Whatever the content of the article may be, this dig post http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Cyberbullies_scare_sc… has perhaps the most entertaining selection of insensitive comments the internet has ever seen.

Epic epic comments like this should go down in history.  A personal favourite being;

“Bully: Wanna cyber?
skank: Hmmm, maybe.
Bully: I am Trogdor, the burninator. Show some skin now.
skank: I don’t know.
Bully: I am Trogdor, and I will burninate you unless you show me skin.
skank: Oh, okay.”

and

“Wow some of the diggers are gonna be pushovers as parents. this is an OBVIOUS pass the buck move by the girls. they were stupid, they ARE slutty, they got caught….blame it on someone else.”

Apparently, you can get a boyfriend, stip naked, send him photos, break up, then call it bullying as a modern teenager.  As another poster put it “how come girls weren’t this stupid when I was a kid”.

Nothing like a good laugh on a friday afternoon.

Unfortunately however, this boy who cried wolf style usage of the phrase “bully” gives people that seriously need help a bad name, and to that end it’s actually a fucking discrace.

The internet is serious business right?

Went down to see the Deftones last night play Academy 1 in Manchester, and I have to say I was very impressed.

This is somewhat more noteworthy because I’ve actually seen the Deftones on a few occasions before and I have to confess I went to the gig with a certain amount of trepidation. See, over the few times I’ve seen them play before, about half the time they were appalling. Sloppy, loose, out of tune, generally rubbish. On the other hand, about the other 50% of the time, they were fantastic, tight and atmospheric.

So the gig started and they murdered the first two tracks. Sloppy rubbish.

Thankfully last night was one of the fantastic performances, and I suppose I should tip the scale of the Deftones live to being “fantastic” as opposed to “dubious”, you see, after the first two tracks they were probably the best I’ve ever seen them.

It probably helped that they played a large amount of older material, and more specifically the stuff I prefer (Around the Furr and White Pony era stuff), even pulling off both the Around the Furr title track without the additional vocals and Passenger without Maynard (from Tool) doing the second piece. Only a few tracks off the latest CD, and noticeably nothing off their hit and miss self titled cd (upsettingly lacking the “hit” tracks like Battle-Axe, which was always great live), but made up for by the strength of the back catalogue.

If I were the complaining type I’d moan that they played “Back To School”, which even at the time was a piss poor “single” remix of the fantastic Pink Maggit, but you know, if the crowd beg for rubbish rap-metal, I guess you have to deliver right? It’s just depressing that they’d play such an awful version of such a great song.

Back to the point, if you like this sort of thing and the current Deftones tour floats past you, I’d really suggest you go have a listen if last nights performance was anything to go by.

Kotaku just posted an epic looking trailer for the forthcoming Zelda DS game. Looks like an epic mixture of old and new school Zelda, honestly can’t wait.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/clip-phantom-hourgl…

I was one of the 0.0000% of the world that actually loved the Windwakers art directing so to be honest, extra points for keeping it around.

Oh and I noticed yesterday that apparently Burnout 5 is out on the first of next month, another game I’m really looking forward to despite knowing nothing about. Burnout 3 was fantastic, Burnout 4 was Burnout 3.5, apparently they’re opening up the world in the new one, removing menus and making it a little more persistent. Dangerous to mess with something that works so brilliantly, but I’m tempted to throw a preorder in there anyway. I can’t seem to find any preview information on the game though, which makes me somewhat wary.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/07/sonys-playstati…

Sony announces “Playstation Home”.

Oh sony oh sony oh sony. No more than a week after you try and threaten the largest gaming blog on the internet (http://kotaku.com/gaming/top/sony-blackballs-kotak…), followed up by a swift backpeddle following public outrage (http://kotaku.com/gaming/sony/sony-and-kotaku-make…), do you go and announce the very service you were trying to keep under wraps by via threat.

Not only did they confirm the rumour last week with some classic corporate mismanagement, but to take such a swift stance on something so imminent really does escape me.

So let me get this straight. An expensive, late, crippled games console, an unlimited number of pr and technical bundles, and yet you still desperately hope that previous market dominance will let you coast through to victory in a technology battle?

Begs belief.

Sega of America appear to be running a poll on their website (http://www.sega.com/home.php) relating to a revival of a classic Sega franchise.

Perhaps by coincidence this poll appears to be on the Wii virtual console page, however if Sega do this especially for me, I’ll send them a cookie. Nights really was a revolutionary game in its time and with any luck the virtual console could more than do it justice.

I’d go as far as preferring a virtual console release of nights over an actual sequel, just the ability to play nights without hauling out a Saturn.

There also happen to be a bunch of other options, Streets of Rage, Samba Di Amigo, Virtua Cop, but really, Nights is the answer. Just don’t do a Sonic The Hedgehog on us.

For the uninformed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NiGHTS_into_Dreams…. might help persuade you.

Increasingly frustrated by the way in which the media appears to be backing the simplification of complex social situations.

“As proved by the views of those young Mancunians, they’re ["chavs"] occasionally prodded and demonised, but largely left alone. The rest of us – in theory, anyway – can join the meritocracy and acquire the trappings of at least modest success; to paraphrase George Orwell’s 1984, chavs and animals are free.” (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2027432,00.html)

Apparently.

Apparently there is no such thing as self determination in the world anymore. Apparently you can’t improve your quality of life. Apparently the parent article is confused and can’t decide if it’s writing about the demonisation of “chavs” or that the proverbial poor buggers need a break. Apparently modern journalism is needless conjecture.

There’s nothing I despise more than frustrating fence sitting articles that scream and shout “oh god oh god” and then refuse to actually work out what exactly is bad.

Stop treating people as though they are an abstract, and for the love of god stop implying that these people “from the undeserving rump too feckless to seize [opportunity]” are helpless and guilt free in their way of life.

Everybody has a degree of choice within the normal parameters of a “civilised living situation”. Everyone can change the direction of their lives and people should not be nannied, leading though to a natural conclusion; people who behave in reprehensible ways have likewise made a choice. Simple conclusions.

I hate the media for implying that social degradation is the fault of the population and not of the individual. Unfortunately, it’s a problem for the population, and apparently, not the individual.

I hate the media for rationalising abhorrent behaviour and creating viable excuses, thus hindering the simple concept of personal responsibility.

But hey, fuck it. Infectious human waste right? sigh.

I’m going to start using this again, for the third time or so now?  I’ll backport perhaps a post or two, but apart from that I’m going to actually write something.  Getting the urge again.