10 reasons why Kevin McCullough is a liar *UPDATED* (with a correction)

I don't know why Kevin McCullough felt the need to lie so much in this "article" about Mass Effect, but lie he did. Michael Moore would be ashamed of being this much of a liar. For the record, I played Mass Effect through twice and did every mission and talked to every character. I covered every square inch of that game and I played once as a male and once as a female. I know of what I speak, unlike Kevin McCullough, who clearly never played the game, and is a liar.

the new video game that one company is marketing to fifteen year old boys.

LIE NUMBER ONE. This game is rated M, 17 and older. Kevin McCullough is a liar.

It's called "Mass Effect" and it allows its players - universally male no doubt - to engage in the most realistic sex acts ever conceived.

LIES 2 AND 3. XBox 360 players are not universally male, and there is no realistic sex whatsoever. Kevin McCullough is a liar.

One can custom design the shape, form, bodies, race, hair style, breast size of the images they wish to "engage"

LIE NUMBER 4. You can ONLY manipulate the face, hair and sex. There is NO mechanism in the game to allow for form, bodies or breast size adjustment. Your character is male or female, with skin, eyes, nose, mouth, cheek, hair and skull adjustments ONLY. Your character is also wearing either grey fatigues or a full suit of armor for almost every single moment of the game save for a two-minute barely-suggestive "sex" scene, which you can see here (requires Flash).

Kevin McCullough is a liar.

and then watch in crystal clear, LCD, 54 inch screen, HD clarity as the video game "persons" hump in every form, format, multiple, gender-oriented possibility they can think of.

LIE NUMBER 5, and maybe the biggest one yet. This is a scene barely more suggestive that what is on daytime TV. The ONLY possible combinations are between a male character and a blue alien girl, or a female character and a blue alien girl. That's it. The rest of this crap was made up in Kevin's fertile (and apparently deviant) imagination. Oh what the hell...LIE NUMBER 6: My monitor is only 19 inches. Kevin McCullough is a liar.

Then there's the dishonesty behind the game' title. "Mass Effect" sounds like a war game with a deadly virus that is spreading unless the GI-Joes are able to defeat the evil and deadly substance and it's covert war plan.

LIE NUMBER 7: It's named for the physics, dumbass.

If a pre-teen, teen, young adult, or adult male plays such a game in which the women DO submit without choice, are made to appear as Barbie streetwalkers, and perform whatever act can be imagined,

LIE NUMBER 8. It's not a bold-faced lie, but the implication is that Mass Effect is such a game. It is not. The female characters in the game run the gamut from "companion" to ass-kicking soldier who can arm nukes to "biotic" expert who move things with thier minds to hackers. Just like the male characters. Not once does any female submit without choice, nor are any of them made to appear as "Barbie streetwalkers."

Kevin McCullough is a liar.

And because of the digital chip age in which we live - "Mass Effect" can be customized to sodomize whatever, whoever, however, the game player wishes.

LIE NUMBER 9. There is only ONE possible sex scene*. The character you can have sex with is named Liara, and she's the ONLY ONE. There is no sodomy (apparently that word in it's many forms, is weighing heavily on Kevin McCullough's lying little mind, the big perv) in any form, and you cannot be sexual with any other character in the game at any time, ever. It happens once, for about two minutes, right before you go into the segment where you battle the big bad guy at the end.
Again, Kevin McCullough is a liar.

With it's "over the net" capabilities virtual orgasmic rape is just the push of a button away.

LIE NUMBER 10. It's not even a multiplayer game. There is no online connection to other players. Kevin McCullough is a liar. Kevin McCullough also harbors rape fantasies and thinks way too much about sodomy and young children. It appears, and I'm not making any claims, just observations from his article, but it appears that Kevin McCullough is obsessed with raping and sodomizing children online.
I'm not saying Kevin McCullough actually rapes and sodomizes children online, I'm saying that his fevered descriptions (of this game that doesn't exist) demonstrate that Kevin McCullough is obsessed with raping and sodomizing children online.
Kevin McCullough is a liar. Did I mention that?

*UPDATE* - Via Rann's comments, here's Kevin McCullough's "rebuttal" diatribe. he's proud of having lied and refuses "to move." So he's arrogant, intractable and a liar.

* Also, I need to make a correction; It turns out you can sleep with Ashley (or Kaidan if you are a woman) if you play your cards right. Both times I played I didn't get anywhere with Ash and I sacrificed Kaidan, so I assumed that the whole "flirty Ashley" thing was a red herring and you could only sleep with Liara. Turns out I'm just not smooth with the human ladies (or guys for that matter), I am more of the James T. Kirk type. I must be one of those "gamer nerds" who obsesses over alien sex so much that I subconsciously sabotaged any change of normal, hetero, human-to-human sex, which I assume Kevin McCullough would have tolerated a little more than the depraved, alien-on-woman sex he masturbated to saw in a Youtube clip.

By the way, don't you love how the sum total of his research into this game was one or two Youtube clips? Makes you really want to trust him on the matters of the world, doesn't it? Kevin McCullough is a liar. Did I mention that? I think I might have.

Posted by JimK at 02:41 PM on January 14, 2008
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Iraqi death toll significantly lower

Interesting.  In the fall of 2006, you couldn’t throw a rock online without hitting a politically-themed blog either discussing or trumpeting the fact that the U.S. was responsible for over 600,000 deaths in Iraq, making us worse than Saddam.

It seems that number, as was stated by many a “right-wing rethuglinazi,” was highly inflated.  I just did a date-filtered Google News search, and since January 4th, maybe a hundred news stories about this have been published.  Most of those are wire service recaps of one or two versions.

Odd, isn’t it?  This 600,000+ number was used to sweep Democrats into Congress all over the country.  Turns out it was more lie than truth.  When the news was as horrible as one could imagine, the story was A-1, above the fold, right next to the seven million stories about how we were failing, losing the war and committing atrocities on a wide scale.  Like most media corrections, however, the story now seems to be running on page D-26 , right next to the seven million stories about how the “surge” is actually working, it looks like we might achieve a real, honest-to-goodness victory of sorts and many of the atrocity stories were made up.

Oh, that liberal media

Posted by JimK at 03:34 PM on January 11, 2008
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Why were CNN cheerleading for Dodd?

While I was at the gym earlier today (for three freaking hours!), I noticed that one of the TVs was showing something about Dodd doing well in the Iowa sideshow/freak act.  I couldn’t hear it, but what I saw of the closed captioning was nothing but praise.

For a guy that has less of a Q score than Tucks Medicated Pads.

I mean, Chris Dodd?  He’s still actually running?  Really?  He’s taking money from people and spending it on like, a campaign?  Hard to believe, considering you probably know more about your mailman than you do about Chris Dodd, but I swear, he’s still running.  And CNN is in love with him.

So I go to CNN to see the Iowa caucus results for Dodd.  With 12% of precincts reporting, Dodd has...drumroll please...nothing.  nada.  Zip.  Bupkis.  Both jack and squat.  Oh, wait!  Another 2% just reported!  No...nevermind, nothing for Chris.

If you want to track the dog & pony show that is Iowa, here’s CNN’s pretty useful stats page for Iowa.  When I say “useful” I mean “updated frequently, well-designed and easy to navigate, even if the data being reported is about a circus.”

What was with the CNN strokefest?  Did anyone else see that earlier, around 6 PM-ish?  In fairness, they did mention that if he gets less than a certain number (which I think was 14%?) then he’ll throw his support and delegates to Obama.  Which is kind of like throwing good money after bad, really.

Anyway, all of that was by way of saying that the Iowa caucuses are ri-goddamned-diculous, and the media is ever so out of touch with/trying to re-shape reality.  I know, big revelation there.  It’s brilliant analysis like that what keeps you coming back to read my wordsmithery.

Posted by JimK at 09:35 PM on January 03, 2008
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Seven for Seven in Iraq

Doh.

Add this bogus report with the other 6 that were found out to be false and you have 7 bogus slaughter reports from Iraq in 7 weeks since October 29, 2007.
The MSM keeps it perfect.

Oh, that liberal media.

Posted by JimK at 09:45 PM on December 18, 2007
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Polar F4 heart monitor is awesome

I got a new gadget yesterday, only this one is really, really useful, not just a toy to play with.  :) I had a $50 knee brace from Modell’s that doesn’t work, so I returned it and used the cash toward this Polar F4 Heart Rate Monitor.  It’s useful in part because it works with the machines at my gym...everything that reads heart rates will also read Polar’s signals.  What I learned in the first day of using it is that cardio-wise, I’m doing about a bajillion times better than I used to.  My sitting heart rate is around 85, and I can reach almost any rate I want and hold steady.  I try to hit 135 for half the walking and 144 at the end...I actually had to raise the incline and the speed today in order to get there.  That’s something I didn’t realize before. 

The other thing I love is that it tracks time, calories, heart rate, gives you averages over time, all sorts of data.  Of the 30 minutes I walked, 23 of them were in my “optimum zone” according to the summary on the watch.  I think this is going to help me a lot.  It’s even waterproof so I can use it in the pool.  And speaking of the pool…

I haven’t been able to swim in weeks.  That collateral ligament injury is just now healing up.  I wore the hinged super-brace every time I did anything at all for a week and it started to feel great.  I then wore it only when doing anything that might strain my arm.  Now it only hurts in one or two specific positions with pressure on it, so I’m going to try swimming again next week (with the brace on!).

Have I mentioned that treadmills are evil?  :)

Posted by JimK at 09:52 PM on December 15, 2007
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Robert Novak’s “Prince of Darkness”

I needed a new bathroom book, so I threw the “uncorrected proof” copy of Robert Novak’s ”The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington” into the bathroom.  I’m about a third of the way through this ponderous tome.  Here’s what I know so far.

1. Novak is seemingly proud of the number of times he’s subverted journalistic integrity in order to cultivate as a source, protect or destroy any given politician.  I’m only up to 1968 and he’s done it any number of times.  Bragged about it, in fact.  Shown remorse for falsifying a single fact in a single story exactly once.  Amazing.

2. Bob Novak can’t write to save his life.  If the stories being told were not compelling (and potentially false or exaggerated, I suppose) then I would have thrown this book in the trash a week ago.  The book, like his life’s work, is packed full of opinion and information, but it’s also very poorly written.

3. He’s amazingly cavalier about meeting, marrying and divorcing his first wife, and routinely tells stories about abandoning his second wife, or dragging her through South America while she was three minutes from labor, all to get a story. 

4. Most of his reporting in those days was done over drinks and feasts and so forth as he so constantly reminds the reader.  Trips to Vegas, long liquid lunches at DC eateries.  Oh, and also he uses the word “luncheon” all the time.  I know it’s technically correct, as “luncheon” literally means noon meal designed to meet or entertain guests.  What I am saying is the constant use of the word is ponderous and pretentious, much like Robert Novak himself.

There’s some interesting stuff in there about Nixon, LBJ, The Kennedy boys (John & Bobby) and Barry Goldwater though.  It’s a bit hard to figure out what’s true and what’s invented and what is simply an old man’s memory creating a reality he can live with, though.  The problem I now face is, aside from struggling through the rest of this thing, is that I will have to read other books by other writers about each of these men just to try to figure out what’s real.

He starts the book with an account of the Plame incident, if that interests anyone anymore.  If Novak is telling the truth, the whole thing was just a bunch of people that assumed the open secret wasn’t a secret anymore.  Valerie Plame had long been declassified, so to speak, and wasn’t managing any assets in the field.  He’s no fan of her hubby either.  It’s another side of the story, in any case.

The really odd thing is, as bad as the book seems to be so far, I can’t stop reading it.  I suppose that counts for something…

Posted by JimK at 02:44 PM on December 02, 2007
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The online political radical is a sickness…

...and it’s the internet that has shown a light on what was formerly kept in dark basements and dank coffee houses.

this particular example of the disease of extreme political radicalism comes from the left side of the political aisle.  Don’t get too cocky, righties.  The right has its fair share of extremist nutbags too.  For this week, though, the glory falls to the far left and fans of AirAmerica. (can you believe that network is still on the air?  I think the in-house radio at any grocery store gets more listeners in a given week.)

Read the whole article for the backstory if you don’t know what happened to AirAmerica host Randi Rhodes.  The shorthand is, she probably tangoed with some vodka martinis and tripped over her dog leash.  This was initially reported as an attack (a hate crime!) by operatives of the right trying to silence her.  Then she tripped, then she was attacked but not in a hate crime.  But maybe she wasn’t.  No one seems to know, or have the sense to ask her.

Anyway, among other things, Shawn Macomber has this to say:

There is, however, something bigger going on here, encapsulated in the determination of Rhodes’ fans, against all facts to the contrary, to hold-tight to the pipe dream of right-wing fanatics hiring Blackwater agents to beat her as she walked her dog: They so wish it were true. As with global warming alarmism, these sorts of messianic martyr fantasies about neo-Nazi conspirators aligned against liberals’ salvation program for the masses are delusions designed to assure people clearly desperate for meaning in their lives that they are historically significant figures living in historically significant times. History, sadly, is not made within the virtual walls of online echo chambers.

Ouch.  By the way, please take not that Shawn Macomber is not comparing these idiots to global warming alarmists because he’s saying global warming doesn’t exist; he’s saying that the alarmism is hyped to the heavens, just like the ice age alarmism from 30-odd years ago, and the hole in the ozone from hairspray alarmism from a couple decades back, the DDT issue, and any other of a long list of “the sky is falling RIGHT NOW!” alarmist issues from the last 30 or 40 years.

Some people need crisis in order to feel alive.  If crisis doesn’t exist, they will create it, and then declare themselves protest warriors who will fight the crisis until it has been “solved.” And then they will create a new crisis that can give them a sense of purpose.  And so on, and so on.  It’s not the exclusive purview of the far left.  There are plenty of far right radicals too.  This week, however, it’s the other side’s turn to be a bunch of Chicken Littles.

Posted by JimK at 03:44 PM on October 18, 2007
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Media reports half of Gen. Sanchez speech

Oh, that liberal media.

Posted by JimK at 03:35 PM on October 13, 2007
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Nope!  No media bias at all.  Why do you ask?

Oh, that liberal media.

No, I do not think it’s a grand, vast media conspiracy with a central authority directing things...it’s more like heavy, heavy bias in each individual media agency, most importantly the wire services, which manifests as something that just looks like a vast conspiracy.  Same end result, though.  Not reporting through a 1:1 lens, so to speak, but instead using a manipulative filter that, in almost all cases, leans moderately to heavily to the left.

Except Fox, of course.  They’ve made a mint going in the other direction.

Posted by JimK at 06:30 PM on October 07, 2007
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Dan Rather out to shred what little dignity he has left

Really?  He’s really doing this?

In the suit, filed this afternoon in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr. Rather charges that CBS and its executives made him “a scapegoat” in an attempt “to pacify the White House,” though the formal complaint presents virtually no direct evidence to that effect. To buttress this claim, Mr. Rather quotes the executive who oversaw his regular segment on CBS Radio, telling Mr. Rather in November 2004 that he was losing that slot, effective immediately, because of “pressure from ‘the right wing.’ ”

I think it would be unhealthy to laugh as much as this whole concept makes me want to laugh.  Either Rather is a senile old fart who believes that those fraudulent documents were real, or he’s just determined to die in total and complete disgrace.  This is what happens when political conviction takes over your sense of right and wrong.  Maybe Rather spent so long staring into the abyss that it changed him.  Maybe he was always a fraud and we just didn’t have a way to check in the old days.  I dunno.  What I do know is this is a terrible idea, and it won’t end well for Rather, CBS News or the Democrats.  Raising all of this blatant media bias during election season cannot in any way harm the Republicans.

Posted by JimK at 11:28 PM on September 19, 2007
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