Recent content by mattinkent

This time however, the Console & Games are NOT regionalised. So get a plane ticket to New York for a holiday, take the ferry over to Jersey (where the sales tax is less) and buy yourself one. Just remember to take it out of its box when you take it home otherwise you'll end up paying duty on it...

You hung out with the wrong comedians. When I was a stand-up the rule was if you improved a joke you had to let the originator keep the new idea...but then I never was that successful.

Say that figure is even 10% right, the fact that 9.5% of players pirated their copies would not translate into a 9.5% increase in sales. If they were that tight to begin with they just wouldn't buy the games. And another thing ::insert DRM rant here::

This is better: http://www.nerve.com/advice/ridiculous-tips/the-best-of-ridiculous-tips-for-a-miserable-sex-life-emcosmopolitan-em-edition

Actually we're programmed not to get involved in needless violence - it results in injury and that's bad for the propagation of your DNA. Soldiers in World War 2 were shooting to miss in up to 80% of the time. http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/hope_on_the_battlefield

Yeah, is she going to fuck him or what? He's put his time in and I think she could do with some. Maybe that will scare the hallucinations away?

Is it me or is Erin looking hotter with each comic? Is this because she's drunk or is my wife right and I'm attracted to psychos and broken women?

True BUT the tools for an ad creative are a felt-tip and a layout pad. They've always been available. The pointers come from the endless stream of book crits with more experienced professionals. At some point you have to work for an agency, no-one is hiring freelance amateurs. The...

Exactly.

True but what you're really paying for, creatively, is the experience. Minds honed to create at the drop of a hat. That doesn't come from new technologies. The music industry always relied on musicians creating everything, they just added polish. Advertising is different. Everyone thinks they...

The majority of that ad spend will be media space (eg time on TV) so they've saved themselves very little.

Good advertising tells an essential truth. Bad advertising lies. Also ad creatives get paid rubbish money, you have to train yourself and pay for it, there's little scope for advancement and no job security. Agencies will hire 10 account handlers and one creative team when they win business...

This article is a work of genius. This is a game I want to play and I hate this shit. Who do I give my money to?

"Rape isn't necessarily forcible. For example, telling a girl that if she doesn't submit, her family will die isn't technically using force, it's threatening." Force, coercion, it's the same I'm afraid. Rape is about power not sex. Non-consensual would be the best phrase.

Decent article, albeit about a piece of adolescent drivel that the gaming world could do without. However I question the use of the phrase ?forcible rape' as rape is always ?forcible?. That?s what it means. It might be a small thing but even an off-hand suggestion that rape can be anything else...