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		<title>Blizzard, RealID, and You</title>
		<link>http://deviationsofthemind.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/blizzard-realid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All hell broke loose today as a Blizzard community moderator (CM) posted  the new and improved idea behind Blizzards RealID system.  For the non-gamer or at very least, the gamer not really connected with what Activision-Blizzard is up to these days I'll give a little run down of the story.

Roughly one year ago Blizzard implemented this new security system when they rolled out their Battle.net 2.0 idea; this, in itself, was supposed to be revolutionary on their point, and for all intents and purposes was.  As a user of Blizzards video games - Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft - I could now manage all my accounts from one single master account, sweet.  This "optional" change became rather mandatory about three to four months later when all current World of Warcraft accounts had to switch their regular accounts to the new Battle.net 2.0 accounts, fine, I needed to sign up for the upcoming betas anyway. Two weeks ago Blizzard now added the RealID system into World of Warcraft, I can now see what games my friends are playing ala a Steamworks/XFire/Facebook type system, neeto.

Fast forward to today (the sixth of July) and thousands of people have beta'd for StarCraft 2, hundreds of thousands have pre-ordered it, all of these people must have a Battle.net 2.0 accounts up and running; millions World of Warcraft subscribers are all already set up for it, and rockin' and rollin'.  Everything is going smoothly and every user thinks that this new system will work out alright, nay sayers speaking of "big brother" and 1984, but no one believes them yet, that was 9:00 AM.  At 9:01 AM the apocalypse is upon us, the CM Nethaera leaves this post: <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deviationsofthemind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11499287&amp;post=57&amp;subd=deviationsofthemind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fallout: New Vegas</title>
		<link>http://deviationsofthemind.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/fallout-new-vegas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fallout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Vegas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obsidian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fallout: New Vegas has been assured to us by Pete Hines as "It is not a sequel to Fallout 3, It’s simply another Fallout game in that universe.” This could be a good or a bad thing, there was not really anywhere to go around Washington DC once the dlc train stopped, but bringing the game back out west could bring up much harsher criticisms and comparisons from the entrenched Fallout community.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deviationsofthemind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11499287&amp;post=38&amp;subd=deviationsofthemind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rammstein: Liebe ist für alle da</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liebe is fur alle da]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The straight translation of the title of the most recent album by Rammstein really sums up the collection of the works within the album itself, "Love is foreveryone." This becomes apparent with the cover, and even more so as one gets into the song list and album art, with songs such as the now infamous "Pussy" (I'll get to that later) and nudity all over the album art, it definitely seems very uniquely... Rammstein.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deviationsofthemind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11499287&amp;post=31&amp;subd=deviationsofthemind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Plight of the Common Shooter</title>
		<link>http://deviationsofthemind.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/modern-warfare-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Console]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this a few weeks back for a forum, and I still believe that it applies on the whole to the marginalization of the gamer community by video game companies.  I hope that it strikes a chord with some people, and helps folks from all walks of the gaming world wake up and say no to what is currently destroying our individuality.  I realize now that this is not just about what has recently happened with Activision, Bobby Kotick, and the Call of Duty series; but the entire gaming world as we know it.  So here is my diatribe, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deviationsofthemind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11499287&amp;post=20&amp;subd=deviationsofthemind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The iPad &#8211; A Preview</title>
		<link>http://deviationsofthemind.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/the-ipad-a-preview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past two days have been aflutter with comments by all peoples from all walks of life about this "amazing" new item from Apple, the iPad.  Personally, it sounds like a woman's hygiene product, but I'm not in Apple's naming/marketing department.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deviationsofthemind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11499287&amp;post=3&amp;subd=deviationsofthemind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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