The Damned
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http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/07/gamestop-pulls-out-creative-stops-to-move-ps3s/
More and more, stories and reports of PS3s not selling come up. People are reportedly returning the ones they bought, as well. It seems that those that bought them with hopes of selling them online for a tidy profit have been screwed. And when people are returning your product unopened... ouch.
The interest for a system should not wane so soon after its launch. This is a bad sign. Only with a major price drop this year will we see sale pick up again.
But a price drop on a system that is already being sold at a loss of hundreds of dollars? Sony may want people to buy PS3s and get that installed base, but with their massive losses this last year and the various problems they've had as well... I can't see how they could afford it. Back when the PS2 was king and they had money everywhere, they could afford the price drops. But the money they sunk into the PS3, combined with their stock falling to almost having it taken off the market, and then the battery recall, and the government hearings and investigations into their alleged selling of computer chips to foreign powers. They just don't have the means to do a major price cut.
It's going to hurt Sony a lot this year, I think. They will see losses and lose ground to the competition, and only with a few years of sacrifice (and possibly layoffs, to save enough money to keep the PS3 going) will they regain some of their past territory.
I predict hard time for Sony. Hard times, indeed.
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Like I said, I'm not that familiar with IRC. I think I've used it three times in my life.
And there was so a pokepun. I said "slack off". That's one right there. If you don't get it, you never used a Slaking.
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What? There actually is a Genem 2000?
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Done. They should have been activated already, but they weren't... odd.
Also, extra points to the first person that finds all the pokepuns in the new announcement.
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I gave it a listen. It's short. Fix that.
Kidding, kidding...
Also, update on the first page. All that extra sleep I got this week seems to have given me some energy. Stupid winter blahs...
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1. Samuel L. Jackson is not Afro Samurai. Samuel L. Jackson does he voice for another character completely. Download the show, and then go to ten minutes in. That annoying guy that shows up? That's Jackson. The main selling point for this show is misleading. Intsa-Fail for that right there. (And yes, I know the IMDB page lists him as the title character, but we all know that no user-generated content can ever be wrong:rolleyes: )
If Jackson does do the voice for Afro, then he's not doing much for it. I think he grunted a few times, and that was it. I had to turn the volume up just to make out most of what he was saying.
2. There's "all flash and no substance", and then there's this. It's over-flashed, stylized to the point where it's actually sort of ugly. For a show that wants so desperately wants to be anime, it sure fucked it up. They even threw in random Japanese in the bar scene for no reason. It's there, you just have to turn the volume up to hear him mumble it.
3. The violence was terrible. Nothing warranted it. I think fans of Ninja Scroll got together and wrote this. In fact, that fight with the group of guys looks sort of familiar. I'm not about to go rent Ninja Scroll and skip through it to find the exact scene, but I'd bet it's in there. And don't say it's an homage. That's bullshit.
4. Technology is more random than the action. One guy has an old 15th century style rifle, while another has revolvers, while another has a cell phone and high-tech binoculars. And there are androids or cyborgs or something at one point.
I guess I can't really expect much from Spike and the people they're aiming for, but come on...
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10 characters.
I see this more and more. I smell a new OCR meme in the works.
I love your work, Fishy. I truly do. Let's not quarrel and instead, be friends. I have a cake. You can have not one, but two, pieces if you want.
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Wait... why did you draw a young Micheal Jackson in the first panel?
I would use a smiley here, but the new ones... they're just not right.
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What? Didn't you get my psychic telegram? Sign up on the boards, and go at it.
And stay away from that Fishy guy. He's a no-goodnic with his "izzles" and such. He's a bad influence.
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EDIT: Wow, over 120 pages now. Wasn't it like 60 the other day?
Check your personal control panel.
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If this guy thinks one person pointing out that a lot of us already have the music readily available is being an asshole or something, than he's got issues of some kind.
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You should make another version called Grammar Nazi. Instead of throwing stars, you use little swastik...
Maybe that was a little too much.
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There's only so much philosophical material in the world, you know...
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Has anyone else noticed something? Even some of the most insane, hardcore Wii/Nintendo fans.. are praising at least one other, non-Nintendo system this generation. Hell, I think I've seen a certain holograph fetishist posting positively in the 360 thread.
Naturally, it IS the 360 that most of the Wii owners who are considering another system, are looking at, since the 360 didn't make moves to rip off Nintendo in.. well, every area. But still, that any other company would actually be getting love from a seemingly growing portion of Nintendo's fanbase seems almost ludicrous, compared to how things have been in previous wars. o.o
While I do hesitate to go off-topic, I have to agree with the general idea here. "Wii60" has gone from a cute little play on words to something that even fanboys on both sides are talking about. Anyone that followed the big three at E3 2006 might remember that's where the idea began. Sony and MS both made their own little puns, Sony with "PSWii". Both saw that Nintendo was in a position to take a fairly significant chunk of the market with their new system. I saw the "Wii60" and "PSWii" comments at the time as signs of uncertainty and early damage control. Now, I see how "PSWii" is not going to happen (the price issue, plus the inherent fanboy hate between the Sony and Nintendo camps), and how "Wii60" is more and more likely for more and more people.
You're right, the way the factions have split and aligned this generation is odd...
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Think of two carnivals: one fits inside a small field, the other is spread out over a half dozen square miles. They both have the same rides and attractions, but the one that is tighter together seems more fun because it's packed up so much tighter. Think of how a carnival would look if each ride was a twenty minute walk from each other.
That's how I see the worlds of OoT and TP. They both offer the same things (TP actually offers a little more), but since OoT had a smaller world, is just seems more jam-packed with stuff.
TP is still a very good game, though. I'm going to play it again in the future, maybe during one of those times when new releases are slow.
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Did you move your computer's antenna around?
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That's odd, because my copy of Flood Plains is 128, while Snowbound is variable (I think the project offered two different quality levels).
iPods support VBR files, so that can't be the problem. If you hadn't already said you redownloaded the songs, I'd say your copies were corrupted or something.
Odd, indeed.
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If they're that secluded, then they don't deserve to participate in the great social commune that is the internet. Fie, I say, on them and their exclusion from our glorious modern society of wires and waves! They choose to live in the dark cave of ignorance and fear, while we, the true sons and daughters on technology, bathe in the radiance of that which is the online world!
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Or those of us that have all the songs from here (including the removed ones), we can just play them anytime at all, without having to request them.
But hey, whatever works for ya.
Also, hard drives are cheap these days. Get a good 300 gig for about a hundred bucks or so.
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Oh, they're all crazy to some degree. Am I right, guys? Am I right?
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Yeah, ditto on the whole "not being able to change the title of a thread you made" thing. I want to update the pkmn project thread, but I need to change the title as well.
Also, this caught my eye:
Are you supposed to see your name first? I don't recall seeing this happen on any other forum running vbulletin.
Or am I getting some sort of special ting for being such a great poster!?
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When I tell you to, bitch. Now dance for me.
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No, I'm not a remixer, so I don't have to devote any time to that sort of thing. And I'm basically sitting at home all day until sometime in Feburary, so it makes more sense for me to do it.
Besides, didn't a few of the others ask for some electric guitar stuff for their remixes?
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These songs have been taken, and are in various states of awesomeness and completion:
Gym Leader Battle theme - Fishy
Team Rocket Hideout theme - tweek
GSC Rival Battle theme - Jaroban
GSC Trainer Battle theme - andyjayne
Viridian Forest theme - Cerrax
Hall of Fame theme - Fusion2004
Rune City (Sootopolis) theme - Cubed777
Viridian City theme - Prophet of Mephisto
Mount Moon theme - Cubed777
Burnt Tower theme - Cerrax
Everything else is either early wips that haven't been touched in some time, or from people that never replied after the Novemeber 30th cut-off.
Also, I have to re-update the list of everyone that is still involved in this project. I'll be doing the whole "email addresses and PMs to confirm" shit again.
Art fun: Who has Kirby been eating?
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I'm pretty sure he's done other artwork in the past.