07.30.06

Exclusive: Next-Gen Finished

Posted in Bunk News, Gaming, General Interest, Miscellaneous, Rants at 3:19 pm by stonecypher

Next-Gen has claimed that “senior industry sources” have told them that the world’s largest gaming convention, whose profits have just been going up every year, is suddenly over.

I’m calling bullshit. I think this is a tactic to raise traffic, that it’s a boldfaced lie (or a prank on a reporter who refuses to report rumor as something other than fact,) and that it’s a sign that Next-Gen has finally gone down the tubes.

I’m going to paste the link, rather than link it, because I don’t want most people visiting the page, but I want there to be posterity. http://next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3538&Itemid=2 Do not visit this page; it’s bullshit.

If Next-Gen doesn’t run a front-page screen-top apology for a month, their credibility has been shot to hell. ‘Course, it’s not like they’re worth reading anyway, given that they rate games starting at 8 of 10, have appalling grammar, and never admit to passing rumor off as news. (Sure, they’ve been caught doing it before, but saying E3 is over is a bit fucking much.)

E3 just started a network site, and accepted quite a bit of money to get people involved. If they shut down after that, they’re in for tremendous trouble. They provide massive marketing opportunities at comparatively low prices, make four to seven hundred dollars a head for a crowd of sixty thousand and have a massive impact on the direction of gaming.

I just don’t believe it. Cite your sources or go the fuck home. Next-Gen is nothing better than the Daily Sun.

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07.29.06

Robert Fogel is a Fractionally Awesome Douchebag

Posted in English, Miscellaneous, Rants at 12:39 pm by stonecypher

This kind of linguistic sloppiness pisses me off, but for it to come from a Nobel Laureate really gets under my skin. Granted, Fogel’s actually an awesome guy who’s brilliant, and I actually use several of the things he figured out (he’s one of the pioneers of modern population economics) when I’m annealing neural networks, and granted I would have never figured out what I do today without his work, but christ on a crutch, he needs to be more careful about phrasing. Sure, he’s way smarter than I am. Still, someone needs to hit him in the face with a dictionary. Makes me highly stabby, it does, yeeeeees.

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07.21.06

My First Racist Spam!

Posted in General Interest, Humor, Miscellaneous, Rants at 9:57 am by stonecypher

Huhuhu. So, the spammers are trying a variety of different approaches to trick me into linking to their various crappy loan and penis drug and gambling pages. Today I got my first racist spam - a semi-coherent rant about how we need to use SEO internet marketing to combat Islamic terrorism. I’d cut and paste it, except Google’s already listing them at #1 or #2 for most of their keywords, and so that’d be just as bad.

Besides, it’s funny on principle of stupidity. The actual text is kind of anticlimactic. The end result? Spammers - who rise and fall on statistics - now believe the easiest way to trick Americans into listening without paying attention is to rant about terrorism.

And if politicians are any gauge, they’re dead right. </scary>

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