Category: Ranting

Nathan hooked Casey and I up with Battlefield 3 from EA at a great price. We all thought it would be a bonding experience to cooperatively storm the castle together and rescue the princess. And it is, and it’s fun. The only problem? The game’s audio track was recorded in the a middle school sound room. There is swearing everywhere in the single player and occasionally in multiplayer.

Now Pace, what do you expect!? It’s a war game, it’s just like war. You should appreciate how life like it is. Let me tell you, if I was in a squad with guys who talked like this and they didn’t shut up, I would shoot them in the foot. But I can’t do that in the game. They just keep on swearing.

SO, what’s a guy to do!? Easy, change the games spoken language to spanish so I have no clue what they are saying and start a petition of course! As I would have the choice to tell people to stop swearing in real life, I’d like EA to add an option to turn off explicit language. If you think swearing in video games should be optional, please hit the mouse a few times and sign my petition and/or share it. Thanks!

The FDA put out some new labels that probably will never hit the actual market thanks to our awesome legal system, Nathan I’m blaming you and your kind. I really like them actually and I think it would be great if we could build this in to most of our products.

Here are some I came up with real quick:

Oh, my goodness. Rear-facing car seats until age 2 ?!?!? I know safety is important, but this seems over the top.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/21/car.seat.guidelines.parenting/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

Even as a little baby, like by 6 months of age, Chase was already going insane having to lie in his rear-facing in his car seat. I can’t believe they even say it’s fine if your kids grow and have their legs bent or squished against the back seat! That seems just plain cruel if you’re taking your kids on a long road trip. Thoughts?

Thinking about doing a MLM? This article sums up how I felt when researching it.

Wittlich says he worked day and night on his Amway business and never made a profit. “Active” Amway distributors earn an average of just $115 a month, according to Amway’s latest disclosure statement. Just a quarter of 1% (0.26%) make more than $40,000 a year, which Amway attributes to the fact many work part time. Active distributors, which describes about 60% of Amways’s 600,000 North American distributors, get at least one bonus check or make one sale or meeting a year.

“You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone making over $1.50 an hour,” Whitsell says of multilevel marketing. “The primary product is opportunity. The strongest, most powerful motivational force today is false hope.”

Source – USA Today

Great stuff, really makes me think about if Chase has problems at school, just send him to high school online. Engage in a different way. Makes complete sense to me. Also, the idea that a degree equals a job and no degree equals a lame job is completely out dated. It still amazes me that with all this the cost of higher learning is also increasing each year. And I fully agree that too many kids are diagnosed with ADHD, lets diagnose the teachers with boringitis. Love to hear your thoughts after you watch it.

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I need your help McBlog readers. Our flash guy at work made this amazingly cute pig bank that kept shrinking when money was spent. Well editing time came and the pig got cut. I was so sad because this pig made me smile so much every time I saw it. Will you help me spread this pig across the internet? I have him available in an animated flash object, an animated GIF, and a PNG image file. Please use which ever you’d like and post the pig around the internet. Or just share this blog post about the pig. We’d like to dedicate this to all the great work people do that gets left on the cutting room floor.

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And here is the cute little guy in sharable format:

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Sometimes prequels are really cool, and sometimes really lame. Usually they try to show some back story that is either interesting or that didn’t have enough time in the original. Well you might have caught Inception this year. I watched the prequel last night. It’s called Dreamscape and it was filmed in 1984. Please check it out since the trailer wasn’t embeddable. Available on Netflix streaming.