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EA expands “Online Pass” punishing used game buyers from multiplayer to single player. Imagine the outcry if Hollywood tried this sort of thing with used DVDs. Key scenes from the movie are missing on used copies unless you pay ten or fifteen bucks extra to see them. Or perhaps none of the extras are available . . . → Read More: EA expands "Online Pass" punishing used game buyers from multiplayer to… If I were the optimistic sort I'd say that at least they're going to Wikipedia and educating themselves, but these idiots clearly aren't taking in what they're reading. What they're doing is skimming enough to see if it fits their needs and then copy and pasting it into whatever homework assignment they've been given. They . . . → Read More: Stuff like this will make you despair for our future But then we've known all along that the TSA reserves the right for its agents to make arbitrary decisions on a whim when they feel like it so I suppose it shouldn't be a big surprise. Don't question the decision making process, citizen! This is for your own protection! If we decide something is bad . . . → Read More: This whole story shows that the TSA is at least partially run by idiots There are very few movies I'll buy without having seen them first so if I don't catch it in theaters then the next opportunity would be a rental from Red Box. If WB holds back rentals by 56 days all they'll end up doing is delaying any potential purchase I might make by an additional . . . → Read More: This won’t make me buy more Warner Bros. movies. This will just mean I’ll see fewer Warner Bros. movies. Does this make any sense to anyone who isn’t A) a PayPal employee or B) brain damaged? I think the seller has decent grounds for a lawsuit. PayPal: if you don’t like the violin you bought, smash it and we’ll give you your money back Just when you thought PayPal couldn’t get any stupider, well, . . . → Read More: What the fuck, PayPal? Part 2 of Literally Unbelievable’s Top Ten Facebook Reactions to The Onion in 2011. In case the first half of the list wasn’t soul crushing enough. Top Ten Facebook Reactions to the Onion of 2011, Part II 5. “Would the Queen of Paris act like this??” 4. Gained a sun, lost a mind 3. “Of . . . → Read More: Part 2 of Literally Unbelievable’s Top Ten Facebook Reactions to The Onion in 2011. Which is why I both love and hate it. Most of the time it’s highly amusing, but then I stop and realize these people can vote. In fairness, The Onion can sound convincingly real and, at times, oddly prescient, but a lot of these news items are so ridiculous that you’d have to have the . . . → Read More: “Literally Unbelievable” is one of those soul crushing websites that document the gullibility of the average person. Republicans have mastered the art of looking like they’re doing something when they’re not really doing anything. Because we wouldn’t want there to be any chance something might pass that both sides actually agreed on. Boehner schedules fake vote on bipartisan payroll tax holiday extension Pretty slimey, even for Boehner. He scheduled a “vote” on . . . → Read More: Republicans have mastered the art of looking like they’re doing something when they’re not really doing anything. 
We’ve mentioned here on SEB before that studies have shown that watching FOX News will make you stupid. So it probably shouldn’t be a big surprise that there is yet another study that pretty much says the same thing. OK, to be fair, what it says is that not watching any news at all will . . . → Read More: Fox News viewers are less informed than people who don’t watch news at all. 
Cartoon by XKCD (http://xkcd.com/51/). I write about stupid people pretty often so I’m not often surprised by what they do, but this surprised me. Apparently there is a group on Facebook which you can join to find out about Pox Parties in your area or to arrange to have infected items sent to you . . . → Read More: The anti-vaxers are holding Pox Parties to intentionally infect their kids. |
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