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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...
You'd think it would be pretty easy to avoid these kind of dupes... just automatically check if a certain url has been posted. How hard could this be to arrange?
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
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Well c'mon, it is the summer. Just like Television, the web runs out of content and needs to replay old stories to keep people watching.
Come back in September or October, should be something new on by then.
I'll have something intelligent to add one of these days...
Not hard ... but to do this, Taco would first have to admit that the repeat articles are really a problem. So, instead, he'll just claim that "automatically checking the URL isn't a perfect solution", and refuse to do anything. (After all, people have asking for this for a long time; if they had any desire to stop repeating articles all the time, they'd have already done it.)
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Consume. If you don't agree ask Bush....
Cool, I didn't know RedHat's logo signed a contract to star in his very own game! And they're even doing a sequel!!
Esse quam vederi.