Thing is, from my little view of the world they were dominating. Even past when Sony hyped the PSX2. People were buying new ones. I didn't know anyone who used a PSX that didn't have a Dreamcast (I'm sure there were many such people, but I didn't know any). They threw in the towel before the PSX2 hit the market. It was because of DCs GREAT sales that Sega lost so much money, Sega didnt expect DC to do as well as it did.
Losing money on console hardware isn't uncommon, they get a fee for every game sold (which is the real reason they are closed platforms, not to avoid the Atari 2600 mess). It is common to lose money unless 2 or 3 games are bought (and normally they are, except with the newer generation of consoles that can also serve as DVD players...I heard the PSX2 had a problem with too many people only buying a game and using it as a DVD player mostly).
Sega was a 3 BILLON DOLLAR company back in 1998 before DC launched. They spent about a billion launching and selling DC that first year, they went from a 3 billion dollar company to a 1 billion dollar company.
200 million on marketing first year - $100 per system sold (5 million systems sold the first year) Game development 100 titles made first year and Shenmue was a big project almost $100 to make.
Add this all up, in their first year they lost a billion dollars. When Sega launched DC they DIDNT have a business plan, they didnt plan how much it would cost for them to pay for that launch.
You see, it would have taken each DC owner buying 10 DC games in order for Sega to get out of debt and break even. This is no joke, Sega was selling a system at a loss WHILE THEY WERE IN DEBT, with NO way of making the money back.
Then to top it all off, PS2 gains hype, causing Sega to need an advantage, so they launch Seganet, What Sega didnt realize was, the launch of Seganet equaled the death of dreamcast.
Sega launched Seganet and the president of Sega Mr Okawa I believe, Gave Sega 100 million dollars, this saved Sega.
Mr Okawa said that the launch of dreamcast was a mistake, that Sega as a company did not have the money to do so but did it anyway, he also said that he'd use his own money to make DC a success.
Sega went through their Sega and final year on the money provided by Mr Okawa, in this year in order for Sega to make a profit Sega would have had to sell less DCs and more games.
The more DCs sold, the more games per DC user would have to be sold, the problem ended up being Sega running out of money when Okawa died. When he died there was no one backing Sega, Sega was in debt and they were FORCED to shut down DC production.
Sega only had a billion dollars left, and was in debt, instead of Sega immediately firing all their development teams, Okawa had them broken up so that they would be able to develop on other platforms, the plan was to do DC on a chip, this plan however would have required money to produce more DCs and hardware
Okawas death sealed DCs fate, the change of plan became to sell software and forget about the whole hardware industry.
Sega can survive by becoming more like EA, and making games, this is Segas only chance for survival, if Segas games dont sell soon, Sega will go the way of atari, the development teams which make games which dont sell will be dropped/fired and this is why all of the sudden Yu Suzuki is releasing VF4 on the PS2 instead of new stuff like shenmue
This is why Yuji Naka is releasing Sonic on gamecube instead of something new
Sega has to cut costs of developing their games, and Sega has to make a profit fast, Sonic made them some quick cash, VF4 should make them some cash,
Sega must learn to do business or they will go out of business. Its that simple, it happened to SNK and Sega is next.
Thats why Sega failed, IF Sega were Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft or anyone else they would have dominated.
Every DC sold, Sega would lose $100. Tell me how you can be in debt, and be losing $100 on every system sold, to top that all off you have the most successful launch in history, and you sell 10 million systems in 2 years, also you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on games like shenmue;
It was Segas lack of a business plan, the same reason dot coms failed.
All of Segas other games havent sold at all. Its easy to believe VF4 will sell a million copies in Japan, VF2 sold over a million copies in japan.
In the USA its a diffrent story, no one who owns PS2 likes or wants VF, they like tekken.
Its like trying to sell mortal kombat in japan, it wont work, its not the same market. On the Dreamcast, all the viruta fighter fans in the US purchased VF3, all 500,000 of them,
Lets assume 50 percent of DC owners now own a PS2, this means 250,000 copies of VF4 will sell in the USA.
Tne only other thing to assume, is that PS2 fans will somehow be overnight Sega fans, these same people who hated VF and refused to buy Saturn, and Dreamcast now rushing to the stores to buy VF4
Oh and some people believe Microsoft makes high quality software.
Thats not the point, the point is, they "Microsoft" and "Sony" dont make the BEST software.
Their software is never innovative, its never ground breaking, its always "me too" or "after you" software
Basically they wait until Sega makes something like Daytona, or Virtua Racing, then Sony comes along and makes their own racing game, Sonic clone, Mario Clone, Sony has never made an original game with exception of parapa the rappa.
As far as making hardware, Sonys hardware is ok, its never the best, and its always the most hyped.
The Saturn was more powerful than the PSX overall, PSX was easier to program for, so while PSX never had anything to compare to virtua fighter 2, dead or alive, or nights in the graphics catagory, PSX was easier, this was the excuse for it getting more support.
Lets not forget N64 was more powerful than PSX as well, PSX did have one ability above these 2 systems, it could render more flat shaded polygons on screen than both of these systems, but in terms of textured polygons on screen, PSX rendered the same amount of textured polygons as saturn, and SATURN had specialized CPUS allowing 2d/3d mixing along with Saturn having more ram and thus better textures.
N64 had more special effects, Sony told third parties that N64 was flawed because it was cart based, Nintendos own ego killed N64 while Saturn died due to Sega making it too complicated.
PS2 currently is the Saturn of the game industry right now, its powerful, but thats not what matters, no one can make use of this power but Sony, why is PS2 hard to use yet successful?
Because Sony has more money.
Dreamcast was dead before PS2 came out correct, DC died because the president of Sega died, the president of Sega was using his money to fund DC, Sega was in debt and didnt even have the money to launch DC, so even if DC was a success Sega could not afford to keep making them and selling them at a loss. 10 million sales in 2 years in my opinion is a success.
I'm a troll because I dont like PS2? I dont like Sonys games, Sony is not a game company, I dont lilke Microsofts games either. I dont have a right to like what I like and dislike what i dislike? Look if i want a PS2 i'd go buy one, i have the money, i dont WANT one.
Sony won the market by making great games and consoles? What games did "SONY" make? Parapa the Rappa? Gameday?
Sony is like Microsoft, they use their money and hype to sell stuff, They bribe magazines to enhance their hype, Remember the 60 million polygons per second, hell magazines were saying DC was dead ever since PS2 was announced, you act like money cant bribe people and buy marketing?
Sega had less money, Sega got bullied out of the market, sorta like how Microsoft is trying to bully apple and redhat out of the market with their money.
Face it, Sega could have had the best system in the world (actually they did with dreamcast) and the best games (they DID have the best games), and good marketing (Their marketing wasnt that bad)
Theres absolutely no way in hell they are going to be able to out spend Sony, Sony can just buy more ads on more stations, even with shitty ads, they'll still be well known, Sony can afford to bribe third parties and gain support from the whole industry, Sony can afford to bribe magazines and get articles printed on how Sega is dead, dying, articles about 32x, Saturn printed,
thats what I call bullying, using your money to beat out a much smaller company, Sega was just out of their league with 2 billion going against 20 billion Sony, 10 billion Nintendo, 40 billion Microsoft.
Xbox has good games, lets list some, ok you are right i cant really list any "good" games, but theres some decent games
Sony has maybe a few good games, but mostly decent games.
Neither system has great games.
Sony didnt need a mascot or first parties to be successful because Sony has the money to bribe third parties and gain support.
Do you think all the third parties supporting PS2 and ditching Dreamcast was by accident? Do you think they ditched dreamcast because their games werent selling? (Soul Calibur from namco sold over a million copies!) Obviously thats not the reason.
The reason everyone ditched Sega is because Sega was a 2 billion dollar company, with no real business plan or even business sense, they were losing money on EVERY consolee they were selling, and they were in debt at the same time, Everyone KNEW Sega would be forced to pull out because Sega could not afford to SELL dreamcast period, in fact quotes from interviews with Sega's president who is now deceased has said Dreamcast launching was a complete accident, that Sega never had the money to launch it because they were in debt when they launched, this guy had to use his OWN money to pay for the launch, and his own money to keep selling DC, he was determined to make DC a success even if it took his last dime, This man however died and a month later DC died with him.
Sega is now a software company, their fanbase is mostly DC owners, who are now pissed off and wont buy their products, lets see 10 million DC owners, if half of them get a PS2, the other half a game cube, Sega's sales will be less because their market is segmented.
I think Segas biggest mistake now, and biggest mistake with the Dreamcast, too much innovation.
They should have released Sonic Adventure 1,2,3, Night, Virtua Fighter 4, and games they know will sell 1 million, Sega made the mistake of releasing too many new games (more games than people can buy) having too many third parties (100 games made a year) spending $80 million dollars to make shenmue, spending hundreds of millions making games no ones ever heard of.
Segas a good company, but they have absolutely no business sense.
Nintendo I have more faith in, they create a few high quality games a year each which sell by the millions, they have a few GREAT first party teams and they make games for a specific purpose, to make as much money as possible.
Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, all of these games took the dying N64 and made it a profitable system.
Hopefully Microsoft and Sony dont push Nintendo out off the market, if Nintendo keeps with their routine, they have nothing to worry about even if their system were to come in 3rd they would still make a fortune.
They couldnt sell on Segas own dreamcast, they arent selling on the PS2, the only game which sold well was Sonic Adventure on the gamecube, that game sold well on dreamcast too.
Face it, Sega is as dead as SNK and Atari. Sega Wins? If you believe that, you believe SNK won, and Atari won, its all about game sales, and its harder to sell games on competiting systems, than on your own.
Anyone here whos a survivalist, knows that having a submarine can help you escape pretty much any situation
nuclear war, flood, etc etc
I'd love to have a submarine just so that if there was a situation where we were at war with say, China, I can take me and my family into the submarine.
Think of it like a bomb shelter which can move around, not to mention submarines also allow you to travel, its like your own private jet just under water.
Last, submarines allow you to explore the ocean, I'd love to have one
My arguments are alittle bit extreme, I do not exactly care much for the RIAA or MPAA and I'm for intellectual propery reform, at least when it comes to dealing with digital property, I dont think digital propery should be owned by anyone.
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Well Thats what I want. Ok so you use Xrender, wheres keiths alpha channel extention? I've been waiting for that and hes been working on it for what seems like years now.
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Sure its hard, not impossible though. The world is very ruthless, cutthroat, people will take advantage of you, beat you down at every chance they get, use you and abuse you until you are a nervous wreck.
Some people never learn how to prevent themselves from being constant victims, if someones beating you down, find ways to make it very difficult for it to happen again.
if its physical beatings, buy yourself a weapon if you are legally of age, if not, then figure out a way to beat on them back, if its in school and someone is a physical bully, theres always a group of other kids they are bullying as well, convince that group to join up and help you stand up to the bully, a bully picks on people weaker than them, usually a bully has a group because bullies never like to fight 1 on 1, but if its a bully whos just 1 and you have the group behind you, use it.
If its the other way around and you are the outcast being bullied, use it as fuel to do better in school, realize if you dont get all As and pass all your classes, you'll be kept back along with the bully and forced to spend another year with him.
As you get older, it becomes easier and easier to avoid bullies, its a simple as dont hang with the wrong crowd.
As far as people mentally bullying you, you have to learn not to leave them any openings to attack you. Dont tell people all your personal secrets, stop trusting people, and dont show weakness
Its very hard to mentally fuck with someone who doesnt respond to anything you do, and doesnt give you any ammo.
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Time travel is not traveling through our time and our future, but through a parrellel universes past and future
most likely you wont even be physically there, you'll just see it
but im not exactly sure myself
you never can know this until you try it, theres theories of other dimensions, string theory proves it.
the rules of nature = there are no rules
live and die = nature
technology was created to control nature
wasnt this already posted
Thing is, from my little view of the world they were dominating. Even past when Sony hyped the PSX2. People were buying new ones. I didn't know anyone who used a PSX that didn't have a Dreamcast (I'm sure there were many such people, but I didn't know any). They threw in the towel before the PSX2 hit the market.
It was because of DCs GREAT sales that Sega lost so much money, Sega didnt expect DC to do as well as it did.
Losing money on console hardware isn't uncommon, they get a fee for every game sold (which is the real reason they are closed platforms, not to avoid the Atari 2600 mess). It is common to lose money unless 2 or 3 games are bought (and normally they are, except with the newer generation of consoles that can also serve as DVD players...I heard the PSX2 had a problem with too many people only buying a game and using it as a DVD player mostly).
Sega was a 3 BILLON DOLLAR company back in 1998 before DC launched. They spent about a billion launching and selling DC that first year, they went from a 3 billion dollar company to a 1 billion dollar company.
200 million on marketing first year
- $100 per system sold (5 million systems sold the first year)
Game development 100 titles made first year and Shenmue was a big project almost $100 to make.
Add this all up, in their first year they lost a billion dollars. When Sega launched DC they DIDNT have a business plan, they didnt plan how much it would cost for them to pay for that launch.
You see, it would have taken each DC owner buying 10 DC games in order for Sega to get out of debt and break even. This is no joke, Sega was selling a system at a loss WHILE THEY WERE IN DEBT, with NO way of making the money back.
Then to top it all off, PS2 gains hype, causing Sega to need an advantage, so they launch Seganet, What Sega didnt realize was, the launch of Seganet equaled the death of dreamcast.
Sega launched Seganet and the president of Sega Mr Okawa I believe, Gave Sega 100 million dollars, this saved Sega.
Mr Okawa said that the launch of dreamcast was a mistake, that Sega as a company did not have the money to do so but did it anyway, he also said that he'd use his own money to make DC a success.
Sega went through their Sega and final year on the money provided by Mr Okawa, in this year in order for Sega to make a profit Sega would have had to sell less DCs and more games.
The more DCs sold, the more games per DC user would have to be sold, the problem ended up being Sega running out of money when Okawa died. When he died there was no one backing Sega, Sega was in debt and they were FORCED to shut down DC production.
Sega only had a billion dollars left, and was in debt, instead of Sega immediately firing all their development teams, Okawa had them broken up so that they would be able to develop on other platforms, the plan was to do DC on a chip, this plan however would have required money to produce more DCs and hardware
Okawas death sealed DCs fate, the change of plan became to sell software and forget about the whole hardware industry.
Sega can survive by becoming more like EA, and making games, this is Segas only chance for survival, if Segas games dont sell soon, Sega will go the way of atari, the development teams which make games which dont sell will be dropped/fired and this is why all of the sudden Yu Suzuki is releasing VF4 on the PS2 instead of new stuff like shenmue
This is why Yuji Naka is releasing Sonic on gamecube instead of something new
Sega has to cut costs of developing their games, and Sega has to make a profit fast, Sonic made them some quick cash, VF4 should make them some cash,
Sega must learn to do business or they will go out of business. Its that simple, it happened to SNK and Sega is next.
Thats why Sega failed, IF Sega were Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft or anyone else they would have dominated.
Every DC sold, Sega would lose $100. Tell me how you can be in debt, and be losing $100 on every system sold, to top that all off you have the most successful launch in history, and you sell 10 million systems in 2 years, also you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on games like shenmue;
It was Segas lack of a business plan, the same reason dot coms failed.
I got modded troll because I like DC, you got modded funny lol they think DC games are a joke,
its a shame everyone is hating on DC
In Japan yes.
Because its Virtua Fighter.
Sonic Sold well on Gamecube because its sonic.
All of Segas other games havent sold at all. Its easy to believe VF4 will sell a million copies in Japan, VF2 sold over a million copies in japan.
In the USA its a diffrent story, no one who owns PS2 likes or wants VF, they like tekken.
Its like trying to sell mortal kombat in japan, it wont work, its not the same market. On the Dreamcast, all the viruta fighter fans in the US purchased VF3, all 500,000 of them,
Lets assume 50 percent of DC owners now own a PS2, this means 250,000 copies of VF4 will sell in the USA.
Tne only other thing to assume, is that PS2 fans will somehow be overnight Sega fans, these same people who hated VF and refused to buy Saturn, and Dreamcast now rushing to the stores to buy VF4
I dont think so.
Oh and some people believe Microsoft makes high quality software.
Thats not the point, the point is, they "Microsoft" and "Sony" dont make the BEST software.
Their software is never innovative, its never ground breaking, its always "me too" or "after you" software
Basically they wait until Sega makes something like Daytona, or Virtua Racing, then Sony comes along and makes their own racing game, Sonic clone, Mario Clone, Sony has never made an original game with exception of parapa the rappa.
As far as making hardware, Sonys hardware is ok, its never the best, and its always the most hyped.
The Saturn was more powerful than the PSX overall, PSX was easier to program for, so while PSX never had anything to compare to virtua fighter 2, dead or alive, or nights in the graphics catagory, PSX was easier, this was the excuse for it getting more support.
Lets not forget N64 was more powerful than PSX as well, PSX did have one ability above these 2 systems, it could render more flat shaded polygons on screen than both of these systems, but in terms of textured polygons on screen, PSX rendered the same amount of textured polygons as saturn, and SATURN had specialized CPUS allowing 2d/3d mixing along with Saturn having more ram and thus better textures.
N64 had more special effects, Sony told third parties that N64 was flawed because it was cart based, Nintendos own ego killed N64 while Saturn died due to Sega making it too complicated.
PS2 currently is the Saturn of the game industry right now, its powerful, but thats not what matters, no one can make use of this power but Sony, why is PS2 hard to use yet successful?
Because Sony has more money.
Dreamcast was dead before PS2 came out correct, DC died because the president of Sega died, the president of Sega was using his money to fund DC, Sega was in debt and didnt even have the money to launch DC, so even if DC was a success Sega could not afford to keep making them and selling them at a loss. 10 million sales in 2 years in my opinion is a success.
I'm a troll because I dont like PS2? I dont like Sonys games, Sony is not a game company, I dont lilke Microsofts games either. I dont have a right to like what I like and dislike what i dislike? Look if i want a PS2 i'd go buy one, i have the money, i dont WANT one.
Sony won the market by making great games and consoles? What games did "SONY" make?
Parapa the Rappa?
Gameday?
Please!
I'm not a fanboy of Sega, I'm just anti Sony.
Sony is like Microsoft, they use their money and hype to sell stuff, They bribe magazines to enhance their hype, Remember the 60 million polygons per second, hell magazines were saying DC was dead ever since PS2 was announced, you act like money cant bribe people and buy marketing?
Sega had less money, Sega got bullied out of the market, sorta like how Microsoft is trying to bully apple and redhat out of the market with their money.
Face it, Sega could have had the best system in the world (actually they did with dreamcast) and the best games (they DID have the best games), and good marketing (Their marketing wasnt that bad)
Theres absolutely no way in hell they are going to be able to out spend Sony, Sony can just buy more ads on more stations, even with shitty ads, they'll still be well known, Sony can afford to bribe third parties and gain support from the whole industry, Sony can afford to bribe magazines and get articles printed on how Sega is dead, dying, articles about 32x, Saturn printed,
thats what I call bullying, using your money to beat out a much smaller company, Sega was just out of their league with 2 billion going against 20 billion Sony, 10 billion Nintendo, 40 billion Microsoft.
Xbox has good games, lets list some, ok you are right i cant really list any "good" games, but theres some decent games
Sony has maybe a few good games, but mostly decent games.
Neither system has great games.
Sony didnt need a mascot or first parties to be successful because Sony has the money to bribe third parties and gain support.
Do you think all the third parties supporting PS2 and ditching Dreamcast was by accident? Do you think they ditched dreamcast because their games werent selling? (Soul Calibur from namco sold over a million copies!) Obviously thats not the reason.
The reason everyone ditched Sega is because Sega was a 2 billion dollar company, with no real business plan or even business sense, they were losing money on EVERY consolee they were selling, and they were in debt at the same time, Everyone KNEW Sega would be forced to pull out because Sega could not afford to SELL dreamcast period, in fact quotes from interviews with Sega's president who is now deceased has said Dreamcast launching was a complete accident, that Sega never had the money to launch it because they were in debt when they launched, this guy had to use his OWN money to pay for the launch, and his own money to keep selling DC, he was determined to make DC a success even if it took his last dime, This man however died and a month later DC died with him.
Sega is now a software company, their fanbase is mostly DC owners, who are now pissed off and wont buy their products, lets see 10 million DC owners, if half of them get a PS2, the other half a game cube, Sega's sales will be less because their market is segmented.
I think Segas biggest mistake now, and biggest mistake with the Dreamcast, too much innovation.
They should have released Sonic Adventure 1,2,3, Night, Virtua Fighter 4, and games they know will sell 1 million, Sega made the mistake of releasing too many new games (more games than people can buy)
having too many third parties (100 games made a year) spending $80 million dollars to make shenmue, spending hundreds of millions making games no ones ever heard of.
Segas a good company, but they have absolutely no business sense.
Nintendo I have more faith in, they create a few high quality games a year each which sell by the millions, they have a few GREAT first party teams and they make games for a specific purpose, to make as much money as possible.
Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, all of these games took the dying N64 and made it a profitable system.
Hopefully Microsoft and Sony dont push Nintendo out off the market, if Nintendo keeps with their routine, they have nothing to worry about even if their system were to come in 3rd they would still make a fortune.
Segas games arent selling, period,
They couldnt sell on Segas own dreamcast, they arent selling on the PS2, the only game which sold well was Sonic Adventure on the gamecube, that game sold well on dreamcast too.
Face it, Sega is as dead as SNK and Atari. Sega Wins? If you believe that, you believe SNK won, and Atari won, its all about game sales, and its harder to sell games on competiting systems, than on your own.
They ARENT real, they clearly as fake, they are more fun than say shenmue, because they are innovative and imaginative, with very good play mechanics.
Thats more important than graphics.
The last true game companies are Sega and Nintendo.
Sega was bullied out of business by the richer and more powerful Sony
Nintendo is the only system left which still makes games and not graphical shows/interactive movies.
If i buy any system it will be a gamecube, but i dont think i'll buy it for a few years, maybe i'll buy it for Zelda.
Xbox and PS2 however are just generic systems to me, they are PCish, and battle to see which one has the best graphics and looks more real.
For now, I'll stick with the PC and games like diablo2.
What if they only set it up to display as if they switched?
I'd buy a submarine, connect it to my bomb shelter, and connect that to the basement of my mansion
IF its a flood or any kinda bad situation, you have a way to escape.
Thats why a submarine would be cool, a submarine is alot more useful than a yacht and people waste their money on that
i think 70 million is too expensive for a submarine though.
Anyone here whos a survivalist, knows that having a submarine can help you escape pretty much any situation
nuclear war, flood, etc etc
I'd love to have a submarine just so that if there was a situation where we were at war with say, China, I can take me and my family into the submarine.
Think of it like a bomb shelter which can move around, not to mention submarines also allow you to travel, its like your own private jet just under water.
Last, submarines allow you to explore the ocean,
I'd love to have one
I believe the mark of the beast idea has already been taken by hitler.
I'd explain how consumers dont want this, I'd explain how technology doesnt want this, and I'd explain democracy.
My arguments are alittle bit extreme, I do not exactly care much for the RIAA or MPAA and I'm for intellectual propery reform, at least when it comes to dealing with digital property, I dont think digital propery should be owned by anyone.
See my posts & others
Well Thats what I want. Ok so you use Xrender, wheres keiths alpha channel extention? I've been waiting for that and hes been working on it for what seems like years now.
Its not Xrender
its fake
They need to write a script which can automatically download and install kde, similar to garnome
Let Microsoft hire some strategists to solve this problem. Why should we solve it for them for free?
Why cant we share that information?
Fighting for ownership is what causes wars
I bet he had an online girlfriend, judging from what i know about him, he was single offline.
I bet he fell deeply in love with her and met her playing that everquest game, and one day she decided to dump him and he killed himself.
Everything is cause and effect, i dont think the game made him kill himself, but maybe social interaction from within the game made him kill himself.
Sure its hard, not impossible though.
The world is very ruthless, cutthroat, people will take advantage of you, beat you down at every chance they get, use you and abuse you until you are a nervous wreck.
Some people never learn how to prevent themselves from being constant victims, if someones beating you down, find ways to make it very difficult for it to happen again.
if its physical beatings, buy yourself a weapon if you are legally of age, if not, then figure out a way to beat on them back, if its in school and someone is a physical bully, theres always a group of other kids they are bullying as well, convince that group to join up and help you stand up to the bully, a bully picks on people weaker than them, usually a bully has a group because bullies never like to fight 1 on 1, but if its a bully whos just 1 and you have the group behind you, use it.
If its the other way around and you are the outcast being bullied, use it as fuel to do better in school, realize if you dont get all As and pass all your classes, you'll be kept back along with the bully and forced to spend another year with him.
As you get older, it becomes easier and easier to avoid bullies, its a simple as dont hang with the wrong crowd.
As far as people mentally bullying you, you have to learn not to leave them any openings to attack you. Dont tell people all your personal secrets, stop trusting people, and dont show weakness
Its very hard to mentally fuck with someone who doesnt respond to anything you do, and doesnt give you any ammo.