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Tech

Facebook gets creepier by the day

XKCD 672
XKCD 672

I really wish that I was as quick as Randall Munroe. I love his brand of satire (as well as his nerd-oriented humour). The Facebook feature he mocks in the above cartoon really does bother me, and he’s captured the creepiness well.

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Tabletop Games

Hitler’s battletech army

Stress is a large part of organising any gaming convention…
I was particularly amused by the person who said, “There, there. Hitler wouldn’t dare run Spelljammer”.
Courtesy of Fear the Boot.
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Video Games

Hot and blue!

Even though he’s very late in taking the piss of Mass Effect, Shamus Young has some interesting points regarding the Asari in general, and the consort in particular.

Personally I’m slightly disturbed by xenoeroticism, but Bioware obviously thought there was a market for that sort of thing. Can anybody tell me they weren’t at least somewhat put off by the whole notion of sticking it inside the blue thing with tentacles on her head?

Oh yeah, Lucas did it first with the Twi’lek.