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Scott Jennings

Why we can't have nice things.

85-90% of my email is spam. It started being a problem some years ago. It escalated, more and more. It’s a problem for everyone now. Most experts agree that around 80% of all email traffic on the Internet is spam. Most of it is for things no sane

Trading Spaces

There certainly seems to be a lot of discussion lately over IGE and out-of-game market transactions – whether sparked by IGE\’e2\’80\’99s ongoing quest for respectability or amateur sleuths detecting their assorted below-covers transactions is a matter of very tiny debate. But reading the fallout on

DAMN YOU AND YOUR COOKIES!

Truly, no good deed goes unpunished. As a society, sometimes I think we really are devolving beyond Thunderdome.

GENDER DIFFERENCES AND RANDOM PORNOGRAPHY

This is gonna be the best blog entry ever! So I have a friend who does artwork. Some of that artwork is adult in nature. As in, you know, naked people. We live in America, and that sort of thing makes people go nuts. What are you gonna do. Anyway,

“I HAVE TO LEVEL NONSTOP AND I JUST WANT TO LOGIN GODDAMIT WHYYYYYY”

Ubiq brings us probably the funniest call to an MMO help line ever. And yes, hanging around the CSRs is critical. If for no other reason, they give you stuff like this.

IMMERSION IS BAD

I confess, I have a weakness for watching the mainstream media lurch amusingly around trying to analyze my chosen profession. Today, Slate takes aim at story-driven video games. Apparently, they’re bad. Basically, the writer’s complaint is that, in a game that advertises the freedom to completely ignore

WHAT ABOUT MY NEEEEEEEEEEEDS

Some things stay the same, no matter the location. (Thanks to AFKGamer for finding the link… some text from it was posted on F13 earlier. Pretty sure this isn’t the original location… but, well.)