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Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: on January 05, 2001, 09:05:42 AM
remember the electronics show in the 80\'s (something like GDC) when nintento scared the people at the NES graphics display? making them all vote for NES as the biggest and best console and making fun of all competitors?

maybe. maybe not.

but this time microsoft pushed it a bit too far. the video with the xbox robot (same one as in GDC 2000) crushing a ps2 and then laughing was showing how bill gates was the kinda "brag on and on about himself" kinda guy (and, as rumored, the devil :laughing: ). If i was a graphics editor, i\'d edit that movie so that the ps2 would send of a extremely high electric charge flying through the robots body when his leg got near, so that he would explode.
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: mm on January 05, 2001, 09:11:08 AM
what do government election candidates resort to when they cant hype themselves up anymore?  they sling mud.  bill knows full well that if the xbox fails, microsoft stock falls.  it wouldnt be the 1st time stockholders voted the owner/CEO out of a company. i wonder if steven jobs would hire him as a janitor?  its about time bill cleaned some crap up.

mm
Title: ahh who cares
Post by: kirath on January 05, 2001, 09:22:31 AM
I have not seen the video yet but it sounds funny.  But you did have a good Idea about sending an electronic voltage throught the robot...  But watch, you change the video and MS sues you for copyright infringment on their video.  HA HA HA
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: ho3j on January 05, 2001, 09:29:53 AM
Where is this video?  Are you talking about the rumors from Xbox365?
Title: grrrrr bill gates
Post by: Kenshin on January 05, 2001, 10:27:03 AM
Damn bill gates, that rich point dexter. Arent we all glad that we continue to rip his company off. =D You all know what im talking about. I know alot of you out there have gotten free copies of win 98, win Me , win 2000 off of friends and warez sites. ANeways BAH the xbox looks horible. The controller is  a massive piece of $hit. BAH to the xbox. For some laughs go here.
 http://www.htloz.com/xbox_gamecube/XBOXMACHINE.html
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: on January 05, 2001, 10:42:40 AM
Yeah, I\'d really like to see the video very much. This way I\'ll hate Bill Gates even more :D
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: AlteredBeast on January 05, 2001, 10:47:45 AM
you guys are so pathetic (Wowm havent had a chance to use this word in a while :))

"Oh I hate Bill Gates because he is 100 million times richer than I ever will be, also because he makes fun of how the XBox is far stronger than the PS2."

Quit your whining, would you be saying the same thing about Sony if THEY were about to releqase the console system and Microsoft already had released theirs? NO! You would say, "Ha look at how bad SOny\'s machine is going to kick MS\'s butt."

So buck-up and deal with it, X-Box is much more powerful than PS2.

Also, how come you don\'t like the controller? It seems to be alot like PSX\'s controller, which you so adamently believe is the best controller of all time. :rolleyes: Except, this controller isn\'t made for 6 year olds, it is made big to hold and not wrap your fingers around eachother! hahahaha


Eric Jacob
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: on January 05, 2001, 10:48:20 AM
why does the entertainment industry have to be so aggressive. i remember when you could go out wearing a t-shirt saying sega and not run the risk of being beaten to a pulp.
ahh yes, those were the days.
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: mm on January 05, 2001, 10:50:53 AM
altered, i dare u to tell me bill gates isnt a thief.  check yer history before u speak, tho

at any rate, i already said the xbox console looks hella cool, but the controller is totally assanine.  should come with a warning from the surgeon general saying "will induce carpal tunnel syndrome"

mm
Title: true.............
Post by: Kenshin on January 05, 2001, 10:56:55 AM
unfortunately altered speaks the truth. The xbox is three Xs more powerful then the PS2. BUT that doesnt necessarily mean better games. ............and BILL GATES IS A BLOODY THIEF!!!
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: Unicron! on January 05, 2001, 11:05:39 AM
Altered Beast Bill gates has been hatefull even before he revealed his plans about MS creating a console.Its just that now he is more hated
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: AlteredBeast on January 05, 2001, 11:40:51 AM
Let me get this straight, hold on... you guys hate Bill Gates even more because he is making a console. SO that right there says that you are afriad his is going to beat Sony\'s. :D you hate him because you fear him. People fear what they don\'t understand. If some people would learn that having more consoles = having better games as developers continually try to outdue eachother.

Also, I don\'t care if he has stolen ideas, or used muscle to get where he has gotten, the mad has donated over 2 billion dollars into charities. I don\'t care if that gives him a tax cut or not, he is right now helping to get rid of a horrible disease polio, which is wiped out of america, but many still suffer in Africa and man other places.

I for one will be buying an X-Box on launch. Why? He has Peter Molyneaux, John Carmack, Romero, etc. all convinced that he has the bets machine to work for, the games will be there. They have many developers and many, HUGE, first party developers. No Yu Suzuki, Yuji Naka, or Miyamato, mind you, but big, very BIG!

Eric Jacob
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: EThugg on January 05, 2001, 11:45:55 AM
Why would anyone HATE Bill Gates? WTF did he do to any of you personally??? Quite whining, the commercial/video/whatever sounds goddamned hilarious! Theif-schmeif.... so he did some back stabbing in his career, name ONE person who\'s one or the ten richest ppl in the world who didn\'t! What? You can\'t! You might not like it, but Bill Gates, and very many successful ppl, step on a lot of ppl to become successful, and if everyone played \'nice\', whe\'d all be poverty stricken monks. Everyone on this board does something \'wrong\' every day of their lives. Stop being pussies.
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: EThugg on January 05, 2001, 11:48:45 AM
Damn Altered, I wish I\'d said that....thats what I get for sniffing glue....:D
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: AlteredBeast on January 05, 2001, 11:54:23 AM
hahah! EThugg, you gotta be quick! That whole glue sniffing thing probably killed your chances too :)

Eric Jacob
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: ProfessorX on January 05, 2001, 11:56:42 AM
Are you telling you believe that site (xbox365)? Every respectful gamer knows that site is pile of lies on top of lies!

That site is a complete joke MS removed them from their community list on Xbox.com because they just spew out lie after lie...you would do yourself a favor by not listening to thier crap.
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: EThugg on January 05, 2001, 11:59:56 AM
Really? Damn.....I wanted to see that commercial..... :(
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: mm on January 05, 2001, 12:15:24 PM
god forbid these guys put common sense in front of blind loyalty.  

i guess everyone does need a cause to believe in, huh?

mm
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: EmperorRob on January 05, 2001, 12:16:48 PM
I don\'t care if you donate 5 billion dollars to the orphanage of the blind and paraplegic.  If you\'re a piece of trash, then you\'re a piece of trash.  $$$ doesn\'t change jack squat.

I don\'t agree with Bill Gates decisions as he seems to blur ethical lines.  But I don\'t give a rat\'s butt what his commercials are.  He\'s just blowing smoke up his own butt.  If you have a good system then prove it; there is no need to degrade someone else.  Talk is cheap.

I\'m not 100% satisfied with my PS2, but they didn\'t go around talking trash; they just released the system.
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: Unicron! on January 05, 2001, 02:01:33 PM
No I didnt say we hate him because he is making a console.Its because he has never done anything good to the industry except for monopoly.And I am not expecting to do anything good for gaming industry either but MS.
Gaming is so great now.
Bill is entering just for eliminating competion and being the only one standing living others forgotten
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: EThugg on January 05, 2001, 04:03:39 PM
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Originally posted by Unicron!
No I didnt say we hate him because he is making a console.Its because he has never done anything good to the industry except for monopoly.And I am not expecting to do anything good for gaming industry either but MS.
Gaming is so great now.
Bill is entering just for eliminating competion and being the only one standing living others forgotten


Yea, and Sony, Sega and Nintendo are here to hold hands and spread gaming goodness. Thats what Sony wants too! Why are you all acting like MS is more evil than Sony? They aren\'t!

And mm- I hope your not refering to me, I have no loyalty, blind or otherwise, to anyone but me, myself and I.
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: AlteredBeast on January 05, 2001, 04:11:15 PM
 My loyalty is to no one. Anything Sega does gets a good deal of my interest, but i have no loyalty either.

EmperorRob - yeah, they guy dontate 1/7th of his worth, but hey, he is still trash. He donates much of his time and money to wiping disease off of the planet, but he is still trash. What a joke. :rolleyes:


He isn\'t making a console to be the last one standing, he is making it to show everyone what can be accomplished with a better system. He is saying "ha, look at what we\'ve got", not "Ha, Sony\'s feeble attempts at making a console will NEVER STAND UP TO ME AND MY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!"

You guys crack me up, even the people who I used to think had alot of sense are startign to surprise me

Eric Jacob
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: EmperorRob on January 05, 2001, 04:41:38 PM
I didn\'t say Bill Gates was a piece of trash.

A benevolent criminal is still a criminal.  You can\'t use money to attone for your wrong-doings and it doesn\'t matter what they are or who you are or how much you give.  If you save 1 million lives and kill one you are still a murderer.
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: mm on January 05, 2001, 05:01:07 PM
tyler durden put is best

"you could build a thousand bridges, and suck one c@ck
the world will remember you as a c@cksucker"

mm
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: politiepet on January 05, 2001, 05:09:36 PM
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Originally posted by mm
tyler durden put is best

"you could build a thousand bridges, and suck one c@ck
the world will remember you as a c@cksucker"

mm

you\'re talking bout fight club right?
what scene did he say that, cuz I can\'t remember that one
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: Playstation2 4 Life on January 05, 2001, 08:53:37 PM
Ok Some guy in asked why we hate Bill, Look at how ****ty windows is, if he would work the damn bugs out he would be cool. As For X-Box Beats the **** out of me why he wants to create a console?
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: AlteredBeast on January 05, 2001, 09:13:12 PM
Microsoft has been making games for years. Longer than Sony, even. Why would Sony want to create a console? They were just a cappy FMV games maker on SegaCD, etc. back then. Why make their own console? Microsoft wants a console that will best suit their level of games. They want to have the most resouces and are building X-Box to suit that need. A company who makes their console does so to get more money (Microsoft needs this after the eating they took from the govt.), get their name out (microsoft doesn\'t need this, they are one of the world\'s biggest companies), or to have a system which they can really delve themselves in to make the best games for it, and the last is to cash in on liscensing fees(create games, which they would do anyway, and cash in on liscensing fees!)

So why does any company make a console? There are your answers.


Eric Jacob
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: EThugg on January 05, 2001, 09:54:14 PM
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Originally posted by Playstation2 4 Life
Ok Some guy in asked why we hate Bill, Look at how ****ty windows is, if he would work the damn bugs out he would be cool. As For X-Box Beats the **** out of me why he wants to create a console?


I think I see the problem....YOUR A MORON! Do you think a billionare has the time to do all that ****? He likes to get involved and be aware of whats going on in the company, but you make it sound like he still sits at the computer, coding the **** himself! While he is involved with XB, he or MS as a company rather, hired a lot of good creative ppl from within the industry to head XB development support, and other stuff. They know what they\'re doing! Just back off Gates (he STILL hasn\'t done anything to you.....why don\'t you try to make an OS?!?) and focus on the merits, and problems of the SYSTEM and its DEVELOPERS, and not the company mascot. :D
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: Chrono on January 05, 2001, 09:55:41 PM
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Originally posted by EThugg
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Originally posted by Playstation2 4 Life
Ok Some guy in asked why we hate Bill, Look at how ****ty windows is, if he would work the damn bugs out he would be cool. As For X-Box Beats the **** out of me why he wants to create a console?


I think I see the problem....YOUR A MORON! Do you think a billionare has the time to do all that ****? He likes to get involved and be aware of whats going on in the company, but you make it sound like he still sits at the computer, coding the **** himself! While he is involved with XB, he or MS as a company rather, hired a lot of good creative ppl from within the industry to head XB development support, and other stuff. They know what they\'re doing! Just back off Gates (he STILL hasn\'t done anything to you.....why don\'t you try to make an OS?!?) and focus on the merits, and problems of the SYSTEM and its DEVELOPERS, and not the company mascot. :D [/B]



you say "creative" people...
LOL
sorry I could not pass that one up
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: EThugg on January 05, 2001, 10:07:53 PM
Uhhhh... do you actually READ any info about the creative team MS hired? Do you happen to read Next-Gen or EGM? If Gates was behind the system, I would be bothered, and very apprehensive. But he\'s not the one working on XB. He\'s not the one working with the developers. From what I\'ve seen, the creative, YES, I said creative, team behind XB knows their stuff, and have some good ideas. I think they will only be a positive element in the industry.
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: Chrono on January 05, 2001, 10:15:09 PM
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Originally posted by EThugg
Uhhhh... do you actually READ any info about the creative team MS hired? Do you happen to read Next-Gen or EGM? If Gates was behind the system, I would be bothered, and very apprehensive. But he\'s not the one working on XB. He\'s not the one working with the developers. From what I\'ve seen, the creative, YES, I said creative, team behind XB knows their stuff, and have some good ideas. I think they will only be a positive element in the industry.


just tell me ONE thing they have done creative
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: Ryu on January 05, 2001, 11:40:10 PM
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just tell me ONE thing they have done creative


I have to say the jump from Win3.1 --> win95.  Sure, Win95 was bug riddled and patch required from the start, but the jump was amazing.  It changed the face of OS\'s for the better and I am glad for the simplicity devised by them in that jump.  However, from win95 --> win98 --> winME, the jump was less and less.  If you\'re gonna release a new and innovative OS, you might want to change it a tad especially after a few bugs that are ever recurring in the windows OS.  98 is more of the same of 95 while ME is more of the same of 98.  It\'s sad really, the bigger you get, the less you create, but hey, we\'re all allowed our fallies down the road.  I mean, we\'re only human.
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: EThugg on January 06, 2001, 12:58:21 AM
Hello? Is this thing on? *tap, tap* THE SYSTEM ISN\'T OUT! These aren\'t all MS ppl. MS hired ppl in the games industry to help make XB good! Read Next-Gen especially, they have had lots of things about the creative team. I\'ll repeat again, THEY ARE PPL FROM THE  GAME INDUSTRY. How creative will their product be? It\'s not here yet. Your making too many presumtions and not waiting to see how it turns out because your still stuck on Bill Gates and Windows. I must say, unless your just trying to piss me off, you don\'t sound like a real gamer. No real gamer would want a good system with (even if it fails) some great games on it to fail. Either that, or you can\'t afford it, and your bitter. A real gamer would give every system a chance, but all you do is diss the hell out of XB, it\'s not even out. I can be critical of PS2 (and before that N64, Saturn, etc) sometimes, but I actually have \'em! I\'ve played em. I am judging after giving it a chance. You seem to hop on every piece of XB related material on the board and say some smart ass comment about XB/MS/Gates. You need to step back and give **** a chance. Well, you don\'t need to, but I think you should....
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: jeepnrocks on January 06, 2001, 05:34:57 AM
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Originally posted by AlteredBeast
you guys are so pathetic (Wowm havent had a chance to use this word in a while :))
Also, how come you don\'t like the controller? It seems to be alot like PSX\'s controller, which you so adamently believe is the best controller of all time. :rolleyes: Except, this controller isn\'t made for 6 year olds, it is made big to hold and not wrap your fingers around eachother! hahahaha


Eric Jacob

WHA  WHA WHA WHAT ???
Dude I don\'t mean to flame but what the hell are you smokin\' ?  The x-box controller is nothing at all like the psx controller !! It has more in common with the dreamcast pad, and I didn\'t really care for that one too much. It totally blew for fighting games also. But to say that the x- box pad even remotely resembles the ps or ps2 dual shock is just plain idiotic.
sorry
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: Darth Joyda on January 06, 2001, 05:49:06 AM
hmmm... let me say that marketing is never clean.

think it from your point of view and you understand.

what if you would be an artist and you would want to get inside and working onto some famous animation-company? You know that you\'re h3ll of a animator but you can\'t paint, and the paper to your "stars" tell that you need a painting. Now would you buy a painting from a very good unknown painter for about 40 000 dollars and then end up being a millionaire in some animation-company? or would you try to paint yourself and be clean as an angel and miss the whole opportunity?

Gates did this, same way, but with different subjects.

think about it; make your own example out of it; something you\'ve always dreamed and suddenly it would be possible via little dirty work. now Bill Gates isn\'t clean, no way, and is a thief. But he\'s still a human, and whomever ( as wise ) would have done the same thing.

Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: Unicron! on January 06, 2001, 08:18:06 AM
Altered beast Nintendo Sega and Sony all have profit as their target.But until now they affected gameing positively.
MS is by no means going to affect positively.
Thats what happens on every thing MS gets involved in.
We see  it already in op systems and pc programs.For god\'s sakes he went to court twice.
And also see what crap MS Windows is sometimes.
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: EThugg on January 06, 2001, 10:20:54 AM
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Originally posted by Joyda
hmmm... let me say that marketing is never clean.

think it from your point of view and you understand.

what if you would be an artist and you would want to get inside and working onto some famous animation-company? You know that you\'re h3ll of a animator but you can\'t paint, and the paper to your "stars" tell that you need a painting. Now would you buy a painting from a very good unknown painter for about 40 000 dollars and then end up being a millionaire in some animation-company? or would you try to paint yourself and be clean as an angel and miss the whole opportunity?

Gates did this, same way, but with different subjects.

think about it; make your own example out of it; something you\'ve always dreamed and suddenly it would be possible via little dirty work. now Bill Gates isn\'t clean, no way, and is a thief. But he\'s still a human, and whomever ( as wise ) would have done the same thing.

 


.......what? I think I agree with you, but your analogy is too convoluted....
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: Darth Joyda on January 06, 2001, 10:37:45 AM
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Originally posted by EThugg
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Originally posted by Joyda
hmmm... let me say that marketing is never clean.

think it from your point of view and you understand.

what if you would be an artist and you would want to get inside and working onto some famous animation-company? You know that you\'re h3ll of a animator but you can\'t paint, and the paper to your "stars" tell that you need a painting. Now would you buy a painting from a very good unknown painter for about 40 000 dollars and then end up being a millionaire in some animation-company? or would you try to paint yourself and be clean as an angel and miss the whole opportunity?

Gates did this, same way, but with different subjects.

think about it; make your own example out of it; something you\'ve always dreamed and suddenly it would be possible via little dirty work. now Bill Gates isn\'t clean, no way, and is a thief. But he\'s still a human, and whomever ( as wise ) would have done the same thing.

 


.......what? I think I agree with you, but your analogy is too convoluted.... [/B]


hmmm... I couldn\'t find that convoluted word from the english-finnish word book, so I\'m not sure what it means, but I can quess :)

Hmm... that my post is too twisted? bad? complicated?

I am just backing Gates up a little. If so big money would surround you as did surround gates, would you have taken that money even via dirty tricks or just leave them?

that\'s the message in a nutshell.
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: EThugg on January 06, 2001, 10:41:55 AM
I assumed as much. I wasn\'t 100% sure though....:)
Title: wow wow!
Post by: on January 07, 2001, 06:07:02 AM
all this for an ad? all i say is, with help from x-dome i put the NEW xbox specs in comparison with ps2, dc and (for fun) ps1, and it turned out that ps2 was soooooo close to xbox, so that\'s it. period. they are both the same level (except, no offence to anyone, the whole Xbox looks appalling). mm, pleez close this thread
Title: I agree with altered beast
Post by: on January 07, 2001, 10:15:20 AM
This anti-MS bashing is incredibly sophomoric. You Xbox naysayers out there fear the unknown and feel that the one console you promote (PS2) is now facing competition that can the PS2 run for its money. Could your disdain for Xbox stem from the fact that you made the initial investment in PS2 and wish you hadn\'t? Or could it be that you are following mob mentality with anti-MS feelings and can\'t think for yourselves?

In either case, realize that the Xbox won\'t go away, no matter how much you cry. It is also ironic that you portray MS as the big bad wolf! What is Sony, the poor underdog? Give me a break! Sony pushes its technology on you like no tomorrow and then tries to collect royalty on it. Read: Memory stick, betamax, MiniDisc, Jog Shuttle, etc... And if you watch any Columbia movies recently, you\'ll notice that all the TV "extras" are conveniently made by Sony and the Sony logo is bamboozled all over the screen. Sony is literly shoving their name down our throat. Know where the tru enemy lies. MS might be in the anti-trust limelight now, but Sony has used its shoving tactics for decades.

And the ignoramus bit against Bill Gates? Altered Beast nailed it right on the spot. You fear, therefore you hate. Stop fearing the Xbox and realize that it won\'t go, and that staunchly supporting a console because you hate a person is a stupid idea. Bill Gates is one of the biggest philanthropists this world has known. His success as a businessman is a result of hard work and dedication. Sony is also a sucessful company, but you can\'t make fun if it because it doesn\'t have a central figure?

Lets keep the console war as such: a console war. Don\'t drag the looks of a person or their wealth into the picture. In the end, if we have healthy competition and innovative games, no matter who is the leader in the end, us, the gamers, benefit. Isn\'t THAT what matters?
Title: Re: I agree with altered beast
Post by: politiepet on January 07, 2001, 11:06:25 AM
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Originally posted by jonnysnakes
This anti-MS bashing is incredibly sophomoric. You Xbox naysayers out there fear the unknown and feel that the one console you promote (PS2) is now facing competition that can the PS2 run for its money. Could your disdain for Xbox stem from the fact that you made the initial investment in PS2 and wish you hadn\'t? Or could it be that you are following mob mentality with anti-MS feelings and can\'t think for yourselves?

In either case, realize that the Xbox won\'t go away, no matter how much you cry. It is also ironic that you portray MS as the big bad wolf! What is Sony, the poor underdog? Give me a break! Sony pushes its technology on you like no tomorrow and then tries to collect royalty on it. Read: Memory stick, betamax, MiniDisc, Jog Shuttle, etc... And if you watch any Columbia movies recently, you\'ll notice that all the TV "extras" are conveniently made by Sony and the Sony logo is bamboozled all over the screen. Sony is literly shoving their name down our throat. Know where the tru enemy lies. MS might be in the anti-trust limelight now, but Sony has used its shoving tactics for decades.

And the ignoramus bit against Bill Gates? Altered Beast nailed it right on the spot. You fear, therefore you hate. Stop fearing the Xbox and realize that it won\'t go, and that staunchly supporting a console because you hate a person is a stupid idea. Bill Gates is one of the biggest philanthropists this world has known. His success as a businessman is a result of hard work and dedication. Sony is also a sucessful company, but you can\'t make fun if it because it doesn\'t have a central figure?

Lets keep the console war as such: a console war. Don\'t drag the looks of a person or their wealth into the picture. In the end, if we have healthy competition and innovative games, no matter who is the leader in the end, us, the gamers, benefit. Isn\'t THAT what matters?

although you\'re right in most of your post, you mustn\'t forget this is a ps2 forum, so you shouldn\'t be saying they are not allowed to be biased towards the ps2, cause that\'s exactly what they are, they\'re here to talk about the ps2 together and share their thoughts about it.

and for altered beast, you also sometimes have a point, but your problem is, the only thing you do is correcting someone as soon as he says something that\'s even a bit biased, you irritate right about anyone on this forum, and as soon as someone says something about it, you\'re playing as if you\'re inocent and are telling nothing but the truth, so please f*ck off, get a life or something
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: Ryu on January 07, 2001, 02:44:11 PM
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This anti-MS bashing is incredibly sophomoric. You Xbox naysayers out there fear the unknown and feel that the one console you promote (PS2) is now facing competition that can the PS2 run for its money. Could your disdain for Xbox stem from the fact that you made the initial investment in PS2 and wish you hadn\'t? Or could it be that you are following mob mentality with anti-MS feelings and can\'t think for yourselves?


Everyone makes fun of other consoles at one point or another.  Bill Gates is just an easy target because his face represents MS period.  It isn\'t about him creating it and us fearing it, it\'s because the fool is such an EASY target.  People wanted an excuse to diss bill gates, now they have it, so what\'s the problem?  I remember all the people who came in here and dissed the PS2 when it launched in Japan, has it died down now?  yes.  Do we all care about those times then?  no.  Just relax, it\'ll all blow over soon.

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In either case, realize that the Xbox won\'t go away, no matter how much you cry. It is also ironic that you portray MS as the big bad wolf! What is Sony, the poor underdog? Give me a break! Sony pushes its technology on you like no tomorrow and then tries to collect royalty on it. Read: Memory stick, betamax, MiniDisc, Jog Shuttle, etc... And if you watch any Columbia movies recently, you\'ll notice that all the TV "extras" are conveniently made by Sony and the Sony logo is bamboozled all over the screen. Sony is literly shoving their name down our throat. Know where the tru enemy lies. MS might be in the anti-trust limelight now, but Sony has used its shoving tactics for decades.


We all KNOW the x-box wont go away, but that doesn\'t mean we still cant have our fun now.  It\'s not like tomorrow we\'re all gonna march down to MS and burn it or anything.  Sheesh, you guys are getting a little over dramatic about this.  Also, who cares about people advertising?  Sony bought and created TONS of licenses and wants to take credit for it by plopping their logo on it, do you feel betrayyed or thingk sony should die when you see the sony logo on the PS2?  I sure as hell dont nor do I think it when I start up my comp and see MS logo after MS logo in certain applications and sites.  What difference does it make?  "MS is bad but so is Sony"  BIG DEAL!  They both get their fair share of bashing from time to time, you just see MS bashing more in here BECAUSE IT\'S A PS2 FORUM.  Plain and simple.

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And the ignoramus bit against Bill Gates? Altered Beast nailed it right on the spot. You fear, therefore you hate. Stop fearing the Xbox and realize that it won\'t go, and that staunchly supporting a console because you hate a person is a stupid idea. Bill Gates is one of the biggest philanthropists this world has known. His success as a businessman is a result of hard work and dedication. Sony is also a sucessful company, but you can\'t make fun if it because it doesn\'t have a central figure?


Fear Bill Gates?  Hate him?  Since Bill Gates represents MS, I guess that\'s a valid point to make.  However, most hatred comes in from people disliking MS products, a company started and pretty much run by Bill Gates, and nearly forced to use them for maximum compatibility with hardware, software, and games.  Sure, you can buy a mac, or you can install linux, but I cant play half-life on a mac, and i cant use certain basic programs with linux.  In a perfect world, there\'d be an OS drastically different from windows and be just as cmpatible with programs as windows, but as is, there\'s not such thing and it\'s a damn shame that a lot of us are pretty pissed off about.  You can think our anger stems from billy boy himself, but this just isn\'t the case... I dont see anyone saying "I hate bill gates cuz he\'s too successful" or "I hate him because of all his money" we hate him because he represents something a lot of people dont like: Microsoft.

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Lets keep the console war as such: a console war. Don\'t drag the looks of a person or their wealth into the picture. In the end, if we have healthy competition and innovative games, no matter who is the leader in the end, us, the gamers, benefit. Isn\'t THAT what matters?


All because we have a little bit of fun dissing an MS representor doesn\'t mean we wont buy an X-Box.  Calm down, everyone had their fun at this forum when Sony got launched and people came in dissing it, then it happened when gamecube got announced and people called it the lunchbox, and now it\'s happening with MS, what did you expect?  You think MS would be exempt from it all?  I\'m sure if every company had a stern representor, they would be targeted just as easily, but none of them are as well known or as easy to make fun of as bill gates.  Don\'t get so upset, it\'s all in good fun afterall.
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: ooseven on January 08, 2001, 02:54:33 AM
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what do government election candidates resort to when they cant hype themselves up anymore? they sling mud. bill knows full well that if the xbox fails, microsoft stock falls. it wouldnt be the 1st time stockholders voted the owner/CEO out of a company. i wonder if steven jobs would hire him as a janitor? its about time bill cleaned some crap up.


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right people we can make it happen, if we just blockade all games stores around the world so that no X Box\'s can be sold we can have the Gates mister sweeping up Crap from the street. :laughing:

Lets do it.


Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: Crippler on January 08, 2001, 04:33:48 AM
Is fight club any good.

Thinking of getting it on DvD..
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: @iReS on January 08, 2001, 04:41:11 AM
fight club is amaxing, at first you think it\'s just another action movie but then you start to notice how psychological it really is.

definately worth buying on DVD
Title: microsoft gets rude
Post by: ooseven on January 08, 2001, 06:38:39 AM
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Ok Some guy in asked why we hate Bill, Look at how ****ty(1) windows is, if he would work the damn bugs out he would be cool(2) . As For X-Box Beats the **** out of me why he wants to create a console?(3)


ok mate i can answer your questons

1) Windows is ****ty
2) You could say that having Bugs in a OP systmes means that you always have the puplic hangin on for the next patch or addon
3) This one is simple Bill wants Sonys Console Crown, plus he is sick of Microsofts image being big and nasty.