Archive for the ‘General News’ Category
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

OK… lets start with the Wikipedia definition of Jack Thompson:
John Bruce “Jack” Thompson (born July 25, 1951) is an American attorney and activist, based in Coral Gables, Florida. Thompson, a Christian conservative[1], is known for his public advocacy of conservative Christian moral standards. He is also an activist against video games such as Grand Theft Auto and Bully.
His involvement with music, gaming, and the media (and especially use of legal threats) have raised questions about First Amendment rights. The Florida Bar is currently seeking sanctions against Thompson for inappropriate conduct.
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Tags: activist, attorney, Bully, Christian conservative, Coral Gables, Dava Tunis, disbarment, First Amendment rights, Florida, Fundamentalist, Grand Theft Auto, Half Time, Judge, law degree, Monday Night Football, moral standards, unethical, video games
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Yesterday Hollywood lost one of its Icons when Stan Winston passed away. Stan was an innovator in special effects make-up, animatronics and digital FX. He has created such master pieces for films like Terminator, Jurassic Park and Aliens (to mention a couple of hundreds). I have worked on films that he has been on but never had the pleasure of meeting him in person. It’s genius like him that inspires future generations to make their dreams happen. Here’s some excerpts from an LA Times article:
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Tags: Academy Awards, Add new tag, Aliens, animatronics, Batman Returns, digital FX, Edward Scissorhands, films, Hollywood, Icons, innovator, Interview With the Vampire, Jurassic Park, LA Times, Lost World, Oscars, special effects make-up, Stan Winston, Terminator, visual
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008

I have at least 10 games I downloaded from Xbox Live, and I played them for a while… then the novelty kind of wore off. I was kicking ass on Robotron (Williams Electronics), for a while. But as always with the older arcade games… it just gets too f*#king hard after a certain level… So ya give up. Well it looks like Xbox live is now taking titles off their Xbox Live Arcade… well… for the simple reason that some games suck and aren’t getting downloaded. So f*#k it… pull’em. Here’s some sh*t stolen from Gamespot.com:
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Tags: 360, arcade games, digital distribution, digital-rights management, downloaders, DRM, Jeremy Wacksman, Microsoft, Robotron, Surreal Software, The Suffering, Williams Electronics, Xbox Live
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Monday, May 19th, 2008

Apparently the Wii Fit (Nintendo) called a 10 year old girl she was fat, and her mother got quite irate! So Nintendo wrote a formal apology. Check it out:
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Tags: BMI, chubby, fat, grossly obese, Nintendo, physically fit, Wii Fit
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
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