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World of Warcraft : Some Chuck Norris Facts.

Arkenor — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:21:01 +0000

Last month, Blizzard was caught up in something of a backlash, after they promoted the antics of George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher, screening a rather pathetic homophobic rant at Blizzcon, and holding him up as a model player.

Suffice it to say, Blizzard were forced to apologise:

Dear members of the Blizzard community,

I have read your feedback and comments about this year’s BlizzCon, and I have also read the feedback to the apology from Level 90 Elite Tauren Chieftain. I’d [...]

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He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake.

Arkenor — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:16:21 +0000

I keep seeing this advert at the moment. Cisco’s David Hsieh, talking about the future:

Update: Whoops. Darn thing autoplays. I’ll put it after the fold.

The ability to see anything in the world, whenever you want to see it? Neat idea, or dystopian horror? The end result of our lemminglike charge to give as much of our privacy away as we possibly can?

It’d make a cool superpower. For me. I guess we can trust Santa and [...]

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World of Lordcraft Shuts Down – An UNPRECEDENTED Epic Cockup?

Arkenor — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:40:39 +0000

(Update: As of the 19th of January, the website seems to have returned to life. I guess someone finally remembered to pay their domain registration fee!)

This won’t come as any great surprise to those who followed my posts on Lordcraft:

World of LordCraft – Evony decides to take on Blizzard

World of LordCraft – Don’t Play, My Lord.

To recap, it was an Evony-clone (I believe by the same people who make Evony) that “borrowed” liberally from World of [...]

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Charmin Ultra: An incredibly tone-deaf commercial.

Arkenor — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:11:36 +0000

I saw this for the first time earlier while watching some MSNBC online, which likes to give me US advertising, and felt compelled to track it down to show you.

Nice timing on your advert, Charmin Ultra. If there’s anything that America needs to see more of at the moment, it is fish flopping around in brown muck. Who needs wetlands anyway?

Maybe you could donate a few tonnes of your amazingly absorbent tissue to clean up the blasted [...]

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Thou shalt not take the name of Optimus Prime in vain, nor usurp his copyrighted likeness.

Arkenor — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:02:35 +0000

Shipping containers. They’re ubiquitous, be they filled with frozen lamb, children’s clothing, or some plastic crap destined for Walmart. Or are they filled with doom? Beware, as from now on, shipping containers are… MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE!

Somewhere in Russia, a new plot is born. Well, not so much a plot as a marketing video for weapons of doom from munitions firm Novator. It has better production values than most Saturday morning cartoon shows.

Seriously, who decided [...]

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Stephenie Meyer is still not dead!

Arkenor — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:09:25 +0000

Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series, was not dead in April when last the rumour went around, and she is not dead now either. Seriously, internets, stop saying people are dead when they’re not.

The only reason I care about this is that I have a number of friends who ill-advisedly buy into the whole Twilight thing, and every time she dies they get terribly upset, and insist on telling me about it. Though it does kind of [...]

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MEP Daniel Hannan lies about the UK on US Television for money.

Arkenor — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:42:45 +0000

While socialised medicine is considered with great mistrust in the US, here in the UK, no political party would dare to suggest that the dear old NHS should be replaced. Unless, of course, they didn’t think anyone from Britain would notice.

In this clip, UK Conservative, MEP Daniel Hannan, holds court with the crown prince of right-wing crazy, Glenn Beck.

You would not think it to listen to Hannan and his FOX friends, but we do actually also have [...]

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Evony – A patchwork of stolen parts.

Arkenor — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:34:22 +0000

Like me, you’re probably sick of the omnipresence of Evony advertising, on Google’s ad network the last few months. Chances are there’s one staring at you on this page right now, as no matter how many of their advertising URLS I block from showing here, they always seem to have more. Until recently it was called Civony, and they used pictures of real girls stolen from a lingerie catalogue, until someone noticed, and the complaints started pouring in. So they [...]

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Coke Zero – A call for a worldwide ban.

Arkenor — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:34:15 +0000

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez has banned Coke Zero, calling it “harmful to people’s well-being”, which I am assuming is a polite way of saying that it tastes like crap. I am a big consumer of colas, mostly of the sugared varieties, and especially Cherry Coke. I do, however, find Pepsi Max and Diet Coke to be drinkable, so I am not entirely biased against low sugar colas. The brown cloying liquid known as Coke Zero is a step too far for [...]

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Waterboarding. It’s not torture! Are you sure?

Arkenor — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:07:01 +0000

Christopher Hitchens is a man who I find profoundly irritating most of the time. He has perfected the art of arrogance to the level that even when he is saying something I agree with (It’s about 50:50), I still mostly want him to shut up. He has frequently been an apologist for Bush’s interventionist policies, and the ensuing misery that perpetuates from them. However he is nothing if not a complicated man, and he was recently willing to put himself [...]

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And now a word from TASER®.

Arkenor — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:08:09 +0000

Hey there TASER® fans! Your standard TASER® may be excellent for delivering 50,000 volts to the sentient being of your choice, but while you might feel good, do you look good?

Introducing the C2 TASER® fashion range, featuring a choice of hip-looking instruments of agony. Is your target spasming because of the volts, or just because he had hoped leopard-print went out with the 80′s? Who cares, as long as he spasms!

Also available in Red Hot, Fashion Pink, [...]

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