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Archive for the 'Rants' Category

Stadium Australia Management in Killjoy Shock

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Yes, the "Shock" bit is meant to be sarcasm. Despite the best efforts of those at the front of the cove on Saturday night, it was nigh on impossible to get everyone singing without a megaphone (or two). The reason for the lack of megaphones? And for the conspicuous lack of drums from the home [...]

Activision are just colossal arse-clowns now

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Just the latest in a long line of nonsensical crap from the world’s largest videogame publisher, but enough is enough - seriously.

Kotick claims that 60 percent of Xbox Live users are there “principally because of Call of Duty,” and that Activision doesn’t see a fair share of the money from it.

Kotick described closed console networks [...]

Slow news day fellas?

Friday, October 30th, 2009

The poor quality emergency toilet paper masquerading as a newspaper, Sydney’s trashy Daily Telegraph, has managed to hit a new low. According to the article, Sydney FC’s crowd last weekend was inflated by approximately 2000. They’ve actually sat down and attempted to do a head count from video footage of the stadium - are these [...]

Back up and running

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

So, I moved to a new unit a few weeks back. No big deal, aside from the moving costs and the sheer fscking pain the butt of actually packing up and moving many years worth of accumulated crap. What was a big deal was that it somehow took more than two weeks to get a [...]

Sydney shafted in semi scheduling

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Due to Queensland Roar’s home venue - Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane - hosting a concert on Tuesday, Sydney FC have been forced to play the first leg of their semi-final series at the SFS, thereby losing any advantage from finishing above the Roar in the A-League. This is rubbish, pure and simple. If the Roar have [...]

Nintendo Wii Lie Watch

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

Nintendo are obviously trying to catchup to Sony in terms of writing cheques their butts can’t cash.
Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz in London this afternoon, a spokesperson admitted, “We are region-locked,” and said the US arm of the company had made a mistake in saying otherwise.
This goes against many statements coming out of Nintendo of America. Very [...]

Anti-Wii Rant

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

There is soooo much positive Nintendo Wii buzz on the Internet at the moment, I feel compelled, nay, obligated, to air my overwhelmingly negative views on the subject in order to balance out the universe (or, because I just can’t believe how many people seem to like the idea of waving their arms at the [...]