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Come on, the only people that are thinking Google is evil are other companies that have to compete with them.

Actually, there is a growing number of people who think that Google is evil, but it has nothing to do with how much it pays its employees.

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/betagroups.ht m
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2858
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/05/09/google_to_ fix_blog_noise/

That last one was from two years ago, and Google still hasn't fixed that problem.

Rob

Harry Knowles is a whore.

Did anyone read what the marketing department put on the LCD console?

Xerious: He's at the bunker.
Scum: I'm on it.
Xerious: Rally at me after.

Jesus tap-dancing Christ, who comes up with this stuff? I suspect it's the same people who wrote the FPS X-Files episode...

I never log into google to do searches. And yet it keeps cookies. This stores my language preferences and keeps track of my searches so that they can target advertising and who knows what else.

Get out the tinfoil hats... That's how they make their money. You didn't think Google was about search did you? The search stuff is just there to keep you looking at ads. Take away the ads and google is just another gas4uonline.com

If you don't like paying (via ad views) for your search then set up your own, or find some idiot on the net who is giving it away.

It seems to me that's pushing the definition of robot a bit much. It's a grabber that closes when something approaches it. The ball is thrown straight at it. It seems more like the doors at the supermarket that open when you approach. Of course, the doors won't open fast enough for people moving at 186 mph but it's the same general principle.

The impressive thing about all this is that I was able to download the 9+MB video, first try, using the link on Slashdot's front page, in about 15 seconds. Now that's technology!

Wake me when someone builds a working pusher robot...don't bother me with this "hand robot" jibber jabber.

http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/ph otoshop/05-20-05-movies/KlenkyWah.jpg

Which incidentally will result in parents being trained to purchase completely harmless AO games, and thus not batting an eye when 13-year old Jonny wants Hardcore Rape Simulator 2: The Revenge , now with motion feedback.

Which incidentally will result in parents being trained to purchase completely harmless AO games, and thus not batting an eye when 13-year old Jonny wants Hardcore Rape Simulator 2: The Revenge , now with motion feedback.

something awful has two reviews of Water Closet (along with several of the other japanese-imported AO games), Neither of which are safe for work:

Water Closet Review

Water Closet Review part 2

Highly entertaining, even if it is disgusting.

something awful has two reviews of Water Closet (along with several of the other japanese-imported AO games), Neither of which are safe for work:

Water Closet Review

Water Closet Review part 2

Highly entertaining, even if it is disgusting.

Someone decided to screw with one of these scammers and recorded the correspondence here.

500 years ago, people weren't reading, they weren't really doing much of anything productive.

Except growing food, raising livestock, getting married, raising children, defending themselves, scheming, talking with neighbors, and saying, "Someday Martha, one of our great great great great great ... great grandchildren will grow up to post something stupid on something called the Internet."

I wonder if there were a huge leap second buildup whether people would just start waking up according to the absolute time rather than the political time.

Time is an arbitrary concept created by man. People get up according to when they have to be at work, and if that isn't sometime in the morning they get up when it is convenient for them. Some people have to be at work at 8, others at 9, some at 6 or 7. Where does politics come into this? All the government does is produce a standard benchmark time so we can communicate about time, and know that we will be understood.

Jesus saved me from my past. He can save you as well.

Did he really? Unless this is Jesus the Hispanic fireman, I don't buy it. Either a magic supernatural man in the clouds helped you, or you are confused about it. Occham's Razor anyone?

To illustrate this point, I encourage people to read this: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2800& p=2 (the last post at the bottom). Compare that with what you hear people say about Jesus (the non-fireman one).

However, I also enjoy Bomberman DS and Puyo Pop Fever which I like more than most violent games and would recommend for the kids.

Creepy. The guys who had one gushed about how "life-like" the dolls felt.

All I kept thinking was, "Wow! All the fun of necrophilia with none of the hassle!"

Blegh! Something Awful commented on this phenom recently.

What are these guys thinking (while hosing them out)?

"It used to be that anything that made it to cart was considered decent quality, but that's not the case any more."

This, sir, is either a bald faced lie, or a sign that you need to take the blinders off about the "good old days".

Not even bothering to discuss the mere legion of asstastic movie, cartoon, and comic book themed games that were released on the N64 and Genesis alone, given time this board could be flooded with crap games from the classic arcade years until the end of the 16 bit era.

The reviews at the Somethingawful.com ROM Pit are just the start.

Give me some time and I can compile a list of many more craptascular relics from that bygone age of "innovation" that we'd be far better not having haunting us.

Right up your alley.

Can't find the flash movie anywhere.

Why dont you concentrate on things that make all mmorpgs suck?

SomethingAwful has a hilarious yet very insightful look at your typical mmorpg.

There is a Linux client AFAIK, a friend of mine runs it on his CS server.

There was also a thread on somethingawful yesterday about this Himachi thing, according to a lot of people it does kicks some major ass.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?th readid=1619003

Pass on the game, read the review.

At least half of the AO games are anime porn (hentai) and I'm pretty sure Something Awful has reviews of all of them.

The Japanese make lots, some translated to English. See Hentai Game Reviews.

"Did Pravda ever have pictorials of Britney Spears pregnant?"

• Soviet Army fought UFOs
  
• Russians conquered Mars 30 years ago
  
• Jesus Christ born in Ukraine
  
• Israel opens gates of Hell
  
• Russia and Iran join efforts to struggle against invasion of UFOs
  

Nobody wants to play a religous game, just like nobody wants to listen to religous music.

Here's an example. And another.

The thing with religion in the US is, people will attend services but are embarassed to say so.

Nobody wants to play a religous game, just like nobody wants to listen to religous music.

Here's an example. And another.

The thing with religion in the US is, people will attend services but are embarassed to say so.

http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/ph otoshop/05-20-05-movies/KlenkyWah.jpg

Why settle for a puny Mach 3, when you could have a Mach 13

I too have a Mach 3, and I too am loving it.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= 92a677e2983653478c0ce4d68c6a3199&threadid=1594385 An interesting read on the matter, from someone barely involved.

The only problems I had with it are that he gushes over the weak Dreamcast controller like Nerdshoe, and the Dual Shock part looks like it was written by a completely different person from the Dual Shock 2 one (I agree with the former, though I disagree with his verdict concerning the Select and L3 buttons). Besides that, I think this is pretty good, especially since he has the courage to speak the truth and say that the GameCube controller sucks.

Rob

Can't be good common carrier status is why newsgroups have made it so long at least according to this forum post http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=1595212&highlight=newsgroup

here it is Enjoy :-)

"The president has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?"

Well, are you?

Believe me, if you can say with a straight face "Yeah, but this game gets laggy too" when comparing _any_ game with Anarchy Online, then you've never actually played Anarchy Online. Just the mention of the launch of AO made me cringe there.

Go read the Anarchy Online review on Something Awful and I can personally attest that that's 100% accurate, and that's what the game was like _after_ the devs had "fixed" it and claimed it was 110% stable and working as designed. Before that, it was far far worse.

I can personally attest to problems, again after the devs said it was 110% fixed, like:

- graphics glitches. Chances were 50-50 that an _open_ door would become a swirl of smeared colours that you can't actually see through.

- collision detection glitches. You'd run on flat ground and then suddenly you'd be falling to your death from stratosphere. Or you'd fall through the floor and start _swimming_ (yep, swimming animation) in the ground, or under the ground. Or you'd have enemies going through solid walls.

- instanced dungeon generation glitches. You could walk through one of those swirly doors and fall 4m deep into a hole you can't get out of.

- massive design problems. E.g., a fist had the same range as a snipe rifle. Yes, no kidding. If you picked a ranged combat class for the "ranged" part, e.g., trading the superior damage of melee for the safety of range, you'd basically get neither. Someone could punch you or stab you from 1000 ft away.

- massive balance problems. Not just class balance, but the three factions were so utterly unbalanced that one of them didn't even have shops above the newbie level. And the class balance was a sick joke too.

- massive AI problems. It wouldn't be uncommon to be attacked through walls and closed doors, because the AI couldn't tell it can't reach you. And various other AI problem.

- stupid mission design. E.g., you'd get a stealth mission, and be told it's a stealth mission, yet... you wouldn't get the token unless you killed everyone in that building.

- stupid design that actively discouraged grouping for missions

Etc. And yes, lag too. For some events people were told to look at the ground to avoid their machine crashing or getting disconnected. Yeah, that soo makes sense... you surely went to some big event to look at a patch of ground instead of at what's happening there.

So, well, trust me: AO at launch was in a class of suckiness of its own. Removing spyware off a machine was more fun than playing AO.

as long as Apple users will continue to do things like this

Google's been shutting down the gMail invite spooler , too, but according to the creator and owner of the site (http://isnoop.net/gmail/) his legal notification from the legal team was quite friendly, it's pretty cool that google isn't the kind of company that keeps rabid lawyers around to sue people. See thread on Somethingawful.com for more: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=1580408

And to build some character, this is my favorite movie, and I enjoy long walks on the beach, have flowing long hair, and a wrinkly ass from psoting on slashdot all day long. I also own a Apple compewter and will be first in line to see the new Johny Dapp movie "Charlie and teh Chocolate Fagtory." Anyone like me out there? I hate you.

Will someone please think about the children!

I, for one, welcome our new Mactel overlords.

Introducing: iDeath '05

Is it possible to stick more useless crap on a single page together with a totally nonsensical layout?

Yes.

The world needs more disc-launching games, I think. =)

I can't begin to imagine the DNAShop contests that will happen on Fark or Something Awful...

... can be found here.

The title of this article almost sounds like a Photoshop Phriday over on SA.

Check out the Ring LCD Game It's the one at the bottom.

oh, and if you've ever seen a picture of the two guys who are PA you will notice that they look nothing like the cartoon characters.

You mean like this and this?

oh, and if you've ever seen a picture of the two guys who are PA you will notice that they look nothing like the cartoon characters.

You mean like this and this?

> easy fix, just line the inside of the house with foil.

I believe somethingawful did this before.

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2716

Worse interviewer. On the last show before E3 the rest of the cast was laughing at him to his face. They wouldn't even let him go out to LA.

Er...

Crap...

I have it right this time I swear.

1. I have several e-mail accounts to deal with
2. I chat on IRC daily
3. I follow several USENET news groups
4. I routinely post on a variety of message boards
5. I subscribe to Mental Floss, SysAdmin Magazine and Columbus Monthly
6. I read /. and technocrat and fark and El Reg and Something Awful and Google News and Groklaw and The Onion and Maddox and Ars Technica and USA Today and NewsForge every single day
7. I use Stumble Upon to find random, new and interesting web sites
8. ...AND I CAN'T GET ENOUGH!!!

This or this one.

But lets not forget their current and insightful E3 coverage.

This or this one.

But lets not forget their current and insightful E3 coverage.