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Just a Thought

WE at State Controlled Media were watching a performance of the song Sweet Dreams. The Perpetual Supreme Benevolent Editor decided to educate his children on the history of the song, and he soon realized he faced a conundrum. He had a hard time trying to explain that Annie Lennox was actually a girl in a suit and that Marilyn Manson was a boy in a wedding dress...just saying.

International Greetings!

The statistics are in…and it is official. State Controlled Media knows no borders. This website has readers form all over the world. And since we at State Controlled Media recognize no official government it is ok for all of our readers to follow us and do our bidding  enjoy our content. We have a strong following in Mother Russia, Germany (no surprise there), Austria, the UK ( more than once we have been mistaken for the BBC), Turkey and now Australia. This made us think of a question: When you go to Australia from the USA, at what point are you no longer traveling away from the USA and are headed back again?

So, Welcome all of our readers and followers from around the globe.  WE appreciate you. A contributing editor suggested that we welcome our global readers in their native language but the Perpetual Supreme Benevolent Editor pointed out that none of us could speak UKish and Australian. So we came up with a compromise a “universal” compromise

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That’s Klingon for Hello (really it kind of means “what do you want” but you get it).

Midnight Madness

We at State Controlled Media are all about new experiences. Our motto is we try everything once. So when the opportunity came about to go to midnight release of a video game we decided we had to be there. The Perpetual Supreme Benevolent Editor has been saving his coins since the spring in order to purchase the game. When entering the gaming establishment we were surprised. We expected lots of eager youth to be piled around waiting breathlessly for the release at midnight, instead there were 20 and 30 somethings waiting. The air was thick and smelled of BO, tobacco and a mix of incense and marijuana. The only reason any of the people there were breathless, we suspect, was because of the smoking. The Perpetual Supreme Benevolent Editor was pleased that for once he was the most in shape person in a room. An odd thought went through our heads that this group of genial, amiable riff raff were in line to buy one of the most violent games you can buy. The store manager then began to hand out high end fast food, giant burritos from Chipotle. This was met with scorn and disdain from the group around us. “Too fancy, what are they trying to prove?” The McDonald’s Sweet tea was consumed in mass quantities though.  The excitement was palpable, outside the store. The inside was strangely quiet. When we asked the manager if it was ok to wait inside he said yes, confused, we asked for further clarification. “Why” we asked, “If its ok to wait inside why is everyone outside?” “you can’t smoke in here,” he replied. Apparently tobacco, nicotine , and caffeine are an critical  part of a hard-core gamers life. A contributing editor suggested that they were only smoking so much to keep from eating. From the look of the crowd we suspected that this was not the case. This could have been a gathering for the group “before” photo for the Biggest Looser. Then a strange anomaly, one of them had a girlfriend. He proved it by constantly making out with her while in line to buy a game that would prevent him from making out with her. We were like, ok dude we get it you have a girl with you but some of us are all about the game! The PDA continued despite our protests. We finally achieved gamage. It was however after midnight and we have a week constitution so we went home with our new game and slept the sleep of the employed.

UPDATE: EA's Severs...they really suck
UPDATE 2: A big thanks to GameStop and the fine staff there. They made the whole experience enjoyable.

From The Desk of The Perpetual Supreme Benevolent Editor