"I am concerned about info i uncovered" Topic

Hi Team. I am the designer of my THUD rules. Upon researching data. I discovered so much that is available on the internet. To my Knowledge nobody has this resource in any given rule set. I am just concerned what i may unearth to the public. The information is easily available on the web. If you know how to look. Nothing is right protected, Images are easily copied. I am just concerned to see how far technology has come.To make it easily available as a resource in one place. Just a concern. I am worrying too much?

What on earth are you talking about?

If you're worried about people stealing your game ideas, you can stop worrying: we've already seen them before.

Seriously, I've met so many people afraid to share their "brilliant" game ideas, as though someone hasn't already thought of it before. Probably published it, too.

Most ideas aren't that interesting or original.

Make your game, put it out there. People will pay for it or they won't, but you weren't going to get rich off it either way.

in the end we are all dust, if you can share and make some dust happier….

if is the technology. If its not in use it proably means it too expensive ot unreliable for practical use. Remeber even if one man had a sub machine gun in Roaman times he would not win a battle. Too littls even high tech does not win battles.

We never use data not in the public domain. That is irresponsible.

I think the collection of knowledge used to be called a library….before that obelisks with cartoons on them and before that cave drawings.

You can always just not look…before you become neurotic.

" I am just concerned to see how far technology has come."

Where have you been since 1997?

Al Gore has been telling us how much of a lock-box of information the internet is ever since he invented it.

Keep it secret keep it safe

Fret not.

Whatever unpleasant surprises technology may bring – our reptilian overlords will not allow harm to come to their human livestock.

Am I alone in not understanding what this topic is actually about?

My first reaction was to look at the date and think 'it isn't April 1st for a few more days'; my second reaction was 'is this some sort of p*ss-take'?

Can anyone enlighten me?

Information wants to be free. Many consider it to be the greatest step forward in human intellectual history. Certainly better than having to go to a monastery and negotiate with gate keepers for information. Unfortunately it so far does not seem to have created a more informed populace.

My interpretation of the OP is either he has info that he thinks is not good for bad people to have access to (i.e. bomb making or weaknesses in military system etc) or he is worried that it is too easy to circumvent copyrights etc. Not sure which one. I assume he is not a native English speaker.

It is a concern, but it's one that everyone has to deal with. Nothing new.

Your choices as a game designer are either to…

-Put it out in print only. Drastically reduces the chances it will end up online for free (though some will still do it if it's a popular item) but you may also drastically decrease the number of sales.

-Put it up as a for-sale PDF. Some folks will pirate it but if you have a good product, support it, and build up a following (likely by having an active online presence) you will get sales and make a bit of money.

Good Luck.

Basically, Vic found some information regarding two girls and one cup, and now he has some concerns.

Oh, I do so hope nobody falls for that bait and goes on a Google search …

You, Mr Landings, are a bad man… :-)

I think he is referring to the "dark net" which may have a pirated copy of his rules on it? Alternatively it might be that he is basing his rules on previously unpublished data which brings a new light to bear on whatever thud covers?

I did a look up of THUD and it is a game by Trevor Truran about rolls and terry pratchett. Probably not the same game as vic magpa is talking about? think i just made this thread more confusing?

I don't think it can be more confusing.

Information wants to be free.

Baloney. Information isn't sentient, and therefore cannot "want" anything.

But if you believe that it does, kindly share with us the following information:
Your bank account and credit card numbers, and any related PINs, passwords, etc.. Shouldn't that information be free, too?

Certainly better than having to go to a monastery and negotiate with gate keepers for information.

It was a lot better system than locking up books (expensive at the time) in private hands. Monasteries stored and protected information, as well as distributed it to the large (as large as possible) mass of people who were illiterate, and wouldn't know what to do with a book if they had one.

Now that we have widespread literacy on this planet, it is time for people to learn how to read.

> people who were illiterate, and wouldn't know what to do with a book if they had one.

They knew what to do with them! Just didn't involve reading.

Oooooooooooooooh, Now I understand! Er, wait a minute, I thought I did.

I…er…. I'd say… I mean..

You do you.

Parzival, let me choose another word so as to speak more in the prosaic vernacular, for you: "Knowledge". Society is better when knowledge is more freely available. The license I took with thinking I had literate audience was clearly misplaced. Available knowledge BUILDs on knowledge, ergo it "wants" to be free. I apologize (not really) for my personification of the subject.

The "information wants to be free" battle cry always reminds me of a story (probably apocryphal) from grad school (library science). It seems that the Revolutionary government of France deemed copyright as a bad thing that the nobles used to keep knowledge from the People. So they abolished it.

Within a year the only literature being produced was porn and broadsides against the government. Sorta like the internet now.

if you think the only thing on the internet now is essentially porn and broadsides, you might want to learn how to use it. It is a staggering tool.

although clearly not living up to it's potential!!! ; )

Aside from porn and broadsides are cat videos.

Is a broadside kinda like sideboob?

nothing so outlandish. It is just what i found on the internet. It just might be my paranoia.I never seen this much data on one site before. But it does make me think. If this is what I found. what is out there not published? Just my concern.

I still don't have any idea what you're referring to.

Fear not,Mister Tibbles! 15% of all Internet traffic is cat-related!

Do your rules include nuclear weapon designs or something? That's the only thing I'm getting from this.

Here. Here's a picture of Heddy Lamarr:

Beautiful, isn't she?

There--feel better now?

I call shenanigans

Hedy Lamarr was an amateur inventor who tried to aid the Allied cause in WWII. She co-invented and patented frequency-hopping in an attempt to make guided torpedoes that could sink U-boats, this after a U-boat sank a ship loaded with children.

The technology of the time did not make this feasible, but an updated version is used in our cell phones, Bluetooth and wi-fi. (see Wonderland by Steven Johnson)

Thanks, Javelin, will do.

vtsaogames: That's what I meant.

vtsaogames: That's what I meant.

It was encrypted.

Hmm. Somebody,or Something,seems to have decrypted my last post.

Just so you know, LOLCats predate the Internet by about a century. Pretty much as soon as you had photography.

Blame Harry Pointer, photographer.

Ah,you've uncovered more of that "information"!

Someone silence that man!

love the cats! It might be my cat talking to me.

Yes i do have, Nuclear, Biological and chemical capability. as well as bio terrorism.

after all. You land on a earth like planet. BUT, the pathogens love you! You might be why your civilization is doomed!

Aha,now we're getting somewhere!

Wait--do you mean in your game,or you yourself,personally?

And how is that less outlandish than sideboob?

You might be why your civilization is doomed!

That's Hedley.

This thread has taken such a turn that trying to add anything serious to the discussion would be a waster of effort. Therefore, I shall simply post so as to hit 50 and knock this thing into another page, because it's the sort of thing a thread like this deserves, and it's TMP.

Oh, and here's a picture of a cat, building on the theme of the previous pic:

It's amazing what you get when you type bizarre things into the Internet. I dunno it it's information, but it's something anyway…