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Memory cards for PS2 stink, and Memory Cards for GC stink more. Comments?

  • 10.24.2004 1:53 PM PDT
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you stink

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Admittedly, the XBOX is a lot better in terms of storage, unless you wish to transfer data between consoles (which requires a memory card). They are very fiddly though, and it's certainly an advantage that the XBOX has.

Posted by: Knives1288
you stink


You have no idea how stupid that comment makes you look, do you?

  • 10.24.2004 3:37 PM PDT
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i think he does

  • 10.24.2004 3:42 PM PDT
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NextBox is supposedly not going to have a harddrive, thus memory cards become an essential for even the Microsoft fanboy.

  • 10.24.2004 3:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: InvaderGIR
NextBox is supposedly not going to have a harddrive, thus memory cards become an essential for even the Microsoft fanboy.


But that makes no sense!!

PS3 and the next Nintendo should have hard drives, not the other way around!

  • 10.24.2004 3:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: Private Simmons
Posted by: InvaderGIR
NextBox is supposedly not going to have a harddrive, thus memory cards become an essential for even the Microsoft fanboy.


But that makes no sense!!

PS3 and the next Nintendo should have hard drives, not the other way around!


Its because of the cost to put a harddrive in every box is pretty expensive. I read that you can buy an attachable harddrive for the NextBox though. So you just have to whip out probably another 100 bucks for it.

  • 10.24.2004 3:55 PM PDT
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dude i 5GB hard-drive doesn't cost much and by then it'll be like a 30GB for like 10 bucks

  • 10.24.2004 3:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: pudgypenquin
dude i 5GB hard-drive doesn't cost much and by then it'll be like a 30GB for like 10 bucks


yes but this is Microsoft we're talking about.

  • 10.24.2004 4:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: Psyched
Admittedly, the XBOX is a lot better in terms of storage, unless you wish to transfer data between consoles (which requires a memory card). They are very fiddly though, and it's certainly an advantage that the XBOX has.

Posted by: Knives1288
you stink


You have no idea how stupid that comment makes you look, do you?


thats just my way of showing how much i hate it when people bash the ps2, normally i would give an explantion but i was in a hurry. but i dont really care if people think im stupid cause they dont know me and (hopefully) never will

  • 10.24.2004 5:43 PM PDT
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I'm a -blam!-.

  • 10.24.2004 5:46 PM PDT
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Nothing has been confirmed about NextBox not have a harddrive. I am sure people have been complaining when the first rumor about that came out. They may change their minds. I hope they do.

  • 10.24.2004 5:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: Private Simmons
Memory cards for PS2 stink, and Memory Cards for GC stink more. Comments?


so true, my gc memory card keeps corrupting so i dont play it much anymore

  • 10.25.2004 8:56 PM PDT
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THIS is what I see majorly wrong with the opening post: this poster can't even describe what it is that he doesn't like about memory cards. Given our current education systems, he is able to form sentences coherently with great spelling and punctuation; but is he yet able to convey an idea appropriately? He has been taught the mechanical, superficial nuances of communication - but has he actually been taught how to communicate?

All I've gathered from it is that memory cards have a smell, probably one that isn't favorable. Obviously there is a reason he doesn't like memory cards - but what that reason is he hasn't been able to convey. Does he even know? Perhaps he finds the memory cards inconveniencing. Maybe he believes the hardrive system to be much more effective for gaming. Has he been taught to communicate this? Apparently not.

  • 10.25.2004 9:07 PM PDT
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OK here are my veiws on memory cards. They are "insufficient" for my needs. My needs include not going to gamestop, or any other stores that may sell cards at, and buying them. Sure the other conoles have advantages to them, but x-box has a nice system with optional memory cards that fit into the controller. Mostly, i just create a new account on a freinds xbox, though. Oh, by the way, saying memory cards stink is called giving a personification. Personification is a type of poetry, a metaphor.

[Edited on 10/25/2004 9:16:53 PM]

  • 10.25.2004 9:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: Mosseymou
OK here are my veiws on memory cards. They are "insufficient" for my needs. My needs include not going to gamestop, or any other stores that may sell cards at, and buying them. Sure the other conoles have advantages to them, but x-box has a nice system with optional memory cards that fit into the controller. Mostly, i just create a new account on a freinds xbox, though. Oh, by the way, saying memory cards stink is called giving a personification. Personification is a type of poetry, a metaphor.


It's not personification. Personification is giving human characteristics to an object.

"The book smells a rose." Is a personification because it's performing the act of SMELLING something.
"The book smells." is not necessarily a personification because it can mean, "the book has odor," which is not human-only characteristic.

To say something stinks is a form of poetry, but it's not a personification. You can prove, in a non-poetic, non metaphorical sense, that objects have odors.

  • 10.25.2004 9:21 PM PDT
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ok i was wrong, sorry.
But, when someone says something stinks, it is common enough slang that everyone is aware of the meaning of the phrase, so saying,"all i've gathered from this "conv. is that memory cards have a foul" odor" is showing your ignorance, or supercilliousness.

[Edited on 10/25/2004 9:28:59 PM]

  • 10.25.2004 9:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: Mosseymou
ok i was wrong, sorry.
But, when someone says something stinks, it is common enough slang that everyone is aware of the meaning of the phrase.


Which is exactly what I'm -blam!-ing about.

Do we actually know what he means by "memory cards stink"? No. You can guess and be correct, but you don't know; he hasn't actually told us. I'm complaining that he has been taught to use slang subsitutes for actual complete thoughts and communication. Instead of saying that they're 'inconveniencing', he replaces it with relatively meaningless slang. He's not the first, either; large portions of the masses do this. It's lazy, and it's depressing.

Except for a pessimist. It makes good -blam!-ing material.

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Posted by: Mosseymou
ok i was wrong, sorry.
But, when someone says something stinks, it is common enough slang that everyone is aware of the meaning of the phrase, so saying,"all i've gathered from this "conv. is that memory cards have a foul" odor" is showing your ignorance, or supercilliousness.


http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va= supercilliousness&x=8&y=17

  • 10.25.2004 9:36 PM PDT
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So you call yourself a pessimist, that is the depressing part, not the laziness. Pessimism doesnt get you anywhere. The "relatively meaningless slang" portrays the negative feelings, which is sufficient. He feels negatively instead of positively towards memory cards. To add to pessimism. It is okay to analyze, but pessimism is too far. Pessimism leaves everyone"depressed"
Oh is that "depression" the meaning of extreme sadness , or a large indentation?
You could like having a largn in your body, alot of people do, so i cant tell if you feel positively or negatively in the aspect of laziness.
Yeah, you do act Haughty., as it says in the dictionary, sorry about spelling:)

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  • 10.25.2004 9:37 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

Posted by: Mosseymou
ok i was wrong, sorry.
But, when someone says something stinks, it is common enough slang that everyone is aware of the meaning of the phrase, so saying,"all i've gathered from this "conv. is that memory cards have a foul" odor" is showing your ignorance, or supercilliousness.

You don't know Obbi very well, do you? One word- sarcasm.

  • 10.25.2004 9:47 PM PDT
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stink

its ok, you can say SUCK. Common, say it. SUCK and/or SUXXXXXXXXX

  • 10.25.2004 9:47 PM PDT
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i know, sarcasm comes in, but then she has a point, and defends it, even if a stupid point, its fun to argue until it gets boring and too much complaining

  • 10.25.2004 9:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: Mosseymou
So you call yourself a pessimist, that is the depressing part, not the laziness. Pessimism doesnt get you anywhere. The "relatively meaningless slang" portrays the negative feelings, which is sufficient. He feels negatively instead of positively towards memory cards. To add to pessimism. It is okay to analyze, but pessimism is too far. Pessimism leaves everyone"depressed"
Oh is that "depression" the meaning of extreme sadness , or a large indentation?
You could like having a largn in your body, alot of people do, so i cant tell if you feel positively or negatively in the aspect of laziness.
Yeah, you do act Haughty., as it says in the dictionary, sorry about spelling:)


A very good point. But, I still think the mistake is being made between using actual words and slang, and which is more effective at describing. You see, I was on about communicating.

I could say, "I am depressed." Given context and common usage, you could probably figure out that I am unhappy. Depressed, though it can be interprited different ways, is rather straightforward and clear.

Instead of saying "I am depressed" I could have said, "I feel like crap." This latter version is slang. It's understandable. But does it really communicate what it is you're feeling? No. All it tells you is that you feel bad.

My point was this: Why use rather ambiguous, unspecific and generally undescriptive slang when a more well-known, precise word could do? It helps in communication - and it was the communication of feelings that I was trying to make a point of.

The part of me picking on the meaning of "stinks" was really just me being facetious.

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