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Yeah, seriously... I just stopped by my local (DC-area) Babbage's to pick up my reserved copy of MGS2, and the staff was incredibly relieved that I wasn't there to ask about the Xbox -- apparently they are getting absolutely swamped with Xbox inquiries, and every store in the area sold out its Xbox preorders weeks ago.
But, of course, there are plenty of Gamecubes around.:-)
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Import the Japanese Xbox controllers. According to people who have seen it, it's considerably smaller and better shaped.
I'd like to import some Japanese women, for the same reasons.
GTA3 isn't supposed to be a driving simulator, so I think it's a bit unfair to judge it on those merits. I've had it for about three weeks, and only recently have I gotten bored (because the missions have gotten rather difficult). The more that you play, you get more variety and better toys. The second island is loaded with Ferraris and rocket launchers.:-) Is it realistic? Not really. But that isn't the point.
The game does have its faults, of course. My primary complaint is that it froze my PS2 once, and has suffered odd graphical glitches on two other occasions. (I've never seen a game crash a PS2 before.) In terms of gameplay, I think that the police are too omnipotent once you get past four "wanted" stars, and I didn't like the indestructable truck on the "retrieve evidence" mission -- all of the other "destruction" missions allow you the choice of either using your vehicle (both battering and flipping) or weapons to demolish the target, but that damn truck was able to flip itself over and drive away from a crash!
I mostly agree with your comments re: PC gaming, but I'll add that one thing I like about console gaming is the lack of pseudo-sports bullshit. I think the lamest thing possible, even lamer than riceboy Civics, is how these teenage CS players form "clans" and start talking in sports terminology about having "scrimmages" and such. This is a mental defect found amongst all FPS games, from Doom to Tribes 2, and I find it disgusting.
And there's the age-old observation that different platforms are suited to different types of games. PCs rule the FPS and RTS worlds, while consoles rule the action and RPG (don't argue, just agree that the last decent computer-based RPG was Nethack) worlds.
GTA3 isn't the only kick-ass game for PS2. Devil May Cry, Onimusha Warlord, Silent Hill 2, Soul Calibur 2, Ico, and, of course, MGS2 are all awesome. True, the PS2 was weak at launch, but most of us didn't care, because we couldn't buy one.:-)
(Actually, I was able to get a PS2 off of eBay rather early on, and I just played PSX games for a month or so. This speaks well of the strength of the PSX platform -- the first game that I purchased for my PS2 was FFIX, a PSX game!)
Anyway, I'm not saying that the PS2 is perfect, but GTA3 far from carries the platform. Onimusha, Ico, and Devil May Cry have all been lauded as amazing games by the reviewers who count. Now, with GTA3, MGS2, and GT3, the PS2 will have six blockbuster games by Xmas. Halo may be worth one of those games, but not two, and no where close to five. By the time that Xbox has three or four decent games, FFX will be out (hell yeah!) and Sony will start circulating launch date rumours for the PS3.
Unfortunately, buying a YOPY requires MONEY. The Slashdork crew is unfortunately "low" on money, due to the fact that they are untalented wannabes eeking by on modest banner-advertisement revenue. The stock options which they once thought would be their tickets to success are now worthless -- and rightfully so; it is preposterous that such lazy losers should make money without doing any actual work.
Rob Malda, the wannabe hacker and latecomer otaku, will soon be out on the streets, begging for spare change by the traffic light. He will spend his nights in a local shopping center, rubbing his ass against the shopping carts for kicks.
Jeff Bates, the wannabe scientist, will be forced to pimp out his little wifey -- amusing, because she's been an amateur whore for so many years already. Bates's primary customer will be Malda, whose Quarter Cartel shall make him one of the most prosperous bums in shopping center.
Gay Nik, although never really part of the Slashdork crew, will join this merry gang of homeless beggers, too, because what questionable BSD "skills" he many have are worthless in this day and age, a day and age in which *BSD is dying. (OpenBSD will never lose any users, though, because the only users it ever had were Theo "The Rat" De Raadt and his canine lover, Farmer.)
Jon Katz, a man who couldn't write an interesting article to save his life but whose knowledge of Microsoft Word's "spell check" facilities makes him a twerp among lamers at the Geek Compound, will make his living by designing the Slashdork crew's "Homeless, five children, please help, godbless" signage. Interestingly enough, the signs prove more of a challenge to Katz than any of the meaningless drivel that he ever spewed while leeching off of Slashdot.
CowboyNeal would be able to subsist on his own fat stores for approximately fifty years, if he weren't destined to be harpooned and eaten by a gang of minority squirrels.
Timothy Gaybone, Michael "Censorship NAZI" Himmler, Jamie "Gay Nights Online" McCarthy, Emmett "Stupid" Galacticon, and Krow the Wannabe DBA will also reside in the shopping center, and provide blowjobs on demand to the local "nerdcore" fetish group.
Unfortunately, purchases require money. The Slashdork crew is unfortunately "low" on money, due to the fact that they are untalented wannabes eeking by on modest banner-advertisement revenue. The stock options which they once thought would be their tickets to success are now worthless -- and rightfully so; it is preposterous that such lazy losers should make money without doing any actual work.
Rob Malda, the wannabe hacker and latecomer otaku, will soon be out on the streets, begging for spare change by the traffic light. He will spend his nights in a local shopping center, rubbing his ass against the shopping carts for kicks.
Jeff Bates, the wannabe scientist, will be forced to pimp out his little wifey -- amusing, because she's been an amateur whore for so many years already. Bates's primary customer will be Malda, whose Quarter Cartel shall make him one of the most prosperous bums in shopping center.
Gay Nik, although never really part of the Slashdork crew, will join this merry gang of homeless beggers, too, because what questionable BSD "skills" he many have are worthless in this day and age, a day and age in which *BSD is dying. (OpenBSD will never lose any users, though, because the only users it ever had were Theo "The Rat" De Raadt and his canine lover, Farmer.)
Jon Katz, a man who couldn't write an interesting article to save his life but whose knowledge of Microsoft Word's "spell check" facilities makes him a twerp among lamers at the Geek Compound, will make his living by designing the Slashdork crew's "Homeless, five children, please help, godbless" signage. Interestingly enough, the signs prove more of a challenge to Katz than any of the meaningless drivel that he ever spewed while leeching off of Slashdot.
CowboyNeal would be able to subsist on his own fat stores for approximately fifty years, if he weren't destined to be harpooned and eaten by a gang of minority squirrels.
Timothy Gaybone, Michael "Censorship NAZI" Himmler, Jamie "Gay Nights Online" McCarthy, Emmett "Stupid" Galacticon, and Krow the Wannabe DBA will also reside in the shopping center, and provide blowjobs on demand to the local "nerdcore" fetish group.
And Halo will play on my Mac sometime next year, i can wait.
Excuse me, sir, but could you please tell me where you purchased such high-quality "crack" cocaine as that which you now smoke? My local purveyor of illicit substances offers cocaine, but as I am unable to practice such grand acts of self-delusion as yourself, this cocaine must not be as high-quality as the cocaine which you yourself have been recently smoking. If you would be so kind as to provide me with the name and street corner of the fine gentlemen from whom you purchased this supply of power-ful "crack" cocaine, I would be very much in gratitude. Thank you, sir, for your time.
Thank you. I, too, pay for my games. I also pay for decent hardware (instead of overclocking shite) and decent operating systems (instead of using Cheap Software wannabes), but that's a different story...
Massachusetts also rejects hygiene
by THE_MESSENGER, Troll Staff Writer
CAMBRIDGE - Massachusetts may have rejected the latest Microsoft-DOJ settlement, but not for the reasons that you suspect. "The underlying technology issues are, of course, important," explains Cheap Software advocate Dick Stallman. "But we Nor'easters have much more disdain for Microsoft's clean-cut image than anything relating to antitrust."
Stallman says that Microsoft representatives' short hair, clean business suits, and lack of putrefying body odour offend delicate Massachusetts sensibilities. Stallman elaborates: "As a dirty hippy, you expect me to loathe all organisms which to not exude the fetid stench of marijuana-soaked roadkill. But even the most respected Boston man reeks of jungle feces. It is in fact my carefully cultivated odour that makes me the most respected name in hacking, not my mediocre BASIC programming skills."
Governor Jane Swift agrees. "The sweet smell of rotting flesh and fecal fulmination is a core value of the people of Massachusetts and our neighboring states. Microsoft's lawyers mocked our traditions throughout the trial, by insisting on washing their hair and cleaning their ears. I've been told that these Northwesterners even clip their toenails!" Governor Swift shuddered, and waves of her monthly feminine pollution wafted toward this reporter like a Vietcong army. "We can't be associated with people who clip their toenails."
It appears that Massachusetts is not alone in its aversion to Microsoft's spring-fresh ways. The state motto of New Hampsire is "Stinky or Die," and its residents showcase the same hard-line avoidance of hygiene as their Massachusetts brethren. "Them Mackersoft boys must be some sort of Communists," proclaiming Earl McFadden, a local lobsterman. "Ayuh, I done heard that them suited freaks take a shower every day of God's week. That just ain't natural."
Mr. McFadden then pulled open the front of his trousers and spat onto his crotch.
Microsoft may have trouble selling these states on the latest agreement, but they'll definitely try. Spokesmen for the Redmond, Washington-based software behemoth report that a special edition of its flagship operating system, WindowsXP, is being prepared to woo Massachusetts into further talks. "WindowsMA," reads the released press statement, "combines the power of WindowsXP with ActiveStench technology." OfficeMA, a companion product, features a new "Larry the Lobster" Office Assistant, and disables the Massachusetts-unfriendly "Spell Check" feature.
--- IMAGINE A BEOWULF CLUSTER OF IBM LINUX BOX CLUSTERS, YOU LOSERS! ---
A pity. I like the "instant-on", "plug'n'play" aspects of older consoles which almost make them seem like solid-state toys than computers. I believe that the evolution of the console into a PC will be the death of the genre. It may not seem like much, but the noise from the cooling fan really bothers me when I'm not using headphones.
Okay, another noise-related question: are the disc drives in the 'Cube and 'Box as noisy as the PS2's? I picked up GTA3 a few weeks ago, and while the game rocks, the damn disc is thrashing 70% of the time that I'm playing. A minor detail, sure, but yet another reminder that I'm playing with a computer. I truly believe that the computer game v. video game distinction is crucial to maintain.
If I know Nintendo -- and as someone who's played since the NES, I think I do -- their console will prove to be the most "video game"-like of the three. And I'm not necessarily going to count the 'Cube out just because it doesn't have blood and guns... Nintendo knows how to make very fun games, fun in its purest sense. I've spent more time playing Super Mario Kart 64 with my friends and family than I've spent playing Quake 3, and I believe that Nintendo will retain that special something that makes its games approachable and fun for all ages.
I've been told that a new Star Fox game is in the works as well. Star Fox rocked on the SNES and N64, so I am confident that it will rock on the 'Cube. Add Metroid to the mix, and you have the makings of a successful platform's first year.
Does the 'Cube have a fan? For that matter, does the X-box? I love my PS2, but I don't like its cooling fan -- I play games to get away from the drone of PC cooling fans.;-)
Sort of like how the "editors" (snicker) go back and remove their spelling errors, fix HTML, and remove bad links from the "article" headings once these errors have been pointed out.
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But, of course, there are plenty of Gamecubes around. :-)
The game does have its faults, of course. My primary complaint is that it froze my PS2 once, and has suffered odd graphical glitches on two other occasions. (I've never seen a game crash a PS2 before.) In terms of gameplay, I think that the police are too omnipotent once you get past four "wanted" stars, and I didn't like the indestructable truck on the "retrieve evidence" mission -- all of the other "destruction" missions allow you the choice of either using your vehicle (both battering and flipping) or weapons to demolish the target, but that damn truck was able to flip itself over and drive away from a crash!
I mostly agree with your comments re: PC gaming, but I'll add that one thing I like about console gaming is the lack of pseudo-sports bullshit. I think the lamest thing possible, even lamer than riceboy Civics, is how these teenage CS players form "clans" and start talking in sports terminology about having "scrimmages" and such. This is a mental defect found amongst all FPS games, from Doom to Tribes 2, and I find it disgusting.
And there's the age-old observation that different platforms are suited to different types of games. PCs rule the FPS and RTS worlds, while consoles rule the action and RPG (don't argue, just agree that the last decent computer-based RPG was Nethack) worlds.
(Actually, I was able to get a PS2 off of eBay rather early on, and I just played PSX games for a month or so. This speaks well of the strength of the PSX platform -- the first game that I purchased for my PS2 was FFIX, a PSX game!)
Anyway, I'm not saying that the PS2 is perfect, but GTA3 far from carries the platform. Onimusha, Ico, and Devil May Cry have all been lauded as amazing games by the reviewers who count. Now, with GTA3, MGS2, and GT3, the PS2 will have six blockbuster games by Xmas. Halo may be worth one of those games, but not two, and no where close to five. By the time that Xbox has three or four decent games, FFX will be out (hell yeah!) and Sony will start circulating launch date rumours for the PS3.
Rob Malda, the wannabe hacker and latecomer otaku, will soon be out on the streets, begging for spare change by the traffic light. He will spend his nights in a local shopping center, rubbing his ass against the shopping carts for kicks.
Jeff Bates, the wannabe scientist, will be forced to pimp out his little wifey -- amusing, because she's been an amateur whore for so many years already. Bates's primary customer will be Malda, whose Quarter Cartel shall make him one of the most prosperous bums in shopping center.
Gay Nik, although never really part of the Slashdork crew, will join this merry gang of homeless beggers, too, because what questionable BSD "skills" he many have are worthless in this day and age, a day and age in which *BSD is dying. (OpenBSD will never lose any users, though, because the only users it ever had were Theo "The Rat" De Raadt and his canine lover, Farmer.)
Jon Katz, a man who couldn't write an interesting article to save his life but whose knowledge of Microsoft Word's "spell check" facilities makes him a twerp among lamers at the Geek Compound, will make his living by designing the Slashdork crew's "Homeless, five children, please help, godbless" signage. Interestingly enough, the signs prove more of a challenge to Katz than any of the meaningless drivel that he ever spewed while leeching off of Slashdot.
CowboyNeal would be able to subsist on his own fat stores for approximately fifty years, if he weren't destined to be harpooned and eaten by a gang of minority squirrels.
Timothy Gaybone, Michael "Censorship NAZI" Himmler, Jamie "Gay Nights Online" McCarthy, Emmett "Stupid" Galacticon, and Krow the Wannabe DBA will also reside in the shopping center, and provide blowjobs on demand to the local "nerdcore" fetish group.
Fuck you.
Rob Malda, the wannabe hacker and latecomer otaku, will soon be out on the streets, begging for spare change by the traffic light. He will spend his nights in a local shopping center, rubbing his ass against the shopping carts for kicks.
Jeff Bates, the wannabe scientist, will be forced to pimp out his little wifey -- amusing, because she's been an amateur whore for so many years already. Bates's primary customer will be Malda, whose Quarter Cartel shall make him one of the most prosperous bums in shopping center.
Gay Nik, although never really part of the Slashdork crew, will join this merry gang of homeless beggers, too, because what questionable BSD "skills" he many have are worthless in this day and age, a day and age in which *BSD is dying. (OpenBSD will never lose any users, though, because the only users it ever had were Theo "The Rat" De Raadt and his canine lover, Farmer.)
Jon Katz, a man who couldn't write an interesting article to save his life but whose knowledge of Microsoft Word's "spell check" facilities makes him a twerp among lamers at the Geek Compound, will make his living by designing the Slashdork crew's "Homeless, five children, please help, godbless" signage. Interestingly enough, the signs prove more of a challenge to Katz than any of the meaningless drivel that he ever spewed while leeching off of Slashdot.
CowboyNeal would be able to subsist on his own fat stores for approximately fifty years, if he weren't destined to be harpooned and eaten by a gang of minority squirrels.
Timothy Gaybone, Michael "Censorship NAZI" Himmler, Jamie "Gay Nights Online" McCarthy, Emmett "Stupid" Galacticon, and Krow the Wannabe DBA will also reside in the shopping center, and provide blowjobs on demand to the local "nerdcore" fetish group.
Fuck you.
Thank you. I, too, pay for my games. I also pay for decent hardware (instead of overclocking shite) and decent operating systems (instead of using Cheap Software wannabes), but that's a different story...
She's probably a fat goth. The only girls who are into computers or video games are fat goth groupies. Mae Ling Mak is a perfect example.
by THE_MESSENGER, Troll Staff Writer
CAMBRIDGE - Massachusetts may have rejected the latest Microsoft-DOJ settlement, but not for the reasons that you suspect. "The underlying technology issues are, of course, important," explains Cheap Software advocate Dick Stallman. "But we Nor'easters have much more disdain for Microsoft's clean-cut image than anything relating to antitrust."
Stallman says that Microsoft representatives' short hair, clean business suits, and lack of putrefying body odour offend delicate Massachusetts sensibilities. Stallman elaborates: "As a dirty hippy, you expect me to loathe all organisms which to not exude the fetid stench of marijuana-soaked roadkill. But even the most respected Boston man reeks of jungle feces. It is in fact my carefully cultivated odour that makes me the most respected name in hacking, not my mediocre BASIC programming skills."
Governor Jane Swift agrees. "The sweet smell of rotting flesh and fecal fulmination is a core value of the people of Massachusetts and our neighboring states. Microsoft's lawyers mocked our traditions throughout the trial, by insisting on washing their hair and cleaning their ears. I've been told that these Northwesterners even clip their toenails!" Governor Swift shuddered, and waves of her monthly feminine pollution wafted toward this reporter like a Vietcong army. "We can't be associated with people who clip their toenails."
It appears that Massachusetts is not alone in its aversion to Microsoft's spring-fresh ways. The state motto of New Hampsire is "Stinky or Die," and its residents showcase the same hard-line avoidance of hygiene as their Massachusetts brethren. "Them Mackersoft boys must be some sort of Communists," proclaiming Earl McFadden, a local lobsterman. "Ayuh, I done heard that them suited freaks take a shower every day of God's week. That just ain't natural."
Mr. McFadden then pulled open the front of his trousers and spat onto his crotch.
Microsoft may have trouble selling these states on the latest agreement, but they'll definitely try. Spokesmen for the Redmond, Washington-based software behemoth report that a special edition of its flagship operating system, WindowsXP, is being prepared to woo Massachusetts into further talks. "WindowsMA," reads the released press statement, "combines the power of WindowsXP with ActiveStench technology." OfficeMA, a companion product, features a new "Larry the Lobster" Office Assistant, and disables the Massachusetts-unfriendly "Spell Check" feature.
--- IMAGINE A BEOWULF CLUSTER OF IBM LINUX BOX CLUSTERS, YOU LOSERS! ---
Okay, another noise-related question: are the disc drives in the 'Cube and 'Box as noisy as the PS2's? I picked up GTA3 a few weeks ago, and while the game rocks, the damn disc is thrashing 70% of the time that I'm playing. A minor detail, sure, but yet another reminder that I'm playing with a computer. I truly believe that the computer game v. video game distinction is crucial to maintain.
If I know Nintendo -- and as someone who's played since the NES, I think I do -- their console will prove to be the most "video game"-like of the three. And I'm not necessarily going to count the 'Cube out just because it doesn't have blood and guns... Nintendo knows how to make very fun games, fun in its purest sense. I've spent more time playing Super Mario Kart 64 with my friends and family than I've spent playing Quake 3, and I believe that Nintendo will retain that special something that makes its games approachable and fun for all ages.
I've been told that a new Star Fox game is in the works as well. Star Fox rocked on the SNES and N64, so I am confident that it will rock on the 'Cube. Add Metroid to the mix, and you have the makings of a successful platform's first year.
Does the 'Cube have a fan? For that matter, does the X-box? I love my PS2, but I don't like its cooling fan -- I play games to get away from the drone of PC cooling fans. ;-)
Since your son is most likely already surfing for gay pr0n on your PC, why not just let him play CS and complete the abuse?
That's not sick, that's just stupid.
Microsoft announced that retailers may begin selling the Xbox, yesterday.
That still doesn't explain why uropeans are so faggy.
Grow up, kiddie.
Sort of like how the "editors" (snicker) go back and remove their spelling errors, fix HTML, and remove bad links from the "article" headings once these errors have been pointed out.
Your sig... is that original? If not, where is it from?
By "nicely tuned," you mean that it had purple foglamps and a "No Fear" decal, right?
Nope, it's actually just a big, thick log that's blocking the way. Hemos is doin' his best to break through, though!
The reason for this is that Slashdot is gay. Get over it and get back to work.
will never be able to handle Troll Tuesday. Slash is stupid. Perl is obsolete. Taco is gay. Hemos is a wannabe.