Believe me when I say that I have a very complicated (read: borderline OCD) routine set in place to make sure that my phone does not get handled until the hands are washed and sanitized.
I can only hope. It will be like the old west all over again... only with less Clint Eastwood and Ennio Morricone music, and more black rimmed glasses and J-pop.
the flexibility and downloadability of stepmania is awesome. I usually pull out the dance pads for parties... and my friends are much more likely to do a Daft Punk song than that godawful Blow My Whistle song.
When I saw that you could play Zuma on it, I got very excited... then I realized that I would be spending $150 on my stake in a box to play Zuma in my living room on instead of on my laptop in my room.
Sounds like the arguments my friends and I used to have in college about who would do the homework and let us all copy it.
But to get serious... as my roommates and I are looking to get an Xbox 360 for our living room HDTV... hearing someone say that a $5 downloadable title (even if it is sort of his baby) is the best 360 game so far is a bit discouraging.
What a kick in the nuts to gamers this would be... not only do you have to pay 150% for video games, but cases of mountain dew to keep you up and enjoy the games cost more.
It's a good thing that even conservatives think this dude is nuts. They must really love the Coke
I lied, I was playing Pokemon Yellow. It just sounded a bit gross with the whole bathroom thing. Link's Awakening is another great time waster/solid videogame. Happen to know if any of the GBA Zelda games are worth playing?
I might spring for buying my roommate's old PDA to use to play emulators (there are some sweet connectable controller modules for PDAs), but a PSP, however like a portable Dreamcast it may be... is out of my price range.
Maybe in the early to mid nineties the gap between platforms was a bit larger? We didn't even use Word most times. I was still using a program at home that default saved to RTF, and the Macs were using Lotus or something of the like.
Years ago there was a confrontation with my school district and the state involving contracts for Mac computers. We had always had Macs in the library, computer lab, and classrooms. When it came time to buy new computers, consultants advised our school to get PC's, as most students coud not bring projects home from the Mac lab to their PC. The state reps got rather angry, stating the amount of money they recieve from Apple, and the great discounts they get. The PC switch went ahead anyway... with a few bucks going to a separate Mac computer lab.
End result? The PC's the district could afford were outdated before they even arrived, unable to efficiently run even OEM programs provided with them. The Mac lab had few computers and a separate network, and were the only boxes that could run the grade tracking software (provided and required by the state), so the teachers were frequently on them. So hearing that good old MA (48th ranked state in School technology integration at the time of that incedent) is backwards on IT again. Hopefully within a decade or so my town records won't just be in paper form anymore.
Let us not forget something major here, Nintendo also continues to manufacture games for GBA (which is still backwards compatible with games produced over a decade and a half ago), and has recently revamped the SP with a killer baclkight, and also pushed out the slick little GB Micro.
Add those figures to the DS sales and it's easy to see how Game Boy has been the most successful gaming platform. Now excuse me, Mr. Game Boy Color and I have a date in the bathroom with Pokemon Red.
I think my iPod makes me LESS prone to use p2p
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The iTunes music store eliminates what used to be a HUGE money hole for myself... hunting down import singles for B-sides. Moreso than other music services, iTunes has the obscure releases by the artists that I want, without having to pay an extra $15 a pop... none of which the artist will ever see. And the audio quality is far better than what I may have the off chance of finding off in the armpit of p2p.
Couple that with being able to download it, throw is on my iPod and go? It's easier than pirating. Other devices do it, but I like how iPod/iTunes works.
Not a major influx, just using it to drive the point home.
The advent of consumer tape recorders also kept this lower, but the "Ooh, let's buy it on tape so we can listen to it in the car" tech geek factor was there.
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Your nick is rather ironic after reading that post. Seahawks fan?
Believe me when I say that I have a very complicated (read: borderline OCD) routine set in place to make sure that my phone does not get handled until the hands are washed and sanitized.
I invested $10 in one at Ikea. Very useful to eat order out food on while in the living room. Quite stackable. And delightfully Swedish.
I play Animal Crossing about 100x more than my girlfriend does. I guess she doesn't want to invest her time into buying matching sets of furniture.
Does playing Texas Hold 'Em on my cellphone in the john a couple times a day mean I am a ridiculously heavy gamer?
I can only hope. It will be like the old west all over again... only with less Clint Eastwood and Ennio Morricone music, and more black rimmed glasses and J-pop.
the flexibility and downloadability of stepmania is awesome. I usually pull out the dance pads for parties... and my friends are much more likely to do a Daft Punk song than that godawful Blow My Whistle song.
When I saw that you could play Zuma on it, I got very excited... then I realized that I would be spending $150 on my stake in a box to play Zuma in my living room on instead of on my laptop in my room.
I'd rather play Adventure than Kameo.
Sounds like the arguments my friends and I used to have in college about who would do the homework and let us all copy it.
But to get serious... as my roommates and I are looking to get an Xbox 360 for our living room HDTV... hearing someone say that a $5 downloadable title (even if it is sort of his baby) is the best 360 game so far is a bit discouraging.
I'm sure that wearing the outfits that the companies tell them/pay them to wear is "free expression".
What a kick in the nuts to gamers this would be... not only do you have to pay 150% for video games, but cases of mountain dew to keep you up and enjoy the games cost more.
It's a good thing that even conservatives think this dude is nuts. They must really love the Coke
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So it smells like Bigfoot's dick?
I lied, I was playing Pokemon Yellow. It just sounded a bit gross with the whole bathroom thing. Link's Awakening is another great time waster/solid videogame. Happen to know if any of the GBA Zelda games are worth playing?
I might spring for buying my roommate's old PDA to use to play emulators (there are some sweet connectable controller modules for PDAs), but a PSP, however like a portable Dreamcast it may be... is out of my price range.
Maybe in the early to mid nineties the gap between platforms was a bit larger? We didn't even use Word most times. I was still using a program at home that default saved to RTF, and the Macs were using Lotus or something of the like.
Years ago there was a confrontation with my school district and the state involving contracts for Mac computers. We had always had Macs in the library, computer lab, and classrooms. When it came time to buy new computers, consultants advised our school to get PC's, as most students coud not bring projects home from the Mac lab to their PC. The state reps got rather angry, stating the amount of money they recieve from Apple, and the great discounts they get. The PC switch went ahead anyway... with a few bucks going to a separate Mac computer lab.
End result? The PC's the district could afford were outdated before they even arrived, unable to efficiently run even OEM programs provided with them. The Mac lab had few computers and a separate network, and were the only boxes that could run the grade tracking software (provided and required by the state), so the teachers were frequently on them. So hearing that good old MA (48th ranked state in School technology integration at the time of that incedent) is backwards on IT again. Hopefully within a decade or so my town records won't just be in paper form anymore.
Let us not forget something major here, Nintendo also continues to manufacture games for GBA (which is still backwards compatible with games produced over a decade and a half ago), and has recently revamped the SP with a killer baclkight, and also pushed out the slick little GB Micro.
Add those figures to the DS sales and it's easy to see how Game Boy has been the most successful gaming platform. Now excuse me, Mr. Game Boy Color and I have a date in the bathroom with Pokemon Red.
And my Protoss merely cry as we are Zerg rushed within 30 seconds of play.
It was already in the process of being Digg'd. Now it is very most sincerely dead.
Why don't laptop manufacturers do this?
So Joe Schmo buys a horrifically overpriced backup battery for his laptop?
In the long run, not even the atoms.
cue oooooooooooEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOoooooooo music
The iTunes music store eliminates what used to be a HUGE money hole for myself... hunting down import singles for B-sides. Moreso than other music services, iTunes has the obscure releases by the artists that I want, without having to pay an extra $15 a pop... none of which the artist will ever see. And the audio quality is far better than what I may have the off chance of finding off in the armpit of p2p.
Couple that with being able to download it, throw is on my iPod and go? It's easier than pirating. Other devices do it, but I like how iPod/iTunes works.
I've done a pushup on it, played golf on it... what else is there to do?
Not a major influx, just using it to drive the point home.
The advent of consumer tape recorders also kept this lower, but the "Ooh, let's buy it on tape so we can listen to it in the car" tech geek factor was there.