In Soviet Russia, TV watch YOU!

Huh, I remember something like this happening at the Camera 12 in San Jose. It really got the audience riled up (and it happened at an exciting moment too)...

I would have chalked it up to equipment problems, but now that I hear this, it reminds me of Belloq from the Lost Ark film:

"Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away."

Makes me sick.

And I was hoping for zombies to be mentioned somewhere in this...

This seems to at least partially apply to an anime series I saw back in the 90s named Macross Plus. A transformable fighter prototype with a BCS (Brain Control System) was involved in an "accident" when the test pilot inside, after being rescued from an in-flight total failure of both propulsion and control systems, thought he was in a prime position to apply a downward force on his rescuer's fighter.

Without actually performing the action, his sole act of imagining it caused his fighter to react in kind; the rescuer's fighter was a total loss and the pilot was lucky to survive with nothing much more than bruises.

Test pilot Guld Goa Bowman issued a statement today that the BCS control failure was suspect in his fighter's actions. The YF-21 is grounded until further testing of BCS is completed.

It wasn't me, it was the one armed vehicle!

Yeah, I've seen this coming for a while.

Blame the sailors/soldiers (not the professional ones who actually CARE about how the behave on shore leave), I'm talking about the American and Russian ones who act like they Japan owes them a free run at the sake bar and their first-born daughter. They can make a bad name for other visitors.

There's some racism to be sure, but most Japanese just aren't that fluent in English (despite it being required) and are probably fascinated by friendly gaijin but don't want to make it seem like their imposing. Please, impose! Most of us like to talk about ourselves.

Oddly enough, when gaijin are spoken badly of, it's often behind the back by some authority figure who should know better. Yes, this includes some of the guards at Meiji-jingu.

I shake my head...but this behavior is not unexpected.

I love the idea of open development and letting the hobbyist community run their own software on their legally purchased machines. It should be relatively simple to obtain a development key to sign your game app so it will run on the Wii, in a perfect world.

On the other hand, I can see why Nintendo puts a few stopping blocks or parking posts for getting an application to run on any Wii console. Embedded systems quality control (in particular, Nintendo's) want to prevent turning their systems/consoles into a zombie that could flood the internal Wii network by hacking a not so securly designed third party game. Or a spam bot.

The high license fees don't make much sense to me, but it does make sense to establish accountability for software developed to run on any legally purchased machine (Sony, are you listening?)

Plainly put, I'm all for hobbyists being able to run their programs on their systems and they should be able to run code on their machines. It's accessing other machines that should be a valid concern. Sadly, there's a few points like multiplayer where restricting network access on some platforms like XNA could put a thorn in the side of many a game hobbist developer.