I hate to distract from my own articles by posting over them but I have to know... why was Blackistan exiled? Anyone? I am not disputing the validity of the ban but rather I wonder what the fuck I missed? As far as I have ever seen all they have done is post wierd erotic poetry...? Fill me in JU....

Foreword : Look, sometimes it takes me a bit to write things up as I lack *any* sort of writer discipline. I think of 5 articles a day to write and write about one article every 5 days instead. Sorry. Lileks I ain’t . Oh and this one will ramble a bit more than the previous installment so bear with me.   Background (feel free to skip to the Meat ) :               Having completed my initial tour as an interc...

    It was my first day in Voice Operations Branch (VOB)  and I was slowly adjusting to the realization that I would be spending this whole year in the company of drunks, whoremongers, and other assorted losers.     My first day was spent proving that I could turn this : into something machine readable like this: CTM KDN MEF FEF GE VEM LAE KUF GE VDV FE FHV LSK KH ME KDM GAL KD VA LA ME KHM KDV FD LLUV BBEU LE KUGG BE.  ...

In response to this (misspelled) article I have shamelessly copied this from PWOT … an excerpt:   DEATHS LINKED TO U.S. MILITARY... Posted 11.17.05 ...as reports surface that   White Phosphorous artillery shells used by troops have resulted in the deaths of Iraqi insurgents . The burning shells are normally used to light areas of the battlfield at night, so that the enemy can be spotted and then driven away with loud bursts of rap music...

*Update : Wow you guys were brutal with this avatar. I thought I might get a couple of responses and use them as a gentle elbow to the ribs of my friend but you all have given him a collective mushroom stamp... still I suppose he won't mind too much... I mean he once used a picture of himself with a Tinkerbell doll as his home page picture. Is this picture :   A. Frighteningly Gay B. Powerfully Gay C. Amazingly Gay D. All of the Above   I am sure that the g...

*Update : Wow you guys were brutal with this avatar. I thought I might get a couple of responses and use them as a gentle elbow to the ribs of my friend but you all have given him a collective mushroom stamp... still I suppose he won't mind too much... I mean he once used a picture of himself with a Tinkerbell doll as his home page picture. Is this picture :   A. Frighteningly Gay B. Powerfully Gay C. Amazingly Gay D. All of the Above   I am sure that the g...

     I can picture it now... you load the code into the compiler, hit compile, go get a beer and a jagerschnitzel, come back and release an updated version of ADOM! The world would rejoice. At least update the bloody page Thomas! Grr...  

     I previously wrote this article regarding my concern about kids playing World of Warcraft unsupervised. After nearly 19,000 unique hits it ranks as my most widely read article to date. The debate in the commentary was fierce as people who have never read my blog assumed that since I had dared to write anything that didn't reflect gaming in a saintly light that I was in fact some sort of homebrew Jack Thompson-esque game hater.      I thought...

            CSPAN2 has had Karpinksi huckstering her new book all day today and Bill O’reilly just had Mary Mapes on the Factor promoting her unfinished 6 figure advance book on Memogate as well. "Fuck up and we the Moronic Consumer Drones will make you rich!" is the message here.             The Karpinski thing makes my blood boil as she will live out her life in c...

     Over the last few days many of you have felt the need to weigh in on my articles on World of Warcraft and other gaming issues. Show me that you can wiegh in on something a bit more meaty like children's charity. Penny Arcade's Child's Play is spinning up again. Go donate. Or just wait until I write another gaming article and spend your energy on that you selfish bastards. No pressure.

            I would like you to meet two friends of mine : Thomas and Dane. Different guys living in different parts of the country. Let me tell you about Thomas first ok?                 Thomas started from almost nothing and worked his ass off to get where he is today. Homeless and alone he struggled as an orphan in a hostile and uncaring place. The only thi...

*inspired by this article      For those of you who are unfamiliar with the terms used here lets start with MMORPG. That acronym stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. These games are played remotely by millions of players every day. Some of the examples include Everquest (EQ or EverCrack), Ultima Online (UO), and most recently World of Warcraft (WoW). There are others of course and they all vary in terms of game mechanics, scope, and milieu but they ...

     Look Galciv2 Beta 4 just came out Thursday night. Already tons of bug reports and feature suggestions have been posted on the forums with answers direct from the devs! My god there are game companies out there who will go months to years without showing their faces on their own forums! (I'm looking at you, Atari, THQ, Relic, and Microprose!).      Not only are the devs responding but they have already relased a new build! Thats why Brad and ...

Do any of you actually think that this sort of shit does anything but lose your side supporters? If you do then you are obviously one of the drooling retards from the DU. Welcome to JU you spamming fucktard.  

Fanboys and girls it is time to start your Betas! Galciv2 Beta 4 is out! Feel free to leave your commentary on it's lusciousness. I am downloading mine now... *Update V2.0 : Galciv2 now functioning. They fixed the install.  *update : Spoke a bit too soon I guess.. the version now available through Stardock Central appears to be corrupt. My error log is in the commentary now.