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Dashboard update a bad omen?


Justin McElroy of GamersWithJobs  ponders the biblical significance of Microsoft releasing a major update on 6/6/06 and makes a chilling revelation:

That's right true believers, this download is not simply the ability to play games while you download files but rather THE MARK OF THE BEAST. Think I'm joshing? Let's take a quick look at a snippet from Revelation 13.

"Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell who does not have the mark."

Hmm, does that sound like micropayments to anyone else?

Sure does. Active downloading as the mark of the beast? That would make Major Nelson one of the four horsemen of the apocolypse, if not the dark prince himself. Before you decide Justin left his brain behind, note that the AntiChrist already has a gamertag, although he represents poorly for a spawn of Satan. 

Suddenly that 360 forehead tattoo doesn't seem like such a good idea.

 

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1. and you can have 6 pending dwnlds at a time........oooooowww

Posted at 12:03AM on Jun 7th 2006 by jOEfRO 0 stars

2. 360= three sixty= three 6's = 666 = Microsoft is Evil

there is finally proof!!

Posted at 12:33AM on Jun 7th 2006 by george 0 stars

3. All UPC bar codes contain 666. You see the two lines at the start,middle, and end of a bar code mean Six. So everything you buy that has a bar code contains 666. http://www.av1611.org/666/barcode.html

Posted at 12:57AM on Jun 7th 2006 by WillGonz 0 stars

4. Interesting...but I'd rather read 360 articles that are based on something more then just superstition and BS.

#3 No UPCs do not all contain 666. Thats more superstitious BS "discovered" by people with nothing better to do. The suposed 666 in barcodes is not 666 but in fact a divider of the bar codes. they are also known as guard bars. The guard bars "look" like the number 6 but they in fact are not. they just annotate the beginning, middle, and end of the code.

Posted at 2:22AM on Jun 7th 2006 by DigitalGT 0 stars

5. Hm, looks like the AntiChrist only has an Xbox.

Time to upgrade, pansy.

Posted at 6:37AM on Jun 7th 2006 by J.Goodwin 0 stars

6. Since when is 6/6/2006 a mark of the devil?
Its supposed to be 6 not 2006. Its all stupid.

Posted at 6:44AM on Jun 7th 2006 by Meastro 0 stars

7. I agree with Meastro.

Posted at 8:07AM on Jun 7th 2006 by ea 0 stars

8. Funny, I wonder if this same type of thing happened on 6/6/1906, or 6/6/1806, or 6/6/17/06...

It's not the end of the world by any means. All it meant was that yesterday was National Emo Kid Beatdown Day.

Unfortunately, no emo kids were harmed, at least not by my hands.

Posted at 8:47AM on Jun 7th 2006 by SuiXide 0 stars

9. Lame. This is now on my list of stupidist articles ever, along with the reasons why Aliens haven't visited us is because of the Xbox (from Joystiq).

Posted at 9:32AM on Jun 7th 2006 by Rocket Scientist 0 stars

10. Actually they translated wrong. It isn't 666. 616 is the mark of the beast, but you know whatever.

Anticrawl

Posted at 12:46PM on Jun 7th 2006 by Anticrawl 0 stars

11. Dear Rocket Scientist:

I'm sorry I failed you. Is there anything I could do to be less stupid in the future?

Love,

Justin McElroy

Posted at 1:21PM on Jun 7th 2006 by Justin McElroy 0 stars

12. In the age of informational fluidity, I'm not sure why anyone would take anything at face value anymore - namely this:

"3. All UPC bar codes contain 666."

No, they don't. The guard lines are similiar to the '6' representation, but are differentiated by a wide white bar that appears either to the left or right of the number. This is not the case with guard lines. http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/barcode.asp

Posted at 8:29PM on Jun 7th 2006 by Charles M. Reed 0 stars

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