Morning Discussion

Don't Stop Believin'. Rock Band DLC. Xbox 360. Now. PlayStation 3? Thursday.

I'm afraid anything else I write will just be a thinly veiled reference to my juke box favorite, so I'll just take the midnight train going anywhere leave you all with a fresh chatty and remind you that some are born to sing the blues wish you a satisfactory Tuesday.

By the by, Journey's tune isn't the only classic to hit Rock Band today. Benatar's "Heartbreaker" and Von Bondies' "C'Mon C'Mon" made the cut, and some others. Thanks to mancide for the reminder, make sure you hold on to that feeeeeeling.

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

From The Chatty
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    March 31, 2009 7:05 AM

    microsoft is shutting down encarta. I wish the information held within would be put to good use :(

    truly the end of an http://ca.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761563884/Era.html

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      March 31, 2009 7:06 AM

      funny, i didnt even know it existed these days

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      March 31, 2009 7:06 AM

      Damn I haven't used Encarta since I was like 14

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        March 31, 2009 7:08 AM

        [deleted]

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        March 31, 2009 7:08 AM

        I was just about to post the same thing. I haven't used it since 8th grade or so...I really didn't know it was still around!

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        March 31, 2009 8:07 AM

        All my 5th grade assignments were copy-paste jobs from Encarta. Oh the memories.

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          March 31, 2009 8:35 AM

          Haha. Yeah, at the time nobody used a computer at all, so I was able to pretty much rip everything straight from encarta.

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      March 31, 2009 7:08 AM

      wikipediowned

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        March 31, 2009 7:33 AM

        ^^ better than any MS product

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          March 31, 2009 7:41 AM

          bullshit, the Janis Joplin information is constantly changing and mostly incorrect.

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            March 31, 2009 7:46 AM

            maybe someone is making a movie loosely based on her life, but because of legal issues cannot actually use her information

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              March 31, 2009 7:50 AM

              That's just a ridiculous notion fraylo. Ridiculous.

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                March 31, 2009 7:52 AM

                i was lolling hard last week when we saw the world through kenneth's eyes

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            March 31, 2009 8:12 AM

            Maybe you should stop changing it?

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          March 31, 2009 8:29 AM

          It's inconsistent and extremely pedantic. It's simultaneously awesome and horrible.

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            March 31, 2009 8:37 AM

            A few years ago i saw some independent review that compared errors between Wikipedia and an established print Encyclopedia, I don't remember which one. The errors/article ratio was nearly the same, with Wikipedia's being slightly worse.

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              March 31, 2009 8:58 AM

              I remember reading something similar. I think the comparison was with Encyclopædia Britannica, and as I remember, Wikipedia was actually slightly more accurate.

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              March 31, 2009 9:19 AM

              From inconsistent I mean from article to article, format to format.

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      March 31, 2009 7:08 AM

      I remember finding old Encarta CDs from 1998 and before that a bookshelf with physical encyclopedia books. Now everything is Wikipedia.

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      March 31, 2009 7:10 AM

      Well the free internet kills another business. I do wonder if we will see a positive job creation from the internet in the long run.

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        March 31, 2009 9:46 AM

        Free? There´s still a fee to access the web, and wikipedia gets millions in donations... Nothing is free.

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      March 31, 2009 7:13 AM

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era - much better

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      March 31, 2009 7:14 AM

      [deleted]

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      March 31, 2009 7:16 AM

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      March 31, 2009 7:20 AM

      I'm sure they'll print out all of the information and then give it to the Power Team so they can tear it in half.

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      March 31, 2009 7:39 AM

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta ... updated already, hehe

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      March 31, 2009 7:48 AM

      when i first made the big leap from an amiga to a windows 3.1 pc Encarta was mind blowing. It was the first thing i loaded up to impress people.

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        March 31, 2009 8:12 AM

        Same! I loaded up the Kennedy speech and the Hindenburg video to show people the future of multimedia.

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      March 31, 2009 7:54 AM

      A shame, but even as a kid I found the entries insanely limited. Fun to browse but not actually that useful.

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      March 31, 2009 8:04 AM

      lol encarta, talk about flashback to 6th grade!

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      March 31, 2009 8:10 AM

      I still have my Encarta 95 cd. It had videos!

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        March 31, 2009 8:23 AM

        MULTIMEDIA CDROM

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          March 31, 2009 9:15 AM

          Boy was I tired of those CDROMs full of useless videos and stuff... what an era.

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      March 31, 2009 8:15 AM

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      March 31, 2009 8:17 AM

      As a reference tool, it was pretty shitty. But it got me excited to learn like no book ever did. The extras about music, astronomy, etc. were just phenomenal.

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      March 31, 2009 8:21 AM

      I really had no idea it existed before yesterday. Why would it never come out in google searches?

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        March 31, 2009 8:21 AM

        I mean, the web version.

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          March 31, 2009 9:25 AM

          because Google and Microsoft are in a heated battle for pretty much all of the internet

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      March 31, 2009 9:18 AM

      I can remember Encarta being the most amazing thing ever to use for college. Just being able to look things up on a whim was awesome.

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      March 31, 2009 9:52 AM

      I still used the dictionary that was included in like Encarta 1999 right up till January of this year. Loved that program. Small and had a shortcut on my taskbar so that I could look up stuff in no time.

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      March 31, 2009 9:52 AM

      How weird is this, I remember being a super horny kid getting off on the nakedness on my Encarta 95 cd-rom. There wasn't much on it at all but there was a video of a woman giving birth and thats about as exciting as it got. Disgusting. Diagrams can only do so much..

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      March 31, 2009 10:00 AM

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