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elbryan42

E3 - Joyous times, but evil is rearing it's ugly head...

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I couldn't be happier. Systems dropping in price. Doom 3, Metroid Prime and Fusion, GTA3 and MGS2 for the PC, Resident Evil 0, Medal of Honor Frontline, Doom 2 for the GBA, Castlevania Harmony of Disonance, and much more. I have one gripe.

Damn game sites. IGN started this whole shit. Put annoying ads and popups everywhere rivaling porn sites. Then expect people to PAY to read certain reviews, see videos, etc. Ugh. Gamespot is now the same thing. Can't even see the new movies on there. Movies I could watch a month ago are now locked. I'm not FUCKING PAYING for info that should be free. I understand paying for a game, a cd, etc. But info and people's opinions should be free and left free. Not to mention, Gamespot has been HEAVILY biased lately. Hating a game before they start reviewing it. Not looking at the facts, and talking out of their asses. I'm fucking sick of it.

When I get the time I'm making a video games site, where it's a community. People send in reviews. No employees to pay, just people who love games, and want to share their views on the games they love. No ads, no paying. I'm sure lots of people wouldn't mind writing a review now and then. What do you all think?

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elbryan42 said:

What do you all think?

Uh, good luck keeping a server for it running. Unless you filthy-kat-style-rich.

RackShack has some of the cheapest server prices I've seen. Depends how big your site is gonna be though, if it suddenly becomes popular you'll need a server like that so it's not unavailable 20 hours out of every day.

Or you could probably do a bit of searching and find a site similar to what you're speaking of.

Lots of people have tried the ad-free campaign and failed miserably.

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Weedster said:

Meh...I think it sucks too, but it's not worth complaining over.

What, the ads?

I don't mind the standard 468x60 .GIF banner, but these flash ads and popup schemes are just refuckingdiculous. I'm almost to the point of disabling flash entirely, 95% of it's use comes from those godawful ads.

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Just the whole thing about having to pay for sites and info.

Now I gotta get going for school...my spam craze will FINALLY be over for the day ;)

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Lüt said:

Uh, good luck keeping a server for it running. Unless you filthy-kat-style-rich.

Elbryan and Kat could go it together. Elby does teh hard work, she drives her Viper. Sounds fair to me! :P

but yeah, i totally agree with elbryan, it does suck. Many things suck lately.

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I'll have to wait until I upgrade. Then the PC I'll be using will be a Linux server with a webserver. My friend seems to be running wrong.button.com nicely and he's a cheap bastard.

Kat has a Viper? I want to drive the Viper! :P

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saddly thats america for you, right now the only money made on the net is made with adds and spyware. almost every sight has a pop up or some program they put on your PC. free is being kicked out the door for quick profits. look at fileplanet's setup, pay to download or wait for half an hour. there are bills in congress that may make it a crime to make open source software, or at least limit very badly. so things like zdoom, legacy, boom and others like LINUX and KDE will be in danger

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Pop-ups I can live with (or prevent). Top-layer Shock ads on a page I can cope with. Applets that try to change my homepage settings I can ignore. But what really cheeses me off is when an applet downloads a spyware app onto my machine and thn asks me if I want to install it. Shit, if you're gonna try to stick a virus on my machine, you could at least be discrete about it. (That's what Gator is, really: a Trojan horse with user-friednly features.)

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Fredrik said:

Hey, there you spammed too! Tee-hee!

Actually, it was a totally legitimate reply.

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Heh is not spam...... it's an expression of mild laughter...

SHAMELESS PLUGS ARE SPAM....

ADS ARE SPAM.....

ANYTHING WIT DA WORD MICROSOFT IN IT IS SPAM.....

SPAM IS GARBAGE DAT NO ONE NEEDS BASICALLY (HENCE WHY MICROSOFT POSTS ARE SPAM :P ).....

LIKE DIS POST.....

YA FEEL ME!! :P

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Esco_69 said:

SPAM IS GARBAGE DAT NO ONE NEEDS BASICALLY (HENCE WHY MICROSOFT POSTS ARE SPAM :P ).....

Kind of like a post with nothing but "heh!" in, for example.

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Sephiroth said:

there are bills in congress that may make it a crime to make open source software, or at least limit very badly. so things like zdoom, legacy, boom and others like LINUX and KDE will be in danger

Hopefully, the bills will never get passed.

Damn liberals....

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Kind of like a post with nothing but "heh!" in, for example.


... or like dat redundantly obvious reply (which I quoted above) you just made...... can we say SPAMFEST!!! :P

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Esco_69 said:

... or like dat redundantly obvious reply (which I quoted above) you just made...... can we say SPAMFEST!!! :P

Actually, I've spent the last ~40 minutes spamming the boards. I take offense at you posting "heh!" and trying to claim it isnt spam, however.

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Banning open source software is retarded, and even if it is a US law isn't Linux based in Sweden or wherever the fuck Torvold is from?

On the other hand, who the fuck says that reviews and videos and shit SHOULD be free? Why? Why should they spend thousands a month on bandwidth when a grand total of 3 people click their banners?

Try GameFAQS.com. Get your reviews, faqs, move lists, cheat codes and ram patches there. I have for years.

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deadnail said:

Banning open source software is retarded, and even if it is a US law isn't Linux based in Sweden or wherever the fuck Torvold is from?

Swedish speaking Finn, IIRC. And no, I dont memorise these things, I saw it in an interview yesterday :)

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Heh! P.S. goin home for da night.... we'll have to continue dis little game tomorrow.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Elby: I'll have to explain tomorrow..... check dis thread mah nigga, late! :D

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fraggle` said:

Swedish speaking Finn, IIRC. And no, I dont memorise these things, I saw it in an interview yesterday :)

Which only goes to prove that all swedes are commies!

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