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There is also that good old "fact:" Gaming is bigger than Hollywood.
Sadly, journalists aren't the only ones who mangle sources and misstate quotes. I've recently found two academic papers with "quotes" from articles which don't say anything like that at all. In one instance I seemed to track it down to someone paraphrasing an article, then someone using that paraphrase as a quote and then a third scholar paraphrasing that "quote" and thus rendering it quite unlike what the original author wrote.
Me vs The Daily Telegraph
I’m a really irritating person. I irritate myself. I’ve probably irritated you. I read something and if there is an incorrect fact, one that’s simple and easily checked I find it hard to get past. Especially when the writer did not bother to do a Google search or just actually read t...
Regarding using the silverlight player with dual monitors. I've been using the silverlight player in Opera for a few months (you have to go into Opera's settings and tell it to identify as firefox or IE but it works just fine) And in Opera you can zoom in the video so that it is basically full screen. I don't know if you can do that in Firefox or not (because for some reason Silverlight won't install on that computer's version of Firefox) and it is a bit of a kludge but it works.
Netflix Now Requires Silverlight for Streaming
Lemonrot writes, "I just tried watching Jericho: Season 2: "Condor" and it prompted me to install Silverlight. I was hesitant because I didn't want to install anything on my computer that was not required, and have heard some unfavorable comments about Silverlight. I called Netflix to see if I c...
I'm at 1195 and I also rarely get suggestions. Here's hoping the contest winner is implemented soon and it does in fact improve their suggestions.
Netflix Adds "Movies Rated" Counter
Matt noticed the new and quite large "Movies Rated" counter on the "Movies You'll ♥" page, probably placed there as a reminder to rate movies (the more movies you rate the better Netflix's Cinematch algorithm works). Here's Matt's counter: How many movies have you rated?
The experience of only allowing yourself to die once and it is game over is interesting and reminds me of some of the stuff people used to do with the original Thief game back in the day http://www.thief-thecircle.com/guides/unusual/#AlternatePlayingStyles
I've posted about this before on my blog http://popularculturegaming.com/?p=325 and basically I'm of the opinion that the question of emotion in games is framed incorrectly. I'm of the opinion that games are already emotional. They just aren't emotional in the same way that films are. People get mad over games all the time. They also cry over them. What child hasn't cried over losing a board game? Who doesn't feel excited after beating the boss or hearing "dominating" in Unreal Tournament?
These emotions are of a different kind and caused in a very different way than in films but that doesn't make them any less real or any less valid.
Live and Let Die
So, what started as an experiment by Ben over at Sometimes Life Requires Consequence is starting to pick up steam. It's been tagged a couple times now at Game Set Watch and Kieron Gillen over at Rock Paper Shotgun blasted some buckshot his way in today's Sunday Papers. Already at least a couple ...
I didn't know you were from Indiana. As another lifelong Hoosier I was also pretty amazed to see Indiana go Democrat. I think it says a lot more about the failings of the Republican party than it does the appeal of the Democratic party though since Mitch Daniels got reelected by a landslide.
Hoosier miracle
I don't make a habit of writing political posts here. In fact, this is my first one. So I hope you'll indulge me for one day while I share a few personal thoughts on what happened yesterday here in my home state. Barack Obama won the state of Indiana. I'm going to type that again just because ...
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