before its time really

XskeweredX: when mikey phillips let his blog die i let mine too
XskeweredX: since it was young when it died
XskeweredX: i chalked it up to SIDS


It's an epidemic really, BIDS - Blog Instant Death Syndrome - striking without warning, sweeping the intertron like a doomy plague thing. I'll take it on in my return column with WSN. If they'll take me back, anyway; there was a lot of shuffling around and such upstairs, so we'll see if I find I still have a place on their pages when I get back. Though this little experiment is in its death throes, the webcomic's still a go, materializing agonizingly slow as it is, but early reviews from the aforementioned mikey phillips appear to be positive.

sex violence and coffee

Apparently Hot Coffee is unlockable in the PS2 version of San Andreas. While those of us in the know have known for weeks Rockstar's claims of having nothing to do with the content have been utter bullshit, this should confirm for the noobs out there that the content was in fact, Rockstar's creation. They've been attempting to pawn it off as someone cracking and recompiling the source code, which makes absolutely no sense, particularly since the mini game still works with the rest of the game after you've unlocked it.

In any case, in Rockstar's defense, it's no worse than anything you'd see in an R rated movie (Team America), and the attention being given to it is simply because certain assholes have a hardon against video games. It's prejudice against the medium, essentially.

What really sucks here though is that fuckers like Jack Thompson have been waiting for an incident like this, and this is really all they need to get most of what they want. Violence, - cool ; throw in some sex, and everyone goes apeshit.

i will totally destroy your thetans

No, you see. Here's the problem. You don't know the history of video games. I do.

All it does is mask the problem, Matt. And if you understand the history of it, it masks the problem. That's what it does. That's all it does. You're not getting to the reason why. There is no such thing as Electronic Arts piracy Jesus violence in video games.

hiatus

see above

sexing it up

So what's everyone's opinion on CNN's slight design overhaul? It actually kind of annoys because things aren't sectioned off as clearly as they used to be, or at least it seems that way, though it's not really the case. Speaking of cases, in any case, it still looks a lot better than that shitstorm of a site that Foxnews runs. I challenge you to find anything you're looking for on there. *Insert joke about how you wouldn't find it anyway because it's Fox News, har har.*

biometrics and bullshit

Why do I have the feeling that the multiple mass breaches of bank accounts and credit cards in the last couple of weeks are going to heavily factor in the Man telling us we should go to biometric means of transactions, even though ultimately that biometric data would still be data that could be swiped and misused, as well as any other data along the chain past that biometric phase?

your daily dose of feminism

Courtesy of toji, whose real name won't be disclosed for fear of lethal retaliation, or something like that.

ssjtoji***: well as far as feminism goes, they can buy that stuff if they want just as long as it does not get in the way of dinner or house cleaning
ssjtoji***: and lets not forget about washing clothes
XskeweredX: no this is literary feminism
ssjtoji***: there is a feminine language
ssjtoji***: bitch get my dinner
ssjtoji***: bitch go shopping
ssjtoji***: bitch shut up and do something constructive with your mouth
ssjtoji***: see there's a feminine language for them
XskeweredX: it started with french feminists i think?
ssjtoji***: yea that ones that with hairy armpits
ssjtoji***: and big noses
ssjtoji***: and french
ssjtoji***: but they do not even know how to cook


I saw the feminist quiz mania going on, so I reached back deep into the AIM archive to find this little gem of misogyny.

shocking santa's (or someone's) balls

To welcome Mikey Phillips back from sub-Asia (at least according to my Korean friend), I just thought I would announce that my pick for favorite game of all time is in fact The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. And the worst Legend of Zelda games by far were on the abomination of a video game system the Phillips cd-i. Though if you were to count among actual games, it'd be that sidescrolling piece of impossible shit, The Adventure of Link on NES. More soon eventually.