rant
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Please Stop Comparing Real Life To Video Games
18“It’s a bizarre, surreal case of a young man almost acting like a real-life action video game,” said a judge in England earlier this week, regarding a 15-year-old boy involved in a bank robbery. Or maybe he was acting like a bank robber. There should really be rules for comparing real-life events to video games.
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Square Enix, You Are Addicted To Countdown Clocks And Need Help
This is an intervention. While most of the gaming world has thankfully moved on from stupid countdown clocks designed to drum up silly publicity for forgettable games, Square Enix still clings to them. It’s time for Square Enix to stop. Enough!
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Minor Console Aggravation: Those Darn PS3 Installations
Download a game on the Xbox 360 or the Wii and you’re good to go. You can play it. Download a game on the PS3 and you just might have to then tell the PS3 to install it.
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Rant: Crazy Expectations Of A Console That Didn’t Deserve Its Third Chance To Fail
If you never saw Crazy People, a 1990 film starring Dudley Moore, I highly recommend it. Basically, an advertising agency is taken over by the insane, who decide that honesty — the anathema of marketing — is now the best policy. Volvos are sold as “boxy, but they’re good.” Another stunt offers “a free plant…