Quietly slips under radar…
This totally slipped under my radar at least, but the iPod Touch is now available in a 32 Gig version for $499. The iPhone’s lowest model is now the 8Gig for $399 (no change there) and they’ve added a 16Gig model for $499… I do have to say I’m content with the 8Gig iPhone I have, and by the time I need to replace it there will be the iPhone2 or something like that. Just keeping everybody up to date… Wiggly icons are pretty sweet (but even sweeter with the wiggly Installer.app icon (yes I am a 1337 haxx0r dood (or I just followed instructions (but whatever))))…
Pretty much sums up “Achievements” in my mind
A screenshot from the soon to be released Devil May Cry 4 (360/PS3) off the PS3 when you unlock an achievement (with a little bit of editorializing from Joystiq (it’s that little bit in the lower right))…
People seem to go nuts over these achievements, and I just don’t get it… Isn’t getting all the items, or completing the game on the harder difficulty the achievement? Do you need the game to confirm that, in fact, you did get 20,000 points in a level? A system built into a game itself is fine, rewards of new weapons or new play modes after beating a game once gives it replay value and makes someone who spent 50 or 60 bucks feel like it was a good investment… Achievements are just bragging rights, and bragging rights for video games has always seemed, simply put, stupid… People who own X360s (and this isn’t all, so don’t take it as that) will rent games notorious for easy achievement points (::cough:: Avatar ::cough::) just to raise their gamer score… It makes gaming into a meta-game for socially competitive types, and I don’t want a meta-game… That’s not why I play video games. But maybe I’m the weird one here. The fact that Sony and video game makers seem to be bowing to this on the PS3 is pissing me off, but alas…
I Get it Now
Tom Cruise puts the ethos of Scientology into layman’s terms. If you haven’t seen this video, drop what you’re doing, watch it, and then donate $5,000 to L. Ron right now!!!
The Most Dissapointing News in the History of America
This is a sad day in American history. Fred Thompson–better known as Larry the Cable Guy’s favored candidate–has dropped out of the running. Who would have guessed that this would happen to the former lobbyist, who didn’t announce his candidacy until September and has refused to participate in any of the major debates? Well, the Huckster is still an available candidate for those who want to see America’s future destroyed the “fun” way.
Check out these remarkably poignant parting words. America is #1 because we’re willing to kill more people than anyone else to prove that killing is wrong:
Huckabee is more fucked up than i thought
wow. wow. holy shit man. Mike (F)Huckabee says we should amend the constitution to fit with “god’s standards”. What is he talking about!? This guy should go to one of those fundamentalist countries where they tolerate religious doctrine as government law. Not in my country, bitch!
Im not sure who’s preferable, the phony mormon dumb-ass Romney, or the religious nut job douche-nozzle Huckabee. God i hope McCain lays the smack down on both of them.
Live free or die!
“…hey, maybe we should have read more of his writings before inviting him on air…”
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Norman Solomon has written some excellent books/pieces if you’d like to read them…
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Google’s list of his books…
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His site…
Neil Cavuto can blow me… RP ‘08…
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Just so you can recognize it in the future, this is what you would call a “hit piece” by FNC… Nice try by the way Neil… “…and to be fair”… Suck it Neil…
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There are some things I disagree with on Dr. Paul, but his overall message “Just leave people alone to live their lives” resonates with me quite a bit…
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For all of you who heard of the Tea Party, here’s a few graphs showing what that day looked like… $6.04 Million is quite staggering when you consider the average donation was ~$102…
Mitt’s Speech…
Here is the full speech he gave about his faith and “Faith in America”…
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And, because I love Hitch and despise Mitt, here’s some of Hitchen’s response to this speech…
Romney does not understand the difference between deism and theism, nor does he know the first thing about the founding of the United States. Jefferson’s Declaration may invoke a “Creator,” but, as he went on to show in the battle over the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom, he and most of his peers did not believe in a god who intervened in human affairs or in a god who had sent a son for a human sacrifice. These easily ascertainable facts are reflected in the way that the U.S. Constitution does not make any mention of a superintendent deity and in the way that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention declined an offer (possibly sarcastic), even from Benjamin Franklin, that they resort to prayer to compose their differences. Romney may throw a big chest and say that God should be “on our currency, in our pledge,” and of course on our public land in this magic holiday season, but James Madison did not think that there should be chaplains opening the proceedings of Congress or even appointed as ministers in the U.S. armed forces. Trying to dodge around this, and to support his assertion that the founders were religious in the Christian sense, Romney drones on about a barely relevant moment of emotion in 1774 and comes up with the glib slogan that “freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.” Any fool can think of an example where freedom exists without religion—and even more easily of an instance where religion exists without (or in negation of) freedom.
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According to the admittedly very contradictory scriptures of the New Testament, Jesus of Nazareth warned his disciples and followers that they should expect to be ridiculed and mocked for their faith. After all, how likely was it that God had decided to reveal himself to only a few illiterate peasants in a barbarous backwater? Those who elected to believe this stuff were quite rightly told to expect a hard time, and the expression “fool for God” or “fool for Christ” has been with us ever since. That concept has some dignity and nobility. Entirely lacking in dignity or nobility (or average integrity) is the well-heeled son of a gold-plated church who wants to assume the pained look of martyrdom only when he is asked if he actually believes what he says. A long time ago, Romney took the decision to be a fool for Joseph Smith, a convicted fraud and serial practitioner of statutory rape who at times made war on the United States and whose cult has been made to amend itself several times in order to be considered American at all. We do not require pious lectures on the American founding from such a man, and we are still waiting for some straight answers from him.
Hey Mr. Thompson
So, this is a little older (mid November), but I fucking hate “Hey There Delilah”, and this does a great job of making the lyrics mean something whilst giving a big “Fuck You” to Jackie-boy…
I’m fuckin’ moving to Norway!
Micheal Moore cut this scene from Sicko because it was just too ridiculous. It’s in the bonus materials on the DVD. America sure is suckin’ it up lately. I really need to get my ass to Norway.
