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Many of us hate Jack Thompson. Jack Thompson hates all of us. Let’s send pretty, pretty flowers to him.
Jack Thompson is fast making a name for himself as a prize pillock. He is a lawyer who attacks video games as ‘Murder Simulators’ and ‘Sex Simulators’. I don’t know about you but I would think murdering people for real is slightly different to murdering people in a game. I’ve never had sex in a video game but don’t think I would be too far out if I was to say there are a few differences between sex in a game and sex in real life.
He is famously agressive in pointing out his viewpoint, and won’t listen to gamers who try to put their point of view across.
In an effort to make him happier a new campaign has been set up to get Flowers for Jack Thompson
January 23, 2006 | General
I’ve posted about the Milliondollarhomepage twice now and, both times, received a number of comments from people trying to advertise their sites. On both posts I threw down the gauntlet, “pay me money, and i’ll advertise your site”. I didn’t expect anyone to actually give me any money, despite the fact I was only asking for pocket change ($10 the first time, $20 the second), especially considering how much could be made from a site such as these.
I had a few people post comments and I went through and did as I said I would. I emailed them, asking them to pay, and didn’t hear a thing. Those comments got deleted.
However (reading the page heading I think you know where this is going) a few days after posting about the Milliondollarhomepage auction I got a comment from a chap called Alan, asking to take me up …
January 22, 2006 | General
I recently turned to the dark side and got a Mac… well… an iPod Nano to be specific (so not a Mac at all then). It was actually my Christmas present from work and is quite a nice little mp3 player. However, having used it for a few weeks I have a few things to say (about Mac’s in general).
Interface
One of the things you will hear absolutely everywhere, is all the Apple zealots talking about the iPod interface and how no-one can do any better, but to tell the truth I’ve found it all rather confusing.
When I first got the iPod it took me roughly ten minutes to work out how to change the volume. I realised it would involve the wheel, which I didn’t have any problem with using, but where was the menu option to change the volume? It was only when I accidentally knocked the …
January 19, 2006 | Links
I got to talking to some friends at work and they couldn’t believe how cheap my hosting is, and how many features it has. I’m with Dreamhost and, whilst it’s far from perfect, it’s incredibly good value for money. I use the level 3 plan and get 60gig of hard disk space, and 1.6terabyts (thats 1600 gigabytes) of bandwidth - for the less technically inclined amongst you that’s quite a lot.
Anyway I told my friends I’d set up a promo code so they can get a discount - and that’s what I’ve done. I was reliably told by one of these friends that I would be a moron if I didn’t take any of the refferal money for myself so I have - but not much.
Buy any of the year or two year plans from Dreamhost, enter the code totebo and you will save $77 from the price …
I’m loving the Google Video at the moment.
Westwood College (somewhere in the United States I’m thinking) are advertising their game design course. It looks surprisingly realistic, at least that’s what an average day in the office looks like for me…
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A very funny song from a trio of video gaming geeks.
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Binary Moon
Bubble Blitz
Gun Wing
Bubble Bomb
ExGen