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Games To Outsell Music, Video In UK
The BBC reports that for the first time, spending on games and game hardware will outstrip sales in the music and video industries. Quoting:
"In the last five years the video games market has more than doubled in value, while music sales have stagnated. The good news for game makers in the report was balanced by grim tidings for high street retailers. 'The music and video market is not just suffering from a slowing of growth but a massive transfer of spend to online,' says Malcolm Pinkerton of Verdict Research. It is online sales of CDs and DVDs that have grown rapidly, rather than digital downloads, which still only account for around 4% of music and video sales."
Video killed the video AND radio star?
Women are like electronics: you don't know how damaged they are until you try to turn them on.
Not all that hard to understand, considering how much they charge for a video game.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
A couple weeks ago, while browsing around the library downtown, I had to take a piss. As I entered the john, Barack Obama -- the messiah himself -- came out of one of the booths. I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the corner of my eye as he washed his hands. He didn't once look at me. He was busy and in any case I was sure the secret service wouldn't even let me shake his hand.
As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated, hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still warm from his sturdy ass. I found not only the smell but the shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were fat, stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast of turd -- a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as his cock -- or at least as I imagined it!
I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd always been a liberal democrat and had been on the Obama train since last year. Of course I'd had fantasies of meeting him, sucking his cock and balls, not to mention sucking his asshole clean, but I never imagined I would have the chance. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful five-pound turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star in any fantasy and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole of Barack Obama, the chosen one.
Why not? I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both hands to keep it from breaking. I lifted it to my nose. It smelled like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to shit without the benefit of a digestive tract?
I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it smelled.
I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big half nigger cock, beating my meat like a madman. I wanted to completely engulf it and bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed I discovered that it was filled with hard little bits of something I soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd passed through his body virtually unchanged. I ate it greedily, sending lump after peanutty lump sliding scratchily down my throat. My only regret was that Barack Obama wasn't there to see my loyalty and wash it down with his piss.
I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no more delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum with the rich bitterness of shit. It's even better than listening to an Obama speech!
Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me. There was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I tenderly fished them out, rolled them into my handkerchief, and stashed them in my briefcase. In the week to come I found all kinds of ways to eat the shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten it's gone forever unless you want to filch it third hand out of your own asshole. Not an unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation or simple boredom.
I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in my mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid shit trickling down my throat for nearly four hours. I must have had six orgasms in the process.
I often think of Barack Obama dropping solid gold out of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it could, and at least once did, bring to a grateful democrat.
I blame piracy!
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Really? I wasn't aware that things that are a pain to pirate (yes, you can use hacks and modchips to play your burnt disks and download them off of TPB just like you could a computer game), and actually work (just about) 100% of the time and are original is going to sell more then the movie you saw in the theaters 3 months ago with a terribly generic plot that you could have pirated 5 months ago before it was even released. Honestly, piracy is to blame, but mostly because its a pain to pirate video games and a pain to buy and use bought videos and music.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Actually, I guess music is a bit different since it has significant replay value, but... The best possible movies are ones in which I feel interested and involved. I feel interested/involved in many games I play, so perhaps games can be viewed as non-interactive games (WTF is that). Should we be surprised the "interactive movies" [games] outsell "non-interactive movies" [movies]?
They are including games and games hardware. To be fair, they should include dvd players big screen TVs and stereo systems.
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You're making the assumption that all games are single-player games. Practically every recent highly popular game has had some form of multiplayer mode, and in a lot of cases, the multiplayer is the main of the game.
A lot of people never see the multiplayer mode. PC video game publishers seem to be under the impression that two people can't fit around a 19-inch monitor. Because of this, they don't design the game to work with two gamepads or with a keyboard and a gamepad; instead, they optimize the game for LAN play, which requires a separate fast enough PC and a separate copy of the game per player. Plenty of families can't afford to buy more than one PC and keep it upgraded to run multiplayer games.
I beg to differ. Music stays the same every time you play it, playing a game might be different every time you play it.
Playing the same music track over and over again, is simply grinding.
And what do most games' music engines do, other than "playing the same music track over and over again" until the player reaches a checkpoint and then changing abruptly to some other song? There aren't enough games that use the technique seen in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy of fading between two or three remixes of the song depending on where the player is in the level, or the technique seen in Lumines of tastefully looping short parts of the song while the player is going slowly and even skipping parts (with a clean transition) while the player is moving quickly through an area.
A pain to pirate video games? Pirated video games have no DRM, no disk needed in the slot (honestly do they even do that anymore?), and come to your house at a few mbps while you watch TV or sleep. Oohhh you meant console "gaming".
You use scare quotes, apparently to denigrate console gaming. But what other platform lets you have more than one player without buying more than one machine?
It figures games are winning across the pond. It's not like people buy music anyway. Bittorent ftw
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Video games will always outsell music as music now days can all be taken from the net for free.