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Archive for September, 2004

X-box?

Where’s my damn X-box Emulator??

We were told before the release of the Xbox that due to the similarities between an Xbox and a half-decent gaming PC that emulation would be swift and flawless, that games released as Xbox only would be playable on the PC as soon as someone was able to rip a copy of the game disk and whack it up on whatever file-sharing network was popular at the time.

What happened to that?

As far as I know there are no working Xbos emulators. Sure, if you have an Xbos you can run linux on it, you can turn the machine into a firewall/router and pretend like it’s a PC, but where’s the reverse?

With the death of Mechwarrior 5, Mechassult becomes the only b’tech series.
I want my MechAssult.

Add comment September 17th, 2004

I cannot guarantee that the sun will rise…

We have an election coming up here in Australia. We also have terrorist activity in the region. We have all the typical pandering to the voters from the politicians. We also have what I’m beginning to feel is the worst commercial media pool in the free world.

Tonight on the 5:30 news on Channel 10 a reported finished a story about the various promises offered by the labour and liberal parties with a statement to the effect of.. ‘The Prime Minister cannot guarantee that there will be no terrorist attacks launched against Australia

Well no shit, but neither can the greens, or the opposition leader, Hitler’s ghost or Jessica Simpson.
Regardless of who or what you’re going to vote for, blatantly pointing out that one man cannot do the impossible isn’t the best way to show your journalistic integrity. Also on tonights news was a story about Victoria’s state of readiness regarding terrorist attacks and how we would fare in a variety of scenarios. An exercise in seeing how often the station can have the words ‘terrorist’, ‘JI’,'Bio-chemical’,'Bomb’ and ‘attack’ repeated in any 30second window.

Well done Ten News, you can now sit on The List along with Today/Tonight & A Current Affair.

Add comment September 13th, 2004