I’m playing the Steam version of Borderlands on a PC, which means that I’ve been playing about a week less than the XBox and PS3 folks. It also means that I’m not playing on a platform for which the game was designed. The menus in Borderlands were obviously put together for a console, and it […]

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Although I no longer play Team Fortress 2, I follow Valve’s updates to the game with a passing interest. The most recent of these is a spy/sniper update, and the hilarity of the update makes the previous comedy of the sandvich look like nothing. In the Meet the Spy video, we got porn featuring your […]

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I just read an article in Ars Technica about Microsoft’s newly granted patent for real-time censoring of audio streams. I’ve got some mixed feelings on the subject. On one hand, I’m a firm believer in John Gabriel’s Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory, but on the other hand, I’m fairly wary of censorship. I don’t play a […]

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