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Commented on Please release me: Modern Warfare, Spore Islands, and Half Minute Heroes
Modern Warfare 1 and Modern Warfare 2 both feel like you are playing Tom Clancy novels.. which is not a bad thing! :D...
Commented on Hurting Google
Great, now i'll have to use more than one search engine to find my info. Stupid tradeoff between competition and ease of searching....
Commented on Death-ray enthusiast calls for official "Anti-Muslim 'Backlash'"
Ha, idiotic minds think alike, take this one from Australia. "There is an argument for suggesting that the safety and morale of our troops may warrant a ban on dedicated Muslims joining the armed forces, who may be influenced by...
Commented on Wintertime on Mars: lonely Phoenix Lander, blanketed in carbon dioxide frost
I know it's a long shot, but I'm with the techs hoping it's still operational when it thaws, if they receive a signal from it, it would be so awesome....
Commented on British couple who blogged sailing trip around the world feared captured by Somali pirates
ABC Australia says they've been captured....
Commented on Animating the XKCD "I Love the Internet" strip
They've done others too http://vimeo.com/1895581...
Commented on What to do if you smell a terrorist
Don't suspect a friend, report him...
Commented on Keeping Point-and-Click Adventures Alive
Don't forget The Longest Journey...
Commented on Alice in Wonderland nudes
Wikipedia says: "According to Through the Looking-Glass she is seven and a half years old, but seems to conduct herself like a somewhat older child."...
Commented on Alice in Wonderland nudes
If you are from Australia, be very very careful about even LOOKING at this article. http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/web/simpsons-cartoon-ripoff-is-child-porn-judge/2008/12/08/1228584795005.html...
Commented on Healthy baby poop gallery
Everything comes down to Poo...
Commented on A musical clock made of stars
I really like it, i keep expecting to hear "Space.. the final frontier. These are the..."...
Commented on Apple 1984 ad, updated for 2009
http://www.openmoko.com/product.html...
Commented on Daily photos of a healthy cervix for one month
Now when my kids ask me where babies come from, i can point them to this site....
Commented on Vegemite's stupid and clueless linking policy
This is the position(page 3) of the Australian Copyright Council. The legal implications of providing hyperlinks are not entirely settled. However, in general terms, and subject to the comments below, it’s unlikely that simply providing a link raises copyright issues...
Commented on Daredevil LA tagger "Buket" of YouTube fame gets nearly 4 years in jail.
Reckless egomaniacal douchetard? Yes Fine? Acceptable Jailtime? Possibly Excessive - "Hey, i'm in for murdering a family, what are you in for?" - "I spraypainted a sign and vandalized a bus" - "Damn, that's hard core" But.. then again.. he...
Commented on Award-winning assembly-language animation running on a classic Mac
Assembly eh? Check this out....
Commented on Urban Dictionary: Boing-Boinged!
Got an Encyclopedia Dramatica entry too: NSFW http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Boing_Boing...
Commented on Chimp enjoys magic show
I like how with the handkerchief in the ear trick, the chimp knew something shifty was going on and started looking up his sleeves....
Commented on Machine translation fun
Ah, quotes from famous people go so well... Voltaire: "It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one." ===> "In this example, the innocent, good ideas, please save the danger of sin." And Sarah...
Commented on Unexplained space phenomena captured in photo of Saturn's rings
@No4 Fred H: You know, there used to be a kids animated show on TV called The Magic Schoolbus.. And they used to fly around to all sorts of strange places.. and one of those happened to be... Space! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N82vXYVqBMc...
Commented on Pranknet's Skype "phone assaults" detailed, head bully in charge lives with his mommy
Reminds me of the Strip Search Prank Call Scam...
Commented on Visiting the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch
I've seen this reported on by enough reputable sources that I don't doubt it's real, but I too would like to see some photos. Hopefully these research expeditions will finally bring back the visual goods. Or bads. Whatever. Plastics...
Commented on Coincidence?
I don't see an resemblance at all. I'm more worried about where the right hand of the kid is....
Commented on Slate reports on animal onanism
Humans are animals too....
Commented on Injections of soil bacteria make mice happy
Not only do mice get happy from soil, they live longer as well....
Commented on Creepy unmarked cage for people in Superior, Colorado
No 10# Anon has it perfect with a great article link, the photo is even pretty much identical. Now, what about that jail cell? It was in a back room in the Town Hall and was used to house those...
Commented on High-ranking insurance PR flack defects, explains dirty tricks used to fight universal healthcare
WENDELL POTTER: And over the course of a very few years, they shed eight million members. BILL MOYERS: Eight million policy holders? WENDELL POTTER: Eight million people, men, women, and children, yes. BILL MOYERS: So what happened to Aetna's stock?...
Commented on Australian govt memo, 1968: Women become "spinster battle axes;" "men usually mellow"
Breastfeeding in Parliament? Heck, just the presence of a child is enough to send them into coniptions. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25657858-5013871,00.html...
Commented on Fallout cosplay scene in Russia
Those russians get up to some crazy things :P They did STALKER last year. http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/14/real-stalker-cosplay.html...

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grimc commented on Please release me: Modern Warfare, Spore Islands, and Half Minute Heroes
The thing is, they didn't. There's no "pacifist bent" to pull off. "Gee, ain't war hell?" isn't pacifist, especially when followed by "...but ain't it fun, too?" The writer's claim is hollow; at best it's a weak attempt at helping kids convince worried parents that it's not gratuitously violent. Hell, there's a quick shot in a cutscene where a prisoner is about to be tortured with live battery cables--by the "good" guys. And if we want to get into the politics of it, where previous CoDs at least presented quotes like Bertrand Russell's "War does not determine who is right...
teapot commented on Hurting Google
[Google's] approach to world domination is "lets make products of great quality" A succinct summary of Google's approach if you ask me. Google are constantly bringing ground-breaking things to the table - usually for free. Other companies then release comparative (but more expansive/less effective) products, and try to take the fight to public opinion. This is what Google do that not many other tech companies do: They never talk themselves up and they don't overestimate their abilities. They also don't buy into smear campaigns....
bjacques commented on Hurting Google
And the wingnuts seal themselves into their own sphere. My rightwing friends send me emails with some outrageous crap in the subject title, and they ususally link to Pox or the Wall Street Urinal (editorial section). If the linked articles are behind the paywall, then why bother? This will be a good test of wingnut loyalty. Will Pox's core audience pony up? Meanwhile, here's hoping the Moonie Times, the WaPo (in its current incarnation), Excellence in Broadcasting, Pajamas Media and Townhall.com jump aboard as well. This is, of course, excellent news for John McCain. Also....
Echo7 commented on Please release me: Modern Warfare, Spore Islands, and Half Minute Heroes
Although the singleplayer campaign appears very good. Modern Warfare 2 was a big slap in the face for online (multiplayer) Windows players. As a long time online PC player, I simply cannot support Activision/Infinity Ward in how they treated the online PC community on this one. They should be ashamed of themselves. Ars summed it up well in their article: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/11/pc-modern-warfare-2-its-much-worse-than-you-thought.ars...
PeaceLove commented on Hurting Google
How many people nowadays even care if they find a result from a big dinosaur media company like News Corp or Time Warner, or even from the NYT? I believe Google will win this fight easily. If Murdoch jumps exclusively to Bing he will simply find his audience disappearing even faster than it already is. End of story (and good f***ing riddance to all of them)....

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