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Why does my name change from the first to second? I've read about it but I'm still not sure what's happening -__-;; Thanks for the props. I have something to do during downtime again =D

@atomic_dumpling said:

"Hey, guys, th–there's a red thingy moving toward the green thingy."

I love this movie.

I use metacritic and before them, gamerankings not to get an aggregate review but to get a list of reviews from sites in one place with blurbs. I never paid much mind to the user reviews though. I DO check and read user reviews for purchases I make on amazon, newegg and I look at the aggregate for movies on RottenTomatoes.

Good on them for actually doing something when they could just have easily have not cared. I wonder what their barrier to entry is for the critic review section.

@Pr1mus said:

"The updated language in the TOS is designed to benefit both the consumer and the company"

That part is pretty funny.

I'm sure some of the consumers work at the company so this statement is true.

@shinigami420 said:

@zoner said:

@shinigami420 said:

This is dumb why the fuck do you care? why do you want to sue everybody? i can never understand you Americans

Yes, no one should be punished for losing personal information and risk putting people in danger of identity theft. Us Americans and our crazy identity theft culture.

Yeah i agree they should be punished but just saying HEY SONY YOU DIDNT KEEP OUR STUFF SAFE NOW GIVE US MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!

If it was the govorment i would be fine but this all seems like a cheap way to try to get alot of money

People in North America are just looking for excuses to sue big corporations so they can get rich

I don't think anyone will be getting rich for suing Sony unless Sony ran them over with a car. In these class action lawsuits that cost millions to the companies being sued, the individual only receives a small portion of the total amount. . . it just so happens that the company screwed over lots and lots of people and have to pay them all small amounts of money so that builds up into a large ass number. The alternative is not suing at all and just giving them a free pass to fuck up. Which is what they did. If they're paying, it's because they fucked up.

The cases where a single individual or small group sues and gets a large amount of money is one of two things. Either that individual actually got effed up to the point where they deserved the money for damages (iono, amputated legs, brain damage, loss of life), or the court is awarding punitive damages. Punitive damages? For instance, say an Apple iPhone exploded in someone's hand, and they lost a finger, and they sued. If it were Apple's fault, they'd pay for the damages to the victim. If Apple knew about this problem, that people might lose their fingers, but went ahead with it anyway, they would be slammed with punitive damages instead of just the amount of damage they did to the victim. Punitive damages is set up to be an amount that is large enough to cause the company to make changes, but not enough to cripple them or put them out of business. For big ass companies is a whole lot because if they just had to pay a few million, what's that to Apple? Not much. But if it were a few hundred million. . . they'd make changes fast.

Whatever you have against Americans, great. But these things are set up the way they are for a reason. . .

@Vegsen said:

@Hizang said:

@Vegsen said:

Gold N64 + gold carts + gold controllers = life complete.

Fixed.

Oh, my mistake. Should try getting a golden TV as well...!

Not made from real gold. Sorry.

@wolf_blitzer85 said:

Someday this will all blow over.

I wonder if she's ever been recognized on the streets as the never girl.

Just for fun I went through GameStop's latest annual financial statements and cherry picked the interesting bits and posted them up in my blog. I'm figuring some of these numbers could be used to make more informative decisions about the corporation.

http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic/31/gamestop-2010-annual-report-breakdown/515841/#7

Spoilers. They made over $400 million dollars last fiscal year.

I have and use facebook. I don't think the anonymity thing matters that much on it as you pretty much only share your stuff with people you know and have added.

@Swoxx: Thanks =) I'm beginning to notice a trend in where the later is is, the more random the things I post.[][