ONE MAN'S LIES?

It is funny.

For e very long time I have looked for an example of the amount of lying and cheating that has been encouraged in the UK for some time now. That is not to say that it does not happen in other countries. That would be the job or jobs or person or people of those countries.

One of the other things I am into among many things is computers and computer gaming, though not every genre of game. Though that could change of I could ever bring myself to try those of other genres?

I like role-playing games, sorry only 3D ones, of late. But what I was always into was astronomy and science fiction so … anything based on that would be a dead cert.

I am always looking for titles that are going to be released in the near or distant future and what is currently being worked on. This works for both games and movies and actually includes hardware too. After all my Single Honours Degree is in Applied Computing.

Now I had been out of gaming for a fair old while until recently.

During that time things were going on that I had not realised were happening and where you used to get demos of games as well as software on a cover CD or DVD on a magazine all that had subsequently disappeared. Something I found both a surprise and somewhat … worrying.

As I started to get back into gaming to the levels I had some years previous I started to note some people being somewhat … let us say disgruntled for all though some have been way over the top, with games released. On many occasions I would see why they were upset. I could also see a trend starting to become more commonplace.

At the same time I noted something about Android phones and mobile games on the Play Store and this was something called 'In Game Transactions' sometimes called 'micro-transactions' and nicknamed by one and all as 'Pay To Win'. When I saw this I thought 'What the feck?!' and passed this off as just some group of coders in some foreign land that were no different to those that go online, pretend to be someone they are not and scam money out of people. They just do this in a completely different way but it amounts to the same thing.

After awhile I started to read some really worrying things. That the major publishers, like Electronic Arts and others which anyone with a brain does not like and suspicious of anyway, started to say things like “micro-transactions are inevitable and are the future” or something to that extent. I immediately thought “Uh-oh. No! More like it you just want ever more money as selling what should be in the game original later on as Downloadable Content and effectively charging over £100 for a game is not enough cash for you!” I also think and strongly believe will prove to be a powder keg that will build up and explode at some point. Well I already said that some people have been way over the top? Yeah well there has been a death threat or two already.

I stated earlier in the post that I had seen that in the UK it had become encouraged over a long time to be dishonest? To cheat? To lie? Everyone I know now sees this. Well what I did not realise and still did not even though I have seen lots of rants on YouTube about it is that one of the things I was interested in, was keeping one eye on and … well, sort of looking forward to was one brilliant example. It also did not occur to me that this … let's say group was in fact British. English to be precise.

The company I am talking about is Hello Games, the product is a game called No Man's Sky and this was promoted as a space combat, slash trading game along the lines of Elite. Except it had 18 quintillion planets. Oh crap.

Funnily enough when I saw the first screenshots of the game I did not look at it twice and did not like the look of it or the graphics. I did, however, start to take more notice because everyone was raving about this game. “This game?” I thought to myself “This game with the crap looking graphics, loud colours and unrealistic animals?!” I wondered if there was something I missed?

I then watched a couple of interviews with the lead coder of this game whose name is Sean Murray of Hello Games which is based in Guildford. Suddenly I was a little surprised and a little intrigued.

I mostly forgot about it for awhile when one day and on YouTube I came across some videos posted by a guy called Gabe Olivero playing the game. I watched with interest from one episode to the other and before long wanted to buy it and play it. But then after awhile I noticed that there were things that did not seem to be occurring. There were things that you were supposed to be able to do that just was not happening. But then I thought well maybe with 18 quintillion planets you have to play this game for weeks before you start seeing anything of the stuff they told you about and showed you?

Only I watched more and more waiting for things they told you about to happen … but they didn't and then there was that infamous news about two people standing on the same planet looking at the same lake, planets in the sky but could not see each other. Oh dear.

That sounded pretty bad and turned out to be only the beginning!

More and more things came out that were not in the game proper and people started compiling lists and then they started compiling video clips from interviews. Oh dear. When it was mentioned to Sean Murray online that two people could not see each other he was just as vague as he was in interviews over certain questions about No Man's Sky. In the interviews he always answered in a way that made it sound like he did not want to spoil things for the players. Oh dear. Oh dear God.

Before long the number of angry or disappointed players were growing exponentially and like nothing I had ever seen. More videos were being drawn up up the lies and bullshit about the game stated right up to its release.

The list goes on and would take too much time to do this justice. If you wish to see more details on this I suggest you simply do a search on No Man's Sky and/or Sean Murray on YouTube or Google and you will be absolutely spoiled for choice. No kidding.

The funny thing was that in the interviews his vagueness I found to be a little suspicious. Years ago when I found a British software company that did something awesome I would admire them and even want to work for them in some capacity. One name I can think of is Digital Image Design who seemed to disappear while I was out of gaming. He seemed like a nice and interesting guy but …. there was just something about his vagueness that did not sit quite right.

The American tech journalists did not see it and they queued up around the block to interview him and just about every big name in the video game and entertainment industry queued up to shower No Man's Sky with awards … and there were countless. Something got lost in translation over in America I think?

Funnily enough no one has mentioned about how all these award givers? Wait, what? All these professional bodies showered this game and the studio with awards and it was hailed as 'game changing' 'revolutionary' and even 'most anticipated game' … oh well OK that last one might have something in it, but … what?

So let me get this straight? A bunch of bodies with many members paid salaries simply believe whatever bullshit they are told and hand out awards? Really?!

One of the best reviews on this game is done by someone in America called Angry Joe … he has some bloody hilarious moments. One that had me roaring was a review of the film Resident Evil Afterlife, I think it was, where he is smiling and excited and it cuts to the bad guy doing his 3D movie thing and flinging his sunglasses at the camera lens. It then cuts to this Angry Joe still smiling when a pair of sunglasses hits him in the face. He stumbles for a moment, shows confusion on his face before showing anger and suddenly yells at the camera “WHAAT THE FUUUCK?!” I roared with laughter and left a comment. Comments are not something I often do. Far far too many idiots in the world. I do, however, answer to comments made on my channels and blogs. It IS the right and polite thing to do. Even if they are idiots … they get the response they duly deserve.

Oddly enough since the first mention of having his mind blown about how many people are playing his game and two people being on the same planet blew his mind, without actually answering why they could not see each other, Sean Murray seems to have vanished?

This is still rumbling on but even more bizarrely is that despite the amount of lies and deceptions numbering in the dozens over the game, literally, if anyone complains about the game even a little these … well, marauders spill out of their closets and attack anyone that says anything bad or questions the game?!

It really has to be seen and read to be believed. I do not know if they are a bunch of eight year olds that are fanatic. Or a bunch of adults with the minds of eight year olds or some other mental condition that simply cannot stay quiet while others are negative about a game they like?

Stupid. Utterly stupid. Do you know what happens from now on?

Developers not genuine and publishers will say that OK, lying about two or three dozen things being in a game we cannot do any more … but now that this has been done and we see people still defend the game we can easily go up to a dozen lies and scripted scenes and pretend their actual gameplay and we can get away with it!

Government pull the same trick and even here in the UK. It works like this …

OK we want to add 'x' amount of money to some taxes, because we know jack about governing or money and consistently screw things up while doing absolutely nothing to justify our job titles. Sooo what we will do is we will tell them it is twice or thrice what 'x' is and when they blow up we will tell them we will scale it back to what we want! Everyone is happy!

As I have always talked about 'Us' & 'Them' with us being anyone not extremely wealthy and them that are. Well usually by examples only include British people but on this occasion I am going to include someone else, who in this instance I believe to be Japanese? An ex-boss of Sony, I mean why would you even get involved being an ex-boss, turned around and stated that everyone that wanted a refund for No Man's Sky was either a 'thief' or 'stealing'?!

This is a fucking prime example of something I have alluded to over and over and over … again. It is now apparent it seems to be a global problem.

So companies and company bosses, big ones or small ones with big ones behind them, can lie, cheat, scheme and promise things that they have no intention of delivering and rake in millions, tens of millions, hundreds of billions but … someone calls you on your scamming and want there $60 US or £40 GB back and they are criminals?!

All of this time, all these years I have been talking about all this corruption within both public organisations and private ones and right under my nose one was brewing up while getting ready to boil over? Madness.

This is a good way if drawing into your subject those that are interested in others. If you can find something that would would not normally talk about and find a link or an alternate example of what you are trying to say … you can get a whole new audience in. Of course I hope they find it beneficial of course. I hope that they look around and see that I have lots of examples of these terrible attitudes and over 100GB of secretly recorded audio proving it all, from the horse's mouths so to speak. Well … literally actually, lol.

Two Police Forces, four local councils or more, the NHS, the DWP … the list goes on and on and then some.

If I could live long enough I would wish that I did so that not only did it all get found out but also where it all started from? Many I have spoken to believe the UK side of things to stem from an organisation called Serco? There 'About Us' page does seem to boast about running, or ruining lol, the UK? Was it them or did they get it form someone else? Who knows?

Hopefully someone will one day that can actually do something about it?

In the meantime we have in the entertainment industry one of the biggest rip-offs based on misinformation and lies that there could ever be and by some stretch. It just so happens to be a UK company backed by a Japanese one.

Was this Sean Murray's idea? Everyone seems to be stating that it is.

Or was it something Sony cooked up when they came along?

I bought four Japanese, count them, shitty Nikon cameras that were faulty out of the box, sold as new but refurbished products that … were … well, not refurbished.

Did someone pay all those bodies to give out all those awards? Was it Sony?

Like I said, who knows?

EDIT: My God, I completely forgot!

Amidst all this kerfuffle with No Man's Sky was the fact that Sony was running around on YouTube abusing laws to suit it's own selfish needs by raising the dreaded and very stupid broken YouTube copyright claims. I have had this soo many times in the early stages of uploading videos purely because 20 seconds of a song, or something equally stupid/greedy, was playing in the background when I decided to suddenly film a video or something, or my short term memory problems stopped going mental and I remembered something I had intended to film for several days.

This is another classic example of the fact that laws are fine ... butt if your poor the law does not get enforced and if your wealthy you can render them ineffective. I cannot speak for other countries but that is certainly the way it is in the UK. Has been for a fair old while and until Jimmy Savile got found out, ... umm long after he had died, no one realised how bad it was.

I do not know when this would all end but I sincerely hope it does.

Also to stop it you need to have something pretty drastic in place and you need to have the gonads to carry out your convictions ... literally!

Or in other words these people at the top need to be seen by all others to be spending time in prison as if it was anyone else in the lower sections of society ... well, they would end up in prison. It should not nor never be the case that how fame or wealth affects the punishment of a crime.

A crime is a crime, regardless of how much power, fame or money you have.

NOT GUILTY YOUR HONOUR

Well I ended up missing a wedding I was meant to go to I was dreading anyway.

I missed this due to one of my health problems and the one I am still awaiting a letter and appointment about from either Barnet Hospital or Chase Farm Hospital.

Oddly this flare up,, let us call it that, came about because I ate something I had suspected was causing a flare up but ruled it out. It was Steak & Kidney pie and chips from your average fish & chip shop and a different one to the last two shops I used. So obviously whatever is going on is flared up by a Pukka pie of chip shop chips?

Cannot remember if it happened the couple of times I had Cod & Chips as if it had then I would know it is the chips .. or something to do with the chips, lol.

I have never known this food not only ever affect me but ever affect anyone I know, even while ill.

My ears are still playing up and I am still losing around 40% of my hearing whenever I talk at a friend's store.. Literally just come form my friend's store and spent half the time rubbing the area under my ears or have fingers in my ears and wriggling like crazy to try and change the pressure in my ears, to no avail though!

I have an imminent appointment with neurology in just a matter of days and I must remember to mention the ear issue. As I have several irritations around the eyes and ears I am wondering whether or not these things are connected and am leaning heavily towards the fact that they are.

I have also spent my time since yesterday watching streaming and videos of an game that is a few days away from being officially released called No Man's Sky. Some store sent out copies a week early to a few people with Playstation 4's.

Oddly enough they kept having their streaming stopped by Sony, who act as the label for the game, which has caused some odd disagreements. They have also stopped and banned a news channel for reporting on something to do with No Man's Sky, cannot remember what it was right now. The news channel were not happy about this, uploaded another video stating that they had done nothing wrong and that the copyright law with YouTube was being abused because companies did not want certain games and stories being reported on.

Oddly one guy in America, I think it was, who also got the game early, along with one guy in the UK who is a teacher, did an uploaded video accusing Sony of abusing the copyright issue.

I am afraid I have to agree with them.

Oh, I am typing this sentence ahead of time as I remembered what the news report was. There was some issue about a copyright issue where it was reported that some company in the Netherlands claimed that the No Man's Sky team used an algorithm, technically you cannot do that, or a code they created. Many suspect this is an attempt to get money from Sony and Hello Games because the release date is imminent. In other words better to settle than have the release date pushed back for a couple of years. One guy who was Dutch even commented that he was ashamed to be Dutch after reading about this very, very eleventh hour claim. By a company that was in the stages of bankruptcy.

Gets a bit confusing as I first read that someone at Hello Games or Sony admitted using the mathematical formula and then read there was nothing to worry about as they did not.

Also you cannot patent mathematical formulas as these are listed as discoveries ... so I am not sure in what context they claimed a copyright infringement?

What I did have issue with was a couple of things ... companies taking advantage and abusing laws because they can and those they claim about cannot defend themselves because very few can hire solicitors these days and really justice comes at a price. It should not and this needs to be reversed before it is too late. Because when the majority of the public, in this case British public, realise that law is actually for sale there will be problems. Especially when it inevitably happens to them, which it will. It will only be a matter of time.

Someone commented recently on one of my posts on one of my blogs stating that he knew exactly what I did and had himself, or herself as it could have been a woman's name, been doing exactly the same thing as I had been doing!

That would be damned impressive as between us we could potentially have over 200GB to 300GB of evidence?!

I have only linked about 20GB of evidence give or take 5 or 10 GB.

Back to No Man's Sky ...

What I found weird was that when these guys were streaming there were morons that stated that he should be banned for streaming the game because it was not officially released. What?! Your a moron if you think that..

He is someone who paid for the game and got it early, none of that is the customers fault and neither was a Non Disclosure Agreement signed. If someone had streamed an early demo version no one would think of coming along and stating the person who uploaded it should be banned. So why the fuck did they say that about someone who actually bought the full game and uploading and streaming it?!

It's stupid! Your stupid if you think like that.

However I was envious of the fact that he went from something like 16 subscribers to 2,469 in just a matter of days! Jammy Git. His channel was called TP Review. The other guy I watched who was interesting was GabeOnGaming or something like that. Guy with very curly hair and beard, in case you wanted to go looking for them, lol. Not sure how many subscribers Gabe got, I imagine rather a lot like TP Review did?

But both of these kept getting their streams cut off and they restarted them via some method, different channel name maybe? They did this several times and then even banned their capability of streaming!

That was both unfair and an abuse of the copyright claims system which is stupid anyway and I have stated for ages that Google need to get off their arses and do something about it! One of them wanted to stream something, or had planned to, in a day or two to do with something else. Of course there is the issue of this taking time, like everything else legal, which does not help those that are innocent anyway. It is a case of declaring someone 'guilty' and they stay 'GUILTY' until the end of a very long process proving their innocence.

The fact is that this is just an example and proof that those that are powerful and/or rich can abuse the law and it is not only set up this way but must be set up by them because they are so quick to abuse it and have been abusing it for years.

Only now the law is not applicable to anyone rich if your poor. But the law is very much applicable to the poor if the accuser is rich.

As far as I can tell currently you can only get access to a solicitor within the UK if you have a fair bit of disposable income. In other words if your poor and even if your working and not earning a great deal of money your out of luck. As house prices, mortgage payments and rent is soo high in London that not many people could hire a solicitor anyway.

Also I wanted to ask that person who commented whether he found that others believed or were acting like Ostriches like I have found and refusing to believe what I had said and claimed and even did this without listening to several recordings?

I will have to add that question in a reply to his comments.

I also thin I forgot to send something in my paperwork to the court regarding the DWP? As I now think I have to send them this I am thinking of compiling a letter to them explaining a couple of things,, though right now I cannot remember what they are either! I did think of them while cycling back home but they have gone, lol.

Oh I also forgot to mention the problems with missing the wedding, explain further why this was and reach a sort of couple of conclusions..

First off I ate the take-away food I did and when I did because I was looking after someone else's animals that I did tell before he went away that it would cause me problems.

Had I not been looking after his animals I would never have ate that take away food and would have therefore attended said wedding.

The other problem I have not even thought about, and answered to a friend today telling me my name will be mud, is that ... I keep telling everyone and have been telling everyone I know and family that I have problems with warmer weather and I have been telling people this for a decade. I think you will agree that telling everyone for a decade that it is safe to assume that they would have taken notice by now?

So why was a wedding arranged for the beginning of August, one of the warmest and most humid months you can experience in the UK!

So told my friend that if anyone was to have a go at me for not attending the wedding I will ... effing explode and say ... "Umm well if you want to talk to me about being selfish .. well I was actually going, cut my hair to attend the wedding but why didn't anyone turn round and say ... well the date is off as Martin has issues with warmer weather and that is why he is always in shorts and a vest from April to September"?!

I guarantee the answer will be not a single one and I will say do not come and talk to me about being selfish and thoughtless! Lol.

The thing with my conspiracy theories that are different to the majority?

Mine are based on reality and I have gone and gotten the irrefutable evidence on each one in which case visitors and those bothered to read to protect themselves will eventually realise that my predictions are almost always spot on are as near as dammit.

As for the people gaining a couple thousand subscribers by streaming a game they received a week before its official release date? Yeah right, I thought to myself that even though what I know, can predict and what I have is not only shocking stuff but that it also helps others that have either been victims, are currently being victimised or harassed or protects them in future in case they are.

I thought, yeah right, when it crossed my mind that I should do a vlog, Video Blog, on YouTube that I might then get a couple thousand subscribers. Despite doing everything I have done for the last ten years to help others I could not acquire in one year what this guy achieved in one single day. In fact I have not managed to achieve anything like these numbers right across over a dozen blogs and my YouTube channel! LMAO!

In other words a video log wont do a damn thing and at the end of the day No Man's Sky has interest from people all over the world, whereas corruption in the UK does not.

If I was an American doing what I do and all the organisations were American I would wager that I would have three times the visitors and subscribers that I do? I would be willing to bet on that ...

...in which case I think I may have found a flaw in YouTube's way of allowing people to make money from YouTube. Possibly on every blog too?

When your blogging or have a YouTube channel your potential and rate of growth must be tied into how many people your country has?

Britain has 60 million and I would guess that America has 160 million? So blogging about American things and you have three times the potential visitors? If you lived in a country that only has 30 million or even 10 million and you might have a really slow rate of growth when it comes to visitors and subscribers? It must have an effect in my estimation? In which case the methods they use would then be unfair.