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Roy and GM

GM, San Francisco
likes: fighting games, 2D, big breasted video game characters, podcasts, coffee, Star Trek, getting into fist fights
dislikes: Sony, HALO, organic food, iPods, EB Games, macs

Roy, Los Angeles
likes: meat, polyester twill pants, cuddling, Pride FC, sweaters, PDAs, Tekken
dislikes: Itagaki's face, RPG players, HALO/HALO players, The Beatles, "brahs", winter, Xbox controllers, crooked titties, Star Wars fans

015 :: Short Stuff

filed:10/21/2005 by GM

A quick round-up of things going on lately.

Kojima is working on a Revolution title. I suppose I would be excited if I even knew when the goddamn console was coming out for sure. Ugh.

Over at Spong, they have an interview with Jack Thompson. If you don't know about the doucheness that is Mr. Thompson.. let's just say that after all the accusations/rash generalizations and after all the crap he's said about "drooling" gamers, he's being investigated by the Florida Bar Association thanks to some persistent kids at Penny Arcade.

Continuing on the topic of violence in video games, over at Game Revolution they have an article about how youth violence has declined these past couple of years regardless of video games. Then again, when was the last time you saw a juvie getting arrested on COPS mid-playing video games.

Honestly, so long as children kill each other, politicians/parents/other officials will always try to find a scapegoat other than the child's ignorance or the parent's negligence. It's just a poor coincidence that consoles have progressed so much in the past couple of years that they can actually make detailed, gory video games. I remember when I was growing up, parents were accusing Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers for the increase of violence amongst children. I've never in my life seen a seven year old do a bicycle kick like the Pink Ranger.

Is the fox really guarding the chicken coop? ESRB is under fire for supposedly neglecting to do what it was suppose to do. Using the PSV system could possibly improve the ratings system by using traffic light colours. Though the system might be better than ESRB's, it would increase the cost of video games.. something that is not needed at all.

GM's theory on SquareEnix's new plot to become even lazier bastards? Confirmed.

To my dismay, Xbox may not have slimmed down everything like I thought. Apparently the power source is a goddamn brick. :[ We have the technology to build Xbox360s, but yet we can not design a nice, decently small power supply?

China, being awesome and backwards, has instated a new law. Maybe they'll stop stealing respawn grounds in FFXI now.

Sony is dumb as usual, releasing a pretty silver version of its PS2 console. Thing is, it isn't compatible with some games? Oh well, at least it looks nice. I guess. But how does Sony expect me to practice my throw commands and play mahjong now? :[