1. Deny everything, saying that the bible clearly states that life only exists on Earth, and that thinking otherwise is "sinful" 2. Mock the scientists for not giving up on an "impossible" task 3. Continually demand more evidence, until it's so common that you can see specimens in the local zoo for $2 4. Advertize the one sentence in the bible which clearly states that life exists all around the universe, and that thinking otherwise is "sinful" 5. Promote "intelligent universal design" 6. Profit!
Sony Executive 1: PSP usage is lower than expected?
Sony Executive 2: Yes, that is what is reported! Where did we go wrong!?
Sony Engineer: Hm, d'ya think it might be the very high starting price and the scarcity of the launch games?
Sony Executive 3: What a ridiculous idea!
Sony Executive 2: Get out of town!
Sony Executive 1: Obviously we just haven't marketed to the right demographic! More Madden and Grand Theft Auto! And give them a nasty deadline, we don't have much time to make more profit the way these sales are going!
You're exactly right! I once went to go see a movie and arrived a bit early.
I was subjected to The Twenty. I, too, sat dumbfounded for a while.
I felt embarrassed.
For myself. For the other people in the theater who paid money to see the movie. For the projectionist. For mankind in general.
It was TV. I was paying to get away from it and this is how I was repaid. I felt quite disgusted and was about to walk out, but my folks felt determined to keep me planted in my seat so that I wouldn't walk out and embarrass them. Oh, come on. Surely me walking out isn't any worse than this trash? This overproduced, IQ lowering, third-grade bullshit that you have to watch to get a good seat?
What's even worse is that now newer DVDs are starting to incorporate unskippable trailers for crap movies and deafeningly loud propaganda about movie piracy set to the editing pace of a Jerry Bruckheimer movie.
Golf? Just listen to George Carlin's opinion on it and you'll pretty much have mine.
Football, also in my opinion, is a much better sport.
And by football, I mean soccer. -that- takes some skill. also, there are some really great olympic sports that test the boundaries of man's ability to perform.
Virtual gold, virtual and gold,
Everyone wishes for virtual gold.
How do you measure its worth?
Just for the money you trade here on earth
Virtual gold, virtual gold
Means so much more when I see,
Virtual gold corporations
On every RPG.
"What's an RPG without quarrels and petty virtual gold desperation?
Can't really call it an RPG now, can you?
And think of all the fun and joy that would be lost on llamas morphing,
if all the young folks didn't get to see that sparkling, greedy RPG."
Virtual gold, virtual gold
Means so much more when I see,
Virtual gold corporations
On every RPG.
Will be most of humanity. By that time, the happening new MMORPG will have been created by machines. The remaining humans not in the MMORPG will consist purely of hundreds of thousands of hackers who will attack the servers and free the minds of the billions of players trapped in the game.
From the articles I've read, you're not the bully, you stand up to them. Yes, you can kick the crud out of mean teachers.. but the game seems to be about a badass kid who goes to school, people pick on him, and then EVERYONE finds out they've messed with the wrong kid. He beats the shit out of bullies and gets justice on evil teachers.
And yes, I Would imagine politicians would still be up in arms about this - afterall, like prisons, in school you're punished when you defend yourself.
Because, I would gather, of the control schemes of this country. If you program most of the population into thinking this:
Violence, destruction, killing = OK
Nudity, creation, sex = BAD! NAUGHTY! EVIL!
Then it is a thousand times easier into getting your country to enter wars for whatever reasons you might have - and when the ones who are opposed to your war(who are also probably more open to things such as sex or nudity) speak out against you, the majority will say "Barbarians!" or "Heretics!" or "Communists!" or, recently, "TERRORISTS!"
It's quite effective. The spartans did it as well as some religions(some of these religions still practice it now. Probably because they still exist.)
What country's speech rights are we talking about here? I can imagine it now..
Modifying the contents of this beer will result in military police hunting you down, bludgeoning you into unconsciousness, then awakening you and shooting you in the head.
"Free Beer That is Free as in China's Free Speech"
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1. Deny everything, saying that the bible clearly states that life only exists on Earth, and that thinking otherwise is "sinful"
2. Mock the scientists for not giving up on an "impossible" task
3. Continually demand more evidence, until it's so common that you can see specimens in the local zoo for $2
4. Advertize the one sentence in the bible which clearly states that life exists all around the universe, and that thinking otherwise is "sinful"
5. Promote "intelligent universal design"
6. Profit!
I can just imagine it.
Sony Executive 1: PSP usage is lower than expected?
Sony Executive 2: Yes, that is what is reported! Where did we go wrong!?
Sony Engineer: Hm, d'ya think it might be the very high starting price and the scarcity of the launch games?
Sony Executive 3: What a ridiculous idea!
Sony Executive 2: Get out of town!
Sony Executive 1: Obviously we just haven't marketed to the right demographic! More Madden and Grand Theft Auto! And give them a nasty deadline, we don't have much time to make more profit the way these sales are going!
Sony Muscle: ROGER ROGER.
You're exactly right! I once went to go see a movie and arrived a bit early.
I was subjected to The Twenty. I, too, sat dumbfounded for a while.
I felt embarrassed.
For myself. For the other people in the theater who paid money to see the movie. For the projectionist. For mankind in general.
It was TV. I was paying to get away from it and this is how I was repaid. I felt quite disgusted and was about to walk out, but my folks felt determined to keep me planted in my seat so that I wouldn't walk out and embarrass them. Oh, come on. Surely me walking out isn't any worse than this trash? This overproduced, IQ lowering, third-grade bullshit that you have to watch to get a good seat?
What's even worse is that now newer DVDs are starting to incorporate unskippable trailers for crap movies and deafeningly loud propaganda about movie piracy set to the editing pace of a Jerry Bruckheimer movie.
This is borderline insightful. Really.
Fallout and Fallout 2 from Black Isle. At least, where Black Isle games are concerned. Those games kick many asses.
However, games like ICO, Deus Ex, and Silent Hill 2 definitely transcend into mature by any stretch of the imagination.
They prefer it to Counter-Strike?! Damn, this game sounds great! Where can I get it?
1.21 kilowatts! Tom, where am I going to get that kind of power?!
Golf? Just listen to George Carlin's opinion on it and you'll pretty much have mine.
Football, also in my opinion, is a much better sport.
And by football, I mean soccer. -that- takes some skill. also, there are some really great olympic sports that test the boundaries of man's ability to perform.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126016/ Oh, the humanity..
These matters of DRM protection matter not. Hackers crack them always, they will.
All they did was digitize themselves into the XBox and destroy the MCP with a Data Disc.
(sung to the tune of Silver and Gold)
Virtual gold, virtual and gold,
Everyone wishes for virtual gold.
How do you measure its worth?
Just for the money you trade here on earth
Virtual gold, virtual gold
Means so much more when I see,
Virtual gold corporations
On every RPG.
"What's an RPG without quarrels and petty virtual gold desperation?
Can't really call it an RPG now, can you?
And think of all the fun and joy that would be lost on llamas morphing,
if all the young folks didn't get to see that sparkling, greedy RPG."
Virtual gold, virtual gold
Means so much more when I see,
Virtual gold corporations
On every RPG.
Will be most of humanity. By that time, the happening new MMORPG will have been created by machines. The remaining humans not in the MMORPG will consist purely of hundreds of thousands of hackers who will attack the servers and free the minds of the billions of players trapped in the game.
Except for Inspector Gadget, who is on the case.
From the articles I've read, you're not the bully, you stand up to them. Yes, you can kick the crud out of mean teachers.. but the game seems to be about a badass kid who goes to school, people pick on him, and then EVERYONE finds out they've messed with the wrong kid. He beats the shit out of bullies and gets justice on evil teachers. And yes, I Would imagine politicians would still be up in arms about this - afterall, like prisons, in school you're punished when you defend yourself.
No, you messed up the second name. The second name is "Neil."
So, appropriately, this is the Vegas series of Pokemon with Pokemon Neil and Pokemon Diamond.
Obviously this has absolutely nothing to do with Hot Coffee!
Who here remembers the Comic Code from many years ago?
That's cute, but in the end it's still rap.
I mean, unless it's really, really, REALLY good rap that transcends the genre.
Because, I would gather, of the control schemes of this country. If you program most of the population into thinking this:
Violence, destruction, killing = OK
Nudity, creation, sex = BAD! NAUGHTY! EVIL!
Then it is a thousand times easier into getting your country to enter wars for whatever reasons you might have - and when the ones who are opposed to your war(who are also probably more open to things such as sex or nudity) speak out against you, the majority will say "Barbarians!" or "Heretics!" or "Communists!" or, recently, "TERRORISTS!"
It's quite effective. The spartans did it as well as some religions(some of these religions still practice it now. Probably because they still exist.)
"Free Beer That's Free as in Speech"
What country's speech rights are we talking about here? I can imagine it now..
Modifying the contents of this beer will result in military police hunting you down, bludgeoning you into unconsciousness, then awakening you and shooting you in the head.
"Free Beer That is Free as in China's Free Speech"
Nah, the only thing tin foil is good for foiling is tin.
"Public Transit Reality Game"
Reality game. That's just 'game' then.
What next? "Children Play 'Revolutionary Plague Re-enactment' Reality Game"?
Step 1. Decline to make '??? PROFIT!' joke
Step 2. ???
Step 3. PROFIT!