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You dolts,

The Bears are unstoppable in Tecmo Super Bowl. The fact that the margin was so close only indicates that the person playing as the Colts was pretty fucking good. Usually it's a landslide on that matchup.

I have penis envy, and I'm a man.

what scene what scene! no laughter here, though i can probably guess it had something to do with a certain someone doing a certain something you can do as an indian guy in street fighter 2 in a certain place with a certain guy with a certain highly visible sword?

Saw the preview before 'The Prestige' last night. I stand by the off-the-cuff snarky in-theater remark I made about half-way through the trailer:

looks like 'Crash: The International Edition' to me.

uhhh jadnice: care to find one of those interviews? even one? i dare you to, because they don't exist.

Nintendo at no point ever said the Wii's visual capacity would be anything other than a small bump, and never said it would be on par with the PS3 or 360. For years they've been hammering the whole 'graphics arent important' mantra, i mean seriously.

and why the heck does it matter, honestly? the games look fun. i have a 360 for pretty graphics and big deep experiences, the Wii doesn't need to have them.

Digg the story!

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#6: pardon my language but no shit. My point was not to say the Wii is a kiddy system, my point was that there is _literally_ something for everyone with this console, and that's not just marketing PR bullcrap.

The only thing nintendo has to worry about at this point is making sure they have a console for everyone that wants one this xmas season. the only thing that could hurt their sales at this point is going to be shortages.

while the marketing will be important, this thing is going to be viral wildfire. just look at that mom blog where her kids didnt even have a game machine anywhere in the house, and nintendo shows up w/ some wii's and now everyone in her freaking neighborhood (and probably every single kid at those kid's school now) really want one. as soon as one house in one neighborhood gets one, every house is going to want one. parents will use it to show off photos, check the weather, browse for recipies from the kitchen, etc. kids will love it for the games. older kids will play zelda and red steel and metroid, younger kids will love wii sports and mario and excitetruck and monkeyball, and way older kids will love playing classic games on the virtual console.

nintendo really BUILT this thing, and it'd damn impressive.

Nintendo's resurgence with the DS and Wii and Sony's utter failure (and total loss of almost complete market control in under a year) will be tought in economics courses for the next 50 years, at least.

The PS3 is almost as bad as the edsel and new coke.

I must say I really like the optimism on this blog, It's so refreshing. Whereas most movie fans and blogs can't wait to jump down a pic's throat as soon as ANY news comes out, you always seem to try and see the upside, and give a pic or actor the benefit of the doubt. Great example would be Ledger as the Joker (which I am also rooting for). It's extremely appealing, and I want you to know it's got you a reader for life.

Yeah I mean this is some philosophy 101 shit but it is still interesting to ponder.

A more interesting question, perhaps, is the one that asks what, if any, differences exist between supposed 'real' and perfectly 'simulated' universes at all? If it's such a good simulation, to the point of being an effectively flawless recreation of the world we see around us, then how could we possibly think the things around us are any more real than what is being simulated?

And when you start to think that way, one begins to wonder if perhaps the universe we live in is a giant simulation, one that is run and dictated and kept in check not by computers in any traditional sense, but instead by the very laws that the universe obeys? Who's to say that the laws of physics and mathematics aren't highly advanced meta-algorithms that are actively 'running' everything in real time.

*shrug*