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General Chat / Canadian Dollar
« on: May 24, 2003, 03:29:26 PM »
Average game in US: $49.99 USD ($62.49 CDN) + SHIPPING
Average game in CA: $69.99 CDN + TAX

If you ask me, it's still cheaper to buy in Canada if you look at the shipping rates.

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TalkBack / Billy's New Job Revealed
« on: May 24, 2003, 03:20:15 PM »
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Originally posted by: Artimus
Mojo, you're probably 12 years old or something? Last time I thought free videos games were the only reason to work was...oh...never. Maybe you're unborn?



I'm 17, and I spend about 80% of my current earnings on video games. I never said they were the only reason someone would work. However, If I got free video games sent to me in the mail, I probably wouldn't work at all at this point in my life.  

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TalkBack / Billy's New Job Revealed
« on: May 23, 2003, 03:19:23 AM »
I'm fairly positive he's posted photographic evidence of an HDTV on the site. That's why I mentioned it... maybe I'm just imagining things. Still though, if I were him I'd just be happy getting free video games and stuff, since that's pretty much the only reason I work in the first place. Yeehah.

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TalkBack / Billy's New Job Revealed
« on: May 22, 2003, 03:10:12 AM »
So you're telling me in the 6 or whatever years he's been working on PGC, he's been living in his house, with a cat and a huge high definition TV, while recieving no income whatsoever?

And how much could he possibly make running GameInformer Online when he's openly admitted to not being good at HTML (which is one of his excuses for leaving!)

Blargh.

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TalkBack / Billy's New Job Revealed
« on: May 21, 2003, 03:08:35 AM »
I dunno... working online again makes his whole departure seem kind of pointless. He'd be better off here than GameInformer.

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TalkBack / Europe To Get Limited Edition Zelda Pak!
« on: March 31, 2003, 08:05:14 AM »
This news is like 2 weeks old, but yeah. Good for Europe.

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TalkBack / The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker RELEASES!
« on: March 25, 2003, 05:44:03 AM »
Unrelated the this news item, kind of -- but are the reviews spoiler free? And if so, maybe you should indicate that on the main page

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NWR Feedback / These full page ads make PGC...
« on: March 20, 2003, 10:22:13 AM »
...a bunch of facking hypocrites. It couldn't have been more than a month ago that you were bashing IGN for having them.

Just thought I'd point that out. My list of reasons to dislike this website grows longer.

Note that I'm annoyed over the hypocracy, not the ad itself.

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TalkBack / Nook Delivers the Goods
« on: March 20, 2003, 10:17:13 AM »
I unlocked Starman like 2 months ago... and why would you not reveal what the item was in the news post? That's just plain annoying.

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TalkBack / Platinum SP Warning
« on: February 20, 2003, 07:23:10 PM »
No offense, but I'm not totally buying this. I'm not saying you're making it up, by any means, but I find it odd that the scratches are isolated to the lower (or upper -- whatever) portion of the SP. Also, to me it looks like the kind of scratch like something pointy rubbed againsts it, like keys or something of that sort. Not to lake a relativaly flat GB cartridge. It's the swiggle circle kind of scrath that has me wondering how a simple little cart coul ddo such a thing.

Then again, I can't really tell by the pictures, and I don't know how certain you are of how the damage was done. Did you have the sack in a pocket, or do you remember scraping it against anything? I know that's unlikely based on what you said. You have to understand my shock. Nintendo stuff is usually indestructable.

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Nintendo Gaming / Should Nintendo buy Midway?
« on: February 08, 2003, 07:23:32 PM »
I dunno... they don't have a ton to offer, IMO.

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Nintendo Gaming / Is FF12 coming to GameCube? (discussion/debate)
« on: February 07, 2003, 05:42:41 PM »
Square will lose no money with extra discs. You know why? They charge $3-4 extra dollars per game.

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General Chat / Hello old and new!
« on: February 07, 2003, 05:39:32 PM »
Now that eZboard's out the window I feel safe posting on the PGC boards. Finally.

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TalkBack / Game Boy Player available ONLY in Black
« on: February 04, 2003, 08:40:50 AM »
My guess would be that jet black has tremendously outsold indigo and platinum. I have a black cube, so I don't care.

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TalkBack / PGC is Hiring!
« on: February 03, 2003, 04:42:46 PM »
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Originally posted by: RickPowers
It isn't PREJUDICE.  Get a dictionary.  There is no law or rule that says a business has to hire anyone from any specific location.  Next thing you're going to tell us that we're prejudiced against people who are illiterate.

But no, we already have Canadians on our staff, so that region is covered.  The regions/states we're hiring for are places where press events are frequently held and we need staff to attend.


I don't understand this "region" stuff. If one of your 30 staffers can't make it to "Acclaim Day", who cares? I'm sure that's not what your readers want to see anyways. By limiting your selection to these few areas you're dramatically decreasing your chances of scoring a good writer.

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TalkBack / PGC is Hiring!
« on: February 03, 2003, 02:05:02 PM »
That's prejudice against people who don't live in those areas. How about a writer that lives in Ontario and can't go anywhere?

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TalkBack / BREAKING: Space Shuttle Columbia Destroyed
« on: February 03, 2003, 11:18:39 AM »
Name one thing that we as human beings have benefitted from with the space program. I can't think of anything other than it serving our curiousity. That's not to say I don't respect these people, because I do. Were it not for them I may never have known that a candle could burn upside down in zero gravity. Not only that, but they risk their lives doing something they love, and that's fine, but they're not heroes in my book. Bring home a cure for cancer from the moon and I'll change my opinion.

End of arguement. I don't feel like getting banned over something so stupid.

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TalkBack / <b>BREAKING:</b> Space Shuttle Columbia Destroyed
« on: February 03, 2003, 08:37:59 AM »
Bah. I hate news in general. Making everything art of a larger conspiracy makes it interesting.

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TalkBack / <b>BREAKING:</b> Space Shuttle Columbia Destroyed
« on: February 03, 2003, 07:47:13 AM »
I do think it's a significant event, but not because of the unfortunate deaths. It's a significant event because it's a message from the French government that is telling America to watch what it does. The fact of the matter is, the French have satellite technology capable of scrambling signals aboard American space craft. The French deliberately did this to Columbia, which resulted in erroneus calculations in the decent -- thereby increasing the velocity (and therefore heat). This is also the reason communinaction was lost "almost like a wire was cut".

Why would the French do this? In retaliation for the French 747 that was shot down by Amreican Submarines during the Clinton Administration. That 747 was full of French intelligence operatives and America (ie. Clinton) didn't want French getting ahold of their secrets. Boeing came up with some idiotic reason for the crash, and America got away with one. Of course the French knew about it, and the result is this challenger disaster, which was supposedly caused by two missing tiles. That's of course a load of crap, because shuttles have come down with missing tiles in the past. French is also quite opposed to the war on Iraq, so I'm sure that had something to do with it.

Then again, maybe I've listened to one too many conspiracy radio shows. In that case, I return to my "that's unfortunate, but who really cares" arguement.

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TalkBack / <b>BREAKING:</b> Space Shuttle Columbia Destroyed
« on: February 03, 2003, 03:29:24 AM »
This guy has the right idea. Why are their deaths any more important?

It's a conspiracy because a French satellite interfered with instruments.  

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TalkBack / <b>BREAKING:</b> Space Shuttle Columbia Destroyed
« on: February 02, 2003, 08:23:22 PM »
It's not like I said I didn't care. I said it was a sad, unfortunate event that shouldn't be getting as much press as it is. That's plenty respect in my books.

Of course it's all part of a larger conspiracy, but I'm not gonna get into that.

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General Chat / Video and Arcade Top 10
« on: February 02, 2003, 03:13:27 PM »
I used to love that show.

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TalkBack / <b>BREAKING:</b> Space Shuttle Columbia Destroyed
« on: February 02, 2003, 03:10:09 PM »
To you I say "bah!".

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TalkBack / <b>BREAKING:</b> Space Shuttle Columbia Destroyed
« on: February 02, 2003, 12:57:39 PM »
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Originally posted by: RickPowers
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I agree that it's a tragedy, but not something that needs to be posted on your website. This isn't 9/11. Seven people died doing a job they knew was risky from the get-go. That's something I don't mourn over. I don't see PGC doing traffic accident reports and the like, so why should this be any different? They're not heros, they're astronauts who had an unfortunate accident.


That's a very shallow and sad view of the world, Mojo.  I consider everyone that risks their life to travel into outer space to gather even the simplest of scientific information a hero.  PGC is a site with a social conscience, and while we're not going to lament every national tragedy on our home page, there are certain ones that we're going to bring attention to.  If you don't like it, DON'T READ IT.  No one forced you to click that link.  You have no one to blame but yourself.

Yes, this wasn't on the scope of something like the attack on the WTC, and we're likely not going to take every February 1st off either.  But I'll be damned if we're going to keep from keeping our readers informed on important events just because someone doesn't think it "belongs" on our site.  If you want to dictate what does on a website, start your own.


Why is it "sad" that I'm not going to mourn over something so stupid? Like I said, it's unfortuante that they died, but it's a risk they chose to take. Strapping yourself inside a rocket and blasting into orbit is dangerous, and they knew that going in. I'm not gonna cry when something goes wrong. You can call them heroes if you want, but that's just your opinion. To me they're just scientists who are doing nothing to help anyone but space enthusiests. I don't care if you post a story about it on your site, I just don't think it deserves the attention. If I'm gonna mourn, I'm gonna mourn over police officers or firemen -- the real heroes. These astronauts died in an accident, and it's a shame, but that doesn't make them national heroes, in my opinion. This is really no different than a plane crash or something of that sort (and alot of pilots are up their for the good of science aswell -- are they heroes too?).

Posting it because you want to keep your readers informed is a nice gesture, really it is, but do none of your readers have television? Every self-respecting channel mentioned it atleast once. And they obviously have the internet... most of them are on it 10 hours a day. I clicked on the link becasue I wanted to see what you people had to say about it -- which was generally nothing worth reading.

Again, it's a sad event, but hardly on the scale that you're making it out to be.

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TalkBack / <b>BREAKING:</b> Space Shuttle Columbia Destroyed
« on: February 02, 2003, 09:35:21 AM »
I agree that it's a tragedy, but not something that needs to be posted on your website. This isn't 9/11. Seven people died doing a job they knew was risky from the get-go. That's something I don't mourn over. I don't see PGC doing traffic accident reports and the like, so why should this be any different? They're not heros, they're astronauts who had an unfortunate accident.


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