So, basically, what you've just told me is the following:
I don't see both sides of the affirmative action debate. I also don't see racism on a national level because laws say that this is so. Because of these things, there's been a huge overreaction to an advertisement for the Sony PSP.
How much sense does that make? Very little, to me.
I do agree that I overreacted. Which is why I apologized. Sorry.
I think that implementing such a thing could really help to draw new gamers to the sports video games realm. I, personally, have never played sports video games, and mainly for the reasons given by Sean Alexander. If I could play on a team of ten humans, and talk to them and strategize with them as I did it, I think I might enjoy a football video game a lot more than any of the mind-numbing Madden games out right now.
All they'd need to do then is replace John Madden's current lines with new ones that won't make my ears bleed.
Allow me to apologize for my original comments. My intention was merely to state how retarded I think it is that people are treating this new PSP advertisement as racist, when there are clearly two other ads depicting the same two characters in varying positions of inferiority/superiority.
I suppose that I ended up just ranting about stuff that really doesn't pertain to the advertisement in question, and ended up getting a bit over my head. So let me just state a few things.
I am not a racist, in the slightest. If a shifty-looking white guy were to approach me, I'd be just as cautious as if a shifty-looking black guy were approaching me.
I do understand that the black community has undergone, as a community, much financial impoverishment and such; however, I believe that tracing these problems all the way back to the great-grandparents and earlier is a bit too far. As is clear through the obvious success of quite a damn few people today, there has been ample chance (not for all, but I'm guessing for a majority) for the black community to pull itself somewhat out of these conditions.
I don't even own a PSP. I think they're too expensive, and not exactly what I'm looking for in a handheld gaming system. I prefer the Nintendo DS, myself.
As far as Affirmative Action goes, if the money comes from the black community, then that's great. I, being completely uneducated on the subject, but rash enough to speak my mind on it, assumed that it all came from the government, which I am still against, adamantly. I don't think that black people are pathetic or inferior in any way; I merely don't think that their accomplishments and successes should be treated as more impressive than if a white person had done the same.
Can't we just hold hands and get along? Well, we don't have to hold hands, mainly because I'm alone in an office right now, and may not even want to hold your hand, as you may not wash it regularly. I don't know. All I'm saying is that I apologize for going over-the-top; let's end all the me-bashing. It's an ego-killer!
Speaking of the 64DD, what ever happened to that thing? So many people used to talk about it, and Nintendo Power had it in its "Most Wanted" list for a long time...and then nothing ever happened. I believe we were promised a new "Earthbound" game, as well, the production of which was delayed so that it could be released as a 64DD game. What happened to that?
All 64DD indicates to anyone now is Scarlett Johansson's bra size.
I'm glad that you were clearly able to go on to explain HOW this reaction surfaces because of people like me.
In any case, my reaction to that PSP ad, before any of this controversy arose, would have been: "Hey, the White PSP is on its way!" Guess what my reaction to that advertisement is now? The same exact damned thing.
So you go ahead and tell me how this whole controversy arose because of people like me. Because I would love to hear it.
You had to know that this would happen, though. If every single one of Sony's advertisements depicted a black woman dominating over a white woman, nobody would say a damned thing. As soon as ONE ad pops up showing the white woman in the domaninant position, well, then it would be considered absolutely outrageous.
I'm sorry, but in the United States, slavery and apartheid of black people ended on a national level a long time ago. Of course there will be individuals who are still racist; that will always be the case, I'm sure. But enough is enough already. Just drop it, PLEASE. And that's not a message just toward cold blacks, that's toward the cold whites, too, damn it.
Honestly, look at how racial diversity is crammed into everything. You almost never see an advertisement that doesn't include a black person or an asian person right up there with white people.
In my humble opinion, the glorification of the black community is racist in and of itself. Take black history month, for example. A whole month devoted to the accomplishments of blacks. What is this telling us? That we need somebody to show us the accomplishments that blacks have made, lest they go unrecognized? Or that if we know about the greatness of an accomplishment, we'd damn well better know about the color of the skin of the person who achieved said accomplishment, given, of course, that the color of their skin is black. There's no white history month, is there? White entertainment television?
And affirmative action is the worst, by far. Take scholarships granted to a college student just for being black. "Oh, he's black, the poor thing; we should give him extra money because he's black." is exactly the message that affirmative action sends to me. That a black person is helpless and stupid and should be greatly rewarded for making it to college, an institutional concept that sees millions of new people each year. How is that not the most extremely fucking racist thing you've ever heard?
Mod me down, if you're offended; I don't even care, because I'm fed up with this whole racism thing.
I remember hearing once that Nintendo was planning on releasing the Wii shortly before Sony released the PS3; I seem to remember that their release date was going to be adjusted such that no matter what Sony was planning on doing, the Wii would be released first.
Perhaps, with the console-gaming world enraged about having to spend over half a thousand dollars on the PS3, Nintendo doesn't really care any longer.
Can anyone confirm this statement? If not, where the hell did I hear it?
I'm like that now, too, and I'm only nineteen -- no wife or kids yet.
I love games that allow me to save at any point in time; without that, I wouldn't have the time for most games.
The Nintendo DS's sleep feature is nice, because if I need to pause because I haven't saved, I can at least close the thing and save a lot of battery life.
Where'd the good ol' days go, where I could just sit on my ass for six straight hours and play something? *Sigh*
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Still, the download and installation time for such a game is incredibly fast, compared to, say, downloading a three-gigabyte ISO.
That's a shame...if it were $58.80, I'd go for it, no question. But if they think they're getting another $0.0064 out of me, I'm sorry; they're losing a customer. That extra sixty-four ten thousandths of a dollar is how they get you!
Because paying nearly sixty dollars for a mouse pad isn't bad enough already...
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Do you really need an impressive HUD? In a standard shooter, what, other than health and ammo, are you going to be looking for? The freakin' weather?
"Oh, this boss is impossible! If it weren't 55 and cloudy out, I'm sure I could beat him!"
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That reminds me so much of my dad, when he first got us a SNES for Christmas (I was five). He used to play it more than me and my two younger brothers combined (not that a one-year-old can play SNES all too well, but a three-year-old can). I remember whenever he got the cape and was flying through a level, he would stand up and keep raising the controller higher and higher above his head, and my mom would ask him, "Honey, what the hell are you doing?"
And he used to practically shout, "The higher you hold it, the higher he flies! Look! Look at him!"
Why would EA buy a company that does nothing but MMORPGs, just to cancel their projects and kill a profitable asset?
Clearly, they just want to change all the battle sound effects to the "Pow! Pow pow!," whistle noises, and Madden commentary featured in one of EA Games' many football hits, Madden '93.
Imagine these effects accentuating your battle: "Pow! Pow pow! He'll feel that one tomorrow!" *Whistle blows* "That's a way to hit him! Amazing! Pow!" *Whistle Blows over echoes of "Pow pow!" "Where'd that truck come from?!"
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So, basically, what you've just told me is the following:
I don't see both sides of the affirmative action debate. I also don't see racism on a national level because laws say that this is so. Because of these things, there's been a huge overreaction to an advertisement for the Sony PSP.
How much sense does that make? Very little, to me.
I do agree that I overreacted. Which is why I apologized. Sorry.
I think that implementing such a thing could really help to draw new gamers to the sports video games realm. I, personally, have never played sports video games, and mainly for the reasons given by Sean Alexander. If I could play on a team of ten humans, and talk to them and strategize with them as I did it, I think I might enjoy a football video game a lot more than any of the mind-numbing Madden games out right now.
All they'd need to do then is replace John Madden's current lines with new ones that won't make my ears bleed.
Allow me to apologize for my original comments. My intention was merely to state how retarded I think it is that people are treating this new PSP advertisement as racist, when there are clearly two other ads depicting the same two characters in varying positions of inferiority/superiority.
I suppose that I ended up just ranting about stuff that really doesn't pertain to the advertisement in question, and ended up getting a bit over my head. So let me just state a few things.
I am not a racist, in the slightest. If a shifty-looking white guy were to approach me, I'd be just as cautious as if a shifty-looking black guy were approaching me.
I do understand that the black community has undergone, as a community, much financial impoverishment and such; however, I believe that tracing these problems all the way back to the great-grandparents and earlier is a bit too far. As is clear through the obvious success of quite a damn few people today, there has been ample chance (not for all, but I'm guessing for a majority) for the black community to pull itself somewhat out of these conditions.
I don't even own a PSP. I think they're too expensive, and not exactly what I'm looking for in a handheld gaming system. I prefer the Nintendo DS, myself.
As far as Affirmative Action goes, if the money comes from the black community, then that's great. I, being completely uneducated on the subject, but rash enough to speak my mind on it, assumed that it all came from the government, which I am still against, adamantly. I don't think that black people are pathetic or inferior in any way; I merely don't think that their accomplishments and successes should be treated as more impressive than if a white person had done the same.
Can't we just hold hands and get along? Well, we don't have to hold hands, mainly because I'm alone in an office right now, and may not even want to hold your hand, as you may not wash it regularly. I don't know. All I'm saying is that I apologize for going over-the-top; let's end all the me-bashing. It's an ego-killer!
Speaking of the 64DD, what ever happened to that thing? So many people used to talk about it, and Nintendo Power had it in its "Most Wanted" list for a long time...and then nothing ever happened. I believe we were promised a new "Earthbound" game, as well, the production of which was delayed so that it could be released as a 64DD game. What happened to that?
All 64DD indicates to anyone now is Scarlett Johansson's bra size.
I'm glad that you were clearly able to go on to explain HOW this reaction surfaces because of people like me.
In any case, my reaction to that PSP ad, before any of this controversy arose, would have been: "Hey, the White PSP is on its way!" Guess what my reaction to that advertisement is now? The same exact damned thing.
So you go ahead and tell me how this whole controversy arose because of people like me. Because I would love to hear it.
You had to know that this would happen, though. If every single one of Sony's advertisements depicted a black woman dominating over a white woman, nobody would say a damned thing. As soon as ONE ad pops up showing the white woman in the domaninant position, well, then it would be considered absolutely outrageous.
I'm sorry, but in the United States, slavery and apartheid of black people ended on a national level a long time ago. Of course there will be individuals who are still racist; that will always be the case, I'm sure. But enough is enough already. Just drop it, PLEASE. And that's not a message just toward cold blacks, that's toward the cold whites, too, damn it.
Honestly, look at how racial diversity is crammed into everything. You almost never see an advertisement that doesn't include a black person or an asian person right up there with white people.
In my humble opinion, the glorification of the black community is racist in and of itself. Take black history month, for example. A whole month devoted to the accomplishments of blacks. What is this telling us? That we need somebody to show us the accomplishments that blacks have made, lest they go unrecognized? Or that if we know about the greatness of an accomplishment, we'd damn well better know about the color of the skin of the person who achieved said accomplishment, given, of course, that the color of their skin is black. There's no white history month, is there? White entertainment television?
And affirmative action is the worst, by far. Take scholarships granted to a college student just for being black. "Oh, he's black, the poor thing; we should give him extra money because he's black." is exactly the message that affirmative action sends to me. That a black person is helpless and stupid and should be greatly rewarded for making it to college, an institutional concept that sees millions of new people each year. How is that not the most extremely fucking racist thing you've ever heard?
Mod me down, if you're offended; I don't even care, because I'm fed up with this whole racism thing.
I remember hearing once that Nintendo was planning on releasing the Wii shortly before Sony released the PS3; I seem to remember that their release date was going to be adjusted such that no matter what Sony was planning on doing, the Wii would be released first.
Perhaps, with the console-gaming world enraged about having to spend over half a thousand dollars on the PS3, Nintendo doesn't really care any longer.
Can anyone confirm this statement? If not, where the hell did I hear it?
If Cocoa
I would race over the world's biggest ridges to pay 599 US dollars to get into the giant enemy crab fight.
I'd play Wii in the car, though.
But...but...*sniffle*...Sephiroth was BADASS!!!
Haha...man, I'm a junior in college!! Unfortunately, I just can't give up my 3.91 for games. I know, it's pathetic, right?
Yes, I'm often plagued with nightmares about Tifa's huge breasts bouncing up and down; such horrible dreams those are.
I'm like that now, too, and I'm only nineteen -- no wife or kids yet.
I love games that allow me to save at any point in time; without that, I wouldn't have the time for most games.
The Nintendo DS's sleep feature is nice, because if I need to pause because I haven't saved, I can at least close the thing and save a lot of battery life.
Where'd the good ol' days go, where I could just sit on my ass for six straight hours and play something? *Sigh*
Still, the download and installation time for such a game is incredibly fast, compared to, say, downloading a three-gigabyte ISO.
As of right now that's US$58.8064
That's a shame...if it were $58.80, I'd go for it, no question. But if they think they're getting another $0.0064 out of me, I'm sorry; they're losing a customer. That extra sixty-four ten thousandths of a dollar is how they get you!
Because paying nearly sixty dollars for a mouse pad isn't bad enough already...
Do you really need an impressive HUD? In a standard shooter, what, other than health and ammo, are you going to be looking for? The freakin' weather?
"Oh, this boss is impossible! If it weren't 55 and cloudy out, I'm sure I could beat him!"
That reminds me so much of my dad, when he first got us a SNES for Christmas (I was five). He used to play it more than me and my two younger brothers combined (not that a one-year-old can play SNES all too well, but a three-year-old can). I remember whenever he got the cape and was flying through a level, he would stand up and keep raising the controller higher and higher above his head, and my mom would ask him, "Honey, what the hell are you doing?"
And he used to practically shout, "The higher you hold it, the higher he flies! Look! Look at him!"
"Maybe you should let the kids play now..."
Ah, nostalgia...
Why would EA buy a company that does nothing but MMORPGs, just to cancel their projects and kill a profitable asset?
Clearly, they just want to change all the battle sound effects to the "Pow! Pow pow!," whistle noises, and Madden commentary featured in one of EA Games' many football hits, Madden '93.
Imagine these effects accentuating your battle: "Pow! Pow pow! He'll feel that one tomorrow!" *Whistle blows* "That's a way to hit him! Amazing! Pow!" *Whistle Blows over echoes of "Pow pow!" "Where'd that truck come from?!"
Thanks, EA!