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I think I missed something somewhere. :PGabuEx

Speaking of which, how do you guys feel about Microsoft's You're Too Fat to Play patent? Patents don't always play out in the product exactly as they're written, but let's pretend it will just for the sake of conversation. It sounds scary in some ways but useful in others... but it all depends on if it's voluntary or not. This report makes it seem like it would be a mandatory thing, but I doubt that would happen.

how do you guys feel about Microsoft's You're Too Fat to Play patent? JordanElek

It's his avatar pet on XBL.JordanElek

Wait, avatar pet? When did this happen?

[QUOTE="JordanElek"]how do you guys feel about Microsoft's You're Too Fat to Play patent? clicketyclick

You mean Steve Ballmer? Bill Gates isn't particular overweight.

He's got a spare tire.clicketyclick

How fat is "too fat to play" (Honest question, I don't know the answer)? Dude really doesn't look all that overweight.

[QUOTE="clicketyclick"]He's got a spare tire.GabuEx

How fat is "too fat to play" (Honest question, I don't know the answer)? Dude really doesn't look all that overweight.

How fat is "too fat to play" (Honest question, I don't know the answer)? Dude really doesn't look all that overweight.

GabuEx

[QUOTE="GabuEx"]

How fat is "too fat to play" (Honest question, I don't know the answer)? Dude really doesn't look all that overweight.

clicketyclick

[QUOTE="GabuEx"]

How fat is "too fat to play" (Honest question, I don't know the answer)? Dude really doesn't look all that overweight.

clicketyclick

The day any company enforces fitness to complete games other than fitness games is the day I buy said console, Break an arm or leg or whatever seems appropiate, and sue the company for unfairly requiring the disabled from playing what they paid for.

The only thing worse would be like gattaca, where your life depends on your dna. I have a similar plan for whenever that gets enforced.

Oh wow. After the Flamelurker owned me I took on the Adjundicator. Lol. Piss easy. Didn't hit me once. Its literally a fat guy with a monkey on his head. You knock him down and wail on the monkey and he dies. Lol.snowman6251

Snowman

I'd like to play demon souls one day in two years or so.

[spoiler] spoiler tags for a two month old game PREASE [/spoiler]

The day any company enforces fitness to complete games other than fitness games is the day I buy said console, Break an arm or leg or whatever seems appropiate, and sue the company for unfairly requiring the disabled from playing what they paid for.

The only thing worse would be like gattaca, where your life depends on your dna. I have a similar plan for whenever that gets enforced.

SirSpudly

I'd like to see a list of all your get rich quick schemes :P clicketyclick

Patent walking

Buying board games from Goodwill and selling them to collectors (got Hero's Quest and The Legend of Zelda for 50 cents each but never bothered selling)

Buy packs of WoW trading cards from gamestop for the loot, sell said loot (this one I have done and made about $500).

Buy this, sell here. Also works with Bandai anime.

Everything else I know is borderline stupid. Like raising gas 20 cents because it snowed stupid. These work, and will make money, provided you do research.

Patent walking

Buying board games from Goodwill and selling them to collectors (got Hero's Quest and The Legend of Zelda for 50 cents each but never bothered selling)

Buy packs of WoW trading cards from gamestop for the loot, sell said loot (this one I have done and made about $500).

Buy this, sell here. Also works with Bandai anime.

Everything else I know is borderline stupid. Like raising gas 20 cents because it snowed stupid. These work, and will make money, provided you do research.

SirSpudly

[QUOTE="SirSpudly"]

Patent walking

Buying board games from Goodwill and selling them to collectors (got Hero's Quest and The Legend of Zelda for 50 cents each but never bothered selling)

Buy packs of WoW trading cards from gamestop for the loot, sell said loot (this one I have done and made about $500).

Buy this, sell here. Also works with Bandai anime.

Everything else I know is borderline stupid. Like raising gas 20 cents because it snowed stupid. These work, and will make money, provided you do research.

clicketyclick

Wow that's surprisingly well thought out. I always wondered how people managed to make money of selling on Ebay or amazon. I don't quite understand the trading card thing. Are you just hoping you get a rare card and then selling it on ebay/amazon? Or am I not understanding how this works. .clicketyclick

There is luck involved, no doubt. But there are three things that make it worth it.

A) Very low price of entry. At $1 a pack, pulling a $45 card out of a box of 30 becomes instantly profitable, even without trading in-game rares and epics.

B) Very rabid fanbase.

C) I can use the cards for tournaments, Haven't won anything from the card game but I have won a Spectral Tiger from the Minis game.

And I know "support your local dealer," except our local dealer overprices MSRP because "I only get 44% discount, I have to make profit.." while his chronie persuaded everyone to buy UFS two years out of date just to get rid of them and now cons them into Warmachine by refusing to stock other games. It was funny to hear him say "now I have to rely on casuals to get Magic : The Gathering sold" but not nearly as funny to hear "at $5 a pack."

So, I finished Assassin's Creed today. Again, good game, but not as good as it could be. Looking forward to trying the sequel based on the things mentioned earlier in this thread, since it seems like exactly the kind of game this one should have been. I enjoyed the story, especially toward the end, when some of the bigger elements were revealed, and I'm looking forward to seeing how they develop some of the mysteries left in the end, where they take the future storyline, and how Ezio's story compares to Altair's. I may try to do some of the side-objectives in the game, and get some of the achievements, but overall, I'm just looking forward to the second one now.

I'm also really close to beating Professor Layton and the Curious Village. I'm in the tower right now, but I stopped because I had to recharge (I know that you can play when it's recharging, but it's not plugged into a place where I'd want to play it, so I'll just wait). I'm hoping that I'll be able to get that done today. Again, I like it, and am going to try out some of the unlockable puzzles and downloadable puzzles once I'm done with the main game. The story is pretty good, though I don't really like the idea of [spoiler] the citizens of the town being robots [/spoiler] and also the "golden apple" is pretty obvious right now. Overall, I've been enjoying it, and am looking forward to the sequel.

My favorite get-rich-quick scheme is the independant buy/sell/trade game shop near my house. When in need, he's always there with underpriced gems. Like Megaman for the Gameboy, complete, for $20, or Dragon Warrior II in-box for $30.

Oh so I saw Avatar last night. You were right Jordan, the message is pounded into your head a bit hard. But I guess that's what Cameron thinks of the American audience. Still, amazing movie from a technical standpoint. The field-of-depth had me in awe for the first half an hour.

Finally, I picked up ACII, will be playing it...maybe tomorrow. Depends on how hungover I am.

Anybody doing anything fun for New Year's tonight?

Layton spoiler

Hungry_Homer111

Oh man, if you thought that was out of left-field, you won't believe the twist in the sequel. I was like "say whaaaaaaat!?!"

Probably my favorite ending to any game this year, or in recent memory.

Click, if you're not done the game yet, don't give up. It's an awesome ending. You will be like "say whaaaaaaat!?!"

Well, my gf's friend was supposed to have an 80's themed party tonight, but she's not getting back to us about it. I was really looking forward to it.

I mean, what's better than.... big hair, bright colors, red lipstick, tight pants with holes, mixed in with alcohol?

Plus, my girlfriend is African American, and I really wanted to see her all spruced up in 80's attire. I think it would've been hilarious!

I'm stuck at work until 11 though....

[QUOTE="Hungry_Homer111"]

Layton spoiler

bob_newman

Oh man, if you thought that was out of left-field, you won't believe the twist in the sequel. I was like "say whaaaaaaat!?!"

Probably my favorite ending to any game this year, or in recent memory.

Click, if you're not done the game yet, don't give up. It's an awesome ending. You will be like "say whaaaaaaat!?!"

Hey Click have you gone to Toys R Us for their 25% off Wii accessories yet? I wanted to get a black Wiimote with M+ bundle, but I don't see it anywhere on their website. I wonder if it's 25% off too...

[QUOTE="Hungry_Homer111"]

Layton spoiler

bob_newman

Oh man, if you thought that was out of left-field, you won't believe the twist in the sequel. I was like "say whaaaaaaat!?!"

Probably my favorite ending to any game this year, or in recent memory.

Click, if you're not done the game yet, don't give up. It's an awesome ending. You will be like "say whaaaaaaat!?!"

Well, I knew that they would have to explain Ramon and Lady Dahlia somehow, and I guess it does kind of fit in with what was shown up to that point, but I was hoping for something a bit more in line with the kind of story they had going before that was revealed. That being said, it could definitely be worse. I am curious to seeing what you're referring to in the second game. Now that I know that those kinds of strange twists could be part of the Professor Layton games, I probably wouldn't be as thrown off as I was with that twist, though if it's as crazy as you say, then who knows... :P

Hey Click have you gone to Toys R Us for their 25% off Wii accessories yet? I wanted to get a black Wiimote with M+ bundle, but I don't see it anywhere on their website. I wonder if it's 25% off too...

bob_newman

[QUOTE="bob_newman"]

Hey Click have you gone to Toys R Us for their 25% off Wii accessories yet? I wanted to get a black Wiimote with M+ bundle, but I don't see it anywhere on their website. I wonder if it's 25% off too...

clicketyclick

A few things about the first Assassin's Creed (NO SPOILERS BECAUSE I DO THAT)

1. I love hitting the pots out of the slave women's hands because in my mind I picture them being punished for it when they get back (Oh I see Betsy, an ASSASSIN made you spill the water)

2. Then the male slaves carrying those flat tablets showed up and I had fun knocking them out of their hands and thinking of them getting punished (I also pictured the guy in charge of the male slaves is related to Fred and Barny's boss on the Flintstones)

3. Seeing a stream of people going to Jerusalem and riding your horse OVER them is fun in a surreal sort of way lol

4. This is probably the most accurate and tasteful way that the mentally handicapped have been done in video games. I've sent the developers a Email thanking them for not playing into the normal ignorance.

So far so good with the game, I hope to have it done before 2010 starts but you know how that goes........

black remote+ M+ + nunchuk= sexy

Speaking of which I need a new Wii remote. My second one broke, none of the motions work - buttons and pointer are fine.Haziqonfire

Spank it yet?

Mine got that way about a year ago and I spanked it for like 20 mins and it was all motiony again

[QUOTE="Haziqonfire"]Speaking of which I need a new Wii remote. My second one broke, none of the motions work - buttons and pointer are fine.Jaysonguy

Spank it yet?

Mine got that way about a year ago and I spanked it for like 20 mins and it was all motiony again

that's such a classic Jayson line :P

Another boss down. That one I summoned people at the beginning of the level then fell off the level and died making an ass of myself so I finished the level solo. Really easy boss though. Barely used her weak attacks.snowman6251

what game are you playing? God of War?

[QUOTE="snowman6251"]Another boss down. That one I summoned people at the beginning of the level then fell off the level and died making an ass of myself so I finished the level solo. Really easy boss though. Barely used her weak attacks.danger_ranger95

what game are you playing? God of War?

But why don't you want a black wiimote? How can you say no to that?bob_newman

She's just racist. :evil:

:P

[QUOTE="bob_newman"]But why don't you want a black wiimote? How can you say no to that?GabuEx

She's just racist. :evil:

:P

Oh so I saw Avatar last night. You were right Jordan, the message is pounded into your head a bit hard. But I guess that's what Cameron thinks of the American audience. Still, amazing movie from a technical standpoint. The field-of-depth had me in awe for the first half an hour.

Finally, I picked up ACII, will be playing it...maybe tomorrow. Depends on how hungover I am.

Anybody doing anything fun for New Year's tonight?

bob_newman

Told ya. The best scene as far as emotions go was the Scene of Mass Destruction, and it's a shame that those emotions couldn't have been accompanied by a better message than we got. When your movie is going to have tens of millions of viewers, you can't waste that opportunity.

AC2 is still good when you're hungover. You could still have fun with it during death by fire. It's just that fun.

My friend's family throws a big party every year for New Year's, so that's what I'm doing. It's a fun-for-the-whole-family type thing, so there's no alcohol, but that doesn't bother me. We always have a lot of fun regardless. And this year we'll have three Wii's and one 360. It'll be good times. :)

[QUOTE="GabuEx"]

[QUOTE="bob_newman"]But why don't you want a black wiimote? How can you say no to that?clicketyclick

She's just racist. :evil:

:P

Oh, sure, racial stereotyping of black Wii Remotes, I see how it is...

[QUOTE="clicketyclick"][QUOTE="GabuEx"]

She's just racist. :evil:

:P

GabuEx

Oh, sure, racial stereotyping of black Wii Remotes, I see how it is...

This is my last day with Hammy Davis Jr :(

I'm pretty sure I'm eating the pig's face now, it was harder to get good pieces

[QUOTE="bob_newman"]Oh so I saw Avatar last night. You were right Jordan, the message is pounded into your head a bit hard. But I guess that's what Cameron thinks of the American audience. Still, amazing movie from a technical standpoint. The field-of-depth had me in awe for the first half an hour.

Finally, I picked up ACII, will be playing it...maybe tomorrow. Depends on how hungover I am.

Anybody doing anything fun for New Year's tonight?

JordanElek

Told ya. The best scene as far as emotions go was the Scene of Mass Destruction, and it's a shame that those emotions couldn't have been accompanied by a better message than we got. When your movie is going to have tens of millions of viewers, you can't waste that opportunity.

AC2 is still good when you're hungover. You could still have fun with it during death by fire. It's just that fun.

My friend's family throws a big party every year for New Year's, so that's what I'm doing. It's a fun-for-the-whole-family type thing, so there's no alcohol, but that doesn't bother me. We always have a lot of fun regardless. And this year we'll have three Wii's and one 360. It'll be good times. :)

Last thing I need is a whole bunch of them where I live. They're always hitting someone in the eye or flying off and knocking someone in the head. I'm okay when there's just one of them, but if there's a bunch of them, I get scared for my safety.clicketyclick

Last thing I need is a whole bunch of them where I live. They're always hitting someone in the eye or flying off and knocking someone in the head. I'm okay when there's just one of them, but if there's a bunch of them, I get scared for my safety.clicketyclick

There, there, it'll all be OK. :(