The Technomicon

Over the weekend, Josh Olin at Treyarch commented on Twitter that quick-scoping would be “nerfed” in the next Call of Duty game, Black Ops, which ships November 9. Naturally, as with anytime you tell a nerd that things aren’t going to go exactly the way they want it to, there was something of a public outcry. It reached a point where Treyarch opened up a poll on their official forums, asking the community what they think. The result was less than surprising. Actually, I take that back. Part of it was surprising, that being the amount of people who rallied against quick-scoping. I honestly thought this would be a pro-QS landslide.
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Over the last few days the updates on Minecraft creator Notch’s Twitter account have centered around issues with the accessibility of the Minecraft servers. Late yesterday he posted an update that this was the result of a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack, and today popular gaming blog Kotaku reports that this is the work of angry Minecraft users who are frustrated with the lack of updates to the game.

The sense of entitlement here is staggering.
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