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Ummon:
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--- Quote from: Ummon on July 11, 2009, 08:03:30 pm ---Craig, that's so funny that people opt for such a low-end machine. But it being the UK, I'm not necessarily surprised.
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That's a little offensive. Are you implying Brits are cheapskates or something?
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If anything I'm saying US folks gotta have fancy, new-fangled stuff, even if they don't use it. Getting old machines from a vendor would be, like, insulting to them. New is cool, you know.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Ummon on July 13, 2009, 09:37:38 pm ---New is cool, you know.
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And Ummon knows cool!
Turnarcades:
--- Quote from: Ummon on July 13, 2009, 09:37:38 pm ---If anything I'm saying US folks gotta have fancy, new-fangled stuff, even if they don't use it. Getting old machines from a vendor would be, like, insulting to them. New is cool, you know.
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Having to spend top dollar to be cool is also elitist. More often than not, buying new is being ripped off as you get the same tool to do the job but you are more seriously out of pocket. Take cars for example - a friend of mine just paid £15000 for an ugly medium-spec hatchback brand new. Right now I'm looking at buying my dream car - a TVR Speed Six - which can now be had for about £12000. Who's the mug?
Even more insulting in the current economic climate would be to dangle cool, unaffordable gear under their noses that they know they could not have, much like the £3000 offerings of other similar PC-based arcades in the UK.