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Originally posted by: thatguy
No, in other words, I've seen people tear their lives apart because they've had your mindset.  I am merely trying to warn you that the outlook you have now is a dangerous and unfulfilling one.  You should attempt to adjust it, before it's too late.


Adjust it in what way? How much do I have to hate PETA to qualify as normal?  

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Originally posted by: Sir_Stabbalot
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Originally posted by: jasonditz
If only you could reconcile those two paragraphs with one another...


How are they irreconcilable?

PETA is an organization that tries to be good, but goes too far. Their objectives seem fine, as they present themselves as an animal rights group, but their methods are terrible.

Does that mean mankind is evil? No. There are dozens of other animal rights groups that are much less hypocritical.


I never said mankind was evil... I just said that 99%+ of people are hypocritical about one thing or another and that I found it intensely curious how unhinged people were getting in a thread about a 2D Flash-based platformer.

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Originally posted by: thatguy
Just because there's one group of people who are insane doesn't mean everyone is.  That's why I think you need a little bit of therapy.  That's the kind of thinking it takes to destroy yourself from the inside-out.


In other words "you don't agree with me, so you must be crazy", right?


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Originally posted by: Sir_Stabbalot
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Originally posted by: jasonditz
No, but its always something, isn't it?


Just as a question, why do you seem to think humanity is evil? Sure we're not fully perfect, but we aren't fully evil, either. Looking at only the bad is just as bad as looking at only the good. There's a lot of gray in between, and men can be heroes just as often as they can be villains.

And as for the PETA hate, as shown already in this thread, it's pretty obvious that PETA is insane.


If only you could reconcile those two paragraphs with one another...

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Originally posted by: thatguy
I think you have some delusions about people and humanity.  I seriously think you need to consider seeing a psycologist, guidance counselor, or someone like that, and just talking to them for a little while.

Also, I've only watched that one episode of Penn and Teller, believe it or not.  Are you a member/sympathizer of PETA?


I wouldn't have stayed away from the site so long if I'd known it could be so entertaining:

It took just 27 hours between me linking a flash app of a 2D platformer with Mario characters in it, on a Nintendo-themed forum mind you, to the suggestion that I should see a psycologist (sic) on the basis of my insufficient hatred for the guys who made the flash app.

Lord help me, I did not see that coming.

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Originally posted by: UERD
Yeah, but that doesn't excuse them. If everyone around you suddenly decided that babies were an acceptable form of cuisine, would you join in?


Of course... I just find it fascinating that people can work up so much PETA hate in such short order...  

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Originally posted by: UERD
Yeah, but that doesn't excuse them. If everyone around you suddenly decided that babies were an acceptable form of cuisine, would you join in?


Of course... I just find it fascinating that people can work up so much PETA hate in such short order...  

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Far be it from me to not defer to the Penn and Teller crowd on who is worth hating... I'm just saying PETA's hypocrisy and violence seem pretty much par for the course in the modern era.

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I have no idea how you guys can build up this much rage in a thread about a flash-based 2D platformer with chickens in it. Its fascinating though.

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Originally posted by: Sir_Stabbalot
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Originally posted by: jasonditz
As a pacifist I'm certainly not comfortable with their willingness to use violence to advance their agenda, but again that's true of way more than 99% of the population. I see no reason they should be singled out for any unique hate that mankind at large doesn't have coming to him.


Excuse me, but while it's true that 99% of people aren't perfect, that doesn't mean that it's normal for people to adopt animals, kill them and drop them off in dumpsters.


No, but its always something, isn't it?


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As a pacifist I'm certainly not comfortable with their willingness to use violence to advance their agenda, but again that's true of way more than 99% of the population. I see no reason they should be singled out for any unique hate that mankind at large doesn't have coming to him.



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Dude... 99% of the people in the world are terrible people. Surely we can't be expected to hate them all.


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I'm simultaneously fascinated by the amount of hate there is for PETA, and vaguely creeped out by it.

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Guys, I'm telling you, there's no way this was done without Nintendo's knowledge. PETA and Nintendo have been on very good terms for quite some time. They gave Nintendogs an award and almost every give-away contest they have for their site for school children has Nintendo merchandise (including one late last year where they were giving away Wiis and Zelda: TP)


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Originally posted by: Mashiro
Wow I hope Nintendo sues their asses off, what a terrible rip off of a game.


Umm... did you guys that are saying this play the game at all? Mario, Luigi, and Dr. Mario are actually in cutscenes in the game, this is fairly obviously either a collaborative work between Nintendo and PETA or some sort of licensing deal.


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Just got this in an email today... I haven't posted in awhile so I apologize in advance if its already been discussed.

Pretty nice graphics for a flash app, and the inclusion of Nintendo mascots was a nice touch.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:The Godfather
« on: April 04, 2007, 11:02:00 AM »
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Originally posted by: Rhoq

Does anyone know how well this game is selling for the Wii? With all of the positive buzz it's been receiving I'd be shocked if it doesn't become a million seller. We need it for 3rd parties to take the Wii seriously as a system that they develop "M"-rated titles for without having to fear that nobody will buy it.


It'd be doubly impressive for a game that's at its core a port (albeit an amazingly good port). I'm hoping EA did something about the supply shortage, because a lot of stores weren't even carrying it when I was looking for it.




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Nintendo Gaming / RE: The Godfather
« on: March 21, 2007, 01:14:55 PM »
Had to go to four places but I finally got my copy. Haven't tried it yet (and may have to work late tonight), but the reviews are mostly positive.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Toonami reviews the Wii
« on: March 21, 2007, 01:12:42 PM »
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Originally posted by: Pale
Moltar?  Don't hate on Moltar.


Oh Moltar? I thought he meant that bomberman looking blue guy that eventually replaced Moltar.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Toonami reviews the Wii
« on: March 20, 2007, 07:52:48 AM »
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Originally posted by: Arbok
"It's pretty dope!"

Ah ha ha... oh man, that's awful.

Shows how long it has been since I watched anything on Toonami, though, as I was surprised not to see the humanoid "stormtrooper-like" guy with the raspy voice presenting it... I assume he has been gone for quite awhile.


Wasn't that bomberman or something?  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Major EA/Wii news leaked by a website?
« on: March 11, 2007, 09:33:35 AM »
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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
I still wonder why publishers show the press stuff with an NDA. I mean, the only purpose of a journalist is to write about what he sees, knowledge he can't write about isn't useful to him anyway.


Those NDAs almost always come with an expiration date.

The idea is so they can have detailed write-ups available to break the day the company makes their announcement.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: March 08, 2007, 02:32:40 PM »
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Originally posted by: odifiend
Keyword: started.  DDR and a lot of those other games were already being made.  Where is the wave of companies who started not putting out their traditional games in favor of non games?  I would say there aren't any.
Jason, if you want to give me titles to match with all those companies making 'nongames', that would be great...


Majesco - New York Times Crossword Puzzle DS
Hudson - Sudoku Gridmaster
Ubisoft - Catz and Dogz
Bandai - Tomagatchi
EA - Sims
THQ - Ping Pals
Telegames - Ultimate Brain Games
Activision - Whac-A-Mole
Daiwon - That Japanese Korean dictionary thingie for the DS

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: March 08, 2007, 11:36:35 AM »
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Originally posted by: odifiend
Just curious, what companies, other than Nintendo, have started putting out 'non-games'?



Majesco, Hudson, Ubisoft, Bandai, EA, THQ, Telegames, Activision, Daiwon

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: March 08, 2007, 06:20:58 AM »
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane

Hell, even if the mainstream does like games forever who wants an industry where WiiPlay outsells Zelda?  If the East focuses on non-games and the West focuses on EA-style games then who's left to make games for game fans?


The non-games market isn't replacing the games market in Japan, it's piggybacking on it. The honest-to-god games market had a slight contraction in recent years there, but it's still a multi-multi-billion dollar industry. Companies like Koei and Square Enix and Namco Bandai and Konami have invested enormous amounts of money in attracting the people capable of making the real games that industry wants.

With apologies to Majesco and Hudson, any idiot can make a Crossword Puzzle simulator or a Sudoku game. Those products have their place and even among gamers they're not totally without interest. It's fine for those products to exist... it's even fine if there wind up being more of those products sold than the real games. The game industry isn't going to vanish.

The talent in the industry is not being steered into non-games. Miyamoto is not making a Wiimote calisthenics program. Yu Suzuki is not making a Japanese to Korean dictionary. Hideo Kojima is not going to make a touch-sensitive sculpture program. Hironobu Salaguchi is not producing a photorealistic simulation of that little game at Japanese festivals where you catch koi with a paper net.

These are the sort of guys the great games have always come from, and they're where the future great games are going to come from.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: March 08, 2007, 03:17:45 AM »
Wow, Elebits isn't really a big seller, is it?

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