As someone who sold literally hundreds of Gamecubes working retail, the people that buy Gamecubes are not enthusiasts looking for a little engine that could, they are predominantly parents looking for the system that offers the most kid friendly titles and the lowest price.
There are those that pick them up for wonderful titles like RE4 and SSBM but at least in my experience they're not in the majority.
And to think, if you were willing to give up the one or two new games that you are only considering buying you could do the whole thing for the $30 cost of Halo and call it a day.
You are not, by any stretch of the inagination, the intended audience of next gen. consoles.
I've often wondered that. We have a picture of an undisclosed lead singer from a band I wont mention in our bathroom, and at least two of my friends have comented to me that it's very hard for them to use the bathroom with someone watching them.
Maybe in theory, but rarely in practice.
The vast vast vast majority of torrents I've been connected to, either the download is superfast and I have to wait for painfully slow upload to even out my ratio, or on the other hand I'm left dead in the water while my upload goes full blast so that every peer can be stuck at 67% just like I am when my upload/download is 600%
Of course, once the swarm gets large enough even the limited capacity of home lines should be enough to keep the downloads of new peers going quickly. As long as BTs bandwidth can get as many seeders going as fast as possible and enough people participate I'd be willing to beleive it could work.
I like how movable materia equiped on characters with inherent strengths and weaknesses is seen as "destroying characer developement". Can you make Barret your theif? Yes. Will he be any good at it? Not a snowballs chance in hell. It makes pretty decent sense if you think about it, anybody is free to try whatever they want as far as magic and abilities are concerned, but some are better than others. I know most people never bothered to look at the characters actual stats, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
I fully agree though that the series has jumped the shark, but even as much as I hated 8 and 9 I don't think it really became obvious until 10 and 10-2 (aka FF:Wonderyears and FF:Pretty Pretty Princess)that the FF license was about cashing in for every penny it's worth and providing unessessary graphics instead of a decent storyline and likeable characters.
Firstly, after my time in Seattle I learned there is third group, the trendy homeless. 20-somethings who live on the street because the weather is nice enough to do so and they enjoy the culture and lifestyle of doing nothing but sitting on a street corner all day being too cool for The Man.
Secondly an anecdote your last comment. When I was in highschool we always had tickets for the busses to get too in from school. One weekend while walking downtown a man asked us for a dollar for the bus so he could "get home" we offered him a bus ticket and were greated with a look of disgust and steam of insults before he walked off in a huff. That was not the first or the last time its happened, but certainly the most hostility filled.
That's right, we don't call them alcoholics or drug addicts becasue they drink and abuse drugs, they drink and abuse drugs becasue we call them drug addicts and alcoholics.
Please.
Where alcoholism and drug addiction are the primary cause of homelessness, such as a person had a fairly stable life, a home, a job, maybe a family, and lost it all because of an unhealthy lifestyle, I can almost garauntee you that they had said lifestyle problem long before anyone called them on it. There are a lot of people in the world struggling with dependency, but there are a lot more who aren't struggling at all, I don't think I'm to blame for the situation by identifying it.
As someone who worked in retail, and is very glad to be out of it, I will say that yelling and screaming is very effective, because a lot of retail employees have very weak spines. However, please, please please please, try asking nicely first. Most clerks are more than happy to do whatever they can for you out of genuine sympathy if you come in and ask politely. If that doesn't work feel free to throw the tantrum, but you always run the risk of running into me, and about one of my dozen former manager who will shut you down, no questions asked, quiet down or you're out of the buildin. Won't leave the building? You'll be leaving in squad car (or at least next to it, as they rearely arrest people for things like that here). The situation is probably different for cell providers, but big box store have absolutely no shortage of customers and sometimes keeping a "loyal customer" is far more expensive than having them never come back again.
I beat the system all together by simply not mounting my front plate.
A few things to consider though:
I just think it looks better.
It is illegal, and can result in a $75 ticket.
Most cops worry more about people fleeing than people approuching, so it never comes up.
We don't even have camera enforcement, at most you can receive a polite letter urging you to slow down.
Good thing everyone installed Google Desktop so they now have our files, and over used Google Maps so they now have our address and all the strange places we've visited, to say nothing of our email.
That's one hell of a brilliant shadow agency. It's too intelligent to be true.
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Usually they say Canada, because it's close and closer to the "Socialist paradise of freedom and equality for all" that they see Europe to be.
The jokes on them though, I'm sure about 90% don't meet Canada's rather stringent(in comparison) immigration requirements.
Depends where you lived. New York had outlawed honor dueling, at least by 1800, while it remained legal in New Jersy for far longer. Hence Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr having to row their boats to NJ for their gun battle.
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The police are involved because the seller called them, not because the police are doing anything.
It's still purely a civil matter as reported by the register and the defamatory site is still up. Score one for vigilantism on the internet.
Unless of course this is one of those things that falls under libel in Britain because it damages his reputation even if it does end up being 100% true.
Very true, which is why I own a PS2 in addition to 2 PCs, but even if that's all you play, you probably live in a house that has a computer, and I think presented with the temptation of owning a computer for which there are games availible, if one were truly "die hard" they certainly wouldn't let that capcity go un-utilized.
And for the slightly off-topic record, blowing $70 a week in quarters on DDR may make you a diehard VG dancer, but in my mind it still makes you a bad person.
Maybe I'm just in touch with a different scene, but even most "casual" gamers generally have multiple consoles or a console and a PC. There are too many platform exclusive titles and user interface issues for most people, let alone "diehards" to limit themselves to one platform.
THat being said, if you play FPSs, RTS, TBS, MMORPGS, or sandbox style western RPGs a console just doesn't hold a candle. If you begind your electronics life as a diehard gamer I'd say there is very little chance you'll ever become a diehard mac fan, it just isn't condusive to the mindset.
That's funny, 5 years ago is about when windows stopped BSoDing at least for the vast vast vast majority of people. Complaining that it still does is equivilent to complaining that macs only come come with 9" black and white monitors and their best imaging software is Kid Pix. It simply isn't true.
1 on 1 fighting was impossible, I always got totally rocked in CS. However, I could still defend a flag like nobody's business and flag running is all about routes more than reaction.
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As someone who sold literally hundreds of Gamecubes working retail, the people that buy Gamecubes are not enthusiasts looking for a little engine that could, they are predominantly parents looking for the system that offers the most kid friendly titles and the lowest price.
There are those that pick them up for wonderful titles like RE4 and SSBM but at least in my experience they're not in the majority.
And to think, if you were willing to give up the one or two new games that you are only considering buying you could do the whole thing for the $30 cost of Halo and call it a day.
You are not, by any stretch of the inagination, the intended audience of next gen. consoles.
That activates the "shoot the smug, annoying, unarmed man" reaction.
I've often wondered that. We have a picture of an undisclosed lead singer from a band I wont mention in our bathroom, and at least two of my friends have comented to me that it's very hard for them to use the bathroom with someone watching them.
It's just a poster!?
Staring right. at. me.
Maybe in theory, but rarely in practice. The vast vast vast majority of torrents I've been connected to, either the download is superfast and I have to wait for painfully slow upload to even out my ratio, or on the other hand I'm left dead in the water while my upload goes full blast so that every peer can be stuck at 67% just like I am when my upload/download is 600% Of course, once the swarm gets large enough even the limited capacity of home lines should be enough to keep the downloads of new peers going quickly. As long as BTs bandwidth can get as many seeders going as fast as possible and enough people participate I'd be willing to beleive it could work.
I like how movable materia equiped on characters with inherent strengths and weaknesses is seen as "destroying characer developement". Can you make Barret your theif? Yes. Will he be any good at it? Not a snowballs chance in hell. It makes pretty decent sense if you think about it, anybody is free to try whatever they want as far as magic and abilities are concerned, but some are better than others. I know most people never bothered to look at the characters actual stats, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. I fully agree though that the series has jumped the shark, but even as much as I hated 8 and 9 I don't think it really became obvious until 10 and 10-2 (aka FF:Wonderyears and FF:Pretty Pretty Princess)that the FF license was about cashing in for every penny it's worth and providing unessessary graphics instead of a decent storyline and likeable characters.
Firstly, after my time in Seattle I learned there is third group, the trendy homeless. 20-somethings who live on the street because the weather is nice enough to do so and they enjoy the culture and lifestyle of doing nothing but sitting on a street corner all day being too cool for The Man. Secondly an anecdote your last comment. When I was in highschool we always had tickets for the busses to get too in from school. One weekend while walking downtown a man asked us for a dollar for the bus so he could "get home" we offered him a bus ticket and were greated with a look of disgust and steam of insults before he walked off in a huff. That was not the first or the last time its happened, but certainly the most hostility filled.
That's right, we don't call them alcoholics or drug addicts becasue they drink and abuse drugs, they drink and abuse drugs becasue we call them drug addicts and alcoholics. Please. Where alcoholism and drug addiction are the primary cause of homelessness, such as a person had a fairly stable life, a home, a job, maybe a family, and lost it all because of an unhealthy lifestyle, I can almost garauntee you that they had said lifestyle problem long before anyone called them on it. There are a lot of people in the world struggling with dependency, but there are a lot more who aren't struggling at all, I don't think I'm to blame for the situation by identifying it.
Just be thankful you didn't go into philosophy.
As someone who worked in retail, and is very glad to be out of it, I will say that yelling and screaming is very effective, because a lot of retail employees have very weak spines. However, please, please please please, try asking nicely first. Most clerks are more than happy to do whatever they can for you out of genuine sympathy if you come in and ask politely. If that doesn't work feel free to throw the tantrum, but you always run the risk of running into me, and about one of my dozen former manager who will shut you down, no questions asked, quiet down or you're out of the buildin. Won't leave the building? You'll be leaving in squad car (or at least next to it, as they rearely arrest people for things like that here). The situation is probably different for cell providers, but big box store have absolutely no shortage of customers and sometimes keeping a "loyal customer" is far more expensive than having them never come back again.
It certainly doesn't hurt the equation.
Or to run... which works far more often than watching Fox would lead you to believe.
I beat the system all together by simply not mounting my front plate.
A few things to consider though:
I just think it looks better.
It is illegal, and can result in a $75 ticket.
Most cops worry more about people fleeing than people approuching, so it never comes up.
We don't even have camera enforcement, at most you can receive a polite letter urging you to slow down.
It's a thought though.
I see you've been lulled into a false sense of security too.
Good thing everyone installed Google Desktop so they now have our files, and over used Google Maps so they now have our address and all the strange places we've visited, to say nothing of our email.
That's one hell of a brilliant shadow agency. It's too intelligent to be true.
Usually they say Canada, because it's close and closer to the "Socialist paradise of freedom and equality for all" that they see Europe to be. The jokes on them though, I'm sure about 90% don't meet Canada's rather stringent(in comparison) immigration requirements.
Depends where you lived. New York had outlawed honor dueling, at least by 1800, while it remained legal in New Jersy for far longer. Hence Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr having to row their boats to NJ for their gun battle.
The police are involved because the seller called them, not because the police are doing anything.
It's still purely a civil matter as reported by the register and the defamatory site is still up. Score one for vigilantism on the internet.
Unless of course this is one of those things that falls under libel in Britain because it damages his reputation even if it does end up being 100% true.
Very true, which is why I own a PS2 in addition to 2 PCs, but even if that's all you play, you probably live in a house that has a computer, and I think presented with the temptation of owning a computer for which there are games availible, if one were truly "die hard" they certainly wouldn't let that capcity go un-utilized.
And for the slightly off-topic record, blowing $70 a week in quarters on DDR may make you a diehard VG dancer, but in my mind it still makes you a bad person.
Maybe I'm just in touch with a different scene, but even most "casual" gamers generally have multiple consoles or a console and a PC. There are too many platform exclusive titles and user interface issues for most people, let alone "diehards" to limit themselves to one platform.
THat being said, if you play FPSs, RTS, TBS, MMORPGS, or sandbox style western RPGs a console just doesn't hold a candle. If you begind your electronics life as a diehard gamer I'd say there is very little chance you'll ever become a diehard mac fan, it just isn't condusive to the mindset.
Austria does it as well. There was just a British historian sentenced there for deny that the holocaust ever happened.
There's only two ways that could go, bad, and so bad it may force me from the worlds of pornography for hours, maybe days!
I for one welcome our porn creating dorm-room overlords.
That's funny, 5 years ago is about when windows stopped BSoDing at least for the vast vast vast majority of people. Complaining that it still does is equivilent to complaining that macs only come come with 9" black and white monitors and their best imaging software is Kid Pix. It simply isn't true.
1 on 1 fighting was impossible, I always got totally rocked in CS. However, I could still defend a flag like nobody's business and flag running is all about routes more than reaction.