Are you fucking serious?

These in game items will cost you your first born child… and second.

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Hmmmm, next time I want to buy hats in TF2 I might just have to pop out some babies and sell them on the Chinese market.

A young unmarried couple in China are accused selling not one, but two of their children to human traffickers. The money they got was used for gaming.

The first son was an accident, the second one seems to have been planned specifically:

The mother got pregnant again, and, in an interview, explained that the father “likes buying items in online games, and he likes staying out all night at internet cafes.” Because the couple was apparently using their money for the father’s gaming, the parents then allegedly sold their second son to traffickers to avoid a financial burden.

It’s rather sad as well as mind boggling that they would go through all the trouble just to purchase in game items. Basically the mother allowing herself to become a baby factory just to honor her husband’s gaming habits. Sickening.

I looked up Irony and this is what I found

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So I couldn’t help but notice that Fox News had a new graphic up that caught my eye.

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Now I’m sure to most people who watch Fox News this just seems like an ordinary logo. So why am I making light of it?

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So basically they just took bits and pieces of it off and added a couple more stars, and bam! Of course if you actually played BioShock Infinite like I have you’d laugh at the irony.

Florida Prisons really know how to hard boil a guy…

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Trigger warning: If you have a weak stomach you might want to stop reading right now. This is about a man who was boiled in prison by some prison guards, and while there are no pictures included it was hard enough for me to write this. But it’s too stupid for me to not rant about it:

Before heading to bed I usually take one more swoop of teh internetz to see if there is anything interesting before hitting the sack. Sort of like a bedtime story of sorts. What I found in my feeds didn’t have a happy ending for anyone.

MIAMI, FL — A torturous “punishment” session turned fatal for a mentally-ill prisoner, when prison guards forced him to stand in a tiny shower stall while being blasted by scalding hot water until his skin began to shrivel away from his body and he died. Fellow inmates say he begged for his life before collapsing in the shower.

He was in prison for possessing cocaine and he was accused of crapping on the prison floor… when did being mentally ill merit such a horrific punishment? I’m not trying to defend someone who ended up in prison for storing drugs, but at the same time these prison guards committed a murder as far as I’m concerned. Prisoner or not that was illegal and immoral. I wouldn’t wish that death on my worst enemy. Except maybe the people who would force someone to do this…

Rainey, who suffered from mental illness, was accused of defecating in his cell without cleaning it up. The Florida’s Department of Corrections often comes up with cruel and imaginative punishments for prisoners — allegedly ranging from starvation diets to forcing prisoners to fight so the guards could place bets.

I know some Pelican Bay prison guards (current and retired) who live around here, and there are at least two who would have the same personality traits as the guards in the news story. It makes me question what type of personality you would have to possess to want to do these things to people. If these people couldn’t become prison guards where would they end up? Would they be murders?

Of course this being America I wouldn’t be surprised if this became the new death penalty.

Wow, talk about a sore loser.

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Have you ever been so pissed off at losing a multiplayer game that you call in a SWAT team? You should probably have your computer/console taken away…

Long Island police dispatched helicopters, emergency vehicles and an army of cops to a home where someone called in a bloody rampage on Tuesday.

They arrived with guns drawn and ready for war — only to find out the call to cops was an act of revenge by a gamer whom the teen who lives inside had just beaten in an online Call of Duty battle.

Amazing what happens when you let children do whatever they want.

If you look up the definition of irony you’ll find Sen. Leland Yee

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I’m a firm believer in karma. And man did the karma hit Senator Lee like a drunk plane into asphalt.

Let me set this up, because it’s just majestic… Senator Yee back in 2005 tried to pass a law that would ban violent video games from California. It failed. Then with all of the shootings that have been taking place (notably Sandy Hook) he felt it was time again to say his piece, but first telling anyone who is a gamer to basically shut up.

“Gamers have got to just quiet down. Gamers have no credibility in this argument. This is all about their lust for violence and the industry’s lust for money. This is a billion-dollar industry. This is about their self-interest.”

Now here is where the irony sets in. He’s against guns, gun violence, and violent video games that happen to include guns that he got his ass in hot water over trafficking guns.

According to the criminal complaint filed in San Francisco this week, Jackson operated a consulting business where he worked closely with Yee on his multiple campaigns, including his 2011 San Francisco mayoral campaign. The duo managed to solicit donations from undercover FBI Agents in excess of the $500 donation limit; at least one of those FBI agents, who was posing as a businessman, wrote Yee a $5,000 check to his mayoral campaign.

After Yee lost, he faced $70,000 in campaign debt. He and Jackson solicited the same “business associates” to help pay that off, and in exchange, offered up “certain official acts.” The purported corruption continued well into Yee’s campaign for Secretary of State this year. According to the complaint, he continued tapping the undercover FBI agents for more money, and in exchange, he did them favors — including facilitating a meeting with an arms dealer to traffic weapons through the Port of Newark in New Jersey.

Violent video games = bad. Selling guns for a profit = Totally ok!

Gotta love ol murica.

A collectors edition of a game that doesn’t come with the game.

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So I’ve been following the new Wolfenstein game coming out for quite some time now, if you haven’t heard about it check out this trailer:

Anyway. I was doing my usual rounds of reading during my lunch today and found that Bethesda has a special version you can buy called “Wolfenstein: The New Order Panzerhund Edition “.

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It’s excellent, it comes with some maps (not digital ones), an X Ray of something, a robot dog and more. Really cool stuff for $100. One problem though: It doesn’t include the game.

This collector’s edition does not include a copy of the game. Keep your pre-order at your favorite retailer and we’ll send you these goodies separately—this way we can ship these boxes worldwide and you’re not stuck waiting for your game to come along with an oversized, expensively shipped box.

Uh huh… Why have an expensively giant box to ship when you can just fork over 100 clams PLUS the amount to preorder the game? How thoughtful.

So… OculusRift got bought out by Facebook.

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Never in my life would I ever think to hear the words “John Carmack works for Mark Zuckerburg” in one sentence. Yep! The Oculus Rift project has been bought up by Facebook. So I guess now you’ll be able to VR Farmville, and maybe John Carmack will bring DooM to facebook! Oh god… The entire internet is in an uproar about this right now.

“Mobile is the platform of today, and now we’re also getting ready for the platforms of tomorrow,” Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says. “Oculus has the chance to create the most social platform ever, and change the way we work, play and communicate.”

Suddenly the Sony Equivalent is looking a tad nicer.

In a world where companies eat each other.

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For awhile I was contemplating joining blip.tv to get away from YouTube’s ever changing stupidity. But then they were purchased by Maker Studios which is a YouTube owned company. Now Maker Studios has been purchased by none other than Disney, who can’t seem to stop purchasing things like LucasArts and Marvel Comics.

On that note I wonder what the next starwars will look like. Will Goofy play Jar Jar Binks? Will the lightsabers have googly eyes and sing inspirational songs? And what about Marvel Comics? Maybe Donald Duck will become an XMen and Deadpool will grow Mickey Mouse ears.

Breaking News! Prince has 22 fans, but that might change…

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International superstar Prince is back on the copyright warpath, yet again targeting individuals who are quite possibly some of his biggest fans. In a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California, Prince is chasing down fans who found links to his live concerts and posted them on Facebook and blogs. The unlucky 22 individuals, 20 of whom are yet to be identified, face a damages claim of $22 million.

Wow, not only did 22 people actually care enough about his music to link it, he’s going out of his way to punish people for linking to video of his concerts. Not attacking the uploaders from what I understand, rather the people linking to it… His brilliance knows no bounds.