"Gamecube was hurt itself in the US by making itself look like a kid's toy and using proprietary DVD discs that had less storage capability (making multi-platform releases harder on it). SEGA was hurt by focusing on 2D over 3D graphics, although they did have a superior online system for the time."

I reckon the Gamecube lost because of the complete lack of third party support that was carried over from the N64 days. The disc size issue, although contributuing, was a moot point by then.

SEGA was still in an uphill climb to regain customer support from its add-on debacle during the Genesis days. I used to be an avid supporter of Sega until I got burned by them releasing continous expensive add-ons and then discontinuing game development to concentrate on the next "hot" add-on.

Super Nintendo - inferior to the Genesis' 32-bit capability The SNES wasn't inferior to the Genesis itself. Remember the 32 bit was an add-on and not the base system. Besides the Genesis had horrible MIDI music too.

The parent didn't say Bush was voted out of office. But you can plainly see that Bush's unpopularity hurt his political party's efforts for replacements. Bush's popularity was ridiculously low by the end of his Presidency.

In the not-so-distant-future: "Dude. Let me borrow the new GTA from you. I'll trade you the new MGS game. Oops. Can't do that anymore. You'll have to buy a copy from the online store. And so will I. Gee, remember back in the day when this wasn't a problem. When we used to be able to trade in games too"?

Aww c'mon. you're no fun, Mr. Antisocial.

They're gonna have to piss of the Prez's daddy first. Then it will work. Then it will be ...personal.

"Economic concerns and worries about compatibility -- the bugbear that doomed Vista in the corporate market -- will keep Windows 7 on the shelf for all but a handful of enterprises until at least 12 months"

IANADM, but I thought Bugbears were easy prey (only a few hit dice)?

And that he did. I used to love Bloom County as a kid. Outland just seemed like a fragemnt of an idea stretched out into a series. I never read Opus. The recurring theme in a lot of these posts is he should've just stopped for a while. Stripping out all the characters except Opus was a bad idea as well. Just imagine if Mr. Breathed had stopped and then started up in 2004 when dubbleya got (hic) relected into office. That shit just writes itself.