Video Game Advertising Reaches New Lows

Anonymous Coward writes "The Guardian is reporting that Acclaim is attempting to purchase advertising space on gravestones of the recently departed in order to promote its new game ShadowMan 2. This certainly takes the encroachment of commercial messages on public space to new levels." I understand RockStar is looking for a molotov cocktail partner...

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[RyanFenton]

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3

And, as mentioned in their news for the comic, this itself is old news. They've since taken up the cause of promoting a Irish lad who has been waiting in line for Turok 2. Why? Only the boy himself could know, apparantly. :^)

Ryan Fenton

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[benh57]

Last posted to Slashdot in March. Same article.

Re:"No one has yet to volunteer"

[Da Schmiz]

I don't think so... according to Webster's:

Entry: yet
Pronunciation: 'yet
Function: adverb
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2 a (1) : up to now : so far <hasn't done much yet> -- often used to imply the negative of a following infinitive <have yet to win a game>
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Note that, although this construction may imply the negative of the following infinitive (in this case, "to volunteer"), it is technically correct to use it in a construction with an explicit negative (eg. "haven't done much yet").

In other words, by the definition above, the phrase could be reconstructed "No one has [so far] volunteer[ed]" or (by flipping the clause) "So far, no one has volunteered."

I just realized that there is no other simple construction that uses the infinitive; every alternative I can find changes the infinitive to a past tense. Actually, I think that's exactly what the sentence needs. My preference would be the construction "No one has yet volunteered" -- a simple change, but one that makes the phrase substantially less ambiguous.

I just checked the Associated Press Stylebook and The Chicago Manual of Style, and couldn't find a definitive reference in either for this construction. (How I wish I had a copy of Strunk & White by my desk...) If anyone can find a reference to support (or to refute, I'd be interested), please post it. Thanks!