Single Video Game System

[preacher]

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?

[Calum]

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.

[preacher]

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.

[grif_mcrenolds]

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.  

[sporkme]

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

[badkarma]

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

[Kintaro]

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!

[Aaron Ni]

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...

[Master of Reality]

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.

[choasforages]

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.

[ravuya]

Doesn't it also cause lupus?

[voidmain]

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 ]

[Master of Reality]

whats wrong with water? I drink water most of the time... although it is cool water and not 150 degree.

[voidmain]

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...

[Aaron Ni]

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.