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Game Developers: Stop Overpromising
Andru Edwards writes "Recently, there has been a flurry of game developers releasing games which did not live up to expectations the developers set earlier on. Due to this pratice of overhyping upcoming games, gamers have become wary of those games which have major hyoe behind them. Here is a look at which developers are falling victim to the hype, as well as why Nintendo's frustrating strategy might actually be the best approach after all."
Never in the history of humankind has an election had so much at stake
Dear friends,
As a journalist who has the good fortune to write for an international journal with millions of readers around the world, I have the individual responsibility to inform you of the feeling in the international community regarding the outcome of the election on November 2nd.
As citizens of the United States of America, who have the power to endorse or to dismiss the policies of the Bush regime, you have a collective responsibility not only unto yourselves, but to the world, which will hold you accountable for your decision.
I write this letter as a citizen of this international community and as a journalist for a newspaper whose name is Pravda (Truth), I have the obligation to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
I can say for a start that the vast majority of the international community will agree with the thoughts and requests expressed in this open letter. As proof, one only has to see the opinion polls held around the world, in which only a small handful of citizens from a tiny percentage of states prefer a re-election of George Bush to regime change in Washington.
It is not for foreigners to dictate to the people of the United States of America how to vote, however since the media in the USA is controlled and since people do not have access to the current of opinion in the international community, it is an act of friendship to inform the citizens of the USA how the world feels about the state of affairs today and it is our right as citizens of the world to express our concern, for the Bush administration does not confine itself to its shores.
9/11 was a horrific event, which went against the grain of human civilization, as did the horrendous terrorist attack in the school of Beslan in the Russian Federation. However terrible these events were, it is necessary to envisage the facts with maturity and to draw the correct conclusions from them, not to use an evil event to justify another act of evil.
Unfortunately this is what the Bush regime has done. While the attack against Afghanistan was understandable in the circumstances (although such an attack had been planned well before 9/11, not because of the Taleban regime, which George Bush Senior created, but because of the gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan), the attack against Iraq had nothing whatsoever to do with international terrorism.
From a moral point of view, the Bush regime could not have descended lower. Lies, forgery, blackmail, bullying and belligerence became the modus operandi of American diplomacy, instead of discussion, dialogue and debate, the fundamentals of democracy, which Bush and his clique of corporate elitists threw out of the window in their haste to get their hands on the resources of Iraq, a country which did not possess chemical or nuclear or biological weapons, despite the repeated claims that it did.
The raw truth is that Saddam Hussein was the man telling the truth and that George Bush was the one who "stiffed the world".
The fundamental precepts which justified the war have since been refuted and denied, in their entirety, by the very people who stood before the cameras and lied through their teeth, saying they knew where the WMD were hidden and they knew where the evidence would be found.
These people are the members of the Bush regime, not one or two members, but all of them. It is not only George Bush who stands for election on November 2nd - it is the entire regime, including the substantially important Jewish lobby within Washington. It is not only Capitol Hill which controls your foreign policy, it is also, and with increasing importance, the Knesset in Tel Aviv.
George Bush may have tried his level best at being President of the United States of America and nobody doubts that he will have wanted to give it his best shot and do a good job. However, his background, his speeches and his skills, make it only too a
I dedicate this first post to the axis of evil and all our friends in the international terrorism business!
Gringo muerte!
I thought he was a lieutenant.
Every time I see the name of that newspaper I'm reminded of an old Russian proverb: There's no news in the Truth and no truth in the News.
Nice copy and paste.
Voting for Bush is voting for a war criminal
So is voting for Kerry (as he admitted during his Senate testimony). So, I guess Nader?
And "rejoin" the international community? The same "community" that took billions of dollars worth of bribes and oil vouchers (France, Germany, Russia and China especially) in order to influence public opinion on Iraq (bribes were given to French journalists) and, in the case of France, to guarantee a vote against any type of military action against Iraq?
What a great "community" that is.
I write this letter as a citizen of this international community and as a journalist for a newspaper whose name is Pravda (Truth), I have the obligation to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
LOL! Yes, Pravda, the newspaper of "Truth". What a fucking joke.
I've just signed legislation that'll outlaw Russia forever. We'll begin bombing in five minutes.
Not if you're Johnny Carson! Hyoooooooooooooooe
Pravda is Russian for "truth".
Ugh, what a best-selling train wreck that was.
Or how about the movie industry? Seriously, how many crap movies are put out each year, with ever last one of them promoted as the biggest, baddest, bestest blockbuster of the year? How many are worth my money, maybe 1 or 2.
This is Slashdot.org, remember? Don't bother wasting your own moderator points, talking up Nintendo on Slashdot is always worth a +5 informative. God forbid you mod up a PS2 or XBox post, though...
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