DATA HARD: CONTROVERSY

Friday, March 15, 2013

EXPOSE: IS A OBSCURE PRIZE CO RUINING YDKJ? CORRECT!

The great and revitalized, party trivia game, is slowly being brought down by Pae Dae. A Santa Monica, CA prize company that is- both incompetent and uncaring- toward creator Jellyvision's hipster players.

Players on the Facebook community page, have been complaining (since Jack's prize launch, back in late 2012,) that the prizes have been lousy,pricey coupons and/or infrequently awarded, even one properly, achieved the proper milestones to earn them.

This reporter is not immune this problem- as one of the self appointed, top players of the site (over 2 million fake dollars.) Pae Dae owes me a boatload of prizes earned: from getting medals,wining games and leveling up.

So far, I've only received two gifts: coupons from Omaha Steaks and Overstock art.com. I had to spend $100 to get $50 off. Hell, I just won $100 cash from Ralphs Markets, for their Oscar challenge.That glory was, for guessing is year's Oscar winners.So, I must call BS on this f'ed up company. Then, the coupons start to turn into SPAM,because the either constantly remind me to use and/or try to sell me on other items.

I sent numerous messages: to YDKJ Facebook page and instant message responder. Then, they tried a failed attempt to restart the prize giving, from around when the problem started.It was over free Quesso or something. Afterwards, Jellyvision told me deal with Pae Dae directly. I've sent a few messages to them and heard absolutely nothing, from the redemption firm.
Finally, I admit I was pissed at the situation. The last time I wrote Pae Dae, I called the red-haired, welcome page babe, a bitch. She had nothing to do directly with my problem, and I apologize to her.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

YOU TUBE CENSORS WATERBOARDING MOMENT - IN NEW MOVIE: THE LAST WAR CRIME.
From PR Newswire

LOS ANGELES,-- Though still not even in official release, the writer and director of "The Last War Crime" says that YouTube is already trying to suppress the movie, which is a new full-length feature film about indicting Dick Cheney for torture. The movie's writer and director, who goes by the name of The Pen, asks, "And isn't that something billions of people want to see?" But, says The Pen, YouTube does not want their visitors to see the preview clip of the waterboarding scene from the movie, for the purported reason that it contains nudity, or is otherwise sexually provocative. And a protest is mobilizing against this accusation.

"That's ridiculous," exclaims Pen. "There is no actual nudity in it ... none. The actor playing the detainee wore a swimmer's style bathing suit the entire time, and we positioned the female interrogator character so view of his midriff was blocked entirely in any case. And if they're complaining this scene is sexually suggestive, they need to ban half the rest of the movies on their site."

The purpose of the scene in the movie is to condemn waterboarding, long recognized to be a form of torture unequivocally. According to The Pen, the scene also serves to remind everyone that the sexual taunting of helpless and mostly innocent captives, in places like Abu Ghraib, was a deliberate part of a de facto program to degrade people in violation of the Geneva Conventions. But YouTube makes no provision on their site to challenge their own unilateral dictates.

Says Pen, "Shame on YouTube for censoring this clip, which we believe, and we think you will agree, is part of an important cultural and artistic statement of social commentary. We have already submitted the movie to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the Cinequest Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, SXSW, the Cleveland International Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival, seven of the top breakout venues for serious works of new film art."

Pen continues, "And shame on YouTube further for deleting our waterboarding scene in such a summary and authoritarian manner. We had to build our own video server to do it, but people can now again see the clip for themselves on our new website."

http://www.lastwarcrime.com

On the same web page is an action form configured to automatically send protests to YouTube. And Pen is asking everyone to submit this form to send their own personal messages of complaint. Pen is demanding that YouTube immediately restore the wrongfully deleted waterboarding scene from "The Last War Crime" movie, and put in place an accessible review process so nothing like this can ever happen again. Hoping thousands of people will join with him, Pen suggests, "Maybe that will start to get YouTube's attention."