Word: cartoons
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MacFarlane is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, which is also the setting of his cartoon show...
...network cancelled “Family Guy” in 2002, saying that the show had failed to garner consistently high ratings. But after the show surged in popularity on the Cartoon Network and through DVD sales, FOX brought it back...
...offbeat that they barely qualify as games at all. In Nintendogs, the object is to raise and train a cute puppy. Electroplankton can only be described as a game about farming tiny singing microbes (surely every woman's dream?). In Animal Crossing, you take up residence in a tiny cartoon town where you plant flowers and go fishing and design shirts. You can visit other players' towns and trade shirts with them. The reaction from traditional gamers tends to be 'Fine, but who do I shoot at?' But Animal Crossing is a hit, and Nintendogs has sold 6 million copies...
...about to shoot at a legless cartoon soldier-a black shape in the middle of a yellow square 200 m away. But first I need to center him in my rifle's sights. I've managed to get the ring of the front sight to sit just inside the slightly larger ring of the rear sight. Now I shift my stance, trying to make the the thin black post in the front sight touch the center of the soldier's belt. The rifle is heavy, and the sight picture-the relationship of rings, aiming post and target-won't stay...
...rifles too high, why creeping artillery barrages didn't work in the First World War, whether it was Kokoda or the Battle of the Coral Sea that saved Australia from the Japanese. Not all the members think about this stuff. But it's hard to shoot, even at a cartoon, and not be reminded of what you owe all the people who've served as targets on your behalf...