"When they're young you have to go with them" Do you really have to?
I am not a parent, so maybe I am clueless...But, is it really that much more dangerous for kids out there today, or are parents simply much more nervous and paranoid? When I was a kid, 30 years ago, kids went to the park, the mall, everywhere to play, by themselves! We rode our bikes to the mall, to the lake, to our friends houses, everywhere. I rode my bike 2 miles each way to elementary school, from ages 5 to 12. The kids who live on my block now are driven to the school, 2 blocks away, by their parents, and picked up every afternoon. This is in suburban Southern California, not some small town. So, is it more dangerous to be a kid now? Are more kids actually abducted now? Or are parents just paranoid and coddling their kids?
1200 baud?!? Where do you get off using such fancy high tech gear? We used 300 baud and we liked it! Oh, that wonderful day when I finally got my AppleCat! 1200 baud half duplex was like heaven.
"As for the gamecube, it just made me think of babytoys when I saw it, and I never touched it."
So you passed on a Video Game Console because of the way it looked? Where the hell does the looks of the thing even come into the discussion of a game console? You should be looking at the TV, not the console. Sorry son, but you are an idiot.
I do not shop at any grocery store with those stupid SuperSaver cards, for your exact reason. Why should I have to pay more so I don't get spammed? Well, it turns out that the grocery store chain in my area that doesn't have those stupid cards is also the cheapest by far. Win Win.
"Have you ever known any piece of technology to work for 25 years, let alone 10,000? Yeah, that's what I thought."
Umm, yes! There are plenty of 25+ year old cars running around, I have one myself. Heck, I have a HP calculator that is over 25 years old, works great. I am pretty sure my old Apple II+ will fire right up, it is almost 25 years old. I even have some T-shirts that old, still work just fine.
Wait a second?! You are admitting that there is the possibility of 100 360's out there that crash? In your previous message you called someone a liar because they said their 360 crashed. Make up your mind, asshole.
So, because yours doesn't crash, it means all of them don't crash?
It is ridiculous for you to make this post. "It's simply not true" was your title, implying that this guy is lying about his 360 crashing, because of course all 360's don't crash, because your 360 hasn't crashed in 2 days.
Asshole.
If you are so damn paranoid, what the hell are you doing posting on the Net?
The FBI agent assigned to tracking you (and only you) will be able to read your posts. Maybe he will be able to infer from your posts that you are a paranoid douche bag and use that against you!
Or, you could go on Ebay and buy a nice 5 stage Reverse Osmosis filter with storage tank for a little over a hundred bucks, which will provide you hundreds and hundreds of gallons of nearly pure water. The $100 RO filter in my house brings my tap water's TDS from 450 to 12 ppm. Add another $50 for replacement cartridges, and you are good for 3 years.
Dude, there are over 10,000 xbox 360's for sale on Ebay right now, almost all over $1000. Do you honestly believe that all 10k of those are going to sell? And at over $1000?
I think you are being overly sensitive here. He didn't disrespect Christianity in that post, he simply used Christianity as a way to describe Jack Thompson, as an adjective.
I guess you could be upset that a person like Jack Thompson is being associated with your religion, anyone would.
Here is one way to look at monthly fees. Lots of games coming out lately, especially for consoles, have very limited play, you can complete the game in 10-15 hours. Heck, the reviews I read said you can finish the single player campaign of Quake IV in 10 hours. Fable was about 12 hours. Those are games you payed $50 for. Now look at WoW. $50 bucks for the game, plus $15 a month, for say, a year. $230 for the year. At the Quake IV rate of $5 per hour of game, that is 46 hours of gameplay in the year. Anyone who only plays 46 hours in a year of WoW isn't really playing, that is less than an hour a week. Lets say you play 4 hours a week. That is 208 hours a year, or $1.11 an hour. Cheap compared to lots of other forms of entertainment. At that rate, a $50 game should give you 45 hours of gameplay. Given the gameplay hours available to you in WoW, even at $230 for the first year, it is a bargain.
No game stores that I know of will take a bundled title (one that came inside the console), such as Clone Wars (bundled with Xbox) in trade in for any amount of money. Hell, most won't even take it for free, and if they do, will immediately throw it away.
Well, it is their game, so they get to decide what is cheating and what isn't cheating. Don't agree with them? Don't play. I am sure lots of professional baseball players don't think steriods is cheating either, but MLB does so it is.
"the essential complete annexation of your entire personal and private computer system by Blizzard entertainment"
You forgot the raping of your children and the kicking of your dog.
"such as the ruling that just by driving a car you submit to random alcohol checks without just cause."
You agreed to that when you signed for your driver's license. Fighting those seat belt laws too?
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If you don't want to pay the monthly fee, then don't play the game.
I really don't understand why, every time WoW is mentioned, you get the usual idiots coming out of the woodwork bitching and complaining about the having to pay for the game and a monthly fee. If you don't want to pay, don't play. But do you really need to come here and bitch?
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"When they're young you have to go with them" Do you really have to?
I am not a parent, so maybe I am clueless...But, is it really that much more dangerous for kids out there today, or are parents simply much more nervous and paranoid? When I was a kid, 30 years ago, kids went to the park, the mall, everywhere to play, by themselves! We rode our bikes to the mall, to the lake, to our friends houses, everywhere. I rode my bike 2 miles each way to elementary school, from ages 5 to 12. The kids who live on my block now are driven to the school, 2 blocks away, by their parents, and picked up every afternoon. This is in suburban Southern California, not some small town. So, is it more dangerous to be a kid now? Are more kids actually abducted now? Or are parents just paranoid and coddling their kids?
1200 baud?!? Where do you get off using such fancy high tech gear? We used 300 baud and we liked it! Oh, that wonderful day when I finally got my AppleCat! 1200 baud half duplex was like heaven.
"As for the gamecube, it just made me think of babytoys when I saw it, and I never touched it."
So you passed on a Video Game Console because of the way it looked? Where the hell does the looks of the thing even come into the discussion of a game console? You should be looking at the TV, not the console. Sorry son, but you are an idiot.
The manual warns you to not walk like an elephant, or warns you not to play DDR?
I do not shop at any grocery store with those stupid SuperSaver cards, for your exact reason. Why should I have to pay more so I don't get spammed? Well, it turns out that the grocery store chain in my area that doesn't have those stupid cards is also the cheapest by far. Win Win.
Gotta love Stater Bros.
"Have you ever known any piece of technology to work for 25 years, let alone 10,000? Yeah, that's what I thought."
Umm, yes! There are plenty of 25+ year old cars running around, I have one myself. Heck, I have a HP calculator that is over 25 years old, works great. I am pretty sure my old Apple II+ will fire right up, it is almost 25 years old. I even have some T-shirts that old, still work just fine.
Wait a second?! You are admitting that there is the possibility of 100 360's out there that crash? In your previous message you called someone a liar because they said their 360 crashed. Make up your mind, asshole.
So, because yours doesn't crash, it means all of them don't crash? It is ridiculous for you to make this post. "It's simply not true" was your title, implying that this guy is lying about his 360 crashing, because of course all 360's don't crash, because your 360 hasn't crashed in 2 days. Asshole.
If you are so damn paranoid, what the hell are you doing posting on the Net? The FBI agent assigned to tracking you (and only you) will be able to read your posts. Maybe he will be able to infer from your posts that you are a paranoid douche bag and use that against you!
Or, you could go on Ebay and buy a nice 5 stage Reverse Osmosis filter with storage tank for a little over a hundred bucks, which will provide you hundreds and hundreds of gallons of nearly pure water. The $100 RO filter in my house brings my tap water's TDS from 450 to 12 ppm. Add another $50 for replacement cartridges, and you are good for 3 years.
Dude, there are over 10,000 xbox 360's for sale on Ebay right now, almost all over $1000. Do you honestly believe that all 10k of those are going to sell? And at over $1000?
And Merrill Lynch is some kind of bastion of impartiality and trust?
Come on, they have a reason the results of their study go one way. Who sponsered their study?
"Thanks for disrespecting Christianity"
I think you are being overly sensitive here. He didn't disrespect Christianity in that post, he simply used Christianity as a way to describe Jack Thompson, as an adjective.
I guess you could be upset that a person like Jack Thompson is being associated with your religion, anyone would.
Here is one way to look at monthly fees. Lots of games coming out lately, especially for consoles, have very limited play, you can complete the game in 10-15 hours. Heck, the reviews I read said you can finish the single player campaign of Quake IV in 10 hours. Fable was about 12 hours. Those are games you payed $50 for. Now look at WoW. $50 bucks for the game, plus $15 a month, for say, a year. $230 for the year. At the Quake IV rate of $5 per hour of game, that is 46 hours of gameplay in the year. Anyone who only plays 46 hours in a year of WoW isn't really playing, that is less than an hour a week. Lets say you play 4 hours a week. That is 208 hours a year, or $1.11 an hour. Cheap compared to lots of other forms of entertainment. At that rate, a $50 game should give you 45 hours of gameplay. Given the gameplay hours available to you in WoW, even at $230 for the first year, it is a bargain.
"but Saddam was hardly running a regime friendly to anyone but himself and his cronies"
Boy does that ever sound familiar....maybe is should be written
"but Bush was hardly running a regime friendly to anyone but himself and his cronies"
No game stores that I know of will take a bundled title (one that came inside the console), such as Clone Wars (bundled with Xbox) in trade in for any amount of money. Hell, most won't even take it for free, and if they do, will immediately throw it away.
Well, it is their game, so they get to decide what is cheating and what isn't cheating. Don't agree with them? Don't play. I am sure lots of professional baseball players don't think steriods is cheating either, but MLB does so it is.
"there is nothing morally wrong with using them" What?! Wow, nothing morally wrong with cheating? What is up with kids these days?
"the essential complete annexation of your entire personal and private computer system by Blizzard entertainment" You forgot the raping of your children and the kicking of your dog.
"such as the ruling that just by driving a car you submit to random alcohol checks without just cause." You agreed to that when you signed for your driver's license. Fighting those seat belt laws too?
The trial is free, they don't charge your credit card. But bitch some more, we really like to hear it.
To repeat this for the thousandth time....
If you don't like it, don't play!
Great input from the 12 year old's on /.
If you don't want to pay the monthly fee, then don't play the game.
I really don't understand why, every time WoW is mentioned, you get the usual idiots coming out of the woodwork bitching and complaining about the having to pay for the game and a monthly fee. If you don't want to pay, don't play. But do you really need to come here and bitch?
"One thing I can say about the past is... no reality shows!"
"Real People", "Candid Camera" and "Star Search" are the first to pop into my mind. I am sure there were more, but am having a senior moment.