The FCC’s page on the CALM act that outlawed loud commercials:
Q: Do these rules also apply to radio commercials or commercials on the Internet?
A: No, the CALM Act only applies to commercials aired on television.
This explains the deafeningly loud commercials while watching Mr. Robot on USA’s Apple TV app.
Sean Hutchinson has the story behind the famous slogan:
But what, then, should the slogan say? How could the Bureau be concise without coming off as condescending or paternalistic? The teams spitballed phrases and designs. Fay remembers that Davenport came up with the final slogan. Davenport believes it was someone else. “We were just tossing things around,” he said. Anyway, both of them found “Winners Don’t Use Drugs” direct and snappy, with a blithe cheerfulness that would’ve fit at any Boy Scouts meeting. “We wanted to get it to something that was short,” Fay said, “something that you could say winners not only applied to game-playing, but also if you want to be a winner in life, you can’t use drugs.”
Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 open beta just started on the Playstation 4, you no-longer need a pre-order to check it out. I tried it for about 20 minutes earlier and was super impressed with what they’re doing.
The Flock was released today on Steam for Windows. It’s the first game from a new developer called Vogelsap and it is an asymetrical first-person multiplayer game. The asymmetry comes from everyone in the titular Flock fighting against one player who has a glowing artifact that kills the flockers if the light shines on them. This is a fairly unique concept but what is entirely unique to The Flock is that after a certain number of player deaths the game will cease being for sale and end with some kind of finale that the developers aren’t talking about yet.
Sounds interesting, right? Well, I have some more impressions about the game in the video above, but I would definitely not recommend anyone purchasing The Flock in its current state. The game is incredibly limited in content and seems to be very broken from my play time with it. Hopefully Vogelsap will be able to resolve all of those issues because I am interested in the concept.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQp2HVTVQPo
Shadowrun: Hong Kong was released today on Steam:
Shadowrun: Hong Kong is the third standalone game in Harebrained Schemes’ critically-acclaimed Shadowrun cRPG series. Experience the most impressive Shadowrun yet with an all new crew, expanded magic and cyberware, a revamped Matrix, an upgraded Shadowrun Editor, and much more!
I’ve never cared for mixing magic stuff with cyberpunk, but that is what Shadowrun’s always been about.
