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life after the wii…

the biz-marquis de sade — Mon, 15 May 2006 22:23:00 +0000

this article is hilarious and probably right on the money.

youre so money.

from the article:

Who am I? I am the creator of a certain video game console. I don’t want to toot my own horn, but let’s just say that profits from this machine were four billion dollars higher than the Microsoft XBox.

My console consisted of a plastic milk crate with a kitten placed inside. The controller was a wooden rod that could be used to poke the kitten. I sold zero of these consoles, which cost me zero to manufacture. Therefore my profits were zero. The XBox, however, LOST four billion dollars. Click the red words if you don’t believe me. I’ll wait.

This here is a stack of one million dollars, in hundred dollar bills.

Now imagine four thousand of those stacks, and then imagine someone setting them on fire. That’s what the XBox has done for Microsoft. If, after I tired of playing the only game available for my console (Cat Poker Tournament) I sat down and mailed a $20 bill to every single gamer in America, I would still be $2 billion ahead of the XBox.

Think about that, and think about how Sony plans to take a $400 to $500 loss on every single damned PS3 they sell for the first few years. Oh, I know they can make that money back on the games… if the consoles sell like hotcakes in a colony for hotcake addicts during a hotcake shortage. But only if.

I hereby predict that this will not happen. Luckily for me, it doesn’t take a genius.

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this isn’t really new

von satyr-masoch — Tue, 09 May 2006 08:42:00 +0000

but it still makes me laugh.

the set up: someone died in real life, his/her (i’m not sure) World of Warcraft guild/friends decided to have a funeral in the game. but, they’re on a pvp server, which means, you can be attacked anywhere.

really…if you knew you could gank them…could you resist?

none of them knew they were robots

the biz-marquis de sade — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:51:00 +0000

so basically its a good thing i havent bought an xbox360 since they are updating the consoles chip structure to a newer model that, you know, actually makes it run better.

this is a genius move that really should have been implemented before they released their first run, but damn the cost, apparently.

and seriously, what the hell are the guys down at cartoon network thinking.

airing saved by the bell? saved by the fucking bell? jesus crap allmighty since its the best god damned saturday morning cartoon i ever remember! FUCK SBTB.

since when does a place called ‘cartoon network’ air a live action show.
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on a happier note, this game is totally addicting.

and the perry bible fellowship now has its own website.