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Chattin’ Hats: Goldfish Murdoch

April 26th, 2010 | by BrooksB
Posted In: Chattin' Hats, Politics


(1:10:00 PM) Geoff: im thinking about getting a gold fish
(1:11:05 PM) Geoff: I’d name him rupert murdoch
(1:11:28 PM) Brooks: how do you tell if a goldfish is republican?
(1:11:59 PM) Geoff: because every time he swims around the bowl he forgets the 12million hits a day google sends him and threatens to block the service from indexing him

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Hands, Paws, and Claws on the Apple iPad

April 15th, 2010 | by GeoffS
Posted In: General, Politics

We’ve all seen the pro reviews of Apple’s latest handheld tablet, but those guys are hardly representative of the general populous. Fortunately for Tea Party Supporters everywhere they’re finally being heard and represented by a group of intellectual equals in a recent crop of ameture reviews. You’re right, that really wasn’t fair and I’m sorry Iggy. In any event, I really do find it fascinating to watch the behavior of these three unusual users. It’s obvious that the two year old edges out the Corgi, but I’m not so sure about the Nobu Nobi Boy playing cat. All kidding and political prodding aside, I think these videos really demonstrate how exceptionally well designed the user interface experience of the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch really is.

└ Tags: Fun, iPad
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Indie Pirates: Yarr a buncha dicks.

March 3rd, 2010 | by GeoffS
Posted In: Gaming, General, Politics

So I just read a post from an indie developer talking about their brand new release having already been pirated. I’m not going to mention which game or which developer, largely because I don’t wish to exacerbate the issue. But I did want to take a second to share my feelings on the piracy of independent works.

First, lets take a second and get the usual justification bullshit out of the way. Yeah I can understand the rationale behind pirating some things. Maybe its because it isn’t available in your region. Maybe its because you hate all the vile DRM that pervades modern publishers games.  Maybe, just maybe its because you’re a poor bastard with entitlement issues and aren’t willing to fork out upwards of fifty dollars. Whatever, I get it.

What I don’t get is in a circumstance where a game is none of those things and is pirated. In this case the game doesn’t have crap tons of DRM, isn’t made by an evil empire, and it will only set you back £5.99 or in non posh monies about 9 dollars. Thats right you went to the trouble of pirating a game that would have set you back a whopping one and a half hours of flipping Whopper Jr’s. And to make matters worse you don’t even have the ability to cower behind the ideals of fighting the man.

The MPAA, RIAA, and Uber Publishers are a bunch of douche bags for destroying individual creativity and marginalizing media into the mainstream garbage all for the sake of profit. But you don’t have that argument to fall back on here, and you’re just as bad because you are doing the exact same thing by not supporting those who have taken on the challenge of being creative and carving out their own piece of the pie by making a game you obviously want to play. I would go so far as to say that the damages rendered by those of pirates ripping off indie developers are substantially greater than those perpetrated against major corps due to their inability to absorb such unforseen costs regardless of scale.

Who knows maybe I just have a Robin Hood complex, but I can’t get over thinking the rotten individuals perpetrating this are a bunch of bitches.

└ Tags: Indie, Piracy, Rant
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Daily Fig: Mecha Roosevelt

February 17th, 2010 | by GeoffS
Posted In: Daily Fig, Politics

You thought the 26th President, hunter, soldier, and founder of the “Bull Moose Party” Teddy Roosevelt was already badass enough? Well perhaps,but then again how could he not be better with a robot body, now there is finally someone to take on that bastard Robot Nixon. Bummed from Toycutter.com.

└ Tags: Figs
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