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Doomed to Repeat It: Would Disney Pay for Things They Don't Know?
AV CLUB: Oddly enough, one of the thing that really brings home the sexual undercurrents in Devo’s songs is the Devo 2.0 project from 2006, where you and Disney assembled a group of tweens to sing revamped versions of Devo songs. Not only is “Girl U Want” changed to “Boy U Want,” but the references to watering mouths and an “aroma of undefined love ( Read more... ) -
Memento Mori Afa Astrae
The genius of David Bowie was that he could look at any typical endeavor, and he could find a way to add a new spin on it, usingly merely the resources he had, at hand.
Like: say, make a simple publicity photo more memorable by swapping a few clothes.
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What does perfection look like?
I've railed against gaming journalism since at least 1999. Game reviews have only gotten sillier, with a "5 star" system not offering enough objective gradiation, so it's now fractions like "9.75 out of 10." (Reviewing to three significant digits?)
So God bless Toby Fox. Here are the review quotes he uses, for the Steam page selling Undertale, to ( Read more... ) -
Only following orders...
What's fascinating about the anthropomorphization of corporations is that, somehow, if people are part of a collective, they're absolved from responsibility.
LIke this whole Volkswagen thing. Someone ordered the project. Someone programmed the computers to do the fooling. Someone did the quality-assurance to make sure it worked ( Read more... ) -
Media ethics: Microsoft and Machinima
So it's been leaked that Microsoft was paying Machinima, who in turn paid its contributors, to talk positive about Xbox One games (video link). Some observations: -
Memento Mori, or "Then They Changed What It Was"
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The Internet is what people are really like...
( H1Z1 dev unbanning cheaters who publicly apologise on YouTube... )
Commentary:- Twenty-five thousand people paid for this game, then allegedly cheated for unfair advantage
- Only three apologized publically. And one is getting re-banned because he took the apology out of public internet space.
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