Posts by Joshua Drummond
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That reminds me, I need to sort out the game reviews for this year.
In the past I've found EA and Microsoft (particularly EA) are brilliant to deal with. Sony contact me sporadically and Nintendo... Here's the problem. As far as I can tell, there is no official Nintendo presence in NZ. All their stuff used to be distributed by a company called Monaco (from memory.) Then it was taken over by Softprint Interactive, who went bust. I see from a Google search that the distribution is sort of being taken over by Nintendo of Australia. We've never had any joy getting any review product out of any of those companies.
This might have something to do with all of those companies being allegedly quite shitty, which in turn probably has lot to do with the fact that New Zealand is apparently the only place in the universe where the Wii is outsold by everything else.
So good luck getting hold of whoever distributes Nintendo here, and if you have any success, please, let everyone know. I'd be fascinated. -
Late to the party, as usual.
Welcome back, Keith!
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Does anyone know links to where Obama's victory speech can be viewed live? I don't have Sky and don't trust TVNZ/TV3 to screen it in full, and I think I'd rather view the penultimate moment of this historic election than Two and a Half Men or whatever. Tough as that choice is.
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EPIC WIN!
Excuse the caps. I'm in a capital mood.
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CRITICAL HIT!
Here's Little Green Footballs commentary, for the edification of future generations:
"The stupid fucks that vote for Obama deserve what they get. 12% unemployment, Dow under 5K, terrorist attacks on American soil, $200/bbl oil. Unfortunately, the rest of us have to deal with it too. The bell curve is wrong; more than 50% of all people are of below average intelligence"
Oh, I love it. I love it so much.
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No, Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate is good reading
You see, I like that, because the wing-nuts are calling Obama a Manchurian Candidate. Because he's a programmed baby-eating Marxist terrorist, you know.
Proof:
"Barack Obama was programmed for years by his atheist, Muslim father, by the communist sex pervert Frank Marshall Davis..."
Courtesy WND. It's how his father was both Muslim and atheist that I liked. Sorry, but I'm a firm devotee of the "so bad it's brilliant" school of commentary.
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I'm watching the conservative blogs for my election news. The hysterical reaction of the far-right to an Obama win, assuming he does, will be one of the most enjoyable things about it.
World Net Daily is my favourite, I think. They've completely spun out over the last couple of days, even considering they were completely mental to begin with. The best part was Christian eschatologist Hal Lindsey not-too-subtly outing Obama as the Antichrist.
The LGF comments threads are good reading as well. I like the inference people are drawing between having a Democratic President-elect and the sudden increase in the likelihood of being nuked by the A-rabs.
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I'm also skeptical about the public demand for quality freelance journalism; the newspapers publish all those Paris Hilton stories for a reason - because that's what most people are genuinely interested in.
I'm skeptical about this kind of skepticism. I believe that much of the mysterious, invisible public see through the bullshit that the mainstream news media churn out and that they've simply given up on it, preferring to escape into celeb-worship fantasyland. If a viable alternative was offered I suspect many would take it.
Ominously, I'm sure that's why Investigate et al succeed(?) - because a certain section of the public views them, however wrongly, as the truth-telling alternative to a churnalism-ridden MSM.
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I'd be all over this like a thing which is all over another thing. I'd also be fine for a hundred bucks a year. Hell, my soccer subs are more than that.
Here's a thought, which I'm not sure is a Stupid Question or not: Are there any avenues for government funding of a venture like this, in the manner of an arts grant? Or would government-derived funding defeat the purpose?