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Same here. Luckily, Big N is very generous with their repair policy, so I've always been able to send it in and get my DS back in tip-top shape (and unlike Microsoft, they don't send you back someone else's refurb--they fix yours--which is nice, since you develop a bond with your gaming hardware.

I kinda don't like eggplant . . . but I love AR cards!

Did those screens look grainy to anyone else? I have a vita, and it is capable of some really nice graphics (nicer than these).

I'm really bummed this won't have peace walker on it. I have snake eater on my 3ds (which I'm enjoying, not sure where the hate is coming from), so all I would get from this is portable MGS2. And frankly, I don't know if MGS2 was good enough to warrant a full retail purchase. If they put an up-rez'd version of peace walker or MGS1 on this, on the other hand . . .

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The Greek statues didn't look like our beauty models today. They were substantially "plumper, shorter, and less buxom. The Greek statues were based on the golden ratio (a+b/a = a/b, or 1.6).

Ironically, I find women with features falling in the golden ratio far more attractive than the anorexic, sickly looking women TV and film is trying to foist on me.

DO WANT.

@aristokrat

People don't understand the health insurance mandate part of Obamacare.

Don't misunderstand me. I am in favor of national health care, but I think Obamacare is probably the most back-asswards way of accomplishing it under the sun. But to make the numbers work, you have to require EVERYONE to have insurance.

Currently:
1. John is young and healthy. He does not have health insurance because he doesn't use it, and the damn insurance companies keep jacking up the costs.
2. John gets into an auto-wreck with an uninsured motorist. The hospital, by law, must treat John even though he is uninsured. John declares bankruptcy to deal with the bill (upwards of $100,000), and it is written off by the hospital as a loss. In order to keep the doors open, the hospital rolls the cost of their write-offs into all services offered across the board.
3. Insurance costs go up because the damn hospitals keep charging more and more.
4. Jimmy, who is young and healthy, doesn't buy health insurance because he doesn't need it and the damn insurance companies keep jacking up the rates.
GOTO 1

That's not even considering:
- Pre-existing conditions (where Jimmy, who didn't pay for health insurance because he didn't need, is now pissed that he can't buy insurance after finding out he has ass cancer--those greedy insurance companies!),
- Negative selection (the only people who buy insurance are those likely to use it, meaning that you don't have healthy people buying insurance to bring costs down)
- Monopolistic practices by drug companies who auction off patented life-saving medications to the highest bidders
- Bizarre laws forbidding the importation of foreign-manufactured drugs, allowing drug companies to maintain their stranglehold on your life (you *could* stop buying from us, but its patented, and you'll die without it!).
- Illegal immigrants, who use emergency rooms as primary care physicians (because as an extension of the hospital, the ER cannot turn you away regardless of your insured state--or even your citizenship).

Do you see the problem? We need national health care because WE ALREADY HAVE IT. We don't call it that, but you get hit by a car, you're getting treated, no matter what. A national health care SYSTEM, whereby everyone pays into it, regardless of age, sex, or medical history, is the only realistic way to keep medical care costs down.

Unfortunately, the Sarah Palins of the world are more concerned about winning elections than they are about doing what is right for America. And those drug companies write campaigns awfully big checks! So don't expect changes any time soon (except maybe in your blooming insurance rates).

Half off Two Worlds is still 50% too much.

@Nanashi Agreed. They're getting to be as bad as the television industry.

~ First, you pay for cable and watch 8 minutes of ads for every 22 minutes of programming.
~ Then, if you want to watch it at home, you must purchase it on either DVD or Blu-ray.
~They pushed through the crappy DMCA laws that make it illegal to crack the CSS protection on a DVD, so if you want a digital copy of your show (like for an ipad), you need to buy it AGAIN.
~If you ever switch to someone else's digital device (like a droid tablet), then you need to buy it AGAIN because of its DRM.

Now Sony is (continuing) the same practice. When they figured out that they could re-sell you your legally owned psone games for your psp, you know all they saw were dollar signs. Is this a surprise?

/end rant

I don't get how people can be so in love with a corporation that they will defend this. There is no technical barrier between psp games and the ps vita. The infrastructure to do this is there and functioning.

Plain and simply put, Sony is giving people like me, its consumers, 2 choices: pay for all of your psp games again, or keep your old psp around (which sucks because I'm starting to run out of outlets for chargers . . .). They should be, y'know, giving us a reason to get rid of our psps and all buy vitas . . .

@Kevadu Saying, "it isn't creepy because its just CARTOONs of teenagers!" makes it more creepy.