Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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why do people get so pedantic about decades and centuries anyway? the whole calendar is retroactive

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The human mind likes to be correct; this is generally a good drive, since it leads to people want to figure out the truth about things...

The problem is, that it's really easy to get sidetracked when the thing you're arguing about is a definition, which are inherently arbitrary and only exist among consensus anyway. Anytime you see someone arguing over what a word "really means", realize that it's the same thing as arguing when "the decade starts".

Also, our really terrible decision to count centuries by ordinal numbers means that anyone who wants to use common words like "the 21st century" has to get used to a system where the first two digits of the year don't match the century number, because oops we have strictly-defined centuries and ill-defined decades, inconsistency also drives the human mind mad :p

Posted by Danika

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Anything in particular you're looking forward to?

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I'm looking forward to the summer! Need warmth....

Posted by Danika

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Would you ever visit Cincinnati?

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I don't speak Cincinnatese

Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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what neo geo games would you put in a 4 slot MVS?

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Windjammers, Blue's Journey, King of Fighters 2000, Metal Slug 3

Now that'd be nice to have in my living room!

Posted by Danika

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What games do you wish were on the Sega Genesis Mini?

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Phantasy Star II and Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Posted by Danika

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Is Michael Jackson to blame for the nonappearance of Sonic 3 on remakes, collections or the Genesis Mini?

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I'm not sure-- the recent beta release shows that Sonic and Knuckles Collection was probably not using the music to avoid Michael Jackson, but just because the developers were working off an old version.

And it also shows that Sega has plenty of backup music they could use instead-- given the level of hacks done on the Wii Virtual Console to remove things like the Red Cross logo, it seems like they could have easily made a hack to play the MJ-free music instead. (They wouldn't even have needed to have a copy of the beta lying around) Admittedly, maybe they just think that's too much work. (But S3&K is widely-- though not by me-- considered to be the best 2D Sonic, so if any game would be worth it...)

If anything is to blame, I don't think it's Michael Jackson himself-- he repudiated his involvement and denied it, rumors say he wasn't happy with the Genesis sound chip. I'd say it'd probably be his death that caused the problem, since now any rights that he might have held belong to his estate, which I bet cares less than MJ does about his artistic reputation, and more about whatever remnant rights they might hold to the game.

Of course, I'm not a lawyer, I'm definitely not Sega's lawyer, I don't have any special knowledge here :p just making guesses based off of rumors I've read.

Posted by Rambly

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is michael jackson to blame for the iran war

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even though our president seems to mostly think of the war as a Thriller, it'd actually be very Bad. shame the Smooth Criminal in the white house doesn't realize that, but it might not just be incompetence-- he's certainly not a Stranger in Moscow. something something Billie Jean

Posted by Danika

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What are your favorite songs of 1990, 2000 and 2010?

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Spotify needs to have the ability to fi lter liked songs by year, otherwise this is too hard to figure out...

Posted by Danika

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Ever heard of the Philco Predicta TV?

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Oh wow, I hadn't-- that's wild, what a cool design

Posted by Danika

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Why did they call it that, was it hard to predict whether it'd work properly or not?

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Lol!

I assume it was because they were "predicting" the future? But took quite awhile for thin TVs to really become common :p