To buy or not to buy, that is the question.
Sorry for the cliche title, but I just had to do it.

We've all been there. You're at your choice of establishment for game buying; garage sale, flea market, Goodwill, etc. You see a game on the shelf, you check your printed out RF Generation collection list and see that you already own a CIB mint condition copy of the game. But, you know the game is worth much more than what it is selling for at this establishment.
So here is the dilemma, buy the game with the full intent of re-selling it or leave it there for the next collector who does not already have the game.
For the sake of argument, let's say the price on the game is $1, would your opinion change if the game was a $10, $50, $100, $1000+ valued game?

I am outraged Posted on Aug 17th 2008 at 11:05:27 AM by (ganonbanned) Posted under TMNT

The time is around 1:30 this morning, I sat up in my room playing The legend of zelda: Link's awakening on my SNES's super gameboy, The light hum of an air conditioner in the background, every other mutant in the house fast asleep.

I went to go get some more kool-aid, when I happened to stumble upon a comic book.  Eastman  and laird's Teenage mutant ninja turtles adventures no. 7, I'd take a look if you happen to have a copy laying around.

I realized I haven't read this one, I pick it up and read decide to take a looksie.

It started off explaining the last few comics, but than completely cut-off.

The turtles were some how transported onto a meteorite by a cow that can talk and a capitalist tree-stump.  They forced the turtles to wear ridiculous costumes and fight some dog with 4 arms.  There was another fight going on, which, for no apparent reason at all, brought back leatherhead, a baddie that we thought was dead.

So the turtles win of course, the cow takes them back to there own place.  Think you've heard enough bull-shit already?  I think not.

The cow took them into New york, but it was flooded.  The cow says "Uh-oh, I didn't take you back to your right time..."

He than goes onto say that this is 100 years in the future, and its because of Ice caps melting and global warming.  Michelangelo declares that he doesn't like this future, and wants to go back to his own time.  The cow says this is one of many possible futures, and "only they we can change it" He proceeds to take the turtles along there merry way back to 1980's New york.

WTF??? What a line of liberal propaganda.  If I wanted to be brainwashed, I'd read some of Al gore's books, not a TMNT comic.  Seriously, I didn't know that people even believed this kind of bull-shit back in 1989.

Fanboys Reunited Posted on Aug 15th 2008 at 11:13:29 AM by (Lord Roke) Posted under Fanboy, Online, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo

Howdy!

This is Lord Roke in my first, and maybe last blog ever.

Some of my friends that I work with that also share my passion for games, which is great as we always have something to talk about by the tea machine (when other conversations dry up), but also great in that we used to play a lot of online games together. I'm not going back years and years - just to 2005/6, around the time of the when the XBOX 360 was launched / before the arrival of PS3.

There were probably five / six guys at work that are good friends that all used to own 360s and all used to regularly get together online for a session of Rainbow Six Vegas or GRAW with side order of occasional PGR 3. These were my golden days of online gaming. We were all on the same console, playing the same games, and more importantly: having fun. It didn't matter who won or lost it was just such a good laugh, and the fact that there were enough of us for a good game of terrorist hunt or a decent race in PGR meant that I didn't have to play with loads of the usual n0bs / weirdos / people that are good games - that tend to ruin the average online multiplayer gaming session for me. Plus, we were all of similar ability so the games tended to be close - but mainly it was just great fun especially with the voice comms on the 360 and the excellent system of game invites.

Then the PS3 came out (which was released in March 2007 in UK). The first thing that happened was that the half of the group that were hardcore PS3 fans switched to PSN overnight, despite having active XBL subscriptions and despite the fact that there were very few decent games (never mind online games) on the PS3 at this time. They still popped up on live occasionally but it became a lot more difficult to get everyone together at the same time for a game of RSV.

The non-PS3 hardcore (like me) stuck with the XBL as it was so much easier to get a game set up and the comms actually worked. I did try War Hawk a couple of times but not being able to speak to people and the extra hassle of setting up a game soon put me off (plus the game looked like something from the PS2 era). The next thing that happened was views on both sides [of the argument] became more entrenched - the PS3 fans wouldnt admit that PSN was not as good as XBL and to prove it decided to sell their 360s or switch them off permanently. This meant the salad days of online gaming were over. And to be honest I've hardly played online since - I had some good games on COD4 and another good mate has since got a 360 so hooked up with him as well, but it's never been the same since.

What a shame that misguided brand loyalty should ruin such a good thing. I could understand it if they moved on to something bigger and better I would have been there with them but to play something inferior makes no sense to me.

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