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Scott Jennings

Parents discover the Internet is for porn, sue Internet for all the monies.

Almost as silly a headline: Teen, mom sue MySpace.com for $30 million Suit filed in Travis County claims popular Internet site fails to protect children from adult sexual predators. Because, clearly, if children are meeting bad people somewhere, it is the Interweb’s fault. Because you can lie on

Answering A Penultimate Geek Question

In a completely unrelated thread, I raised the spectre of one of the hallowed geek questions, “Who would win: Enterprise or Death Star?” Most people laughed and went for the Death Star because hey, that’s no moon. My response, I think, solves the issue admirably. Plus you have to

Oh. My. God.

When I saw the title page of this leaked PDF, I think my inner nerd wet his pants. “Star Trek: As Reimagined By J. Michael Straczynski” And Paramount PASSED on this? I HATE YOU, MISTER HOLLYWOOD.

Pratfalls

Richard Bartle recently posted a first go at a reputation system over on his blog. Some people are prats. Some of these prats play virtual worlds. Non-prats would prefer not to play with them, but have no way of identifying them; this is because whenever systems are implemented to identify

Funny Interview With Funny Guy

Firingsquad interviews Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade FiringSquad: Since your site is so popular do you think your strip and comments have any effect on the game industry? Jerry Holkins: We have readers who create games for a living, but I don’t think we affect it in a meaningful

I had something to say about griefers? No way!

A story ran in the Guardian this morning about what MMOs are doing (or not) about griefers and self-policing. Luminaries quoted include Richard Bartle and yours truly.

Rob Pardo Shatters Our Hopes And Dreams For “World of Blackthorne”

Amazingly, when you make the most popular game on the planet, you can pretty much set your own agenda. So despite Vivendi announcing that Blizzard was going to get right to work on cranking out the meat loaf… Nothing in that rumor is true in regards to Blizzard. If I