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  1. Taking Back Control of Your Data... Pfft! by fustakrakich · · Score: 1 · on Taking Back Control of Your Data, With Fine Grained, Explicit Permissions

    All *your* data are buried in the wall...

    Sounds eerily familiar...

  2. Re:Obligatory quote by RockDoctor · · Score: 1 · on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World

    short story Leningen versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson. [...]
    http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html

    That's a good story.

    Doesn't ring any bells here.
    But for an ant-scary story, look for "Sandkings" by George RR Martin.

  3. Re:Obligatory quote by kmarple1 · · Score: 1 · on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World

    That episode was a total rip-off/tribute/remake of the short story Leningen versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson. This story was in my elementary school reading book the same year that episode originally aired.

    http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html

    That's a good story. It also made it into the collection one of my high school English classes used.

  4. Re:Obligatory quote by arb+phd+slp · · Score: 5, Informative · on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World

    That episode was a total rip-off/tribute/remake of the short story Leningen versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson.
    This story was in my elementary school reading book the same year that episode originally aired.

    http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html

  5. Re:Obvious solution by ricklow · · Score: 1 · on Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas

    You have to give the original reference for that!

    http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html Leiningen versus the Ants was one of the coolest stories I had to read for English class in high school.

  6. Leiningen versus the Ants by Iamthecheese · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas

    For your entertainment

  7. Tycho is unfair in one respect. by sammy+baby · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Jack Thompson Rescinds Offer
    Jack Thompson is an ass of the first caliber, and deserves whatever shit he gets. Nevertheless, Tycho is being unfair to him in one respect.

    This vile "challenge" Jack Thompson has put to the supposedly monolithic "game industry" is like a topographical map of the twisted fantasy realm he inhabits. I could excerpt it, but I don't want to be accused of selective editing. The reality is that what he suggests is grotesque. I mean that it is literally disgusting. Of course, the violent acts he's cobbled together here from other games are robbed of a narrative context in which they make sense. Killing Gamestop and EB employees, though? That's not metaphor. He's not being metaphorical. He is batshit fucking loco insane.

    I'll grant that, no problem. But can someone describe for me the "narrative context" in Postal 2 which justified such actions? Or even Manhunt , which, god help me, I actually paid money for and played all the way through.

    (If you never played Manhunt, the idea is that you're a convict secretly rented out to a snuff film producer to take part in a game so shocking and post-modern that it was considered a classic of short story literature in 1947. You get extra points for exterminating your hunters in as gruesome and vicious a manner as posible.)

    So to recap, no love lost for Jack Thompson, but Tycho should be a little more honest when it comes to the really disgusting games out there.