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wtf is atomic betty

http://www.boris-johnson.com/archives/2006/12/computer_games.php man, you gotta love Boris Johnson. ...presumably smashing the kid's head in? I don't get what the problem is, kids read the manuals surely underneath the ranting of a mad man is a good point to make, but writing about it in such an extreme manner is kind of over the top and it shows up, once again, people's extreme lack of knowledge when it comes to the game things. Still it does grab people's attention, and there is a good debate in the comments section, with some excellent points made that side with gaming, and just chat about it sensibly without resorting to insane lizard analogies... not that I have had time to wade through too much of it though, it is huuuge.

In england E is what people call the drug Ecstacy.

the point was, i wanted to know if i needed to update the site or not. and then he made up a word.

My boss just made agood comparison between this Boris story, and this: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=12292 A call from another UK minister for the creation of a Games Academy. (would it star Steve Guttenburg?)

Yes, he seems to shift all the blame on to video games with no real connection other than a hypothesis plucked from his own frustrated brain… What about watching TV? Is that not also to blame? If anything TV is far more mind ‘rotting’ as it involves 0 interaction.

kind of?

there you go.

I went through all the idle news headlines and I found one instance of this and 700+ instances of awesomeness. "Worms Squiggles on to DS and PSP" or somehting the offender was: Marek marek gets a brief :tdown:but then also instantly gets :tup::tup::tup: because of all his other headlines.

ahh Mojo. I think most of the old time posters are from Mojo or Adventure gamers, a mish mash hybrid, just like the staffers. But then a whole bunch of people are from the internets....

Who is guilty of this? I have done both. I took holiday for the launch of WoW, and will be doing so again. I also booked holiday to play Children of mana and then cried from it's crapness. Sickie's I'm sure I have pulled some on a few random launch days in the past, I can't remember them though. Anyone been caught out? At work there is this office admin kid who spends 90% of his work time on the Evo soccer forums. He was mysteriously missing from the thursday when the game broke store dates, for almost a week.

Man, it's so wierd when everyone changes avatars at once. It's like a huge face lift party or something.

oh yeah i did that for wii also. I mean book a half day holiday to get one. Man I am so guilty of these things. One time i remember rushing my coursework to get it finished, running to college, handing it in 3 seconds before the deadline and then running outside, and grabbing a lift with my pc to a LAN somewhere up north. I failed that subject ¬¬ I failed them all. We all did. Fuck you Quake you failed me. Luckily for me, A-levels are useless.

oh yeah, i remember meeting my friend on the way to college only to find a shiny new copy of Star Craft on his doorstep, suffice to say we didnt go in to college ¬ When Quake 4 came out, i thought it might actually be good (I was wrong but... i didnt know that then). I got a copy by going to a virgin megastore near closing... the store clerks were putting the stock for the morning out on the shelf. /me spies a box of quake 4, grabs one and manages to buy it. I get home, install it, oh man so eager to do some ass whippin. It's all ready to go, sitting there - i decide to make dinner first. What happened next was a classic fuck up: i threw boiling hot goose fat onto my right hand, scorching my index and middle fingers, plus my thumb. You may have noticed that those are the precise parts of a right hand required to play quake. There was no quake for me, i had to watch Nick play it, and drink half a bottle of bourbon to numb the pain (ben i'm sorry for the 2am phone call that night). Come to think of it, i think nick and bob completed Battle Raper 2 that night, whilst i cried in drunken pain in a corner watching and all the time laughing between the sobs. Aaanyways, sick day for me, but no games

Ian Huntley fiddles his way into Europe's underage panties.

The Internets! http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/18545569/ It rules, I would love a canvas version of it for the wall of mein house.

A victory for good taste

I think moderators and admins have different rules ¬¬

hahahaha from podcast to print. awesome.

this is an article of the future.

Thanks Marek, for your wonderful post.

Redwall.... your Baltar looks like steve guttenburg

I also found this... TOTALLY SIDETALKIN' so 2003