if a game isn't fun on some level i am not paying you 60 fucking bucks to buy it

from Merriam-Webster:

Main Entry: game
Pronunciation: \gm\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gamen; akin to Old High German gaman amusement
Date: before 12th century

1 a (1): activity engaged in for diversion or amusement

lack of fun in games is at the very least a large part of the reason so many developers are tanking in the current economy if you bought their games before and didn't have FUN you're less likely to make the $60 mistake again

to stealing 10k bank account numbers why aren't they in jail?

hardcore gaming won't die off casual gamers aren't going to slam down $400+ for the latest and greatest console then another $60 per game nintendo has casual gamers because they stopped fighting the latest and greatest fight the wii is nothing more than a game cube with a facelift and you stand to make more profit doing a high wend hardcore game than you do making another party game to sell for $20 beside the other 50 that came out today

when final fantasy, legend of zelda, mario, metroid, elder scrolls, fallout, halo, call of duty, medal of honor and dozens of other HUGELY popular series all terminate because no one bought the latest game maybe i'll listen

maybe some good will come of it and the industry will finally crash again making developers actually come up with an origional idea rather than another FPS

some of us don't have perfectly aligned eyes and the "3D" effect isn't cool to people like me it gives me a raging headache for hours

till someone's bored enough to try and cram a linux distro on it?

triple click

'nough said

hey he's got a lot of shrinking to do before most of the other planets can even talk (when it's bigger then YOU you have no room to talk)

hate to tell ya this but retraining is not an imaginary cost it is very easily quantifiable ([hourly rate of person(s) to be trained * hours of training] + [hourly rate of trainer * hours of training * total number of sessions] + any initial training cost of the trainer if an employee) most of support and matince can also be covered in the IT retraining cost

the reason the cost doesn't come up for a XP vista move is if you're a corporate customer you pay a yearly fee for service/support including training on any new elements and a desk jockey that's using an office suite, CAD program, DTP program ect all day it's a total non-issue since all their skill and training is in the specific program that they use. Retraining does however become an issue for them if the program they use day in and day out is only on one platform and the company changes to another platform (xp to red hat for example) and they are forced to change to a program that has different commands, different methods of preforming the same action and that may or may not even be able to use the preexisting files and if it can't those all need to be redone

apple and MS do listen to what their customers say if they don't vista happens granted it's not fast but it does tend to work better that linux where there's no motivation to do what the users want since if someone switches it's not like you lost a customer

the major problem i've seen in linux is that it's written by linux users

doesn't make sense? think about it a moment.

the people that code linux and therefore add the features and interface don't have the total computer idiot in marketing asking What is it? How do i use it? Why do i want it? the second question is most important here if you started in command line (DOS 3.1 for me) you don't mind using it if you have to but the people needed to bring the pipe dream of linux overthrowing the evil empire about are normal users these are people who want it to be simple they want a simple GUI not multi-switch command prompts the people coding linux want the neat little tricks they worry about 2% speed gains in code this is not something that normal people care about.

the biggest problem linux has are the distros everyone is different and one that does everything you want may not exist not an issue if you know how to code a major deal breaker if you don't sit down to any version of windows since 95 and you can figure out the basics in a couple moments because they all share a common layout and the GUIs work more or less the same i've yet to use 2 linux distros that act the same out of the box

what happens when my ISP has another 5 day outage are they removed then? no? not good enough

sony went from top of the heap to last place in 1 generation most of it's exclusive games have jumped GTA 360 and PS3 both devil may cry same thing Final Fantasy 13 is being delayed on PS3 so that 360 gamers get it at the same time in the US square has exclusive RPGs on consoles other than sony for the first time in what 10 years? a quick check shows that for every 2 PS3s nearly 3 360s have sold and almost 5 WIIs have sold (20.81m vs 28.91m vs 47.57m respectively) when you drop from a distant first vs a first time console maker to third with a nearly 3-2 deficit from 2nd place that's a flop it's not an epic level blunder i'll grant but it's by no means a success.

oh and a personal rant from a retail employee: stop changing the fucking hardware! i am sick and tired of explaining the differences between the like 6 different SKUs and why the new one you want to buy won't play PS2 games at all unlike the one your buddy got 2 years ago does.

they can't compete against a 5 store chain started in a dorm room (http://rock30games.com/) that buys higher and sells cheaper than GS last time i saw a copy of left for dead with them they were buying at $28 (i bought it before it even hit the shelf) here they even have managed to slow down game sales in the big box stores

amazon is meaningless anyone with a local B\S\T game shop will go there to avoid shipping problems, time delays, option to get cash instead of credit not to mention that at rock30 at least they guarantee the stuff is going to work or they take it back

moral of the story: if you're in or near a decent sized town (this place is 18k when the college is in session 15-16 normally) do some digging you're probably going to find a B\S\T somewhere and it'll smoke any national chain

storage

on my 360 alone i currently have 32 games 1 is four disks 1 is 3 disks and 10 are 2 disks total about 47 disks assuming DVD10s that's roughly 470GB the largest drive for a 360 is 120gb and $150

maybe it'll work on PC where storage is cheap but personally if i want to play lost odyssey i don't want to have to wait for a 4DVD download to finish the entire reason i gave up PC gaming was the wait times for install/patch are too damn long sure as hell don't want to have to download from blitzed servers on release day

hate to tell ya this but roaming is whatever the carrier says is roaming my home area goes roughly 150 miles in all directions from here i go 20 miles in the right direction and the only signal is from a roaming (for me) tower geography has nothing to do with roaming what access point you're connected to makes all the difference

AKA check your damn phone display it will tell you these things people

if you can see the ship then check your phone if it's cell is hot you may connect to it