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Imagine this...
Long lines of people carrying big, square boxes. All queuing up, just to reach a small table occupied by a solitary old man.
“We are here today, outside what is often described as ‘The London Eye’. You can easily see how crude and simply built this was, probably finished in matter of days. Now, of course, it is deemed extremely unsafe due to the basic and dangerous mechanisms. We all know that 21st century life was a primitive and simple one, but today we are celebrating the small developments that changed the way people back then lived, the so called ‘Games Consoles’.”
He turns to his right where a small boy is pulling three strange boxes out of a plastic bag.
‘Wow! A full set of Playstation consoles. Never in my life was I expecting to see this. Here we have the original Playstation, grey, square, very cumbersome and a measly 32bit. This was later developed into the PSone, a smaller and more compact version with the new feature of attaching a small screen to the back, very rare indeed! And now we have the Playstation 2, a bigger and slightly more powerful console, this was though ‘cutting edge’ at the time but if you’ve ever seen some of the games you’ll definitely not agree.
“We’ll start with the Playstation. Now I’ll just see, erm. Yes, the original opening mechanism still works! This was first manufactured in 1995, very popular, but easily damaged, I’m surprised you kept it in such good condition. I’d say about 3 million for this”
“Oh. I was expecting a bit more”
‘Never worry! This PSone is worth about double that. You see, these were much less popular as the Playstation 2 came out only a little later than this and was much more popular.
For the Playstation 2 I'd say about 1 million at auction, being much more popular and available at the time. Still, pretty good condition, I’d hang on to it, it’ll go up slowly in price.”
“Thanks very much, bye!”
A small, ancient lady hobbles up to the table, producing a Gameboy Advance and several games.
“Ah-ha! Just what I’ve been waiting for, a Gameboy Advance. Now the Gameboy was the most popular hand-held console during the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. There were actually a lot of incarnations of this console, this about the middle one. There was the Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Advance Pocket, Gameboy Super-advance, Gameboy Ultimate and Gameboy Even More Ultimate Than The Last One.
Now I see you’ve brought along some games as well, and if we can.... Yes, they still work. But, ooh, yuck, how crude. Just look at the primitive and ugly graphics we’ve got here. How could they think this was anywhere near good! Yuk. Ugh. Bbbllllllaacccckkkk!!!”
At this point the lone old man collapsed.
Y’see antiques are dangerous.
But could this actually happen? Consoles are great.
The antiques of the future?
Ha-Ha!
FFF
Long lines of people carrying big, square boxes. All queuing up, just to reach a small table occupied by a solitary old man.
“We are here today, outside what is often described as ‘The London Eye’. You can easily see how crude and simply built this was, probably finished in matter of days. Now, of course, it is deemed extremely unsafe due to the basic and dangerous mechanisms. We all know that 21st century life was a primitive and simple one, but today we are celebrating the small developments that changed the way people back then lived, the so called ‘Games Consoles’.”
He turns to his right where a small boy is pulling three strange boxes out of a plastic bag.
‘Wow! A full set of Playstation consoles. Never in my life was I expecting to see this. Here we have the original Playstation, grey, square, very cumbersome and a measly 32bit. This was later developed into the PSone, a smaller and more compact version with the new feature of attaching a small screen to the back, very rare indeed! And now we have the Playstation 2, a bigger and slightly more powerful console, this was though ‘cutting edge’ at the time but if you’ve ever seen some of the games you’ll definitely not agree.
“We’ll start with the Playstation. Now I’ll just see, erm. Yes, the original opening mechanism still works! This was first manufactured in 1995, very popular, but easily damaged, I’m surprised you kept it in such good condition. I’d say about 3 million for this”
“Oh. I was expecting a bit more”
‘Never worry! This PSone is worth about double that. You see, these were much less popular as the Playstation 2 came out only a little later than this and was much more popular.
For the Playstation 2 I'd say about 1 million at auction, being much more popular and available at the time. Still, pretty good condition, I’d hang on to it, it’ll go up slowly in price.”
“Thanks very much, bye!”
A small, ancient lady hobbles up to the table, producing a Gameboy Advance and several games.
“Ah-ha! Just what I’ve been waiting for, a Gameboy Advance. Now the Gameboy was the most popular hand-held console during the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. There were actually a lot of incarnations of this console, this about the middle one. There was the Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Advance Pocket, Gameboy Super-advance, Gameboy Ultimate and Gameboy Even More Ultimate Than The Last One.
Now I see you’ve brought along some games as well, and if we can.... Yes, they still work. But, ooh, yuck, how crude. Just look at the primitive and ugly graphics we’ve got here. How could they think this was anywhere near good! Yuk. Ugh. Bbbllllllaacccckkkk!!!”
At this point the lone old man collapsed.
Y’see antiques are dangerous.
But could this actually happen? Consoles are great.
The antiques of the future?
Ha-Ha!
FFF
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Check out my subject on chat named ‘Your pocket guide to Spammers’
Dr. Duck wrote:
Maybe if you're a newbie, on the way to becoming a regular, but once you get there why bother anyway?
But even then it shouldn't happen. I know it does happen and if you notice all of the newbies who do it are about 14-16 years old. People like Misterhappy, Kitty and Reload don't SPAM and don't write pointless things and just blaber on to get their word count up.
It's pretty pointless if you ask me as people just moan (Like I'm doing now) and then they become hated even more then they already are which with FFF is hated a hell of a lot.
Maybe if you're a newbie, on the way to becoming a regular, but once you get there why bother anyway?
But even then it shouldn't happen. I know it does happen and if you notice all of the newbies who do it are about 14-16 years old. People like Misterhappy, Kitty and Reload don't SPAM and don't write pointless things and just blaber on to get their word count up.
It's pretty pointless if you ask me as people just moan (Like I'm doing now) and then they become hated even more then they already are which with FFF is hated a hell of a lot.
So what is the attraction of getting a bigger word count anyway? Maybe if you're a newbie, on the way to becoming a regular, but once you get there why bother anyway?
Naturally of course, there aren't any notables who have done this before.
No, wait...
No, wait...
FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> heh.
it's better putting your topic in both sections of FOG.
you get the
> different opinions of the chatters and the primers.
You're an idiot. Plain and simple.
> heh.
it's better putting your topic in both sections of FOG.
you get the
> different opinions of the chatters and the primers.
You're an idiot. Plain and simple.
FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> heh.
it's better putting your topic in both sections of FOG.
you get the
> different opinions of the chatters and the primers.
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You fool, nearlly all the people in Chat go in Prime as well, even it they are Newbs!!!
> heh.
it's better putting your topic in both sections of FOG.
you get the
> different opinions of the chatters and the primers.
***********************************************************
You fool, nearlly all the people in Chat go in Prime as well, even it they are Newbs!!!
Did you forget that you already posted this in Chat? Me thinks not.
Damn Dirty cheating word count spammers :o)
Damn Dirty cheating word count spammers :o)
FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> heh.
it's better putting your topic in both sections of FOG.
you get the
> different opinions of the chatters and the primers.
You idiot. SPAMMER. Read the rules.
> heh.
it's better putting your topic in both sections of FOG.
you get the
> different opinions of the chatters and the primers.
You idiot. SPAMMER. Read the rules.
heh.
it's better putting your topic in both sections of FOG.
you get the different opinions of the chatters and the primers.
it's better putting your topic in both sections of FOG.
you get the different opinions of the chatters and the primers.
Hold on a sec... De Ja Vou!!!
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