Come for the Gimmick; Stay for the Game Play!
Yeah, I said exactly that the other day during a work conversation… I was talking about the Wii and the power of a Gimmick.
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Category Archives: digital pity
Sad: Lawsuit Edition
How far have we come with lawsuits in our society? Far enough so we now need to have “Caution – the hot coffee in this cup may be hot” and “Warning – this sharp knife might cut you” on obvious products. So far that we need other types of obvious disclaimers like “This doll does not actually talk” on commercials that take liberties in the name of advertising.
I was just watching one of the newer iPod nano commercials between innings and thought “Geez, I wonder how long it will take before someone sues Apple complaining that their nano doesn’t make colorful streaks in the dark or because their wheel doesn’t light up” like they do in the commercials…
That’s just sick.
*sigh* – Apple Edition
Why does encoding video have to suck so freakin’ much?
[I’ll save Steve the effort of commenting on this post by commenting for him: “ha” with a “get a Mac” followed with a “user error” capped as “mine works!” but nothing changes the fact that this is such a painful process when it doesn’t have to be.]
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Head… Broken… Unk!
Gamerscore Blog: Burger King Restaurants Feed 2006 Holiday Gift Frenzy with Three Exclusive Xbox/Xbox 360 Games
Is it me or do you too get a little tweaked when something from your past collides up with something from your present? Am I the only person that has this happen to’m? True, BK is in my distant past but I can almost guarantee that I could walk into my old workplace in CT and know at least three different people working there… probably more. Is the past ever really that distant? For me? It almost never is.
Frankly, it makes my ass pucker.
Oh, and I promised myself I’d say this once I succumbed to the ongoing pressure of installing recent release candidates on our work machines: this was posted from a Vista RC1 box! …sans IntelliType and IntelliPoint updates which is giving me digital gout.
Tokyo Suckerpunch!
Microsoft: Microsoft announced that its fall software update, scheduled for release later this year, will allow all Xbox 360 consoles around the world to output game and movie content in 1080p resolution.
1080p?! Where in the hell did that come from? I mean… I work in the damned group and even I didn’t know about it! And we announced it in Japan – makes me wonder if there’s any seppuku action in Sony’s HQ. Or if I need yet-another-new TV… uwah, no. No new TV!
Guess Apple isn’t the only company that can keep product plans secret …when they want to.
Clear As Crystal
Playstation 3 fan boys are freaking out.
I don’t know why – it simply clears up their marketing strategy.
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Shame On You All!
Kotaku: Target Gleefully Advertises Broken 360s for Sale
Kotaku shouldn’t take the sole blame for this, but as they were the most recent to print this – and I would have expected them to know better – they can take the brunt of it.
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Boba!
Why?
Words escape me because, you see, it’s real.
Mudslinging
Seems that I’ve missed a good chunk of mudslinging in the Blogging world over the weekend… guess it’s because I try to go “analog” over the weekends. And yeah, while the 360 is hardly analog, at least I’m not tied to an RSS reader *g*
Who wins when two A-list bloggers fling mud at each other? I do. It’s fun being way back in the cheap seats.
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WAH!!!!11
Service: Paul Thurrot
Return: Roughly Drafted
Point: Who gives a shit?
Honestly.
Wah-fuckin’-wah.
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Un-Digg’d Stories
By now you’ve all heard Digg.
I’ve Digg’d a fair amount of stories. I’m used to visiting it daily along with a bunch of other blogs…
Too bad it’s time it was punted from my reader.
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Reflectively Silent
Neopoleon: I love Google.
It’s not the article you think, but frankly, I’m still at a loss for words… which is probably normal when reading Rory. *g* It worries me tho… not because of what he did but because I know that I would have done the same at some point in my life. Yet now I’m pretty sure there’s no way in hell that I would. More of a why bother than a fear of axes. I can deal with axes. Then again, I can get one of those swung at my head locally and without having to drive to the airport. Nay, I think it’s experience and age that has tainted me. I just wonder if I should just go fill out an AARP card now, and stop putting it off… *shrug*
All the same, saluti! to ya Rory!
Cranky
Geeks.
We’re easily managed. We like shiny things. We like cool things. We can go for years obsessing over things that begin with x or i. We’re easy to please, if supplied with a diet of digital media and caffeine.
However, if you give a Geek a Framework for the Smartphone platform and neglect to include support for an obvious object, then there will be digital unhappiness. How obvious an object does it take to cause unhappiness? Oh, I don’t know… maybe a common dialog for selecting files to open which may have been in the Windows SDK since Three-Point-Fuckin’-Oh? Maybe that? Just MAYBE THAT?! AND YOU FORCE THE GEEK TO SPEND THREE HOURS FINDING A FREE ALTERNATIVE FOR SOMETHING THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN THE FRAMEWORK?! MEANING THAT I EITHER HAVE TO CODE IT MYSELF OR PAY $100 FOR A CONTROL EVEN THOUGH IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE THERE!! AND THAT CAUSES A RESTLESS NIGHT OF CODE-INFLUENCED SLEEP?!?! HOW HAPPY IS THE GEEK THEN?! THAT MIGHT JUST PISS A GEEK OFF!!!!!111! IT IS T3H SUCK!!!1
Lo! I am cranky. Obviously I need something shiny for breakfast.
Ugh.
CNN: Stacy Martin needed a bird’s eye view to see her boyfriend’s marriage proposal. Brian Rueckl’s proposal came as a 40,000-square-foot message, “Stacy will you marry me?” tilled in a cornfield near the Manitowoc and Kewaunee county line.
And I thought the “at the stadium” proposals were over the top.
Pft.