Humanity? Go visit ogrish.com. The brutality videos are my favorite. Then tell me what you think about the human race.
I'd take 50 hours a week of wage slavery in a cubicle so I can watch my plasma TV, over real slavery, or even 15 hours a day out in the fields so i have enough food to survive.
But I hear the average hunter-gatherer only had to work about 3 hours a day to provide himself with the necessities of life.
Throughout history people have problems, and people like to be distracted from them. What do you think the gladiator games, olympics, chariot racing, or even religion were for?
The real problem is the root cause, not the symptom. We live in a meaningless society: broken families, wage slavery, cubicles, lack of community, dead gods, no religion. What else is there to believe in? We are all desperate rodents, clinging to anything that might grant us brief solace from the meaningless of life. In modern times, nihilism is the only truth. Beyond your computer there is nothing, only death.
Bah. Am I the only one who could care less about new consoles? I'm still playing my Genesis and NES more than anything else. Had a Gamecube, was bored with it, sold it. Have a PS2, am bored with it, am selling it. I even bought a Dreamcast 9/99, and after the initial wow factor (graphics), I never played it much at all.
The article does a good job explaining the situation, though the author's writing style is abysmal. I can't stand these video game sites that throw in racy humor and four-letter words in an attempt to promote some hip, edgy brand of video game nerddom.
"...you might as well straddle the son of a bitch like a nuclear warhead, smile, and watch the whole shitbox get blown sky high."
Pathetic. To think this all probably started with that Seanbaby idiot.
Anyhow, to get to the meat of the matter, I for one couldn't care less that these "indie" game stores are disappearing. I've experienced nothing in these stores but poor service (rude employees/owners who know nothing about how to treat a customer), high prices, and thieves who want to give me $4 for a used game I could sell for $15-20 on eBay.
Ah, eBay. Now why on earth would I walk into a local store and pay $40 for a game I could get, with shipping, for less than half that price on the Internet? In the past week alone I've bought four PS2 games, three of them new in shrink-wrap, for around $15-20 apiece, shipping included. These same games cost at least double that at my local games shop (I checked with them before using eBay). Sure, I have to wait a few days for the games to be delivered, but I'll gladly be patient if it means saving that kind of money.
Not to say that places like Gamestop/EB Games are any better. Compared to eBay, they're way overpriced too.
The author suggests that indie stores stock up on retro games that the big chain stores have forgotten, but this is a joke too: $3 Sega Genesis cartridges selling for $10 at the local indie shop, barebones NES consoles selling for $50. "Want this beat up Atari 2600 unit? Yes, only $40!"
And the prices on Turbo Grafx items are even more outlandish.
So screw indie game shops. They don't deserve to survive. I'm very thankful that, given my love of video games, I have somewhere else to spend my money.
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Humanity? Go visit ogrish.com. The brutality videos are my favorite. Then tell me what you think about the human race.
I'd take 50 hours a week of wage slavery in a cubicle so I can watch my plasma TV, over real slavery, or even 15 hours a day out in the fields so i have enough food to survive.
But I hear the average hunter-gatherer only had to work about 3 hours a day to provide himself with the necessities of life.
Throughout history people have problems, and people like to be distracted from them. What do you think the gladiator games, olympics, chariot racing, or even religion were for?
True enough. I guess it's always sucked, period.
You're confused. Nihilist are of one opinion: nothing means anything. Take some philosophy classes if you need a further explanation.
Why am I a troll for coming across a post that prompted me to offer my own opinion?
Yeah, far be it from a geek to realize the reason for his own surrogate activities.
The real problem is the root cause, not the symptom. We live in a meaningless society: broken families, wage slavery, cubicles, lack of community, dead gods, no religion. What else is there to believe in? We are all desperate rodents, clinging to anything that might grant us brief solace from the meaningless of life. In modern times, nihilism is the only truth. Beyond your computer there is nothing, only death.
Thank God for 8 and 16 bits is all I have to say.
"...you might as well straddle the son of a bitch like a nuclear warhead, smile, and watch the whole shitbox get blown sky high."
Pathetic. To think this all probably started with that Seanbaby idiot.
Anyhow, to get to the meat of the matter, I for one couldn't care less that these "indie" game stores are disappearing. I've experienced nothing in these stores but poor service (rude employees/owners who know nothing about how to treat a customer), high prices, and thieves who want to give me $4 for a used game I could sell for $15-20 on eBay.
Ah, eBay. Now why on earth would I walk into a local store and pay $40 for a game I could get, with shipping, for less than half that price on the Internet? In the past week alone I've bought four PS2 games, three of them new in shrink-wrap, for around $15-20 apiece, shipping included. These same games cost at least double that at my local games shop (I checked with them before using eBay). Sure, I have to wait a few days for the games to be delivered, but I'll gladly be patient if it means saving that kind of money.
Not to say that places like Gamestop/EB Games are any better. Compared to eBay, they're way overpriced too.
The author suggests that indie stores stock up on retro games that the big chain stores have forgotten, but this is a joke too: $3 Sega Genesis cartridges selling for $10 at the local indie shop, barebones NES consoles selling for $50. "Want this beat up Atari 2600 unit? Yes, only $40!"
And the prices on Turbo Grafx items are even more outlandish.
So screw indie game shops. They don't deserve to survive. I'm very thankful that, given my love of video games, I have somewhere else to spend my money.