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I really wish this was how it went down, rather than another company taking advantage of the increasingly retarded buying habits of gamers. I don’t mind that the idiots are being swindled out their money with these extortionate prices, however occasionally there’s content that I’d like to buy if the prices weren’t so unreasonable, and their idiocy is keeping the prices too high for me to justify.

Take the Modern Warfare Stimulus Package; £10 for 5 maps, the entire game was available for £26 from the Supermarkets when first released. Even at the full retail price of £40 it’s impossible to justify the £15 price tag. Of course you don’t need to look much further than the Xbox Avatar Marketplace for conclusive proof of the insanity of DLC pricing. £7 to equip your Avatar with a Lightsaber and the Dark Lord Armour. It’s no wonder that Avatar Rewards are nearly non-existent

2K Games Announces XCOM® – Suspense and Mystery-Filled First-Person Shooter from Creators of BioShock® 2

Award-winning developers set their sights on re-imagining the suspense, tension and fear of one of gaming’s most beloved franchises only on Xbox 360 and Windows PC

New York, NY – April 14, 2010– 2K Games announced today that XCOM®,the re-imagining of one of gaming’s most storied and beloved franchises,is currently in development at 2K Marin, the studio behind the multi-million unit selling BioShock® 2.Currently in development exclusively for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC, XCOM combines the strategic core of the groundbreaking franchise with a suspense-filled narrative and distills it into a tense and unique first-person shooter experience.

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Just wait a god-damned minute. Did I read that right? XCOM. First. Person. Shooter. Nerf Now has it spot on!

Maybe I should try this for our trip to Florida next month?

A timely strip from Dilbert this weekend. Honestly, the majority of my week was spent modifying PowerPoint slides so that they more accurately represented our status as it should look, without actually changing the underlying data. This week I made some PowerPoint slides that have no particular use.

I’ve long considered laser eye surgery so as to be rid of glasses and contact lenses forever, but I’m too scared to go through with it in all honesty. What if I was in the “less than 1%” who suffer vision reducing complications? I couldn’t risk suffering problems with something as important as my sight just for the convenience of not having to wear glasses again; especially as my vision isn’t all that bad in the first place.

Today, I stumbled upon a year old article on Gizmondo detailing one man’s experience that I felt queezy just reading:

A whirring sound commenced and my eyeball felt like it was being sucked up and out of my skull, elongated like a green grape between a Roman emperor’s fingers, ready to burst. The bright blue-white light grew closer. As the pressure killed circulation in the eye things went black and I felt an arcing slice in the surface of my cornea—I did not move my jaw or tongue or mouth, but deep in my throat I uncontrollably whimpered, “THAT HURT!” and hoped no one heard me.

Of course if everyone just reads the presentation you’d miss out on that feeling of being important for 20 minutes

Maybe I should post today’s Dilbert on my manager’s door. I’m so bored with my current project, it’s monkey work I could do in my sleep but someone has to do it I suppose. I’ve been wondering how to bring it up …

I spent a lot of time playing Team Fortress 2 over the Summer, however I think Valve missed a trick not licensing A. A. Milne’s Pooh for this game as illustrated by this comic from F@nboy$:

I found this comic from Dork Tower in my bookmarks while I was clearing out a few I no longer use. I have no idea how I found it originally, but it made me laugh seeing it again!