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  1. Oh really? on Open Letter To Star Wars Players · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We HAVE to think that long-term.

    I can assure you, good sir, that as a non-customer, nothing could have possibly cemented my resolve to never try for your services than such widespread and notable dissent among the current playerbase.

  2. Re:Finally! on Classic Game Endings Online · · Score: 1

    It takes a bit of strategy, but not too much

    For thunderbird, use shield and jump, gotta get a rythmn going like Jacquio in Ninja Gaiden because he moves in a pattern across the top of the screen

    For Dark Link, use the same technique for Ironknuckle's -- a low jump and stab right at the top of the head. Have to be quick enough so that DL doesn't raise his shield to block it. Shield is better than life, since you should only have enough magic at this point for one cast

  3. Re:*sigh* on A First Look At E3 2006 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I already own Super Mario 3. Twice (the original cart and the game boy advance version). Therefore, I should be provided with free upgrades for life. If Nintendo feels different -- well, that's what the internets are for.

  4. *sigh* on A First Look At E3 2006 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nintendo will also be hyping up its retro downloads service for the Revolution, and will likely have several classics playable using the Revolution controller.

    do download nesticle,download smb3.nes,play rom
    Do: done!

  5. Re:Sheer Hypocrisy on Google's Action Makes A Mockery Of Its Values · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How is obeying the laws of China when trying to do business in China "doing evil"?

    "I was only following orders" went out of style at Nuremburg

  6. Not enough on ChoicePoint Hit With Large Fine For Data Theft · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was expecting something a little more Barad-Dur-ish. You know, heads of traitors impaled on the bridge as a warning to others.

  7. Re:Do Less on Microsoft to Enter Handheld Market? · · Score: 1

    Xbox is produced at a loss. All the research I've read states that the sales on games are not successfully closing the gap made by offering the console for less than it costs to produce.

    Sure, MS can afford to do this, but it's not helping or anything.

  8. Re:d&d on Need for Speed Unconnected to Fatal Crash · · Score: 2, Informative

    Reminds me of this from the Official Doom FAQ:

    FOREWORD: This messages was posted from gills@qucdn.queensu.ca on Usenet in the group comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Monday, November 15, 1993. He has a new idea: playing DOOM in REAL LIFE!

    ----------
    Howdy,
    Yes, like all you DOOM fans I have been eagerly awaiting the release date for this landmark game. Although I was very disappointed in the release date being bumped up from 3rd quarter '93 to Dec 10, I limited my anger and frustration to strangling my neighbour's cat (didn't like it much anyways.... ;) ).

    But, NOW I'm forced to read all the great stuff about the Beta release that some people have been lucky enough to get their hands on. ....well, not FORCED to read it, but I can't help absorbing every bit of information I can possibly locate. :)

    I can't handle the fact that some people have tried the game now, and I haven't, so I thought I might pull out my brass knuckles and 12 gauge pump shotgun and start up a *REAL* DOOM game. I figured that I, and 3 other frustrated DOOM awaiters, could meet up at an abandoned warehouse or something and have a rip snortin' Death Match of our own. We could throw some shotgun shells and ammo boxes randomly around the place, along with some first-aid kits (fine for light grazes from perhaps a .22 calibre round but not much good for a 12 gauge belly wound :) ) - then we go at it !!!

    Granted, there won't be any monsters in this place, like there are in DOOM, but I do have a pretty ugly cousin I could trick into coming; and with a quick dunk in some gray paint I'm convinced he could bear a passable resemblance to a gargoyle .

    So ....any takers? Heh, heh, heh.

    Note: This a JOKE, only a joke....that's J-O-K-E..as in, I'm not serious. If you are a certified nut-bar who would like to really try this out don't bother calling me up....I get faint from tension just playing Paintball :)

  9. Another logical fallacy on Need for Speed Unconnected to Fatal Crash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Correlation does not imply causality"

    May I present another scenario? The kids were already attracted to racing because its hella cool, and that caused both the interest in Need For Speed as well as the accident

  10. Re:Do Less on Microsoft to Enter Handheld Market? · · Score: 1

    Rome had the same problem. Guess which two groups are going to share the same fate?

  11. Re:Why not add a "material harmful for minors"? on Games Are Porn in Utah · · Score: 1

    In some countries (Canada), yes. Certain fetishes (think Michael Jackson) are allowed in story form as free speech, but banned in image form.

  12. Re:Et tu, Britannia? on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 1

    Don't tell the government that. They'd just love to reorganize the republic "into the first gaaaaaalactic empire"

  13. Re:Et tu, Britannia? on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 1

    You're a complete, myopic idiot to think this in the first place. This "the USA is the only place with stupid people in the world" is astonishing in its hypocrisy. You have whole nations out there with government based on radical, fundamental theology from top to bottom. Or other ones based on outdated theories and economic systems that have been repeatedly demonstrated to be broken. To be fair to the OP, misery does love company.

  14. Re:Ignoring the Facts: defining "authoritarian" on Both Parties Ignore the Facts · · Score: 1

    Actually, I was referring to stuff like:

    People being fired for smoking at home (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1657624.stm)
    Laws against smoking in private establishments (bars) that force people to go outside and foul the air
    Taxes on cigarettes that exceed the price of the actual product.
    Confiscating shipments of cigarettes from indian reservations because they don't have the high taxes

    No, you shouldn't light up on a crowded train or while you're teaching a bunch of kids in the classroom. That's being an ass. Still, there shouldn't be a law against it. Secondhand smoke, despite all the "studies" saying otherwise, is vastly less dangerous than actually sucking the concentrated smoke into your lungs. Standing in the vicinity of a smoker for a few minutes might shave oh, 20 seconds or so from your life. Probably alot less than the effect of inhaling car/bus exhaust on your way to work or the mosquito-killer sprayed over your city during the summer.

  15. LOGICAL FALLACY on Videogame or Ad? Hard to Tell · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Advertising will never, ever remain a substitution for cost for long. Companies eventually see it as an opportunity for more income and -- up until the point where customers being leaving -- will steadily increase its presence. This helpful chart explains how every single "content"-based product has and will develop:

    1) Product is conceived in some form, for free
    2) Product gets commercialized, arrives on market for a high initial price
    3) Product is offered with advertisements for a lessened price
    4) Once people are used to #3, product is simply made to be ad-only and safe for future price increases

    See also: cable tv, internet, dvd movies, software

  16. In other news... on Gamers In The UK - Statistical Revelations · · Score: 3, Funny

    So I'm a "heavy eater" I guess, right?

  17. Is our children learning yet? on DDR Coming To West Virginia Schools · · Score: 1

    No, if schools are wasting time focusing on stuff other than learning

  18. What? on New Mobile Gaming Geared For Women · · Score: 4, Funny

    They like frequent rewards

    The only other place I have read a sentence even remotely expressing the same idea is in a scientific study on small, furry animals.

  19. Re:Idiot. on Texas Politician Wants Violent Games Tax · · Score: 1

    The converse of your arguement is true, then? I suppose you'll have no issue with telling me how to use my body.

    So, how soon will it be okay for me to whip it out and start whacking on the street?

  20. Re:Insane on Texas Politician Wants Violent Games Tax · · Score: 1

    Oh my, laws no. M-O-O-N, that spells retarded.

    The answer is certainly not to give the government more control over taxes, especially now when they're making a Palpatine-esque sprint for power.

    The answer is to buy stuff from online stories that don't charge sales tax (mostly smaller stores and ebay). Problem solved.

  21. Re:MOD PARENT UP on New Gravity Theory Dispenses with Dark Matter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, Edge's steal rate on such a high-level monster is so ridiculously low that's usually quicker to just let Rydia and Edge stay dead. The plus side is that Curaja will now fully-heal the remaining three members of your party in one go.

  22. Remember on Texas Politician Wants Violent Games Tax · · Score: 3, Funny

    The colonies declared war on England because they taxed a beverage. And it wasn't even coffee.

  23. Hey! on New Gravity Theory Dispenses with Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    Who do they think they are, taking away dark matter? I need that to survive Zeromus' Big Bang attack!

  24. Re:Heh on Both Parties Ignore the Facts · · Score: 1

    That's the best thing I ever heard

  25. Re:Ignoring the Facts: defining "authoritarian" on Both Parties Ignore the Facts · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Uphold it, stop worrying about the rest of the country or the rest of the world or even the rest of your state.

    If you can, more power to you. The problem is, the rest of the country/world/state won't stop worrying about you.

    Take the Jihad on Smoking, for example.