At 3/8/08 04:40 PM, PossiblePancakes wrote: A good starting place would be to add the voting bar at the end of the Flash.

Worst idea ever. Spammers would just make their movies ten minutes long and the average person would ignore. Only the spammers and their mass voting friends would wait until the end to vote five.

At 3/8/08 04:12 PM, SlashFirestorm wrote:

If you're blamming without watching, you're just as much a part of the problem as fifening without watching---because you're voting without having the faintest clue what they're voting on.

The actions of the mods, mass deleting of all the spam movies regardless of quality, only encourages users to vote without watching. Either they get mass voted in and people get their protect points, or they get deleted and people get their blam points. The people who care about their stats get their points regardless. The entire system needs to be overhauled before anything meaningful will change.

It should start with the blam threshold being moved up to about a 2.0 minimum.

I don't know why the whistle is being blown on so many of them. Submitting low-quality flash is not against the rules.

At 3/8/08 03:09 PM, xPaRaDoXx wrote: Quick, everybody vote 5. Free save points.

Bingo.

At 3/8/08 12:35 PM, Xinxinix wrote: Nah, I'd rather have Brawl then the original. Go ahead and hate me for it.

Were you even alive when the original came out?

These foolish teenagers should not be able to comment on things that were before there times. The debate becomes a moot point when these 13 year old zygotes are yelling how the original SUXOR because of its graphics, etc.

Mother 3 should be remade for the Game Boy Advance or released on the Wii VC.

If any form of Earthbound is released for the Wii, the Wii becomes a must buy for me.

At 3/8/08 12:30 PM, Spootnik wrote:

HOLY S! All this money made by creating a website. I think I might get a job in computers when I'm older maybe haha.

Ever hear of Google?

Wow the people that use the NG BBS are uneducated.

At 3/7/08 11:14 PM, TOEZ wrote: The N64 is where it's at.

At 3/7/08 11:20 PM, Dew wrote: Point of this thread: Brawl is for little kids.

Hands down, the best topic I have seen on NG in my tenure. The original is FAR superior to the Game Cube version. I have played the game cube version and I always go back to the original because it is much more FAIR AND BALANCED.

I have yet to play the new one for the Wii but I have little hope that it is better than the original because the N64 versions have been superior to the sequels. All of the sequels have been dumbed down and made much more "casual" friendly with all of these unbalanced super moves (Mario Kart and Mario Tennis Gamecube). Looks like the new Smash Brothers is going the same way with the powerball etc.

Despite owning a 360 having "next-gen" PC games, I still play my original Xbox, and SNES regularly because the originals are often better. Sequels in everything (games, movies, books, etc.) are rarely better than the originals. The one rare exception is the pure Mario franchise in which the games continue to get better (Mario Bros>Super Mario World>Mario 64>etc.)

At 3/8/08 05:29 AM, Nijsse wrote: Lvl 39, and I really like it.

39 does look really nice. I don't like the 26 that I am about to hit.

Congrats to Odyssic on the real life level up as well!

At 3/7/08 08:47 PM, killslasher wrote: I just got 1000 recieved PMs!

Wow that is a lot of PMs. I only have a handful of PMs, I use email instead.

I just leveled up to Sgt. Major today!

I take pride in my small library. I constantly delete files that I dislike so I actually can enjoy the songs that play on random.

Easily in the top five most unhealthy topics I have seen in my five plus years here at NG.

Congrats?

At 3/4/08 11:14 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

At 3/4/08 11:07 PM, zimzap wrote: that is the future of laptops and it is what laptops will look like in the future when SS becomes more affordable.

Expensive, underpowered laptops with one USB, no cd drive and no ethernet (and no firewire I should mention since it is still a mac)?

Again, I said the future, not necessarily the present. The price of components will fall and promenance of USB/CD storage will decline in favor of wireless and digitial distribution. I use a minimum of three USB ports at all times but it was not so long ago that I was using a clunky serial connection for my printer and a PS2 connection for my mouse/keyboard some ports do evolve.

At 3/4/08 08:56 PM, Dark6 wrote: You get a whole 3 hours of battery life, with a brand new battery, when you do anything other than 'web browsing'.

INNOVATION.

The MBA is innovation. No one said it is perfect or the best laptop ever, but that is the future of laptops and it is what laptops will look like in the future when SS becomes more affordable.

Did anyone see the April Fool's joke from 1UP? It showed Lego Halo as Bungie's next project.

Two years ago that would appear to be completely laughable but now it is too serious to be completely written off.

At 3/4/08 08:46 PM, Shikamarana wrote:

At 3/4/08 08:43 PM, Paladinman wrote: www.google.com duh.

it's actually yahoo, google's number 4.

Bingo we have a winner. People fail to realize how crazy popular Yahoo is as a webportal. Google is a much better search engine but Yahoo has so many more features that appeal to such a broad audience. For example, fantasy sports are a great draw for Yahoo in a category that Google is completely lacking in.

Google's office apps help, but draw too small of an audience.

At 3/4/08 07:37 PM, Senri wrote: The mac air isn't made for people who need CDs

many 'pros' think it is the dawning of the end of CDs

it is for the rich cats who run countries to use their lightweight computer wherever and whenever.
To them they don't need anything you can't download from the internet or isn't previously installed.
It is for the occasional stock market trading program and whatnot.
Also why would a buisness man need CD/DVD drives? They have no humor or anything that is prone towards entertainment anyway.

I am not a buisness man, just a college student here, and the last time that I used my CD drive was about two months ago to watch a movie while snowed in. Before that, I had not used my drive for about a year and a half when I installed my antivirus.

CDs are going the way of floppys for just about everything besides installing software and playing games. The only time I handle DVDs now are when I am putting them in my Xbox/Xbox 360.

At 3/4/08 06:06 PM, SlipperyMooseCakes wrote:
Yeah same. Guess I'll pick it up tomorrow?

Strange because I was under the impression that most media is released either Tuesday or Thursdays, Wednesday is pretty rare.

At 3/1/08 02:59 PM, MARINO wrote: I quit playing when I found out that YOU CAN'T GET OUT OF YOUR SHIP.

I tried the trial over the demo and I found it to be the most boring MMO I have ever played. And I have played FFXI as well as CoH/CoV...

At 3/4/08 06:45 PM, Robojester wrote: Macbook Air is as good as vista.

Don't be shocked to see Apple with a 30% share by 2015.

At 3/4/08 04:37 PM, Mizar wrote: This phrase is infuriating. Everything that I say seems to be in danger.

Now here's the question: What do I say in response to "That's what she said".

I can't think of anything witty.

You are an immature child. Please grow up and welcome to 2008. Now THATS what she said.

Gutsy Baseball Bat from Earthbound

I am definately in the minority because I like to listen to my music at a very low volume relative to my peers.

I am currently using five year old ipod headphones :) .

At 3/4/08 05:31 PM, simon wrote:

At 3/4/08 05:30 PM, zimzap wrote:

At 3/4/08 05:21 PM, simon wrote:

sony also said they are happy to welcome microsoft onboard with blu-ray. this could definitely be a sign.

Sony does NOT own bluray. This is one of the biggest misconceptions on the internet nowadays.

when did i say they do?

You implied that Microsoft needs Sony's permission to become involved in Bluray which is completely false.

At 3/4/08 02:30 AM, Psycho-Simple wrote: Damm Viva Pinata. How dare you refuse to give me my achivements.

I am either going to pick up VP or Blue Dragon on the cheap later this week.

At 3/4/08 03:53 PM, Deadly-Shadow wrote: I just finished voting for the first time ever, it was definatly fun!

Fun if you like scrolling through list of 100+ movies and ranking them in a very tedious manner...

I'll pass.

At 3/4/08 05:21 PM, simon wrote:

sony also said they are happy to welcome microsoft onboard with blu-ray. this could definitely be a sign.

Sony does NOT own bluray. This is one of the biggest misconceptions on the internet nowadays.

Frequently Asked Questions are often frequently asked sane questions. Sometimes you get the odd-ball question like this one.

Yes, you vote an unlimited number of times on different movies in a given day.

I hope that I am not the only one realizes that this is just resulting in more spam in the portal.

Mass-voting against mass-voting means that everyone loses.

At 3/4/08 10:08 AM, BlueFlameSkulls wrote:

At 3/4/08 10:04 AM, simple-but-sandy wrote: I hear they left out the good (?) BBS community.

No TV show is going to mention the BBS unless it's on after the watershed. While most of the stuff here isn't NSFW, there is always a masturbation thread on the first page of general.

This is the cleanest front page of the BBS I have seen in a while and it still is not safe for TV.