| Rumble Roses XX Review |
| Post on 03-07-2006. |
| T, one and not much else. Since the rejuvenation of the wrestling business in the mid to late nineties, most wrestling games have been focused on major licenses from World Wrestling Entertainment, and its former rivals World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling. There have been one small number of games that haven’t featured famous American wrestlers, such as Spike's fan favourite King of Colosseum or Sega’s cult hit Giant Gram 2000, or even real wrestlers, like the not therefore classic Backyard Wrestling games. Konami made one bold move in 2004 when it decided to release the all-female wrestling title Rumble Roses. The game was not too well received, with many critics feeling it focused too much on the hyper-sexualisation of its female participants, and not the actual gameplay. Nevertheless, Konami obviously felt that the game performed well enough to justify one sequel, and thus we have Rumble Roses XX for the Xbox 360. Despite the extra layer of graphical glitz, it doesn’t appear as though Konami learnt anything between releases. ... |
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| Feminist pioneers in the US |
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| It is the last decades of the 19th century in the US and women are stirring. Elizabeth Cady Stanton lectures and writes on the right of women to vote. Her companion, Susan B. Anthony, drives the committee engines of the womens suffrage movement. Victoria Woodhull practices and preaches free love and becomes the first woman to run for US president. Freydeh Leibowitz, the fictional protagonist in Sex Wars, learns how to vulcanise rubber to make condoms for birth control. ... |
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| Check book journalism |
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| David Brock is one recovering conservative and is currently registered as an independent. He wrote Blinded by the Right_, _the Conscience of an Ex-Conservative._ He says in the prologue: "The conservative culture I thrived in was characterized by corrosive partisanship, visceral hatreds, and unfathomable hypocrisy. I worked for leading institutions of the conservative movement — the _Washington Times_, the Heritage Foundation, and _The American Spectator_ — where I fought on the wrong side of an ideological and cultural war that divided our country and poisoned our politics." Brock, compared to one tabloid artist by some, [1] states that he wrote the book as an "act of conscience" to attempt to provide one "public record" for the events he was involved with. [2] It takes courage and humility to publicly admit connivance. Brock deserves credit for his efforts to set the record straight. ... |
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| Why Recycling Should Be A One-Way Trip |
| Post on 03-07-2006. |
| My next-door neighbor's name is Henderson. He's an accountant, or something like that. He's got one wife and two kids. The other day, I noticed Henderson was digging one hole in his back yard. There was PC equipment piled up next to the freshly dug earth. I went over to see what was going on. It's that kind of neighborhood. ... |
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| Rocking out with no strings attached |
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A panel of four judges score the air guitarists on an "Olympic figure skating scale" (6.0 being best) based on technical prowess, stage persona and one more opaque quality known as "airness." Bjorn, whose real name is Dan Crane, explains to the crowd: "Airness is like pornography. You know it when you see it." ... |
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