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One group Google does not want to go against is GWAR.
http://www.gwar.net/

Lets face it Rockstar are the GWAR of the computer games industry. Using 'supposed' shock tactics to look a bit rebellious and hip in an attempt to sell units. GTA was good, Bully was a bit sick and this just seems a bit sad. It's like the team behind the film Scarface doing a cheap straight to DVD nasty afterwards.

My real complaint is that ever since Tekken first ripped someone's spine out and dangled it in their face, games have been trying to out gore each other . It doesn't really add much to the game and just appeals to teenage boys the same way "Dead or Alive" games do. Maybe they could do a Mike Diana game. The kids would really love that.

Sure there's a purpose on myspace. That purpose is for artists, bands, producers, labels, comedians, hollywood movies, politics, religion, venues, swag, tshirts, posters, flyers, recording studios, models and the public to all interact. Is the interface bad on myspace? (wait that wasn't the question) It's not a bad interfaces, the problem is the confusion with how to post normal code that even the experienced are used to; to a page design that's already filtered, and laid out for ya. The top end of that fight, I would say is doing a full on flash site. Like say ..http://myspace.com/century . But then the problem next becomes how to add friends to make it work. Instead of having top "40 friends" they should have how ever many top friends, and instead of having to ADD a friend, all friends should be already added. Good luck to a new user adding friends at 300-400 a day. If all the friends were already added, sorted alpha numerically then you could actually search for the friends you wanted to promote. I won't say nothing about the bulletins. It's pretty heavy on bandwidth I think. Although I wouldn't say it caters to bands, it does have bands that publish their music, and you don't need to muck around trying to hear what they sound like, and what their website is, when they play, and sometimes what they look like before ya get there, that can save your ass. Myspace needs a weird code.. type the name of the band [band:gwar] and get http://www.gwar.net/index.php [comedian:Steve Hofstetter] http://www.myspace.com/comedy Everyone has an address. So a simple matter. The friends list. Should be Friends Search Engine (Since your putting up your to 10, 20, 30, 40, 500, 6000 friends.) Comeon Tom

While I like to see bands do this kinda stuff, why couldn't it be someone who's music I'm willing to pay for?

Metal Blade distributes the mighty lamb of god and GWAR,so they can't be all bad...

I thought it was "Penguin Attack" by GWAR

...orgy of violence?

Ah...a GWAR fan?

I think I already know how GWAR will be opening the show on their next tour...something to do with the band members emerging from the nether regions of an obscenely large and anatomically exaggerated cow.

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