Comments on: Folding@Home http://www.sportsgamerblog.com/2007/03/23/foldinghome/ Two guys who love Sports Gaming on their PCs and consoles rant and rave about various stuff. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:18:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Lord Flatus http://www.sportsgamerblog.com/2007/03/23/foldinghome/#comment-4711 Lord Flatus Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:28:00 +0000 http://www.sportsgamerblog.com/2007/03/23/foldinghome/#comment-4711 Methinks the whole @Home thing is a marketing scam where you are allowing Sony to sell real-time data-mining information from your personal PS3 habits to the Wide World of Marketing. You should see an absolute increase in the number of junk e- and snail- mails you receive, and they should start to be strangely targeted at your gaming habits. :)<br/><br/>"Try new and improved NoDoze, so you don't fall asleep like you did at 2:17 AM last Tuesday while playing Resitance: Fall of Man."<br/><br/>"Enroll now in Jimbo's Virtual Driving School, so that you can finally pass level 7 of [insert the name of a PS3 driving game here]. 37 failed attempts in a row isn't necessary. WE GUARRENTEE SUCCESS OR YOUR MONEY BACK!"<br/><br/>:) Methinks the whole @Home thing is a marketing scam where you are allowing Sony to sell real-time data-mining information from your personal PS3 habits to the Wide World of Marketing. You should see an absolute increase in the number of junk e- and snail- mails you receive, and they should start to be strangely targeted at your gaming habits. :)

“Try new and improved NoDoze, so you don’t fall asleep like you did at 2:17 AM last Tuesday while playing Resitance: Fall of Man.”

“Enroll now in Jimbo’s Virtual Driving School, so that you can finally pass level 7 of [insert the name of a PS3 driving game here]. 37 failed attempts in a row isn’t necessary. WE GUARRENTEE SUCCESS OR YOUR MONEY BACK!”

:)

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