As a massive Futurama fan who greatly looked forward to buying each season on DVD on release date, I empathise completely. Not having even a confirmation that there will EVER be a Region 2 release boggles the mind (AFAIK, perhaps a R2 release has been confirmed recently?). The funny thing is that all 4 DVD seasons came out here in Europe before North America, apparently because the show had such a big European fanbase so it was a good testing ground.
Like you, I resorted to other means to watch this first movie, something I (almost) never do on principle. I believe that good work should be paid for, but I wasn't willing to wait possibly over a year to then find out I'd just need to import anyway. I'll definitely be buying the DVD if it's ever released in R2 though, not because I thought the film was amazingly good, but because the Futurama DVD commentaries were always fantastic and very very funny.
Your argument is fairly sound, but WoW is a terrible example. Blizzard didn't release an expansion until the game was 2 years old, and look to be only releasing another a year later. Everquest 1/2 are better examples, as they managed to get through many many expansions in addition to charging a monthly fee. I very much doubt the amount of content added regularly to Hellgate will even approach the size of the boxed Burning Crusade expansion for WoW.
Whoever modded this troll is an idiot. The poster was just expressing his opinion that DICE did their best work after EA bought them up. I don't agree, felt 2142 was lacking compared to BF2, but I know people who really love 2142. Doesn't make them trolls....
As someone who until about a year ago was a long-time primarily PC gamer, I can see why many fellow PC gamers can't fathom why you would pay £40 a year (works out cheaper in the USA) just to play games online, since as you said PC gamers have been getting that for free for decades now. To be honest, I can't put my finger on it. I got a 360 in January and dutifully made my Live account and played a little bit of Gears online during my first free month, and then didn't bother resubscribing. Over the next few months I got the Gamertags of other friends who had 360s and quietly played my games on my own with the occasional voicechat with a friend.
I think the game that did it was Worms, I decided that since it was apparently really good fun I would get a year of Live as well, and I planned to play my 360 a lot more in the summer so figured I'd get good use out of it. Sadly, my home connection got really bad around that time but in the last couple of months I've been on Live almost every day. Halo 3 obviously means a lot more friends are online than usual, but I've also been experimenting with games I wouldn't normally try (like Burnout) and discovering the online play is fantastic.
What sets it above Sony and Nintendo's services? Well Nintendo's is almost non-existent due to a lack of online games and a lack of infrastructure (friends codes? Please...) - I have a Wii btw and really like the few AAA titles available in the UK - and from what I've heard (from customers we get in work, I have no friends who own a PS3) Sony's service only seems really good to people who haven't experienced Live.
My advice, if you want to give it another go, is to collect Gamertags of friends and arrange to play a game you really like one night. Then find a 48 hour trial code (in loads of 360 games, or get one from a friend), and have a decent session of at least a couple of hours play. Your mileage may vary depending on whether the game has a decent multiplayer mode, but when Live is good it's really good.
Despite the fact that most of the games I play on 360 are singleplayer (Oblivion - Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect shortly), having a gold membership there is really worthwhile to me for when I play online even just once a week and the cost works out at less than the price of admission to a movie once a month - and there doesn't seem to be anything good on at the movies these days! Would I like the Live service to be free as long as the quality of service stayed the same? Damn straight. Do I weep when I look at how badly Nintendo have got their online service wrong and wish I could pay £40 a year to make it as good as Live? Definitely.
/apologies for length, and sounding a bit like a fanboy (which I'm not, or if I am I'm a fanboy of almost every platform).
Seriously, Troll? I was pointing out a dupe, *and* I made a pun. And I even commented that I actually found the story interesting. That's Informative, Funny and Insightful right there, at the basic levels. Maybe not worth modding up, but modding DOWN?
I guess I beat some people to FRIST POST and they had mod points to vent their anger with...
I actually modded your post up as Informative but then felt I'd rather reply, so apologies for not helping!
The tone of your post could easily come across as a Sony fanboy spewing out PR talk but frankly it all sound very interesting, and you seem genuinely excited by Home and what it offers. I am too, in theory. I just wonder how much Sony are going to charge for the content and features for Home, and also how many people are really going to use it beyond "see you in Home to form a group for Call of Duty" or whatever.
I think what Sony should do is introduce some sort of "light" MMORPG experience into Home (perhaps this is already planned), letting you level up an Avatar. Perhaps higher level players can access more multiplayer minigames, or go to different areas. You wouldn't want casual players to feel they were getting none of the Home experience of course, but at the right level it might encourage the more hardcore players to spend time in the Home environment.
My feeling is that Home will be really cool and interesting, but that a lot of PS3 owners (who at the moment are mostly hardcore gamers due to the price of the system) will get bored with trying it out after a couple of weeks and unless there is gameplay with Home - or Sony forces them to do straightforward gaming functions through the Home environment - they might not use it beyond that. I think the same thing about LittleBig Planet, lots of people seem excited about it but it's a product that by the looks of things will live or die on the strength of the user created content.
In all honesty I don't see myself owning a PS3 for at least another 18 months, if ever, but I work in games retail and would like the customers who buy PS3s to have a unique and rewarding experience on their consoles. The lack of decent games for the PS3, coupled with the entry price (the main reason for the difference between the Wii and the PS3 success-wise currently), is killing the system at the moment in terms of word-of-mouth advertising, so Sony really need a hook for people to want to sit with their PS3s and tell their friends about it.
I hear ya, my mother is from SA and so I've been there many times over the last 21 years. Biggest change apart from the race-related ones that I've seen is how much you guys use your cellphones. I was visiting a cousin while she was in hospital in Jo'burg and remarked that back home (UK) they don't allow cellphones to be turned on in hospitals - let alone used 24/7. She stated flatly that they'd never be able to do that in SA, people seem to be surgically attached to them. But with Telkom's charges it's not hard to see why.
In the EU? Probably less than 1%. Here you get a 1 year warranty from the seller on almost all "hardware" (TVs, washing machines, consoles, lawnmowers) and people know that. In fact, IIRC in mainland Europe it's 2 years - here in the UK we haven't caught up yet.
The only thing I can think of is that the problem is more widespread in the USA. It's a well-known problem here, but my personal experience is much lower than even 1/5th of the stock we sell.
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I believe that might be because the HD-DVD version has extra content not featured on the Blu-Ray release.
You slipped up, troll. You almost seemed like a MS hater who just felt strongly about it until you denied the PS2 failures. You know nothing about consoles.
Although it's supposedly impossible to win arguments on the Internet, I just did.
*smug mode*
35% failure rate is total bull. Where that number originally came from I have no idea but I've seen it thrown around online over the last couple of months. If I had to guess, I'd say it's closer to 7 or 8% (still dreadful for a consumer electronics product).
I suggest you do some research into the history of the console market, you clearly don't remember anything before the Xbox. Not on the same scale but the early PS2s were pretty rickety, my flatmate had 5 in the first 2 years of the console. Dodgy disc lasers were the main offender. And I shouldn't have to mention the many, many disasters that companies tried to pass off as consoles. Lynx ring a bell? N-Gage? Virtual Boy? 32X? The.....Gizmondo?
I play my 360 most days and have great fun online with my many friends who also have one. You don't think highly of Microsoft's build quality, that's fine - I've seen enough faulty units to know they made a big mistake with whatever it is inside the unit that causes so many problems. Out of the 3 current gen consoles I still think it provides the best gaming experience, even factoring in the possibility that your console might break down and you'll be console-less for a short time while you wait for a replacement (unless you live in Europe and can just return it to the store for a replacement there and then).
You probably don't agree with my logic, that's fine too. As long as you're playing games we have something in common.
I work in games retail.
Xbox 360s have some hardware problems which result in the RRoD. This used to be a daily occurrence where I work (people returning faulty units) but now it's much less regular (still a few a week, less than 4 usually).
Obviously, this is still a bit crap. However, the clip-on nature of the 360 harddrive means we can give customers a new console and have them playing again without losing any data in less time than it takes to serve a grandmother who wants to know about that "double-u aye aye thing".
The thing about the RRoD is that while it's a (diminishing, IMO) problem, it's pretty much the only real thing MS haters can complain about with the Xbox 360. It's not a piece of garbage - it's a powerful console with a shit load of games, and a bunch of pretty spectacular-looking ones out between now and Xmas.
The PS3 seems to be a very robust machine, I guess MS rushed a bit too much to be first out of the gate.
You're a moron. His comment wasn't fanboy-fueled, he was observing that the Sony guy's reply expressed surprise that customers in the EU would pay such a price. Makes him seem a little....evil. (Note: I'm not a fanboy, I was pretty heavily anti-Sony until this week when I think they had the best E3 keynote and showed a few games that I really want to play and are only available on PS3)
I've worked in a games store for quite a while now and we do indeed get a lot of faulty 360s in with the 3 red lights (mostly). But until about 6 months ago we got just as many PS2s in with faulty lasers. You've probably heard it yourself, people saying "oh my PS2 doesn't play the silver/blue discs" (DVDs/CDs respectively). I recently read that the reason for this is that Sony apparently decided to use two separate lasers in the console, one for DVD and one for CD because it would be cheaper. I don't honestly know if this is the case, but it would certainly go a long way to explaining why so many people's PS2s would eventually stop playing one of the two discs types.
I'm not sure how much Sony were charging in the USA to repair this, but a member of my family was quoted £75 at a Sony Centre here in the UK, which currently equates to about $150 (yeah I know we pay more for electronics so skew the number accordingly). In the end she went to an indie shop that did it for £20, since for £75 she could almost have bought a brand new console (PS2s are currently £94.99 here).
My Playstation 2 was bought about 5 years ago and is still going strong, but my flatmate is on his 5th since the console launched. I'm not trying to defend Microsoft's coverup of the hardware failures being widespread, but ask anyone who has worked in games retail for a few years and they'll tell you it was just as bad in the early years of the PS2 - it just didn't get the coverage back then.
Also, people will be far more willing to listen to your points if you don't swear at them and insult their views. Just a hint.
Come to Dundee sometime, the locals can't say the "aye" sound. Which, in Scotland, is a bit strange anyway but for them it comes out as a flat "eh", with no raised pitch at the end that might indicate "eh?". So they say "peh" for "pie", "fev" for "five", and - amusingly - "Dundeh" for "Dundee".
All leading to the hilarious phrase "Eh went to Dundeh fer a peh but eh fell and meh peh went skeh heh."
I know you were being sarcastic, but come on eh? Some parts of Glasgow are pretty rough but it's also got a lot of big business too. Life expectancy in Glasgow in 2005: "Glasgow had the worst life expectancy, 72.9 years, compared to Kensington and Chelsea in London on 82.4." Not a huge surprise that the highest was in the most affluent area in the UK, where you simply don't have poor people living. 72.9 years life expectancy in a poor African nation sounds pretty good to me!
Saying the things you said about Glasgow is like me saying "Don't emigrate to the USA because there are a lot of murders every year in NYC." Please don't tar a whole country with the same brush, just because a few areas of its biggest city aren't somewhere sensible people walk in after dark. Frankly, your comments about Glaswegian men border on gross ignorance, and I find it sad to find that in a serious discussion about places to live/work (and no, I'm not new here).
Uh huh....which country are you talking about, exactly? Just because Scotland's population has a white majority doesn't mean there aren't any other ethnic groups around. Here in Dundee we have a lot of people or chinese and asian origin, lots of them are born and bred here in Scotland with parents or grandparents who emigrated to Scotland. In the shop I work in we get non-whites in every day, and Glasgow for instance has a huge asian population.
Ah yes, the kilt. A garment invented by an English King. That fact doesn't go down well in a pub full of Scottish football supporters. Not that it doesn't look cool and act as a chick-magnet when holidaying abroad, it's just not as much a symbol of Scottish awesomeness as most like to believe.
Ouch, on behalf of all the non-dickheads here, sorry about that. I have a friend who was born up here but moved to England at a young age. She was teased there for being Scottish, and when she finally moved back up she had an English accent so was teased for being English. Thankfully she's a well-rounded person and has put that all behind her. My parents never indoctrinated me in anything resembling hatred of the English, but I it's an historic thing that sadly still lingers around for drunken football fans. These are the ones who teach their kids bullshit about the English but dickheads and their dickhead kids are always much more vocal than those who were brought up as good people.
Seriously though, the only thing I hate about England is that since in Scotland we basically get English TV every four years all we hear about is 1966 and how it's going to be England's time again. But thankfully that soon passes after their decidely average football team gets knocked out a few rounds in. (Scotland's team is of course decidedly shit, but we support them anyway because it's all we have)
Come visit Scotland some time if you can face coming back, there's a lot of friendly people here.
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I wasn't aware of any of this research/development. Thanks for sharing, this stuff is incredible!
You, sir, are rather funny. If I had mod points they'd be all for you!
As a massive Futurama fan who greatly looked forward to buying each season on DVD on release date, I empathise completely. Not having even a confirmation that there will EVER be a Region 2 release boggles the mind (AFAIK, perhaps a R2 release has been confirmed recently?). The funny thing is that all 4 DVD seasons came out here in Europe before North America, apparently because the show had such a big European fanbase so it was a good testing ground.
Like you, I resorted to other means to watch this first movie, something I (almost) never do on principle. I believe that good work should be paid for, but I wasn't willing to wait possibly over a year to then find out I'd just need to import anyway. I'll definitely be buying the DVD if it's ever released in R2 though, not because I thought the film was amazingly good, but because the Futurama DVD commentaries were always fantastic and very very funny.
That's Doctor Freeman to you!
Your argument is fairly sound, but WoW is a terrible example. Blizzard didn't release an expansion until the game was 2 years old, and look to be only releasing another a year later. Everquest 1/2 are better examples, as they managed to get through many many expansions in addition to charging a monthly fee. I very much doubt the amount of content added regularly to Hellgate will even approach the size of the boxed Burning Crusade expansion for WoW.
Whoever modded this troll is an idiot. The poster was just expressing his opinion that DICE did their best work after EA bought them up. I don't agree, felt 2142 was lacking compared to BF2, but I know people who really love 2142. Doesn't make them trolls....
As someone who until about a year ago was a long-time primarily PC gamer, I can see why many fellow PC gamers can't fathom why you would pay £40 a year (works out cheaper in the USA) just to play games online, since as you said PC gamers have been getting that for free for decades now. To be honest, I can't put my finger on it. I got a 360 in January and dutifully made my Live account and played a little bit of Gears online during my first free month, and then didn't bother resubscribing. Over the next few months I got the Gamertags of other friends who had 360s and quietly played my games on my own with the occasional voicechat with a friend.
I think the game that did it was Worms, I decided that since it was apparently really good fun I would get a year of Live as well, and I planned to play my 360 a lot more in the summer so figured I'd get good use out of it. Sadly, my home connection got really bad around that time but in the last couple of months I've been on Live almost every day. Halo 3 obviously means a lot more friends are online than usual, but I've also been experimenting with games I wouldn't normally try (like Burnout) and discovering the online play is fantastic.
What sets it above Sony and Nintendo's services? Well Nintendo's is almost non-existent due to a lack of online games and a lack of infrastructure (friends codes? Please...) - I have a Wii btw and really like the few AAA titles available in the UK - and from what I've heard (from customers we get in work, I have no friends who own a PS3) Sony's service only seems really good to people who haven't experienced Live.
My advice, if you want to give it another go, is to collect Gamertags of friends and arrange to play a game you really like one night. Then find a 48 hour trial code (in loads of 360 games, or get one from a friend), and have a decent session of at least a couple of hours play. Your mileage may vary depending on whether the game has a decent multiplayer mode, but when Live is good it's really good.
Despite the fact that most of the games I play on 360 are singleplayer (Oblivion - Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect shortly), having a gold membership there is really worthwhile to me for when I play online even just once a week and the cost works out at less than the price of admission to a movie once a month - and there doesn't seem to be anything good on at the movies these days! Would I like the Live service to be free as long as the quality of service stayed the same? Damn straight. Do I weep when I look at how badly Nintendo have got their online service wrong and wish I could pay £40 a year to make it as good as Live? Definitely.
/apologies for length, and sounding a bit like a fanboy (which I'm not, or if I am I'm a fanboy of almost every platform).
Seriously, Troll? I was pointing out a dupe, *and* I made a pun. And I even commented that I actually found the story interesting. That's Informative, Funny and Insightful right there, at the basic levels. Maybe not worth modding up, but modding DOWN?
I guess I beat some people to FRIST POST and they had mod points to vent their anger with...
-1 for repeating the pun from the subject of my original post. +3 for having a sense of humour as groan-worthy as mine.
This was on /. yesterday, with the same BBC news link! Interesting story though.
I actually modded your post up as Informative but then felt I'd rather reply, so apologies for not helping!
The tone of your post could easily come across as a Sony fanboy spewing out PR talk but frankly it all sound very interesting, and you seem genuinely excited by Home and what it offers. I am too, in theory. I just wonder how much Sony are going to charge for the content and features for Home, and also how many people are really going to use it beyond "see you in Home to form a group for Call of Duty" or whatever.
I think what Sony should do is introduce some sort of "light" MMORPG experience into Home (perhaps this is already planned), letting you level up an Avatar. Perhaps higher level players can access more multiplayer minigames, or go to different areas. You wouldn't want casual players to feel they were getting none of the Home experience of course, but at the right level it might encourage the more hardcore players to spend time in the Home environment.
My feeling is that Home will be really cool and interesting, but that a lot of PS3 owners (who at the moment are mostly hardcore gamers due to the price of the system) will get bored with trying it out after a couple of weeks and unless there is gameplay with Home - or Sony forces them to do straightforward gaming functions through the Home environment - they might not use it beyond that. I think the same thing about LittleBig Planet, lots of people seem excited about it but it's a product that by the looks of things will live or die on the strength of the user created content.
In all honesty I don't see myself owning a PS3 for at least another 18 months, if ever, but I work in games retail and would like the customers who buy PS3s to have a unique and rewarding experience on their consoles. The lack of decent games for the PS3, coupled with the entry price (the main reason for the difference between the Wii and the PS3 success-wise currently), is killing the system at the moment in terms of word-of-mouth advertising, so Sony really need a hook for people to want to sit with their PS3s and tell their friends about it.
I hear ya, my mother is from SA and so I've been there many times over the last 21 years. Biggest change apart from the race-related ones that I've seen is how much you guys use your cellphones. I was visiting a cousin while she was in hospital in Jo'burg and remarked that back home (UK) they don't allow cellphones to be turned on in hospitals - let alone used 24/7. She stated flatly that they'd never be able to do that in SA, people seem to be surgically attached to them. But with Telkom's charges it's not hard to see why.
In the EU? Probably less than 1%. Here you get a 1 year warranty from the seller on almost all "hardware" (TVs, washing machines, consoles, lawnmowers) and people know that. In fact, IIRC in mainland Europe it's 2 years - here in the UK we haven't caught up yet.
The only thing I can think of is that the problem is more widespread in the USA. It's a well-known problem here, but my personal experience is much lower than even 1/5th of the stock we sell.
I believe that might be because the HD-DVD version has extra content not featured on the Blu-Ray release.
You slipped up, troll. You almost seemed like a MS hater who just felt strongly about it until you denied the PS2 failures. You know nothing about consoles. Although it's supposedly impossible to win arguments on the Internet, I just did. *smug mode*
35% failure rate is total bull. Where that number originally came from I have no idea but I've seen it thrown around online over the last couple of months. If I had to guess, I'd say it's closer to 7 or 8% (still dreadful for a consumer electronics product). I suggest you do some research into the history of the console market, you clearly don't remember anything before the Xbox. Not on the same scale but the early PS2s were pretty rickety, my flatmate had 5 in the first 2 years of the console. Dodgy disc lasers were the main offender. And I shouldn't have to mention the many, many disasters that companies tried to pass off as consoles. Lynx ring a bell? N-Gage? Virtual Boy? 32X? The.....Gizmondo? I play my 360 most days and have great fun online with my many friends who also have one. You don't think highly of Microsoft's build quality, that's fine - I've seen enough faulty units to know they made a big mistake with whatever it is inside the unit that causes so many problems. Out of the 3 current gen consoles I still think it provides the best gaming experience, even factoring in the possibility that your console might break down and you'll be console-less for a short time while you wait for a replacement (unless you live in Europe and can just return it to the store for a replacement there and then). You probably don't agree with my logic, that's fine too. As long as you're playing games we have something in common.
I work in games retail. Xbox 360s have some hardware problems which result in the RRoD. This used to be a daily occurrence where I work (people returning faulty units) but now it's much less regular (still a few a week, less than 4 usually). Obviously, this is still a bit crap. However, the clip-on nature of the 360 harddrive means we can give customers a new console and have them playing again without losing any data in less time than it takes to serve a grandmother who wants to know about that "double-u aye aye thing". The thing about the RRoD is that while it's a (diminishing, IMO) problem, it's pretty much the only real thing MS haters can complain about with the Xbox 360. It's not a piece of garbage - it's a powerful console with a shit load of games, and a bunch of pretty spectacular-looking ones out between now and Xmas. The PS3 seems to be a very robust machine, I guess MS rushed a bit too much to be first out of the gate.
You're a moron. His comment wasn't fanboy-fueled, he was observing that the Sony guy's reply expressed surprise that customers in the EU would pay such a price. Makes him seem a little....evil. (Note: I'm not a fanboy, I was pretty heavily anti-Sony until this week when I think they had the best E3 keynote and showed a few games that I really want to play and are only available on PS3)
Ok, I'll bite.
I've worked in a games store for quite a while now and we do indeed get a lot of faulty 360s in with the 3 red lights (mostly). But until about 6 months ago we got just as many PS2s in with faulty lasers. You've probably heard it yourself, people saying "oh my PS2 doesn't play the silver/blue discs" (DVDs/CDs respectively). I recently read that the reason for this is that Sony apparently decided to use two separate lasers in the console, one for DVD and one for CD because it would be cheaper. I don't honestly know if this is the case, but it would certainly go a long way to explaining why so many people's PS2s would eventually stop playing one of the two discs types.
I'm not sure how much Sony were charging in the USA to repair this, but a member of my family was quoted £75 at a Sony Centre here in the UK, which currently equates to about $150 (yeah I know we pay more for electronics so skew the number accordingly). In the end she went to an indie shop that did it for £20, since for £75 she could almost have bought a brand new console (PS2s are currently £94.99 here).
My Playstation 2 was bought about 5 years ago and is still going strong, but my flatmate is on his 5th since the console launched. I'm not trying to defend Microsoft's coverup of the hardware failures being widespread, but ask anyone who has worked in games retail for a few years and they'll tell you it was just as bad in the early years of the PS2 - it just didn't get the coverage back then.
Also, people will be far more willing to listen to your points if you don't swear at them and insult their views. Just a hint.
Come to Dundee sometime, the locals can't say the "aye" sound. Which, in Scotland, is a bit strange anyway but for them it comes out as a flat "eh", with no raised pitch at the end that might indicate "eh?". So they say "peh" for "pie", "fev" for "five", and - amusingly - "Dundeh" for "Dundee".
All leading to the hilarious phrase "Eh went to Dundeh fer a peh but eh fell and meh peh went skeh heh."
I love my country.
I know you were being sarcastic, but come on eh? Some parts of Glasgow are pretty rough but it's also got a lot of big business too. Life expectancy in Glasgow in 2005: "Glasgow had the worst life expectancy, 72.9 years, compared to Kensington and Chelsea in London on 82.4." Not a huge surprise that the highest was in the most affluent area in the UK, where you simply don't have poor people living. 72.9 years life expectancy in a poor African nation sounds pretty good to me!
Saying the things you said about Glasgow is like me saying "Don't emigrate to the USA because there are a lot of murders every year in NYC." Please don't tar a whole country with the same brush, just because a few areas of its biggest city aren't somewhere sensible people walk in after dark. Frankly, your comments about Glaswegian men border on gross ignorance, and I find it sad to find that in a serious discussion about places to live/work (and no, I'm not new here).
Uh huh....which country are you talking about, exactly? Just because Scotland's population has a white majority doesn't mean there aren't any other ethnic groups around. Here in Dundee we have a lot of people or chinese and asian origin, lots of them are born and bred here in Scotland with parents or grandparents who emigrated to Scotland. In the shop I work in we get non-whites in every day, and Glasgow for instance has a huge asian population.
Ah yes, the kilt. A garment invented by an English King. That fact doesn't go down well in a pub full of Scottish football supporters. Not that it doesn't look cool and act as a chick-magnet when holidaying abroad, it's just not as much a symbol of Scottish awesomeness as most like to believe.
Ouch, on behalf of all the non-dickheads here, sorry about that. I have a friend who was born up here but moved to England at a young age. She was teased there for being Scottish, and when she finally moved back up she had an English accent so was teased for being English. Thankfully she's a well-rounded person and has put that all behind her. My parents never indoctrinated me in anything resembling hatred of the English, but I it's an historic thing that sadly still lingers around for drunken football fans. These are the ones who teach their kids bullshit about the English but dickheads and their dickhead kids are always much more vocal than those who were brought up as good people.
Seriously though, the only thing I hate about England is that since in Scotland we basically get English TV every four years all we hear about is 1966 and how it's going to be England's time again. But thankfully that soon passes after their decidely average football team gets knocked out a few rounds in. (Scotland's team is of course decidedly shit, but we support them anyway because it's all we have)
Come visit Scotland some time if you can face coming back, there's a lot of friendly people here.