zach wilson

You all should be insulted by this preposterous bullshit. THEY THINK YOU ARE STUPID AND THAT THIS WILL GET YOU TO BUY THEIR GAME DESPITE THE TERRIBLE DEMO.

this is the most objectionable advertisement that I have ever seen. If anyone ever asks you why there aren't more women involved with the production or consumption of video games, show them this ad. Reasons:

1) Protagonists look and act like rapists - if you were to take these protagonists back ten years and put them in a movie they would clearly be the antagonists in whatever movie they were in in the form of psychotic murderers.

2) Women are treated like willing sex objects - there are at least two instances of this in this one ad.

3) I POOPED AND IT WAS STINKY - seriously? I can't imagine any more juvenile humor than this - and it's not like it's some plot point that pays off in a hilarious way that advances the story (ads can have stories, the really good ones do), it just ends with some Game Stop drone being force to clean it up. If you consider the film Something About Mary, where Cameron D gets jizz in her hair it's a plot point that they build up to (so to speak), which advances her character. Why am I going into such detail about this stupid fucking spot.

4) The "Two", as Gamespot employees treating customers like shit - ok at least this is accurate in that the sales front of the game industry are like the worst aspect of the games industry. The thing that I love about Steam and XBLA so much is that you don't have to interface with these useless human beings in these dank, poorly lit, aesthetically unpleasing nerd caves. Digital distribution is coming and it's going to eliminate any need for Gamespot. One day I'm going to buy an old Gamespot, after they go out of business, with all the shelves and then im going burn it to the ground and piss on the ashes.

its important to note that McCain has come out strongly against FCS - Future Combat Systems. It's the military's plan to augment it's force projection capabilities with autonomous weaponry and an unprecedented level of connectivity. It's what gives us our edge and he refers to it as a boondoggle.

China has stated that a key part of it's strategy is Information as a Force Mulitplier most modern nations are very serious about their digital warfare capabilities.

Well, I would guess that neither you nor any of your friends will consent to an interview with this individual again, and possibly not with the magazine he represents. Ethical, maybe, who cares really. Good for business? Definitely not

do a little bit of research into the idea of a semantic web - the implications will blow your mind. Basically, it's all data ever in a common format accessible by anyone at any point. We have reams and reams of data available to us, but none of it is really available in an open, easily accesible fashion. Imagine if all of the data that Nasa ever collected was available, combined with weather information from the last 60 years, combined with ice core samples and tree frog populations and the migration patterns of birds and volcanic eruptions and every other form and type of data we've ever collected as a species. Imagine if any researcher anywhere in the world had access to this data at any time. We can start to make connections and see the data and how it interacts in whole new ways. Really understand our environment from a well infomed point of view and make conclusions and gather new data in new ways. I think it's going to be a revolution.