Global Nerdy » parody http://www.globalnerdy.com Tech Evangelist Joey deVilla on software development, tech news and other nerdy stuff Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:16:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Darths and Droids http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/06/19/darths-and-droids/ http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/06/19/darths-and-droids/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:09:36 +0000 Joey deVilla http://globalnerdy.com/?p=1753

I couldn’t rightly call this blog Global Nerdy without mentioning Darths and Droids, a webcomic that in which Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is presented as a role-playing game session. It actually makes a lot of sense when you look at it that way.

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What if Grand Theft Auto IV had come out in 1990, for the NES? The ad would probably look like this:

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“In the past, Grand Theft Auto has been severely criticized for being too violent,” says Conan O’Brien. “Well, the new version — I got it yesterday and was playing with it — it’s been toned down a lot. I’m not sure it’s better…”

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...but I think I'll wait for the Mac version. The ThinkPad may boast that it's the "no-compromise" machine, but the lack of Mac OS X is a big-ass compromise in my books. Especially when the OS likely to be bundled with this machine is:

I\'m Vista, featuring \"Hard Gay\"

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This ad for Lenovo’s ultra-portable ThinkPad X300 is a pretty good counter to the ad for the MacBook Air…

…but I think I’ll wait for the Mac version. The ThinkPad may boast that it’s the “no-compromise” machine, but the lack of Mac OS X is a big-ass compromise in my books. Especially when the OS likely to be bundled with this machine is:

I\'m Vista, featuring \"Hard Gay\"

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