Asteroth

I'm really shocked to see so many people trying to say that used sales hurt the industry.  Secondary markets are wonderful tools for everyone in an industry.  Used games mean that, if I want, I can more freely buy new games because I know I can sell it later on.  Cars are a very powerful example of that feature of the secondary market: when buying a new car, trading in your old car helps immensely.  If you bought a new car knowing that once you drove it off the lot it was 100% valueless and destined for the junk yard, buying a new car would be a much larger investment than it is.  That means I can take more risks and buy games I wouldn't even consider if I can't sell them used.  I can also buy more games simply because I have more money.   Used sales also put games in the hands of people that can't afford new prices, potentially giving them incentive to save and buy a new copy of the next game in the series or just the next game by the publisher. It also allows games to be useful far after any developer would even consider supporting the software.  For example:  I went and bought two used copies of mario kart double dash to have an old school 8 person game with 2 Tv's.  This would have been impossible without a successful used market.
 
Even more than that a robust secondary market can only ever exist if the product is valuable.  Gamestop or whoever can sell used copies of games because there are people out there buying them new.  The fact that there are some people out there that would buy new if there was no used market doesn't outweigh the benefits to the industry as a whole.  The  idea that a used game is a 1:1 replacement good for a new product is fantasy except for a small portion of the market, simply because the size of the used market is determined by the size of the new.  Developers need to stop being so short sighted and start trying to offer more value instead of attacking legitimate consumers.

When I first started playing virtually all of my losses were simply macro based.  Any army I had would melt and I'd lose in the first few minutes of the game. 
 
After I found out about day9 and all that I started to get quite a bit better and my losses got to be because, looking at the replay, I would notice a stupid choice in engaging in a bad position or because I didn't upgrade properly or similar.  I found these losses to be more annoying because whereas before I was just clearly inferior to my opponent these losses I actually had a chance in and essentially gave it away through poor decisions.  
 
Lately I've been trying more fancy things like rushing to higher techs or fast expanding and as day9 says losing like that is good because it means you're trying to see what you can get away with and I find it to be less annoying to lose this way at the time but looking back I wonder if it's a good idea to take the wins I know I can get or try new things.  
 
Has anyone else had a similar progression?

I have a wii and a 360 and I think they're both great.  We still bowl and play party games on the Wii when we all get together.  For me, though, I play my DS more than the other two put together.  Nintendo always has high quality, I just wish the 3rd party games were up to the same standard.

"It won't end here, if games are vulnerable, who knows what's next."

" The mods are gonna be pissed about the pyramid... "

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" @Asteroth:  I am so sorry. I hope you don't wake up to find 100 PMs in your inbox. "

Luckily I'm still up, so there's no surprise anything going into any boxes! "

Claude is an old man. You're talking to an old man. How do you feel about this? "

I feel properly creepy.
 
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" @Claude: Yeah, I can't wait till this guy discovers how naked the cartoon pussy is on here. It's balls of naked. "

Balls of naked you say?  I want to go to there. "

You're in your number one source on the web!  Don't believe me? Just Google "Naked Cartoon Pussy" and be sure to leave that in quotations. "

That's an ominously specific search.  However, I accept your challenge good sir.  I think we all know that we wouldn't be involved in this conversation if any of us had any sense. "

Monkey butters! "

.... Monkey butters?  Can't say I'm familiar with that term. "

Wow. Really? It's not hard. Monkey + butter churn. "

Doesn't the monkey fight quite a bit?  I also imagine it would be fairly messy.  Do you put herbs in it?  I bet all the bone would go really well with tarragon. "

Of course they fight. But the payoff. Oh the pay off.  I don't know about the tarragon though. It's kind of comes out tasting like banana and poop. Does tarragon go well with poop? "

If the poop taste is that strong you definitely want to add in some really strong spices to counteract it.  I'd suggest garlic, tarragon and basil.  Add in some mango, tomato, and onion and you'll have a nice monkey butter chutney to put on some grilled Tilapia.  That sounds pretty good. "

Giant Bomb is also your number one source for Naked Cartoon Recipes, apparently. "

Giant Bomb! Expanding you in ways you never wanted. "

I believe you mean "touching you in ways you never wanted." "

No, I think "expanding" is a must more subtly nasty verb than "touching." "

Well, I mean, yeah. We like to spread our fingers. "

Don't forget toes!  And mouths. "

Can I stick my fingers in your mouth? "

Now I feel uncomfortable.  You have gone too far sir! "

Too far? That's just right! "