PSP Rant

This article originally was posted by Sideath on the 4colorrebellion forums (please click title for link). Republished with permission of author.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject: PSP

I bought a PSP when they first came out in the UK in September 2005. It was good for a while, Lumines and Burnout were fun, and there were a few games I was looking for on the horizon, such as GTA and Infected. I could [almost] (but not quite) say that in the month of September, I enjoyed my PSP more than my Nintendo DS (blasphemy!). I even forked out a substantial amount of money to buy a 1Gb memory card for it, where I loaded up new maps for Wipeout Pure and put music on. However, once GTA came out, everything changed. I now dislike the PSP for several reasons:

Reading gamers’ minds

The following article is originally written for http://www.gamespot.com
The original article can be found at: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/01/news_6128476.html
Republished with permission of Gamespot.

Game developers play psychologist to get players moving in the right direction.

You think you’re playing the game, but maybe it’s playing you.

Religious Beliefs

As MPs vote on whether to go ahead with a Bill that could outlaw religious jokes, Chimpware celebrates comedy’s finest at their blasphemous best

Woody Allen
‘If only God would give me some clear sign. Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.’

‘Not only is there no God but try getting a plumber at the weekend.’

‘As the poet said: ‘Only God can make a tree’ – probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.’

Article – Art at A level

Having just finnished my AS level art course I think I can speak with some degree of authority on the issue, unlike Si, who was speculating in his last (but very good) article.

The actual mark you recieve for your art exam is negligable, you can pass art comfortably but fail your exam. The reason is simple, they do not care about your final outcome, it just doesn’t matter, in art what is important is your book – this is clearly wrong. When I walk around an art gallery I look at the pieces they have produced, their paintings, sculptures or (*shudders*) installation pieces. What I don’t expect to do when I walk around a gallery is flick through an artists sketch book, half baked ideas and prelimenary sketches, interesting of course but not as impressive – or good as their actually art pieces.

Article – Different Subjects should have different approaches

It’s half an hour until my Further Maths exam. One and a half hour of pure tormenting mathematics. And that’s just writing your candidate number down. This has led me to think – are exams the answer?

If you f**k up an exam, that’s it. You’re screwed. Of course you can retake it, but that would add another load of pressure onto an already pressurized revision scedule. However, if no exams were taken, it’s very difficult to justify a mark (a percentage mark – or even a grade). In the same way that reviews in magazines are regularly criticised, you or your parents may not agree with the grade given to you.

Report – The Politics of Electronic Entertainment

With the British general election just 8 days away, it’s seems fitting to report (briefly) on the opinions of each political party on the electronic entertainment industry – in alphabetical order, of course!