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This is an amazing time in the technological world.  For the first time in presidential elections, the internet allows you to fact-check almost as soon as the words are out of the candidate’s mouth.  No more can politicians say something really dumb and then try and deny it was ever said (since the mp3, YouTube clip, and numerous Twitters have spread it across the web).  Public records are not only available to the public, they are finally accessible!

And, like with everything else that hits a massive surge, we have moronic advertisers who try and cash in on it.  That in itself isn’t so bad (hey, it’s capitalism!).  What’s bad is the fact that they try and do it with automated scripts.

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An unpainted Mad Cat Mk II.  95 tons of fun!

An unpainted Mad Cat Mk II. 90 tons of fun!

 

I used to be a big Battle Tech fan.  Not so big that I’d read the novels or anything (that was reserved for my friend “NightShadow”), but I’d get involved in huge map sheet battles and went absolutely giddy when the MechWarrior games came out for PC.  I’m not joking when I say that I would spend hours in my room (with my mom of all people) painting and detailing my battlemech minatures.  

There was a source book that my friends and I would use that detailed every rule and every stat on the battlefield.  Like many tabletop games, it took forever; each full turn represented 10 seconds of actual battle, but would often take 5 minutes to actually perform.  While my friends and I loved all the strategy and planning that went into a battle, we tired rather quickly of battles that would last for 4 or more hours.

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