Creation of satellite radio giant or giant piece of trash? Sirius XM inc. falls short

editor@playthismag.com

At only 15 cents a share currently (Dec. 5) the newly merged satellite radio company Sirius XM has put a new face on radio. In the early days of Sirius it was more so the cooler older brother, where as XM was the younger stale virgin who acted to old for his age.

So what happened when these two companies merged? A poor business decision to spew XM concepts all over Sirius listeners. Although most of the stock market is falling, the day the merger was fully signed and dated, stocks fell a huge amount.

A majority of the channels were combined with XM stations, which means new DJ’s (have been on XM) most of whom suck. When first deciding between the two providers it was pretty obvious for us, as XM had a smaller selection and even their channel names were uncreative. Sirius had names like Faction, Boombox 51 and Octane (all of which still exist) where as XM only had stations called, rock, rap and so on… nothing spiffy there. While a majority of Sirius is beginning to change Faction remains to be one of the only great stations left, even Octane has a new whiny voiced DJ promoting crappy rock. It seems like the days of uncensored greatness of Sirius is being taken over by whiny bitches from XM.

We want our dirtied up older brother back. Not some replacement trash that pursues more channels of Christian rock and preaching. At least they are diverse as they have a gay channel but remove E! so it’s pretty much the same thing. Prices fro the service are currently lower than the usual price, however XM owners have to pay extra for Howard Stern and a few others.

What may be good for their business does not make the listeners happy.

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Fable 2 has added on a new moral system, which directly shows what the creators are good or bad. So much that it is almost annoying at times. The game even explains in a very broad sense, what may happen during sex.

While going through your journey you come across many tempting foods, which act as a quick heal (certain pies or meat) and there are of course the vegetables and tofu. Eating one pie instantaneously makes you a bulbous sack of fat and obviously the more you eat the large you get. The issue with this is simple, 1 pie = fat ass and a ranking of corruption for each man boob/ fat roll you get. Evidently fat people are corrupt? Granted it’s funny, but not when you try to reverse the process. A majority of the time the food items you get are fatty or bad for you and you must eat nearly 10 times as many vegetables to reverse the fat. 1 pie = 10 pieces of celery (carrots, tofu and fruits don’t help you loose weight, really…. wtf??)

Ok so you are a fat ass in the game, big deal? Well the fatter you get the more you scare off the people in the game as well. We didn’t mind all to much as it’s just easier/more fun to go through the game as evil as you possibly can (make sure you marry a bunch of people and sacrifice them at the same time, it’s good times).

The creators have decided to place some rather awkward, sim like features to the game. One of the very first things you will notice in the game, is that you can purchase condoms. There are prostitutes, (gay and straight… and of course your common $2 fatties) and the women or men you would possible marry. (There are instances where you can manage an orgy in the game as well, but we leave that one to you to figure out). If you choose not to use a condom one of two things can happen, you either knock a person up or you can get an STD. The only thing more annoying then the dog is your own kid and you can’t even kill it!

The biggest issue we have is with the food, granted Tofu and Veggies are good for you, but honestly to make you angelic because you eat tofu is just odd

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Unplug your Xbox from Xbox live and change the date manually to 2025. This will cause you to get a much larger amount of gold when you return to the game. The amount of real estate you have and other sources of income add up every 5 minutes even when the game is off. So by altering the dates you get a huge amount of cash. To do this over and over again, start up the game once again and change the date back to 2005. After doing so save the game and change the date to 2025. You can do this as much as you want.

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