What the heck. I'm bored, might as well reply here. Just a note, though, s1r1u5 (oh my GOD I haven't leetspoken ever since I started shaving), the point of a PM is to discuss things in private. If you send me two PMs *and* reply in public, I don't really see the point. But whatever! Let's make you look ridiculous, now, shall we?
well hitto after my lunch i decided to debate with you some stuff so here we go for it...
you wrote
"I am a consumer whore, like anyone who buys a product on launch day. To me, new Zelda > waiting until next bugfixed batch."
If you dont feel bad or cheated when you buy some piece of hardware as brand new (even taking that mighty risk) and the "whore thing"that you might be as you mention than ...
I come to have a different idea. I understand why it happens completely and the reasons behind it, but even like that it shouldnt be like this and if you were one of those unhappy early adopters i come to think that your opinion would be slightly different. But ok... that's my 2 cents...
You think I've never been burned before? This shit happens to everybody. I regularily order hardware from china, which means I have to pay import taxes, shipping, and the shipping back to china whenever I receive a dud. It's entirely my fault for shopping on shoddy websites, and I don't feel like explaining at length each and every one of my woes, as they aren't even video-game related. But seriously, you think out of millions of pieces of harware, there isn't going to be a minimum of units that survived the QA tests, but not the eventual shipping, or barely survived the stress tests, or didn't go through longer tests to determine whether this-or-that problem occurs after a certain amount of time?
To put it politely, I think you're a little naïve.
you also wrote:
"You know, if you really need to place yourself on some sort of moral high ground, you don't need to type so many words. "
Oh swetie im sorry, really!!!
Do i have to post "OUT OF MORALITY STUFF" like this that you wrote?
Example 1: "I prefer to do charity work with homeless people than try and look good on the internet by pretending to care for people who own the same TOY as I do."
Example 2: "Ever considered doing something useful with all that compassion of yours? There may be hungry people in YOUR city right now who don't give a rat's arse about the Wii, 360, or PS3."
That's how I react to pissing contests like the whole "I have a sense of community and care so much about the woes of other customers" shtick you're trying to peddle. For the record, I
do spend an evening every week to distribute meals to homeless people. It's not much, and it's certainly not something I brag about, but it's enough to be pissed off by some teenage fuckwit who thinks caring about someone who bought the same toy is a huge show of selfless compassion.
Oh i would also like to comment this :
"Imagine posting a complaint in the lines of : "Hey, when it rains, things get wet! What's up with that?"
Let me help you, as your example was really ilogical. By taking what you stated when you buy something you would like to use, so imagine my miserable example based on your huge thesis:
Wii = umbrella
then rain comes
then you get wet because the umbrella=wii has holes in it
Right, so you're so off the scale it's not even funny. I am going to demonstrate why you cannot read or make an informed opinion of what you manage to read.
The statement "when it rains, things get wet!" applies to a universal truth that cannot be denied : when it rains, (surprise!) things get wet. Yes, even umbrellas do, if you wish to keep that analogy, which, if I may so add, you pulled out of your ass. Hope it wasn't too painful. (yes, I know, it's a bad pun, but come on, folks, I'm half-expecting him to reply "an analogy doesn't hurt when it comes out of the ass, durr hurr") And guess what other immuable law of physics exists? "Nobody's perfect"! Which means at EVERY launch of EVERY product EVER MADE, today or tomorrow, there will always be faulty products that find their way into an unlucky consumer's household. It can't be escaped. And the only umbrella you can use in that very case is not fucking buying a launch unit.
Do you understand a bit more clearly? If you want, I can teach you the thing about bees and flowers, too, but I'm sure you're bright enough to figure that one out on your own.
Even if every Nintendo factory/sweatshop worker paid extra care and attention to each piece he/she manufactures, even if every supervisor makes sure to inspect every one of his/her underlings' work, piece by piece, even if every QA tester spent ten hours per machine to test it fully, even if the shipping/delivery guy drove at 20MPH to avoid any bumps on the road or accidents, even if the sales clerk did his best not to drop the box he's carrying while stocking supplies, I can guarantee you that there still would be faulty units because that's the way things work. It boggles the mind, doesn't it? Even stupider is to think that such complicated machines would be flawless on sale.
So yeah, you're complaining because water is wet. Or because snow is cold. Whatever. That, or your last post was a longer version of : "Gee, it sure must suck for those poor fellas who bought broken consoles". Only you didn't know how to say it in one sentence. Hence, "you don't need to type so much to place yourself on some moral high ground".
you wrote also:
"Let the buyer beware", ever heard of that?"
When you buy something is it suposed to have a deception?
See above paragraph. In Care Bear land, sure, things are always rosy. Welcome to the real world ?. But we both know it's not about caring about your fellow gamer, isn't it? You're worried that it might happen to you and your console, and now you're having second thoughts about having bought a console on launch day? Well calm the fuck down, it's not like 100% of them are going to explode.
and still you wrote:
"I would have phoned the warranty service instead of playing attention whore and broadcasting every detail of my life on every forum I go to."
Sorry but you are the only whore here (and a cheap one honey!! as it seems nobody payed you today and need some attetion... seriously do i have to deal with your bad humor?...)
Bad humor? God, but you are a tool, and a useless one at that. Wait, I take that back, I *was* pretty bored before I started replying. You're not useless. Is whore the only english curse word you know because I used it in front of you? Do you know what consumer whore means in English? It's an expression, which defines each and every one of us in here who bought a completely useless appliance because they wanted to play Wii Tennis earlier than the rest of the world. You can paint it any way you want, but tell me what you think of people who sit in front of fruit shops because they just NEED to buy the latest fruit of the season and want to be there to buy the very first crate of Kiwi fruits when they arrive on Jan 1st. Also, please look up the words "punctuation", "grammar" and "spelling" before you try and insult me. Go wild with the insults, it's not like your mom's around to look after you on the internet!
I would not go into details of my job but i come to think that i must help a lot more people than you (as i dont even have enough time to play my wii=umbrella to discover its holes) but you should be in my shoes to understand and i dont need to make any propaganda of it because i do believe that this is a scene forum and not a charity or poverty one... Like radiohead use to say (everythinging it's right place) but thank you to ilustrate us of your condition of charity helper as also consumer whore with bad humour.Â
See above. You could have called me a cocksmoking faggot, a sheepfucker, a retarded monkey, a turd muncher, hell, even a sony fan, the sky's the limit! Assuredly when it comes to insults, you fail, but I'll chalk that up to your extremely interesting life. It's good that you leave the details vague, because frankly, I don't care about your life, or what you would be ready to make up in order to "look better".
But it is interesting to see you recant from your initial statement about caring a whole lot about others, despising people who think "its your problem, not mine" (I could have quoted you bluntly, but it was less of a hassle to type it properly instead of copy-pasting your statement and correcting the various kindergarten-level errors you sprinkled all over), and caring so much about "the community".
Yes, truly, you are a marvel of consistency. Flicker on, little flame
Get your self a life.... Maybe you should stay as a charity helper since the whore in you isn't getting anywere.
Kind regards S1r1u5...
I'll "get myself a life", but only if you get yourself a dictionary and a brain. Deal? Deal!
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