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You are forgetting that the Wii while it had problems of its own was the best selling console of the previous generation due to expanding the gaming audience into casual gamers, appealing to the novelty of motion controls as well as appealing to parents and families and its cheap price point. With that said the Wii U started out with hardly any games though the same can be said of the Xbox One and Playstation 4. Nintendo is still way behind in third party but to their credit they seem to be making some effort to sort of catch up though they still have a very long way to go.Nintendo is a company full of contradictions on the one hand they are a bit ahead in some ways with willing to experiment with things like motion controls but on the other hand they are behind in as you have said online and infrastructure. This didn't matter as much during the previous generation but this one game annalist made a good point, and that is that the same casual gamers and families that Nintendo attracted with the Wii are the type of gamers that are less likely to go out and buy a new console in the first place. Nintendo hasn't given them much reason to buy the Wii U and as a result they weren't able to hold onto them but were with the Nintendo 3DS which is successful no only with them but also some of the more "core" gamers. Part of this is due to the fact that the Wii U didn't have that many games but some of their recent announcements are quite promising especially Zelda U. But it seems like Nintendo overplayed their hand with the family and casual gaming audience and gained a reputation for being a "kiddy" console which is somewhat of an exaggeration but not totally unfair. Nintendo's stategy of broadening its audience was sound but it seems to have also forgotten some of the gamers who have been loyal to them for years. To make a very long story short YES but Nintendo needs to change a lot of its business practices. Nintendo is both behind and ahead at the same time, they seem to be willing to experiment with things like motion controls but seem a bit more reluctant to update their approach to things like online play which is starting to catch up with them.

Fish and chips for me too, I like fish in general I like the texture of fried fish and of course there are the "chips".

That is true that free speech dosen't mean free from repercussions but that dosen't change the fact that some employers are taking things too far. 40% of employers are now checking social networking sites of their employees and some even requiring employees to give them their social media passwords which while incriminating yourself online isn't a good idea is still extremely creepy and a violation of the 4th amendment. What employees do on company premises, company accounts and in their name is their business but anything outside that isn't. People often forget just how in bed big business and big government truly are there really isn't much of a distinction at this point if you ask me. Maybe some but at what price? Such restrictions require giving the government a greater degree of power which history especially recent history has shown is a bad idea due to the inevitable abuse of power that will result. The problem is a lot of things that people are offended by could simply be called "bullying" and censored as opposed to actual bullying which is indeed a serious problem but one that will always be present to a certain degree and cannot be solved by government.

It depends on what I am playing at the moment, lately it has mostly been my 3DS and Wii U but my Playstation 3 has also gotten plenty of use and my Playstation 4 has gotten a bit of use as well.

Yes a couple of times, the first time was in 1996 when my Mom gave my Dad one of her kidneys and the newspaper article was about that and the family banding together to take care of 10 year old me and my 8 year old brother at the time. And the other one was when I was in high school and was about children and teens on the Autism spectrum if I remember correctly. And I was on the local news once years back when I went to summer camp when I was a kid.

Some pacman Super Mario Bros 3 Zelda A Link to The Past (I am playing this one again right now actually)

There are 2 potential candidates I am aware of, Igor Stravinsky wrote a piece called Pastorale and Beehovens 6th Symphony is also called the "Pastorale Symphony". Interestingly enough both that and Beethovens 5th symphony were both first performed on the same night with Beethoven opting for his gentler and more serene 6th played first to prepare the audience for his more intense 5th symphony.

This kind of reminds me of an episode of the Flintstones where Fred lies about something and this carbon copy of himself that only he can see and hear lives with him and won't leave him alone until he admits that he can't live with himself. Dating a girl with my exact personality sounds like it might be a good thing and it certainly would have its advantages like having the same values and a rather interesting sex life if things got that far (my list of fetishes and kinks is a fairly long one) but could also have a few downsides. I am one of the most stubborn people I know and though it is not nearly as bad as it used to be I do have a temper so any arguments we have could get very ugly very fast especially because neither one us would want to back down.

My Dad used to play a lot of doo wop/mo town/oldies music on the radio and at least half of them were love songs really good love songs. One of my favorites out of these is My Girl by The Temptations.

History and band for both, I find it really interesting how different people lived at different times and what we can learn from it so much so that I am currently studying to become a history teacher. Band in both middle and high school got me to express my creative side but in the jazz band in high school I got to do that and perform in concerts in some cool places.

I may not be a fan of Dawkins but this is still hilarious, if I were to send an e-mail to Dawkins it would have quite a bit more substance than "stop being gay and stupid."

Out of the ones listed I am going to have to say the 60's with the 50's not that far behind them. Doo wop, the Beetles, lots of great rock songs and many more reasons of course if the 40's were on this list I would probably pick that. Overall though I would have to say it is a bit of a toss up between the Classical Era (Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn) and the early 20th century with rise of rag time, jazz and blues.

I have noticed that the amount of good shows on Boomerang is starting to go down, I hope this is temporary and not part of their "rebranding" because if it is than I might lose interest in Boomerang like I have in Cartoon Network.

It was my very first post actually in my introductory thread and it was Radiance64 and Nessie who brohoofed it.

He may be right that there are estrogen mimickers such as BPA in the environment and there are some subliminal messages in entertainment but sometimes a show is just a show and this is an example of that. The owl is indeed an illuminati symbol but it is also a symbol of knowledge that has been used by numerous cultures and civilizations for thousands of years and they likely intended the owl symbol for the latter rather than the former. We can say this and the fact that liking a show has very little to do with ones masculinity femininity or sexual preferences but someone like this has already made up their mind and will not listen no matter what. It is just another close minded asshole who thinks he knows everything so I believe the phrase "don't feed the trolls" applies here.