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Re: 50 Reasons Why The Xbox Is For Stupid People

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From: Zolgius
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 21:16
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Somebody's feeling were hurt ;)

Schrodinger wrote:

>How sad that you feel strongly enough about a piece of consumer hardware to
>take the time to do this.
>
>I am just off to alt.appliances.fridges to slag off people who buy
>electrolux firdge freezers.
>
>Grow up.
>
>
>"g@meB0y" <g...@meB0y.com> wrote in message news:3CB9ED9A.3A0176E4@meB0y.com...
>
>>hahaha funny. Its true, its true!
>>
>>
>>Jimmery wrote:
>>
>>>f.a.q.
>>>50 reasons why Xbox is for stupid people to own
>>>
>>>1. 733Mhz Processor. Big number innit? Stupids are easily impressed by
>>>big numbers. Shame they get confused over little details like CISC
>>>instruction handling, 128k cache and aluminum wiring.
>>>
>>>2. Good graphics chip. Stupids like pretty pictures.
>>>
>>>3. 64Mb RAM. Big numbers again? Yes this is another big number that
>>>gets stupids excited. Again the details like DDR, high latency and
>>>133Mhz get ignored to avoid confusing the stupids.
>>>
>>>4. Unified Memory. Unlike every console that has gone before with
>>>specialized bits of memory dedicated to specific tasks, lets have a
>>>time sliced, high latency, jack of all trades and master of none
>>>memory. Call it "unified" and its sure to impress those who don't know
>>>shit about hardware.
>>>
>>>5. Special Video Features. Like realistic boob wobble. A sure sell to
>>>all those immature spotty freaks who have yet to experience the
>>>opposite sex.
>>>
>>>6. Programmable Graphics Unit. Because to stupid people, graphics is
>>>all that matters.
>>>
>>>7. Dual Pixel/Vertex Shaders. There are still xbox owners out there
>>>trying to figure out what a Vertex is.
>>>
>>>8. Made by Microsoft.
>>>
>>>9. Nvidia powered Graphics and Sound. For all those stupid people who
>>>are trying to figure out what the controllers are for, here is some
>>>nice pictures and music to keep you entertained.
>>>
>>>10. Most amount of Sound Channels of any console. In the world of
>>>stupids, those extra few channels really add to gameplay.
>>>
>>>11. Real-time Dolby Digital 5.1. An often heard cry of the stupid xbox
>>>owners, who never realized that the xbox was intended to be more than
>>>just an audio unit.
>>>
>>>12. 4 Controller ports. No decent 4 player games.
>>>
>>>13. Built-in Hard Drive. Which the stupids often tell us will never
>>>experience the same problems a HDD has under Windows 2000 such as
>>>fragmentation and bad sectors. What kernel was controlling the xbox
>>>HDD?? The win2k one? Thought so.
>>>
>>>14. Built-in Hard Drive reduces Loading Times. Apparently. Even thought
>>>there is little difference in the PS2 and xbox load times, i doubt
>>>stupids would ever check it out for themselves.
>>>
>>>15. Comfortable controllers with an analogue interface. For
>>>neanderthals and other primitive life forms.
>>>
>>>16. Uses DVD. Just don't tell the stupids that the other consoles also
>>>use DVD.
>>>
>>>17. Scratches, copies and plays music CDs with ease.
>>>
>>>18. Higher Quality DVD movie playback over PS2. For even more money
>>>than you had so shell out for the rip off machine in the first place.
>>>Suckers!
>>>
>>>19. Breakaway connectors for the controllers reduce Xbox falling. After
>>>all it is big and heavy with a delicate HDD in there, and you know how
>>>clumsy stupid people are dragging their knuckles across the floor all
>>>the time.
>>>
>>>20. 2 peripheral slots on the controller. You mean like the peripheral
>>>slots on other consoles that was barely used? Of course, to stupid
>>>people memory cards (per console) are a waste of money, but add ons
>>>(per controller) are a bargain.
>>>
>>>21. Harddrive means no need to buy a memory card ever. Stupids are
>>>direct descendants of cave dwellers, and have no need to leave their
>>>home. This renders the versatility of memory cards a bit useless.
>>>
>>>22. Built-in Ethernet Adaptor. Shame most stupids don't realize that
>>>their normal phone line wont work with this.
>>>
>>>23. PC-like Hardware Architecture for Developer ease. Not that it is a
>>>PC you understand. LOL!
>>>
>>>24. Best Launch games portfolio in Australian history ever. But not in
>>>America, Japan or Europe. Or anywhere else for that matter.
>>>
>>>25. First Successful American console ever, of course it has only been
>>>successful in America and no where else. The xboxes success in any
>>>particular country is inversely proportional to the average IQ of that
>>>country.
>>>
>>>26. Widescreen and HDTV support. Because to stupid people, graphics is
>>>all that matters.
>>>
>>>27. Growing Develop Support. Mainly from second rate developers. Not
>>>that stupids could tell the difference of course.
>>>
>>>28. Hard Drive allows custom soundtracks. That is of course if you can
>>>get the xbox to read your CDs without turning them into beer coasters.
>>>
>>>29. Broadband connection only. Which is ok seeing as stupids spend most
>>>of their time watching cable tv from their trailer home.
>>>
>>>30. Certain Games only on Xbox. Most of them are "stupid" editions,
>>>like DOA3 which is basically DOA2 with nicer graphics and more scantily
>>>clad females.
>>>
>>>31. HALO. Just don't tell the stupids that it will be out on the PC with
>>>online support and better resolution.
>>>
>>>32. Dead or Alive 3. A game that the stupids will tell you could not be
>>>done on any other console. Of course it could because its just DOA2
>>>with the graphics to keep those stupids happy and little else.
>>>
>>>33. Not so bright future for not so bright xbox owners.
>>>
>>>34. Over 200 games in Development. What the stupids don't know is that
>>>99% of them are ports from the PS2, Gamecube or PC.
>>>
>>>35. Built-in controller force feedback. Of course stupids wont realize
>>>this has been standard with most games for the last 4 years.
>>>
>>>36. Ported Games from other systems receive updates. Again, like what
>>>has nearly always happened with other ports in the past.
>>>
>>>37. Getting some of the best PS2 games. Lets emphasize to the stupids
>>>that the xbox will be getting ports, ports and more ports.
>>>
>>>38. A game for every stupid person.
>>>
>>>39. LAN capabilities for games. On the assumption you can get your
>>>stupid friend to drag his xbox around to yours, and then return because
>>>he forgot his TV as well, and then realize that you don't have the right
>>>wires to connect the two.
>>>
>>>40. User-friendly interface. Well it has to be if you are marketing the
>>>xbox to stupid people.
>>>
>>>41. Constantly growing fanbase. Stupid people are not best known for
>>>their family planning expertise, and are reproducing at a scary rate.
>>>
>>>42. Popular developers develop for Xbox, but they always remember the
>>>target audience - which is why no xbox game has more than 15 hours of
>>>game time in there.
>>>
>>>43. More stupid games than the competition. The two best racers on the
>>>xbox are one that involves turning 90 corners every few meters, and
>>>another where you can only race against the clock. Joy.
>>>
>>>44. Home theatre setup compatible. Just don't tell the stupids that this
>>>is common in most modern electronic entertainment appliances.
>>>
>>>45. No constant game delays. Just games which can be completed in a few
>>>hours with no extra features or cheats.
>>>
>>>46. Optimized for the future. Which is why the xbox accepts patches,
>>>updates and bug fixes.
>>>
>>>47. Sleek in Design. Sleek to a stupid neanderthal is anything that is
>>>smaller than their extended anal cavity.
>>>
>>>48. No unfulfilled promises. Just lots of lies, hype and bullshit
>>>especially created for all you stupid people to put you into a world of
>>>denial.
>>>
>>>49. Fast and Responsive Customer Care Service. Which is of course why
>>>three of Japans biggest electronics retails refused to sell the xbox
>>>for a few weeks until Microsoft sorted their Customer Care Service.
>>>
>>>50. More unoriginal titles, more lies and bullshit, more ports from
>>>other systems, more large deceptive numbers, more marketing toward
>>>stupid people, more denial from the xbox fanboys, and more clones of
>>>old PSX games with better graphics. But to stupid people graphics is
>>>all that really counts as they cant play games for shit.
>>>
>>>Special Thanks to ANGRY for the inspiration. I now await a barrage of
>>>denial.
>>>
>
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