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Comment Re:DS Improvements a good thing (Score 2, Informative) 187

What I'm most surprised about is that no one has developed a gyro/motion sensor that would fit into the advance cartridge slot to make games more Wii like.

Oh but they have...
http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2006/12/06/third-party-card-brings-motion-sensing-to-the-ds/
This was a third-party accessory, and because of this only homebrew could take advantage of it. It's not mentioned in the article, but there were versions for both Slot1 and Slot2. There were several homebrew games written that took advantage of this. It seems like the company that made this went out of business unfortunately.

Comment Re: but from cannabis (Score 1) 640

From http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/022208dnintdrugs.3a98bb0.html:

Of the $13.8 billion that Americans contributed to Mexican drug traffickers in 2004-05, about 62 percent, or $8.6 billion, comes from marijuana consumption.

So according to the article it's 62%, not 75%. Of course, 47.3% of statistics are made up on the spot.

I highly doubt anyone besides the drug pushers themselves knows exactly what the real percentage of profits from cannabis is, but there's no doubt it's significant, being the most popular illegal drug in the United States by far.

Comment Re:Decriminalization in Light of the Drug War (Score 5, Insightful) 640

Except that most of the profits (thought to be more than 75%) that the drug cartels make are not from narcotics, but from cannabis. The only real way to seriously cripple the Mexican drug cartels and minimize the violence is to completely legalize cannabis (better yet, all soft, nonaddictive drugs) in the United States (where the vast majority of their market is in), and let the legal, taxed, free market steal the cartels' business. After all, what stoner would want to buy crappy Mexican schwag from shady dealers when he can get high-quality product from the local coffeeshop, or just grow it in his back yard?

Comment Re:Apple Computers? (Score 1) 90

Apple will probably just throw the CD in with the computer sale, they are not required to install it but to at least give the customer a CD. Sure, the software will be unusable in Mac OS X but that way they're compliant with the law.
Actually I'm surprised Sony started installing it, not just diving the customer a CD.

Comment Re:They weren't great. (Score 1) 249

Metroid games have always been action-adventure, it was never meant to be a fragfest like you obviously wanted. If Nintendo turned Metroid into a generic FPS there would be a whole lot of pissed people. The reason Metroid Prime and its successors are so critically acclaimed is because Retro Studios managed to take the formula of the old 2D platformer-adventure games and apply it to a 3D world quite successfully. Go ahead, download a SNES emulator and a ROM of Super Metroid and you'll see that it plays out basically in the same way as the 3D games.
The Prime games were never meant to compete with all the FPSes out there. However, Metroid Prime Hunters on the DS was more of a traditional FPS like Halo or Quake. It's not a terrible game but it is generally considered inferior to the Prime trilogy on the Gamecube and Wii. I personally hated that game, even though I love me a good FPS. That game just doesn't have that Metroid formula that the other games have, so I was disappointed by it. Although if all you've ever played was Halo you might like Hunters quite a lot.

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