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As I've commented elsewhere, I signed up for Gamefly recently.

So far, my experience has been typical and rivals the experience I had during my year and a half of Netflix subscription. That is to say that it's been very smooth and bereft of problems.

I don't mind that advertising is here to stay. I don't mind product placement in games, so long as it's subtle.

What do I mean by subtle? Well, here's a couple examples:
Racing games: You pass a billboard with a Burger King ad.
Sports games: Product ads on the sides of the stadium or on the scoreboard.

Basically, here's my "litmus test" for game product placement: If it's something that would make sense in real life and doesn't detract from the immersion of the game, it's acceptable.

I don't mind that advertising is here to stay. I don't mind product placement in games, so long as it's subtle.

What do I mean by subtle? Well, here's a couple examples:
Racing games: You pass a billboard with a Burger King ad.
Sports games: Product ads on the sides of the stadium or on the scoreboard.

Basically, here's my "litmus test" for game product placement: If it's something that would make sense in real life and doesn't detract from the immersion of the game, it's acceptable.

Today I raided my storage and snagged out my entire The Who catalog - another series of CDs I had yet to encode, a fact of which I was reminded after playing GH3. Encoded them all and started listening to them just before my wife gets home. Since no one was watching TV and I essentially had the room to myself, I was blasting "Won't Get Fooled Again".

My wife gets home while I'm blasting the song, tears through the door, notices the TV is off, and says:
"Oh, I thought an episode of CSI: Miami just started."

I'm not a huge fan of Lynyrd Skynyrd by a long shot, but anyone who's been around while I play GH2 knows I tend to go nuts when I play Free Bird. But the reason I go nuts isn't because I'm playing it, but rather because it makes me recall a time, years ago, not long after I turned 21, when I was still too young to give a damn about most things...

I'm not a huge fan of Lynyrd Skynyrd by a long shot, but anyone who's been around while I play GH2 knows I tend to go nuts when I play Free Bird. But the reason I go nuts isn't because I'm playing it, but rather because it makes me recall a time, years ago, not long after I turned 21, when I was still too young to give a damn about most things...

In all honesty, I'm not the tabloid reading kind of person. I honestly don't care about the day to day bullshit of the random celebrity.

In all honesty, I'm not the tabloid reading kind of person. I honestly don't care about the day to day bullshit of the random celebrity.

Random thought of the day:
Why does Kentucky Fried Chicken use Sweet Home Alabama as their commercial jingle?

Random thought of the day:
Why does Kentucky Fried Chicken use Sweet Home Alabama as their commercial jingle?