Friends occasionally recommend games to me; they know me pretty well and they know I enjoy games with a warped sense of humor firmly in command of the plot and gameplay, so things like Katamari Damacy work well. I’m also a sucker for purdy graphics, so obviously Ico and Shadow of the Colussus are on the roster for that one.

Today I was pointed towards Destroy All Humans, and from what I can tell, it’s hilarious. I like to read reviews of games before I run out to buy one, though, since I hate wasting money on something I won’t play much. What always gets me, though, when I read these reviews is just how fucking stupid some of these people are. Read the full story...

Two cops, posing undercover as drug dealers, stood on private property (a single-family dwelling, owned by its occupant), and shot its owner dead when he tried to chase them off his property. After all, they looked like drug dealers, and you’re within the law (especially in Florida) to use deadly force to get someone the fuck off your property.

From Jacksonville.com:

Rutherford said his officers are trying to protect communities from drug dealers that plague them.

“We do these things to try to drive drugs out of the community,” he said.

Really? Welp, you’re officially failing. Both counts. One of the people you’re trying to protect is fucking dead, shot by your own deputies. Looks like you did a great job ridding the world of yet another of those “legally defending my home” types — those bastards are just totally wrecking modern America. Read the full story...

I’ve got to admit feeling lots of Schadenfreude on this one, but at the same time, it does give me a chance to climb up on yon soapbox to rail against the bigger evil here (and really, folks, how often does someone like me get up and say there’s something more evil than a church and more evil than sports? ).

So it looks like the NFL won’t let some random church show the Super Bowl™ on a big projector. My initial reaction was “oh, whaaaa.” My second reaction was “what, being a church gives you special privileges?”

Finally, my biggest response is “what the fuck is wrong with the NFL here?” Read the full story...

Sigh. A geek, posting in his blog about Paris Hilton. Please make sure you’ve made peace with whatever gods you worship (or don’t), because I assume the universe is preparing for its untimely implosion right now.

I am aware that just by posting about this (kinda like the stupid Windows Vista crap going on) I’m perpetuating it in the “public eye,” but there’s some things that need saying anyway.

The world’s richest skank is making some kind of headlines again by the release of yet another “deeply personal and intimate” sex video. This sad, sad bachelor here made the unfortunate mistake of actually watching it (it didn’t take long to find, much to the undoubted annoyance of the moron trying to make money off it, heh — it surfed right in on Reddit, and let me tell you … I’m sure glad there’s lots of high-quality, free pornography out there on the internet because this shit just doesn’t cut it. Read the full story...

Today my friend read aloud an article from a gaming magazine, mildly gushing about DirectX 10 (which will only run on Windows Vista, of course), then telling everybody to not give one rat’s ass about it. Seriously. A gaming magazine telling gamers not to bother with Vista or DX10. Heh.

Then, we have this hilarious piece from the Register, referencing an even more hilarious chunk of spin from our legal friends over at Microsoft, trying to spin legal drivel into a “blog” written by “one of us.” Read the full story...

Today Buy.com and FedEx both climbed onto my shitlist … first, Buy.com won’t exchange/RMA the bunk (dead on arrival) 60GB notebook disk I bought last week for $50 (fortunately for $6.30 I can ship it back to Seagate directly — they will replace it for me), and FedEx (who I wanted to ship that drive with until earlier today) has constructed the most insane, useless, and needlessly complex web site in existence, making it impossible for me to ship the packages I want to ship tomorrow because the site won’t let me change my fucking shipping address (as in, the address I’m shipping from). Read the full story...

Much like the moron my former roommate/landlord invited to a karaoke party I ran last July, who then got mad that for once she wouldn’t let him bang her and wrecked the whole party for all of us with his bitter, hate-fueled drunken rage … here I sit having just witnessed yet another jerkwad wrecking the night for just about everybody.

Nothing clears out a karaoke rotation faster than one asshole making the environment uncomfortable for everybody in the venue. It’s hard to pick out which person was most culpable — the ass who complained or the barkeep who decided to apply a “policy” to everyone, whether it was really applicable or not. Read the full story...

Sick of Microsoft’s “Windows Genuine Advantage” nonsense screwing up your patching/upgrading process for properly licensed (or, hell, even pirated copies of) Windows XP installations?

Go run this to fix the damned thing. At least until Microsoft ship yet another version of WGA … then you’ll have to wait, oh, maybe up to twenty minutes after that for someone to crack that version yet again.

Explanation of title: well, nobody’s sued me this month yet I know our boneheaded courts here in the United States have ruled that even linking to a piece of illegal software, pirated movie/music, etc., is illegal, but last time I checked, it’s still okay to link to useful tools.

“I have a bone to pick, and a few to break.”
— Anonymous

Heh. And oh, am I going to start breaking some soon. This is getting fun, fast.

Today I spent a bunch of time, probably about 12 hours in all given the assorted screwups Windows tossed my way, putting an ailing computer back together for my friends. It’s a family PC, used predominantly by one family member with occasional use from the others. The installation of Windows XP on it had finally taken enough “damage” that it wouldn’t even boot anymore. Read the full story...

Because if I were, I’d probably have to show ID and sign a logbook just to buy some fucking cold medicine. For reasons of insanity that I am no longer willing to mentally explore (but that I’ll quite cheerfully ridicule), this even includes children’s medications, too. Anything that includes that charmingly useful stuff pseudoephedrine is now on a magical “forbidden” list because some minuscule chunk of our population occasionally buys those pills & capsules in bulk to distill their methamphetamine from it.

This war on drugs crap is just stupid. Scientists and experts and lots of pundits have all written volumes on the topic and have done a great job in proving this shit just doesn’t work. That means I can just flat-out say “this is stupid” and get the same message across. Read the full story...