1) Hype up an installment of a game series that he has been playing loyally for years
2) Delay the release date to whet his appetite further
3) Release to great fanfare
4a) Compel him to download the game via a shitty, online-based delivery system, thus making it impossible for him to collect a refund should there be gross disappointment ( Read more... )

I spent all day nervously watching the clock so that I could race out and pick up a copy of Empire: Total War, which has been widely reported as being released in the U.S. today.

Alas, they seem to have decided that it won't be released until tomorrow.

And I am sad.

Wait, the new spokesman of the Republican Party is 14 years old?

I mean, I'm always glad to see teenagers involved in politics, but giving one a book deal, speaking time at a convention, and five minutes on CNN to tout conservative values strikes me as very strange.

"Family Ties," anyone?

...Oh, CNN just made the reference. Nevermind.

I followed the lot of you to Twitter.

http://twitter.com/Fiatnox

Well, it's still not 10 inches.

I hate Nostradamus. I think I've written on this point several times before, but once again the History Channel has recovered these visceral emotions ( Read more... )

Thank you.

I have fallen victim to the Great Virginia Flu Epidemic of 2009 ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm a couple weeks late getting this up:

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Yes, that's cavaticat and generalkruge dancing from 0:40-1:35 ( Read more... )

I'm surprised I haven't seen this on the f-list, yet ( Read more... )