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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Hardware => Topic started by: preacher on 15 June 2002, 03:19

Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: preacher on 15 June 2002, 03:19
Im pissed. In a perfect world there wouldnt be three different video game systems that each offered very good games. There would be only one. I own a Nintendo GameCube and a Sony PlayStation 2 and was not making any plans to buy an xbox ever, until I saw that Crazy Taxi 3 was coming out on it. Pissed me off too. I love Cray Taxi so now I want to spend another $200 on another system. This is nuts. Why cant there just be one system with games released only for it?
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Calum on 15 June 2002, 03:21
actually if there was only one, there would be a monopoly, the stuff would be overpriced and under par, and anybody who wanted to use a console would be forced into compliance at any cost.
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: preacher on 15 June 2002, 03:22
The truth sucks but you are right Calum. I just wish I could get all the games I want without spending a small fortune on video game systems.
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: grif_mcrenolds on 15 June 2002, 04:24
The XBOX is nothing but an PIII 700 PC in a fancy case.  Granted, $200 is very cheap for such a PC, but just look at its track record.  Since the box's recent birth, Microsoft has been shipping out defective systems to retailers.

 
quote:
As Neo Neko stated in the DivX.com forums...

The big problem with the Xbox is that it is not upgradable. A PC based solution is. We have sold so many Xbox units only to have them returned because there are hardware probllems. So the hardware inside is not quality. In fact the last batch of Xbox we got did not have a working one in the bunch!


You wanna know a way to get an XBOX you can upgrade?  Buy a PC with a Pentium 700 Mhz and Windows 2000.  Same crappy system, only  now you can replace the defective hardware.  ;)
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: sporkme on 15 June 2002, 04:44
i don't remember where but i saw a computer with almost every video game system cleanly incorperated into the case, atari included.

i kinda like all the wires everywhere around the room myself
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: badkarma on 15 June 2002, 07:08
quote:
Originally posted by sporkme / bob:
i don't remember where but i saw a computer with almost every video game system cleanly incorperated into the case, atari included.

i kinda like all the wires everywhere around the room myself


http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/supergeek/story/0,24330,3381725,00.html (http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/supergeek/story/0,24330,3381725,00.html)
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Kintaro on 15 June 2002, 16:11
Im going to hold my school to monopoly laws because of the price of the food at the canteen for sale.
But i have too eat!
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Aaron Ni on 17 June 2002, 21:19
That would be a slick idea but as Calum said you'd have a monopoly worse than MS is planning.  

And X11, you should be allowed off campus for fast food because all school cafeterias are sub-par to begin with, add nutritionless food, grease, fat with aspartame & monosodiumglutamate up the asshole and you're talking indigestion.  Which justifies you vomiting on a teacher's desk...

Ramble ramble ramble...
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Master of Reality on 18 June 2002, 03:49
when heated above 80? degrees farenheit aspartane gives off two different toxic fumes that over long-term can cause nerve damage that can be misdiagnosed as Multiple Scerosous (I dont know how to spell it). Some of the troops n the gulf war were affected by the mass amounts of diet soda which contains aspartane. Some of the cases of 'Gulf War Syndrome' which was thought to be caused by exposure to chemical weapons was really caused by the aspartane in the diet cola that was heated by the desert sun.
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: choasforages on 18 June 2002, 04:11
DAAAAMN, i always knew that shit was toxic but thats wicked, not only do you have to worry about getting cancer from drinking that shit, you have to worry about aspertame. i think i will stick to my mountain dew code red, and my homebrewed TURBO-TEA. my balls are still probably gonna fall off fromt the mountain dew. but thats when im 30 owell.
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: ravuya on 18 June 2002, 05:52
Doesn't it also cause lupus?
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: voidmain on 18 June 2002, 05:56
That's a new one on me.  I was over there during the entire gulf war and I don't recall seeing *any* soda, let alone diet soda.  How about drinking 5 gallons of 150 degree water a day for the entire time?   Imagine hot coffee without the coffee.  That's what I drank...

[ June 17, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Master of Reality on 18 June 2002, 06:26
whats wrong with water? I drink water most of the time... although it is cool water and not 150 degree.
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: voidmain on 18 June 2002, 07:05
Nothing's wrong with water that I am aware of (unless it is contaminated).  You were the one that said the Gulf War Syndrome was caused by diet soda in a lot of vets.  I said that was the first I had heard of that one. I don't recall seeing soda anywhere there, and having some of the symptoms myself and not having any soda while there I find it very hard to believe.  Sounds like FUD to me...
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Aaron Ni on 18 June 2002, 10:50
When Aspartame is heated above 80 Degrees it's chemical structure changes to a substance similar to formaldhyde.  Saccharine causes several types of cancer.  Monosodiumglutamate is a natural substance in your brain but when it's introduced from an outside source it causes minor brain damage.  

Aspartame is the FDA's replacement for the dangerous Saccharine although Calcium Saccharine is still on the market in items like mouthwash.

Wow, this thread went off topic fast.
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Calum on 18 June 2002, 14:13
has anybody noticed that many of Aaron's posts are about complicated things to do with chemicals?

so anyway, about consoles...
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: badkarma on 18 June 2002, 16:14
quote:
Originally posted by Calum:
so anyway, about consoles...


yeah .... my gamecube's pretty cool  :rolleyes:
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Aaron Ni on 19 June 2002, 21:02
No no, my N64 rocks!  :D
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: badkarma on 19 June 2002, 13:59
waverace: blue storm is a lot better then wave race 64 though  (http://tongue.gif)
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Master of Reality on 20 June 2002, 00:25
My sega Genesis is the sweetest!
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Master of Reality on 20 June 2002, 00:25
My Playstation is the sweetest!

[ June 19, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: voidmain on 20 June 2002, 01:09
MoR, you could use a double cheeseburger from McDonald's!
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Master of Reality on 20 June 2002, 03:41
McDonalds = Evil
Hooters = Good

[ June 19, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: choasforages on 20 June 2002, 03:59
mmmm hooters. yeah, the mcdonalds down the streat from my house hires way too many stoners. whenever i order there i have to bitch at them to get the change right. then they always screw up somehow. now i just order pizza when im hungry. pizza plus lotsa linux workstations = choas's paradise.
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: badkarma on 20 June 2002, 17:24
funny isn't it, that all mcdonalds employees are universally stupid  ;)
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Calum on 20 June 2002, 18:16
oh yes? how come their business is such a success then? and how come a McDonalds manager gets about
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: badkarma on 20 June 2002, 18:59
I was talking about the burgerflippers specifically Calum .... they *allways* manage to fuck up my order ..
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Calum on 20 June 2002, 19:02
maybe it's the gods' way of telling you to become a vegetarian... (http://honeybug.com/forums/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif)
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: badkarma on 20 June 2002, 19:50
lol ... the gods can kiss my ass    (http://tongue.gif)

[ June 20, 2002: Message edited by: BadKarma ]

Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: psyjax on 22 June 2002, 22:00
If God didn't want us to eat animals, he woulden't have made them out of meat  (http://tongue.gif)
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Refalm on 23 June 2002, 00:08
quote:
http://www.christianveg.com/wwje.htm (http://www.christianveg.com/wwje.htm): Adam's "dominion" over animals (Gen 1:26,28), we believe, conveys sacred stewardship, since God then prescribed a vegetarian diet (Gen 1:29-30) in a world God found "very good" (1:31). Gen 2:18-19 relates, "Then the Lord God said,
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: Calum on 23 June 2002, 00:53
there are many other passages that imply that only eating vegetables is a punishment, and there are also many passages in the bible (old and new testament) where eating meat is important, or worthy of anticipation and enjoyment.

I have been a vegetarian since i was born and have many reasons to continue being one, but i don't look for reasons where there are none, i'm happy to say.

No offence intended.
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: cahult on 24 June 2002, 04:20
Nobody here eating mushrooms? Technically speaking, mushrooms aren
Title: Single Video Game System
Post by: badkarma on 25 June 2002, 04:39
rofl ... the fuckMicrosoft.com forums, where a rant about video games turns into a post about wether to eat meat or not and the sex change of shrimps

 :D