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I have not purchased a damn thing digitally-oriented since 2001, preferring to get it for free (music, movies, games, software).

While I don't want to incriminate myself, I'm just wondering where and when peeps do what and when to attract the attention of capitalist dirtbags to the point where they are faced with legal action.

What constitutes a "case", and what does not?

Granted, I dl FAR more than I share, but is this the decisive factor?

I mostly eat booze while playing.  Heh, some porters (gourmet beers) are so thick you can eat them!

Jello shots are another way to make this statement hold true...

Most people do not think for themselves, whether that may be due to lack of intelligence or other issue.  This means that they either adopt beleifs/attitudes/lifestyles that their parents had, or they just let the topographical/social society that they were born into control the person that they are.

Stereotypes are VERY real. They are based on cultural norms.  It's sad though, as no one likes to be labelled, as everyone has some kind of quirky uniqueness, but it's true that most people fit into some kind of general descriptive category.

Politically incorrect?  Whatever.  Deal with it, or deal with yourself (as hard as it may be) and make a difference.

In the wake of the Wii's release, I've begun to notice a commonality among some of the hardcore gamers in their disdain of the Wii.

Those who do not like the Wii, simply dont understand why it has gained success. To them the 360/PS3 is a better system for graphics and its online play. Games are oriented to shooters and RPGs, and the games themselves are detailed with a beautiful presentation and well written.

To these gamers, the Wii is a joke, Nintendo couldn't possibly dominate this generation because they lack the graphics and online play. But thats the thing. That hardcore opinion is slowly shrinking, and gamers will enter into a, sort of... reborn era of videogames. After all, Super Mario Bros. when released in 1985 wasnt complicated, and Wii Sports was released in 2006 and is just as simple.

Nintendo does this best, while looking at Nintendogs the other day, I really started to notice the backgrounds while you take your dog on a walk. They were at random, images that would fade in and out of the surrounding to where you were in the city. Near a park and trees would appear and fade away once you passed, there is really no city at all. Your dog is walking in a straight path the whole time, the map may show that you've turned a corner, but the city itself isnt important to the task at hand. Same with Wii Sports, their is only one stadium in baseball, and only one arena in boxing, the environment isnt as diverse, but you are focusing on the actual physical part of the game.

In a sense, Nintendo is going back to videogaming's roots. I think that these videogames give a testament to the programmer. Shining light once again on what seems to be the forgotten position. Screenshots are all we hear about when PS3/360 games are announced. People rush to see the screenshots and talk rave about them, the graphic artist seems to be the most important in developing a PS3/360 game. 

Well as we know when a Wii game is released, screenshots are not something that is wise to bring up. But is their a reason? The Wii was designed to not accentuate graphical capability. But to accentuate the programmer's capability.

And I'm not touting gameplay either. Its not graphics vs. gameplay, its functionality within a videogame! Nintendo made the system graphically weak but program-ably strong.

The hardcore gamer, boasts of online capability and high visuals. But how many actually want to play that? It is fine for those who do, but I feel that as time goes on, there will be a less of demand for those games. And that the total online experience will lose a bit of momentum.

Sometimes you just want to sit down and play a game for 30 mins, not dealing with the hassle of a complex game.

I think that over time, this will become more evident, as the Wii and DS are just the first examples of a new generation of gaming.

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Games aren't made to glorify a programmer or graphic artist, they are made to entertain and sell copies.

Obviously the Wii does not try to excel at gfx, but it DOES try to (sort of) take online play seriously.

Ninty haters mostly don't hate their games due to poor gfx, they hate them because all they do is rehash retro gameplay and emphasize on seemingly childish content (like we dug when we were ~12 back in ~1986).

It's not surprising either that most 12YO's today don't get where they are coming from.

Nathan Breskin, major player in BizTalk Server.  Half-brother of Jon Auer, front man of The Posies.

Is it any wonder that 2 tracks by The Posies end up on the Windows Vista (Media Player) Sample Playlist?!

Both are ex-half brothers of mine.  The Posies barely made an impact on the post-grunge Seattle scene in the mid nineties, and now they are being plugged on the latest version of Winblows.

What's wrong with this picture?

Congrats to him, but it just exemplifies the power of marketing.  The proof of the pudding is whether The Posie's latest album sells any more copies over what would normally be sold.  I'm sure it will, but does it deserve it?

Junk sells if the right channel is advertizing...