President Obama declared his support for marriage equality today to a hail of Internet cheers. Supporting gay marriage has been considered a pretty risky move for a politician, since it means definitively losing the vote for an entire chunk of the electorate – IE, the religious right – and probably losing votes from slightly less rightward conservatives. Continue reading
I’m personally going to go ahead and hope for option #1 because at least that’s not sincere. Option #2 would confirm something I’ve long suspected – that there’s a frightening and sizable subset of conservatives who actually are deeply divorced from reality and seriously mentally ill, and no one’s doing anything to help those people. Continue reading
PlayStation 4 is Code-Named ‘Orbis,’ May Restrict Second-Hand Games – See, this is just more of the same crap I was bemoaning on Wednesday. I’m beginning to think these companies actually don’t want our money, because if this isn’t a screaming incentive for people to crack and pirate games and software, jailbreak their computing devices, and generally do everything in their power to avoid doing what these companies are trying to force on them, then I don’t know what would be. Continue reading
We live in an age of instant gratification when it comes to media consumption. No matter what kind of media you’re looking for, you can have it delivered to you through various devices pretty much instantly. So, tell me, Content Industry, why do I have to fight to get you to take my money? Continue reading
I’m just going to go over this one more time, for the cheap seats. Piracy is a service issue. Content industries are providing a bad service at an unfair price. The result is piracy. Fix the price and the service and mark my words, y’all will be swimming in cash again. Continue reading