Monthly Archives: December 2008

Cousin marriage is a-okay.

By spamfest | Published: December 24, 2008
I guess we can file this one under “things I didn’t expect to learn on Christmas Eve.” As it turns out, marrying your first cousin has been declared just peachy. Yup, Science said so. Apparently, reports of birth defects have been greatly exaggerated. In reality, the odds of them coming about are no [...]
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Sometimes 60 FPS actually isn’t enough.

By spamfest | Published: December 15, 2008
Counter to this post, you’ll often find that in online games you need more than 60 FPS. Of course, if you’re running an LCD monitor at 60 Hz, you won’t see more than 60 FPS, but that doesn’t mean the experience isn’t a little better. Whether or not it has a measurable effect [...]
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Top Gear does it right.

By spamfest | Published: December 10, 2008
I’ve always liked Top Gear for their insight and sense of humor, but they’ve seriously outdone themselves now. Their recent review of the Euro-only Ford Fiesta is fucking fantastic. You won’t believe the things they do with this little car. While becoming an overused term, “epic” is probably the best way to [...]
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You definitely shouldn’t buy GTA IV.

By spamfest | Published: December 7, 2008
The other day I mentioned that you probably shouldn’t buy GTA IV for PC. Well, today I’m upgrading that probably to a definitely. I made that post before any reports of just how terrible and painful the installation procedure actually was started coming in. My post was mostly related to how Rockstar ignorantly thought [...]
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ASCII Wars

By spamfest | Published: December 6, 2008
Fresh off the back of posting that last bit about the ever-present possibility of being unjustly banned from a server, it actually happened. No, seriously. Not even 48 hours after posting, me and my totally awesome in-game alias of S P A M F E S T found ourselves perma-banned from a CoD4 server I’d [...]
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