Spore Is EA's New Ace

BusinessWeek reports on EA's Next Big Thing. From the article: "EA is stumbling, and a big part of its time-tested strategy is about to change. The company hopes that its next mega-franchise will revolve not around a football star, a boy wizard, or a dashing British spy, but...a microbe. The game is called Spore. Developed by Will Wright, the creator of SimCity and The Sims, it lets players design an invertebrate in its primordial stages and then guide its evolution until the creature's offspring develop into a thriving civilization with cities, religion, and spaceships. EA's ambitious goal is to create more such innovative, internally developed games while lessening the company's dependence on professional sports and Hollywood movie franchises."

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Re:Typical

[idsofmarch]

You were modded troll because you deserved it.

Conservatives feel that Spore will open the way to fully immersing our youth into the Intelligent Design movement.
This is funny.

Liberals hope that Spore will open the way to fully immersing our youth into bi-transsexual organisms with no morals or values.
This is not. And it's not funny because you take the funny part: "bi-transexual organisms" and push it too far with the "no morals or values." You're not being funny, you're attacking.

As for your second comment, this is just typical "I'm being oppressed" from someone who doesn't like getting modded down for being an asshole while trying and failing to set up a joke.

Just think of it this way, someone marking you troll is just another joke, and you can take a joke right?

Re:Typical

[shelterpaw]

From Wikipedia: In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who posts rude or offensive messages on the Internet, such as in online discussion forums, to disrupt discussion or to upset its participants. -- So you're right and wrong.

The parent post would be considered the original troll and I would be responding with a troll comment myself in the context of the article, although were not attacking the article in anyway. However marking someone a troll is not what you say it is in this context.

I thought the original conservative comment was funny as was mine and I was disappointed, but not surprised to see it modded down (negative/troll). However my original comment even makes me laugh harder because it rings some truth, just look how personal you took it. ha!ha!ha!

Re:Typical

[idsofmarch]

I wasn't taking your joke personally, I thought it was just badly told, but what I thought needed comment was your follow-up which was a long "the liberals are oppressing me" bleat. Both comments were trolls or "disrupting the conversation" but they were also funny, but I can't stand it when people whine about comments, especially with some psuedo-political complaint as if the labels "liberal" and "conservative" meant anything.

Get this through your head, the joke was poorly told, that's why you got a troll. But, hopefully you can stop whining like a little bitch because you now have +4 funny as of this writing.