Finally a well reasoned response with actual STATISTICAL DATA for Jack Thompson's insane rantings from the mainstream media.
How long before Jack sues these guys while decrying them as just "making the problem worse". Because of course, challenging the idea that the problem even exists by pointing to evidence means we just want more dead kids!
Ah funny dancing Mega Man. The song is neat, though it tapers off pretty badly at the end. Still think that other mega video with the other song was funnier...
Posted by: etoven - 23rd April 2007, 4:49 PM - Forum: Ramble City
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Everyone else can fear me.....
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Gues Who's In the Second Pic....
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Yes ryan, i now I'm a sick little monkey, you don't have to buy prints! Everyone else loved it!
Okay so I was basically reading in on some conversation elsewhere on the high interseas (gathering a crew at the pub for a voyage you see) when they are talking about some bizarre arcade custom I never experienced in all the time I've been to arcades.
The idea is simple yet makes no sense. Apparently amongst this tribe, instead of doing something barbaric like "waiting in a line", they would put up a quarter on the machine to indicate they had "next".
How did this work exactly? How COULD it work? Are you telling me they actually would trust that stranger to not just assume it was a gift and TAKE the thing for when they hit a game over? Further, since when are MASS PRODUCED LEGAL TENDER a method of personal identification? Here's how it plays out in my mind.
Someone: I got next, I put that coin up there.
Someone else: No, that's my coin, you are a liar.
First person: No, you are the liar, and I can prove it because.... oh fantastic...
So apparently the 360 is getting a tiny keyboard that plugs into the bottom of the controller.
WHYYYYYY?!
Now USB support for occasional use in like an MMO or quick typing info for signing up I can see, but this is apparently for online chatting.
Major problem here, it's WORSE than what the system is already capable of. It COMES WITH A HEADSET, and you can talk with people all you want via live with an actual VOICE (though for some reason, very annoyingly, they took out the voice filter, I mean sheesh all they needed to do was get rid of the robot voice). Why would anyone willingly use a keyboard instead of talk? I mean, aside from that mute kid over there?
So I got a 360 on Friday, and I've played around with it a little bit. The only game I have is College Hoops 2K7 for now, but I have downloaded a few demos from the marketplace. Nintendo really needs to include demos for the Wii, but it's tougher with the small harddrive in the Wii. Anyway, my gamertag is IlliniDRock if anyone wants to befriend me. I'll add Gamertags to this post as people post them.
DMiller: IlliniDRock
Great Rumbler: Great Rumbler
Dark Jaguar: Dark Jaguar
Well now this is interesting. Squeenix basically had made a concious effort to dedicate themselves to the "business model" of remaking all their old games ad inifinitum. Once the ad nausia sets in though, I think this could backfire in a major way.
Sad though... I wish they never realized just how much someone is willing to pay for an extra dungeon. I mean Nintendo, for example, originally felt they could only sell " games we already made" by packing 4 enhanced versions into a single cart called Super Mario All-Stars. With the GBC and GBA, they reached a point where they realized they could sell the games with a lot of additional gameplay features as SEPERATE entities, no more collection packages. They died. Then AFTER GBC's Deluxe SMB, they actually had the gall to release the original and completely dull by comparison NES versions of the game, seperatly as well, no package.
Instead of doing remakes over and over again, I think they really need to take advantage of downloadable content. Release a final remake once more and then from that point on, whatever crazy feature or dungeon you want to toss in, make it a downloadable content pack. Or not, since for now at least people seem willing to pay for these games AGAIN.
On the night of 4/20, very much stoned with 3 friends, I saw Hot Fuzz. It was awesome. It blew me away. I was skeptical, because the trailer made it look dumb, and because the theatre only had about 7 other people in it, but I gave the Shaun of the Dead guys the benefit of the doubt for accurate trailers. Damn shame that the crowd was so thin. I tell you, it's probably the best movie released this year. Most of the shit they package as trailers is further evidence that Hollywood is going even further down the tubes and ought to be dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up.
Hot Fuzz is a breath of a fresh air, and a great blend of comedy, gore, and British silliness. I highly recommend it, especially if you loved Shaun of the Dead. The only possible gripe I can give is that it was long - about two hours. I was stoned and hungry for munchies, though, so perhaps my impatience was subjective. They showed a trademark of self-referential humor, a wonderful craft of set-ups and many pay-offs, and a few nods to Shaun of the Dead to boot. I plan to own this movie as soon as it's released on DVD, pending personal funds.
Go see this movie. Even if I were sober, I still would have loved it and laughed the entire time.
