Except for the fact that Exxon wouldn't have been offered $5,000 to settle and if they felt like the settlement price was also unfair they wouldn't have settled.

I call BS on that number.

Not once have I ever been asked who I'm purchasing a game for (my 7 year old daughter, birthday presents for cousins, friends kids, etc).

Not once have I ever been carded when buying a game or asked for my age.

Not once have I ever seen or taken a survey asking me questions along these lines.

So where are they getting their numbers from?

How many kids do you know that don't play video games?

How many pre-teens, tweens and teens do you see taking survey's?

If the survey was done online, was it a site that pre-teens, tweens and teens surf often?

If the average gamer is 30 then why has Nintendo cornered the market with "kiddie" games?

You could point out how well M rated games sell, and I could point out a lot of parents who purchase those games for their teenagers.

Why does everybody on here always complain about all the young teens on x-box live and other online services?

If the average gamer was 30 wouldn't most the people on those services be 30 and not 14?

I could go on forever.

I bet there are as many kids from age 3 to 17 that play games as there are 18 to 32 year olds.

I disagree. If I wanted to see ads I wouldn't have installed ABP in the first place.

I don't want to click no on every site I visit for the first time. It's a PITA. As much so as seeing the ads themselves.

This idea is stupid.

Eh, whatever, I didn't read the article.

If it turns out to be fake it could have been a $20,000 waste.

According to Pizza Hut, no.

It could have taken a while to sell out the remaining stock, but yea they were discontinued in the late 80's

Construx came out in the early 80's. If they had come out in the mid 90's I would have never ended up playing with them.

According to wikipedia Mattel revived the Construx brand in 1997 but then discontinued it again. Maybe that's what you're thinking of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construx

How did you keep them in such good condition for that long?

Most of mine ended up getting cracked at the ends so that the little blue connector pieces wouldn't lock into place anymore.

hence the metric to standard conversion problem

Taking half of whatever remained of his in the process.

What am I supposed to use +1 Funny for if not my own opinion?

not another one!

This is getting played out.

My cousin and her fiance were both fired from Circuit City when all of this went down.

The decision was handed down from the top. Store management had little or no say in any of this.

Most people that work in a store like that don't have what it takes to work their way up to VP status and not every smart person in the store can be a store manager.

Besides nobody said they had management smarts. I said good SALES people, knowledgeable (since when do managers fall into that category?) people and experienced people.

No, he's upset that they fired all of their best and most experienced employee's.

It wasn't just top sellers. It effected everybody.

And why the hell would you fire your top sellers anyway? How retarded is that?!?!?!

When you fire your top sellers and your most knowledgeable employee's what does that leave you with?

It wasn't exactly a brilliant move. I'm sure it saved them money in the short run but 2 years later they're bankrupt and closing most of their stores.