A Small Confession

[Jcrowley]

I don't even know what a PlayStation is. I feel so...so alone. :cry:

WTF kind of gadget can get Americanski's acting so batshit crazy-Again?! I have never seen one or played one of these things. :bounce:

But I did laugh my ass off this morning when I heard the report this morning of the asshat who was sprinting into the store when the doors opened and ran right into a pole and had to be carried off and sent to the hospital.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I swear if you just put a mass marketing campaign into convincing the American Public that the fashionable place to be was in a sea of circling sharks you wouldn't be able to sell tickets fast enough.

[Union Thug]

1. As I posted elsewhere, people once trampled eachother

over cabbage patch dolls. Again - consumer society is as pathologial as it is pathetic.

[jobycom]

4. I've heard of people standing in line for hours to vote, even.

[Nay]

16. I remember that!! It was horrendously pathetic! Over a DOLL!

And remember the Elmo craze? I just shake my head when I see such sick and disgusting behavior. Over unimportant STUFF. It's no wonder the elites think we are fucking idiots. Most of us are.

[Union Thug]

21. I remember the video taken of the big glass front of a mall or store..

I would have SWORN that it was a scene right out of Romero's Dawn of the Dead!

[jobycom]

2. Ignorance of anything is easily overcome

www.google.com

Except for Republicans, who first have to overcome their pride of their ignorance.

[stop the bleeding]

3. too bad we can not get people this excited about

voting, poverty, healthcare, hunger etc.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

5. Imagine if people lined up to vote, or to feed the hungry...

Instead they line up for Playstations, Star Wars movies, and whatever else they tell us we should line up for.

Incidentally, I don't have any problem with people doing this, it's a free country, but I hope they realize they are being manipulated by Sony, who made only a small number of these units available before Christmas in order to cause this frenzy. I don't even fault Sony, it's great marketing, but it's still manipulation.

And damn that thing is expensive! Not to mention the cost of the games...

[Jcrowley]

8. One thing I'd have to say

is that this country is not free in any sense of the word. In fact it's quite expensive.

[Forrest Greene]

13. I Think Sony Ought To Be

...faulted. Marketing is communication, & all communication is manipulation. What counts is if the manipulation is done ethically & responsibly.

[bobbolink]

22. Thank you!! Sometimes I feel really alone with that, and it helps

to have someone post the true priorities!

:hi: :thumbsup: :hi:

[PATRICK]

6. Re-seller's bonanza

Most of this product excitement is about people buying a scarce commodity and re-selling it on E-Bay for a huge price. One bidding war went into the millions before collapsing back down into the thousands. This is a sign of market economy failure and the savvy of people who don't give a damn about the games and in fact won't purchase anything to actually play on the console. The media is amused by the fenzy but won't dig into this phenomenon. SONY itself is taking a loss while the lucky scalpers net thousands from the rich who don't know the system is dangerously defective or at least the Edsel of video game consoles.

The "customers", except for the nuts bidding big bucks for the resold machines, are not stupid. Again, it is the media itself that is brain-detached from the hype it loves.

[Robbien]

15. Yeah, I read where one sold on EBay for three grand this morning

Not a bad profit for standing around in lines for a while.

[bigtree]

7. I'm thinking Mario

that thing used to drive me out of my mind!

[hippiechick]

9. I have never played a computer or video game.

Just got a cell phone last year.

Wouldn't know what to do with an MP3 or Ipod to save my life.

HDTV ? WiFi? WTF???


:shrug:

[SoCalDem]

10. Shame on the corporations that spend months hyping something

and then deliberately create a "shortage" of their product.
You KNOW they could have produced enough.

They just want the free publicity and probably are laughing their asses off at the stupid americans camping on sidewalks and fistfighting each other over a plastic box

and go into hysterics when they watch people re-selling them to "desperate" parents who work 3 jobs to buy their kid that plastic box...at 3 times the price because the stores are "out" of them...

Too bad the public doesn;t ever wise up.

I would love it if just ONCE, people all said, "We'll just wait until it goes on sale"..and refused to buy until after January:)

[Union Thug]

18. I agree. People are such lemmings in this country...

And, you're right, they WILL go on sale. Wait till they show up in garage sales, I say.

Once I played vid games, but after while, I figured out that they are all pretty much the same, with the exception of image rendering and the sheer volume of information you can cram into a hard drive. But the theme's are the same. I would just as soon play Wolfenstein as any of the shooters that are out there today. Much cheaper. :-)

[SoCalDem]

19. I am too uncoordinated to play those complex games

Give me "Luxor" and I'm a happy camper..

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. me too...

[BlackVelvet04]

12. About 6 years ago I admitted to my then 10 year old

nephew I didn't know what a play station was.

His reply: "Good Lord, woman, you need to get out more often."

Smart ass kid.

[madinmaryland]

14. When I see people talking about PS2's and PS3's, I think they

are talking about IBM computers.

:shrug:

[Union Thug]

17. LOL - I had a PS2 once - the IBM machine, that is...

The ways in which we date ourselves.... :-)

[SoCalDem]

20. We still have an Atari out in the garage somewhere

:)

[bobbolink]

23. Small confession? That's HUGH!!!11!!! I'm series!!!!11!!!!

Wadda ya.. some kinda luddite?

:hi:

[slackmaster]

24. I used to work for a company that wrote games for them

Frankly I'd rather watch paint dry than play computer games.

You should try it some time. It's really rather interesting.

The job paid very well, and for the first time in my career I wasn't working for a bank, a scumbag consulting firm, or the military-industrial complex.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

25. One guy is using homeless people to wait in line for PS3's (link)

http://kendo.kotaku.com/gaming/ps3/homeless-people-line-up-in-america-for-a-ps3-215198.php

Crazy.