6 months, 2 weeks ago GR's weekend giveaway: DS Lite and 6 Mario games!
When I go back to playing CoD, you can always tell I've been playing Bioshock recently when my strategy suddenly becomes standing with my back to a corner, desperately looking around to make sure there's no one around me.
7 months, 2 weeks ago Italian police arrest 15 suspected Anonymous members
@ThatGuyFromTV No, the thing is that they ARE Anonymous. Today Anonymous is protesting Scientology, and tomorrow they're stealing credit card numbers. And that is what Anonymous stands for that day.

That's the problem with Anonymous.

I'm all for them and what many feel are their commonly held beliefs, but you can't "masquerade" as a member of a group whose main component is anonymity.

There is no leader and no card to carry (and that's the point) so there is no one who can say "That isn't Anonymous, and here's proof!" You can have one hundred different people who all have one hundred different goals for whatever their action may be and, given the nature of the "group" (it's a non-group) they are all, collectively, Anonymous.

Even if these guys are like "Let's pretend to be Anonymous!" by pretending or framing them, they have become them. Even if they didn't do any of that, if the media has labeled them as Anonymous, then they are.

One day we will have one "faction" of Anonymous distancing themselves from another "faction" who is, in fact, attacking another "faction."

When you take part in something like Anonymous, you gave to take the good with the bad.

The other problem is that while some "members" are good natured or just doing things because they're funny, others can do harm with that anonymity and many outsiders (such as the media) don't understand the nature of Anonymous and lump them all together, tarnishing the label itself.
9 months ago Slow news day leads to Portal 2 adoption “controversy”
Wheatley is a robot. He doesn't fully understand love. The most he could understand is that a parent loves their child and cannot see how one who is not a biological parent could love someone else as a child.
Therefore to be adopted is an insult in his mind.

He's an ignorant (or naive) artificial intelligence.

That being said, I get it.
But rather than making a big deal, maybe it can open new discussion topics for parent and child about adoption, love, and/or the advancement of artificial lifeforms and their abilities to understand and empathize with human emotion.

Whichever.
9 months, 2 weeks ago Sony's letter to Congress: A timeline of the PSN/SOE attack and Anonymous finger-pointing
I'm not an Anonymous hater. Personally, I think a lot of their activities are hilarious and the entire notion intrigues me.
But they're a non-group. If these hackers claim to be of Anonymous, they are.
Anonymous can't "stand" for anything concrete, only what is going on at the moment.

Today they stand for stealing credit card numbers, tomorrow they may stand for taking down the WBC or protesting Scientology.

This is the curse of Anonymous. They are forced to support ANY activity done in their name.
One day we will have multiple Anonymous groups distancing themselves from each other's activities.
11 months ago Want the new Halo: Reach Defiant map pack? Win a free download code here!
My friend took some "Charlie Sheen" and died. This would go a long way in making me feel better.
1 year ago Russian media links airport blast to Modern Warfare 2's 'No Russian' level
Not that it would matter because you're still 'witnessing' it in game, but isn't that the level they made where you didn't have to fire a single shot if you didn't want to?
1 year ago Portal 2 for PS3 to include free Mac/PC Steam version, cross-platform play
Well, looks like I'll be buying Portal 2 on my Mac and not my 360. Thanks, Microsoft. Good for you Sony.
1 year, 1 month ago GR’s weekend giveaway: Portal Companion Cube Plush
I'm surprised. I scrolled dow the first page of comments and didn't see the word "cake" once.
1 year, 2 months ago Blizzard: WoW's subscribership has plateaued, faces same challenges as a TV series
once Jim and Pam got together, it's just became boring.
1 year, 3 months ago GR’s Weekend Giveaway: Star Wars Wampa rug from ThinkGeek
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1 year, 3 months ago Nintendo trying to trademark "It's on like Donkey Kong"
Well, if they have "Donkey Kong" trademarked, then I would assume "It's on like Donkey Kong" is still fare game for litigation whether the phrase itself is trademarked or not. So, I would guess they're just covering their bases.
1 year, 3 months ago Win Scott Pilgrim vs. The World on Blu-ray, a signed soundtrack, and more
"WE ARE SEX BOB-OMB!" (Super Mario Bros. 2...without the sex.)
Also loved all the random Zelda sounds coming out of Young Neil's handheld.
1 year, 3 months ago GR’s Weekend Giveaway: Tauntaun sleeping bag from ThinkGeek
*clever "smell bad on the outside" joke.*
1 year, 3 months ago Microsoft: Xbox Live price hike covers the cost of exclusives, new features
XBL exclusive DLC doesn't benefit the owner in any way.
Microsoft pays companies to release their content only on XBL (exclusively or for a certain period of time) in order to say "hey, look what we've got!" and sell more consoles or games.

The quality of downloadable content rarely suffers because the developer is putting it out on every platform the game itself is out on. They aren't building a new game, they're building on top of their previous game.

Personally, I don't care if a PS3 user can download the same map packs as me. Even though I love my 360, I detest Microsoft for paying for exclusive DLC. It reeks of of arrogance.

On the issue of the price hike: I don't use XBL Gold too terribly much, but don't totally mind paying more to be able to use it, but I think a $5 hike would be a little friendlier (after all, even a $51 Gold subscription means 12.5 million more dollars.)