I don't think the original poster meant that Giant Bomb had invented the word per se.
I believe that Giant Bomb staff use the word more frequently than some of the other game journalists. Though, I don't think the staff actually thinks it's OK to use the word janky. The actual word janky is a little bit janky.
" @ip007: Sorry 'bout trolling...but Kotick = Cat in Russian (phonetics) Ko-Tick does not equal Ko-sh-ka "
No need to be sorry, although, for a moment there I was like "right, the gloves are off!" Then I noticed your error..
First off, don't bring phonetics into the mix when you are, if I am not terribly mistaken, clearly not Russian nor a person who seems to know Russian. If you could speak the Russian language then you would definitely know that, to put it like you, Koshka is the "female cat" and Kot is the "male cat". Depending on the situation, you use one or the other. In this case we are dealing with a son of a bitch which naturally means that we really ought to use the Kot word, no objection there. Now, to be even more condescending to this so-called businessman, I figured why not use the diminutive form (which surely must compliment well the minuscule size of his testicles) of the word Kot which, ironically, is in fact the word Kot with the suffix ik. Kot + ik = Kotik (math can be fun sometimes). The point was that the maggot's name (Kotick) resembled the actual, proper word Kotik.
Secondly, I didn't actually say cat. I said "pussycat" which I thought covered this pretty well, seems I was mistaken. You see, a direct translation of the word Kotik is pussy but I didn't want to be too informal (something, as you might have noticed, I have completely ignored in this post - see what you made me do) so I used the word pussycat to further clarify what I was implying. I thought a word like pussycat was bound to give you the mental picture of a cute and small cat (a Kotik if you will), boy was I wrong it seems.
Lastly, this whole ordeal makes me think of "never start a fight you cannot win", but that is too harsh. Though, knowing who you are dealing with is appropriate here. Me, being Ukrainian and knowing the Russian language does give me, how would you put it, a LOT of insight in this kind of matter.
@BradNicholson: This Call of Duty madness must end. It has gone way too far. Is money and greed really that blinding? No thought about self-preservation?
1. There won't be any new consoles unless Activision wants to get burned by Microsoft/Sony. 2. There won't be any MMOs on the Xbox 360. 3. Where is the demand for such a service from the fans? Who is stupid enough to even mention Call of Duty and MMO in the same sentence?
I remember Vinny joking about EA being a sinking ship on one of the Bombcasts, well I hope that Activision will get sunken real soon or at least can someone see to it that Kotick (which, by the way, sounds like the Russian word for pussy cat) is let go.
@freecajunlove: Well, you could think that he is mad but in fact he was really depressed the entire time he made the first script, then the subsequent scripts and finally when he started shooting the movie. I think some producer spoiled the ending and he changed some things in the first script.
@misplacedcircus: I agree with you as you did a good analysis of the film. Comparing it to The Dark Knight, I don't know - doesn't really fit. I do know though, that Trier is interested in Christian symbolism so the message he is trying to convey does stem from that.
@JJWeatherman: Thanks for your reply. I am considering this deal but as I live in Sweden the slim Xbox is not available for at least a month. Though I did find a similar deal on a Swedish GameStop site. My biggest concern though is the data transfer and of course the price.
Anyway, hope your new Xbox will live a long and prosperous life. Yeah, I know, that sounded weird :-P
@JJWeatherman: When you traded in your old Xbox, did you have to trade in the whole package - i.e. did you put the system in the box with all the cables and such? I just want to know if I have to trade in the HDMI cable I got when I bought my Elite.
One more question: did you trade in two controllers or just one? I have two controllers but I only use one because the other one is kind of crappy. I was thinking that I could keep my original controller (the one I got with the system and which is my primary one) and trade in the crappy one.
I don't think it is that surprising, I mean they had the Elite which had 120 gigs of memory so this seems pretty logical. It's an Elite package with an upgraded console nothing more.
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