I should know. I'm sitting in an office full of men. The only women we've hired were for Sales & Marketing, booth babes, etc. Haha, reminds me of when college recruiters came to my all-boys high school and didn't know it was single-sex. "Oh, it's only guys here. Great! You'll feel just at home in our CompSci classes." It was right then and there I decided not to major in I.T.
This reminds me of the whole GTA:SA Hot Coffee mod. While a lot of other countries were concerned about the violence in this game (nevermind that it was recommended for mature audiences), the US politicians only went nuts when grainy, pixellated, soft-core cartoon sex was depicted in a hack.
I used to wonder how obsessed people must be over sex to get all worked up over this. Then I had a conversation with a Christian fundamentalist. Wow. The things they believe. They truly think they are doing God's work by imposing their will on the rest of us. And even more frightening, it's not just sex, but their whole perspective on everything which explains a lot about our foreign policy.
I hear that in Europe, their advertising has bare-breasted women. I don't see the Europeans running crazily through the streets and their societies falling apart. Yet when JJ flashed a boob at the SuperBowl, the US gov went nuts. Makes you wonder who has the more stable society...
The only TV show that I watch when aired is Smallville. However, it pisses me off that I have to watch 15+ minutes of advertising per hour, and once the show comes back on, I have to watch another minute of advertising in the lower half of the screen. Usually it's for what's coming up next or later in the week, etc. Remember when those types of commercials used the be shows during the commercial break, not during the show?
For other shows that I want to watch, I just buy the DVDs at the end of the season. No advertising, crystal clear picture & sound, and each episode is ~45 minutes. That'a big F U to the advertisers. They've made my TV viewing experience so horrible that I just don't even watch TV anymore except for that 1 show. I don't even turn it on as background noise when I'm on my PC. No corporate jingles or graphics or one-liners for me.
I know people say the same thing when faster CPUs come out, "who's going to need all that speed?", but I think it can be said of hard drive space. I can't even fill up my 250GB HD, and that includes my OS, development database, latest games, and my, um... "collection." Video games are the largest media out there (unless you are pirating DVDs, but that doesn't count). Oblivion takes 4.5GB on my HD. Valve's Steam w/ HL1, HL2, etc. takes 7GB. What else is there? Unless you are doing high-res graphics work or editting a home-movie, will this hard drive ever make it into the mainstream? Or is it just a niche item?
I would rather than 2 x 350GB in RAID 1 in case of a HD failure instead of 1 700GB HD.
Actually, if you were that high (a manager), wouldn't you have to go into the office everyday? It's the grunts like us that can work from home. i.e. if you job can be outsourced, then you can most likely work from home.
As for dealing with big files, why not ask about using Microsoft Remote Desktop? Just connect to your Win XP Pro PC at work from your Win XP Pro PC at home. Or you can use VNC if you desktop is Linux.
I'm your age and single. I have just as much free time as when I graduated college and started working. In fact, I have even more free time since I'm not sucking up at the office and putting in O.T. to get on the boss's good side. I'm in cruise mode at the office.
The reason you, a single guy with no g/f, have less free time is because you are unorganized. Here, do this. Put 15-minute blocks for the whole day in MS Excel (96 total). Now fill in what you have to do in those blocks. i.e. 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work, 1 hour of commuting, etc. The blocks that you have not filled in are your free-time blocks. It may surprise you how much time you have. Maybe you waste time surfing/.? I know I do.;-)
Look at women's tennis - Anna Kournikova hardly ever (if ever?) won the Grand Slam or Wimbledon, etc. but who cares? At that time, she was the most recognized face of women's tennis. In fact some of the ugly women complained about her why she was getting all of the press coverage when she hadn't won. And you know what? I would specifically watch women's tennis matches just to see her play, even if she did lose.
Hey, if a nice set of T's and a tight A allows a women to get corporate sponsorship, then good for her! Use your assets to maximize your cashflow.
I'm not a "devoted" gamer, but I still build all of my own PCs to play games. When I set out to build my PCs, I want the latest & greatest that's currently available (and will pay top dollar for it) and allows for future expansion. The only Dell PCs I use are the ones my corporation provides me at the office. I have never seen a Dell computer with an Antec case and PS, Asus MOBO, Corsair RAM, WD 10K RPM SATA drives, and a pair of SLI or Crossfire cards.
If you're that hardcore into gaming that you will spend the thousands for an Alienware or Dell PC, why not just buy all the parts over the internet from the cheapest retailers and build it yourself? Or maybe there is a significant difference between the gaming geeks and us hardware / overclocker geeks.:P
>> I understand the reasons why people don't take to MMORPG's (d00dz, kiddies, time, etc.), but it's many of those very reasons that are compelling to me. To me, grown up and a programmer, single-player CRPG's fail in that important "suspension of disbelief" aspect that I need to feel immersed in a game.
>Odd. Those are exactly the same reasons why I take to CRPGs over MMORPGs.
Me too, plus a few more. (And I'm also an adult in I.T.) I cannot justify spending $20/month or $240/year on 1 video game. In fact, I'm rather leary of Valve's Half-Life 2 Episodes @ $20/each instead of releasing a complete game. But I digress. I love the suspension of disbelief when I play a game. I'm in control. I stopped playing GTA:SA a few months ago, but picked it back up and was exactly where I left off. I stopped playing Doom3 several months ago, but will fire it up this weekend and I'm right where I left off. I don't have to worry about someone else changing something or advancing without me. I don't have to worry about coordinating my time with other people's time so we can all be exploring at the same time. (Gee that sounds like "meeting times" which reminds me of work.) Plus, I can save & restore if I screw up. I like to be in my old fantasy world away from everyone else and just enjoy a good game. That's why I have never played a MMORPG and never will. I grew up with the Ultimas (top-down to 3D). To me, those were the best CRPG's ever.
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I agree with you there. I've got the PC game ordered and it will arrive next week, but that's the one thing I'm skeptical about. I remember in the old Ultima games and other CRPGs that when my character first started out, I'd get killed if I met the local bully/demon. But after upping my stats a bit, I was toe-to-toe and eventually just easily destroyed them. This allows for parts of the game to be almost off-limits until you are good enough. i.e. put a dragon in front of a cave. You can't enter that cave (and thus complete a mission) until you are strong enough to defeat that dragon.
I think that reflects real-life more. You can improve yourself in real life and eventually become better than others. Everyone doesn't start out at the same level and keep getting better and better. Isn't that like saying everyone remains the same, except the bar is raised?
Anyways, once I get it next week, I'll check it out. I wonder what kind of mods would be available for this.
When I get something for "free" like regular TV, I expect there to be advertising so the TV producers can make a profit and pay their actors. However, when I pay for something like HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, etc. I expect the movies to be uninterrupted. I even expect there to be no 3rd party advertising between shows.
How is this any different from a video game? It's not like I downloaded a free trial-version of the 1st level. I purchased the game. I don't want to see crap in the game that ruins my fantasy-escape-from-reality time. We are bombarded by commercials to consume, consume, consume every waking moment (radio, TV, internet, magazines, newspapers, etc.). I don't wany any of that in my games.
Even in-game ads that mimic real-life ads (billboards in GTA, logos on racing cars, etc.) are annoying. I don't want to be reminded of, say, Jared @ Subway on a billboard, or Pennzoil motor oil on a racing car. That's a cop-out for the developers to not be creative. IIRC, there were some humourous billboards in GTA, or at least some that were relevant to locations in the game. i.e. "Shop at ZIP", etc.
But then couldn't someone create a mod to just remove all of those ads? If they are just images, can they be changed? And you can bet that having advertising in games will not lower the cost of the games.
The first part of your comment was correct. However, the last part is incorrect. You already said they are hiring Windows developers, not "PC" developers, then say you need to write a Linux version to be a "PC" developer. If you want a true "PC" developer, then write in Java. Otherwise you are a Windows developer or a Linux developer, or BSD, Solaris, etc.
And, FWIW, I really hope Halo 2 comes to the PC. They bumped up the graphics for Halo 1 and playing online with a full screen was lots of fun.
As I sit here in my cube wasting time waiting for the clock to tick to 5 PM and dreaming of having only a couple of million dollars so I could live off the invesment income, I am pondering why would anyone want to work after they have made $500 million or $1.5 billion dollars?
I could think of so many more fun and exciting things to do than... work. How many of us here worked for dot-coms and on paper were worth millions? I was and kept pestering our CFO as to when I could dump all of my shares and quit. Sadly, we went under before I could dump. If I was an employee of Google and my stock options were worth over a couple of million, I would dump and run.
Kind of makes you wonder about what kind of people stick around when they are already super-rich. Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, etc. Why do they continue to work? Is it because they have nothing better to do?
That game was awesome when it came out and it's still fun to play today since it's more than eye-candy and had a good plotline. Most of today's FPS has maybe 5 major bad guy characters to kill with similar, repetitive level design (outdoors, indoors). Alice, however, used all of the settings and characters in the novel in the game. From the card-guards to chess pieces, to Cheshire cat, to Army ants, etc. playing it was an adventure. And the levels were colorfully done to keep you interested. i.e. after playing level after level of Doom or FarCry, everything starts looking the same. Not with Alice. The only other FPS that I've played where the levels stayed interesting and creative was Half-Life 2. I would really love to play an American McGee's Alice 2 game.
Geeze, come on. We have advancements in technology that allows much faster access to many more subjects than in the past and people question whether or not it's a good thing?? The same analogy can be applied to modern farming and the supermarket. Are we having an overload of food or are we just too lazy to farm? We are not too lazy to farm. Instead, we have mastered agriculture which has allowed us to pursue other interests in science, business, the arts, etc. As with everything else, the truly lazy will abuse it - i.e. stuff their faces or never read a book - but that should not raise doubt as we progress onwards.
The HUGE plus (and I guess you don't get this), is that by playing your friends online, in say Halo 2 (or any FPS), you get your own FULL screen, not split screen garbage. With games using snipers and improving graphics, it helps to have your own full screen to see things.
I'm aware of a full screen, but in my priorities, being physically next to my friends > having a full screen. Yeah, the sniper part is fun. We'd stare at each other's quadrant of the screen to find out where they are and try to zap them!
It must be a generation thing. I like face-to-face human contact with my friends. I've always viewed technology, when used the "wrong" way, as a way to further distance us from our social interactions.
I never understood the popularity of online gaming. MMORPG, which cost $XX/game + $YY/month, isn't worth it to me. The only times I've played online was against my friend in an RTS. Halo was a lot of fun playing multiplayer, but we all played on the same console. It was a lot more fun sitting next to your friend as you blast him and talk smack instead of sitting alone in your room playing against strangers.
I guess that's just me. I like to escape from the Real World (TM) when I play a game and get immersed in it. I don't have much time to play games anyways, so my "skillz" aren't that great and I don't care to spend hours playing against high school kids to improve them.
So, not only would I have to deal with unorganized management who promises the clients the world in a horribly unreasonable amount of time, and without consulting IT, but I would also have to squeeze into my already overtime-qualified day some more time to have "fun" with my other co-workers in order to boost morale??? Forgive me if I sound cynical, but I would much, much, much, much rather have organized timelines, clear specifications from the client, and an 8-hour workday instead of "fun." Besides, it's called going to work, not going to fun. Besides, the geeks & dorks that I work with in IT don't know the meaning of fun. Now, the cute girls in sales & marketing... that's a different story!
I didn't mind Cisco's ads on last season's 24. I would rather see the characters using real products like Cisco's IP Phones than some propmaster's incorrect vision of what an IP phone should look like. Ford also sponsors the show and they drive big Ford trucks. Toyota sponsored the DVD preview of Season 5 and you see Jack driving a Toyota. Last season on Smallville, Clark used the red Old Spice deodorant - it was in his locker and on the big banner over the football field.
Product placement is only bad when it's inappropriate and doesn't flow with the show. I sure wouldn't want to see Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brien discussing Kotex Tampons or Vagisil cream as he's about to waste some terrorists. Or President Palmer plugging Uncle Ben's rice at a press conference. But if they are looking for a USB flash card containing Top Secret information, I don't mind them mentioning SanDisk.
Every two years, you hear the bullshit come out of Washington and other state capitals as our corrupt "leaders" spew forth their latest round of lies to "protect the children" in order to get re-/elected. Just who are they pandering to? Aren't the majority of gamers adults? This isn't the Atari 2600 nor NES days where they were merely children's toys. Today's expensive games require expensive PCs and expensive consoles - something that kids can't readily afford but we adults can.
I sincerely hope this all blows over and the gaming industry ratings enforcement ends up like the movie industry ratings enforcement. I cannot recall any lawsuits against movie studios for putting sex and violence in an R-rated movie.
And aren't there more pressing issues for politicians to be concerned about since we at war?
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I should know. I'm sitting in an office full of men. The only women we've hired were for Sales & Marketing, booth babes, etc. Haha, reminds me of when college recruiters came to my all-boys high school and didn't know it was single-sex. "Oh, it's only guys here. Great! You'll feel just at home in our CompSci classes." It was right then and there I decided not to major in I.T.
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This reminds me of the whole GTA:SA Hot Coffee mod. While a lot of other countries were concerned about the violence in this game (nevermind that it was recommended for mature audiences), the US politicians only went nuts when grainy, pixellated, soft-core cartoon sex was depicted in a hack.
I used to wonder how obsessed people must be over sex to get all worked up over this. Then I had a conversation with a Christian fundamentalist. Wow. The things they believe. They truly think they are doing God's work by imposing their will on the rest of us. And even more frightening, it's not just sex, but their whole perspective on everything which explains a lot about our foreign policy.
I hear that in Europe, their advertising has bare-breasted women. I don't see the Europeans running crazily through the streets and their societies falling apart. Yet when JJ flashed a boob at the SuperBowl, the US gov went nuts. Makes you wonder who has the more stable society...
The only TV show that I watch when aired is Smallville. However, it pisses me off that I have to watch 15+ minutes of advertising per hour, and once the show comes back on, I have to watch another minute of advertising in the lower half of the screen. Usually it's for what's coming up next or later in the week, etc. Remember when those types of commercials used the be shows during the commercial break, not during the show?
For other shows that I want to watch, I just buy the DVDs at the end of the season. No advertising, crystal clear picture & sound, and each episode is ~45 minutes. That'a big F U to the advertisers. They've made my TV viewing experience so horrible that I just don't even watch TV anymore except for that 1 show. I don't even turn it on as background noise when I'm on my PC. No corporate jingles or graphics or one-liners for me.
I know people say the same thing when faster CPUs come out, "who's going to need all that speed?", but I think it can be said of hard drive space. I can't even fill up my 250GB HD, and that includes my OS, development database, latest games, and my, um... "collection." Video games are the largest media out there (unless you are pirating DVDs, but that doesn't count). Oblivion takes 4.5GB on my HD. Valve's Steam w/ HL1, HL2, etc. takes 7GB. What else is there? Unless you are doing high-res graphics work or editting a home-movie, will this hard drive ever make it into the mainstream? Or is it just a niche item?
I would rather than 2 x 350GB in RAID 1 in case of a HD failure instead of 1 700GB HD.
Actually, if you were that high (a manager), wouldn't you have to go into the office everyday? It's the grunts like us that can work from home. i.e. if you job can be outsourced, then you can most likely work from home.
As for dealing with big files, why not ask about using Microsoft Remote Desktop? Just connect to your Win XP Pro PC at work from your Win XP Pro PC at home. Or you can use VNC if you desktop is Linux.
Wow, er, I feel bad for ripping a handicap guy. I'm sorry. Could you possibly telecommute?
I'm your age and single. I have just as much free time as when I graduated college and started working. In fact, I have even more free time since I'm not sucking up at the office and putting in O.T. to get on the boss's good side. I'm in cruise mode at the office.
/.? I know I do. ;-)
The reason you, a single guy with no g/f, have less free time is because you are unorganized. Here, do this. Put 15-minute blocks for the whole day in MS Excel (96 total). Now fill in what you have to do in those blocks. i.e. 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work, 1 hour of commuting, etc. The blocks that you have not filled in are your free-time blocks. It may surprise you how much time you have. Maybe you waste time surfing
Look at women's tennis - Anna Kournikova hardly ever (if ever?) won the Grand Slam or Wimbledon, etc. but who cares? At that time, she was the most recognized face of women's tennis. In fact some of the ugly women complained about her why she was getting all of the press coverage when she hadn't won. And you know what? I would specifically watch women's tennis matches just to see her play, even if she did lose.
Hey, if a nice set of T's and a tight A allows a women to get corporate sponsorship, then good for her! Use your assets to maximize your cashflow.
The violence and drugs part is good and all, but I really wish my l33t skillz would get me the l8dez. :-(
I'm not a "devoted" gamer, but I still build all of my own PCs to play games. When I set out to build my PCs, I want the latest & greatest that's currently available (and will pay top dollar for it) and allows for future expansion. The only Dell PCs I use are the ones my corporation provides me at the office. I have never seen a Dell computer with an Antec case and PS, Asus MOBO, Corsair RAM, WD 10K RPM SATA drives, and a pair of SLI or Crossfire cards.
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If you're that hardcore into gaming that you will spend the thousands for an Alienware or Dell PC, why not just buy all the parts over the internet from the cheapest retailers and build it yourself? Or maybe there is a significant difference between the gaming geeks and us hardware / overclocker geeks.
That's why high-traffic web sites need to run MS IIS. :-)
>> I understand the reasons why people don't take to MMORPG's (d00dz, kiddies, time, etc.), but it's many of those very reasons that are compelling to me. To me, grown up and a programmer, single-player CRPG's fail in that important "suspension of disbelief" aspect that I need to feel immersed in a game.
>Odd. Those are exactly the same reasons why I take to CRPGs over MMORPGs.
Me too, plus a few more. (And I'm also an adult in I.T.) I cannot justify spending $20/month or $240/year on 1 video game. In fact, I'm rather leary of Valve's Half-Life 2 Episodes @ $20/each instead of releasing a complete game. But I digress. I love the suspension of disbelief when I play a game. I'm in control. I stopped playing GTA:SA a few months ago, but picked it back up and was exactly where I left off. I stopped playing Doom3 several months ago, but will fire it up this weekend and I'm right where I left off. I don't have to worry about someone else changing something or advancing without me. I don't have to worry about coordinating my time with other people's time so we can all be exploring at the same time. (Gee that sounds like "meeting times" which reminds me of work.) Plus, I can save & restore if I screw up. I like to be in my old fantasy world away from everyone else and just enjoy a good game. That's why I have never played a MMORPG and never will. I grew up with the Ultimas (top-down to 3D). To me, those were the best CRPG's ever.
I agree with you there. I've got the PC game ordered and it will arrive next week, but that's the one thing I'm skeptical about. I remember in the old Ultima games and other CRPGs that when my character first started out, I'd get killed if I met the local bully/demon. But after upping my stats a bit, I was toe-to-toe and eventually just easily destroyed them. This allows for parts of the game to be almost off-limits until you are good enough. i.e. put a dragon in front of a cave. You can't enter that cave (and thus complete a mission) until you are strong enough to defeat that dragon.
I think that reflects real-life more. You can improve yourself in real life and eventually become better than others. Everyone doesn't start out at the same level and keep getting better and better. Isn't that like saying everyone remains the same, except the bar is raised?
Anyways, once I get it next week, I'll check it out. I wonder what kind of mods would be available for this.
When I get something for "free" like regular TV, I expect there to be advertising so the TV producers can make a profit and pay their actors. However, when I pay for something like HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, etc. I expect the movies to be uninterrupted. I even expect there to be no 3rd party advertising between shows.
How is this any different from a video game? It's not like I downloaded a free trial-version of the 1st level. I purchased the game. I don't want to see crap in the game that ruins my fantasy-escape-from-reality time. We are bombarded by commercials to consume, consume, consume every waking moment (radio, TV, internet, magazines, newspapers, etc.). I don't wany any of that in my games.
Even in-game ads that mimic real-life ads (billboards in GTA, logos on racing cars, etc.) are annoying. I don't want to be reminded of, say, Jared @ Subway on a billboard, or Pennzoil motor oil on a racing car. That's a cop-out for the developers to not be creative. IIRC, there were some humourous billboards in GTA, or at least some that were relevant to locations in the game. i.e. "Shop at ZIP", etc.
But then couldn't someone create a mod to just remove all of those ads? If they are just images, can they be changed? And you can bet that having advertising in games will not lower the cost of the games.
The first part of your comment was correct. However, the last part is incorrect. You already said they are hiring Windows developers, not "PC" developers, then say you need to write a Linux version to be a "PC" developer. If you want a true "PC" developer, then write in Java. Otherwise you are a Windows developer or a Linux developer, or BSD, Solaris, etc.
And, FWIW, I really hope Halo 2 comes to the PC. They bumped up the graphics for Halo 1 and playing online with a full screen was lots of fun.
As I sit here in my cube wasting time waiting for the clock to tick to 5 PM and dreaming of having only a couple of million dollars so I could live off the invesment income, I am pondering why would anyone want to work after they have made $500 million or $1.5 billion dollars?
I could think of so many more fun and exciting things to do than... work. How many of us here worked for dot-coms and on paper were worth millions? I was and kept pestering our CFO as to when I could dump all of my shares and quit. Sadly, we went under before I could dump. If I was an employee of Google and my stock options were worth over a couple of million, I would dump and run.
Kind of makes you wonder about what kind of people stick around when they are already super-rich. Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, etc. Why do they continue to work? Is it because they have nothing better to do?
That game was awesome when it came out and it's still fun to play today since it's more than eye-candy and had a good plotline. Most of today's FPS has maybe 5 major bad guy characters to kill with similar, repetitive level design (outdoors, indoors). Alice, however, used all of the settings and characters in the novel in the game. From the card-guards to chess pieces, to Cheshire cat, to Army ants, etc. playing it was an adventure. And the levels were colorfully done to keep you interested. i.e. after playing level after level of Doom or FarCry, everything starts looking the same. Not with Alice. The only other FPS that I've played where the levels stayed interesting and creative was Half-Life 2. I would really love to play an American McGee's Alice 2 game.
Geeze, come on. We have advancements in technology that allows much faster access to many more subjects than in the past and people question whether or not it's a good thing?? The same analogy can be applied to modern farming and the supermarket. Are we having an overload of food or are we just too lazy to farm? We are not too lazy to farm. Instead, we have mastered agriculture which has allowed us to pursue other interests in science, business, the arts, etc. As with everything else, the truly lazy will abuse it - i.e. stuff their faces or never read a book - but that should not raise doubt as we progress onwards.
It must be a generation thing. I like face-to-face human contact with my friends. I've always viewed technology, when used the "wrong" way, as a way to further distance us from our social interactions.
I never understood the popularity of online gaming. MMORPG, which cost $XX/game + $YY/month, isn't worth it to me. The only times I've played online was against my friend in an RTS. Halo was a lot of fun playing multiplayer, but we all played on the same console. It was a lot more fun sitting next to your friend as you blast him and talk smack instead of sitting alone in your room playing against strangers.
I guess that's just me. I like to escape from the Real World (TM) when I play a game and get immersed in it. I don't have much time to play games anyways, so my "skillz" aren't that great and I don't care to spend hours playing against high school kids to improve them.
So, not only would I have to deal with unorganized management who promises the clients the world in a horribly unreasonable amount of time, and without consulting IT, but I would also have to squeeze into my already overtime-qualified day some more time to have "fun" with my other co-workers in order to boost morale??? Forgive me if I sound cynical, but I would much, much, much, much rather have organized timelines, clear specifications from the client, and an 8-hour workday instead of "fun." Besides, it's called going to work , not going to fun . Besides, the geeks & dorks that I work with in IT don't know the meaning of fun. Now, the cute girls in sales & marketing... that's a different story!
I didn't mind Cisco's ads on last season's 24. I would rather see the characters using real products like Cisco's IP Phones than some propmaster's incorrect vision of what an IP phone should look like. Ford also sponsors the show and they drive big Ford trucks. Toyota sponsored the DVD preview of Season 5 and you see Jack driving a Toyota. Last season on Smallville, Clark used the red Old Spice deodorant - it was in his locker and on the big banner over the football field.
Product placement is only bad when it's inappropriate and doesn't flow with the show. I sure wouldn't want to see Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brien discussing Kotex Tampons or Vagisil cream as he's about to waste some terrorists. Or President Palmer plugging Uncle Ben's rice at a press conference. But if they are looking for a USB flash card containing Top Secret information, I don't mind them mentioning SanDisk.
Every two years, you hear the bullshit come out of Washington and other state capitals as our corrupt "leaders" spew forth their latest round of lies to "protect the children" in order to get re-/elected. Just who are they pandering to? Aren't the majority of gamers adults? This isn't the Atari 2600 nor NES days where they were merely children's toys. Today's expensive games require expensive PCs and expensive consoles - something that kids can't readily afford but we adults can.
I sincerely hope this all blows over and the gaming industry ratings enforcement ends up like the movie industry ratings enforcement. I cannot recall any lawsuits against movie studios for putting sex and violence in an R-rated movie.
And aren't there more pressing issues for politicians to be concerned about since we at war?