The videogame press (and many outside of that lurid category) seem to have the journalistic abilities of a three year-old, acting like moronic tabloids printing whatever fantasy-based story hits their tips email. Sometimes we just don’t know enough verifiable information and it’s down right damaging to speculate around the issue.
A journalist’s job (or a blogger’s for that matter) is to find the “best obtainable version of the truth,” not the most entertaining.
My rant about the shoddy reporting surrounding Geohot’s apparent fleeing from his court case against Sony. (oh, excepts facts say he didn’t).
“The Best Obtainable Version of the Truth” - Nukezilla.
March 12, 2011 at 3:51pm
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Ever notice how the entire Star Wars saga is dictated by the actions of one Star Destroyer commander?
Right after R2D2 gets the data from Princess Leia, he and C3PO get into an escape pod and fall to the nearby planet, Tatooine. As they’re falling, a trooper on the Star Destroyer spots the escape pod and moves to destroy it.
However, a commander orders him not to fire, “there’s no lifeforms, must have short-circuited,” he remarks. So they let it plummet to the planet. No big deal, right? His reasoning, it seems, is that the pod is empty so there’s no point blowing it up.
The problem is that if they had simply blown it up -just to be on the safe side- the entire saga couldn’t have happened.
If they had taken the shot, R2 and 3PO would have been destroyed, along with the Death Star plans. Even assuming there’s another copy (although it doesn’t seem likely) if the two droids hadn’t made it to Tatooine, hadn’t found their way to Luke and then to Obiwan, there’s no way he would have seen Leia’s message. Luke would have probably stayed “another season” perpetually and never found out who is real father was.
So all this brings us to the conclusion that the entire Star Wars saga is based on the decision of a single Imperial Officer who’s assumption that the pod “short-circuited” single-handidly brought down the Galatic Empire.
Just sayin’.
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
“You’re in direct competition!”
(Source: eyeonspringfield)
February 23, 2011 at 10:59pm
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Jesus Test Drive is a buggy game.
Hundreds of years ago, when Nintendo Power celebrated the publication of their one-hundredth issue (Wikipedia tells me they’re up to 265 now), some special merchandise was created to mark the occasion. This golden N64 controller is one of those items. I’ve cherished this thing, and have rarely used it just because it’s so damn pretty.
Wallpaper Wednesday - Nukezilla.
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Maybe RSS feeds are too mainstream for Tumblr to worry about? Either way, the RSS feed for the Nukezilla Tumblr is still not working quite right. One suggestion is that we’re not popular enough…
January 17, 2011 at 1:14pm
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Cameron already gave Coulson a “second chance” back in July…
July 2009, David Cameron said:
Of course I knew about that resignation before offering him the job. But I believe in giving people a second chance. As director of communications for the Conservatives he does an excellent job in a proper, upright way at all times.
Today, January 17th:
David Cameron said today he has given Andy Coulson, his director of communications, a “second chance” following revelations about phone-hacking at News of the World when he was editor and warned that his aide should not be “punished twice for the same offence”.
How many’s that now, Dave?
January 16, 2011 at 10:07pm
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I’m thankful they issued that warning.
January 10, 2011 at 6:14pm
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There is only either minimal or substantial doom.
