Sony has confirmed to SPOnG that the delay to LittleBigPlanet's launch is in fact global and is not limited to Europe.
The exact words from a Sony Computer Entertainment Europe rep were, "Yes, this is a global recall". Sony further confirmed to SPOnG that the game has already been sent to retailers. The platform holder has a big job on its hands.
The game has been delayed because Sony noticed a reference to words from the Qur'an. Quite how this was caught after the game was shipped is unclear, but it's very late in the day.
You can find Sony's official statement on the delay, along with the exact phrases that have caused the problem, here.
You can check out SPOnG's review of LittleBigPlanet (in which we did not get outraged by the Qur'an reference) here.
The exact words from a Sony Computer Entertainment Europe rep were, "Yes, this is a global recall". Sony further confirmed to SPOnG that the game has already been sent to retailers. The platform holder has a big job on its hands.
The game has been delayed because Sony noticed a reference to words from the Qur'an. Quite how this was caught after the game was shipped is unclear, but it's very late in the day.
You can find Sony's official statement on the delay, along with the exact phrases that have caused the problem, here.
You can check out SPOnG's review of LittleBigPlanet (in which we did not get outraged by the Qur'an reference) here.
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deleted 20 Oct 2008 17:13
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Tim Smith wrote:
tyrion wrote:
Mowing the lawn? Paying a mortgage? Drinking beer? Driving a car?
I was made to mow the lawn when I was 8 FFS! Mainly because I'd been caught in the family's new Austin 7 drinking Watneys Red Barrel.
ot a bad punishment considering the crime!, that is unless you were mowing an unused football field.
TimSpong 20 Oct 2008 17:16
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haritori wrote:
ot a bad punishment considering the crime!, that is unless you were mowing an unused football field.
I come from the soft, posh, Southern counties of this great country we call Great United England Britain Wessex Kingdom - all our posh southern lawns are the size of Rutlandshire. They have to be so that when we ride to hounds the dogs don't bump their noses on the fences. This is unlike common English/British/United Kingdish people who sleep in the bath with their dogs, coal, children and fissionchips.
Pip pip chums!
Tim
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deleted 20 Oct 2008 17:20
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Tim Smith wrote:
haritori wrote:
ot a bad punishment considering the crime!, that is unless you were mowing an unused football field.
I come from the soft, posh, Southern counties of this great country we call Great United England Britain Wessex Kingdom - all our posh southern lawns are the size of Rutlandshire. They have to be so that when we ride to hounds the dogs don't bump their noses on the fences. This is unlike common English/British/United Kingdish people who sleep in the bath with their dogs, coal, children and fissionchips.
Pip pip chums!
Tim
yeah well i wish i could afford coal nowadays, wont be long before its rarer than diamonds.
OptimusP 22 Oct 2008 18:35
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haritori wrote:
yeah well i wish i could afford coal nowadays, wont be long before its rarer than diamonds.
Diamonds actually are higly concentrated dense packages of coal...
the latest estimations (if i remember well enough) is that there is around 120 years of iron ore and 150 years of coal in the earth at the consumption rate we know now.
TimSpong 22 Oct 2008 21:09
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OptimusP wrote:
Diamonds actually are higly concentrated dense packages of coal..
I think that was the joke.
Tim
deleted 23 Oct 2008 00:42
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Tim Smith wrote:
OptimusP wrote:
Diamonds actually are higly concentrated dense packages of coal..
I think that was the joke.
Tim
:D
PreciousRoi 23 Oct 2008 00:49
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at least this time he appears (can't be arsed to check) to have his facts straight...70% auf English sind French mein Esel...
deleted 23 Oct 2008 00:56
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PreciousRoi wrote:
at least this time he appears (can't be arsed to check) to have his facts straight...70% auf English sind French mein Esel...
Well technically Diamonds aren’t condensed coal but higher condensed carbon, both Diamonds and Coal are made from carbon, just the Diamonds have more carbon density due to being deeper into the earth than coal has ever gone as such the pressure forms the diamonds, but then again we (humans) are diamonds in the making once you die give it 2 or 3 billion years and most of your carbon will be diamond, or coal depending, semantics ehh.
PreciousRoi 23 Oct 2008 01:12
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Diamonds are too compressed coal, I seen Superman make a diamond out of a lump once...
Of course I immiediately started crying out:
"He's a witch! I knew it, Superman is a witch, BURN HIM! BURN THE WITCH!!!
It was shortly after then that the lights came on in the theater, and I felt the handcuffs slipping onto my wrists, things get a bit fuzzy after that...
Of course I immiediately started crying out:
"He's a witch! I knew it, Superman is a witch, BURN HIM! BURN THE WITCH!!!
It was shortly after then that the lights came on in the theater, and I felt the handcuffs slipping onto my wrists, things get a bit fuzzy after that...
PreciousRoi 23 Oct 2008 01:23
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I actually just realized I know nothing about the molecular structure of coal...diamond and graphite yes, coal, no...
to Wikoogle!
to Wikoogle!
PreciousRoi 23 Oct 2008 01:26
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I actually just realized I know nothing about the molecular structure of coal...diamond and graphite yes, coal, no...
to Wikoogle!
Ah Hah!
Apparently molecularly coal is like impure graphite, with lots of semi-random substitutions for C...
to Wikoogle!
Ah Hah!
Apparently molecularly coal is like impure graphite, with lots of semi-random substitutions for C...
TimSpong 23 Oct 2008 08:38
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PreciousRoi wrote:
"He's a witch! I knew it, Superman is a witch, BURN HIM! BURN THE WITCH!!!
Superman is actually a metrosexual. Remember those? Well, Superman is one.
Tim
Spinface 23 Oct 2008 08:42
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Tim Smith wrote:
Superman is actually a metrosexual. Remember those? Well, Superman is one.
Tim
Tim
You know nothing of Superman. The guy grew up on a farm. You can't grow up on a farm and be a metrosexual. Not to mention the fact that he can barely dress himself on a morning. Your head's been messed up by Dean Cain and you can't get past it.
TimSpong 23 Oct 2008 08:44
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Spinface wrote:
You know nothing of Superman. The guy grew up on a farm. You can't grow up on a farm and be a metrosexual. Not to mention the fact that he can barely dress himself on a morning. Your head's been messed up by Dean Cain and you can't get past it.
I know who George Reeves is but who the hell is this Dean Cain? Sounds like a made-up man to me.
OptimusP 23 Oct 2008 11:45
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PreciousRoi wrote:
at least this time he appears (can't be arsed to check) to have his facts straight...70% auf English sind French mein Esel...
You should open up a english-french dictionarry and look up all the words used in law, administration, military and others (which are used from before the 20th century)... you will be amazed how much similarities modern french and modern english share on a vocubalary level.
Yes English and german are cousins, but medieval french and medieval english did get married.
And British humour should always be spoken not written! Otherwise no one gets it except you brits!
PreciousRoi 23 Oct 2008 15:58
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NO one is arguing that words of French origin apeear in English dictionaries...I believe the subject of contention was the percentage...you said 70%, I cried bullshit, did some research and the Infobahn backed me up with figures varying from 25%-40% (even if you give French credit for words derived from Latin it's only 50%). I said the core of the English language was Germanic, and the Infobahn backed me up with lists of the 100 most common English words, (of 5 lists I found, one of them had as many as 2 words of Franco-Romance origin people, and number) and an unverified, but plausible claim that 83% of the 1,000 most common English words are of Germanic origin. You even tried unsuccessfully to deny that the English definite article "the" was not, in fact, of Germanic origin, attempting to use the French indefinte articles as "proof".
Yeah, sure, I'll play along with your analogy, English and French did get hitched, it was a shotgun marrigae, and they had a single child, Anglo-Norman (which I would actually believe had a 70% French vocabulary). But then they separated, English kept the house, and their child was banished to some islands.
You sure this professor isn't the same drunk German chick who told someone that German was almost made the official language of the US? No, wait, I supposed the German chick would have to be French in this case...
Yeah, sure, I'll play along with your analogy, English and French did get hitched, it was a shotgun marrigae, and they had a single child, Anglo-Norman (which I would actually believe had a 70% French vocabulary). But then they separated, English kept the house, and their child was banished to some islands.
You sure this professor isn't the same drunk German chick who told someone that German was almost made the official language of the US? No, wait, I supposed the German chick would have to be French in this case...
OptimusP 23 Oct 2008 16:39
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PreciousRoi wrote:
NO one is arguing that words of French origin apeear in English dictionaries...I believe the subject of contention was the percentage...you said 70%, I cried bullshit, did some research and the Infobahn backed me up with figures varying from 25%-40% (even if you give French credit for words derived from Latin it's only 50%). I said the core of the English language was Germanic, and the Infobahn backed me up with lists of the 100 most common English words, (of 5 lists I found, one of them had as many as 2 words of Franco-Romance origin people, and number) and an unverified, but plausible claim that 83% of the 1,000 most common English words are of Germanic origin. You even tried unsuccessfully to deny that the English definite article "the" was not, in fact, of Germanic origin, attempting to use the French indefinte articles as "proof".
Yeah, sure, I'll play along with your analogy, English and French did get hitched, it was a shotgun marrigae, and they had a single child, Anglo-Norman (which I would actually believe had a 70% French vocabulary). But then they separated, English kept the house, and their child was banished to some islands.
You sure this professor isn't the same drunk German chick who told someone that German was almost made the official language of the US? No, wait, I supposed the German chick would have to be French in this case...
Yeah, sure, I'll play along with your analogy, English and French did get hitched, it was a shotgun marrigae, and they had a single child, Anglo-Norman (which I would actually believe had a 70% French vocabulary). But then they separated, English kept the house, and their child was banished to some islands.
You sure this professor isn't the same drunk German chick who told someone that German was almost made the official language of the US? No, wait, I supposed the German chick would have to be French in this case...
He looked very manly, had a silent voice (very hard to follow whatever he was saying) and a freaky hairdo. I do follow the thaught that linguistic people are nuts anyway, so he probably over-exagerated.
And didn't German loose with only one vote?
PreciousRoi 23 Oct 2008 18:46
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No, there never was a vote on the subject of German as the, or even an official languge in the United States.
There was a vote on the German language which failed, but I believe it had to do with the printing of official documents in German, in addition to English, and I believe it was only applicable in the former colony of Pennsylvania. I may be incorrect on some of the details, but I think I have the gist of it there,
There was a vote on the German language which failed, but I believe it had to do with the printing of official documents in German, in addition to English, and I believe it was only applicable in the former colony of Pennsylvania. I may be incorrect on some of the details, but I think I have the gist of it there,
deleted 23 Oct 2008 18:53
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There was a vote in most european countires and russia to German being the Official Langauge in June 28, 1914, and again on September 1, 1939 also i think the US was involved at one point, but that was far too late in the day tho :-D
PreciousRoi 23 Oct 2008 19:01
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We've never gotten around to actually naming any offical languages, so I doubt that we ever seriouly entertained the notion of adopting German in advance of English...
http://www.watzmann.net/scg/german-by-one-vote.html
It failed, obviously.
The original "German" myth was popularized by German-Americans wishing to aggrandize the accomplishments of Revolutionary War German-Americans, it is now used by proponents of an English Language Amendment to the Constitution, as an example of how the English Language in America has been endangered in the past.
Similarly, I would assume that Optimus' professor is either a Francophile, or of French or Anglo-Norman descent, and has a similar ax to grind. I would also assume that the same logic has been used by British language "purists" in the past, to justify their attmepts to "Re-Angliscise" English. So exaggerating the contributions of French and Norman to English serves both group's purposes, the lie gets repeated, becomes accepted as common knowedge, and further spread along the Infobahn...
http://www.watzmann.net/scg/german-by-one-vote.html
above link wrote:
On January 13, 1795, Congress considered a proposal, not to give German any official status, but merely to print the federal laws in German as well as English. During the debate, a motion to adjourn failed by one vote. The final vote rejecting the translation of federal laws, which took place one month later, is not recorded.
It failed, obviously.
The original "German" myth was popularized by German-Americans wishing to aggrandize the accomplishments of Revolutionary War German-Americans, it is now used by proponents of an English Language Amendment to the Constitution, as an example of how the English Language in America has been endangered in the past.
Similarly, I would assume that Optimus' professor is either a Francophile, or of French or Anglo-Norman descent, and has a similar ax to grind. I would also assume that the same logic has been used by British language "purists" in the past, to justify their attmepts to "Re-Angliscise" English. So exaggerating the contributions of French and Norman to English serves both group's purposes, the lie gets repeated, becomes accepted as common knowedge, and further spread along the Infobahn...