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Topic: So. Raging Douchebag Week is Upon Us. (Read 118045 times)
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Bunk
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Operating Thetan One
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Since everyone is going on about what each other looks like, I may as well post this link: http://www.thefirsturl.com/index2.php It originated on "the other site" but there is some crossover of membership, obviously, so I though some of the newer folks here might be interested.
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"Welcome to the internet, pussy." - VDL "I have retard strength." - Schild
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Samwise
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sentient yeast infection
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I stealthily hid a picture of myself in one of my E3 writeups. Bwaha! But a more flattering picture of me is here.
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"I have not actually recommended many games, and I'll go on the record here saying my track record is probably best in the industry." - schild
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Signe
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Muse.
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You seem to be a giant.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Samwise
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sentient yeast infection
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That's not an illusion. Why, I ate a small village today for breakfast.
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"I have not actually recommended many games, and I'll go on the record here saying my track record is probably best in the industry." - schild
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Signe
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Muse.
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Oh... and Happy Mullet Week. At least some of us seem to be paying it proper respect.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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schild
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Meh.
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schild
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For a short time in the 80's, Vin Diesel enjoyed famed as singers Chris DeBurg and Bonnie Tyler. The amazing part was that he appeared as both singers at the 1986 Grammy Awards at the same time.
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SuperPopTart
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I am damn cute for a stubby shortling.
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Happy Mullet Week.
From Mississippi.
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I am Super, I am a Pop Tart.
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schild
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Way to resize there, chief.
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SuperPopTart
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I am damn cute for a stubby shortling.
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Thanks. I go to the Schild school of resizing.
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I am Super, I am a Pop Tart.
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schild
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Thanks. I go to the Schild school of resizing. I told you paying your tuition late would result in you not finishing your training. Edit -> Transform -> Scale. That'll be $57.43.
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SuperPopTart
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I am damn cute for a stubby shortling.
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Or...
Image > Image Size > ?Pixel
Consider it a trade off.
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I am Super, I am a Pop Tart.
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schild
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That's the scenario presented by C|Net editorialist David Carnoy. He argues that the price of a new console versus the price of a PC gaming rig will have gamers migrating their gaming habits to the couch and using the extra dough on items such as an HDTV. Even if they're only upgrading the video card, a $300-$400 console sounds better than a $400-$500 cutting-edge video card.
The bottom line is that console manufacturers often heavily subsidize their new machines, swallowing huge losses up front in hopes that they'll make it all back selling games. (Unlike PC games, the console manufacturers get a royalty for each game sold on their respective systems.) Other things being equal, the DIY-heavy PC-gaming industry can't hope to compete in that kind of market. So with PC game sales either declining or remaining stagnant over the past few years and the fact that big-name titles are also landing on a console (Quake 4, Prey, Alan Wake, UT2K7), do you believe PC gaming is going the way of the arcade, losing its business to the consoles? C|Net is only a month behind us. Corporate press is a delayed feedback industry all to itself. The C|Net logo is now a douchebag unto itself.
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Daydreamer
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The bottom line is that console manufacturers often heavily subsidize their new machines, swallowing huge losses up front in hopes that they'll make it all back selling games.
Why does everyone think this? This is not some industry standard, but rather a new practice comingled with an old mythIn our current generation there is good reason to believe that only MS subsided their console significantly. Nintendo, with its lower quality hardware and steady profits is probably making a small profit on each console sold. Ever mysterious Sony is iffy, but given the initial chip shortages and the consistent positive earnings for their game division since, oh, 97 or so, I'd wage they are at least breaking even.
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Immaginative Immersion Games ... These are your role playing games, adventure games, the same escapist pleasure that we get from films and page-turner novels and schizophrenia. - David Wong at PointlessWasteOfTime.com
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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That's the scenario presented by C|Net editorialist David Carnoy. He argues that the price of a new console versus the price of a PC gaming rig will have gamers migrating their gaming habits to the couch and using the extra dough on items such as an HDTV. Even if they're only upgrading the video card, a $300-$400 console sounds better than a $400-$500 cutting-edge video card.
The bottom line is that console manufacturers often heavily subsidize their new machines, swallowing huge losses up front in hopes that they'll make it all back selling games. (Unlike PC games, the console manufacturers get a royalty for each game sold on their respective systems.) Other things being equal, the DIY-heavy PC-gaming industry can't hope to compete in that kind of market. So with PC game sales either declining or remaining stagnant over the past few years and the fact that big-name titles are also landing on a console (Quake 4, Prey, Alan Wake, UT2K7), do you believe PC gaming is going the way of the arcade, losing its business to the consoles? C|Net is only a month behind us. Corporate press is a delayed feedback industry all to itself. The C|Net logo is now a douchebag unto itself. A month hell. I've been saying this for at least a year if not more. The writing is on the wall, and that wall is in the local EB, which doesn't so much carry PC games anymore as it does humor them by a modicum of inclusion.
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Margalis
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In our current generation there is good reason to believe that only MS subsided their console significantly. Nintendo, with its lower quality hardware and steady profits is probably making a small profit on each console sold. Ever mysterious Sony is iffy, but given the initial chip shortages and the consistent positive earnings for their game division since, oh, 97 or so, I'd wage they are at least breaking even.
I'm fairly certain Sony lost money on both the PS1 and PS2 initially, because the systems are not put together very well and are difficult to manufacture. MS lost boatloads of money on the XBox though. IIRC the trend is towards more people owning fewer games each, so loss-leading makes less and less sense.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Daydreamer
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In our current generation there is good reason to believe that only MS subsided their console significantly. Nintendo, with its lower quality hardware and steady profits is probably making a small profit on each console sold. Ever mysterious Sony is iffy, but given the initial chip shortages and the consistent positive earnings for their game division since, oh, 97 or so, I'd wage they are at least breaking even.
I'm fairly certain Sony lost money on both the PS1 and PS2 initially, because the systems are not put together very well and are difficult to manufacture. MS lost boatloads of money on the XBox though. IIRC the trend is towards more people owning fewer games each, so loss-leading makes less and less sense. This is news to me, but it makes sense given the rest of the industry and the growth of rental companies. Can you cite a source? I wonder if there is any relation to game price as well...
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Immaginative Immersion Games ... These are your role playing games, adventure games, the same escapist pleasure that we get from films and page-turner novels and schizophrenia. - David Wong at PointlessWasteOfTime.com
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