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SammyWI:
He's actually a character on Big Bang Theory.  He's just used to how his mother pronounces it.   HOWAD!  COME RUB MY BUNIONS!  :laugh:

Howard_Casto:

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--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 24, 2011, 07:31:43 am ---I'm pale as a ghost,

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So 2012 will be your year to leave the PC/Wii alone, get out of the closet and get some sunlight and fresh air.

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Nah that's not it... my primary ancestry is Scotch/Irish.  I have two skin tones.... clear and burnt like a lobster. 

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: saint on December 24, 2011, 09:19:24 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 24, 2011, 07:31:43 am ---There's no "r" in my name.  I have European ancestry  (Casto) I'm not related to the dictator of a small bananna republic (Castro).
Sorry I shouldn't pick on you like that, but I've gotten that a lot this week, even in real life.  I'm pale as a ghost, how the hell could people mistake me for a Castro?

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Your avatar might have something to do with it :)

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Yeah Shang does look a little Spanish this go around doesn't he?  I think of all the reworks of the classic characters in the latest mk they screwed him up the most, especially considering he's supposed to be "Chineese-ish"

wizkid32:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 24, 2011, 07:31:43 am ---There's no "r" in my name.  I have European ancestry  (Casto) I'm not related to the dictator of a small bananna republic (Castro).
Sorry I shouldn't pick on you like that, but I've gotten that a lot this week, even in real life.  I'm pale as a ghost, how the hell could people mistake me for a Castro?

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:banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:

Sorry!

404:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 22, 2011, 12:33:39 pm ---You know actually you WILL be able to get many of the games for free in the future.  Starting in Janurary you can use your club nintendo coins to purchase select virtual console titles.  Some will even be exclusive imports and custom games!

Also if you bought a 3ds last year, you get 20 free virtual console titles.

You keep ragging on nintendo for not giving away games but as far as I know they are the ONLY big company to give away games. 

I mean sure once every 5 years you might get a low budget title from m$ or sony, but that's because their online service went down or their servers got hacked and they don't want you to sue or cancel your subscription.  ;)


I've never lost sleep over my console roms because my physical games collection is massive.  I might not legally have the right to a smb3 rom, but I've got the cart sitting right next to me, so I hardly feel guilty for downloading the rom to play on my pc.

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I have to somewhat disagree with you here. Some companies have been far more forthcoming when it comes to emulators and roms. Sega for example has been very open about using its older intellectual property in conjunction with emulators and the like. They began working on their own modified version of the old genesis emulator KGen many years ago and used it in various commercial properties such as their genesis collections.

Sega has also been very very lenient in terms of their sub licensing agreements. Many of the emulation system on a chip systems seem to be openly bundled with tons of games. One such device even allowed users to load their own roms via an sd card slot.

Yes, most if not all companies have the same exact stance when it comes to illegal roms but not all of them are so blatantly hypocritical about emulation as Nintendo is. If one is to take Nintendo's stance as 100% lawful and legal cannon across the world, Nintendo would require a license for every single console manufacturer that is currently emulated in the virtual console. Nintendo should probably mull over some of their licensing agreements and make sure that not only are the emulators licensed but that the original companies are being properly compensated for the simulated use of their "intellectual property". While so far, nobody has bothered to disassemble some of the virtual console emulation software, i can pretty much bet you that in one form or another, there is a GPL violation in there somewhere. I can't imagine that the folks at Nintendo would not be tempted to peek at some GPL code out there that took "evil" emulation authors years to produce and perfect only for them to have perfectly capable emulators in just a matter of months.

Nintendo has already been implicated in a legal situation where they are on the receiving end against emulator authors. There is an illegal wii port of ScummVM bundled with classic lucasarts games sold commercially. Atari, Nintendo and Majesco have all attempted to pass the blame to each other and have used complex non-disclosure agreements to keep things quiet.

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