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by Xav de Matos, Nov 04, 2010 5:00pm PDT

Although this is the post you've all been waiting for--to chat about Minecraft, no doubt--did you know Shacknews has been launching a ton of features over the last two weeks?

Net neutrality is dead. Long live net neutrality.
Shatner Covers Cee Lo's latest. You're welcome.
Sucker Punch is pretty much the craziest thing Hollywood has ever made.

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LOL, Dvorak takes hyperbole to the max in predicting that Kinect signals the "End of Civilization":

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372145,00.asp

I can't tell how serious he is, but what the hell man. I'm not necessarily a huge fan of Kinect, but I am amazed that PC Mag continues to pay his salary. He is the ultimate troll.

Nov 04, 2010 5:09pm PDT

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  I'm not a Dvorak fan, but it's clearly a joke. : aethyr
  - I wish he would have made it more funny. : MaxPete82
- He's a miserable old bastard. You can hear it in his voice when he's on TWiT. : slax0r
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  that's one of my favorite words. 'hyperbole' : smax
  - hyperbole is the greatest word ever invented. : skinlab133
  - i hate it as i always read it as HYPER BOWL : CoRDS
- Articles like this are why I love the guy. He's my favorite curmudgeon. : ColoradoCNC
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  you just contributed to why they continue to pay his salary : spiderfill
  - I do what I can : MaxPete82
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    Is John Dvorak the Armond White of tech reporting? Or is Armond White the John Dvorak of film critics? : smax
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      dvorak has been writing idiotic shit in pc magazine since the mid-80s. : skryte
      
      All right, so who would be a good writer for a PC magazine? Jerry Pournelle? : Maddog_Delphi97
- What's the last thing he was actually right about? : riptyde
- Seems like an obvious joke to me : avatar_58
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  He is the worst, always has been : Serpico74
  - He's had his moments, but that was when CNet was a tv show : mrblarg
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  his picture in that article looks eerily similar to this: http://images.whatport80.com/images/c/cf/Trollf... : datoo
  - Wow, it really does. : pyrogen
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  Anything Dvorak says, you can basically bet the opposite. : BlackCat9
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  the comments section makes me cringe. Not a single person in there can recognize a joke (a very broad, n... : MamiyaOtaru
  - He is right about the spastic movements. But you get that with the Wii as well, elsewise overdone joke so... : Lukiopimp
- I don't understand how someone can read that and not come to the conclusion that it's a joke. : nodebug
- Dvorak. Troll before there was a word for one! :) It's all in jest of course. : dodob
- They really need to ban baby boomers from reporting on technology : red2lucas
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  This guy also predicted the mouse would fail, IIRC.
  
  Nov 05, 2010 1:01pm PDT
  
  This guy also predicted the mouse would fail, IIRC. : uncleanmonkey