Category Archives: Dude

Apparently, spam scams are so popular in Nigeria, they’ve gotten their own music video.

Sadly, he was recently chopped himself.

This made me cry IRL.

EA’s CEO: Sequels are dull, threaten industry.

“For the most part, the industry has been rinse-and-repeat,” he said. “There’s been lots of product that looked like last year’s product, that looked a lot like the year before.”

You don’t say.

From the thousands or so of comment spam caught daily by these stalwart filters:

Hello, my name is Anna! As you can probably tell, I’m a Christian woman who loves Jesus Christ and cares for all humans, even the wicked. What you probably don’t know is that I’m hot. My picture below isn’t really that good. I want to use my beauty for GOD, and want to encourage Christian women (my sisters in Christ) to do the same, according to the Great Commission.

Dude.

Allen Varney follows up his earlier NGE story for the Escapist with the coda of Jeff Freeman’s adventures in blogging, thus proving that it’s never wise to actually blog about what you’re doing at work, because enterprising writers will dredge it up years later to prove a point.

Dozens of bitter young males, unfamiliar with the collaborative design of MMOGs, heaped daily scorn upon this water-carrier, this flunky, as the unstoppable mastermind of the entire NGE.

Either Varney’s prose turns towards the purple, or Freeman insulted Varney’s kids at a Sunday outing or something. “Flunky?” “Water-carrier?”

Michael Zenke agrees.

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Russian ninja terrorizes Italy