OK, that’s it. TV has officially gone mad.

I’m watching a documentary about Titanic on Channel 5 now. It started at 8pm and by 8.05….we were into the first advert break.

Five minutes into the show and we’re cutting to commercial! They’ve barely had time to explain their theory about the sinking yet!

Easiest 1000 Xbox 360 Gamerpoints Ever

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/18/new-avatar-game-awards-1-000-gamerpoints-in…

This is a great example of truly lazy gamerpoint creation.

I don’t mean the gamers are lazy. I mean the people who made the game.

For anyone who hasn’t seen the game, the points are given out like candy. The game is a game of a Japanese TV show called Avatar, which is getting to be pretty big over there. I think Toonami show it here. The video shows the character standing in a corner as the guards rush towards him, and throwing energy balls at them. The gamerpoints are given out for so many hits without being hit, and since the guards cannot get close enough to you before being struck down, there’s never any danger you won’t get the achievement.

There are only seven achivements in the game, worth either 150 or 300 points. Literally all you have to do is stand in a corner holding the B button down. It really does take only a few minutes (if you skip the in-game videos).

It’s pretty bad design that you could collect all gamerpoints available in the game before completing the first level.

Name-ology advert

Am I the only one disturbed by the advert on TV for a love compatability test?

Basically, you text your name and your partner’s name to them and they give you a “compatability rating”.

Which is all good and well and a bit of fun.

But the advert shows a woman using the service to choose between two almost identical men that she’s interested in.

Does that sound right to you?

Oh god no….

It’s just Halloween now, and already the Christmas adverts have started on TV. I’ve already seen several shops with their Christmas sections out and heard Christmas music blaring out of one shop.

For once and for all, heed our call: It’s too damn early!!!

Just…just no, OK?

OK, I know that sex sells. Flaunt a couple of naked ladies in front of a product, and most men will hand over their cash with about as much though as an extra in a zombie movie.

But seriously; Hot Import Nights 2’s TV advert takes this to the extreme. It seems to be aiming at the teenage boy market (in a similar vein to the accurate gravity physics decicated to bouncing breasts in the latest Dead Or Alive game).

The advert features a woman dressed in a bikini and hot pants, with gratuituous ass shot and noticable nipples. Seriously, I have some less provocative stuff in my porn collection. It spends an equal amount of time showing you the game as it does showing you the woman advertising it.

But the advert has so much female flesh on display that it can’t be broadcast before 9pm at night, hich may mean it’s missed its core market’s bedtime.

XboxSpace: 360 Blu-Ray Player a Possibility

XboxSpace: 360 Blu-Ray Player a Possibility

I like the quote at the end:

It is not your responsibility as a consumer to fight this war for them. When they make up their minds, I’ll be willing to start buying.

However, there are two contradictory stories floating out there, one posted on Thursday 12th January 2006 and the later on Wednesday 18th January 2006

MS: Blu-ray on Xbox 360 ‘possible’ | The Register
MS says no to Xbox 360 Blu-ray support | The Register

YouTube – Phil Collins “Gorilla Drummer” Cadbury Ad (Dairy Milk)

YouTube – Phil Collins “Gorilla Drummer” Cadbury Ad (Dairy Milk)

The hairs are standing up on the back of my neck folks!

It’s 00:21 on Sunday, and I saw an advert for a Phil Collins CD. Immediately, I thought of the Cadbury’s advert with the gorilla playing the drums. So off I went to YouTub typed in “drums gorilla” and it was second in the search results.

I started playing it, glanced over at the TV and the advert was playing at almost the exact same point!

And then the theme from The Twilight Zone started playing in my head….