I haven't made a random tech crap post in a while. So I'm going to make some random-y tech comments now.
Because I can.
So if you don't like that sort of thing, stop reading. Or continue. I don't really care. I'm on my lunch break and this onigiri is quite possibly one of the worst ones I've ever had from the Wasabi Hut.
I'm playing C&C 3: Kane's Wrath at the moment. Initial impressions: not as good as I'd hoped. Sure, Joe Kucan is in it which means he'll be giving a great performance as Kane, but my initial impressions are leaving me with the feeling that not only is the script a huge load of "meh" but it's just an unnecessary story. Most of us assumed that in between C&C 2 and C&C 3, Kane was alive and well and… this just feels… weak.
On the plus side, it's sort of like someone made Tiberian Sun with a better engine in a less cheesy way. But on the down side, it has SecurROM… and Kaspersky wants to empty an AK-47 round at Kane's Wrath each time it loads, as a result.
This is the Sphere bed. It looks sexy and plush and I'm probably sure that every girl within at least a 10 kilometre radius would at least consider having sex with me 15% more than they do now (which is currently around 0.03%) if I had one of these. It's red, fluffy, and has a TV. That says it all, really.
But why the hell is it called the "Sphere". It's not exactly a "sphere" is it. When I think "sphere", first I think of that crappy movie with Dustin Hoffman in it and immediately wonder why I wasted time out of my life on that piece of shit. Then I think of a circular… well, a sphere really. It's hard to push a sphere down from what it is, isn't it?
This is not a sphere. This is some other shape that is obviously not a sphere. Karim Rashid may well be a fantastic designer — if not a designer who likes red fluff — but he needs to know that his bed is not a sphere. Geometry, people!
Yahoo wants more cash. Hmm… Microsoft taking over Yahoo for money Microsoft probably made back in the same time it took for me to write this sentence (damnit… I want some too… :( ). You know Yahoo, now that you're talking figures as opposed to playing down the interest, you're more or less telling the rest of us that you will soon be MicroYahooSoft… Yahoooooooooooooooo.
Gizmodo tells us that The Guardian is telling us that "95% of kids aged 18-24 are pirating music". First of all… duh. This will probably always be the case. Someone cue "Don't Copy That Floppy!" so I can get rid of my case of YouTube-itis for the day.
But while I know The Guardian didn't write this, I should probably let Gizmodo's writer know that people aged between 18 and 24 aren't kids. In fact, The Guardian calls them "youngsters". Okay, sure, they're not as old as a lot of the readers in say the 30-50 year old bracket… but 18-24 makes them adults.
All that plus:
This is just mean (but I really want to pull it out on some people… hehehe… *evil grin*), Microsoft become derivative… and can you blame them?, some people really have no taste in more ways than one, and brushing teeth might soon be a game … is it a game to lose a tooth?! Is it?!
Anyway, that's my Gizmodo surfing for the day. :P