Dots & Slashes

What ARE "Dots" and "Slashes"...?

In the TV world there's "cheers and jeers." In the movie world there's "thumbs up" and "thumbs down." Well, here in cyberspace, there are  (...) dots and (/) slashes. Such are the icons for this web site's own quickie "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" list, which is added to whenever the latest entertainment news requires it.  What news bytes hit their mark, and which should be slashed? Here are the latest of them.

 

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DOT :  To a game company showing some stones for a change. While few game companies dared release anything the same week as Grand Theft Auto IV...Nintendo sure did, when they decided to release the highly anticipated Mario Kart on the Wii, just two days before GTA4's launch date. If you ask me; this was brilliant. For one thing Mario Kart is a totally cool game. For another it is coincidentally a G-rated car game, so Rockstar tackles the mature age groups while Nintendo rakes in the younger game crowd the same week.The good news for Nintendo is that most of these gamers will most likely go to the store for GTA 4, see Mario Kart, and buy that too. The good news for gamers is not feeling "corralled" into buying any one game. Sure; most of them will buy both games, though being able to choose between one new game or another is great, too. Thanks for that, Nintendo!

 

Slash : To the Check Mii Out Channel, and it's oddball "need" to make every character's name a batch of initials. Sure; the best Miis are so dead-on-perfect, you need to description to know that someone's Mii is meant to be, for example, Super Mario. Yet many Miis are of people that look familiar though...what's their name again? Don't bother looking at the name of the character: the Check Mii Out channel abbreviates all names to mere initials. This is all well and good for, say, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is easily identified with or without reading the name "A.S." Though what about the typical Mii with the single initial, whose name escapes us? There doesn't seem to be any coherent reason for this "initial" nonsense, so can someone please end this, with a patch? Make it so.

 

DOT :  To someone finally winning Big Brother in a manner that didn't want us to kick in the screens of our TV sets! Adam won Big Brother: 'Till Death Do Us Part, and for the most part fans are happy. Sure they would've preferred someone from the James/Sharon/Joshua alliance to win, though compared to the abysmal season that ended with sardonic father/daughter duo Dick and Danielle, this season was pretty good. See the full review ---and Techtite's rating of each contestant--- on the TV review page. Enjoy.

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