It turns out that one of my favorite authors, Walter Jon Williams, wrote the space portion of the game Spore:
“Spore” (Electronic Arts)
At the time of my writing this, the Amazon reviews are still abysmal because of the retarded DRM they’ve put in place.
I’m sure they’ll loosen up sometime soon.
In the meantime the reviews are pretty [...]
Because I hate going to a gym in the mornings, I decided I would give Wi Fit a try so that I can supplement my normal training schedule with some extra effective morning mild exercise. I’ve been checking intermittently to see if Amazon had them, because I really don’t care enough to go and hunt [...]
I had a gamer friend ask me why I didn’t have any trophies yet for Super Stardust HD, one of my favorite PS3 games.
I had no idea what she was talking about, so naturally I searched for “stardust trophies” and found that the Playstation network has finally added achievements, much like the xbox people have [...]
As I never bothered to buy a Gamecube, I only played smash brothers with drunk people at college parties and when I visited my cousins a bunch of years ago.
With Super Smash Brothers Brawl now out for Wii, my lack of skill is showing and must be corrected to preserve my nerdly reputation.
What is there [...]
It is amazing to me that the Wii console is still out of stock most places.
Since I’ve had mine since January, this is not a major concern for me. For the rest of you out there that are still hunting for yours, I offer the following advice:
Try to find a Wii at your local stores [...]
There are a lot of Wii games out now, and basically none for the ps3. Here are a list of some that I’ve tried and briefly what I’ve thought of them.
TorrentFreak seems to have the most involved and comprehensive tale of what they contain.This is a great example of people who do some things well getting caught doing things that are not their strengths.If you are going to establish an organization that will become a target for, arguably, some of the worlds most skilled and experienced technophiles, you should plan accordingly.That they were ever outed at all is a failure, but things like this (quoted from digg article) show how if you are untrained, ignorant, or sloppy, it can bring down an entire enterprise:The genius employee of MD subscribed to a torrent site using the gmail account he had setup as an email archive as the username and used the same password for the torrent site as he did for the gmail account…. Price and availability must be correct or it will be circumvented by someone with time on their hands that will make money created by those that can not, or will not, purchase what you are selling in the way you choose to sell it.This is the gist of all of the DRM, piracy, and putting-the-gene-back-in-the-bottle problem.
I look forward to finding out.I don’t plan on buying it myself, however.I would think that if I was that serious about being in a band, I would actually go and be in a band instead of mastering the art of playing fake instruments.Perhaps this is the line I don’t cross that others do. I also don’t need a racing seat to play racing games:”Playseats Evolution Gaming Seat (White with Silver)” (Playseats)I understand that some people need to actually be in a racing chair with a force feedback steering wheel and press actual pedals with their feet.
It’s called Enemy Territory.I pre-ordered so that I could reserve a handle and get some posters and other junk I’ll give away later on.The interesting part is that whoever handles their internet services [pre-order email, the activation tokens, and whatever comes next], doesn’t know how to do their job.I tooled around calling EB’s support people to get my confirmation code which never arrived.
…I specified a gmail address for my email and it never arrived because of this.My validation code is the following:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 12I requested the handle of [a handle here].I believe I used the email address of email@address.hereI don’t know what else has happened as I haven’t been able to get any more information do to your misconfigured servers.02:10 <@nyt> rattus: yeah, told you, gotta whitelist the ip block02:10 <@nyt> their reverse dns doesnt work02:11 <@nyt> 63.146.124.0/2402:12 <@nyt> http://www.enemyterritory.com/preorder/forgotactivation.php?lang=en02:12 <@nyt> i had to modify my reverse dns checking code02:12 <@nyt> to allow me to add entries for retards02:12 <@nyt> to get the mail from themI don’t have manage gmail.com, so I have a problem.
According to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the makers of the gaming consoles, game developers, and others in the industry have incurred billions of dollars in losses worldwide due to sales lost to those selling counterfeit and pirated video games.Counterfeiting and piracy is estimated to cost the U.S. economy between $200 billion and $250 billion annually and results in the loss of up to 750,000 jobs according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.From the August 1st press release on the ICE website.A response, characteristic of the hacker mentality outlined many places and occasionally in published works such as “A Hacker Manifesto” (McKenzie Wark)and possibly”The Hacker Ethic” (Pekka Himanen, Linus Torvalds)was presented in response to the raids:Much like the media slant against hackers in general the act of modding is criminalized in the US. I look at modding as an act of expression and something someone does to expand their own knowledge and use of a system…. Of course XBMC can only be used on a modified Xbox and while it would be possible to build and run such an application on a normal PC the novelty is in the utilization of cheap hardware (the Xbox costs less than $100 these days) and in many cases it’s not only hardware you already own but hardware that already fits properly within a TV room environment making it quite ideal, if it weren’t for the fact that it is illegal to use the free XBMC software with the Xbox hardware you own under the DMCA.said Twistedsymphony It is well known that the statistics put forward by groups such as the RIAA, MPAA, ESA, and BSA (to name a few) are on shaky factual ground.
