DUDE, trust me, 4 hours is hardcore. I had to hold it 4 hours on a trip from Texas to Tampico, Mexico...because in Mexico, the toilets have no seats and No. 2 is hard without seats.
Anyway, I agree, the Kidney issue would break the illiusion. Not to mention the fact that I felt LotR to be an iffy movie. I can read a book with recurring plot climax, but in a movie, it gets boring when the plot follows the exact same model...
Party Forms, Party Moves, Party finds lots of monsters, Party Kills Monsters, Party moves on.
All that changed was the characters and the monsters, and half the time, the characters were exactly the same.
In a book, that's okay, but in a movie, I'd like variety. I predicted this when I first heard LotR would be moved to the Big Screen.
However, I might just buy the 4-disc for Collectors purposes.
YES! Thank you! I was going to post this, but you got to it first!
PAWN SHOPS OWN! Go to a pawn shop and get DVDs, especially if it's near a military base. Half the time, if it's near a military base, you can get DVDs that were released just that week for about $10! That's like getting it next-to-new for about half price and you don't have to feed the beast, AND at the same time, support the First Sale Doctrine!
w00t! w00t! Have your cake, eat it, and ask for more!
Yeah, and when post X-mas comes around, it's always those "M for Mature" games that didn't make the list which are the most bought, and most returned by soccer moms who see Timmy in the floor on his X-Box shouting "Burn in hell, B*tches!" to a replaced Halo soundtrack featuring a ripped CD of ICP. These are also the same soccer moms who dismissed Anime as "porn cartoons" until they became popular on the Digital Nanny Box(TV).
I'm fairly sure a "Agree or lose money" contract is illegal pressure. It's know as extortion, I believe, because M$ knows that by the time you've got to the licensing agreement, you HAVE to agree to it, or you lose your money, because you can't return opened product to most stores for anything except the same thing, or (in the case of CompUSA) a 15%-20% open box fee. 15%-20% on an M$ product could easily be a load of cash.
c'mon, you know EVERYTHING Microsoft does is a secret. If they don't protect their secrets, people might partake in such willy-nilly activities as Free-speech! And Freedom leads to Open Source! We all know, as Microsft does, that Open Source is un-american (Uh-oh...un-american? Does that make Linux users terrorists?). MP3 is communism! Arggh!::sarcasm::
"Software pirates are nothing compared to the anal pirates @ Microsoft" -Anon
I work at a retailer, and I can say for a fact that ALL game consoles are sold at no more than $1 profit. In fact, we only get about 30 cents of profit on the X-Box, and about 70 cents of profit on the PS2. DC's are getting sold at about $150 loss @ most places now. We really recieve the shaft on the deal, but we have to get the shite out of the store.
Dear gawd!!! A night without gaming?! What the HFIL?! I cannot believe such things! Blasphemy! Just be glad there's not Inquisition, or j00 w0uld be reprimanded by the l337 police!
I'm fairly sure this "Gaming addiction" shite is generated by the same soccer moms who are getting GTA3 taken off the shelves and replaced with a softer, cuddlier version, because they want their little kids to play the "cool games" that demand because their friends have it, without exposing them to violence. Never mind just NOT GIVING THE KID THE STUPID GAME...(These parents, surprisingly enough, have enough time to pick fights with those of us old enough to handle such material, but haven't got enough time to look at the stupid ESRB ratings.) "Gaming Addiction" is just another excuse to villify the gaming industry in order to make soccer moms feel good about their parenting, without them actually doing anything POSITIVE.
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DUDE, trust me, 4 hours is hardcore. I had to hold it 4 hours on a trip from Texas to Tampico, Mexico...because in Mexico, the toilets have no seats and No. 2 is hard without seats. Anyway, I agree, the Kidney issue would break the illiusion. Not to mention the fact that I felt LotR to be an iffy movie. I can read a book with recurring plot climax, but in a movie, it gets boring when the plot follows the exact same model... Party Forms, Party Moves, Party finds lots of monsters, Party Kills Monsters, Party moves on. All that changed was the characters and the monsters, and half the time, the characters were exactly the same. In a book, that's okay, but in a movie, I'd like variety. I predicted this when I first heard LotR would be moved to the Big Screen. However, I might just buy the 4-disc for Collectors purposes.
YES! Thank you! I was going to post this, but you got to it first! PAWN SHOPS OWN! Go to a pawn shop and get DVDs, especially if it's near a military base. Half the time, if it's near a military base, you can get DVDs that were released just that week for about $10! That's like getting it next-to-new for about half price and you don't have to feed the beast, AND at the same time, support the First Sale Doctrine! w00t! w00t! Have your cake, eat it, and ask for more!
Rods and Spheres...could D&D get any more phallic?
Yeah, and when post X-mas comes around, it's always those "M for Mature" games that didn't make the list which are the most bought, and most returned by soccer moms who see Timmy in the floor on his X-Box shouting "Burn in hell, B*tches!" to a replaced Halo soundtrack featuring a ripped CD of ICP. These are also the same soccer moms who dismissed Anime as "porn cartoons" until they became popular on the Digital Nanny Box(TV).
I'm fairly sure a "Agree or lose money" contract is illegal pressure. It's know as extortion, I believe, because M$ knows that by the time you've got to the licensing agreement, you HAVE to agree to it, or you lose your money, because you can't return opened product to most stores for anything except the same thing, or (in the case of CompUSA) a 15%-20% open box fee. 15%-20% on an M$ product could easily be a load of cash.
c'mon, you know EVERYTHING Microsoft does is a secret. If they don't protect their secrets, people might partake in such willy-nilly activities as Free-speech! And Freedom leads to Open Source! We all know, as Microsft does, that Open Source is un-american (Uh-oh...un-american? Does that make Linux users terrorists?). MP3 is communism! Arggh! ::sarcasm::
"Software pirates are nothing compared to the anal pirates @ Microsoft" -Anon
Buy a G4 Mac.
I work at a retailer, and I can say for a fact that ALL game consoles are sold at no more than $1 profit. In fact, we only get about 30 cents of profit on the X-Box, and about 70 cents of profit on the PS2. DC's are getting sold at about $150 loss @ most places now. We really recieve the shaft on the deal, but we have to get the shite out of the store.
Dear gawd!!! A night without gaming?! What the HFIL?! I cannot believe such things! Blasphemy! Just be glad there's not Inquisition, or j00 w0uld be reprimanded by the l337 police!
I'm fairly sure this "Gaming addiction" shite is generated by the same soccer moms who are getting GTA3 taken off the shelves and replaced with a softer, cuddlier version, because they want their little kids to play the "cool games" that demand because their friends have it, without exposing them to violence. Never mind just NOT GIVING THE KID THE STUPID GAME...(These parents, surprisingly enough, have enough time to pick fights with those of us old enough to handle such material, but haven't got enough time to look at the stupid ESRB ratings.) "Gaming Addiction" is just another excuse to villify the gaming industry in order to make soccer moms feel good about their parenting, without them actually doing anything POSITIVE.