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From Newsarama: Niche product for 40+ year old nerds gets controversial when people get worked up over a collector’s statue of Spider-Man’s girlfriend Mary Jane. But it’s not clear whether the angst is over the suggestive pose or the fact that she appears to be doing Spider-Man’s laundry. The designer, who’s been doing this sort of thing for years without anyone really giving a damn, seems a bit stunned.

Over at The Beat, Heidi MacDonald clubs the issue baby-seal-style here, here, here, and here. Although it all seems like a variation of “I don’t think this should be allowed to exist.” Hey, nobody listened to me when I objected to the existence of boy bands and the horrible teenage squealing they produced. Fulminating over the objectification or inferred servitude of a fictional character is just as silly.

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From NextGen: Big corporations and bawdy humor don’t mix well. Someone’s probably going to get canned for leaving in a picture of a guy showing the moon in an error screen for the PC version of Halo 2’s level editor. The real humor is the disappointment nerds will experience when they discover the nature of the “partial nudity” described on the new ratings stickers.

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From PS3fanboy:  The 1.8 firmware update for the PS3 includes upscaling for DVDs (HDMI cable required) and for PS1 & PS2 games.  Now, the system is where it should have been when it launched six months ago.  Follow the link for some before/after screens.

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