You go, girls!
BOOYA
8.17.2009
Videogame business model is f*@ked
Sales of everything are falling, because nobody has any money.
But videogames SHOULD be the cheap, convenient replacement entertainment for everything else. But they're not.
Here's why:
The games are all the same.
They cost too much.
They don't last long enough.
The stories don't engage and change.
Now's the time to rethink your strategy. Start with cheap, online, episodic, and highly variable content.
Peter Moore of EA Sports has a clue.
But videogames SHOULD be the cheap, convenient replacement entertainment for everything else. But they're not.
Here's why:
The games are all the same.
They cost too much.
They don't last long enough.
The stories don't engage and change.
Now's the time to rethink your strategy. Start with cheap, online, episodic, and highly variable content.
Peter Moore of EA Sports has a clue.
Palin's just like US
Wouldn't it be great, if, without doing spectacularly well in school, graduating from a top-rated university, enthusiastically pursuing a career of public service and/or productive work, dauntlessly campaigning for local, regional, and finally national political office, YOU too could become President of the United States?!
Well, gee, if Sarah Palin can do it, who couldn't?
Do we really want to be lead by someone whose only esteem derives from being the prettiest girl in Wassila Alaska?
Well, it seems that some of us do, and this letter to the editor of the Pocono Record has eloquently identified exactly why.
[Don't blow a blood vessel in your brain arguing with this unseen force. Just let it roll.]
Well, gee, if Sarah Palin can do it, who couldn't?
Do we really want to be lead by someone whose only esteem derives from being the prettiest girl in Wassila Alaska?
Well, it seems that some of us do, and this letter to the editor of the Pocono Record has eloquently identified exactly why.
[Don't blow a blood vessel in your brain arguing with this unseen force. Just let it roll.]
How bad can it get?
The other day, a friend - in the midst of a discussion about the healthcare/wall street/black president/what the fuck do we do debacle - asked me how bad I thought things could get.
Would some crazy follow the train of incompetent/Socialist/Hitler/(racist) thought all the way to its conclusion and make an attempt on our beloved president's life?
Not unless they want the Other Side to win!
So please, Rush, fire up them crazies and make a martyr out of our first forward-thinking, racially bipartisan, 21st century president, cause we could sure use the motivation.
[More on our imminent doom here.]
And of course, the best thing we can do for the economy is nothing. Cycles, people, cycles.
Would some crazy follow the train of incompetent/Socialist/Hitler/(racist) thought all the way to its conclusion and make an attempt on our beloved president's life?
Not unless they want the Other Side to win!
So please, Rush, fire up them crazies and make a martyr out of our first forward-thinking, racially bipartisan, 21st century president, cause we could sure use the motivation.
[More on our imminent doom here.]
And of course, the best thing we can do for the economy is nothing. Cycles, people, cycles.
8.06.2009
Tell it to the FCC
Today is the first of a series of open workshops hosted by the FCC to gather information from interested consumers on the upcoming Broadband Plan.
"Interested consumers" is us. Now, if we can only get someone to show up that doesn't just represent the telecommunications industry, and those wanting to be sure that people in rural areas are sure to get service.
Both of those interests are certainly valuable, but they are also very well represented. The people who aren't are us - those who spend all day on the computer, have a daily need for fast connection speeds, and who'd benefit immensely in the wealth of ideas and capital that would become available if we as a country had universal, wireless broadband service!
The future is (could be) here now.
"Interested consumers" is us. Now, if we can only get someone to show up that doesn't just represent the telecommunications industry, and those wanting to be sure that people in rural areas are sure to get service.
Both of those interests are certainly valuable, but they are also very well represented. The people who aren't are us - those who spend all day on the computer, have a daily need for fast connection speeds, and who'd benefit immensely in the wealth of ideas and capital that would become available if we as a country had universal, wireless broadband service!
The future is (could be) here now.
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