As we've pointed out before, the gaming industry is out of ideas, and the modern war FPS is probably the best place to go for proof. To truly get a handle on the system while making us all billionaires, we figured out the formula behind the game development process. It wasn't that hard, actually.
We all have personal failures and weaknesses, but a president will work so hard at crafting a specific public persona that we're shocked every time one gets in a sticky situation. With that in mind, here are some of the stranger facts about American presidents that almost never get mentioned in history class.
I suspect that around 50 percent of the population thinks they're in the smartest, cleverest 3 percent of the species, and they're totally going to be the ones to beat the system.
Real-life bad guys understand that dry, drawn-out political subterfuge is much cheaper and more effective than a clone army. Then, occasionally, some crackpot leaps straight off the pages into our world, with brazen, insane and often ridiculous plans for world domination that grant him comic book supervillain status.
Thinking is what makes us human, and thinking means we'll always be the ruling species in this planet, because the rest of those guys are really stupid. Well ... not all of them.
With our book on shelves, and your closet full of gifts you'll never actually use, we are running down the Top Christmas Gifts of 2010, and explaining whether they're worth keeping.
These are all either experimental or still too expensive, but they give us a glimpse of how some of the little things in life could be a hell of a lot better in the near future.
