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Burning Wii games to a DVD-R and playing them is painfully easy, even without a modchip. Same thing with WiiWare and VC games. It makes sense that they'd want to lock that out. Wii Fit is a good product. It's basically an interactive fitness video, kinda like Kiana's Flex Appeal but with instant feedback and without a sexy Asian lady in a bathing suit. Wii Music is, from the limited amount I've played with it, not so good, and isn't worth more than a rental. I thought the new Wario Land was very good, but it too could be beaten within the span of a rental period. I don't ever want to see that game over here. It seemed like a promising enough idea until I found out about the "retrieve Birdo's vibrator" mission. I'll accept some wacked-out idea in games, but none that involve Mario villains masturbating.

The real deal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upkpZjnckAc Holy fuck, is this song awful. Hearing it for real kinda kills the mystique, too. The Casio version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSZz381Dc28 Highly superior. This is a legit great moment for me; it's like downloading my first NES emulator, or when I was 12 and I discovered a Beta tape that had an episode of Finders Keepers on it.

Man does it bum me out that this show lasted only 18 episodes. Although I can't fault NBC for canceling it, since it was their lowest-rated show. But they didn't do it any favors by putting it on Saturday. No show does well on Saturday! Although the premiere did pretty well in the ratings. Then it fell by like half the next week. Maybe people just didn't like what they saw. But I did! So in this thread we'll discuss this awesome show and the things we remember from it. Some of my favorite moments from the show were: - Daniel playing D&D with the geeks and naming his character "Carlos the Dwarf" - Nick being the world's creepiest boyfriend to Lindsay, and him singing Styx's "Lady" to her, with her being initially touched and flattered, and then becoming increasingly freaked out as the performance goes on. - Sam becoming the object of ridicule for his poor performance in sex ed. ("Hey, Dr. Love, will you please autograph my genitals?") - Mr. Rosso's herpes story. - Rosso singing "I'm Eighteen" in the guidance office. ("I'm a boy (or girl) and I'm a man (or woman), I'm eigh-teen!") - Any scene with Sarah Hagan as Millie. I can't believe how they cast someone so perfect for the role of the uptight nerd, but she was great. She had the perfect look, voice, mannerisms....just great casting. - Harris, Millie, and Cindy as the "Sober Students Improv Players". - Nick's terrible song about Lindsay, "Lady L". - Ken fears that he is gay after finding out that his girlfriend was born a hermaphrodite. - The whole show-long storyline between Sam and Cindy, and him discovering that she is the world's lamest girlfriend. Feel free to add your own. I want discussion from everybody who remembers anything about this show, or has any opinion on it whatsoever. And if you've never seen it, well.... http://www.veoh.com/userVideos.html?numRes...me=minidonettes Here you go.

The album has leaked in full. Available at your favorite torrent site, just try not to get sued!

It's another one of their Homebrew Lockout Patches.

Marvin wants her to be our next president.

Speaking of Pitchfork, I'm still betting on them not giving this a straight review. Either a picture of a deer sticking its antlers up another deer's BUTT or something like their St. Anger review where they wrote an esoteric short story filled with Metallica song titles to show how down they were with the band's old catalogue.

And judging from the reviews, they be far from the only ones not behind this album. I guess since theirs was the first official published review, they wouldn't have known that. But really, how could you not know. There's going to be people who don't like it, and I have a feeling that there are going to be some people who do like it but feels that it's JUST WRONG to like it because it isn't the real band. But I doubt that there will be those who don't like it that think they have to pretend they do. So go after it, RS! It's a low-risk venture! But Rolling Stone has always been pretty pro-Axl (especially this dude who wrote the review, who also appeared on the GNR Behind the Music a few years back). And besides which, they know if they trash his album, he won't give them that exclusive silence-breaking cover story they want from him. Then again, who isn't Rolling Stone in favor of? ("Republicans." No, I meant in music.) Meat Loaf, that's who. They never liked Meat Loaf. Everyone else is A-OK with them.

Didn't RS then retroactively award Pinkerton a full fiver? Hey guys, remember when we said your album kinda sucked? We actually meant it was PERFECT, sorry bros.

The last Jonas Brothers album also got 4 stars from them. I guess they really like music, that's all. Clearly the only music critic who still matters is Stephen Thomas Erlewine.

"We need less Homer Simpsons, and more money for public schools!"

I'll look forward to seeing that next July!

That Cindy Sanders heel turn is something else. Sam should have figured something was up when she agreed to go out with him. No super-cool cheerleader goes out with a dude that geeky unless she's hiding some terrible secret that would make no normal guy want anything to do with her. Like being a Republican. Hi-yo! The best thing on the DVD set is the deleted scene where they're in her room and she tries to make up for their lost slow dance in the pilot by having him sing "Come Sail Away" to her while they slowly sway in each others' arms. Do you know what kind of shit they canceled this show for? "Tucker" and "Daddio"! Remember Tucker and Daddio? No? Exactly! When I rediscovered this show last summer after not seeing it for several years, I had to watch it out of order. I couldn't bear to watch the final episode last. It would have been too depressing. I think half this show's cast appeared on Boston Public. Sam (nerdy kid who gets beat up, keeps a hitlist, asks a hot girl to the prom and she says no so he says "you'll be sorry" and she thinks he wants to kill her so he gets expelled), Neil (just a wisecrackin' dude), Millie (wears too much garish makeup), Cindy (out of control goth who moves in with an obese teacher), Vicki the bitchy cheerleader (sucked a dick in the hallway for student council votes), Biff Tannen (football dad). Any more?

If G.G Allin wasn't a bad person, I don't know who is.

Tesla would ditch the electrics and have a five car acoustical jam.

You just ate it from a diamond-encrusted plate while using the gilded claw of a falcon as a fork.

I never understood you Canucks with your "Kraft Dinner." Macaroni and cheese, while obviously a popular dish, is too specialized a meal to just be given the generic "Dinner" tag. Who gave these cheeseheads the right to label their product "dinner"? Nobody! Call it what it is! It's more of a lunch food anyway.

Probably should cut that Hanson hair before you declare your candidacy.

Google mocks my failed dreams Eh, writing is worthless as a profession. Unless you're planning to become a novelist, which you probably are since you're the most urbane dude here and you read a lot of books. But a degree in professional writing? That's bullshit and it won't get you anywhere. Well, scratch that. Won't get ME anywhere. I suppose going through the rigors of higher education will give you the benefit of more knowledge. But that piece of paper won't take you anywhere. (Yeah, I know you wanted to go to grad school. But just graduating once should mean something, shouldn't it? More and more I'm feeling like my bachelor's degree is worth about as much as passing middle school.) I'm a college graduate and my parents want me to take a job at a fucking gas station so I can pay my car insurance. Don't they know my friends are going to laugh at me? Byron the Bulb, are you black? Czech thought you were and I was like "no way, that dude's totally white." Maybe in his world, refined Caucasoids can't appreciate Weezy F. Baby, but I know what's up.

I know most of the mods like to push the idea of hands-of moderation in the CE folder, but whatever you're thinking of, please don't do it.

I remember when this story first broke, like the first few hours of the story, I was at my college internship site, and I couldn't log on here. But the early news stories reported the dude's name only as "Mr. F." and I really wanted to get on TSM so I could post this and then write "FOR AUSTRIAN EYES ONLY!!" But no, by the time I got home, Josef's name was already public knowledge. Ruined the chance for some good boardin', the damn baby killer.

Didn't they add a bunch of new multi-ethnic zombies in the latest build so that gamers could enjoy politically correct undead slaughter?

http://fromclosertonear.blogspot.com/2008/...o-greatest.html Yeah, I ain't C&P'ing all that crap. It could take 2 posts! Relevant discussion: Wow, they really ARE Rolling Stone.

Good for them. They're not trying to screw the customer, they're trying to screw EB. You'll be seeing a lot more such tactics from publishers in the next few years, believe me.

BOOT is reading the thread.