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Post by countlieberkuhn on Nov 20, 2012 9:00:33 GMT -8
I've heard almost no Bieber songs either - at one point I even went out of my way to listen to a couple just so I could try and work out why he creates such a bipolar reaction.
I was met with a resounding meh. It's bad music, but only 'Baby' was actually offensive to my ears. The other two I heard were just so much nothing that I couldn't really generate any kind of feeling towards them.
'Baby' aside, I don't honestly think that Justin Bieber is really hated for his music. Nor is it his personality. I think it's his fans that cause most others to hate him, by being totally inane, obnoxious and obsessive teeny-boppers that just make you want to rage, and it's just easiest to hate Bieber himself for making them a thing. Also, it's easy to hate the idea of Justin Bieber, because at the root of it all, he's just a product used by the music industry because he's easily marketable to the 12-16 year old girl demographic (who will typically buy any processed crap if it's sung by someone they find attractive), which had been generally untapped for most of the 2000s after boy bands died out. He's pretty much the modern equivalent of manufactured boy bands.
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Post by Fleck on Mar 11, 2013 12:44:04 GMT -8
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Post by Bob on Mar 11, 2013 16:10:58 GMT -8
My state loves a good killin'.
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Post by Fleck on Apr 15, 2013 12:48:34 GMT -8
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Post by Fleck on May 2, 2013 17:37:38 GMT -8
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Post by Fleck on May 23, 2013 19:27:17 GMT -8
www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/5-features-new-xbox-that-are-about-to-ruin-everything/Well, video games were fun while they lasted. I guess TGP and all of us here are now the "remember the good ol' days" forum. Hey, remember when you could buy a game and then you OWNED it? You could play it whenever you wanted, internet connection be damned? Or do whatever the hell you wanted because it was fucking YOURS? Hahaha, such simple times. Clearly, society has been crying out for our multimedia entertainment to own US, rather than the other way around.
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Post by wyvernxk7 on May 23, 2013 20:50:26 GMT -8
Man, fuck tha xbox.
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Post by countlieberkuhn on May 24, 2013 5:10:47 GMT -8
And #1 is the reason I don't own a webcam But yeah, it's a whole lotta bullshit with the Xbox. I've watched quite a few videos about it and read several articles, and the general consensus is the same: The Xbox One is an anti-consumer, pointless console that tries to do everything and does it all badly, from what we can tell. The best thing it does, Smart TVs already do better. They then go onto say that the ball is in the PS4's court now, and all they really need to do to beat the Xbox One is to promise no anti-consumer policies regarding used games/borrowing, and focus on actual games.
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Post by Fleck on May 24, 2013 11:48:19 GMT -8
I hope that PS4 is smart about this and realize that they can dominate the next generation by just putting out a newer, better console. They wouldn't even have to add that much to it, just say "it's new" and "it's not Xbox One" and you've got a demand. However, I have the despairing feeling that PS4 and Xbox One are going to go all Oligopoly on us and realize that together they can share a monopoly, and Playstation will be just as bad as Xbox, thus leaving us with no choice except the.... *shudder* Wii U and its obnoxious fucking controller.
The big concern I have is that it seems like Sony is becoming slowly more hostile/indifferent to Western markets as time goes on. They realize that they can wrap up a pile of broken glass and vials of monkey blood in a plastic box, call it "Playstation Kills Your Family" and it'll still move 100 million units in Japan. Since they've got almost guaranteed market domination over there, I wouldn't be surprised if PS4 was just as bad as Xbox, only in different ways, catering exclusively to the Japanese market, with everyone else being only an afterthought.
I do not have a good feeling about this next generation.
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Post by Bob on May 24, 2013 20:00:18 GMT -8
If this is the way XBox and PS go, then we're really in trouble of people finally realizing that deep, entertaining, wonderful video games are too expensive. Phone games like Angry Birds and "I chop fruit" (I don't know the actual title of that one) are going to dominate because they're (presumably) easy to make and INCREDIBLY high profit.
I just hope some console out there busts a move.
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Post by Fleck on May 24, 2013 21:06:54 GMT -8
Yeah, I'm getting the feeling that major, epic, life-altering video games like Final Fantasy are already historical relics. I can't imagine some dude making a website devoted to Assassin's Creed or Call of Duty that retains a loyal following for nearly a decade.
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Post by Bob on May 24, 2013 21:38:09 GMT -8
Even if that loyal following is like, five dudes (and a chick or two)
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Post by countlieberkuhn on May 25, 2013 22:59:55 GMT -8
Well, Bioshock Infinite had potential to be life-changing despite its gameplay flaws, so I'm not completely without hope of more genuinely life-changing games coming out in the future. But they're going to be rare. Oh so rare. And probably not on a console.
Which saddens me, because PC is almost certainly going to be the king of the next generation purely due to a lack of reasonable alternatives (unless PS4 brings something magic out in its big reveal), but it's not a platform for the good old-fashioned JRPGs that us musketeers grew up on and love.
This last generation failed to have any god-tier RPGs like any of the golden-era FFs, and my favourites of the generation were ones which had less-than-stellar storylines/characters, i.e. Tales of Graces/Star Ocean 4, which only get a pass because they managed to be genuinely fun enough to make up for their uncompelling stories.
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Post by countlieberkuhn on May 26, 2013 10:31:08 GMT -8
Going back to the Xbox One and it's policy regarding pre-owned/rental/borrowed games, I have just read an article on the Escapist which presents this line: "The goal is to make the customer dependant on the company, not the other way around." A point that is actually quite true and makes a lot of sense. MovieBob isn't a guy I typically agree with, particularly when it comes to his movie reviews, but I found it quite interesting how he talks about how 'ownership' is being transformed into 'permission', and as such we are not able to do as we please with the product, and Microsoft's end-user license agreement could pretty much have it's consumers by the balls by maintaining the right to deny permission if they chose. Full article here: www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/10346-Xbox-Done
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Post by Fleck on May 26, 2013 11:55:07 GMT -8
The Escapist's Jimquisition also has a pretty solid rant about it. www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/7358-Xbox-One-out-of-TenI've been playing games since the Atari 2600, and I have never seen such universal, vehement hatred of a console ever. There's always been fanboys shitting on Sega or Sony or Microsoft, but this is the first time where I honestly cannot find anyone defending Xbox on this one, unless they work for the company. I don't see how it's possible for the Xbox One to survive unless Microsoft reneges on all the statements they've made and strips the console down to basics and drops all the add-on shit. But I don't think they're going to do that. I really think that we are witnessing the advent of the next Sega Dreamcast.
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