Geek vs Life

After a very long wait, and much anticipation, American McGee is presenting another twisted/macabre version of stories that brought us such joy growing up. American McGee’s Grimm.

Rather than the normal methods of release, AM has turned to Gametap, promising a release in 2008, and new episodic content every month for a total of 24 episodes.

Exactly how this new game will work with the Gametap release style is still up in the air, since it’s an adventure style game with a sandbox system. Oh, well, I’m still excited.

It started with this:

It turned into this:

This is next:

I’m afraid that my childhood memories are about to be savagely fubar-ed. Hard.

Transformers hits teaters July 4th.

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I spent the better part of my youth enjoying the wonderful tales from the street, Sesame Street that is.

Even into my teens, when I would stay home because I was sick, the Street would be on my tube, later followed by THE Bob Barker show, The Price Is Right. Other childhood favorites included: Mr. Rogers, Mr. Dress-up, Romper Room, The Friendly Giant, Math Patrol and Today’s Special.

My favorite character was Grover. Recently while searching for his origins I stumbled upon a wonderful biographical tale in which Grover talks about his youth with a father spending all the family money on prostitutes and how he REALLY feels about being replaced by the talentless hack that is Elmo.

See for yourself, read it here.

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Many LJ users found their journals gone. Why? The

Wariors For Innocence went hunting for pedophiles.

Which is a good thing.

The Bad thing is in order to calm the pressures from

WFI the staff at Six Apart went over board.

Deleting journals by a quick scan of interests.

Journals which had words like “Lolita” were deleted.

Completely over looking that “Lolita” is a classic

novel and a fashion style. Now, I know this because my

journal was temporarily deleted because of my interest

in Lolita. My journal did not (and still does not)

depict sex with minors.

Instead, three years ago, I wrote a nationaly

published paper on the book. After digging and

searching the net for the article and submiting to the

staff at Live Journal they undeleted my journal.

WFI claims only LJs with content against TOS were

deleted, this is simply false. The Warriors for

Innocence, comprising of only three people, also went

on to show no remorse for journals deleted, some of

which were around since Live Journal began. Many have

responded to this in outrage, to which the WFI has

callously responded that it’s not their fault when

someone loses their journal “while failing to

acknowledge that they had not only not backed it up in

years, but had been blatantly violating LJ’s TOS for

years.”

Who backs up an online journal? Not many! Fewer if the

journal has been there for years!

They do not realize that in pressuring Live Journal

they will cause live journal to overreact.

While I do not condone a right to discuss pedophilia

as a life style, I am saying both parties could’ve

handled it better instead of jumping the gun and

deleting anything “questionable.”

A rape survivor’s journal should not be deleted; she

was just trying to heal by finding “facless” support.

Icons shouldn’t be grounds for this war on pedophelia

as in the case with one woman who has an icon of her

child but visits the “fetishconfess” community and

uses a different icon entirely.

If anything, the Warriors for Innocence do have one

thing right, this is a war. And, with all wars, there

are bound to be plenty of innocent casualties and

collateral damage.

Thought this was pretty interesting while I was trolling around the newspapers. Appearently Microsoft has come up with a new “tabletop computer” that uses hand movements and touch to manipulate what you’re doing. For now they think its going to be pretty commercial, if it is used much at all in the next few years, but it’d be really interesting to see how they do gaming on this thing (rock paper scissors with your computer… heh)

The company plans to unveil a computing device today called Microsoft Surface, featuring a 30-inch screen embedded in an acrylic tabletop. The device’s electronic guts are hidden in the low-slung table’s thick pedestal.

At first glance, Surface is reminiscent of an old-fashioned arcade game table around which patrons played Pac-Man. But there is no joystick here, and no mouse or keyboard either. The device is controlled by touching the tabletop display.

Microsoft says this touch screen will allow people to “interact with digital content the same way they have interacted with everyday items such as photos, paintbrushes and music their entire life: with hands, with gestures and by putting real-world objects on the surface”

More info here and here