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#1
Off Topic / NICK BERG
12 May, 2004, 07:34:18 PM

I have just seen harrowing footage of the apparent murder of American Nick Berg by Iraqis.

This subject has been hotly discussed today on radio (and probably TV) - the issue of mistreatment of Iraqi POWs is supposedly the reason for the beheading.

This should intensify the outrage over the media "exposure" of some coalition troops' behaviour in the warzone (I wonder how Piers is feeling this morning?).

I would like to cast doubt over the authenticity of the footage I have just seen:-

As with most supposedly genuine murder/snuff footage, when it comes down to the act itself the - forgive me for a moment - "action" is interrupted with camera-shakes/zooms where disguised cuts & edits could be made (i.e. to allow the substitution of a man for a dummy).

Could a man's head be cut off with a large knife in a matter of seconds?

The on-screen video-timer also jumps about 10 minutes just before the killing.

I am probably wrong on this one - the footage is somewhat (intentionally?) blurry - but these things and others about it do not sit right.

American propaganda to counter these allegations and stop any further exposure...?
#2
Help! / C&VG
12 May, 2004, 04:02:49 AM

Remember COMPUTER & VIDEO GAMES magazine (C&VG)? Still going strong today after nearly 23 years - the world's oldest games monthly.

In the mid-eighties they started a comic strip featuring various... crazy robots.

I'm sure one of the creators had something to do with 2000AD - does anyone know who it was, and what the strip/characters were called?

Probably on Google, but I couldn't find it.
#3
General / NOT-NERDS IN "NOT-NERDS" SHOCKER
15 March, 2004, 01:20:52 AM
Check today's Mail on Sunday supplement:-

"And the stereotypical view of an average chatroom user - the solitary nerd - could not be further from the truth. Professor Andrew Oswald of Warwick University carried out a survey of those who did - and did not - use the internet.

'I was expecting people who used the internet to lack confidence, to be shy people who never left the house,' he says. 'In fact, they are more likely to take part in community activities and are less shy and reserved than people who aren't online. It seems as though using the internet actually helps to build people's confidence.'

Malcolm Stern agrees: 'Perhaps they are leading more fulfilling lives because they are meeting people online who they have more in common with than their other friends. Why should we assume that the people we bump into in our day-to-day lives will become our best friends?'"

Well, there you go.

;)
#4
General / -=>SONY vs NINTENDO
10 March, 2004, 03:01:40 AM

Video games have mutated into terribly flashy but empty experiences in recent years - does anyone find the current glut of 1st/3rd-person shooters simply boring after a few goes?

Sony with their Playstation 2 have given us one of the best games ever made - GRAND THEFT AUTO (the third one was the groundbreaker, with VICE CITY upping the brilliance even more) - but it has spawned lots of derivative and bland immitations that nevertheless sell by the bucketload.

Innovative new ideas are an increasing rarity - something totally never-done-before like PONG, SPACE INVADERS, BREAKOUT, PAC MAN is simply not going to happen when games producers are preoccupied with the demand for "realistic action" and guns, guns, guns.

I am grateful to Nintendo for refusing to bow to the Sony mentality of churning out macho and hot-selling but soul-less fare aimed at 14-year-olds.

Nintendo certainly make games aimed at kids, but craft their software with thought for adults and an ingenuity that lifts even their most whimsical theme way above the more realistic/serious "that'll-do" games offered by the Playstation mob.