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Nintendo Top Japanese Game Charts
Thanks to Reuters for the news that Nintendo have recaptured the top of the videogame software charts for the first half of the business year in Japan. According to the piece, "Konami, which shoved Nintendo aside in the April-September period last year thanks to its popular soccer game [the Winning Eleven series], slipped to No.2", as the two companies "sold a total 3.1 million and 2.9 million units respectively", with Super Mario Advance 4 and Wario Ware, Inc particular sales highlights for Nintendo. The story also notes: "As for hardware, sales of Microsoft's Xbox game console remained in a slump in Japan, selling only 28,656 units, well below Sony's PlayStation 2 at 1.1 million and Nintendo's GameCube at 319,037."
I don't think that any post on Slashdot should ever mention a girlfriend. For the most part (I know there are exceptions), the posts that mention girlfriends are by guys who either just got girlfriends for the first time in their socially awkward lives or by guys who don't actually have girlfriends but like to pretend they do. I find them rather sad either way it's sliced but would appreciate it if there was a modification done to the lameness filter that would ensure people couldn't talk about their first girlfriend (at the age of 35) or their imaginary girlfriend and all her imagined friends.