Profile of Cyridius

It's clear some people don't understand what freedom of speech is.

If I were to come up to you, dead serious, and say "I'm going to fucking murder you", in many states I'd be entitled to pull a gun and waste you because you threatened me. I didn't infringe on your rights because your speech was used to threaten me.

One cannot simply go into a theater and shout "Fire!" and claim it is freedom of speech.

If I were to say the N-word around a black person, and he assaulted me, not only would I be able to sue him I'd be able to press charges for assault. If I went directly to a black person and called him that word, he'd be unable to hit me. If I went up to him, leaned close, looked him in the eyes and said "You watch out, N-word", he'd then be able to beat the living shit into me because I threatened him.

Freedom of Speech includes the freedom to be an asshole. The entitlement to self defense includes the ability to attack someone when threatened verbally. They're not exclusive.

As with every right, there are limits. Threatening people, inciting panic or violence, or infringing on someone else's rights are not granted under freedom of speech(Or expression or assembly etc.)

Freedom of Assembly is getting together for a political function. Freedom of Assembly is not getting together a mob to lynch somebody.

Why is it that the freedom of speech argument gets applied almost exclusively to things that aren't worth saying....

Not meaning to start a big political argument here but you are aware that America's historical relationship with meaningful freedom of speech hasn't been a happy one.

What is and isn't worth saying is purely subjective. The point is that what someone believes doesn't infringe on somebody else's rights.

I don't know anything about "exclusively", one would think if you try to silence a "meaningful" statement the same arguments would be made. Which is the point, again, of FoS. That it protects everybody's rights to say whatever they like, especially if you disagree with it. With some exceptions, obviously.

The utility of a Guard squad is light vehicle deterrent and vehicle snare. 2 Guard squads well placed can kill a tank that over extends itself very easily. They can also nullify and deter tanks in many engagements.

i think people forget what freespeach is it doesn't give you the right to say whatever you want it never has and never will.

That's exactly what freedom of speech does. Maybe not in countries of oppression like Germany where my freedom ends where your feelings begin, but Freedom of Speech is EXACTLY that, FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

It would be interesting to see the legal basis of banning somebody from using a product or service because of what they say. Then again I believe it's a right of a business to deny service for whatever reason.

Edit; Anyway I'm pretty sure "Freedom of X" doesn't apply. You can say whatever you want in game, and as a result Relic/Steam can deny service to you whenever they want. It's usually in the ToS that they reserve the right to do that.

In my opinion both Relic and players like IpKai heavily underestimate the importance of having an INGAME ladder, and it is one of the bigger reasons of dwindling playernumbers of coh2 at the moment.

A ladder means you always have something to play for. Its addictive. It makes every game interesting in it's own. Even if it's a bad ladder, and it promotes spamming games it still gets people hooked.

Having only tournaments without a good ladder is stupid. The casual player will miss out on any form of competition cause he doesn't enter tournaments since he has more important things to do in the weekend -> he ends up leaving.

This. People seem to think that once CoH2.org has a ladder it's all fine and dandy, and you get abused like shit if you think otherwise. Not only is the interface unfriendly, the ladder itself is out of the way. People just don't get that hosting a ladder on a 3rd party as your sole ladder is a bad idea, and even worse, some people think developers should outsource everything to this ambiguous entity called "The Community".

The ladder is a good stop-gap for people who know it exists and for people willing to go and look it up every time they want to see themselves and willing to jump through hoops to find other people's stats, but for everyone else? Not so much.

It's the same concept. The ideal game ladder is a StarCraft II league, not the thing that we have now.