Temporary Suspension of the Services Due to an Earthquake

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

I misread your context, then. I apologize, and stand corrected.

I fully admit I do not live by that phrase. I was making light of the double standard people who claim to live by it are committing.

That's why it's an opinion. It's an educated opinion, but an opinion nonetheless.

I disagree with this. The hardships you speak of are working in reduced lighting, and without the A/C running in their offices.

Note, that's reduced lighting. They are not working in total darkness. My guess is they are switching from using your traditional overhead fluorescent lighting to individual desk lamps with CFL or LED bulbs in combination with natural light from outside, which is a great idea on general principle, and I'll bet they make that their new standard. I do it myself. I find working under those old fluorescent lights all day every day to be depressing, and it's bad for your skin and hair.

As for the A/C, it's early spring. Today the weather in Tokyo was a high of 49 degrees Fahrenheit. Even with all the heat the people and computers will generate, it's still cool enough outside to cool the place off if they open the windows and use fans, and it will be that way for the next couple months.

I don't think this power crunch is going to last until summer. While the Fukushima plant will likely need to be replaced (reactors flooded with sea water are pretty much ruined beyond repair), and replacing a nuclear plant properly is a minimum 5-year project, Fukushima is still just one plant, albeit a big one. Once the rest of the power stations--nuclear or otherwise--are repaired, I don't think the power situation will be so dire. If what TEPCO says is true (and they have no reason to lie at this point), repairs are moving along rather well.

Hey! Look at that! Cynical old Eeki taking a negative and turning it into a positive!

EDIT: Okay, I just checked out what the building containing SE HQ looks like on Google street view (Shinjuku Bunka Quint Building, Shibuya, Tokyo Japan if you're curious). Looks like those windows don't open, but I could be wrong. Maybe it will get a little stuffy in there, but not unbearable.

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I like you much better after this post =)

*hugs*

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

My opinion is they are taking advantage of the situation in order to save a couple bucks, since FFXIV is costing them boatloads of money to run right now with zero subscription revenue coming in.
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And what about FFXI? They also shut down that server as well. And doesn't FFXI actually make SE a profit?
Also, it seems as the servers are only going to be down for a couple of weeks and yet they are not charging a subscription fee for the entire month. And also again, didn't other companies shut down to conserve power as well?

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

I'm being cynical because I'm a cynic. I can't adequately explain why the world needs people like me, so I'll use a line from a South Park song: "Without evil there can be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes."

If people like me don't point out the dark side of things, how can one truly know when something is good or not? Have you ever seen the movie "Pleasantville"?

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The thing about being a cynic though is that they are just like the most naive person in the world, except their on the opposite side of that particular world. A true cynic has no trust in anyone or anything. A fully true naive person, has trust in everyone and everything. Since this world has both good and evil (I admit that the majority seems to be evil), a person should be neither a cynic, nor should they be naive because the sight of both are clouded and both can and will lead to some bad situations.

But in my opinion, it is better to be naive than to be a cynic. Do you know why? There is no trust in the heart of a true cynic. And without trust there is no love because trust and love walk hand in hand. The more you trust someone, the more you will love them. With that being said, I'm not saying it is good to be naive....I'm just saying it is better to be naive than to be a true cynic. But one should really be neither.

I do see your point in pointing to a person's, business, or thing's darkness. But I truly hope that you're not really a cynic and are just being cynical in regard to the topic at hand because even though there is evil in the world, there is also good.

YAY!!! :] servers are back up!

Anime created by the Japanese government in 1991.
They suggest to drink plutonium.

Something is really going wrong in this country...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJlul0lTroY

Time to take this message down from stickies?

Why is this still stickied? It's not news, considering the game services aren't even suspended anymore.