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NFL Hitched to the Oregon Trail
To salute the NFL’s opening night, Slate cooked up this video: The NFL Hits the Oregon Trail. Mike Vick goes hunting, Donté Stallworth crashes the wagon, and of course, everyone gets dysentery, the end. The NFL Hits the Oregon Trail [Slate via 100% Injury Rate on FanIQ]
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Gabe Newell Boycotting L4D Modder’s Campaign [Update]
A 19-year-old Aussie emailed the Valve boss to complain that he wasn’t flown in for the boycott-bustin’ playtest of Left 4 Dead 2. Gabe Newell’s reaction, allegedly (and in fun), was to announce a boycott of his own. The modder, Joe of Joe’s Modding Menagerie, is putting together a campaign for Left 4 Dead (pictured,…
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An Inconvenient Truth — ’09 Holiday Releases are Endangered
Overfished waters? Melting polar ice? No, the hidden shame of our ecosystem is the virtual disappearance of 2009 holiday releases, Noted ecologists LoadingReadyRun have put together this documentary on the plight of a species no one’s talking about. Let’s not spoil any of the punchlines, so, enjoy this and pay attention as you do so.…
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Torture In Video Games
At PAX, I had the good fortune to catch Bethesda’s Brink demo. While there was a lot of cool stuff in the game worth blogging about, what stuck with me was the use of torture in the game. Of course, the game doesn’t call it torture. I think the term they use is “extreme interrogation…
By AJ Glasser
