Next instalment of BILL "SORE LOSER" O'REILLY is coming soon

Over at Superbious, I have to-date dropped four individual articles on Papa Bear, our favourite senile "no-spin" blowhard at Fox News. Each one covers a different instance where O'Reilly displays his insanity, usually as a sore loser reacting to criticism or to the ever-changing tides of time.

The fifth one will tackle his apparent jumping the shark on the support/non-support of gay marriage, and playing the victim card (unnecessarily I must add) when being called out on it by his more passionate colleagues in the media or simply quoted verbatim by those who otherwise don't share his viewpoints. He called Dana Milbank at The Washington Post a 'liar' for simply pointing out what O'Reilly said. If that's not insanity then I'm Norman Bates.

Stay tuned, I'll likely put up a placeholder & link here for when the post gets published or is in the process of getting published.

EA Wins "The Consumerist: Worst Company in America" TWICE IN A ROW

I know Electronic Arts is a shitty game distributor/publisher which regularly practices shady shit like micro-transactions where they need not be, persistent-online DRM (always have to be connected to EA's servers in order to even play, and in the case of the latest SimCity, your files are not stored clientside so get ready ot lose your shit often!), and locking out content you otherwise have on game discs in order to bilk even more money out of customers. In spite of these things, and indeed there's more bullshit to EA than listed above, they are a GAME COMPANY.

You are not forced to buy games for any reason whatsoever, and they are a hobby. If you participate in what's called Major League Gaming, then you consider it an e-sport. Otherwise, you do not need them to live. You don't prolong your lifespan by "consuming" them. You hardly even grow as a person by playing them. You just stimulate your mind with bright colours, loud noises, and (mostly) minor quibbles of plotlines here and there.

Yet at The Consumerist, who runs polls every year for its readers to vote for the worst company in America, EA won this distinction two years in a row. Readers allotted 78% of the votes to Electronic Arts, with Bank of America coming in a distant second and with Comcast light-years further. It is the FIRST company ever to achieve this at The Consumerist. Keep in mind, that Bank of America lost with nearly half the votes last year. This year, Bank of America lost again with even less votes.

So here's the summary: Monsanto and that lot continue to erode nearly every market connected to the agriculture industry (which covers just about all of it), oil & natural gas companies are spearing ahead with pipelines that will inevitably fuck up, banks continue to abuse peoples' finances and take their properties away, pharmaceutical outfits trudge onward with their status as legal drug cartels, and telecommunications companies like Comcast and AT&T assault freedom of information & customer satisfaction every day.

EA, however, releases shitty or unfinished games (SimCity should rile you up), forces their customers to deal with persistent-online DRM, forcing customers use their knock-off of Steam (Origin) to even play with their products in the first place, they bilk customers out of more money by hiding content you already possess, PERMANENTLY ban paying customers "by accident", and they adore the machine-gun vomit of superfluous and pointless DLC. All of that might seem bad if you didn't read anything before them, but they affect VIDEO GAMES. I like games myself, and consider myself a mid-core gamer (I'm not casual, but I'm not hardcore either), but I have priorities.

The Consumerist, please help your readers whose priorities are so skewed and non-grounded in reality to realize just what is important in life. If you don't like EA, STOP BUYING THEIR GAMES! Simple resolution for a small-time issue. Just more proof that a handful of gamers are, dare I say it, clueless idiots irredeemably lost in fantasy land. Man-children, perhaps?