“The women of New Vegas ask me a lot if there’s a Mrs. New Vegas. Of course there is. You’re her. And you’re still as perfect as the day we met” – Wayne Newton as “Mr. New Vegas” Live long enough in a relationship with anyone and you will learn that there are some questions…
Tag Archive: Activision
Activision gets the boot
There is a definition of chutzpa that is as old as the hills – a man who is arrested for killing both his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan. The problem with Chutzpa and companies that develop what we here at NPNM call “The 800…
Lessons not learned
There is a peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown looks at Linus and says “That’s just an old wives tale” – to which Linus replies, “I don’t know, some of those old wives were pretty sharp.” As trite as some of us think “old adages” are, the thing about them is that they are based on…
They could be a contender
A couple of items in the news this morning had a quote from the old Marlon Brando movie popping right into our collective heads – “I could have been a contender.” The reason for this, is that both stories seem to place at least someone involved as a serious contender for the Darwin Awards. The…
Horse and Pony Show
The Race Horse Welcome to the Friday Horse and Pony show…it’s kind of like a “dog and pony show”. In fact it’s a lot like a Dog and Pony show because Infinity Ward vs. Activision, if not a circus act yet, is getting close to one – depending, of course, one whether you are the…
Don’t cross this line
There are some lines that you can’t cross and some that you can. In Washington D.C., for example, you don’t threaten social security and expect to get re-elected to any position short of dog catcher. There are other lines you can cross, but like a dog who gets beat, you can only beat him so…