Why you shouldn't get your video game news from The Wall Street Journal

So he can continue to amuse us?

There should be a Pachter force, they'd make some petition to make Pachter appear on every Bonus Round and once a week on every blog, so our weeks could be a lot more funnier

BRILLIANT!

Pachter Defense Force ASSEMBLE!

Can I join the Pachter defense force? =|

you should join the Anti-Megan Fox Brigade.

But I like Megan Fox... Oh well, I joined the PDF anyways.

for the love of joystiq don't do anymore stupid memes... we had some bad ones with Megan Fox and Sweatshops already.

i blame DSG for being so awesome that people want more

Yes, Traceur, all are welcome in the PDF, so long as you acknowledge the cutting insight of Pachter.

And Solace, that's a tempting offer. :P
I'm personally getting tired of the Megan Fox over saturation. I swear, if I see another ad for Jennifer's Body.... Though she was funny on Conan, well Conan was funny with her.

This is the one of those reasons why you shouldn't support anything that's owned by the douchebag who owns Fox News and helped make Dragonball: Evolution. Rupert Murdoch, hoggish owner of media monopoly NewsCorp.
http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main
http://www.stopbigmedia.com

@PR0F3TA: Aww, shucks. Groups are funny anymore? :( I'm always late to the Meme party.

Also, I think in 3 months or so PR0F3TA I'm going to reply to you with the Kanye joke. Yeah, it's already played out now, but I'm going to wait until the time it's so played out that it's fresh again! Like bell bottoms and the Hoff! (Note: I do not endorse bell bottoms in any form or fashion.)

Oh and did you hear about Chuck Norris?...

I'm having trouble loading your PDF.

Yes, tyetheczar, this surely is the realisation of all your fears!

Yeah, although some of this is on the reporter. Anyone writing for a general interest audience ought to know to spell out "IP" on first reference. It's kosher on a video game site to abbreviate it all the time, because we use it all the time, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone outside of the film or game industry loop talk about IP and not mean Internet protocol.

They'd be banned from China for doing this to those poor pandas

"Wall Street Journal has a number of strong franchises and a number of wholly owned Idiot Protocols. Wholly owned IPs not only carry higher comedic value, but also are more valuable to Joystiq readers because they could be adapted into hilarious Internet memes and general shenaniganry."

"Take-Two has a number of strong franchises and a number of wholly owned Insatiable Parakeets. Wholly owned IPs not only carry higher profitability, but also are more valuable to media companies because they could be adapted into movies, TV serials and online destinations."

Coming Summer 2010:

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Gotcha!

Fresh, I have the perfect tagline for your game:

"Who says you can never go 127.0.0.1 again?"

to be future proof (ipv6) :
::1
fe00::0

They could also mean:

http, ftp etc ... or they could mean:

they got a whole lot of icmp, data link and network link for yo ass

Theirs may not, but mine does. It's also 3x2 feet and powered by the souls of the damned, but perhaps I've said too much.

Oh, so that's where mine went, Rob? Well, at least it's doing something useful.

What a coincidence. I happen to be Uwe Boll. Shall we make plans over dinner?

Hmm... I'll give you 20 bucks for the rights to the movie. Deal?

Uwe Boll doesn't make independent movies.....he's makes multi-million dollar tax write-offs for wealthy German investors.

$20 seems a little over-budget for an Uwe Boll movie.

Uwe is only going to take offer if some game franchise is involved.

"If So Michael Jackson will definately direct it!"

How can he do that? He's dead.

Where did this strange Michael Jackson troll come from? He posts the same joke in every thread. Very confusing.

By reading the first two lines I still don't see how you can mix up intelectual properties and Internet protocols.

@traceur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP

You better be wearing your monocle.

Unfortunately, it also appears that you've been getting spelling "advise" from them too...

I know, right? I mean Joystiq is the pinnacle for journalism. What the fuck does the Wall Street Journal know. Fuckin' n00bs need to get with the times and stop getting pwned by the Joystiq team.

*edit
Unfortunately, it also appears that you've been getting spelling "advise" from Kotaku...

The fact that I had to edit my comment about bad editing makes me look all kinds of foolish.

This shit's like "Shatter Glass" all over again--you stick it to those old-journalism hacks, you young internet upstarts!