and all those videos of the cut scenes from Armored Core getting passed off as gameplay. Hell, there were videos of George Lucas saying the PS2 could render Episode I. I knew tonnes and tonnes of people who bought Sony's hype and didn't get a Dreamcast.

And as someone who's burned discs in 2001 I wouldn't call piracy on the Dreamcast easy. You needed specific burning software, good quality discs and the know how to find isos. You've just taken out 95% of the market for piracy.

On the other hand Sega's Dreamcast marketing was terrible. They had the best looking games of all time and what did they do? Sonic rappin' with NBA Stars... Dear lord, what a mess.

where the heck have you been. Here's a list of just some of the excellent games Sega made since the Dreamcast:

Virtua Fighter 4
Outrun 2/2006
Virtua On Marz
Yakuza (multiple games)
Aliens vs Predator
Aliens: Isolation
The entire Total War Series
Sonic Colors
Sonic Generations
Hell Yeah: Wrath of the Undead Rabbit
Project Diva
Seventh Dragon.

I could go on. Yeah, Sega let some stinkers. But so did EA. See my post elsewhere in the thread for what really killed them.

for all the complaining about how bad Sonic Boom is people forget that Sonic 2006 was wildly profitable. From a business standpoint it's hard to argue with that. Sonic Boom is awful, but not much worse/glitchy than 2006 was. Then there's Aliens:Colonial Marines. Gear Box ripped them off. Period. It's painfully obvious that they took Sega's money and spent it on Borderlands 2. It would cost more to litigate that than Sega would ever get back though, so they're screwed. You could argue Sega should have kept a closer eye on Gearbox, but games like Aliens:CM were Gearbox's bread and butter. It's ridiculous that they'd pull that on Sega, since it pretty much burns every bridge they'll ever have in the industry. But then again who would have thought something as mediocre as Borderlands (which I like, but let's face it, it's just really, really OK) would be one of the biggest games of last gen.

So what else has Sega done wrong since the Saturn? Yes, the Saturn/32x were epic, epic failures. I guess there was Shenmue, but honestly that could have been it's generation's Grand Theft Auto.

Now, what's _really_ killing Sega is the same thing that's killing _all_ Japanese game makers: US and European companies are eating them alive. Heck, bloody Farcry 4 is selling well in Japan. Meanwhile Final Fantasy games are doing so-so.

There's a video blog that did a good video on it, I think it's here but I might have the wrong video. Either way the kinds of games the Japanese did best have been taken over by the likes of Call of Duty and World of Warcraft.

Are you trying the smitty "write first, read never" approach to discussion now? I'd ask if we were in the same discussion but the answer to that question is quite obvious.

You say that, but have never given any reason for me to believe it. I have asked you many times to name a candidate who you support, and not once have you ever named one for any race. You have repeatedly claimed to know better than I a candidate who would support what would be best for me, yet that person has never been given a name.

Frankly, I highly doubt you vote at all. I expect most likely you just jerk off to CSPAN on election day and then tell everyone else the day after how wrong they were for voting when they could have been pleasuring themselves at home all day instead.

You forget about the one thing the drug war does that nothing else does. Strips the black man from his vote. Putting black people (estimated to use drugs at the same rate as whites) in prison more (estimated at 10x the rate of whites), does more to strip rights from the underclass than anything else ever could. If it weren't for the permanent loss of rights for criminals, I don't think there'd be any resolve for a drug war. But when the drug war gives a way to strip primarily black people from their vote, then it has a great reason to exist. For those who don't like black people.

Maybe you haven't noticed this, but when you vote for something that is not a living breathing person, you still end up with one. You can claim superiority but you can't back it up.

Wow, you didn't know what I said or what you said. Nice double, there.

Has there ever been one? I've read where you'd die of asphyxia before THC OD if you smoke it, and you'd die of gastric rupture or such if you ate MJ brownies or something. And I don't know of anyone who distilled THC to an injectable drug to force an OD.

Every THC OD I've ever seen has been a OD on something else with THC present.

No, racism and ignorance are the big reasons they are against it.

This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.
--Harry J. Anslinger

There is also some potential increase of security:

Unlike (nearly) every card(*), the phone is a device that has its own display and input interface.
Meaning that you don't need to trust the payment terminal(**).
- No risk of skimmer trying to read you PIN: you're typing it into your own phone, not on the terminal which could have been hacked/modded.
- You can trust the amount displayed (again, you are reading your own phone's screen, so even if the terminal is hacked to display a lower sum and actually bill a higher sum, you'll notive the discrepancies).

Also, the phone has connectivity, which allows out-of-band confirmation for the transaction (***).

Thus, the device is protected against fraud that could menace a classical card.
- hacked terminals showing bogus transaction amounts, or trying to record your PIN.
- hackers trying to relay a transaction (small amount are "tap/swap only": no signature neither PIN asked. It's possible to use a powerful antena pointed at a wireless credit card to remotely use it and relay communication to a terminal).

Saddly, the phones have their own problems:
- they eat batteries like candy (even wireless credit card transaction are remotely powered by the terminal. Whereas a dead phone is dead and can't be used for paying).
- again, they are conencted. Which means that they could be compromised themselves. (Specially since people tend to install tons of crap).

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(*): I've seen banks issuing cards used for e-banking that have a build-in screen and keypad. Similar devices are in theory possible on a credit card.

(**): lots of e-banking card reader do exactly that: you can check on the screen what you are asked to sign.

(***): That's a security feature that's also offered by combining classical credit cards and separate connected device. I can be asked to confirm by SMS / by voice call when the bank detects unusual traffic on my credit card.

You vote for Mickey Mouse for president and a Ficus Tree for your senator. You then criticize the rest of us for voting for actual living breathing human beings instead. Then you spout nonsense beyond that to waste my time.

Carry on, sir.

Yes, one is real.

That's why "pure" heroine and professional administration eliminate OD. A hardened user that makes up his usual dose, and it's "borrowed" by a new user is how so many new users OD. That and the users that are used to one cheap line from one dealer, who switch to a more pure one, and OD from that. OD is caused by the illegality of it. Alcohol OD is caused by it being a poison. A touch of arsenic isn't deadly, nor is a touch of rat poison. But you don't want to use them regularly to unconsciousness, as so many do with alcohol.