The reason I'm finally posting about how horrible the site is, is because I got about 10 spam friend requests today and about 6 or 7 spam messages on the site. Random bands I've never heard of sending friend requests and attractive looking females adding me as "friends" when they really are just advertising for some website. The news used to talk a lot about how dangerous this website is to children and I now agree 100%. The site is out of control. There is little to no control over spam messages and within 24 hours I bet you would have at least one spam message and somehow be exposed to a pornographic link.
Today Peter Molyneux, a game developer for Fable 2, announced a "revolutionary" new feature of the game. The feature? You will have a dog following you around. Is he serious? Apparently also you can now get people pregnant. In the first Fable you could have sex, but was really pointless (although the game kept track of how many times you did it... why?). Apparently they want the player to feel a sense of accomplishment if they go and slay some kind of creature and come home to their kids congratulating them. I'm starting to think that Microsoft should tell them to let Sony take Fable 2 instead. I don't know about these developers...
Spring break starts tomorrow and I'll probably be heading home after lunch sometime since I have one class in the middle of the day. We might not go skiing like I said we were going to since it's going to be fairly warm on Saturday. Oh well, I've got a lot of homework to do unfortunately, so I guess I could work on that if I wanted to.
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lol, there was a good Penny Arcade about the pregnancy aspect of Fable 2. Still, the dog sounds really cute! I don't know about revolutionary, though.
From a feminist standpoint, it is nice that the rampant sex can carry the consequence of pregnancy, but it would be more amusing if the game kept track of what STDs your character had.
Oh yeah! And I totally agree about the MySpace thing - I just never saw what was attractive about it, much like xanga - both websites are just heinously ugly, in my opinion.
I saw the Penny Arcade comic... it was a good one!
You should suggest keeping track of the STDs your character has. That would be entertaining.
Myspace is really over-rated. The ads and spammers are horrible, but the site itself, and its features... or lack there of, are horrible to. It's called "My Space" yet the only way to make your page look like your own, is to search the net for some CSS code that you copy and paste into your About Me section, in a certain text box. Then, if you're dumb, and don't know what you're doing, you have ads for that site, that THEY embed into the CSS code. Most people don't pull that out. Anyway Dave, on the plus side you can check an option so music bands can't send you friend requests.
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