for. My music would not be allowed to be used for any sort of commercial opportunities. So it be a non-commercial purposes only for my music. If any companies want to contact me about using any one of my songs or more i'll provide the business email links and what not. Right now i don't have enough of a fan base or following to really facilitate the take down of all my copyrighted stuff because of the music and what not but it is a future goal of mine to be a YouTube partner. Right now i'm taking everything step by step basis. So yes that is one of the goals.

In the music you help with/part of, Is there a idea that will lead to you making your own for video use or is it leading to something else like sound mixing for a skill later to be used or any reflection thereof or is it just for fun and nothing more than that?

I always have a couple of songs picked out that i'll use on a upcoming Word Of Law episode. I always try to use songs and i do a very very rigorous routine of finding songs that people have never used in WoW Videos. At least if they have used it maybe its one or two authors. I work very hard at trying to keep the songs i plan on using for up coming episodes a secret. I sometimes go as far as removing the mp3 from the hard drive because i don't want to accidentally play them on stream. I'm maybe a little over paranoid but there is a very real consequence for release of a WoW Moive on Warcraftmovies.com or on YouTube that having the same music as someone else that previously just released like just the day before. There is a very very negative reaction. So I'm very very guarded about the music i use. As for does the music lead to ideas? It really has to do with the tempo of the music or the tempo of the song is. I like to do build ups or crescendos, that sort of thing like a really big build up and then the beat drops or if there is a really heavy metal break down i like to have the more intense stuff to sync up with that.

A fan wanted to know if you're going to do more fan games. I think they mean different games from SC2 Arcade or SAWA or games of that sort?

I been asked to do play through's and "Let's Play" and that sort of thing but right now its a very limited minority of people that actually wanna see me do other games. The reason i do Starcraft  mainly as Starcraft Arcade is a melting pot of game styles and a plethora amount of free games on there. So you're still playing Starcraft but you're not playing Starcraft. So it's like a bunch of free to play games that you're playing. That's where most of the appeal is on that. As for would i do a Let's Play series in the future, i might. I feel Let's Play are kind of a cheap way to have new media content on your own channel. Let's Play's have always felt like a cheap ploy to get views type of thing. That's just my stance on it. If enough people wanted to see me play through something like let's say The Walking Dead or BioShock Infinite or any new games that are coming out then i may consider doing it but right now my schedule is very busy as is and to add another video series where i to crop and edit, do audio bouncing and make thumb nails and what not. That would add on to my already busy schedule. I would do it in the future if enough people requested it but currently there is really not a whole lot of people really asking for me to do "Let's Play".outside of a couple hundred people. 

Does any of your real life work play a factor as to what you are doing today? regardless if its current or past or mix of thereof

I quit my full-time job as a IT Professional to do the new media stuff full time. I literally have thrown all the eggs pretty much in to one basket, which is never really a good idea but i was able to save up enough money to where i can live not comfortably but smartly and be able to do this as long as i can. As long as my finical savings will allow. If i end up getting close to where i can't pay bills anymore or something like that then of course i'll have to get a real job and my videos will subsequently take a pretty big hit to that because money makes the world go round and if you're not making money you're losing money and when it comes down to having to eat or not, you're always having to eat. Currently right now i don't have a full time job, the videos and radio show are my current full time job right now but i don't get any money from that right now. 

How did you come up with the name/gametag Sinvicta and does it hold any significant meaning to you as a person for any gaming memory or anything of that sort? Also what does the S316 mean on your twitter image and how does it tie in to your handel/braodcasting image.

The name Sinvicta, I've been carrying that name since 1996. Back when i was in high school we had a heavy metal band called S. Invicta and that was the name of our heavy metal band. We got the name from reading Reader's Digest. I was reading a article on fire ants and the actual full length full name of the fire ant, the latin scientific name is solenopsis invicta and i read that while i was looking and by this time we were already in a band but we had no name and i read that article and i was looking and i was like if i just took off the olenopsis part and just made that like a "S" and then start the second word be preceded by a period and have Invicta, our band name would be S. Invicta. I think that's awesome and it sounded good and everyone loved it. That's the name we ended up getting. I ended up going by the name of Sinvicta since 1998 i believe. When Starcraft one was released. Obviously battle net 1.0 would not allow you to use periods in your name so i combined the two terms and by then the band was already broken up and we did not go anywhere really. I just combined the two names and that's where the name Sinvicta came from and that's the name i been going by since i can remember being on the internet since 1998. As for what the S316 means, at the time i established my email and AOL handel, Sinvicta was not allowed for whatever reason but it wasn't taken. AOL actually required you to use numericals in your name. So at a time in high school it was the age of WWF and WWE. Professional wrestling was all the craze and i was a big stone cold Steve Austin fan and that's where the 316 came from. It has no baring on what i do now but that's just a number that kinda came out. I was looking at Sinvicta316 and that just made sense to me. cause like i said at the time you have to keep in mind i was much much younger than what i am now and i was a big Stone Cold fan. So that's where the 316 came from.

Your PC Specs

- ASUS Crosshair V Formula AM3 Motherboard

- G.SKILL Ripjaw Series 20GB (3 x 6GB, 2 X 2GB) RAM

- 4.2 ghz AMD FX8350 Vishera X 8

- EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Superclocked+

- 1 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 (storage drive)

- 64 GB Samsung SSD (operating system)

- 128 GB Samsung SSD (game installations)

- COOLER MASTER Storm Scout Case

- 24'' Acer Widescreen Monitor

- RAZER DeathAdder Black Edition Mouse

- Sennheiser G4ME 360 Headset

With the current following you have now, how do you feel about having people follow you and always looking forward to your next show/stream and has this had any effect on you in any way if it be a touching moment or one of those "omg i remember this one time" moments.

It's been pretty surreal to have such a explosion of support come out of the wood work and i cannot thank Husky enough. He really is the largest pillar of support i have and that is something i'll never be able to repay him for and i am more than happy to do the work that i have been doing for him. He certainly does not have to be plugging my name like he does.but it's very surreal and very awesome for me to have people that actually look forward to seeing me and only me stream. That they enjoy listening to every word that i say and the music i play. They like the way i play games and obviously this is every gamer dream and I'm just getting started pretty much. I have a very very dedicated and awesome core following of people that love to help me and support me and listen to me whenever and that is amazing. It is my goal to build upon that to where i can put on a event and help other people and start plugging other people channels and spread the love around. I have to reiterate the fact that i owe Husky a lot for the support hes shown me and for helping me attain my ultimate dream and goal and that is to have a following of people who enjoy my content, enjoy me for who i am and of course enabling me of course to do this a full-time career and make it as a new media producer, a new media personality. Again i have to thank husky for all that. I can't thank him enough.

How did you meet husky and get the chance to be doing the filtering of Husky Replays for Bronze League Heros?

I met Husky during the time of The Old Republic MMO which was release by BioWare a couple of years back. He was playing the game and i was playing the game and we happened to be on the same server. That was a one hundred percent chance of coincidence that we were on the same server because i was actually following Sepercrod. He was guiding me to which server i should go on and then of course I've been a huge fan of Husky for a long long time and that's why i was surprised to hear on his YouTube channel one day that he announced he was on cloudstrider which i believe was the name of the StarWar Old Republic server he was on. and i like hey I'm on there too. I randomly messaged him one day and was "hey can i join" and of course he was running a guild called Husketeers on the server and i joined him up on that. I had and i was very very lucky to have played a couple of games with him and luckily enough i was one of the higher level characters in the game along with Husky. Then our mutual friends Cox & Jason all hanged out and played games together and then it just built from there. I helped Husky do some other stuff. Then later on in the future i helped him do some PC stuff. and eventually to the point now where we are very good friends now. I trust him alot and he trusts me a lot and he came asking me a couple of weeks ago, about a month ago almost. He said if I be interested in doing the Bronze League Heros Replay Filtering and i said sure why not. He knows me on a personal level and he knows i just recently quit my job to do the new media stuff full time. So he figured i have plenty of free time which i did at the time. Asked me to do it and i said no problem. He offered to pay me, i said don't worry about it i'm happy to help the rest is just history. He started plugging my channel and sent many new people to me. I can't thank him enough for that. 

If you ever get a huge enough following, would you be doing the "Sinvicta Fan Meet & Greet" at the same time in or around or at for example BlizzCon because of your Lawder/TWOL work? or something of the sort.

If i were to ever get that big of a following, I'd be more than happy to do that. I love meeting new people. I love talking to gamers. I love my fellow nerds and nerdettes out there.and i would. Again that's part of the dream come true. I would love to do a fan meet and greet at a big organization or at a big meeting like Blizzcon or MLG. I'd be more than happy to do that if i ever were to get that lucky enough to have that large of a following. where people would actually want to meet me in person and do autographs and pictures and just hang out. That would be awesome. I'm all for that.

Where do you think this new media will take you?

I don't have any idea where it will take me but i know where i wanna take my self and i believe that in anything you do in this world its important for yourself to be your own best friend, to be your own manager type of thing because ultimately you are the only reason why you cannot attain your goals. It's no one else fault but your own. If you can't do you either have to alter your vision or alter something about your self. that helps you attain those goals. My goal is obviously again as i have said before many times is to be financially independent and to be able to do this as a full-time career. so i can present more content to people who enjoy watching it or listening to it. 

Who helped you in making the stream happen? such as all the graphics you use, overlay, the mods, etc. How did you pick your first original Mods for your stream and are they still Mods now? Did you make the graphic web design for your twitch. Who are these unknown team members of team Sinvicta?

I don't want to sound selfish or disingenuous but i am the creator of everything you see with my name on it. I am pretty adept at photoshop and with other editing tools. I made all the backgrounds and all the graphics etc for everything that I've done. I never had any help on anything, including the overlay. All those have been created by me or I've borrowed a template and then modified from there. My original Mods, most of those people were just like part of the three or four people that watched my warcraft stream. and i said I'd make them a mod, its cool. Most of them are still around right now. They really don't help out in the StarCraft stuff all that much. but they are still around and still Mods. Since I've been kinda declining with my live stream of WoW and more increasing amount of StarCraft that i stream, those mods have been kinda tapering off due to the fact i'm not doing WoW stream anymore. I'm a one man team for as for team Sinvicta. As for the support team i have, it encompass anyone and everyone who wish's to follow my stream, listen to the radio show, sending emails, sending fan art, everyone who participates in the games or talks to me. That is the real Team Sinvicta and I'm just the face of it. 

 What is your Favorite Three Course meal? and that of the Sinvictalisk as well

[Chuckles] Well if it has to be a three course meal, the appetizer would be fried calamari. I'm a huge seafood fan. That's what i was born and raised on. For those of you who don't know what calamari is, it's squid. The dinner portion of that would be a very very nice filet mignon. cooked medium well. I'm not a big rare red meat type of guy. I like my stuff cooked pretty well done. The dessert portion would be vanilla ice cream, i'm a pretty easy simple going person so i like my vanilla ice cream. If i had to pick that's what it would be. [Chuckles]

There you have it folks! The man of the hour Sinvicta! You can find his Live Stream at http://www.twitch.tv/sinvicta/old and to find out when he is online and live streaming you can Follow @Sinvicta and if you want to catch anything that is his podcast or VoD's of past streams, you can do so at http://www.youtube.com/sinvicta316. If you would like to donate to him to help out Team Sinvicta make sure to check out his Twitch and click on his PayPal and make sure to leave a memo telling him the Sinvictalisk made you do it.

I thank Sinvicta for the time he spared for doing this interview and looking forward to the chance of doing another, perhaps live streamed and taking questions. If you have not seen this great man broadcast yet then you truly don't know what you're missing. You will find something that will entertain you, maybe even amaze you. I know for sure i'm full from this long interview and need to find myself a toothpick.

How about you? Leave your comments down below! or tweet all of them to @Sinvicta.

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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past sequel

Nintendo will release a new Legend of Zelda game for Nintendo 3DS based on the world of A Link to the Past later this year, the company announced today. A sequel to the Super NES original, the game will feature new mechanics, including the ability for Link to become a 2D drawing and move along walls.

Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, says the 3DS sequel will "reinvigorate the flat 2D world of A Link to the Past with a sense of height and volume" by utilizing the stereoscopic 3D capabilities of the Nintendo 3DS. The game, which does not have a final title in North America, will feature "an original storyline and all new dungeons."

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 2, as the game is titled in Japan, will be released sometime this holiday in North America and next year in Japan.

A video of the game will be available to download from the Nintendo 3DS eShop later today.

Update: Nintendo confirmed that the new Zelda game set in the world of A Link to the Past is being developed by series producer Eiji Aonuma and his team at Nintendo EAD.

Source: Nintendo Direct Broadcast

Soul Sacrifice for Vita

If you're looking for a great RPG for the Vita, Soul Sacrifice would be it. As a fan of the the JRPG's of all kinds, Both hardcore and semi-hardcore RPG'er since I've played a large range of both easy and really hard RPG's. Soul Sacrifice is one of those rare gems of games that come along once in a blue moon. As a gamer i would highly suggest this game for the fact of its own unique way of game play & story telling. The demo its self honestly speaks for its self. More than words can put it.

Now on to the hype release mumbo jumbo =)

I hope you’re ready for Soul Sacrifice — the demo will be available this afternoon on PSN!

Your first reaction to the demo might be, “Holy moly, this is a LOT of demo!” …And you’d be right! The entire first chapter of the full game is included, all of which is playable with up to three other friends via online or ad-hoc multiplayer. Inafune-san made it a special point for the demo to be quite substantial, as you can read in his comments below:

The number one reason for the Soul Sacrifice demo to have a lot of content was to show the users the full attraction of Soul Sacrifice. We knew that cutting out a small section of the game and saying, ‘Isn’t this part fun?’ would not show the users the full potential of the game. We figured that it wouldn’t make sense if the users could not have the ‘I want to play more’ feeling.

“So, we decided we want to provide, ‘at the very least,’ this amount of the game for the users. That is why, if you compare it to a standard demo, this became such a substantial piece. But we are confident that this will not become something negative where the users will feel like, ‘We played enough.’ After we released the demo version in Japan we received many voices, saying ‘[I] want to play more’ and ‘I want to get more hooked on this game.’ That is why we believe making this demo with this amount of volume and detail was a success.”

 Soul Sacrifice is a long adventure, with dozens of hours of gameplay. The demo is not only a great way to sample the full experience, but also to let you get a head start on that adventure before the game releases. To that end — this part is important, pay attention! — the save data will carry over to the full game! Not only that, if you do carry over demo save data to the full game, you will receive an exclusive bonus item: “Spirits’ Heart”! It summons a powerful stone golem that will fight for you!

 Trying the demo and carrying over your save data is the ONLY way to get “Spirits’ Heart,” so why not give it a shot if you’re already interested in the game?

The Soul Sacrifice demo offers a single player mode AND a multi-player mode. Multi-player can be played via both ad-hoc and online, but please be aware that multi-player and all online features for the demo will be terminated and will no longer be available on April 30th, 2013. After this date, you will still be able to play the demo offline and ad-hoc. Of course, that’s not a problem, since you’ll all be picking up the full game when it launches on April 30th, right? *wink*

Don’t forget to pre-order! Not only do you get three exclusive Magic Offerings and two exclusive costumes, but you’ll also get the Japanese voice-over audio pack for free!

Posted by Kumi Yuasa // Producer, SCEA

Overview

What would you sacrifice for ultimate power?

Prepare yourself for a brutal combat experience where every decision made will have consequential results. Take on the role of a slave who is about to be sacrificed, stumbles upon a forbidden book that allows its readers to relive battles between sorcerers and monsters of the past. In order to use the magic during fierce battles, the player must be willing to make a sacrifice – ranging from personal belongings, a limb, or even a life.

• Reality blended experience where players must sacrifice parts of themselves to obtain great power
• Freeform character development as a player’s decision would affect the characters abilities and visual form
• The first co-op action RPG experience that takes full advantage of PS Vita technical capabilities