| Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
 | You probably don't need to be told that a computer game based on the Left Behind series of eschatological blockbusters would not necessarily be an abortion-gettin', gay marriage-holdin' pinwheel frenzy, but even I was surprised to find out that it had gender essentialism coded into the engine.
Interestingly, this means that women are a less flexible and thus less valuable resource than men in the game, which presumably also means, if you have unit caps, that you are best served by replacing all your female troops with male troops as quickly as possible, until it's all guys together. This sort of collegiality may seem dubious, but is of course perfectly normal and healthy.
Back on the hate, the discovery of the MySpace page of one of the suspects in the Suffolk awfulness has led to a shocking amount of lazy journalism, of which this is a prime example. Did the writer do anything there to justify the byline?
And away again - Matthew gives us the love, with links to Marathonpacks' excellent and enlightening top nineteen albums of the year. And back again - this, regrettably, links to perhaps the most fatuous review of the Knife yet:
I don't trust people who dance to the Knife. Like knuckleheads who laugh uproariously at every joke in a Shakespeare play, I suspect they are trying way too hard to "get it."
Sometimes being stupid must be such a chore. Most obviously, the possibility that somebody might be laughing at a joke in a Shakespeare play because they know more about Shakespeare is never even considered. Likewise, the possibility that this person is a horrible waste of a ticket to the Knife. Art installation or not, if you do not find every bit of cytoplasm in your body smashing against the cell walls like Morten Harket at the end of the video for "Take on Me" during "We Share Our Mothers' Health", there is really no point in continuing to believe that you are animated by what we might acknowledge to be life. Bad science or black magic, but not life.
Let's end without hate, with the guide to Making the most of your marriage to Mary-Kate Olsen.
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