In 2012 US consumers spent $8.4 billion on console games, including your preorders of Medal of Honor Warfighter and Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor.
That same year the Candy Crush crowd spent $6.5 billion on casual websites, mobile gaming and social network based games.
If your criteria of "Gamer" means "spends a lot of money on games", then that's a fifteen billion dollar pile of gamers right there. It's not until you change the definition to mean "only likes the kind of games that I personally like and only in the way that I like them" that you get to pretend that 43% of that demographic doesn't exist.
Oh and btw, where are all the complaints when a game character is a muscled 6 foot tall guy who can lift a ton?
Is he only allowed to wear clothing that can fit inside of a Tic-Tac box? Is his entire purpose in the story to tell the female protagonist how awesome she is and then get killed at a dramatic moment so that she will have something to be angry about? And are there copies of him in half of the movies, books, video games and TV shows on the market?
No? Then it's not the same thing at all.
Don't like a game? Don't play it and shut up.
I'm curious. Would you like us to do as you say, or do as you do?
In the glory gays of gaming you could swear and taunt and not have to worry about getting arrested for homophobia, racism, anti-semitism, misogyny etc.
Whereas nowadays SWAT teams are standing by to immediately arrest and imprison people for inappropriate use of language.
Heck, I'm still picketing the Supreme Court demanding the release of Mel Gibson.
Really, what criminal is going to say: "Okay Google, set a reminder for 6pm Thursday to abduct Susie from the Playground on the corner of 5th and Lexington"?
Well, there's this guy. And there's this guy. And this guy. But aside from that I'm sure that every other criminal is smart enough not to write anything down where it could easily be picked up by investigators.
"Nigel gave me a drawing that said 18 inches. Now, whether or not he knows the difference between feet and inches is not my problem. I do what I'm told."
"But you're not as confused as him, are you? I mean, it's not your job to be as confused as Nigel."
The accepted minimum population required to maintain a viable gene pool is around 80 pairs. If you start with any less than that, or if there is significant genetic overlap between members of the group, then you're going to wind up being more inbred than the royal family.
"Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?"
"Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious...service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature."
"I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor."
Perhaps you should recognize that different cultures have different perspectives on food, and that that diversity is what makes eating food from different cultures interesting.
Or, instead, you could develop a robot which will allow you to enforce your own personal culinary tastes on people all over the world.
maybe if Canadian shows were any good, they would get naturally popular as well. Fucking dumbasses.
Hell yeah. If Canada could produce anything as good as The Tudors, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ray Bradbury Theatre, SCTV, Prisoners of Gravity, This Hour Has 22 Minutes or The Kids in the Hall, then they wouldn't suck.
So long as he does a good job (and he has) and does use his position of power to push those beliefs on others (he hasn't) you have nothing to complain about.
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sweeden is what, the size of new jersey?? what is the population in sweeden?
Wait... Does New Jersey have fabulous net connections and they just aren't telling anybody about it?
I see a schooner.
I've even heard one is now an 'award winning, indie game designer'. Har!
The Boston Festival of Independent Games and Massachusetts Digital Games Institute thought that was pretty funny too.
Perhaps it would be worth looking at where all that money comes from, then.
In 2012 US consumers spent $8.4 billion on console games, including your preorders of Medal of Honor Warfighter and Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor.
That same year the Candy Crush crowd spent $6.5 billion on casual websites, mobile gaming and social network based games.
If your criteria of "Gamer" means "spends a lot of money on games", then that's a fifteen billion dollar pile of gamers right there. It's not until you change the definition to mean "only likes the kind of games that I personally like and only in the way that I like them" that you get to pretend that 43% of that demographic doesn't exist.
Oh and btw, where are all the complaints when a game character is a muscled 6 foot tall guy who can lift a ton?
Is he only allowed to wear clothing that can fit inside of a Tic-Tac box? Is his entire purpose in the story to tell the female protagonist how awesome she is and then get killed at a dramatic moment so that she will have something to be angry about? And are there copies of him in half of the movies, books, video games and TV shows on the market?
No? Then it's not the same thing at all.
Don't like a game? Don't play it and shut up.
I'm curious. Would you like us to do as you say, or do as you do?
In the glory gays of gaming you could swear and taunt and not have to worry about getting arrested for homophobia, racism, anti-semitism, misogyny etc.
Whereas nowadays SWAT teams are standing by to immediately arrest and imprison people for inappropriate use of language.
Heck, I'm still picketing the Supreme Court demanding the release of Mel Gibson.
Well, if you're going to allow people from Florida then there's no contest any more.
Let's just make some popcorn and hand this over to Florida Man.
Really, what criminal is going to say: "Okay Google, set a reminder for 6pm Thursday to abduct Susie from the Playground on the corner of 5th and Lexington"?
Well, there's this guy. And there's this guy. And this guy. But aside from that I'm sure that every other criminal is smart enough not to write anything down where it could easily be picked up by investigators.
Now that is weird.
What does the size of the country have to do with it?
Not much, but the Americans would like everybody in the world to know that theirs is bigger.
An American football field will always be 100 yards.
And a Canadian football field is 110 yards with a 55 yard line right in the middle.
For extra credit, convert that into metres some time.
Nowadays it's called a "Student Loan" instead.
But "505 K" does.
"Nigel gave me a drawing that said 18 inches. Now, whether or not he knows the difference between feet and inches is not my problem. I do what I'm told."
"But you're not as confused as him, are you? I mean, it's not your job to be as confused as Nigel."
You're misunderstanding the problem. What you need to do is put up signs that explain to US drivers that the speed limit is a maximum, not a minimum.
Didn't Forrest Gump explain stupid to you?
Does it have something to do with not reading the card under the lid of the box of chocolates so that you would know what was inside?
The accepted minimum population required to maintain a viable gene pool is around 80 pairs. If you start with any less than that, or if there is significant genetic overlap between members of the group, then you're going to wind up being more inbred than the royal family.
"Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?"
"Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious...service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature."
"I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor."
Why did I perform a search on Yahoo!?
At all?
Calling it "Windows 8.2" would support the idea that Windows 9 was just an update.
Skipping straight to Windows 10 makes it look like they're either just messing with us, or trying to compete with WordPerfect again.
Perhaps you should recognize that different cultures have different perspectives on food, and that that diversity is what makes eating food from different cultures interesting.
Or, instead, you could develop a robot which will allow you to enforce your own personal culinary tastes on people all over the world.
One can generally buy a hundred rounds of .22LR for the cost of two or three rounds of .223 ammo.
Assuming one can *find* said .22LR.
Chet in Goodsprings usually has some, or you can try the gift ship inside the giant dinosaur statue in Novac.
And if you are very careful about which cherries you pick, you will find that they are all red.
No, yours was the first.
Nobody wants to see Netflix start shit like "this video is not available in your area".
Start?
maybe if Canadian shows were any good, they would get naturally popular as well. Fucking dumbasses.
Hell yeah. If Canada could produce anything as good as The Tudors, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ray Bradbury Theatre, SCTV, Prisoners of Gravity, This Hour Has 22 Minutes or The Kids in the Hall, then they wouldn't suck.
So long as he does a good job (and he has) and does use his position of power to push those beliefs on others (he hasn't) you have nothing to complain about.
Right. It's not like his government is shutting down libraries and burning books. That kind of thing only happens on American TV.