UK:RESISTANCE 'main page'
Some of the diehard few still clutching onto their Dreamcasts and STILL REFUSING TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE LIE that the PS2 can do better graphics were ecstatic over the apparent "relaunching" of Dreamcast.com. As of this writing the link leads to some page about phishing and how the page was the perpetrator of a phishing scam. Just a few days ago it looked all official and Sega-ey like it was really set up by Sega of Japan, and it had this graphic on the front page:


Why yes! Yes, we do! Oh, sweet Jesus, it seems Sega really cares after all. And through the way that question is phrased, it knows that anybody who still has a Dreamcast (or even more uncommon, plays it regularly!) is a serious video game nerd who needs to move on and enjoy some of their more recent mediocre games for the current video game consoles on the market.

But don't toss your Dreamcast! If you were to click on that graphic you would be taken to a page where you were asked to enter your console's serial number and your email address, and in return, get your VERY OWN Dreamcast.com email address- generated from your console's SERIAL NUMBER. Yes, you could have had an email address of something like "DU51820572@user.dreamcast.com" which is actually just a Gmail account in disguise (see below). Try using that as your business account and see how long it takes to get blacklisted by every spam filter in the world.


But then it turns out that Sega doesn't even own the Dreamcast.com domain anymore, and somebody else set it up- apparently as part of a maniacal plot to harvest the email addresses of innocent Sega fans. But for what purpose, we don't know, and we want someone to tell us. We had the misfortune of getting overexcited and hurriedly ripping out our Dreamcast from its connectors to get it over to the computer to enter in the serial number, and now some HOOLIGAN has our email address instead of mother Sega. But then again, so what? According to our spam folder, so do 974 other fine people on the internet.

The worst part, or the most predictable part, is that people thought this meant Sega was planning something for the Dreamcast's 10th anniversary (that's right, 10th) which is coming up in November. We thought we finally might be getting Dreamcast 2, and this email signup was perhaps for a beta test of the NEW Dreamcast Online Network, which obviously would be better than Xbox Live (and we need not mention fucking PlayStation Home). As it turns out, it was all a load of depressing crap and it's just the latest in a long line of Dreamcast-related embarrassments, right next to the last game ever released for the console being a mediocre shooter and how they shut down the last GD-ROM factory a few months ago. Now we have to go through the trouble of putting the VGA box back in, which is always tough because of its short cable. Whoever did this better mail us a mint copy of De La Jet Set Radio, and soon.

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Blogger phorenzik said...
Who the fuck is the Swill man?

Have you sold UK:R out as well as Idiot Toys?
Blogger phorenzik said...
I've done some sleuthing and come up with this

Is it you?
Blogger AT said...
According to the registry at GoDaddy.com, the domain name is registered to Sega (complete with contact name and address) until 12-Jun-2008 and has been since 2005.

What's up with that?
Blogger phorenzik said...
Here's his blogger profile it appears that I was right.
Blogger The Swill Man said...
Yeah, it's me.

And as for the domain business, there's the link on the Joystiq article I linked to. What's up with that?
Blogger phorenzik said...
But more importantly, who the fuck are you?
Blogger The Swill Man said...
Don't worry about it, friend. Zorg isn't the only person who posts here...
Blogger phorenzik said...
I know Zorg isn't the only person who posts. Capt Jax posts at least twice a year too.

I was just startled to read something written by an AMERICAN on a UK-based blog that's called UK RESISTANCE. That's all
Blogger The Swill Man said...
Yes indeed, probably a good time to delete your bookmark.
Blogger PhotoBoy said...
Yes, another depressing and crushing blow to Dreamcast fans everywhere... I've been coping by playing lots of Daytona, Soul Calibur, Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi. I'd play some Shenmue but getting to the end of Shenmue II and not being able to play III is still depressing.
Blogger felixtheprat said...
Speaking of americans and UKR, does anyone know yet if US Resistance was created by Zorg or was down to somebody trying to steal his flame?
Blogger ian said...
I for one, welcome Swill Man.
God bless you and all who may sail in you.
Blogger comfysofa said...
Swilly...if i could call you that...i would say that anyone who posts pics of themselves "looking Zany...." - is missing something....a life maybe...
Swillies blog is HILARIOUS. Bill Gates teh sux! Michael Jacksons!! A VIDEO OF FAT LADY!!! A picture illustrating that safari is shit... and is getting shitter. Most Mac users discovered this YEARS AGO and REALLY MEGA-SUPER-COOL-WACKY photo of 17 year old slightly fat blogger. But this was my favourite was the 'piece' on Charles Manson on youtube.

God help you UK:R.
WHY ARE THERE ANY AMERICANS IN MY UK:R?!?!!
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