If you’re wondering what this is about, Anonymous has been waging an internet war against the Church of Scientology, a dangerous cult which is basically a pyramid scheme hiding behind a religious label. Anon has been DDoSing their websites, black faxing, e-mail bombing, prank calling, and raiding prominent Co$ locations in an effort to dismantle the “church”. The above video is a parody of the initial message issued by Anonymous. This campaign, known as Operation Chanology, has been recieving media coverage, including news reports on television. ilu anonymous
Some time last year, I was introduced to the phenomenon of Youtube Poop. Several of these became popular favorites amongst myself and my friends, such as “Gutsman’s Ass” and “Over 9000!!”. But some of my more personal favorites just happened to be by a guy who liked to use footage from classic vidya game cartoons like The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, the Super Mario Bros. cartoons, and the Phillips CD-iZelda “game”.
A few months back, however, when hanging out with my friend Fabio and a few others at ASU’s Student Center, we discovered that these videos - including “Ganon Hates Grating Cheese” and “Robotnik Wants KFC” were suddenly nowhere to be found. Even when searching on Google, we found pages that had embedded these video, but when we tried to play them we were met with an ominous message saying that the video had been removed. Although disappointed and confused, I didn’t really investigate the matter much more after that, until about three or four weeks ago when I wanted to show a couple coworkers these videos. Continue Reading »
If you had gone to GameSpot’s website anytime over the past couple weeks, you might have noticed how the entire front page was decorated with advertisements for Eidos’s game Kane and Lynch. I use “might have” loosely, as GameSpot’s method of advertising an up-coming major title is about as shameless and ugly as you can get, its only redeeming factor is the fact that it’s generally only on the front page.
Jeff Gerstmann, GameSpot’s Editorial Director and resident troll/reviewer recently reviewed Kane and Lynch. Gerstmann is notorious for being pretty harsh, especially to majorly-anticipated titles. He was the one who gave Twilight Princess the infamous 8.8 rating on the Wii. Could he just enjoy playing Devil’s Advocate? Maybe. According to Penny Arcade, Gamespot has been upset at Gerstmann as of late for “long-standing problems with his reviewing ‘tone’”. And a story at Rock, Paper, Shotgun explains that Gerstmann “wasn’t the most popular man with the CNET owners” - CNET Networks is the corporation which owns Gamespot, GameFAQs, and many other sites. It also goes without saying that many gamers don’t care for the guy since he tends to always give their favorite games bad reviews. Continue Reading »
