Samrat Sharma

Smartly, Me Lad!

A great article on HardOCP confirms most of our suspicions: The Phantom console seems to be an elaborate construction of lies and half-truths, an outright scam to defraud investors unfamiliar with the gaming industry.

We live in an age where technology has provided us with tools read and cross-reference any record you want. Con artists leave trails like these too, only they assume nobody will check them. Its certainly not the first time the gaming world is confronted by someone with the outright ambition to defraud gamers and the industry. Investigative journalism is something that anyone can partake in, and everyone should. I want to see a day where all such hucksters of misinformation are run out on a rail by an angry mob of Google users, Mississippi style. I want to see regular people like you and me witch-hunting the Phantoms of untruth, making them flee from a populace armed with the pitchforks of public records and the torches of technology empowered knowledge base, screaming, “KHAAAAAN” as they usher in a new age of gumption. I’m all tingly just thinking about it.

Anyhoo, 19th was Talk Like a Pirate Day, and I spent my day screaming,”YAAAARRR!” and “Avast ye Landlubbers” at people in my office. My shenanigans had to be stopped however, when I said, “Avast ye, ye scurvy dog”, while my Project Manager was around. Heh.
The next day, I caught Pirates of the Carribbean, and spent the rest of the day as a bonus Talk Like a Pirate Day. Also bought Dragons of Eden (my earlier copy is lost, sad), Prince of Ayodhya, and on a whim, Alexander: Child of a Dream. Gave me enough incentive to laze around on Sunday. AAARRRR!!