• 20Dec 07

  Finish Him!!! - My First Ever Locked Thread

  I've been an avid poster for the longest time now & not just here on GameSpot. I've seen countless rants go on & on about various threads being locked. The original poster of the thread usually makes a solid point in his/her rebuttal. So, today, December 20, 2007, I found myself on the opposite end of the stick. Like so many before me, I too felt violated of my right to free speech, which in my own personal view, is the fundamental nature of a public forum.

  I mainly get my news from 2 sources: Google News & Comcast.net. Today I happen to read the following story: http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/national/2007/12/20/Mortal.Kombat.Death/?cvqh=itn_mortalcombatdeath

  So I went ahead & decided to share the story among the PS3's public forum. Some took the story in stride, others took it to heart. Personally, I see no reason to take the story so deeply - it's just one death among the millions that perish each day. Whether it be disease, (which by the way, GameSpot did a fabulous job by removing the official Folding@Home thread) the pointless war in Iraq, the AIDS epidemic in Africa, or just plain old murder-rape. Sure the little one was but a child, but I bet my last dollar that she lived a life of significance when compared to the children that literally starve to death in this great world of ours.

  Now, what I find of particularly great humor is the fact that should this story been posted as a news feed on GameSpot, (or anywhere else for that matter) the general users of this website would've had a similar reaction to it. The sense of pain, loss, or flat-out laughter at the sheer stupidity of the incident would've been the same. People would exchange opinions back & forth via the 'Add a Comment' feature at the bottom of every story. Why can't this same format & standard be applied in a public forum is beyond me. You never see a news story get locked because of user comment.

  So there you have it: Moderators & owners of the site exercising their false illusions of playing God. To reiterate my point, the news feed on this site allows user feedback. The story drew mixed feelings in the forums - it would've conjured the same within the news section. But alas: The freedom of free speech isn't always the happy-go-lucky beast we envision it to be. Feel free to leave comments. If they're deleted, I swear to you that it wasn't me.

  • Posted Dec 20, 2007 11:00 am GMT
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• 23Nov 07

  The PlayStation 3 - A Working Blog

  My man, I would give the PlayStation 3 a perfect 10 if I wasn't a rather reserved person who enjoys the facts before the hype. I am the last person on Earth who would turn a conversation into a mindless systems-war spectacle. But what you're saying is outrageous. For once I'll be brutally honest: The PlayStation 3 blows any console to-date out of the water.

  The fact that the PS3 did away with drawer-loading technology & replaced it with slot-loading is a monumental feat in of itself. Gone are the days where the disc slot comes to you - now you literally feed the disc into the system. VHS was the dominant force in home entertainment & a wonderful job it did. So far as to implement widescreen into certain titles. But then along came a little thing called DVD. As you well may know, DVD technology changed the way we enjoyed films at home. From the picture to the audio, DVD acheived a quantum leap over the industry standard. While other console manufactures opted to stick with the DVD format, Sony saw well into the future with Blu-ray Disc; a leap that aliens from distant galaxies are envious of.

  So when you sit there & defame the PS3, I can only sit back & laugh. The words that I have expressed here are so powerful, that I'm going to not only post this, I'm also going to take this reply & turn it into a blog. Xbox & Xbox 360 owners came out of the blue so fast, that it's about time that someone puts them in their place. Because up until the point that Microsoft shoved its ugly face into gaming, I can't help but wonder what was their gaming console of choice? People wanna talk about realness & if there's any gaming company more real than Sony, it's Nintendo - not Microsoft & their lame-a$$ system that requires users to pay an additional fee to play online & even more so, extra money to view HD movies via a peripheral that is downright laughable.

  • Posted Nov 23, 2007 9:03 pm GMT
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