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Monthly Archive for November, 2009
Rupert Murdoch seems to be suffering from late stage cenial syndrome after suggesting not long ago that he will de-index his news sites from Google if they don’t pay up some cash for supposedly hosting his content. Now it has been revealed that Microsoft have approached News Corporation and others urging them to de-index from Google and other engines, and have their content exclusively on Bing (and they’ll pay).
Sure Bing is gaining market share, but Google is still the leader. Most of my news is found from Google searches, I predict that News Corp is going to find out pretty soon the power of Google. Bing will bring minuscule traffic in comparison to Google. Whether these news sites like it or not, Google is definitely the king of search engines and de-indexing will only harm not help their sites.
So Rupert Murdoch, FUCK YOU. I hope you die sometime soon before you further damage the little credibility that News Corp has left.
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All buzz, no spark: Twilight New Moon
The popularity of the Twilight series (both books and movies) amazes me, considering that Twilight isn’t exactly an original concept. Harry Potter was an amazing story because it had depth, it had a real interesting underlying story and didn’t have to rely on adding cheesy moments like shirtless guys with ripped bodies and tattoo’s just to get people to watch the movies.
New Moon is 40% Kristen Stewart (who plays Bella) acting depressed and trying to kill herself for most of the movie because her beloved vampire boyfriend Edward ditches her, and 60% shirtless muscley males doing pretty much nothing. They waste a good 5 or so minutes of movie time by her just sitting in front of a window as a camera rotates around her and the months change.
This movie will appeal to movie goers who like seeing toned upper male torsos in every scene (literally). I wasn’t sure if I was watching a body-building documentary or a movie half the time. There were maybe 3 action scenes in the whole movie (all involving shirtless males, of course) which had pretty decent special effects.
Unlike the first movie, it seems that the Twilight formula has changed and I have cracked the New Moon formula (notice the formula is slightly more complicated than that of the first movies which only had one rule, every scene must have Robert Pattinson in it):
a.) Every scene must have Robert Pattinson in it.
b.) If Robert Pattinson is not in a scene it must have one or more shirtless muscley guys, or Robert Pattinson as an apparition appearing (looking cool)
c.) Kristen Stewart (Bella) must at all times be either; angry, upset, suicidal, depressed, annoying or all of the above in every scene.
I don’t know what was worse, the movie or the people watching it in the cinema who kept gasping every time someone took their shirt off or all of the people crying at the poorly acted emotional scenes that made me laugh. I didn’t feel a drop of sadness the entire movie, only hungriness which the large popcorn and drink helped soothe.
Conclusion
If you’re a 14 year old girl, paedophile, gay or sexually deprived housewife then this movie is definitely for you. Otherwise save your money and go get drunk, it’ll be a lot more fun.
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I played Borderlands on the weekend, it was the crappiest game I have ever played. It’s like a mixture of Fallout with Wall-E from the Disney movie Wall-E. When I’m tired games usually wake me up, but this game sent me right to sleep, perfect if you’re wanting to sleep on a Saturday night and in your early twenties.
Basically all you do is shoot and do stupid missions; like assemble a stupid robot who seems to experience the feeling of pain. The graphics look good, but where is the fucking game play and decent storyline? Where is the awesome factor? It has nothing. You shoot, kill, pick up loot and weapons. Lather, rinse and repeat.
I would have loved to been at the planning meetings for this game.
“We need a good storyline..”
“How about a cute little robot that helps you at the start, then you do stupid missions and shoot and collect items? I saw Wall-E on the weekend and that robot is so cute, I really think a violent game like this deserves some kind of cute factor”
“Genius! we’ll use the Fallout code-base, change it up a bit and put in a Wall-E like robot”
“Profit, profit, profit!”
Multi-player might be marginally better than single player, but you can only shoot and loot for so long before it gets repetitive and boring. I much prefer Grand Theft Auto 4 which doesn’t get boring so easily and has a little more diversity.
GameSpot actually gave this game an 8.5, what the hell were they smoking when they reviewed this? Probably a lot of weed, I hear it makes things seem a lot funner than they actually are. I think maybe the development and story-writing team were reaching into the same dope bag too.
Play Borderlands if you’re an RPG nerd that likes to be lulled to sleep by overdone gancy graphics and sounds of people dying from animated bullets.
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