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Posted by Bootyboy on Monday, November 16, 2009 09:13AM
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
'Call of Duty' game sells $310M in 24 hours
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -
First-day sales of Activision Blizzard Inc.'s "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" broke records, raking in an estimated $310 million in North America and the United Kingdom alone.
The video game went on sale all over the world on Tuesday, but Activision provided figures Thursday only for North America and Britain. The company estimates that it sold about 4.7 million copies of the game in the first 24 hours in those markets, making it the biggest-selling launch in the history of entertainment.
Posted by Bootyboy on Thursday, November 12, 2009 08:24AM
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College Football: BCS is busy trying to fix its image, but nothing else
BCS is busy trying to fix its image, but nothing else By John Feinstein
(Obama) has other issues on the table and, to be honest, short of threatening the tax-exempt status of the big-bucks schools, even his presence probably won't force the heads of the 66 BCS schools in question to end their hypocrisy...
Only one of the undefeated non-BCS schools will get a BCS bid. There is now a likely scenario whereby Boise State, which beat Oregon soundly the first week of the season, will not play in a BCS game while USC -- which just lost to Oregon by 27 points -- might. Ohio State, which lost to USC and a horrible Purdue team, might also play in a BCS bowl. Iowa might lose to Ohio State and still get a BCS bid, and Penn State, which already lost to Iowa, could, too.
But Boise State almost certainly won't -- unless TCU loses a game and Boise State wins out.
Now, the BCS defenders will almost certainly say this: "The Boise State-Oregon game was in September." They are correct. Let's put aside the fact that on the very rare occasions when a BCS school plays a non-BCS power, it is almost always in September. Here's what the BCS defenders also say a lot: "What's great about the BCS is that the regular season is so meaningful."
If they believe that -- and who among us would question their sincerity? -- then surely Boise State's win should matter regardless of when in the regular season the game was played. Except it won't. Some might call that, well, a contradiction.
Posted by Bootyboy on Monday, November 02, 2009 04:55PM
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Torture and Judgments of Guilt
Torture and Judgments of Guilt
From the abstract...
Although torture can establish guilt through confession, how are judgments of guilt made when tortured suspects do not confess? We suggest that perceived guilt is based inappropriately upon how much pain suspects appear to suffer during torture. Two psychological theories provide competing predictions about the link between pain and perceived blame: cognitive dissonance, which links pain to blame, and moral typecasting, which links pain to innocence. We hypothesized that dissonance might characterize the relationship between torture and blame for those close to the torture, while moral typecasting might characterize this relationship for those more distant from it. Accordingly, this experiment placed participants into one of two different roles in which people may be exposed to torture. Participants in the proximal role of prison staffer saw suffering torture victims as relatively more guilty, while participants in the relatively distant role of a radio listener saw suffering victims as more innocent.
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NBA Talk: Opening Night Impressions
For some reason, I've been really looking forward to this year's NBA season. Shaq going to the Cavs, Vince to the Magic, Artest to the Lakers, Sheed to the Celtics... just a lot of relatively big names moving to good teams.
So, I took some time to watch a couple of games last night, Lakers v Clippers and Celtics v Cavaliers...
Lakers v Clippers
The Good: Andrew Bynum looked like he's gained a step on his inside moves and was much more adept on the glass. Odom already was a great ball handler, and played the pivot for an injured Gasol last night. Artest was smothering on defense -- he jacked up some ugly shots, we'll see if he can get into the Laker offensive flow later in the year. Kobe was typical Kobe -- he still plays undisciplined defense. It's clear when the inside game is going then Kobe gets more lanes to work with.
The Bad: Fisher is done. He's still a smart player, but he looked like molasses out there. On the flip side, Baron Davis of the Clips also looked out of sorts.
Celtics v Cavaliers
The Good: The Celtics winning in Cleveland is pretty huge given that the Cavs only lost two games all last year. Rasheed Wallace is clearly going to be the difference maker for the Celtics this year -- no one on the Cavs could guard him and he was so disruptive on the defensive side. Wallace as a #3/#4 option will be nearly impossible for any other NBA team to match up against. LeBron James is hands down the best player in the NBA because...
The Bad: The Cavs have nobody else aside from King James who can work the offense. Mike Brown has been the Cav coach for five years now and there still is no offensive flow. Watching LeBron try to run a "one v five" offense is fascinating, but the other four have to start moving their feet. Ilgauskas and O'Neal look slow and goofy and obstruct LeBron's drives to the basket. The Cav bench is sickly shallow.
Posted by Bootyboy on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 08:38AM
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#1 IcewarriorX:
first post on the bootyblog, suck on that.
Monday, November 16, 2009 07:05PM