Dear Self Important Idiot, If I’ve learned one thing over the years, it’s the importance of good communication. Discussing your concerns with people that have no means to address them is nothing more than moaning. Dressing up a rant as an open letter is merely an effort to legitimise your verbiage as something more than…
Did I miss new year?
Apparently so! Well, as far as koffdrop.com is concerned, I’ve never been known for my punctuality. I hope 2011 finds you healthy and happy and that you hangover has cleared up by now. I’ve been consuming a chunk of media this year and it goes a little like this: Movies Tron: Legacy This is everything…
Snippets
Neither game related, both scooped up to me via my RSS feeds: Tokyo introduces manga restrictions Tokyo has banned the sale and lease of anime films and manga comics depicting rape, incest and other sex crimes to under-18s. Call me crazy, but I would have thought that the distribution of sort of material would have…
It’s funny because it’s true
Three months later and..
..and I’m still on pretty much the same topic. This is one of the most true things I’ve read all year: The fact of the matter is that even the largest video game journalism outlets are pampered. They are too used to the conveniences of internet publishing: editing after publication, deleting dissenting comments, removing and…
GJAIF
My new favourite acronym, standing for: Games Journalists Are Incompetent Fuckwits Clearly I’m so far behind the times that GJAIF is so hip and cool with the kids it even has its own site: A catalogue of the stupid, incompetent, and generally retarded things gaming journalists say and do. We dedicate time every day to…
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice..
If you’re using the internet the chances that you can read are fairly high. If you can read, you’ve probably read a book or two in your lifetime. You may even be aware of classic books, books that made their mark in literature. Yet how many of these classics were pop-up books? I could research…
Gah!
Lady Gaga has become the first living person to have more than 10 million fans on Facebook with her tally standing at 10,673,476 (5 July). According to new research by online site Famecount, the star recently overtook Barack Obama (9,824,885) to claim the number one spot. Source The term “like flies to a shit” springs…
Get off my Internet!
Whilst my own online social activities (arguing on message-boards) have diminished to nothing, I still read many sites and observe comments and responses posted by readers. Following big announcements, such as the type made at annual shows, there tend to be plenty of extra-sensationalist news articles produced that tend to elicit a more intense type…
9 out of 10 isn’t bad
Over the Easter bank holiday a good friend paid me a visit. We ate, we drank, we were merry. Unlike me, he was gainfully employed throughout 2009 and he had bought many games that came out in that period. He left me with ten games and an arrangement to meet again at the start of…