Play Station III

[Antichrist]

Originally posted by Baron Saarthuran von Gushiddan:
Well, I stand gladly corrected, the man that was shot in the chest and shoulder over this damn thing is going to pull through, it seems, and so is the guy that got stabbed over it. Guess people aint that bad, eh?

it probably just means the scumbag who shot him for not handing over his money was a bad shot or used a low calibur gun.

I hope he's gcaught and rots in prison. In traveller terms, I'd ship this scumbag off to darkmoon on a one way trip....

 

[The Hinterworlds Rambler]

Not blaming the machine, Spiderfish, I blame the people, no matter who they are or what they are into, that would use the release of a toy to let bedlam ensue. My view is not "Oh these damn kids today and thier 2600s and pong!" It is "Good Gods people rioting over a product." That's all. Just wanted to register my disgust with the whole affair.

See you at the Nintendo Executions!

 

[aramis]

Originally posted by Border Reiver:
No such thing as bad publicity

Tell that to the Rosenburgs.
Or Mrs. Simpson, y'know, the gal OJ was married to...

Oh, wait... their fame got them killed... so you can't.

 

[Stainless]

Someone in Japan murdered another person because they sold their completely fictional sword in a MMORPG. There's no end to the power of imagination. How else would old men get young men to die for them in wars?

 

[Sifu Blackirish]

Man, I almost feel guilty for not standing in line...but I forgot my body armor.

Seriously, I have been playing games for years. In Buffalo, New York, where I grew up, pinball machines were classified as gambling devices so there were none inside the city limits.

So, I became a video enthusiast. I remember pouring quarters into Pong, Battlezone, Red Baron, Wizard of Wor, etc. ad nauseam.

I was always too poor to buy new systems when they were fresh. Bought my Atari 2600 after Nintendo came out, my first Nintendo after the Super...happen to have a Playstation II because I worked a long bit of overtime two years ago, and just got a Gamecube last year.

Even PCs are old school withg me. Foryears I had a Radio Shack Color Computer that worked just fine. Even now, I can't run demos from magazines like PC Gamer because my PCs never have enough memory.

IMHO, an excess of computing power has made designers lazy. Rather than elegamce, we get brute force. Add to that a marketing and news 'frenzy' and we come to what we have here. Disgusting, etc is exactly right.