While playing a game of FIFA Soccer, yesterday, I started to notice that I missed something. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out what I was missing: A referee.
Yes. I’ve been playing the game for the longest time and I finally noticed it. I bet even the ‘professional’ game reviewers haven’t noticed the lack of authority on the game’s soccer field. Sure, the cut-scenes do prominently feature a referee, it’s weird to only see 22 players on the field.
Adding an extra running referee in the game wouldn’t take that much process power, no?
Not related: Hey, somebody over at Microsoft. Your update is broken here. It keeps bothering me for updates for Office products I DIDN’T INSTALL (they came with the laptop, and uninstalling them has frequently failed). So I’m stuck with a product beyond its 30 day evalution grace period, that is now selected by the Autoupdate to be updated. Yeah. Thanks for the fish.
Almost related: After quickly glancing over the access.log in my log folder at Dreamhost, I start to become convinced that the Search Engine war is actually happening in my backyard. Most of the referrers are from the three major search engines: Yahoo (Slurp), Google (googlebot) and Microsoft (msnbot). Google appears to be winning today.