"Not that I have a problem with Windows, but it makes a really *bad* web server."
Uh, why? We use all Windows servers where I work, we host around 20 client sites, and we've never had a problem. Have you actually even used Windows as a web server?
"I'm inclined to just start pirating movies in bulk without even ever watching a single one of them, just for the purpose of distributing them to others."
Looks like someone forgot to check "Post Anonymously."
I think these new blogs are a welcome change to every other blog about how amazing Linkin Park is, your sweet new nautical star tattoos, lip piercings, and your favorite new songs from Falling Stars Forever Skies Burning Dying Daylight, etc.
"Why keep coming out with new cars models? There's nothing wrong with the ones we have already, right?"
Nice red herring, dick. But, entertaining your analogy, no, we do not need new cars every year. My point was that the consoles we have now are great. Releasing a new console really dries up the amount of software that comes out for its predecessor, in terms of quantity (N64) or quality (PSX). Going back to your dipshit analogy, it'd be like there was no more gas available to the older cars.
We don't need new systems! There's nothing wrong with the ones we have already!
By the end of the NES's lifecycle, we needed something new, the games all started looking the same. SNES died out 3D games started coming out. N64 started getting to be pretty tired, so we got the GameCube.
My point is that games are still coming out for these systems that look spectacular. Most notably, God of War on PS2, Resident Evil 4 on the Cube, and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory on Xbox. I can still pull out my Dreamcast (from 1999!) and be impressed by the graphics in Soul Calibur, Shenmue, Ikaruga, and Crazy Taxi.
I spent around $200 for each of my consoles, I want some more god damn milage with them!
The U2 edition iPod has a pretty good color scheme, but there are two reasons I refuse to get one:
It's goddamn U2.
I hear that whenever you play songs, it plays track 1, then 2, then 3, then 14 when it probably is supposed to play 1, 2, 3, 4. (I'm really stretching on this one)
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"So they went with the worst possible name."
At least until Nintendo unveils the RapeSphere CancerTron 256.
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"[T]here will be a laundry list of ho-hum crap on XBox2"
That's how system launches go nowadays. Here're the best games (in my opinion) to launch with systems in recent years:
Dreamcast: Sonic Adventure
PS2: SSX
GBA: Super Mario Advance (Mario 2)
GameCube: Luigi's Mansion
Xbox: Halo (well, I hated it, but I'm the only one)
DS: Mario 64
PSP: Lumines (I haven't played it, but this is what they say is the best)
The DS and PSP still need more time to prove themselves, but the rest of those games, save for maybe Sonic Adventure weren't really all that good. A new system doesn't need awesome games, it just needs lots of games. The early adopters will pay $50 for shitty games just so that they have something to play on their new systems. I always bought new systems based on the promise of good games in the future, and I really don't think I'm alone in that.
Shoot an IM to infocombot (or infocombot1, 2, 3, etc.) and play Shade. I could never tolerate text adventure games, but Shade is a nice, short one that you can beat in an afternoon at work.
When I was a PC tech, we'd always have fights with cans of compressed air by holding them upside down and spraying them at eachother. Imagine having a whole car running off of this that you could turn upside down and spray people with!
I disagree - I spend 364.25 days a year reading the normal articles, I think it's cool that one day out of the year we have articles like this. I say keep it up.
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"Not that I have a problem with Windows, but it makes a really *bad* web server."
Uh, why? We use all Windows servers where I work, we host around 20 client sites, and we've never had a problem. Have you actually even used Windows as a web server?
"I'm inclined to just start pirating movies in bulk without even ever watching a single one of them, just for the purpose of distributing them to others."
Looks like someone forgot to check "Post Anonymously."
I bet I can think of another thing that a "videogame pianist" has never done...
I think these new blogs are a welcome change to every other blog about how amazing Linkin Park is, your sweet new nautical star tattoos, lip piercings, and your favorite new songs from Falling Stars Forever Skies Burning Dying Daylight, etc.
"Why keep coming out with new cars models? There's nothing wrong with the ones we have already, right?"
Nice red herring, dick. But, entertaining your analogy, no, we do not need new cars every year. My point was that the consoles we have now are great. Releasing a new console really dries up the amount of software that comes out for its predecessor, in terms of quantity (N64) or quality (PSX). Going back to your dipshit analogy, it'd be like there was no more gas available to the older cars.
We don't need new systems! There's nothing wrong with the ones we have already!
By the end of the NES's lifecycle, we needed something new, the games all started looking the same. SNES died out 3D games started coming out. N64 started getting to be pretty tired, so we got the GameCube.
My point is that games are still coming out for these systems that look spectacular. Most notably, God of War on PS2, Resident Evil 4 on the Cube, and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory on Xbox. I can still pull out my Dreamcast (from 1999!) and be impressed by the graphics in Soul Calibur, Shenmue, Ikaruga, and Crazy Taxi.
I spent around $200 for each of my consoles, I want some more god damn milage with them!
"XBox 2 (I refuse to use '360')"
Yeah, I refuse to call things by what they're actually called too. It drives my girlfriend crazy when I call her "Deathface 5000" instead of "Molly."
"So they went with the worst possible name."
At least until Nintendo unveils the RapeSphere CancerTron 256.
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To cancel it out, I also wrote one that guarantees -5 Flamebait, too:
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"which checks to make sure you dont have a pirated/illegal copy (whatever THAT means)"
Uh, is it really that vague?
"[T]here will be a laundry list of ho-hum crap on XBox2"
That's how system launches go nowadays. Here're the best games (in my opinion) to launch with systems in recent years:
Dreamcast: Sonic Adventure
PS2: SSX
GBA: Super Mario Advance (Mario 2)
GameCube: Luigi's Mansion
Xbox: Halo (well, I hated it, but I'm the only one)
DS: Mario 64
PSP: Lumines (I haven't played it, but this is what they say is the best)
The DS and PSP still need more time to prove themselves, but the rest of those games, save for maybe Sonic Adventure weren't really all that good. A new system doesn't need awesome games, it just needs lots of games. The early adopters will pay $50 for shitty games just so that they have something to play on their new systems. I always bought new systems based on the promise of good games in the future, and I really don't think I'm alone in that.
Of course I'm sure there are many people that went to see The Passion of the Christ and said, "Don't tell me how it ends!"
I still can't believe that Bruce Willis turned out to be a ghost!
Shoot an IM to infocombot (or infocombot1, 2, 3, etc.) and play Shade. I could never tolerate text adventure games, but Shade is a nice, short one that you can beat in an afternoon at work.
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I'd argue that one of their main problems is that the service was called "Voom." That seriously sounds so fucking retarded.
"Build a USB dance floor, gosh!"
"Best theoretical college in physics and engineering. Best. In the world. Period."
But their English department. Is sorely lacking. In teaching students about sentence fragments.
Imagine... (Score:0, Redundant)
Robot camels raced by robots!
Kinda gives "redundant" a different meaning than you see on most posts modded redundant.
Nothing beats playing my favorite EA games over my SBC Yahoo! DSL connection using my D-Link DGL-4300 Wireless 108G Gaming Router with a cool, refreshing Pepsi in one hand, my Logitech mouse in the other, wearing my Nike clothes and blasting a ClearChannel affiliate, my source for great new hits from 50 Cent and A Simple Plan.
Whoops, I meant to post that as an article.
When I was a PC tech, we'd always have fights with cans of compressed air by holding them upside down and spraying them at eachother. Imagine having a whole car running off of this that you could turn upside down and spray people with!
"Considering... that Luke and Leia are brother and sister, wouldn't playing Luke and Leia would be like...um...you know..."
an instant boner.
Well, I dressed like Frodo and made fun of a bunch of stupid jocks, but it didn't work out so well for me.
I disagree - I spend 364.25 days a year reading the normal articles, I think it's cool that one day out of the year we have articles like this. I say keep it up.