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This is what the kids in my eighth grade Algebra class are like this year. They all agreed as well.

I have to agree with Judge Dredd creator, John Warner, the piece of crap that was the 1996 Judge Dredd movie was horrible. I had been excited when I found out Sylvester Stallone would be playing Dredd. Then, I saw the movie.

GB: How do you view the 1995 Sly Stallone film these days? And is that view any different than it was at the time of its release?

JW: My views haven’t changed, though apart from my initial viewing I haven’t seen the film since it came out. They told the wrong story — it didn’t have that much to do with Dredd the character as we know him. I don’t think Stallone was a bad Dredd, though it would have been better and lent him more cred if he hadn’t revealed his face. He was just Dredd in the wrong story. I envy their budget, though. Some of the CGI was very good, and the re-creations of the Angel Gang and the robot. The robot actually came from a Pat Mills story and didn’t belong in Dredd, but it looked good. If the plot had revolved around characters like them the film would have been more successful.

It will be interesting to see what this new movie will do with Dredd. I have to say, I’ll see it, but I’m not overly excited. I still reserve hope that it will be good.

These busts (huh-huh) are absolutely creepy. If this is what Beavis and Butt-head looked like in real life, I’d run the fuck away from them as fast as I could.

I wish they had done a better job on Beavis. I really like Beavis and he looks like a serial killer here. You can see more shots, including closeups, here.

It seems like I’ll be destined to play old games only as it is getting sickening the lengths game publishers are going to install DRM into their games.

From rockpapershotgun:

On Monday we reported the strange discovery by Guru3D that something so simple as changing your graphics card could use up an activation on Ubisoft game, Anno 2070. Ubisoft have confirmed to us that this is how they intend the DRM to work.

“While it’s correct that copies of Anno include three activations and that changing hardware may trigger the need for reactivation, the vast majority of Anno customers never encounter this scenario. On the rare occasion when a customer does need additional activations, Ubisoft customer service is available to quickly resolve the situation, and we encourage those customers to contact us directly so that we can ensure they are able to continue to enjoy their game.”

The Tages system means you can install your copy of Anno 2070 on three separate PC configurations before it will refuse to work.

Though Ubisoft says fixing things is just a simple phone call away, it isn’t. This is exactly how Ubisoft wants it and this is DRM the wrong way. Yet again, legitimate customers are being penalized.