By now most of you have presumably heard or read about the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, or if you haven’t, you will. The BASIC gist of the film is that it’s a film advocating Intelligent Design (the belief, in essence, that we come from an intelligent designer, what a surprise) over Evolution (the belief […]
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New on the spam listings: ANAL SEX!
Because apparently the spammers have decided that the site would be a good place to advertise this thing. I don’t know about that, but whatever.
Moving on…
If you’ve ever spent any sort of time on the internet, you’ve most likely come across a webcomic somewhere or another, either by accident […]
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How about instead of giving me a 40 paragraph strategy guide so I can shop in your pawn shop without getting screwed you just sell me a game when I ask for it. - Gabe, from Penny Arcade, on Gamestop policies.
He’s pissing and moaning about this, for general refference.
Hey, mind if I make a suggestion?
How […]
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But first: Memo to people spamming the comments sections: not that I expect this to stop you, but NO ONE SEES THOSE COMMENTS BUT ME, AND MY PENIS IS BIG ENOUGH, THANKS.
Ahem. Moving on.
Can we please stop with the unnecessary bolstering of the potential ego of others with utterly inaccurate statements that serve to do […]
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I tried to think up a larger, more impressive word for the title, but really, that just says it all.
Before we begin, I’d like to remind everyone that this is “Your Hot Cup of Rant”, and not “Rantmaster Mark reviews products you should or should not purchase”. So assume that I like the product that […]
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So, Roger Ebert is back on his high and mighty horse about how games aren’t art.
Ahem:
Yes, I am aware of the hypocrisy.
That’s really all I should HAVE to say, but since I have a self-imposed word limit, let’s move onward a bit.
Now, “art” can simply be defined as “the products of human creativity”. That’s it. […]
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Consider this: historically speaking, if a video game/franchise has the capability to “matter” beyond its period of release, it will generally fall into one of five distinct categories:
1.) It will be hailed as a historically significant achievement purely based on how good/pervasive it was (Half-Life, Pokemon, Tetris),
2.) It will be recognized as something that was […]
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