Today’s xkcd nails the tech support dream.
There’s a chick two phones over with a stuffed penguin doll and a poster of some bearded dude with swords
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Author: Dan
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‘The Opposition’
Medal of Honor game goes on sale amid controversy
Dr Fox described the game as “un-British” and said it was “shocking that someone would think it acceptable to recreate the acts of the Taliban against British soldiers”.
In other shocking news, children for generations have been re-creating the actions of criminals in the game ‘Cops and Robbers’. Previous games let you play as Nazis and no-one gave a shit, you can play as (generically-named) baddies in Modern Warfare and other games. If they had created a fictional name no-one would care (though then EA wouldn’t have got a load of free press).
I can’t wait until we have a generation of politicians who grew up playing computer games, or even better politicians who still play computer games. They’re games. They’re entertainment. Growing up playing first person shooters is no more likely to send you on a killing spree than growing up playing Go for Broke is to make you recklessly lend money to high-risk borrowers leading to huge losses and ultimately the collapse of large financial institutions requiring vast government bailouts funded by taxpayers. Hang on…
A monkey is outfitted with a cane and a mask and measured. The simian was also briefly considered for walking shots of Minch-Yoda that would have been impossible to execute with a puppet.
Vanity Fair has a collection of shots from the new Making of Empire book.
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A brace of trailers
Burke & Hare:
And a longer True Grit trailer:
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I can’t stop listening to this
I think I’ve been singing it for at least two days solid now too.
If you do this in an email, I hate you from The Oatmeal.
This is my most frequently encountered of the complaints but they’re all spot on. (‘If you don’t know what BCC is you shouldn’t be using email,’ is a particular gem)