Dissecting Jack's Lies

Trained on Doom eh?

Soooooo, he practiced his rocket jumps?

WaPost Removes Counterstrike Reference From Story

I'm just saddened that all of this stuff leads to knee jerk reactions on all fronts, from gun control to what's allowed in entertainment. People are already attributing this case to the "macho hollywood gun-culture" when this kid was just a sick individual. If there wasn't a gun, he probably would have made a fertilizer bomb. I'm not saying that there's not things to be done, but let's get real. This was a case of a sick individual, and we can legislate and denounce until the end of the world, but it won't stop sick people from doing this kind of thing.

I mean, I was listening to the radio, and they were screaming about gun control, and when someone said that they needed to stop just "reacting" to incidents, their response was "Well, we reacted to 9/11 and I'm fine with that." OK, that's great, we changed to suit a changing world, I can dig that, but people fail to realize that knee-jerk changes (there's that phrase again) are often misdirected and ineffective at solving the problem at hand. The immediate reaction to 9/11 was the Patriot Act, which is now in the process of being taken apart piecemeal due to unconstituationality. I hate seeing our country go from shock and fear to a pitch-forks-and-torches mob screaming "Let's do something" and allow people to further pre-existing agendas under the faulty logic that shutting the barn door after the horse is out is the only reaction to any tragedy.

Analyst: Xbox Biz Is A Disastrous Endeavor

So according to this analyst companies should not invest in expanding their business. It's called capital expenditure. Rarely are new business endeavors profitable with in the first five years. Microsoft got into the game market to expand the reach of their software into the living room and focus on the bigger picture.

Anyone claiming victory or defeat for any of the three at this point is incredibly short sighted. This battle will wage on for at least another generation when cable tv, the internet and games are all merged into one box.

Making his point about Japan so early was a mistake as well. Not that it isn't an important teritory but they are complete xenophobes when it comes to technology. Why should they look elsewhere when they already have two excellent game companies already in their country? That'd be like us all of a sudden buying Chinese developed cars when they start selling here in a year or two.

Now, you can point to Honda and Toyota because that is a good argument but they took decades to infiltrate the American market and are only now becoming successful in doing so. (for the record I own a Honda Prelude '99 type SH and I love it more than anything in the world.)

Compounded by the fact that American developers don't get Japanese culture and have very rarely been successful over there. (Metroid by Retro Studios is the only game that comes to mind). It's no wonder why they haven't succeeded, yet.

I'm sorry but just because someone isn't successful at something right away doesn't mean they should quit. Not when there's so much at stake. Besides, It's not like MSFT doesn't have the resources to fund their console.

Jack Thompson Gets Hardballed

Matthews really didn't attack Thompson. If you've ever seen Matthews go after a zealous politician on Hardball, you'd notice that this interview was very light. He basically allowed Thompson to ramble at length. It's probably because Matthews doesn't understand the subject himself.

It's kind of a shame because unlike Adam Sessler who essentially imploded while Thompson smirked on, Matthews could have torn this guy apart.

After all, Thompson needs to be ripped apart. The man has no shame. Barely 48 hours have passed since this tragedy and he is already hawking his vile agenda of censorship on the airwaves. The man makes me sick to my stomach.

Sony "Reconsidering Its Pricing Strategy For PS3

They've dug themselves a bit of a hole at Sony, it seems. It's a huge gamble no matter what they do. If they do drop the price, they'll only be eating more of the cost than they already are. Assuming consumer interest rose considerably at that point, are there enough games even available to make up those losses?
Sony, it seems to me, finds itself in a very "last-gen Nintendo" position. I think they can start to turn this around, but not with their home console. They should focus on the PSP brand as their money maker, the way Nintendo's handhelds have managed to turn a consistent profit. Can they do it? Yeah, but it's going to require a lot more effort in that area, and a lot more understanding of the portable market than they've shown thus far. In many ways, Sony's position is much more difficult than Nintendo's ever was. At the worst of times, Nintendo could always fall back on its utter domination of the portable market (and did). Sony lacks that buffer.
They need to do something to gain consumer confidence, and maybe a price cut would help, but they may have to get used to the idea of being the (very expensive) GameCube of this generation. Keep in mind that Sony doesn't just have to make up for lost manufacturing costs on every console sold; they also have to balance out the massive amount they spent on Blu-Ray and Cell R&D. The general public doesn't seem overly interested in HD movies of any kind just yet, and the Cell isn't being used in anything other than the PS3.
The PS2 is still outselling their new console, and that can act as their buffer for a little whole perhaps, but for how long? It's still very profitable for developers to put games out on the PS2, not so much for the PS3. In this, Sony finds itself in competition with its own console. It keeps the money coming in from one source, certainly, but it hardly justifies the PS3 to developers or the gaming public.
So a price cut? It's something to consider, and on the surface, sounds pretty good. But alone, without restructuring their overall strategy, it's not going to turn their position around.

GameLife Host Freed On 50K Bail

I think another important thing to look at here is the fact that the girl turned him in for the threats he made. I'm sure she was more familiar with his demeanor and if she genuinely felt threatened I think she did the right thing by turning him in.

Think about it. You know all sorts of people. Some people could say something like he said and you would know it was just the way they reach out for attention. Someone else could say the same thing and you would be scared that they would act on it because they are nutty as shit. I think she thought he might act on it. Maybe she thought it was reaching the boiling point with his threats or something.

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