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Scott Jennings

HOW I WON THE WAR!

Paradox released its latest magnum opus last week, Hearts of Iron 2. Short version: you like wargames? Go buy it. Long version? Paradox’s earlier effort, Europa Universalis, and especially its successor, Europa Universalis 2 (which is really EU 2.0, but we wont’ complain) is probably the best strategy

“THE ARMY IS ANGRY AND WE’RE COMING FOR YOU!”

The US military, taking time out of its busy schedule reducing Iraq to very finely ground sand, goes after griefers. No, really! Finally, a valuable use of my tax dollars. When you get banned, know that we know and have records showing you were doing something that\’c3\’a2\’e2\

ALSO, DICK CHENEY IS LUKE SKYWALKER’S FATHER

In one of those things too strange to actually be false, J. points us to where the Florida Department of Corrections has taken as its mission statement that of the Guardian. (The prison’s version is at the bottom of the page.) Yes. THAT Guardian. I guess if our corrections

“DON’T GET SLICK WITH THE MOUTH!”

So, I’m not a great fan of outsourcing. That being said, I’m also not a great fan of Jessica Simpson and Wal-Mart. People seem to like both of those, though. And people that run businesses tend to like outsourcing. Even though I work in the tech sector, I

QUICK, STEAL MY IDEA!

(Posted as a response to an F13 thread, highlighted here so it doesn’t disappear into message board epherma) So if someone gave me $20 million and told me to make an MMO I would (after asking for $20 million more – blackjack and hookers are expensive) create an MMO that

HU SHUO!

Most MMOs are having problems now with Chinese farmers (and not the kind who grow rice). And no, I can’t talk about specifics you think I may know about, mainly because I have no specifics you would find interesting. (Contrary to popular belief, more than one person works on

WARNING: GAMES WILL MAKE YOU CRAZY. NOT MILDLY CRAZY. BUT BLOWING AIR THROUGH YOUR LIPS AND MAKING BUH-BUH-BUH NOISES CRAZY.

Fresh from letting us all know about the insanity of ex-Nintendo CEOs, Wired warns us not to play Katamari Damacy TOO much, or we’ll assume life is actually a PS2 controller. “I was driving down Venice Boulevard,” recalled her husband, Dan Kitchens, “and Kozy reached over and grabbed the