Another idea for a Bill Maher New Rule - Clearly we need to change the name of the game "Final Fantasy XIV" to something like "The Fantasy That Will Not Gracefully Retire XIV." Or how about "The NeverEnding Fantasy XIV"? Get what I mean? I understand that it's an oxymoron and all that, but not all oxymorons are the same! Let's go to the Wikipedia List of Common Oxymorons and study on this a little bit... well, they don't have everything, as it turns out, but they do have the external link! More
oxymorons than you can shake a Smart Stick at! Okay, let's pick one at semi-complete random:
J. You've got "Justice Rehnquist" and "Justice Thomas" in the list. Now, arguably, neither one of these are oxymorons, depending what household you're in. I mean, I don't hear a lot about Justice Rehnquist these days... not as much as our current (Russia-endorsed) president hears about Frederick Douglass, anyway, but sure, Justice Thomas. For one thing, he's got two first names! Second, he's a poster child for abortion... I mean, Supreme Court term limits. No, abortion's too sacred these days to drag its good name in the mud with a cheap phrase like "poster child for abortion." Not everything in the 80s was nostalgic, just saying. That and parachute pants. And formless Spandex.
Anyway, if you read the fine print of this ad, you'll notice something about... I can't read it. Better dial it up in my image cropping program... okay, got it. It says to update your version of Flash if you experience problems. And that's the other thing. How can you get rid of Flash?
One million Five Two hundred thousand FarmVille players can't be wrong, right? Adobe put a lot of work into buying it from Macromedia, and now you're going to just toss it aside like Adobe Illustrator? Is HTML5
really that suitable of a replacement yet? I don't think so... on the other hand, if getting rid of Flash means no more playing of games like Final Fantasy XIV, maybe it's a good thing. In
the long run.
