Peer Pressure Works!

This has nothing to do with Batman, actually…uhhh, imagine it being spoken in that ridiculous Christian Bale “When I’m Batman I apparently have throat cancer” voice if you wish.

No score and maybe a year ago, a band of brave types decided that it would be pretty damn cutting edge to move from the boring written word, what with its millennia of existence, and move on to that exciting ‘audio’ thing. Sure, it’s untested technology with only 150 or so years of existence, but what the Hell right? Sometimes you gotta take a chance on something! I’m sure we’ll be on to the video medium by around 2045, or right around when the damn kids are being entertained by their goddamn holographic images. Just remember that all of this is totally the fault of that bastard Marconi! He proved audio transmission viable, and here we are 72 years later attempting to disprove that theory.

Anyway, yeah…brave types…new venture. They gathered in the home of one James Keller and shared their…’genius’…with the world. They created :

Well, no, they didn’t create that so much…I mean, James did, but that was later when he was…well, I’m guessing he was high as a fucking kite when he came up with that bad boy…but THEY created Violent Aggression. And it just had a baby! Well…a…a 4th baby, I guess. Yeah?

James has toiled for quite some time on this, alongside apparently failing at writing a novel during the NaNoWriMo thing (that’s for punks…I plan to attempt writing some ghastly waste of words when it ISN’T some official competition! Just me and drunken louts who are professional writers!) and doing that whole ‘taking care of his family’ thing. Priorities, Keller!

Violent Aggression #5 – Violent Aggression vs. the Racist Candy – Get that bitch here!

-Think we won’t go there? We totally do! Hear a kinda funny story about a certain liquorice candy product blown entirely out of proportion!

-James drunkenly rants and mocks all of you suckers for listening to this on a work day after exploding in rage at math. And actually…he’s probably right!

-Hear about accounting! No, really! Is it more palatable if I refer to the story as ‘accounting errors’ on a corporate scale?

-Shaun talks about the show True Blood, apparently featuring the world’s dumbest shape shifters and a woman who wears a bull’s head for shits and giggles. Also, Vlad admits that he’s less than a man by having chosen to see a certain vampire film that even his wife hated…

-James gets lost in Scotland! Booze is involved tangentially!

-Shaun and his wife go parking in Scotland! No, not like that…they get drunk and sleep in a car! Apparently Scotland is a colourful country full of exciting places to get lost and drink heavily.

-Liam watched Elizabethtown. We talk about that in bits and pieces around discussion of Kirsten Dunst and the most horrible thing ever seen by human eyes. I ain’t linking to it, but you can feel free to visit Feelings of White because James is perfectly happy to do so!

-We end it the way that podcasts apparently end these days…mocking Michael Moore! Well, that and then James probably drunk again sounding like he may be fellating the mic.

Enjoy. Or don’t. It’s totally up to you, but I’ll just put another link to it right here. So tempting…

I’ve mentioned Reclaim Your Game a lot…A LOT. I’ve talked before about how we’re doing game testing for ByteShield titles. We’ve been doing a lot of work, and the whole topic is starting to gain a little bit of notice. From Gamasutra (an industry-related blog for those who don’t know) today :

Moscow-headquartered Akella, developer of Disciples III, Age of Sail 2 and other titles, said Thursday it signed a deal with Byteshield to provide DRM for its PC games in order to counter piracy.

While many gamers object to the use of DRM, Byteshield has made efforts to reach out to gamers for input on creating the technology. DRM watchdogs Reclaim Your Game approve of the DRM, calling Byteshield "safe, transparent, and non-invasive on your PC."
Byteshield describes its technology as an account-based copy protection model that "enables users to run games on multiple computers without limiting their ability to use the product they purchased."

In 2008, Stockholm-based PC game distribution platform GamersGate said it selected Byteshield for its catalog of digital PC titles.

"We are glad to work with ByteShield and hope for a long and successful partnership," said Vladimir Koudr, VP Publishing at Akella. Byteshield chief exec Jan Samzelius added, "Akella’s strong position in Russia along with their focus on user experience makes it a perfect fit."

Very, very cool. And I’m looking forward to Disciples III.

And more changes are in the offing. Maybe I’ll talk about them later…or I’ll continue teasing you all because I’m a jerk.

Stuff.

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Not really worthy of its own post, but this is so utterly ridiculous and awesome that it had to be posted.