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Serious games: Ars looks at games that tackle the big issues

Comment in News (-7 diggs, 5 replies) - on 10/09/2008
long story short - games are audio-visual mediums telling stories about war, history, life, sic. therefore it's art, art is valid, so by watching me beat this virtual stranger to death with a baseball bat or jumping into a sewer pipe to rescue a princess, … (see comment)
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High-Fructose Corn Syrup: Safe as sugar?

Comment in Videos (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 10/07/2008
i never think 'digg's are anything other than measuring sensationalism/audience in a topic. (see comment)
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Fannie & Freddie: The Real Story Behind The Economic Crisis

Comment in Videos (-1 diggs, 0 replies) - on 10/07/2008
point 1. politics, like money, influences people. while you might imagine politics is something manageable like money, it's very hard to ask someone with a lot of power, to hand it back. arguing that the solution to commercial failure is to let someone ba … (see comment)
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Fix your music library:song names, album art, automatically!

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 10/07/2008
reminds me of SUPER's badly run website that stops you from downloading the program. also, front page 2.0 from 1998. (see comment)
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Fix your music library:song names, album art, automatically!

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 10/07/2008
try using jaikoz, it integrates MusicIP and musicbrainz metadata, it's also fantastic for bulk-tagging, and filling in metadata in selective bundles. i.e. highlight the album and remote-correct, then if it fails to sync up, undo and try manually tagging o … (see comment)
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Fix your music library:song names, album art, automatically!

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 10/07/2008
the problem with all tagging is ... bulk tagging usually sucks balls if you don't know what it's supposed to be. if you do, making it easy is a great thing. T&R, the godfather, itunes tagging, etc. makes sense, you can see what those 20 songs are suppos … (see comment)
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Fix your music library:song names, album art, automatically!

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 10/07/2008
i also never had a smooth experience with FixTunes, kept breaking MP4 files and breaking official compilations into random albums, etc. plus their trial is a bad, bad idea, 50 songs is meaningless if it won't work for the kinds of songs you don't see in t … (see comment)
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The 5 Best Media Converters

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 10/07/2008
mostly because they all use ffmpeg or mencoder to convert, as does VLC. and since ffmpeg doesn't handle subtitles almost at all, neither do these frontends. (see comment)
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Penny Arcade on WOW raiding: Diplomatic Approach

Comment in Images (1 digg, 1 reply) - on 09/14/2008
this would be valid, if i could end up downloading the 9gb open beta at more than 20kb/sec. a truly sucky release though, i can't wait for the retail game to get pirated and released properly, by "professionals" (see comment)
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Official Google Blog says Google Chrome to launch tomorrow

Comment in News (0 diggs, 0 replies) - on 09/02/2008
i, for one, welcome our internet overlords, all hail google. (see comment)
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Do you know the 100 most common words in the English languag

Comment in News (0 diggs, 0 replies) - on 08/07/2008
29 ! ... after two minutes, i was just throwing in adjectives for the words i wanted to be there, completely forgot what i was supposed to be doing. (see comment)
780

What should the next iPhone have?

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 04/08/2008
yeah, i'd add quad-band or 3G networking for wider global adoption, a video/picture camera upgrade capable of youtube-like VGA resolution, wireless itunes/desktop syncing (preferably with WPA/WPA2 to ensure valid sync conditions & integrity of network con … (see comment)
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Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" Button Costs Them $110 Million/Year

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 11/23/2007
you know, by not using my amazon referrals link, youre making me lose $890 million dollars this christmas. oh wait, i don't have an amazon referral link, carry on. (see comment)
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Call of Duty 4 via Steam now Twice the Price Down Under

Comment in News (5 diggs, 0 replies) - on 11/22/2007
well, at least you know you're being screwed up front, instead of behind your back. that's being conscientious of your dignity while they give the reach around. this, along with the THQ decision to boycott australia and new zealand, is completely unforg … (see comment)
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Zero Punctuation: Tabula Rasa

Comment in Videos (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 10/20/2007
no useful work gets done anywhere, it depends on what you see as useful. as opposed to the stockmarket, global climate change, the MTV music awards, setting up insurance for banks to make money, lawyers, etc. it's all completely useless until it's not. li … (see comment)
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Valve wanted $1m Apple to port Half Life to OS X!

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 10/10/2007
i think the worst part of the EA's PR "maneuver" to get games onto macs is that they are all are cider ports, which you can do yourself if you download cider from transgaming's website and wrap it around bf2142 or cnc3, etc. its not native code, it's win … (see comment)
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Man nearly sucked out of plane at 20,000 feet

Comment in News (0 diggs, 0 replies) - on 07/03/2007
i read the tagline and thought, well, you really have to stand up before you flush ... (see comment)
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OS X Style Dock that will make your Co-Workers Drool

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 05/19/2007
its a pain, since the enlightenment "team" haven even bothered to put up a "given up, gone home for the day, here's what ive got so far" release for DR17 of enlightenment in over a year, neither have they sent it off to a few people to build a stable or e … (see comment)
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When Bad Comedies Happen to Good Comedians

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 05/18/2007
i wouldn't call jerry seinfeld a "good" comedian... (see comment)
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Wine - amd64 version for Ubuntu finally!

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 05/10/2007
considering the difficulty i had with gentoo & amd64 last year when it was *new*, ubuntu is almost juvenile in it's difficulties. TBH, i havent really had it running more than a few days, so i might try running WoW in WINE now that it's an option. i co … (see comment)
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