Sony, Shut The Hell Up

There are two kinds of people I dislike in the world: People who brag about achievements, which on closer examination they haven’t even achieved or which are no achievements at all; For example saying that they got second place, when in fact there were only 2 entities participating! And then there are people who lie to me; Not the type of person who likes a good joke or anything like that, but lying as in being a money grubbing prick taking advantage of every possible opening. Sony takes the gold medal in all two categories, managing to combine both types of people into one. Sony is just crapping all over itself with fake self-importance. Like a bum on the streets assaulting everyone generous enough to give them some cash, Sony tries to coerce people into giving it some change, but will only run into the next game arcade wasting its dough on one armed bandits and cheap whores, instead of getting new clothes, something to eat, or a real job. A job not consisting of lingering in the streets, hitting people, screaming that it has the BEST IDEA EVAR, and once it has enough money it’ll change, HONEST!

I sometimes read the developments in the gaming sector, and it seems to me that Sony is throwing out one verbal assault on my intelligence after the other. For example the latest escapade of Sony CEO Howard Stringer I read on gamesindustry.biz really got my knickers in a twist. In this interview he said:

“But the Wii is not succeeding at our expense – it is not hurting us.”

Are you fucking kidding me, where the hell did this guy get his business degree? Not only are more companies focused on making games fro the most sold system (read: Wii), there’s only so much money to go around. A mother will not get a PS3 for 500-600$, if the alternative is a “family” friendly console for round 250$. It’s real simple logic, but this dipshit doesn’t seem to get it. Actually, I take that back: He DOES get it, but he doesn’t want to admit it, so all the fanboys in denial stop bitching for a goddamn second.

Sony can fuck right off. The amount of whining, lies, and cheap excuses one has to bear these days is simply mind boggling. And it’s not only Sony’s CEO. Other like-minded Idiots like Michael Pachter, who was never tired of proclaiming what a “great value” the PS3 was, just fuel the fire. Why is the PS3 so great according to Pac? Because it has Blue-Ray, and back when he made the statement, it was expensive as shit, but guess what: There wasn’t anything worth watching (or playing for that matter)! What goddamn value was he talking about? Having a BlueRay-player which in two years costs maybe 50 bucks? Why should anyone care? I’ll tell you why: Because Pachter has his head up his ass, that’s why. He doesn’t see BR as a means of actually doing something like being remotely entertained, but just as a monetary value. This would be a great idea if I could play games on a dollar bill, but in fact i can’t! At least you can use the PS3 as a blunt weapon should the economy collapse at one point or the other. PS3 owners will rule the world, just like they imagined! And then they will break down from spinal cord injuries. Oh well, can’t win them all!

Bottom line: Sony, shut the fuck up already and get your shit together. Stop wasting time on spewing bullshit and actually GO WORK! Personally I doubt it. Some old animals simply won’t learn and “retire”. You can’t teach an old horse new tricks. And I don’t mean retirement as in animal communism at the beginning of Animal Farm – animals happily grazing on the field still the end of their days; I mean horse-meat like in the end.

Yummy.

GTA4 kills once again!

According to Reuters, the distribution of the game “Grand Theft Auto 4″, hereby denoted as GTA4,  has been pulled in Thailand by a game-distributor, due to a teenager robbing and then killing a 54-year-old taxi driver. Newspapers reported the teenager said, he did not want to kill him at first, but killed him when he met with resistance. Police Chief Veeravit Pipattanasak told Reuters how the youth just wanted to find out, if robbing a taxi in real life was as easy as robbing one in the game.

The assailant’s parents said their son was polite and diligent, and the police said he did not seem to have mental problems during questioning.

Reuters also reports about a senior official at the Culture Ministry of Thailand, stating, that this incident was “[a] wake-up call for authorities to tackle the issue of violent video games“.

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First of all: It doesn’t matter if the guy ’seemed’ to have no mental problems. If he murdered because he wanted to find out, if robbing a cab is as easy as not getting your dick caught while zipping your fly, he is a goddamn nutcase and belongs inside a rubber cell. Furthermore, parents seem to have a misconception about making kids “polite and diligent”, and thinking that this somehow completes their parenting responsibilities. As long as kid doesn’t curse and brings out the trash, everything else is dandy. Maybe if they would have told their young kid, that robbing a cab and stabbing people aren’t good moves, instead of drinking and wasting their time watching soaps, maybe then they wouldn’t have a murderer as their son. If they would have spent some time with the kid, then the boy would have known that robbing people gets you nowhere fast.

The official talking about how this is a wakeup call also seems to have the wrong idea about what the cause of this dilemma is. No, I’m not talking about the difficulty of GTA4 carjacking being too low, I’m talking about dipshit parents and idiotic schools not teaching their kids/pupils what they need to know in life. If anything, this is a wakeup call for everyone able to discern fantasy from reality. I also bet the newspapers bitching about GTA4 will push the teenagers’ diligence and “politeness” in front of everyone’s faces, as if to say, look, a nice polite boy was ULTIMATELY CORRUPTED. At least he didn’t fly a helicopter into a building, waiting to be respawned. I hope the youth didn’t find the “get out of jail free card” beforehand, so Bubba can finally teach him something about how painful reality really is.

Jack Thompson should really take on this case: GTA4 murder simulation too easy, lack of difficulty may cause delusion and death! Rockstar must immediately patch the game, to make the player first brutally struggle and kill the taxi driver to be able to take his car, if Rockstar wants to keep selling this game.

On another note, the source is quite misleading. Thailand didn’t halt the distribution of the game, a distributor did. I’m not sure if this distributor is a monopolist in their country, but I doubt it somewhat. The news also makes no mention of any sort of ban.