Roger Ward

Obama NBA09 In Game Advertising

It’s a funny World we live in these days. Gone are the days of regular newspaper, radio or TV advertising. We live in a connected world and now we find real World advertising jumping into a virtual world. Players in certain American states will find billboard’s within the game Burnout Paradise & NBA09 for Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign. This I find quite ironic considering Obama blames video games amongst other things as the cause of underachievement amongst the younger generation. Personally I disagree. Lack of discipline is the issue in my books but that’s for another story.

This in game advertising gets me thinking though. Here I am sitting in Australia and I’m bombarded left and right with news about the upcoming American election between and old geriatric and a black man with the middle name of “Hussain”. The question I’ve got to ask is why? Why do we get bombarded by news of the US election when it is of no concern to someone in Australia. Or is it? Many consider the office of the President Of The United States, leader of the free world. If this is the case, does he become my leader too?

Apparently, yes! While the President doesn’t have any effect on us Australians in a governance sense, the decisions made by the President and his administration do have an effect on us indirectly. After all, look at the problems the World is having economically and militarily today! The world is effectively stuffed! So, seeing that this “leader of the free world” does indeed have an effect on my way of life, why don’t we get a vote too? Why do we leave the job to a bunch of loud, obnoxius, arrogant, gun toting, gum chewing yanks who’s IQ levels have to be questioned considering the choices they have made the last eight years. If they best they’ve been able to come up with is a C grade student with awful verbal skills, were in trouble!

Chaos at the Belgian GP

Some people will say that Formula 1 is a boring thing. An endless precession of cars just driving around in circles. But we all know that those people are pants on head retarded because they’re getting confused with that inbred hillbilly sport Nascar. Talk to anyone intelligent and they will tell you that Formula 1 is a  more civilized sport with more civilized drivers and fans. Myself included!

Formula 1 certainly delivers some exciting action. The race at Spa was no different. In the closing laps the rain set in and cars were sliding everywhere. Raikonen and Hamilton were slip and sliding around one and other jostling for the lead. Finally at the end of it, Hamilton came out on top. But apparently he didn’t you see. Because the powers that be, have decided to give Hamilton a 25 second penalty for cutting a corner. What a load of crap, it makes a mockery of the race we’d just watched. Hamilton couldn’t avoid cutting the corner due to the rain. But he yielded to Raikonen, let him pass and then retook him again. That should have been that. Sadly it wasn’t. Thanks to the useless efforts of the F1 tribunal, they’ve decided to penalize Hamilton for doing what he’s supposed to do. RACE!

I’m just sick of a committees deciding the result of races when there was nothing that needed to be judged, just so they could justify their existence. Why do they even bother with the actual racing when the result is judged by a bunch of morons who sit in a office.