Top mendax.org posts from Feb, 2009.

by WyldKard on March 1, 2009

Haven’t been regularly reading mendax.org? In case you missed them, here’s a quick digest of the top posts from last month:
  • For the Boleyn story, watch Tudors.
    Posted on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 in Prolefeed – Views: (137)
    After slowly making our way through the available episodes of Showtimes’s Tudors, and nearing the end of the second season, we decided to take a brief break and watch The Other Boleyn Girl. How could a movie starring both Natalie Portman and Scarlet Johansson fail? Well, epically.At least compared to the story told in Tudors. While the movie has some great, arguably more historically accurate costumes, that’s about where the movie’s merits end.
  • Further proof that print-publications are a dying breed.
    Posted on Monday, February 16th, 2009 in Prolefeed – Views: (117)
    As far as gaming rags go, the past several months have foretold doom for the magazine industry. It turns out that this mighty thing called “the internet” was finally realized by hordes of gamers who recognized that online publications are simply more timely than print publications. After all, with blogs reporting news in near real-time, who wants to wait for a corporate entity to report on the news when their take is neither timely, nor objective?
  • Mac viruses? What Mac viruses?
    Posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009 in Technocracy – Views: (255)
    We confess: we only installed an anti-virus utility on our Mac nine months ago, after years of using OS X. Even then, we only loaded the application once, because a friend declared how awesome it was. Only, by “awesome” we mean to suggest that the application only appeared awesome, because it, and other applications like it, are wholly useless on Macs.
  • mendax.iphone
    Posted on Sunday, February 8th, 2009 in Technocracy – Views: (156)
    Apple’s iPhone has changed the way many of us go about our daily lives, not because the iPhone is the most revolutionary handheld device ever conceived, but because Apple’s polish made the iPhone’s features accessible to a large audience (and the subsidized price hasn’t hurt). Even a stock iPhone has many useful features, but the iPhone’s true power is in its third-party applications, be they tied to the internet or not.
  • Most self-described “hardcore” PvP gamers are likely full of shit.
    Posted on Friday, February 20th, 2009 in Prolefeed – Views: (109)
    Scott Jennings makes a great point about why Darkfall won’t make it in the end: …people enjoy hardcore PvP in the abstract. Or, to put another way, many more people believe they are ‘hardc0re’ then actually are. And they dislike being proved wrong pretty powerfully… The Mordred problem is simply that a great majority of the people who believe they are hardcore are not, and after being violently disabused of the notion, will leave.
  • Pepsi beats Coca-Cola to retro-soda?
    Posted on Saturday, February 21st, 2009 in Physical Jerks – Views: (137)
    Apparently, Pepsi realized that people love soda made with cane sugar, and would rather drink these types of variants than the mass-market versions made with high-fructose corn syrup. While more expensive to produce, there’s clearly a market for this, which is why people seek out Mexican Coke in the States when possible, despite the cheaper canned or plastic versions being more widely available.
  • Reassessing EVE. Or, Our EVE Experiment (mendax.eve?).
    Posted on Thursday, February 19th, 2009 in Prolefeed – Views: (170)
    Our take on EVE Online has fluctuated worse than a woman’s pregnancy mood. Let us summarize: When we were first exposed to EVE through a friend, we didn’t think much of it. Giving it some more thought, however, we loved the idea of a graphical Trade Wars MMO. EVE even brought back memories of what we hoped Starshield could turn into (sans the quantum weather bit), and by the time our fascination with World of Warcraft (WoW) was coming into steep decline, EVE jumped back on our radar as the game to play.
  • Sexy acorn mp3 player is probably very shitty.
    Posted on Friday, February 13th, 2009 in Technocracy – Views: (106)
    We can’t help but love the aesthetic of this acorn-shaped mp3 player complete with wooden enclosure. Sadly, this baby only sports 1GB of data, and it’s not an iPod. Still, the concept is very cool, and one could imagine a pretty cool interface for this baby by changing the track, or volume, with a twist of the top.In any case, this mp3 player certainly beats the Shuffle’s form factor, and could be a viable alternative to Apple’s products.
  • There is no financial Apocalypse.
    Posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009 in Politico – Views: (210)
    On a daily basis, it seems that the media wants everyone to believe that the American way of life has ended. There are even comparisons, frequently so, about the state of the U.S. today and the state it was in during the Great Depression. There are even some who are convinced that we’re in a depression, and not a simple recession.
  • World of Warcraft’s success is greatly because of luck.
    Posted on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 in Newthink – Views: (254)
    One of the primary reasons that World of Warcraft (WoW) managed to make MMOGs mainstream is because of timing. That’s not to say that WoW isn’t a good game in its own right, but chances are, if the stars weren’t in perfect alignment, WoW wouldn’t have amazed observers with its vacuum-like prowess at sucking in millions of gamers. Hardcore Casual’s syncaine wrote a great synopsis of these events: In short, late 2004 was a ‘perfect storm’ of sorts to launch an MMO.
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