After heading to E3, I decided to put up a review about the dismal performance Microsoft XBox put up. After seeing the "mainstream" gaming press try and spin the XBox off as hot shit, I figured, what better way to test this micro-ad thingy?
So, I've put my own targeted ad up. The XBox should be riding an immense wave of hype after E3, the build-up was huge, so tone of people will be searching for the information...will I get hits?
Here's my review of the XBox, in case you want to see what the real gaming public thinks of the XBox's E3 performance: XBox Review here.
Don't produce systems that have shit for content, and get good 3rd party developers.
Sega botched, that's all there is to it. Indrema could learn from this and there's one less competitior in the market...how does this bode ill?
Personally, I'd be much more in fear of jumping into a market with 3 really, really good consoles and a new upcoming contender, than the competition Indrema has now...1 dead system, 1 new system for the real gamers, and the N64 for the lamers.
Btw Slashdot needs to change the "games" widget to something that is representative of the gaming community, and not the Pokemon community.
Sure, remember all the technological edges the Jaguar and TurboGrafx systems had? That ensured their long term success...
Or actually, it didn't help at all and they got run into the ground.
The DC has a very limited supply of games of C quality. I've got over 50 DC games, and I honestly HATE, not just don't really like, HATE, over half of them. I enjoy playing maybe 5.
I guarantee that in a year's time I'll have more than 5 PS2 games that I really like playing and less than 28 that I hate.
Oh yeah...don't buy a PS2 on Ebay...I'm looking for a solution around that...if I can find it...muahahahaha...I'd just love to see when those guys who bought 15 machines are suddenly left holding 15 and nobody wants to buy their inventory.
People are still buying their MP3s online. That's the extent of the TMBG web presence I see.
Don't get me wrong, I love the band, but the guys are SO busy that the damn website almost never gets updated. I used to try and check the thing out but everything on it was at least 2 months old. Using Napster isn't going to stop me from swinging by tmbg.com every 2 months or so.
The only thing that got regularly updated were the tour dates, and they're all on the East Coast for a while, so it's not like it's going to be of any help to me.
For example, the website got an overhaul after Linell released "State Songs" but it hasn't changed very much since that last time I saw it. No new merchandise, save for the State Songs T-shirt and album. No new stories from the guys, they're just too busy for all of that.
If it was a website were the band regularly interacted with the fans, and such, I'd respect their call, but I really can't say Napster's stolen all that much of TMBG's regular web audience.
All I know, is that I would hate to be the kid who goes looking for warez and hits a porn pop up page when his mother goes looking through that "1-click" page to see what sites he's been at lately.
You know, those two guys piss me off. Bill Dwyer irritated me when he was the dumbass in the 989 Sports commercials, and Sean Salisbury is a washed-up, ex-third string quarterback for the San Diego Chargers.
I think we'd need a split second camera to see if Bill's lips move before the FP shows up...those AC guys have had years of practice by now.
And what if he was...would it bother you? And why?
Why is "difference" such a BAD thing?
What I really don't get about all these "name of group"-ist movements is that they get all pissed off when people try and acknowledge that there is a difference between their group and the rest of humanity, but they get really pissed off at the idea of just blending in with the rest of society.
Let me give you an example. I'm Chinese. I'm playing Counter-Strike, and I run into a group of people playing with their country in their name.
Now nothing to me is sadder than having to "represent" for your country in a video game. Exactly how much honor and glory do you think you're doing for you country by playing Counter-Strike? People won't remember who won in the Olympics, much less who won a piddling game of CS on a random server...I point this out and the response I get from people is:
"Because I gotta represent 24-7!"
So I reply, "Don't you realize that that makes you no more than your nationalism?"
The response: "And what are you then, you're nothing!"
I respond: "I'm an individual, I'm #1, and my country is #2 in my life."
To which they respond: "Ok, you wannabee white boy." (I've corrected their spelling, btw.)
So, what this long winded example was supposed to show is that, while those same people would be utterly pissed if I was to claim that their race had differences that seperated it from the rest of society. (not negative or positive differences, mind you, just differences. Not everything in life has a - or + attached to it...there are neutrons, and hence, there are equally neutral thoughts, ideas, and actions.)
You can't have it both ways. But you can accept both, because that's the way it is. Women are different from men. Get used to it, or you're going to have a hard time trying to conceive children. (This goes out to both sexes, btw.)
At the same time, they're just like all the men in society, because all humanity has the same basic needs and wants.
However, this doesn't mean that they're all going to attack a problem the same way. Using the example of all my "geek" friends, every single girl I know who is a gamer wants to enter the game industry in some sort of artistic position, because they have artistic ability.
By contrast, and the male gamers I know want to be coders or designers, and couldn't draw a stick man if you gave them a ruler and a compass.
If I gathered them all together and we made a game, it would be through our differences that we achieve a balance and get all parts of the job accomplished. Nobody would do less work than the other, and this is not to say that the artistic abilities that the women would be the only thing the women provided.
Why is this such a BAD thing? Why is this sexism? And furthermore, why do I have to write something this long to explain that it isn't sexism because people stopped taking things at face value? Just chill...to jump on someone for making a comment a comment like that makes you at LEAST as sexist for jumping on what you assume their intentions to be.
What it really needs are some damn robots that work. I think I've seen 2 fights where one of the robots hasn't just fallen apart on the floor.
That lame-ass "Pressure Drop" robot keeps getting mauled by its opponent early in the match, and then the other robot breaks down. I've never seen it hit with that big weapon until the other robot has stopped moving.
The dsigners should have just made a big block of metal that inches forward at this rate.
It was because there were pyramid schemes running with "investors" plunking money into. I doubt that the guy would have slammed this guy as hard if VMSK-man wasn't cheating people out of money with it.
I'm going to drag out the guy who invented the mouse and patent the "double click". People will be forced to install "Click Counters" on all their machines, and you'll have to buy licenses for double-clicking from me.
Once you've neared the end of your 10,000 double clicks, you'll get a friendly reminder that you've only got 100 or so double clicks left before your license expires. (And, of course, you'll have to double-click to remove the pop-up window.)
If you take it over to a friend's house, it'll start complaining about how it doesn't belong to him, and then it'll call the police and report you for theft.
Erg...what surprises me here is that most of the people commenting on this stuff haven't ever played it...I thought all this 3rd Party commentary only happened when there were posts that involved laws and stuff.
Anyway, here's my review of the game:
Personally, the no head-bob makes me a bit ill, the ending is kind of forumlaic and yet unrewarding, and for those of you who think you go around fighting the Borg, they actually don't come into play for most of the game...short as it is.
However, it is kind of fun...best described as a 2-hour special episode of Voyager on steroids. One thing I thought was really weird (besides the bad modeling) is that all the ST:V cast members do their own voices...except for 7 of 9...it's this obvious knock-off...What happened there?
Props to you for naming yourself after a (relatively) obscure cycling event.
I agree, usually, I have to bag on the Canadians, but they're a thorn in the side to big business this time, and seeing as how I think big business is just being a huge BASTARD right now, I have to actually...gulp...commend the Canadians...
I watch the Olympics for the competition. The Olympics aren't like a this huge f*cking 200+ country group hug, and that's what NBC is making it look like.
If I just want to know about personal adversity or overcoming hardships, I'll just talk to myself. What makes the athletes tales of toil any different than mine?
Nothing...except for the fact that they're in the Olympics...so, then SHOW THE F*CKING OLYMPICS!
You're wrong about the NBC coverage only showing the Americans...they show Non-Americans...because they don't want to look like dumbasses when they don't mention the winner of the event before they show it. They'll offer up some aside like, don't forget to watch lane 4, she's unheard of, but people think she might pull an upset. (Yeah, especially the people who know the results already because they're 15 hours ahead.) Like yesterday...they hadn't shown anything about Korea...all of a sudden there's a piece on them, and BAM! One of the South Korean gymnasts finishes with 2 gold medals! Oh my goodness, how clairvoyant of NBC! They really know their stuff.
That's what pissed me off...the ad's right in the middle each time the chorus comes up. I don't care if BNL puts something in at the beginning and the end that advertises their album, or embeds it in the ID3 tag, but that's like listening to the radio, and hearing the DJ interrupt with the station name. (If you live in Southern California, the assholes at KIIS-FM do it ALL the time.)
And if people are going to tell me that they didn't put the ads at the beginning and end because someone would just take them out, well that argument is shot to hell...the day after I found the track with commercials, I found it on Napster with the commercials taken out.
I prefer the Offspring's method of fighting...their upcoming album will be released on the net for free.
Some script kiddie who wanted to be 'leet made a cheesy virus and incorporated DeCSS into the virus, but did no damage, so DeCSS would be on like, millions of computers?
So damn retarded. I was against buying books in college in the first place. There were so many books on the "required" book list that the prof would tell you that you weren't going to use later on. Sometimes you didn't figure that out until well past the return date, and so you had this shrinkwrapped money sinkhole.
This is so wrong. In the first place, I would much rather have a REAL copy of the book. I know this is like, bad for trees and stuff, but reading a book on a DVD or a CD, or in HyperCard just isn't anywhere near as cool, and I'm just going to be so much more tempted to start up a game of CounterStrike instead of rereading that part on mitotic division. Even if I uninstalled everything else, falling asleep and getting drool in my keyboard, AND Keyboard Face would not be pretty.
On top of that, sharing books was a great way to hook up. You'd set up a study date, and accidentally forget one of your books in the car...then you two would have to share th same book...now that's going to cost you $500,000!
The time limitedness of this all is incredibly stupid. I don't think I need to explain why to any coder who's ever bought books in class.
By the way, I'm glad the VSTi system is looking out for the well being of the student, making sure that they get the maximum amount of titles possible, while ensuring the demise of the entire nation's medical staff in just 4 short years. If you ever have a doctor from NYU screw up an operation on you, make sure to sue these guys as part of your malpractice suit, as well. (oh like the lawsuits that have been flying around in court recently made ANY more sense...suing AOL for Gnutella...)
Yeah, I know. I also know that I wasn't the one who spelled it that way. My story submission just says "Stephenson on Batman Project". The/. guy who added it is to blame. It's not my bad code. =)
I would, but those are so good. I'd hate to have them ruined just because Stephenson hadn't gotten his feet wet in the movie industry.
On the other hand, letting him make a few films first could also lead to him making something like The Phantom Menace...but you take your chances, you know...
I used to be a huge fan of the Olympics. Now the Summer Olympics I used to wait every 4 years to see, I will never see again. In fact, I'm disgusted that you can even act as if there's any sort of camraderie left in this highly commercialized, sponsor driven orgy of capitalism.
Read my brother's editorial on how there will be NO live coverage of the Olympics, and basically why we hate what NBC has done to the Games.
I seem to remember the Olympics running pre-NBC coverage just fine. I got round-the-clock coverage of sports I wanted to see, and learned about sports I'd never heard of. Table Tennis, Team Handball, Fencing, the High Jump...all of that isn't going to be ANYWHERE on NBC.
Instead, I can look forward to seeing a whole week and a half of GYMNASTICS! WOO F*CKING HOO! In between, we'll show the Dream Team 70 beat every other team in the world with coaches alone, and some human interest stories about those beloved Gymnasts, and if the Women's Soccer doesn't lose, you can bet there will be a day or two of them.
When I was young, corporations ran HUGE promotions with the Olympics...but I still saw live coverage of sports. All the sports. In fact, I wish McDonalds would run sponsorship they way they ran it back in '88 and '84. They gave you these little scratch cards with prizes for Bronze, Silver and Gold. If the US won a medal in that event, you won the prize scratched off. You got some really random events like Women's Field Hockey and stuff, but you wanted that Big Mac, so you watched that event.
Now the only people I see getting excited about the Olympics are women. Because here are the events you will see on NBC, F*CKING GUARANTEED:
Women's Indivdual Gymnastics
Women's Team Gymnastics
Men's Indivdual Gymnastics
Women's Team Gymnastics
Swimming
Synchronized Swimming
Women's Diving
Men's Diving
Women's Soccer
Cycling Road Race (Only because of Lance Armstrong.)
Track (No & Field...just track. Only the 100, 200 and 400 most likely.)
The Olympics I loved as a kid are gone. I have to derive my own enjoyment by looking at the box scores to find out who won, but now I'm not going to even be able to find out about those real time. "Pirate" the Olympics, go right f*cking ahead!
In addition, do you have any idea how ordinary people like you & me get tickets for the games? We'd would ostensibly send away money to reserve our tickets. If they're popular events, you won't get tickets, but get this, if you don't get a seat, THEY F*CKING KEEP YOUR MONEY ANYWAY!
My brother went to the games in Atlanta. He ran into people who lost upwards of $5,000 trying to get tickets for events that the sponsors had ALREADY FILLED, and they got JACK SHIT for $5,000.
This year, to make room for extra cameras, they booted another group of people from the opening cermonies...no refunds for them! What kind of f*cking scam is that?! Sell the seat 4 times over, don't give refunds, and award the seat to a sponsor. The IOOC and NBC win the gold again this year for screwing the people UP THE ASS!
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After heading to E3, I decided to put up a review about the dismal performance Microsoft XBox put up. After seeing the "mainstream" gaming press try and spin the XBox off as hot shit, I figured, what better way to test this micro-ad thingy?
So, I've put my own targeted ad up. The XBox should be riding an immense wave of hype after E3, the build-up was huge, so tone of people will be searching for the information...will I get hits?
Here's my review of the XBox, in case you want to see what the real gaming public thinks of the XBox's E3 performance: XBox Review here.
Monolith did Shogo for BeOS, as well. And despite what Something Afwul had to say about it, I rather liked multiplayer Shogo.
Yeah, it's subbed...but it's not like it matters. As long as you can read, you'll be fine.
By the way, check out my non-Katzian review of the movie.
Review here.
They could learn a valuable lesson...
Don't produce systems that have shit for content, and get good 3rd party developers.
Sega botched, that's all there is to it. Indrema could learn from this and there's one less competitior in the market...how does this bode ill?
Personally, I'd be much more in fear of jumping into a market with 3 really, really good consoles and a new upcoming contender, than the competition Indrema has now...1 dead system, 1 new system for the real gamers, and the N64 for the lamers.
Btw Slashdot needs to change the "games" widget to something that is representative of the gaming community, and not the Pokemon community.
Sure, remember all the technological edges the Jaguar and TurboGrafx systems had? That ensured their long term success...
Or actually, it didn't help at all and they got run into the ground.
The DC has a very limited supply of games of C quality. I've got over 50 DC games, and I honestly HATE, not just don't really like, HATE, over half of them. I enjoy playing maybe 5.
I guarantee that in a year's time I'll have more than 5 PS2 games that I really like playing and less than 28 that I hate.
Oh yeah...don't buy a PS2 on Ebay...I'm looking for a solution around that...if I can find it...muahahahaha...I'd just love to see when those guys who bought 15 machines are suddenly left holding 15 and nobody wants to buy their inventory.
People are still buying their MP3s online. That's the extent of the TMBG web presence I see.
Don't get me wrong, I love the band, but the guys are SO busy that the damn website almost never gets updated. I used to try and check the thing out but everything on it was at least 2 months old. Using Napster isn't going to stop me from swinging by tmbg.com every 2 months or so.
The only thing that got regularly updated were the tour dates, and they're all on the East Coast for a while, so it's not like it's going to be of any help to me.
For example, the website got an overhaul after Linell released "State Songs" but it hasn't changed very much since that last time I saw it. No new merchandise, save for the State Songs T-shirt and album. No new stories from the guys, they're just too busy for all of that.
If it was a website were the band regularly interacted with the fans, and such, I'd respect their call, but I really can't say Napster's stolen all that much of TMBG's regular web audience.
I want to see the Robotic Bad Driver where they see if it can drive while trying to put on makeup.
All I know, is that I would hate to be the kid who goes looking for warez and hits a porn pop up page when his mother goes looking through that "1-click" page to see what sites he's been at lately.
It just popped up!
I BET it did! *whap*
You know, those two guys piss me off. Bill Dwyer irritated me when he was the dumbass in the 989 Sports commercials, and Sean Salisbury is a washed-up, ex-third string quarterback for the San Diego Chargers.
I think we'd need a split second camera to see if Bill's lips move before the FP shows up...those AC guys have had years of practice by now.
And what if he was...would it bother you? And why?
Why is "difference" such a BAD thing?
What I really don't get about all these "name of group"-ist movements is that they get all pissed off when people try and acknowledge that there is a difference between their group and the rest of humanity, but they get really pissed off at the idea of just blending in with the rest of society.
Let me give you an example. I'm Chinese. I'm playing Counter-Strike, and I run into a group of people playing with their country in their name.
Now nothing to me is sadder than having to "represent" for your country in a video game. Exactly how much honor and glory do you think you're doing for you country by playing Counter-Strike? People won't remember who won in the Olympics, much less who won a piddling game of CS on a random server...I point this out and the response I get from people is:
"Because I gotta represent 24-7!"
So I reply, "Don't you realize that that makes you no more than your nationalism?"
The response: "And what are you then, you're nothing!"
I respond: "I'm an individual, I'm #1, and my country is #2 in my life." To which they respond: "Ok, you wannabee white boy." (I've corrected their spelling, btw.)
So, what this long winded example was supposed to show is that, while those same people would be utterly pissed if I was to claim that their race had differences that seperated it from the rest of society. (not negative or positive differences, mind you, just differences. Not everything in life has a - or + attached to it...there are neutrons, and hence, there are equally neutral thoughts, ideas, and actions.)
You can't have it both ways. But you can accept both, because that's the way it is. Women are different from men. Get used to it, or you're going to have a hard time trying to conceive children. (This goes out to both sexes, btw.)
At the same time, they're just like all the men in society, because all humanity has the same basic needs and wants.
However, this doesn't mean that they're all going to attack a problem the same way. Using the example of all my "geek" friends, every single girl I know who is a gamer wants to enter the game industry in some sort of artistic position, because they have artistic ability.
By contrast, and the male gamers I know want to be coders or designers, and couldn't draw a stick man if you gave them a ruler and a compass.
If I gathered them all together and we made a game, it would be through our differences that we achieve a balance and get all parts of the job accomplished. Nobody would do less work than the other, and this is not to say that the artistic abilities that the women would be the only thing the women provided.
Why is this such a BAD thing? Why is this sexism? And furthermore, why do I have to write something this long to explain that it isn't sexism because people stopped taking things at face value? Just chill...to jump on someone for making a comment a comment like that makes you at LEAST as sexist for jumping on what you assume their intentions to be.
No way...you'd just get 10,000 anonymous requests for the robot to pour hot grits down the other robot's pants.
That and the robot would just sit around waiting for the fight to start, tap the other robot and yell:
FIRST POST!
Then it would make fun of the other robot because it doesn't use Linux, play illegal MP3s, then run away and call Jon Katz gay.
What it really needs are some damn robots that work. I think I've seen 2 fights where one of the robots hasn't just fallen apart on the floor.
That lame-ass "Pressure Drop" robot keeps getting mauled by its opponent early in the match, and then the other robot breaks down. I've never seen it hit with that big weapon until the other robot has stopped moving.
The dsigners should have just made a big block of metal that inches forward at this rate.
It was because there were pyramid schemes running with "investors" plunking money into. I doubt that the guy would have slammed this guy as hard if VMSK-man wasn't cheating people out of money with it.
I'm going to drag out the guy who invented the mouse and patent the "double click". People will be forced to install "Click Counters" on all their machines, and you'll have to buy licenses for double-clicking from me.
Once you've neared the end of your 10,000 double clicks, you'll get a friendly reminder that you've only got 100 or so double clicks left before your license expires. (And, of course, you'll have to double-click to remove the pop-up window.)
I'll sue Microsoft first.
If you take it over to a friend's house, it'll start complaining about how it doesn't belong to him, and then it'll call the police and report you for theft.
Erg...what surprises me here is that most of the people commenting on this stuff haven't ever played it...I thought all this 3rd Party commentary only happened when there were posts that involved laws and stuff.
Anyway, here's my review of the game: Personally, the no head-bob makes me a bit ill, the ending is kind of forumlaic and yet unrewarding, and for those of you who think you go around fighting the Borg, they actually don't come into play for most of the game...short as it is.
However, it is kind of fun...best described as a 2-hour special episode of Voyager on steroids. One thing I thought was really weird (besides the bad modeling) is that all the ST:V cast members do their own voices...except for 7 of 9...it's this obvious knock-off...What happened there?
Props to you for naming yourself after a (relatively) obscure cycling event.
I agree, usually, I have to bag on the Canadians, but they're a thorn in the side to big business this time, and seeing as how I think big business is just being a huge BASTARD right now, I have to actually...gulp...commend the Canadians...
I watch the Olympics for the competition. The Olympics aren't like a this huge f*cking 200+ country group hug, and that's what NBC is making it look like.
If I just want to know about personal adversity or overcoming hardships, I'll just talk to myself. What makes the athletes tales of toil any different than mine?
Nothing...except for the fact that they're in the Olympics...so, then SHOW THE F*CKING OLYMPICS!
You're wrong about the NBC coverage only showing the Americans...they show Non-Americans...because they don't want to look like dumbasses when they don't mention the winner of the event before they show it. They'll offer up some aside like, don't forget to watch lane 4, she's unheard of, but people think she might pull an upset. (Yeah, especially the people who know the results already because they're 15 hours ahead.) Like yesterday...they hadn't shown anything about Korea...all of a sudden there's a piece on them, and BAM! One of the South Korean gymnasts finishes with 2 gold medals! Oh my goodness, how clairvoyant of NBC! They really know their stuff.
That's what pissed me off...the ad's right in the middle each time the chorus comes up. I don't care if BNL puts something in at the beginning and the end that advertises their album, or embeds it in the ID3 tag, but that's like listening to the radio, and hearing the DJ interrupt with the station name. (If you live in Southern California, the assholes at KIIS-FM do it ALL the time.)
And if people are going to tell me that they didn't put the ads at the beginning and end because someone would just take them out, well that argument is shot to hell...the day after I found the track with commercials, I found it on Napster with the commercials taken out.
I prefer the Offspring's method of fighting...their upcoming album will be released on the net for free.
Some script kiddie who wanted to be 'leet made a cheesy virus and incorporated DeCSS into the virus, but did no damage, so DeCSS would be on like, millions of computers?
Just a thought.
I like Manglish better. =)
/. guy have been a little lax on the spelling...like the Neal Stephenson article that spelled Neal "Neil".
But the
So damn retarded. I was against buying books in college in the first place. There were so many books on the "required" book list that the prof would tell you that you weren't going to use later on. Sometimes you didn't figure that out until well past the return date, and so you had this shrinkwrapped money sinkhole.
This is so wrong. In the first place, I would much rather have a REAL copy of the book. I know this is like, bad for trees and stuff, but reading a book on a DVD or a CD, or in HyperCard just isn't anywhere near as cool, and I'm just going to be so much more tempted to start up a game of CounterStrike instead of rereading that part on mitotic division. Even if I uninstalled everything else, falling asleep and getting drool in my keyboard, AND Keyboard Face would not be pretty.
On top of that, sharing books was a great way to hook up. You'd set up a study date, and accidentally forget one of your books in the car...then you two would have to share th same book...now that's going to cost you $500,000!
The time limitedness of this all is incredibly stupid. I don't think I need to explain why to any coder who's ever bought books in class.
By the way, I'm glad the VSTi system is looking out for the well being of the student, making sure that they get the maximum amount of titles possible, while ensuring the demise of the entire nation's medical staff in just 4 short years. If you ever have a doctor from NYU screw up an operation on you, make sure to sue these guys as part of your malpractice suit, as well. (oh like the lawsuits that have been flying around in court recently made ANY more sense...suing AOL for Gnutella...)
Yeah, I know. I also know that I wasn't the one who spelled it that way. My story submission just says "Stephenson on Batman Project". The /. guy who added it is to blame. It's not my bad code. =)
I would, but those are so good. I'd hate to have them ruined just because Stephenson hadn't gotten his feet wet in the movie industry.
On the other hand, letting him make a few films first could also lead to him making something like The Phantom Menace...but you take your chances, you know...
Right f*cking on.
Right f*cking on.
Read my brother's editorial on how there will be NO live coverage of the Olympics, and basically why we hate what NBC has done to the Games.
Do you want to see the Olympics? DON'T watch NBC.
I seem to remember the Olympics running pre-NBC coverage just fine. I got round-the-clock coverage of sports I wanted to see, and learned about sports I'd never heard of. Table Tennis, Team Handball, Fencing, the High Jump...all of that isn't going to be ANYWHERE on NBC.
Instead, I can look forward to seeing a whole week and a half of GYMNASTICS! WOO F*CKING HOO! In between, we'll show the Dream Team 70 beat every other team in the world with coaches alone, and some human interest stories about those beloved Gymnasts, and if the Women's Soccer doesn't lose, you can bet there will be a day or two of them.
When I was young, corporations ran HUGE promotions with the Olympics...but I still saw live coverage of sports. All the sports. In fact, I wish McDonalds would run sponsorship they way they ran it back in '88 and '84. They gave you these little scratch cards with prizes for Bronze, Silver and Gold. If the US won a medal in that event, you won the prize scratched off. You got some really random events like Women's Field Hockey and stuff, but you wanted that Big Mac, so you watched that event.
Now the only people I see getting excited about the Olympics are women. Because here are the events you will see on NBC, F*CKING GUARANTEED:
The Olympics I loved as a kid are gone. I have to derive my own enjoyment by looking at the box scores to find out who won, but now I'm not going to even be able to find out about those real time. "Pirate" the Olympics, go right f*cking ahead!
In addition, do you have any idea how ordinary people like you & me get tickets for the games? We'd would ostensibly send away money to reserve our tickets. If they're popular events, you won't get tickets, but get this, if you don't get a seat, THEY F*CKING KEEP YOUR MONEY ANYWAY!
My brother went to the games in Atlanta. He ran into people who lost upwards of $5,000 trying to get tickets for events that the sponsors had ALREADY FILLED, and they got JACK SHIT for $5,000.
This year, to make room for extra cameras, they booted another group of people from the opening cermonies...no refunds for them! What kind of f*cking scam is that?! Sell the seat 4 times over, don't give refunds, and award the seat to a sponsor. The IOOC and NBC win the gold again this year for screwing the people UP THE ASS!