Rumor: AvP demo arriving this Thursday

*Points blaster at Cheesus*

STOP HIM!! THE HUMAN SPEAKS BLASPHEMY!!!

Seen Engaget's turning off of comments, eh?The Apple backlash finally got to them. But's that to be expected when almost every single post you make is about Apple, and the iPad.

Engadget let the Apple situation get out of control, and it came back and bit them in the ass.

As someone who doesn't read Engadget, care to elaborate on the whole situation?

someone want to inform me on what happened? I know engadget went apeshit over the iPad that day but what exactly do you mean backlash?

Look at their site. They've disabled ALL comments until the iPad debacle blows over. Engadget spent weeks covering the iPad, often at the expense of other articles. Then it's announced and they STILL keep covering it.

Most people feel like it should be left to TUAW.

Engadget is a very pro-Apple site. The slightest thing said about the iPad, and they made a post about it. They have been doing it since last year. The iPad's rumored to have a 5 minute longer battery life than (insert whatever handheld device is out at the time) ? Make a post. Someone says the iPad is supposed to be better than whatever? Make a post. They are snarky as hell in most of their comments about non-Apple products (most of the editors, that is) and whenever a negative comes up about an Apple product, it's dismissed out of hand as something minor. Something come up negative about a non-Apple product? It's blown out of proportion.

After the iPad announcement, they went apeshit with the posts, and 9/10 posts every day was about it. Even after half of their editors admitted they were disappointed in the product, they kept on, and on. People kept complaining in the comments about the coverage of it. They decided to turn comments off to stop hearing about it.

@Drakkenfyre
More like the whole staff.

Since last year? They have been doing this apple stuff since at least 2005-ish when I started reading the site. You can't really take any of these Weblogs Inc. sites very seriously, it's more for entertainment than news whether you want to admit it or not. I pile them in with Tom's Hardware. Everything you read on there you have to take with a grain of salt. Some people don't realize this and get pissed/leave but here I am still reading because it doesn't make the site crap or anything you just have to take it for what it is. (If it was all business/top quality articles it would be like Anand where they don't update nearly as often so you would have much less to read, don't get me wrong though, Anand is awesome) There was a clear drop in quality after the AOL buyout that no one wants to admit to either but that's another story.

If you want to see some REALLY insane Apple bias and such start reading Lifehacker. They run a lot of complete garbage filler articles over there too. I don't even know why I bother with that site anymore, there are like 2 good articles a month and the rest is apple stuff or "hacks" that should be common sense/at least a quick google search. A lot of times it seems like a slightly techy site for women too. They where not like this years ago though when I started reading. I have no idea what happened over there. (Didn't that Gina chick take over at some point? It's probably her fault, I hate most of her stupid articles) It's written by a bunch of super yuppies though so what can you expect. (You yuppies sure like your apple stuff for some reason, just an observation.)

That is a pretty arrogant move on Engadget's part. Engadget has always been a P.R. wing for Apple. I guess they couldn't take the heat, so they got out of the kitchen..

"Oh, we can't handle that people might be upset with us flooding our site with pro-apple articles, and non-stop crap about the iMaxipad, so we are just going to disable to comments."

It is just going to make things worse.

Yes, Engadget ran WAY too many iPad articles but, in their defense, comments were going crazy. EVERY article had some idiot posting about the iPad. EVERY article had people commenting on the first post so theirs would be seen. Not defending Engadget, just stating the facts.

This game will either be so Epic that we will wonder why there aren't more 3 tiered FPS or will fail miserably and we'll gripe on how the developers could have done everything better.

Calm down, captain, you have no power.

On a semi-related note, my autobots > your planeteers.

OH NO HE DIDN'T!

Hey, Bradwart, you know you wanna be a 'bot, don't you?

No. Even if Cap kicked me out of the Planeteers over a simple misunderstanding, it's better to be neutral than against the Man.

I think not. See, us Autobots are superior in every way. Sure, we had a REALLY crappy movie, but we have a better planet than Earth.

Prime, you really don't want to open that can of worms. I'm older than dirt and we both know where your precious Energon comes from....











Check and mate.

Didn't your homeworld blow up?

Greetings, Ironhide.

I see that we need to rally up some new autobots...

Too soon Brad...too soon.

That was at the Autobots, BTW.

At least we don't roll with a bunch of hippie teenagers trying to heal the world or some other junk. We honest to goodness heroes bust our asses to protect this world day by day, while jerks like you sell your souls to TV executives to cash in on your heroism.

...what? Then how do you explain the Bay movies?

Why am I talking to a robot? You don't even have a soul!

Bradwart, before you asks me this question, let me ask you something.

Why and how one worship a man who walks this earth in a green mullet and skimpy spandex, born from the eviromental sprit who could've solved the eniromental problems my helself, but got lazy. As far as we know, the captain was created out of pure BOREDOM. To fufill only one task and one task only, with no free will whatsoever. Even worse, is the fact that his power is entrusted to a bunch of random teenagers who only summon Captain Planet because they are forced to, otherwise they all would have said, "screw this"< and threw away the rings altogether. Does that sound like a trustworthy hero to you?

Now, look at me. I have a team by my side. We always defeat our villians and protect the planet even moreso then Cap ever could, and let's not mention the fact that I DIED FOR YOUR SINS.

Seriously, you don't find it odd you're pushing ONE PERSON this hard?

Besides, I don't even know which Autobot I'd be!

This site's not big enough for TWO cartoon childhood icons....

BEsides, you'll be your own autobot, just slap the title next to you name!! *wink*

I refuse to commit to one group, so I join both!

Doesn't matter MuToiD_MaN, I have one thing and one thing only, even greater than a soul, that put me and my autobots above all, and that means you, Planet

What is this thing I speak of? simple:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKpByV5764

1. Why and how one worship a man who walks this earth in a green mullet and skimpy spandex?

A: You just answered your own question.

2. Born from the eviromental sprit who could've solved the eniromental problems my helself, but got lazy. As far as we know, the captain was created out of pure BOREDOM.

A: Sounds like someone is jealous they are not able to have relations due to the fact their "race" does not have genitalia.

3. To fufill only one task and one task only, with no free will whatsoever.

A: No free will? I'm commenting on Joystiq aren't I?

4: Even worse, is the fact that his power is entrusted to a bunch of random teenagers who only summon Captain Planet because they are forced to

A: Random teenagers? They are hardly random and I'm sure even Ma-Ti could beat the shit out of Sam. And please, what the hell would Sam do when confronted by a Decepticon? Throw a rock?

5: Now, look at me. I have a team by my side. We always defeat our villians and protect the planet even moreso then Cap ever could, and let's not mention the fact that I DIED FOR YOUR SINS.

A: Did you really just compare yourself to Jesus? And seriously, you guys couldn't protect Cybertron, what makes you think you can protect Earth? Exactly.

C. Planet & Bradwart = the Green and Red poser autobots. I'm Prime's right cannon man.

lol guys look i'm in the planeteeers too!

can i be an autobot too pew pew

I hate all of you.

@ Ironhide

You mean you "prime his cannon right".

"A: Did you really just compare yourself to Jesus? And seriously, you guys couldn't protect Cybertron, what makes you think you can protect Earth? Exactly."

DAMN. that's cold, planet.

Not as cold as the barren solar system in which Cybertron USED to be in.

Reply fail.

Hey, Cheesus, wanna be an autobot?

Isn't my username long enough as it is?

You get a free cookie with membership.

I used to offer that with an ATDF membership...