It's egotistical for myself and the rest of us to think that you're not telling the truth about joking the whole time when you're being serious and not sounding like you are joking at all?
As I said that's how I saw it at the time, but I can see how you could see it your way. That was my point.
Oh, please stop saying "and the rest of us" since there are many here who were fully aware I was joking. My comment was aimed only at you since you were the one who started the whole weird accusation. A couple other people just agreed with you (and ABF is a sheep anyway so he doesn't count :D).
I'm attempting to meet you half way here and end this whole thing, since this whole issue doesn't really exist and is just a misunderstanding between us.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
I actually think it's pretty obvious when DJ is joking..
If i had a dollar for every time i ran out of hair in the middle of a spoon making contest id only eat your children with a side of slaw and THOSE ARENT PILLOWS!!
So...should we just assume that everything DJ posts is a joke unless otherwise stated in bold words such as "Hey, I'm being serious and not kidding in the slightest!"? Or should we consider that to be a joke too?
Yeah, but he's not accusing me of anything like you are :D. Generally no explanation is needed when I'm joking, it's USUALLY understood. It's those occasions when I'm apparently too subtle for a few people here that caused this strange conflict. I personally thought it was pretty much obvious I was joking, though as of late you may have noticed such confusion hasn't occured because I'm making more of an effort to be more blatently joking. As far as I'm concerned this so called issue IS resolved.
And again, it's not you not getting the joke, it was you accusing me of lying after not getting the joke that made me think "ego".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Yeah, I took it too personally, as I said above. Stupid human emotions... Anyway, I consider such a thing as saying I meant something different than what I did to be lying, so that's why I took it that way. In any case, that's not the case.
Well, situation fully resolved. Just kidding! *gets thrown out of the arena by Link*
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Resolved? We still know that you will continue to 'joke' in situations where you don't seem to be... I wouldn't go so far as to accuse you of lying, but I would definitely say that you assume far too much about our ability to deduce when you are joking, and have done that for a long time... effectively making it easy for you to use that as a escape valve from any debate you see coming, thus avoiding those silly 'debate' things that you hate so much?
Well it's resolved with OB1, but apparently ABF has some beef to pick with me. Let it be ABF, and for the last time, I love debates, just not the arguments we get into where no logic is ever used.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
So, anyways, I finally got around to renting F-Zero GX. It's a fun and awesome game, but I'm glad I didn't spend 50 bucks to buy it yet. Nahh, instead, I let stupid Blockbuster rip me off. $6.42 for *one* game for 5 days?! What a friggin' gyp... I hate Blockbuster. Before they pushed the mom & pop owned "Double Feature" video store out of business, video game rentals were only like 3 bucks!
Anyways, I'll probably wait until this game drops to $30-$40 before actually buying it. It's an awesome game, though... very fast-paced and challenging.
Never heard someone DISS Blockbuster before. For me they have just got better and better, and in fact rental stores are the ONLY places that get better and better. When I was a kid, rentals were for 3 days (including day rented) and new releases were for two days (including day rented), and it was worse at the non-chain rental stores, which all SUCKED because they NEVER had what I wanted, were more expensive, and at times everything in the store was 2 day only. Plus, they were ugly :D.
On the other hand, Blockbuster has maintained their prices and have increased the rental days to 5 days a week, which is something that just wasn't done back in the olden days. No, Blockbuster, if anything, made things MUCH better. However, YOUR local chain might have had better deals. Well, I say if making a chain I'll never go to go out of business is the price to pay for making the ones I have been to realize they SUCK and having a decent rental outlet, then so be it!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Blockbuster's late fees are insane. There are a few family-owned video stores in my town that offer a far greater selection and much better prices than Blockbuster, so I don't go there very often.
Blockbuster sucks. They have almost no new anime and they charge prices that are way to high, even for old stuff. Hastings is way better, they only charge $3.78 for new releases and $2 for DVDs that are several years old.
Never seen a hastings around here. They have decent rent times?
As far as late fees, I suppose that would get annoying. I myself just make sure to return everything on time.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Blockbuster also has a habit of losing their own videos/games and then trying to force the customers to pay for them. I once rented the crappy Phantom Menace game for the PSX and returned it (with witnesses to prove that I did), and the stupid Blockbuster people claimed that I lost it. A similar thing happened to my sister and there are actually many lawsuits against Blockbuster by people who've gone through the same thing.
I've fortunatly never had that happen to me. However, I imagine such a thing would happen all the time, and not just at Blockbuster. I do believe it's some lazy employee's fault, and not really any store policy, not that it makes any real difference.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Really? So, how many days they let you rent stuff, how's the price, and how's the selection? From what you say, I would guess at least one of those qualities suck.
And yes, when it comes to the pocket culture movies, Blockbuster doesn't really have much to offer. However, I have yet to see any rental stores that DO offer that around here. I guess that's what "local" means eh? I would enjoy seeing a decent rental store with a huge anime section at least once. Generally, all of them, Blockbuster included, have this small section of anime that is 3 or more years old, contains a large amount of very bad anime (to put it VERY lightly), and of course has non-anime mixed in like MTV cartoons and such.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
There's a family-owned video store near the University over here that's actually bigger than any of the local Blockbusters or Hollywood videos, and it has a great selection of anime and foreign flicks. Great rental prices, too.
Ah, that's nice to know. Wish I had a place like that around here. See, the only small businesses chains drive out are the ones that are worse than the chains, and who wants to support those?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
You should come over to Colorado one of these days so that we can play games and watch cool movies and stuff. Then we could drive down to Colorado Springs and try to get LL into games again.
There is a locally-owned DVD rental place in town, and its okay... much, much better than Movie Gallery for sure... but for VHS and game rentals Movie Gallery is it. Though they do have a decent selection, its not great... neither has a huge selection of anime, either, of course... oh well. The local place's is a bit better, probably, though...
As for price... I don't know, pretty standard for chains... though I've rented a fair amount (from their bad selection of N64 and then Cube games) and never had a 'we lost it so you pay to replace the thing' issue... the problem generally is that they very infrequently get new games...
When I get an intern, I'm going to convince whoever it is to "Quick, climb into the jeffry's tubes to disable the reactor before it fries us all" just so the intern will get stuck in the ventilation ducts and I can have people pay me 5 bucks to "spank the intern". Just like in a Dilbert comic :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Fantasy nothin', this is just a get rich quick scheme. Interns are the group everyone loves to take advantage of, and they never know!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
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