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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #340 on: July 07, 2007, 11:34:31 am
nah not just you, i read it like that first time round.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #341 on: July 07, 2007, 11:47:18 am
I'm probably the most perverted here and I read it right the first time........  :-\ loljk.
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #342 on: July 07, 2007, 02:38:30 pm
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I didn't mean to say that people need to make more responsible choices, since whatever rocks their boat is just fine with me.

oh, that's just great.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #343 on: July 07, 2007, 03:22:07 pm
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I didn't mean to say that people need to make more responsible choices, since whatever rocks their boat is just fine with me.

oh, that's just great.
Still talking about things people buy to entertain themselves, like videogames. If i want to make myself look bad, i'm perfectly capable of doing it myself, i don't need you helping out like that.   ::)


Damn you jad, when i came back i misread the quoted and bolded "cunning stunt" as well.... u know, words close together, read fast, see letters, brain finds first closest match.

--seems like smash bros brawl wont get online play....  so is pokemon so far the only online game for wii? Seems like i have to actually get some friends over to play rather than kickin' their arses online. It's merrier like that anyway.
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #344 on: July 07, 2007, 03:38:23 pm
So what if you're trained to be an ever-eating-ever-shitting-ever-regurgitating machine of consumption in your entertainment choices, you can totally be a sparkling clean critical choice making responsible adult human being in every other choice-making facet of existence, right?

We are living in a time where entertainment and information are coalescing. And you're suggesting a double-standard that is impossible to enforce. How people deal with their entertainment (yes, their 'videogames') is how they will deal with their political choices, their social choices, everything. And in fact blind consumerism is the number one trait western societies seem to suffer from, and it's the same people who are making this happen that are benefitting from it: people selling shit.

So yes, socialism, state control of the market for the benefit of mankind.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #345 on: July 07, 2007, 03:59:47 pm
D: God damn Helm.... god damn, you've thought about this alot haven't you?

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #346 on: July 07, 2007, 06:14:43 pm
So instead of respecting other people's choices i'd have to go judging them for their irresponsibility? Then the only way for you to not receive my divine judgment would be to drop dead, since existing in a western society is thanks to people selling shit. The farther you go in the system the more cruel it gets. We have a rich and modern society thanks to poor people. In order for us to be rich, a whole lot of other people need to be piss poor. There is no responsible purchase. All your nice things are dirty. In fact, if i wanted to benefit mankind, i'd probably become something the society will label as a terrorist. In fact, terrorists are spawned at the root of our nice things, for our benefit.

I completely understand you helm, but it's nearly impossible to make a change in the system when you'd have to shatter cornerstones. So i try not to think about it, that's why i don't care if someone buys Halo3 instead of something less commercial. If i did care, it would mean i'd have to give up some nice things myself and i don't want that and it's selfish, i know, but where do i draw the line when the choices are only in range from evil and very evil, with the added bonus choice of blowing things up. AND STILL it's sometimes very hard to tell the difference between your irresponsible and less irresponsible choice. There are already things disguised as something responsible, when it can be the very worst choice possible. The western world is in a state of being very happy without knowing the real source of their happiness where even the optimal situation isn't really acceptable in my book, so i close that page not knowing what to do.

I mean.. can you escape the cycle even if you tried? Would it not call for new measures to keep you in?

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #347 on: July 07, 2007, 06:47:50 pm
goddamn you vast vocabulary people, us maths kids havent got a clue whats going on.   ???

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #348 on: July 07, 2007, 10:04:01 pm
No one would reduce ads because a reviewer, or some reviewers, said it detracted from the game(or at least a majority of developers). Throw away money just because someone doesn't like the ads? People will still buy the game, because for every aware person, there is a mindless person that will buy it any ways.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #349 on: July 07, 2007, 10:49:57 pm
because for every aware person, there are mindless legions that will buy it any ways.

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