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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    Image of Thistledew Thistledew
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    Image of NathanSt NathanSt
    09/03/09

    In reply to Grand Theft Auto's $20 Million Screw Up
    now we know how much the previous free publicity for hot coffee costs

    20 million dollars

    Is that worth the international news it got

    I think so, economists might disagree
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    09/02/09

    In reply to Grand Theft Auto's $20 Million Screw Up
    Nipplegate does not simulated videogame fucking make, Ryan. Also, maybe the hed should read "Grand Theft Auto's $20 Million Screw."
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    09/02/09

    In reply to Grand Theft Auto's $20 Million Screw Up
    You know, I just read about Pfizer getting hit with a $2.3 billion fine for illegally marketing Bextra, so right now my fine-o-meter is a little screwy; $20 mn feels like a drop in the bucket.

    With that out of the way... we're really that worried about interactive sex games being released in products that also involve hitting police officers with cars and gunning down gang members? We should probably just ban flash games entirely. And the whole country of Japan - just ban everything from there. Let's also take out Skinimax (no! cry the legions of drunk, sad 20-somethings at 2:30 AM), the Bible (two animals per species, eh? Sounds kinky), and, hell, reproduction as a species. Then, let Darwin do his work!
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    09/02/09

    In reply to Grand Theft Auto's $20 Million Screw Up
    This angers me to no end.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/02/09

    @DennyCrane: This SHOULD anger you to no end. It's outrageous.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    09/02/09

    In reply to Grand Theft Auto's $20 Million Screw Up
    Isn't the game already rated A for Adults or M for Mature or whatever they do with video games? Shouldn't that cover any other R-rated scenes?

    Also, I never heard about this before. Video (preferably replacing the two above with Taye Diggs and Angelina Jolie) or it didn't happen.
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    Image of ChrisCroy ChrisCroy
    09/02/09

    @DahlELama: Grand Theft Auto was rated M for Mature, which is video game equivalent of an R rating. The AO rating (adults-only) is equivalent to NC-17 and is just as much a kiss of death as NC-17. Most shops will simply not carry AO games, notably Wal-Mart. Just like the NC-17, the only way to reliably get an AO is sex. As far as I know, the only game to ever manage to get an AO rating for pure violence was Manhunt 2 which was recut before release to get an M rating. The ESRB (MPAA equivalent) is extremely touchy about sex partly because video games are still widely viewed among The Olds as being only for kids. A video game can MAYBE throw in a pair of briefly bare breasts without getting an AO rating, but no-one's inclined to push their luck. It's just not worth it.

    While Europeans censor our games for violence (Hall of Fame: Germany! Any game intended for the German market must change the color of blood from red to green. They're also complete Nazis when it comes to Nazis and will ban any game that features swastikas as anything other than targets), we do the same thing for European games except for we take out the tits. Off the top of my head:

    Giants: Citizen Kabuto: One of the character's wore a sarrong and nothing else. She put a shirt on for the American release.

    Fahrenheit aka The Indigo Prophecy: A sex scene was cut out from the American release.

    Neocron: Strip clubs were cut from American release.
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    Image of bikini_lounger bikini_lounger
    09/02/09

    @ChrisCroy: How interesting and informative. Thank you!
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    09/02/09

    @ChrisCroy: @bikini_lounger: Seriously! Thanks, Chris! That pretty much answered every question I could have ever had about video games.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    09/02/09

    In reply to Grand Theft Auto's $20 Million Screw Up
    If it was two dudes Take-Two would just have to declare bankruptcy, the cost of settling would be so high.
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    09/02/09

    In reply to Grand Theft Auto's $20 Million Screw Up
    worth every penny.
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