The customers are in cars. They are served coffee in styrofoam cups with unstable lids. The combination makes spills rather likely. Maybe she shouldn't have put it between her legs, however. if she had been holding it in her hand and spilled it, she could have gotten similar amounts of burns. Would you have supported her lawsuit then?
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>>>...and they need to be more accessible to nongamers. ...and paintings need to be made to be more accessible to people who don't look at paintings, movies to people who don't watch movies....
I think the concept is that there aren't really people who don't look at paintings or go to movies. I'm not much for movies, but I've seen movies, and if you tell me there's this really great movie out, I can go see it. I'm not really into art, but I could spend the day at the art museum with family and probably enjoy it. There's not really people who have never seen a movie or a painting, however, there are people who have never played a video game, and more who have never played one with any clue of what they are doing. You tell a non-gamer that there's a great new game out, and they will not be able to enjoy it. You tell a person who doesn't like movies or paintings that there's a great new one out, and they can go see it and possibly enjoy it.
I agree that it was overrated. The puzzles were kind of interesting, but the battle system completely sucked. The girl was really annoying, too. I heard initially they were going to make her blind. That would have made a lot more sense, considering how she acted.
>>>But then there are misguided parents who prohibit a 12.5 year old from playing Super Smash Bros. Melee or Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 2 just because it was rated T in an era when the E10+ rating did not exist, without taking the time to review the game in such a close case.
So? That's the parents' decision. Why should we care how they make it? Besides, if they can't even bother to think that their 12.5-year-old might be mature enough for a 13+ game, then they really don't want to bother with a bunch of stupid traffic lights.
>>>the movie rating system (which most approve of and which seems to work at least to keep the controversy down) prevents children from seeing R rated movies(M rated games are roughly equal) unless they are accompanied by someone over 18. This would do nearly the same thing for games.
The current system is just like that for games. There's no law enforcing movie ratings. Also, this law does not follow the ratings. How would you feel if you were working at a movie theater and had to decide whether or not to let a 14 year old into a PG-13 film because it might be considered violent under some vague law? That's what this law will do to games. I just wish this law and other like it would be based off the ratings system that been working well for years. What to fine someone for selling GTA to a 9-year old? Ok. Want to make some poor clerk have to debate whether or not a T (Teen, 13+) rated game is too violent for a 14 year old? That's just retarded.
I think the biggest benifit of having the PS3 play Blu-Ray is to the Blu-Ray makers. People probably won't care enough about Blu-Ray to make it a big selling point; however, a lot of people will buy PS3s anyways, and once they have a system that plays Blu-Ray they might just pick up some Blu-Ray movies. I really think that Blu-Ray is going to slaughter the HD competition because of this.
I go to regular smash bros. tournies in my neighborhood, and lots of people go. You're peers are dumb.
That being said, I do see a perception problem. Even though most of the gamers I know love nintendo games, they all pretty much think Nintendo will go the way of Sega, at best. Time after time I see Nintendo make good business decisions (such as selling Rare right when they started to suck) just to have the media and even their fans misinterpret it and think it's a sign that Nintendo is stupid and going to die. I'm really afraid that if enough people think Nintendo is dieing, then they're going to make it happen, because they won't buy Nintendo's stuff because they won't have faith in them.
>>What happened to all the talented game developers out there? The guy who come up with PacMan? What about Tetris? Quake was a revolutionary game, Dungeons and Dragons? Have all the smart people, who are able to concoct a difficult puzzle working on the next release of Myst? What happened to the guy who wrote Burger Time? Did the guys who made the first Killer Instinct all retire? What happened to games like Zelda, and Super Mario Bros?
All of those games (with the exception of Burger Time and Killer Instinct) are still around, although in many people's opinion they've really been done to death. Zelda I think would still have some life left if they put some time into it and bother to make more than 5 dungeons like they did the last few games. Hopefully Twilight Princess will make up for those though.
I like gaming a lot, but I tend to play old games more. I'm really into Chrono Cross right. There's probably thousands of great old games you probably missed over the years, so if you don't like the new ones, there's a lot you can still play.
I hate it when people tell others who can't find a job to move. That doesn't fix everything. Most people who move because they're poor just wind up being poor somewhere else. Sometimes even poorer, since moving in itslef cost money as well, and now they're in a new city were they don't know anyone, don't have a support group of friends and family for bad times, and don't have a network of people they can hear about jobs through. Moving does not magically make people rich.
It's cheating only if the other partner defines it as cheating. And, yeah, it will probably break up some marriages, but only if the people in the marriage are stupid. There's like 8 billion people on earth, it's not like it's hard to find someone to leave your marriage for anyways.
They all play the same games. Pick the one you like the best, and stick with it,it's not like it's going to die when the new gameboy comes out. Also, the newer ones aren't the best, in everyone's opinion. The micro is too small for some people, the brighter SP is too bright for some (my husband plays it in bed while I try to sleep, trust me, the old one is bright enough), and I've even seen some freaks claim the original GBA is the best. Everyone's different.
I know a lot of 20-somethings with gameboys. In fact, most of the 20-somethings I know aren't even interested in PSPs. But, ya know, statistics of your friends don't really mean all that much....
Do you mean joysticks, as in on an Atari controller, or thumbsticks, as in modern controllers? Because obviously no one has ever claimed that nintendo invented joysticks. And, since you're so knowledgable, why don't you tell me who invented them if not nintendo?
Nintendo so created the analog controller. Who had it before them? No one. There were joysticks, but not analog sticks like all controllers have now. Also, I think creating the first free-movement 3D platformer is a major achievement, much more so than creating a game on rails.
hardware can't be pirated, but as I understand, china has plenty of cheap consoles, gotten in ways their makers didn't want them to. I think the part where they make the consoles helps them get them.
>>>They didn't change when they went from being a Funcoland
They didn't? Well then you must have had the shittiest Funcoland ever.
Funcoland kept the name long after they were bought by Gamestop. I'm assuming the grandparent poster was refering to a Gamestop Funcoland before and after they changed the sign, and in that case, he's correct, since nothing else changed with the sign.
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The customers are in cars. They are served coffee in styrofoam cups with unstable lids. The combination makes spills rather likely. Maybe she shouldn't have put it between her legs, however. if she had been holding it in her hand and spilled it, she could have gotten similar amounts of burns. Would you have supported her lawsuit then?
>>>...and they need to be more accessible to nongamers.
...and paintings need to be made to be more accessible to people who don't look at paintings, movies to people who don't watch movies....
I think the concept is that there aren't really people who don't look at paintings or go to movies. I'm not much for movies, but I've seen movies, and if you tell me there's this really great movie out, I can go see it. I'm not really into art, but I could spend the day at the art museum with family and probably enjoy it. There's not really people who have never seen a movie or a painting, however, there are people who have never played a video game, and more who have never played one with any clue of what they are doing. You tell a non-gamer that there's a great new game out, and they will not be able to enjoy it. You tell a person who doesn't like movies or paintings that there's a great new one out, and they can go see it and possibly enjoy it.
I agree that it was overrated. The puzzles were kind of interesting, but the battle system completely sucked. The girl was really annoying, too. I heard initially they were going to make her blind. That would have made a lot more sense, considering how she acted.
>>One EB apparently took 200 pre-orders and is getting 14.
That is why I don't preorder stuff. You give them your money, and *maybe* they'll have it in when they're supposed to.
>>>What was the last non-Metroid game you played where the heroine didn't show any cleavage before the ending, if at all?
>>Final Fantasy X
Lulu had enough cleavage to make up for any Yuna didn't show.
>>X-box had halo, nintendo had ehh... final fantasy? or was the sony?
X-box has Halo, PS2 has Final Fantasy, and Nintendo has... Nintendo.
How do you find out what place you need to go to?
It would be better if they gave instructions. Seriously, can you tell me how to play this thing?
I have fireworld for my Atari, however, I have yet to figure out how to actually play it. That's the problem with old old games. They make no sense.
>>>But then there are misguided parents who prohibit a 12.5 year old from playing Super Smash Bros. Melee or Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 2 just because it was rated T in an era when the E10+ rating did not exist, without taking the time to review the game in such a close case.
So? That's the parents' decision. Why should we care how they make it? Besides, if they can't even bother to think that their 12.5-year-old might be mature enough for a 13+ game, then they really don't want to bother with a bunch of stupid traffic lights.
I like option 1.
>>>the movie rating system (which most approve of and which seems to work at least to keep the controversy down) prevents children from seeing R rated movies(M rated games are roughly equal) unless they are accompanied by someone over 18. This would do nearly the same thing for games.
The current system is just like that for games. There's no law enforcing movie ratings. Also, this law does not follow the ratings. How would you feel if you were working at a movie theater and had to decide whether or not to let a 14 year old into a PG-13 film because it might be considered violent under some vague law? That's what this law will do to games. I just wish this law and other like it would be based off the ratings system that been working well for years. What to fine someone for selling GTA to a 9-year old? Ok. Want to make some poor clerk have to debate whether or not a T (Teen, 13+) rated game is too violent for a 14 year old? That's just retarded.
I think the biggest benifit of having the PS3 play Blu-Ray is to the Blu-Ray makers. People probably won't care enough about Blu-Ray to make it a big selling point; however, a lot of people will buy PS3s anyways, and once they have a system that plays Blu-Ray they might just pick up some Blu-Ray movies. I really think that Blu-Ray is going to slaughter the HD competition because of this.
I go to regular smash bros. tournies in my neighborhood, and lots of people go. You're peers are dumb.
That being said, I do see a perception problem. Even though most of the gamers I know love nintendo games, they all pretty much think Nintendo will go the way of Sega, at best. Time after time I see Nintendo make good business decisions (such as selling Rare right when they started to suck) just to have the media and even their fans misinterpret it and think it's a sign that Nintendo is stupid and going to die. I'm really afraid that if enough people think Nintendo is dieing, then they're going to make it happen, because they won't buy Nintendo's stuff because they won't have faith in them.
>>What happened to all the talented game developers out there? The guy who come up with PacMan? What about Tetris? Quake was a revolutionary game, Dungeons and Dragons? Have all the smart people, who are able to concoct a difficult puzzle working on the next release of Myst? What happened to the guy who wrote Burger Time? Did the guys who made the first Killer Instinct all retire? What happened to games like Zelda, and Super Mario Bros?
All of those games (with the exception of Burger Time and Killer Instinct) are still around, although in many people's opinion they've really been done to death. Zelda I think would still have some life left if they put some time into it and bother to make more than 5 dungeons like they did the last few games. Hopefully Twilight Princess will make up for those though.
I like gaming a lot, but I tend to play old games more. I'm really into Chrono Cross right. There's probably thousands of great old games you probably missed over the years, so if you don't like the new ones, there's a lot you can still play.
Move. The economy is doing fabulous.
I hate it when people tell others who can't find a job to move. That doesn't fix everything. Most people who move because they're poor just wind up being poor somewhere else. Sometimes even poorer, since moving in itslef cost money as well, and now they're in a new city were they don't know anyone, don't have a support group of friends and family for bad times, and don't have a network of people they can hear about jobs through. Moving does not magically make people rich.
It's cheating only if the other partner defines it as cheating. And, yeah, it will probably break up some marriages, but only if the people in the marriage are stupid. There's like 8 billion people on earth, it's not like it's hard to find someone to leave your marriage for anyways.
They all play the same games. Pick the one you like the best, and stick with it,it's not like it's going to die when the new gameboy comes out. Also, the newer ones aren't the best, in everyone's opinion. The micro is too small for some people, the brighter SP is too bright for some (my husband plays it in bed while I try to sleep, trust me, the old one is bright enough), and I've even seen some freaks claim the original GBA is the best. Everyone's different.
I know a lot of 20-somethings with gameboys. In fact, most of the 20-somethings I know aren't even interested in PSPs. But, ya know, statistics of your friends don't really mean all that much....
Do you mean joysticks, as in on an Atari controller, or thumbsticks, as in modern controllers? Because obviously no one has ever claimed that nintendo invented joysticks. And, since you're so knowledgable, why don't you tell me who invented them if not nintendo?
Nintendo so created the analog controller. Who had it before them? No one. There were joysticks, but not analog sticks like all controllers have now. Also, I think creating the first free-movement 3D platformer is a major achievement, much more so than creating a game on rails.
>>every time a company holds your property hostage, god kills a lobbyist/shill.
Don't we wish.
hardware can't be pirated, but as I understand, china has plenty of cheap consoles, gotten in ways their makers didn't want them to. I think the part where they make the consoles helps them get them.
They'll be plenty of revo zeldas, but I'm glad they're making on last cube zelda.
>>>They didn't change when they went from being a Funcoland
They didn't? Well then you must have had the shittiest Funcoland ever.
Funcoland kept the name long after they were bought by Gamestop. I'm assuming the grandparent poster was refering to a Gamestop Funcoland before and after they changed the sign, and in that case, he's correct, since nothing else changed with the sign.