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Hierofan
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Hierofan
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| Quote: | | Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. |
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couleur
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 11:21 Post subject: |
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Generalizations ftw.
What is he complaining about? Still pissed of about that Super NIntendo he didnt get for X-mas?
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Hierofan
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 11:28 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Get a life, gamers
Brigitte Pellerin
Sorry to sound uncool. But itÂ’s pathetic to see so many people lining up for days in a desperate attempt to spend more money and a heck of a lot more time than they should on video games. WhatÂ’s so bad about their lives that they need to get away from them so much?
Last week I was one of the few blissfully ignorant people who didn’t know Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii (pronounced “we” and not “why,” I’m told) consoles were about to be released in highly insufficient numbers. Nor that this marketing decision would obviously force countless shoppers to line up outside the continent’s electronics stores for up to two days just to be able to boast about their luck in spending several hundred dollars on one of this year’s hottest toys.
Then on Friday morning I heard on the radio that soon after 8:00 a.m., when the first PS3s became available, the price of the 60-GB console – the only one the truly cool want – had reached some $3,000 on eBay, from a retail price of $660 plus a bunch more for specialized peripherals and, you know, actual games. I checked again over the weekend and the eBay prices had fallen to about $1,200-$1,500 (and a mere $1,000 for the shabby 20-GB machine).
Wow. Then Nintendo released its own brand-new Wii console on Sunday, which attracted more than 1,000 people to a Toys R Us store in New York CityÂ’s Times Square for a midnight sale and who knows how many more in every suburban mall from Nanaimo to Memphis.
It’s true that these consoles are marketed as all-in-one “entertainment hubs” that you can apparently use to watch movies and download music and TV shows and stuff. But while I’m no gaming expert, I’m pretty sure the ability to watch Blu-ray movies, whatever those are, is not what had so many people spend two nights camping on a Future Shop parking lot.
Writing in Friday’s National Post about this “kidult” phenomenon, Kevin Libin noted that those most likely to devote so much energy and resources getting the newest game console are “lawyers, engineers, and businessmen” not alienated teenagers. “Once upon a time,” Kevin explained, “‘adult toys’ meant those marital aids that, if you happened to own, you certainly didn’t publicize to your colleagues and friends. Today, the term is as likely to mean the growing number of inherently un-adult products targeted directly at those of us with receding hairlines that we happily share with our friends.” And what is, on average, the age of these gamers? “In North America, it’s 29. Seventeen per cent of gamers are over the age of 50.”
I think it’s insane. That you’d waste a bunch of time and energy playing video games as a teenager is one thing. I spent many sleepless nights playing Tetris and Super Mario Bros. on what must have been the first Nintendo system way back when (I believe it was made of rocks and twigs). But I was 18 or so, the perfect age to be idiotic and spend energy trying to get away from your everyday life into a virtual world where you can, by contrast, control your destiny and – if you’re any good – impose your rules on others. Once you reach your late 20s and 30s, it’s a bit trickier.
For one thing, it should then be possible to control your destiny, at least more than when you didnÂ’t have money or a driverÂ’s licence or the right to vote. And for another, if youÂ’re still having difficulty setting your own pace in life or getting others to consider your points of view ten years after your first legal drink, you ought at least to have matured enough to realize that the solution isnÂ’t to play Genji: Days of the Blade until you grow a third thumb but, as P.G. Wodehouse might have said had he lived long enough to witness such high-tech silliness, to straighten the spine and stiffen the sinews.
Granted, there are days when real, adult life stinks. And yeah, itÂ’s good sometimes to enjoy a relaxing evening doing nothing productive whatsoever. But this is not what weÂ’re talking about. When so many people are willing to spend hundreds of dollars and dozens of hours waiting outside the nearest Best Buy for the privilege of owning the latest high-tech gaming console, it says something about the modern world that isnÂ’t flattering.
It says life in the real world, even as an educated, well-paid professional, is meaningless to us and weÂ’d rather get lost in a totally unrealistic high-definition virtual universe.
Uncool isnÂ’t the word. Pathetic is.
Ottawa Citizen, Tuesday November 21, 2006 (A-12) |
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 11:40 Post subject: |
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Post author is a self-described "alpha male".
Enough said.
Sense Amid Madness, Wit Amidst Folly
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 16:51 Post subject: |
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I agree with the article.
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 17:42 Post subject: |
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I don't agree with the article.
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tonizito
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 17:56 Post subject: |
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| tainted4ever wrote: | Post author is a self-described "alpha male".
Enough said. |
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 18:34 Post subject: |
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| human_steel wrote: | | I don't agree with the article. |
I agree with the article.
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 18:35 Post subject: |
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| Mchart wrote: | | human_steel wrote: | | I don't agree with the article. |
I agree with the article. |
I don't agree with the article.
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 18:37 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | Mchart wrote: | | human_steel wrote: | | I don't agree with the article. |
I agree with the article. |
I don't agree with the article. |
I agree with the article.
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 18:40 Post subject: |
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| Mchart wrote: | | sabin1981 wrote: | | Mchart wrote: |
I agree with the article. |
I don't agree with the article. |
I agree with the article. |
I don't agree with the article.
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 18:42 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | Mchart wrote: | | sabin1981 wrote: |
I don't agree with the article. |
I agree with the article. |
I don't agree with the article. |
Good point.
However; I agree with the article.
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 18:43 Post subject: |
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| Mchart wrote: | | sabin1981 wrote: | | Mchart wrote: |
I agree with the article. |
I don't agree with the article. |
Good point.
However; I agree with the article. |
Hmm.. you make a convincing argument. The fact is though; I don't agree with the article.
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 18:43 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | Mchart wrote: | | sabin1981 wrote: |
I don't agree with the article. |
Good point.
However; I agree with the article. |
Hmm.. you make a convincing argument. The fact is though; I don't agree with the article. |
I guess we will have to both agree that we agree with the article then.
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 18:47 Post subject: |
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| Mchart wrote: | | sabin1981 wrote: | | Mchart wrote: |
Good point.
However; I agree with the article. |
Hmm.. you make a convincing argument. The fact is though; I don't agree with the article. |
I guess we will have to both agree that we agree with the article then. |
Absolutely. This discussion is going nowhere, so we agree to disagree that we both agree with the article.
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 18:50 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | Mchart wrote: | | sabin1981 wrote: |
Hmm.. you make a convincing argument. The fact is though; I don't agree with the article. |
I guess we will have to both agree that we agree with the article then. |
Absolutely. This discussion is going nowhere, so we agree to disagree that we both agree with the article. |
I agree that we have both agreed that the article in question has witnessed the highest level of discussion on nfohump.
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 18:50 Post subject: |
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| Mchart wrote: | | sabin1981 wrote: | | Mchart wrote: |
I guess we will have to both agree that we agree with the article then. |
Absolutely. This discussion is going nowhere, so we agree to disagree that we both agree with the article. |
I agree that we have both agreed that the article in question has witnessed the highest level of discussion on nfohump. |
Agreed.
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 18:53 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | Mchart wrote: | | sabin1981 wrote: |
Absolutely. This discussion is going nowhere, so we agree to disagree that we both agree with the article. |
I agree that we have both agreed that the article in question has witnessed the highest level of discussion on nfohump. |
Agreed. |
Agreed.
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BLaM!
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 19:18 Post subject: |
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| Mchart wrote: | | sabin1981 wrote: | | Mchart wrote: |
I agree that we have both agreed that the article in question has witnessed the highest level of discussion on nfohump. |
Agreed. |
Agreed. |
Agreed.
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tonizito
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 19:22 Post subject: |
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| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 19:22 Post subject: |
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 19:48 Post subject: |
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I disagree with this concession.
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 20:37 Post subject: |
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I disagree with this concession.
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HubU
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 21:08 Post subject: |
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I pretend I disagree, but my inner feelings are mixed.
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~Berthold Auerbach
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fisk
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 21:16 Post subject: |
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I am yoghurt.
Yes, yes I'm back.
Somewhat.
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 22:22 Post subject: |
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I love turtles.
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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garus
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 22:23 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2011 22:28 Post subject: |
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I don't agree with the article.
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