Good point, and I think I made a mistake in preemptively mentioning that, but I'm not saying they're "equally as bad". I was just commenting that after whatever repairs were made, it doesn't seem to have been a priority for the rest as well.
"What I don't get is why Americans get pissed off by something like this, especially if it isn't in their own neighbourhood."
We for the very large part don't. A small but vocal minority always seem to be the ones criticizing the "morals" of the world stage, whether it's counter-racist tools that in this case actually justify the advertising dollars spent, or other perceived injustices.
"The users didn't bother to upgrade to Windows 2000 or Windows XP in the first place"
My older clients and relatives have only changed their software platform because their previous hardware failed, they consider themselves at their most productive when they don't have to learn a new platform.
"the people that stick to Win98/ME are the most unlikely to switch to Linux."
"Maybe, or Rockstar was actually populated with conscientious people and most people didn't know it.
The development of Bully in which you play a schoolyard thug who tortures fellow classmates for fun might just have been the breaking point for some of Rockstars talent. It's time to move on when you're asked by your boss to do work that is morally contrary to your beliefs...I think a number of Rockstar's best and brightest did just that."
Or maybe you're just making shit up out of thin air, which is just as plausible.
"Not literally identical, moron. Intellectually identical. US gamers are applying their country's taboos to another country. It's narrow minded and it doesn't work."
It's not that we're as a country against interracial women wrestling for our jollies (our choice of viewing material shows otherwise), it's that a couple of loudmouth morons saw the single ad with the albino-looking white woman about to overpower the very black woman and felt it depicted an racially-charged assault.
"Religion is entirely congruent with thinking logically."
Based on false premises. The most dizzyingly complicated Christian apologetics build their arguments on expectations and preconditions that atheists find laughable.
"There are plenty of arguments for the existence of God and of the existence of the soul that are seen as worth considering even by the atheist scholars in the field."
There are no arguments for the existence of the "soul" convincing to anyone outside of pseudo-theistic and certainly pseudoscientific new-agers. Your "surely some atheists must cave to this incredible logicmachine!" statements are based on wishful thinking, nothing more.
"I mean seriously, I think all the folks who rant against the US being a theocracy and hot-bed of fundementalism, etc, etc. need to travel around a little bit more, I think they'd be in for some surprises... even in Europe!"
So because someone else is going through the same (or worse) treatment, we should feel grateful and not want better for ourselves and our government? Absolute bullshit.
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Good point, and I think I made a mistake in preemptively mentioning that, but I'm not saying they're "equally as bad". I was just commenting that after whatever repairs were made, it doesn't seem to have been a priority for the rest as well.
"President Ronald Regan removed them when he took office."
To do roof repairs, but it's not as if Clinton/Gore placed them back up either. And they're still bleating about their environmentalist loyalties!
Not being a partisan here, I actually voted for Clinton.
"What I don't get is why Americans get pissed off by something like this, especially if it isn't in their own neighbourhood."
We for the very large part don't. A small but vocal minority always seem to be the ones criticizing the "morals" of the world stage, whether it's counter-racist tools that in this case actually justify the advertising dollars spent, or other perceived injustices.
"The SNES had better sound. 8 channels of ADPCM samples with DSP filter and echo buffers beats FM beeps."
Once the novelty wore off, the FM "beeps" and other synthesized sound still trumps gritty samples.
"And it is not piracy in any way"
You're soul-crushingly stupid.
"What if the ad had a black woman grabbing the face of a white woman? I bet nobody would be bothered by that right?"
People conveniently ignored the rest of the campaign to run around pointing the "racist" stick.
The only people who cared were the American "gaming media", which was itself limited to a bunch of blogs with more ire than common sense.
"Still bothers me, though."
The world must be a frightening and confusing place.
"You misunderstood him. He's buying a super nintendo, not a wii. He can sell all his supernintendo games when he's done with them."
I understood just fine, he's comparing Microsoft downloadable games to Cartridge-based games.
Well, it's a good thing Microsoft's DVD-based games can't be resold.
OH WAIT THEY CAN'T WHAT AM I THINKING.
Gee, it sure is a good thing that the downloadable Wii games are DRM-free!
"The users didn't bother to upgrade to Windows 2000 or Windows XP in the first place"
My older clients and relatives have only changed their software platform because their previous hardware failed, they consider themselves at their most productive when they don't have to learn a new platform.
"the people that stick to Win98/ME are the most unlikely to switch to Linux."
Exactly. Know your target market!
"Maybe, or Rockstar was actually populated with conscientious people and most people didn't know it.
The development of Bully in which you play a schoolyard thug who tortures fellow classmates for fun might just have been the breaking point for some of Rockstars talent. It's time to move on when you're asked by your boss to do work that is morally contrary to your beliefs...I think a number of Rockstar's best and brightest did just that."
Or maybe you're just making shit up out of thin air, which is just as plausible.
"So that means I can say "nigger" and be fine with it? Hey, it's only racist if you see it that way."
Attractive females wrestling and practically wouldn't have a long history of racist symbology. Your comparison is worthless.
"the fact of the matter is there was not and the idea that "black" person are overpowering a "white" person, is absurd on the face of it."
Life must be pretty easy when one cruises by confusing objective and universal "fact" with subjective "opinion".
"Not literally identical, moron. Intellectually identical. US gamers are applying their country's taboos to another country. It's narrow minded and it doesn't work."
It's not that we're as a country against interracial women wrestling for our jollies (our choice of viewing material shows otherwise), it's that a couple of loudmouth morons saw the single ad with the albino-looking white woman about to overpower the very black woman and felt it depicted an racially-charged assault.
Internet nerd message board rage is quite different than rioting, destroying embassies and causing inadvertent deaths in the process, chuckles.
"Microsoft has a record of being utter failures at EVERYTHING they put out to be a "killer" of anything else."
As with Sony and Creative, they seem to pack all their punch into being the "killer" that they totally miss at being "better than".
"Im pretty sure this is just refering to the motion sensing which sony built into the control in a late attempt to jump onto the ninetendo bandwagon."
They would have out and said it in that case, this is just a sad example of "it's not a bug, it's a FEATURE" marketing polish.
Because it's a philosophy of religion class!
Oh, I'm giving their rebuttal. I was once Christian, now atheist. I'd be the last to argue with you there :)
"Religion is entirely congruent with thinking logically."
Based on false premises. The most dizzyingly complicated Christian apologetics build their arguments on expectations and preconditions that atheists find laughable.
"There are plenty of arguments for the existence of God and of the existence of the soul that are seen as worth considering even by the atheist scholars in the field."
There are no arguments for the existence of the "soul" convincing to anyone outside of pseudo-theistic and certainly pseudoscientific new-agers. Your "surely some atheists must cave to this incredible logicmachine!" statements are based on wishful thinking, nothing more.
Enter the no true scotsman fallacy. "You were never a *true* Christian..."
"I mean seriously, I think all the folks who rant against the US being a theocracy and hot-bed of fundementalism, etc, etc. need to travel around a little bit more, I think they'd be in for some surprises... even in Europe!"
So because someone else is going through the same (or worse) treatment, we should feel grateful and not want better for ourselves and our government? Absolute bullshit.
"remember that many of these people came from a country whose king destroyed an entire religion just to get a divorce"
Creating a splinter is not "destroying" anything, unless you want to consider every other Christian offshoot as "destroying" what it spawned from.
"A church built upon a man will surely tumble like a house built on sand."
This of course coming from a book scribed by man, that has itself lasted for a good deal of human history.