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I actually don't have any student loans, I've been very lucky and I have been able to find enough grants and scholarships to pay it all. I do work during the school year though to pay for food and the such but that's an extremely small price to pay. I'm thankful for my life.

Heh, well, Nintendo floored me today. There goes more of my hard earned money, lol. :P

This wil probably be THE "core" title for the system this holiday, at least in America. On the plus side, it is being sold for $10 less than the usual Wii game, $40.

Well, I never did play the DS one so this one is actually pretty brand new for me. I played the hell out ofthe GC game but that was a long damn time ago. I did put a pre-order down for it this past weekend, along with CoD: World at War, so this November is going to be pretty sweet.

I'm willing to bet BiA: DT will suck because it will end up being a rushed product that is a port of an Xbox game, that somehow, looks worse. This....though.....seriously. Fuck. UbiSoft can shove it, it is a good thing EA, SEGA, SE, Activision, Capcom, and a number of others don't follow their examples.

The graphics look terrible, I hope Capcom spends more time polishing them up because it does need a little more work. But outside of that, I'll just reserve my judgements for now.

This game is going to be made of win! First Samba de Amigo, then Madworld, and now this! SEGA is quickly turning into my favorite publisher on the system!

I played Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon and Bully Scholarship Edition on my Wii. Really, the only Wii game I need to buy at this point is FE. Otherwise, I been playing my DS, FFIV in specfic.

Poor - having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/poor Working with the most conventional and straight-forward defintion possible, poverty is ultimately measured in income and wealth. How much you make, and ultimately, how much you save. Being an idiot has little to do with it. Being controlled by social urges does have a significant being. That's not to say that there are people who are born of circumstances you described, absolutely. But they do not make up the general statistic in relation to Western civilization. Most people in places like the U.K., France, Germany, America, Canada, etc are poor because they made poor finanical and personal decisions. Stupid? Maybe. Ignorant? Defintely. Even the most meager income pull can still have powerful effects if managed right and spent wisely. And even the people who have a difficult time pulling themselves up, there are many welfare programs that do provide support. Being poor and poverty in general is very broadly defined. As for HDTVs and houses, I can't speak on Europe's behalf, but I can say getting unsecured credit is extremely easy in America. It is not uncommon to see people use every ounce of credit (easily in the hundreds of thousands of dollars) on houses they'll never come close to paying off and electronics and cars that are, ultimately, unnecassary. And by burying themselves in credit, they leave no money for the essentials. Thus they are poor from common defintion. Lack of resources.

But it is because of their vices and spending that they become poor. They don't NEED large HDTVs, but they buy them anyway on credit. Some of them, somehow, find large amounts of credit to book up-scale housing, and later lose it due to the market. The amount of money they spend on addictions is staggering and when in compairsion to their budget and income, it can almost eat it all up. Industries explained in the original post advocate keeping the poor where they are, by issuing unsecured credit with high interest rates, by advertising directly to them advocating the Jonsees lifestyle, and by giving them products that relieve stress or stress out fun lifestyles (drugs and beer). Sure, certain elements of the rich might have the above. But they generally don't abuse it, hence why they stay rich. The few that do abuse it normally scale down in class and end up with everybody else. You could say it even applies to the middle class as well. They may have elements of the above, but they don't abuse it and as such, they are able to keep their budget in place. Smoking a cig is not going to make you poor, drinking beer is not going to make you poor, using unsecured credit is not going to make you poor. But if you let your psychological and physical selfs abuse the hell out of them, that can and will make you poor. For some people, that could take days before they blow their income and for others it could take years. But the downward spiral exists.

The poverty industry is already in full course with alcohol, cigs, porn, payday advances, and a number of other things. The poor gets poorer with their addictions and the government continues to tax the hell out of all of them. The rich continues to profit off of the poor's lack of discipline and the rest is as predictable as it comes. Although the above applies to America, I'm not too sure about the U.K. though. I don't care if they do it or they don't, this is no better than anything else we've sold to people. There are choices in life, abuse them and there are consequences. If people want to profit from it, so be it. I'm sadden people would defend this logic but they exist and as long as it exists, will continue to profit off of people's addictions.

Hmm....National Service. Yeah, I would do it. There is always a reason to fight, it does not have to be the one the politicans try to sell you on.

War has a different mentality to it, you are always watching out for yourself and your allies. Everybody else is on the other end of the barrel. There is no black and white in war, there is no right or wrong in war. Whatever is advocated to be "right or wrong" is no more than a judgement on the behalf of society, and by that, a niche. Wars will continue to happen, and much more worse wars will come. If anything, this is probably the longest peacetime the world has ever seen. Probably since the Pax Romana. There are conflicts, but nothing the size of WWII or previous wars to it. Unfortunatly, I fear that is probably going to be coming to an end at some point soon. The only thing I can pray for is that if it must happen, let it be my generation that has to take care of it. Not my child's. I digress though, what happened then happened. I can only hope it never happens again.

I've played since its release in America, loved it to death. Unlike other rogue type games, you don't have to raise your levels up as if it was the only way to beat the game. By utilizing jobs and abilities, and actually thinking which other games in the genre severely lack, you can beat the game out. Another thing I really liked about it was the variety of dungeons. Many of them are not simple such as, "Beat all thirty floors, lol, good luck". Many of them are objective types, like beating ten floors with Chocobo having only one HP, none of your equipment/items, and being blinded. It really adds a new level of depth overall. That and the music massive ass. FF fans will enjoy that one quite a bit. I would give the game somewhere between a 7 or an 8. Considering this is the only GOOD RPG for the Wii (for the time being), you can't go wrong.

I don't mean to sound like a douchebag, but what the fuck? Being drunk on the internet is not exactly cool. But hey, whatever gets you going man. Enjoy it!

There are so many problems with that. Not to say it won't happen, I just don't see happening for at least another generation. Here's why: 1) Broadband expansion is still happening and many parts of Western civilization are still reluctant to get onboard. It is going to have to become cheaper and more accessible for DLC-only to kick in. 2) Emerging markets like Korea, China, India, Russia, and others are behind in technology, especially in regards to high-speed internet access. Having two business models (both hard casing and DLC) could work but if we're talking about really getting rid of the middle man and having DLC-only, these markets have to at least expand a bit more. Ignoring them is probable cause for failure down the road. And if you don't believe me, look at what happened to Nintendo when they ignored Europe for the longest time. Sony came in and took it from them. 3) Selling the consoles themselves, one way is to do it via online or call-order similiar to companies like Dell and Apple. But that could also cause logistical problems which I may not be aware of and could be exclusive to any one of the companies involved. There would have to be a lot addressed before it can become fesible. But it will get there, no doubt about it. Probably in another ten years as it transitions more and more into that kind of market.

Woke up, ate a sandwich, probably will go back to bed once I take care of some minor things. Gotta enjoy the day off.

I'm not too sure to be honest, if it was someone I care about the anwser is straight-forward enough but somebody random? I don't know....

That would be bad-ass, make it happen Sega and I'll put a pre-order down.

^^ LOL! Yeah, I think that post did it. Well, here's a healthy bump for it.

Tell them to spell the first three letters of assumption, they'll pick up quickly enough.

I can't lie, I wouldn't mind something like that. Western civilization is marked with many problems, all of which lie with glutoney and obsession. Then again, it does have some unique advantages, especially in concerns to its later developments. But I have to admit, I'm also a person driven with trying to climb up in society, trying to become more knowledgeable in many facets of life (which will become extremely important later on for my job), and I do like material things quite a bit. I wonder if people like me could adjust to a new lifestyle like that or would we be stuck in our ways? Hmmm....that's actually interesting. Heh, I remember my Professor using that quote. I remember him stating no-one took al-Qaeda seriously or even acknowledged them until they took down the world trade towers. Untill they resorted to violence, they were just a irrelevant minority group. Funny how swift things change.

I give you that, people of our time would find it probably "stupid" but who is to say future generations would find it as the same? People change, cultures change, and thought perception change. I agree actually. Meh, I was just eleborating if war is used in a "green genocide" matter it would be no better than any war previously, just a new idealogy behind it. I tend to get on tangents (and often off-topic) in stuff like this. Hmmm....I'm always reading political/military books. I think I'll give this one a go, it could enlighten me. I'll defintely go find it on Amazon. Thanks!

As far as history is concerned, this is the longest real peace time man has ever experienced since Pax Romana. With that stated, it won't last forever. Wars will always happen for as long as man seeks out resources. Power struggles will always happen because of man's desire to be better and absolute. Greed, lust, whatever other kinds of "sins" exist will always be there as an obstacle and as such, consequences will exist. In the very root of it, we're repeating the same mistakes but in a different context. After WWII the world powers stated a genocide of that magnitude will never happen again. I call bullshit on it though. It has happened several times prior to the Holocaust in various countries, United States included. It'll happen again, where though is anyone's guess. Could be a great European power, could be a oil-driven country in South America, Russia, or the Middle East. Hell, lets not even go that far and take a look at the disaster in Darfur. The world is unpredictable and there are a lot of power players out there who, if they wanted something done, it could be done. If it means taking the next great war and putting it in a enviromental context so they can achieve economic success (or any kinds of other "success" I don't want to think about too deeply into) then they'll probably do it. Whatever may be the case, it'll happen sooner than later. War is inevitable, people being killed in the name of nations and idelogies is inevitable, people profitting from war is inevitable, and the same families who are typically involved of the above will be involved again and that is also inevitable. If they put it in the context of "saving the world through green genocide" then that would be the same war we have fought before but in a new context. Of course, the issue is can they sell the idelogy to the masses...which I don't see anybody even remotely intelligent taking this seriously. Could be wrong though. Of course, I'm not scared of the above. I'm more worried about information control. You can't keep information from the people....but you can create context for the information given, thus you're controlling the reality of the information given. Freedom of speech and information exists and always will....but it has limitations. If the powers to be wanted to control information and freedom of speech, all it has to do is create context for it and have it accepted in society as a truth. Which then it is nothing more than a sly form of censorship but since nobody knows any better and everyone accepts it as truth, and everybody reporting it is reporting the same context, it is deemed as truth, even though it is either exaggerated or false. There are always ways to limit society, people will always find ways. Of course, it gets much more deeper than this but I don't want to bore people. In a couple more years I'll have my B.A. in Political Science and then I can move into my Masters so hopefully I'll learn more about things like above in a broader context.

I'm not too sure what to think of this but if there is a way to trick it and use a headset instead...then I think it'll be pretty cool.