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What old console do you recommend?

August 13th 2011, 01:53 AM
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After having had a PSP, 3DS, DS Lite, PS2, PS3, iPod Touch I've decided now the time has come to become a collector (which I probably already am.) I want one of the older handhelds but I can't choose. So maybe some of the older Dinkers can help me. Here are the conditions it should have:
- small size.
- portable (duh!)
- good library of games (preferably old-fashioned RPGs like Zelda)
- backlit screen
- long battery life
- rechargable batteries.
So, what do you guys recommend?
August 13th 2011, 02:09 AM
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Absolution
Peasant They/Them
The Dark Lord of the DN. 
GBA.
August 13th 2011, 03:22 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
Why the hell would you spend money on crap like that? Especially on a handheld?
August 13th 2011, 04:26 AM
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DuckHater
Peasant He/Him India
From The Depths Of Tartarus Itself 
Yep,i agree with skull.Why would anyone want to buy an old console?
August 13th 2011, 04:28 AM
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As a collector.
August 13th 2011, 04:29 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
No, I mean why would he buy more consoles when he already has ten thousand? It's pointless, and money could be spent in much more sensible ways.
August 13th 2011, 04:33 AM
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Because I gathered my money up for this!
Oh and yeah:
- cheap.
August 13th 2011, 04:42 AM
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DuckHater
Peasant He/Him India
From The Depths Of Tartarus Itself 
DD,you said that you were 12,where do you get the money to buy those things?
August 13th 2011, 04:42 AM
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Edhi (the money our parents give us on Eid)
August 13th 2011, 04:49 AM
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GOKUSSJ6
Peasant He/Him Poland
Everyone should get a pizza for free in each week. 
I would like to play on old console. I dream about getting the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.
August 13th 2011, 04:51 AM
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I have a NeoGeo CD, ha!
But it's in my store-room now and I don't play it that much.
August 13th 2011, 04:58 AM
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DuckHater
Peasant He/Him India
From The Depths Of Tartarus Itself 
How much edhi do you get? I only get 500Rs.
August 13th 2011, 05:17 AM
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You're Muslim? Yay!
And I also get around 400 Rs. but I save it up and also sometimes with any luck I get about 800 from aunts and uncles if they're feeling particularly kind.
August 13th 2011, 05:26 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
Ducking bourgeois!
August 13th 2011, 05:28 AM
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Why so angry?
August 13th 2011, 05:36 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
You do realize that most people don't have the money to buy a single video game console? Yet you go around babbling about how you're gonna buy yet another one, just for the sake of having one. You're probably not gonna ever even play on it for more than five minutes, when you're already crying for a new one from your parents.

It's nothing personal. Those kinda people just piss me off.
August 13th 2011, 05:38 AM
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Easy, charlie.
August 13th 2011, 05:39 AM
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Iplaydink
Peasant He/Him Sweden
Hmm.. 
As you said yourself, 90% of your people don't have enough money to feed themself?
An you need 8 gaming consols?
Your father was a doctor wasn't he? Yeah seems about right, organ harvesting in pakistania is pretty profitable!

Edit: skull was faster and said pretty much the same thing as me.
August 13th 2011, 05:40 AM
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DuckHater
Peasant He/Him India
From The Depths Of Tartarus Itself 
What's a bourgeois?
August 13th 2011, 05:42 AM
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Joik, accusing someone of organ harvesting for no reason just makes you look like shoot.
Yet another flamewar looms over the horizon, and I did NOT cause it this time.
August 13th 2011, 05:45 AM
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DuckHater
Peasant He/Him India
From The Depths Of Tartarus Itself 
Accousing someones father of organ harvesting is one big insult as per my knowledge,you should say sorry to him and it's pakistan not pakistania.
August 13th 2011, 05:47 AM
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Ah well, his ma is a prostitute so he has a reason to be worried.
August 13th 2011, 06:01 AM
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Quiztis
Peasant He/Him Sweden bloop
Life? What's that? Can I download it?! 
You could try to get your hands on one of the Game&Watch systems. But maybe the Game Gear fits your demands more closely.
August 13th 2011, 06:05 AM
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Except for the battery life
August 13th 2011, 06:55 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
You said it DinkDoodler. Other peoples' mothers have to be prostitutes to gain enough money, while you go around buying unneeded gaming consoles. Some peoples' mothers even die because they can't pay their debts.

And why? Because people such as you go around wasting money on useless stuff. How about donating 7 of your unneeded consoles and your money to buy yet another one, for charity.
August 13th 2011, 07:01 AM
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*spits*
I don't waste money. Try donating your house to charity, the way you say it. It's a fixed system to give x% of our earnings to charity and the rest is ours. Otherwise, do you actually think if money was distributed equally to every person we'd all be happy? That would be about Rs. 150 per month for every person, and then EVERYBODY would be poor.
August 13th 2011, 07:09 AM
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DuckHater
Peasant He/Him India
From The Depths Of Tartarus Itself 
I agree with DD.
August 13th 2011, 08:09 AM
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SabreTrout
Noble He/Him United Kingdom
Tigertigertiger. 
Spend your money on whatever you want, DD. It's your money - Ignore anyone who tries to make you feel bad for spending it on something you'll enjoy.

Something like a Pocket Neo Geo might be interesting.
August 13th 2011, 08:56 AM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
Exactly what Sabre said. Your money is your business. And you spending the money on consoles as a collector doesn't mean three extra people in Africa die. It's completely unrelated
August 13th 2011, 08:57 AM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
I am with skull on this one.
August 13th 2011, 09:41 AM
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That's the best advice of this month I've had. Thanks. Looks like a war between NeoGeo Pocket Color and Gameboy Advance SP now
August 13th 2011, 09:51 AM
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SabreTrout
Noble He/Him United Kingdom
Tigertigertiger. 
Given that you can play GBA games on a DS Lite, I'd definitely opt for the Neo Geo.
August 13th 2011, 09:56 AM
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Yep but cartridges for the NeoGeo (and the system itself, I don't trust eBay) would be hard to find.
I'm gonna give the DS Lite to my sister now anyway since I have a 3DS. So if I buy GBA games we can share them cartridges!
Yeah, I think the GBA has won. The cartridges are easily availabe too
Thank you.
August 13th 2011, 10:03 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
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I disagree. Nobody needs 8 consoles. It's ridiculous. It's not Doodler only, but there are thousands of people in each country that spend their money on unnecessary things. This does actually result in 3... or more likely, 300 people starving to death in Africa.

If there was equality, nobody would be poor cause people such as Doodler and his family take half of their country's money with them, and waste it on useless crap, which means we would get it, and not be poor.

Oh and Sabre, the problem is, it isn't his money. I bet he did nothing to earn that money, nor did his family. Because of spoiled brats like him, there will never be equality.
August 13th 2011, 10:05 AM
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Leprochaun
Peasant He/Him Japan bloop
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Yea, GBA, is not considered an "Old console " If you want old, you have to go for an N64, or a SNES, maybe a Sega, or a dreamcast. Or a Nes. You're not gonna find any Old console with those conditions of yours.
August 13th 2011, 10:06 AM
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Leprochaun
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And I wouldn't call and Ipod Touch a game system. The games are mediocre at best.
August 13th 2011, 10:43 AM
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Quiztis
Peasant He/Him Sweden bloop
Life? What's that? Can I download it?! 
GBA was released 10 years ago, it's old. N64 was released 15 years ago, it's older.

I'm with Skull on this one regarding the amount of handheld consoles one should have. 8 different ones is overkill imo and you could just go with a emulation-based device like the Dingoo. But I'm not a collector as you claim to be, Doodler.
August 13th 2011, 10:58 AM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
Oh and Sabre, the problem is, it isn't his money. I bet he did nothing to earn that money, nor did his family. Because of spoiled brats like him, there will never be equality.


I TOTALLY agree.
August 13th 2011, 10:59 AM
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I have a little collection my family has,[2]gamecube,[3]ds,[2]ps2,psp,nintendo 64,xbox,xbox 360,ps3,wii,and a computer or couple.
August 13th 2011, 11:04 AM
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DuckHater
Peasant He/Him India
From The Depths Of Tartarus Itself 
Do you have any proof of that skull and how are starving africans and handhelds related.
August 13th 2011, 11:06 AM
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SabreTrout
Noble He/Him United Kingdom
Tigertigertiger. 
Some of you don't seem to have a clue what you're talking about.

How does spending money on "unnecessary things" lead to people dying, Skull? What about the people who would be out of a job if people didn't buy said goods? And how on Earth are you in a position to judge whether his family earned the money in the first place?
August 13th 2011, 11:10 AM
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DuckHater
Peasant He/Him India
From The Depths Of Tartarus Itself 
That's right.
August 13th 2011, 11:11 AM
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Who has a better collection
August 13th 2011, 11:27 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
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Imagine if all the people who bought unnecessary things, would give their money to those who don't have it. How many lives would be saved every year. I bet money paid for these 7 unnecessary gaming consoles of DinkDoodler, could provide food for seven african (or overally just poor) families for the next two years.

And what about the people who'd lose their jobs? Well, I say it would serve them right. Their so-called "jobs" are every man's dream. They really don't deserve to get paid as much as they do. The easier the job, the more the payment. It would be fun to for once be the one on the shore and watch the poor dinks drag themselves out of the swamp.

I'm not the one to judge him. We all are. You can deny it, deny it and deny it all you want. But in the end, the fact of the matter is, in Pakistan and its neighbour countries, you don't earn money. You see, you either starve to death, and live a crappy life, or you live a rich life by other peoples' money. Everybody knows that the donations that people send to the poor people in there, end up in the already rich peoples' hands.

DinkDoodler himself said 90% of the people don't have money for food, and the rest baske in glory. Hmmm... I wonder where all our donations disappear?
August 13th 2011, 11:38 AM
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Leprochaun
Peasant He/Him Japan bloop
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The first GBA was ten years ago, but they've just been updating it and probably until a few years ago they were still making games for it.

Skull, you can make that argument for anything.

Oh, he has nice furniture, better make the starving people argument.
Oh, he has more food in his lunchbox than me, better make the starving people argument.
Oh, he has better clothes than me, better make the starving people argument.

I know, you know, we all know, that there's starving people. If you're going to criticize others, because they have a lot of stuff, why don't you go out and do something then? Or at least plan to do something.
August 13th 2011, 11:46 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
What you are basically saying, is that he should kill human beings, by being a spoiled brat and wasting his parents money on every unimportant thing, instead of perhaps giving money, giving unneeded things, to those who don't have it.

Leprochaun, by saying those things, you are showing that you have always been spoiled, always had all the glory, never laid eyes on someone who needed help. You're the one who was always popular in school etc etc. Words like that prove that you've never had to pull your way up of knee deep shoot, just to be blamed for something you never did, and just to live a crappy life, with constantly the danger of going back into that knee deep shoot.

Before you have some experience of life, don't go around blaming people for making arguments, because you have no knowledge of life outside your little "glory box".

I'll leave it there. Go back on-topic if you wish, but I can honestly say, I know that everybody here knows a person doesn't need 8 gaming consoles, and could spend the money much more wisely.
August 13th 2011, 11:57 AM
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Leprochaun
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No, that's not my life. I volunteer, joining the domestic peace corps when I'm out of high school.
I don't life in a glory box. I'm not popular, all the kids think I'm fabulous cause I died my hair purple. My brother was one of the most popular kids and he spread lies about me. Not gonna go into those though. I'm shy, and short. So, I can't defend myself. I get beaten up all the time by my brother. I'm the butt end of most of the jokes in my school, have a total of about 2 friends. Have an incurable disease which has made me miss so much school and might make me have to stay back if it keeps itself up. If this is considered a "Glory Box" then so be it.

Isn't he like 12? He couldn't do anything about it. Even if he tried, no one takes twelve year olds seriously. The best he could do would be to beg his parents to donate some money.

I don't want to fight skull, try not to be so quick to judge.
August 13th 2011, 12:01 PM
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DuckHater
Peasant He/Him India
From The Depths Of Tartarus Itself 
Yes,he doesn't need 8 consoles and he could spend the money wisely.But skull,why did you have to insult his family and pakistan and it's neighbouring countries?
August 13th 2011, 12:06 PM
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schnapper
Peasant He/Him Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Let us save our effort and just lie down and die. 
Pfft. Don't listen too much, DD. These pompous viking rogues sit on the money-laden tushes and whinge about a kid collecting something with their' gift money. They claim you could be saving people from starving to death - this from a country that features neo-nazi mass murderers.

If Skull and IPD are so worried, they should sell their' computers (and probably their' arses) and feed the hungry masses that they're so concerned about.

In other news, Neo Geo or SNES.
August 13th 2011, 12:07 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
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You're able to go to school. You have friends. You have a brother who was the most popular kid in the school. You have money to buy hair colors and die your hair purple. These may be little things, but they have a huge effect. You should be grateful for these things, instead of complaining. At one point of my life, about six+ years ago, I knew some people who were begging to get a disease and die just to get out of their total crap situation.

As for DinkDoodler, I've already stated what he can do about things.
August 13th 2011, 12:09 PM
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Mrgantoe
Peasant He/Him Cuba
I'm simply a distraction. 
GBC it has Croker
August 13th 2011, 12:27 PM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
Ask yourself, do you really deserve to get a 8th console?
August 13th 2011, 01:20 PM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
My favorite old console is the SNES by far. Never played a Neo Geo game though. I had a NES and Sega 8 bit, but to be honest looking at the games for them now, they weren't really that good. Of course they were good in our eyes back then for sure xD

Oh and it's people buying consoles that keep the poor people in China alive by providing a job, even though they probably work for almost nothing.
August 13th 2011, 01:22 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
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They wouldn't have to work at all if the rich people gave half of their money away.
August 13th 2011, 01:26 PM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
But how would the rich get rich then in the first place after the first few years? It's a dead end system. Too many people -> Shortage in demand -> People are unemployed -> Poverty and famine.
August 13th 2011, 01:33 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
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You see, there shouldn't be "rich people" and "poor people". Keep everything simply the same. Just take the unneeded amount of money away from the rich people, and give it to the poor people.
August 13th 2011, 01:34 PM
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Why yes. I've earned all my consoles, you little basstards, because it wasn't ask-and-get. I either saved up my money, or my parents gave me a condition like getting the top place in my class and such, to buy a console. If you're so worried, sell your own computers and clothes.
I typed this before the last 3 responses. And if half of the rich people's money (and we aren't filthy rich anyway) was given, EVERYBODY would be poor.
August 13th 2011, 01:39 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
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No, you should be the one giving your clothes, money and consoles to others cause you apparently seem to have an unneeded amount of everything. You have things to spare most others don't have. You should respect every single other being on this earth, for doing more than you will ever do to earn what you want. Normal parents wouldn't either have the money, or just wouldn't buy their children consoles or giving money every single day for topping a class or having a birthday. It sickens me when other people spend money on unnecessary things while others have to suffer. And even rub it in their faces.
August 13th 2011, 02:07 PM
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Marpro
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Totally unnecessary discussion.

Get a GBA.
August 13th 2011, 08:09 PM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
GBA SP, second version. It has a backlight comparable to the newer DSes (which means good).
August 13th 2011, 08:12 PM
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Leprochaun
Peasant He/Him Japan bloop
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If you're a collector, might as well go all the way back and get a GBC Gameboy colors are pretty sweet.
August 13th 2011, 10:05 PM
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All those systems are garbage. Get an Etch A Sketch.
August 13th 2011, 10:56 PM
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Striker
Noble She/Her United States
Daniel, there are clowns. 
Exactly, you should be so lucky, DD and Lep! Skull and the people he knows lived in a paper bag in a septic tank. They used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down at the mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for six penniä a week, and when they got home their Dads would thrash them to sleep with their belts.

So think a little bit about others and their far greater suffering than yours, okay?
August 13th 2011, 11:44 PM
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MsDink
Peasant She/Her New Zealand
Tag - Umm.. tag, you're it? 
LOL "lived in shoe box in middle o road" yeah I got that too... walked 10 miles to school in snow with our boots over our backs so as not to wear em out blah blah

Get what you want DD, those that whine about you having more than them just need to get off their arses and go find a job and work for what they want too! Then they get to spend it how they want - just like you are

Aww Shoot why not get yourself both consoles while you are at it heh

Edit: Mine had to work for 27 hours per day Striker - yours had it lucky
August 14th 2011, 12:27 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
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Striker, it's so funny how an opinion can so fast change when you're in the same situation. In fact, you be in the same situation, you wouldn't probably be on this earth anymore.

What I really used to do, was get up at six in the morning, as you said, get my ass beat up mentally and physically whole day, eat crap food if allowed, and in the end of the day, you wouldn't get home. I got one hour every week on a computer, which I savored and respected. I didn't have eight consoles which I could play all the time. I bet nobody here has eight consoles.

Oh, and I get paid 2.00 euros every month, in cash. That is if I show up for the work every single one of those days.

Most people here had the chance to decide what they do with their youth and were determined to do certain things with their lives, while I wasn't sure if I'd ever get outside again. Now that I am outside, should I really defend those with eight consoles and crapload of money? Do you really think so? So don't tell me about others and their far greater suffering.
August 14th 2011, 01:19 AM
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You say that the rich people always obtain their money illegally, which is not true, and they always do not deserve their money even if they worked from dawn to dusk for it. They should give their money to the poor who aren't active enough to get off their butts and find a job. The world doesn't work that way, you deserve whatever you earn.
And I didn't get all these at once. I had begged and begged my parents but they thought I would get lazy, then I bought a used PS2 with my saved-up money (it took so long) and then when my grades improved my parents started to give me conditions for consoles like a motivation, and I never said, "If I get good grades you buy me this." They always said, to motivate me to study, "If you top your class we'll buy you this."
And I'm not wallowing in money and neither am I exactly happy, because unlike most people, my parents pressure me to become a doctor even if I don't want to.
August 14th 2011, 02:00 AM
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MsDink
Peasant She/Her New Zealand
Tag - Umm.. tag, you're it? 
They should give their money to the poor who aren't active enough to get off their butts and find a job. The world doesn't work that way, you deserve whatever you earn.
Excellent summary DD! When did you get to be so smart You dont owe anyone an explanation for how you earnt your money, arguing just gives them ammo.

See, everyone is fighting their own battle and noone understands how it is for others because no matter how we try we cannot put ourselves in someone elses shoes - we can just suppose or imagine how things are, guess its called being judgemental without the facts. You may think you got it bad but in my world, there is always someone who got it worse than you did.

Yes life sucks for some of us, but we are so lucky to have the power to be able to change where we are going. We all live in free countries, we all have the ability to go out there and change our destiny if we dont like what we were dished up on lifes plate. We can start over re-invent ourselves, we dont have to carry around the past.

Any of us have the ability to go back to school and relearn, to take control of our own destiny/futures and it is never to late to do that! The other side of it is we just continue to whine about it all for the rest of our lives, think society owes us a living and get all bent out of shape over it. As schnapps tag line used to say - "Life begins when you are in" I really loved that - very thought provoking, guess I could add to that "How you think determines who you are".
August 14th 2011, 03:49 AM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
DD, putting conditions on your parents is mental harassment and exploitation.
August 14th 2011, 03:58 AM
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<scouter explodes after reading Skull's bullshoot level>
August 14th 2011, 04:47 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
I didn't expect a ducking Swedish priestducker Dinker to know anything about lowlife. Your parents probably pay your food to this day, Scratcher. Don't go around accusing people of lying and bullshootting others, when you don't know a single thing about the place I live in.

And I still can't believe people think rich people should buy unneeded amount of unnecessary things, instead of donating it for healthcare etc etc. That could be considered as an encouragement to kill someone. Besides, I'm not saying the World is, or is ever going to be like that, but I was saying it *should* be.

Now go get rid of your unneeded 7 video game consoles.
August 14th 2011, 05:50 AM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
I have at least 8 consoles too... But I did get them as I upgraded them of course. Startd with NES and Sega 8 bit, upgraded to SNES, bought a Gameboy. Went to PSX and N64 (boy this one was a mistake), then to PS2 and Gamecube (another mistake, aside from Tales of Symphonia). Bought a DS and PSP, but not going to get 3DS anytime soon. Also have a Wii, Xbox360 and PS3. Aside from the Nintendo consoles after the SNES, I've played on every last one of them for many, many hours so it wasn't a waste

But collecting stuff is cool too. People collect stamps that are worth hundreds of dollars, which is ridiculous in my eyes, but pretty cool in theirs. Values differ across the world and also according to each person's personal sitation. So, Skull did have/has it bad in his country and in his social situation for sure which means his values are skewed towards the poor side of society. And this is definitely not only Skull but many people in a similar situation. People like DD or even me have had a fairly easy life, no money issues, good education, ... So obviously our values are different as well. There's no blame to be put on any of us for living the life we've been given.

Fact is, not one of the people on this forum are in the position to change anything. So blaming or despising people for their wealth is silly and just reeks of jealousy. There IS a reason to be jealous for sure, but take that out on those who caused your bad situation in the first place. Could be the parents, could be the government, could be whatever, but it sure as hell isn't the people on TDN that caused life to suck so much

If anything, I think we can in some way imagine or relate to what the other side of society goes through and I think pretty much anyone looks at the news of the famine in Africa and prays to god it will change for them. But realistically, not buying a console is NOT going to provide extra food for them
August 14th 2011, 05:59 AM
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Thanks for providing me with a new tag.

Dude, I know you're Finnish, and I likely even know the town you live in (since I can see your IP). If you are not taking advantage of the social services that help poor people (and no, not using the social services does not help the destitute in Pakistan in any way), and work illegally much for illegally low pay, you're either an absurdly huge idiot, mentally insane, a violent criminal, or badly addled by alcohol and drugs. By the way, you can't support yourself here with 2€ a month. Who's paying for you in this story?

If you ever want to be taken seriously, you should learn to make believable lies. Or better yet, stop pretending to be a victim.
August 14th 2011, 06:30 AM
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putting conditions on parents...
Read it. I said I never put conditions on them, they say they will buy me stuff if I get good grades as a reward. I never put them under pressure in any way.
And 2 euros a month could get you an apple or an orange. Hey, you don't need your computer to live. Go donate it, skull.
August 14th 2011, 06:33 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
You're right Kyle. I got pissed off at the wrong person. But I seriously don't think a person needs 8 consoles.

Scratcher, I reside in south-west Finland. I'm not gonna go into details, cause I feel like that's my personal information. Also, there aren't any social services that would help poor people, in here. Only social service I've gotten, is a "supporting apartment" that is thankfully paid for me. Nothing else. I have done some illegal stuff over the years. Sell drugs etc. Nothing too big. I'm a "non-official worker at a cafe", which is the place that pays me only 2€ per month. The illegal stuff pays more, but it has more risks obviously.

As for the rest of the stuff I own, I pretty much get all the food and equipment from trash cans and stuff.
August 14th 2011, 06:45 AM
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Not buying a console won't stop someone from dying, and buying a console won't kill someone. How can you say rich people always obtain your money illegally when you're a drug trader, idiot?
POLICE! POLICIA! GRAB THIS GUY!
And I'm placing the gnome from swedenia under citizen's arrest for an unfound, unprovoked, stupid, shootty accusation.
Hey, IPD, give away your mac and iphone. You can live without them.
August 14th 2011, 06:51 AM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
Isn't he like 12? He couldn't do anything about it. Even if he tried, no one takes twelve year olds seriously.

True, mate.

And neither should we.
August 14th 2011, 06:53 AM
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Skull you think that no matter how hard someone works for their money they don't deserve it and they should give it to the poor idiots who are too lazy to get off their butts and do some work. You're messed up.
August 14th 2011, 06:55 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
You really don't have the right to say that. You're probably the richest person that ever visited this site, and you seem to get everything you want with the snap of your fingers. You can live without your five hundred entertaining systems and with half of your money. I wonder how many computers you have? Face the facts DinkDoodler, you have the most that could be given away out of any of us, and while a single person buying seven unneeded consoles might seem little to some, there are thousands of people who do this in every country, and it really does effect to people starving. You can deny it, but it's a fact.

What do you think police could accomplish here? Do you really think they care? The cops don't give a crap in here, and the only ones people are really scared, worried or simply bored of, are the STPJ.
August 14th 2011, 07:03 AM
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And it's unjust if some people work their heads off and they give away all their money to the basstards who won't raise a finger to earn their bread. It's weird. You can deny it, but it's a fact.
And I get everything I want with a snap of my fingers because I don't rely on others and cuss them to buy stuff for me, I save up money.
August 14th 2011, 07:13 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
Where do you get all this money? I bet half of it comes from other countries' donations that were sent for the poor in there, not the rich. Those who have more money, should use their money to help those who have less money. You see, you'll realize some day that being poor is an endless circle. You don't have money to take care of yourself, so you won't be accepted to any job. Not to mention that you need money to actually get a job. That is, if your parents won't provide you with even a frickin job. It's not like I wouldn't work, it's just getting a job that is impossible when you're poor.
August 14th 2011, 07:19 AM
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Hmph. My grandfather was very poor and my father had to get his books and stuff second-hand. His parents could barely afford to send him to school, but because he wasn't lazy and studied, he's now a doctor and life's become good for him. So being poor from the start isn't the thing to blame, it's your own laziness.
By the way, my father donated money to the flood victims, and never hit any charities. If your donations didn't get there (I'm sure you're lying about it, you greedy git) then that's the government that ate them. Our president's a thief, so sit down and write him an email on your unneeded computer to find out where those donations really went.
August 14th 2011, 07:26 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
Do you really think I wouldn't have studied if I had the chance? Our society ruined that for me, and for many others. Everything, such as not being able to go to school, is written on these papers ya see. And when you go try to get a job, they'll look at these papers, and if there's one tiny difference in them, they will not let you work there. A Pakistan doctor wouldn't qualify as a doctor almost anywhere else. There's a shortage of workers in there and they'd do anything to get workers. There's a shortage of workers in here too, but they just don't give a dang.

Besides, you call me lazy? I'm not the one constantly playing games on my eight consoles and not do crap to earn my life.
August 14th 2011, 07:40 AM
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schnapper
Peasant He/Him Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Let us save our effort and just lie down and die. 
Wankers.
August 14th 2011, 07:44 AM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
Schnapper, shut up.
August 14th 2011, 07:51 AM
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Predator
Ghost They/Them
 
@DD and Skull

one of yous is Finnish the other Pakistanian

neither of you speak English natively so why are you speaking english,just curious?
August 14th 2011, 07:58 AM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
Pred, you are an Englishman.

Why do you speak french?
August 14th 2011, 08:03 AM
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Predator
Ghost They/Them
 
Im not spaeking French.
Why are you speaking English your Indian.
August 14th 2011, 08:06 AM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
By the way, what's with all the conditions for your handhelds? If you're going to collect them, you might as well go for anything. The Game Gear, or the Atari Lynx, or the Neo Geo Pocket (Color).

There's also this Japanese thing called the Wonderswan, and the Wonderswan Color. It's a console by Bandai and had an interesting amount of licenses (among which were ports of SNES games, like Final Fantasy 4, with 8-bit chip music)! It doesn't have English games though, as far as I know.

I also have this really weird portable, old style LCD game that reacts on moving the console around. When I say "old style LCD" I mean like Game & Watch, more or less. It's called the Radica Stealth Assault and contains a single flight combat game. Makes a pretty interesting novelty product.
August 14th 2011, 09:32 AM
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"Spaeking french" lol
Pakistani doctors can't qualify elsewhere? my sister's a neurosurgeon in America.
Was checking prices for GBA SPs in the shop right now, and found a Mega Drive sitting there. Ninth console to collect and really rare too.
Customer's Testimonal: I have received my needless voodoo doll from schnapper right now, inadverently killing 200 poor people in distant parts of the world. It is in good condition. Perfect for using to torture people.
hey schnapper, can I place a pre-order for the new vampire fangs from your shop?
August 14th 2011, 10:12 AM
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Leprochaun
Peasant He/Him Japan bloop
Responsible for making things not look like ass 
Actually, if the rich do buy a bunch of unnecessary things, it boosts the economy, which most countries need right now.

In America, our countries economy is a mushroom, the rich invest their money in big companies, the big companies just save that money, the don't hire new people, so no new jobs open up, and the rich get their money back, and repeat.

The middle class is pretty much all gone now, and the rich won't spend their money.
No jobs create more people being hungry and homeless, which causes higher taxes, which takes money away from the already poor and hungry which creates more and more homeless.

So my point is that if the rich don't spend their money, it'll create a lot of problems.
August 14th 2011, 10:27 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
It'll create a lot of problems for the rich people. It wouldn't effect the already poor people in any way, in a positive or a negative way.
August 14th 2011, 10:29 AM
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Leprochaun
Peasant He/Him Japan bloop
Responsible for making things not look like ass 
It would create jobs for the poor. Supply & Demand.
August 14th 2011, 10:47 AM
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schnapper
Peasant He/Him Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Let us save our effort and just lie down and die. 
Hi DD, I strongly recommend the silver-plated fangs, which will allow you the additional pleasure of killing fellow vampires. I will throw in a platinum mouth-guard so you can't commit suicide by biting your lip.
I recommend encrusting the mouth-guard with diamonds for added sexiness and strength or we could alternate rubies and diamonds for a more royal look.

I'll also recommend my titanium-forged ak-47 for dealing with any problems you might have with Scandinavian or Indian hypocrites. I could install a beautiful, golden lions-head butt on the the stock, with rare padparadscha eyes.

Finally, I recommend a Kanemitsu sword - we only have three of these half-a-millenium old beauties, but if you want the best, this is it.

August 14th 2011, 11:12 AM
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SabreTrout
Noble He/Him United Kingdom
Tigertigertiger. 
Jesus, I don't even know where to start.

So I won't.
August 14th 2011, 11:50 AM
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Good. I am willing to pay for schnappers whole package (with diamond-encrusted platinum mouthguard) for $580 zillion, killing 47000 poor people in distant parts of the world.
August 14th 2011, 01:27 PM
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Striker
Noble She/Her United States
Daniel, there are clowns. 
That's nothing, Skull! I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

Seriously though, having a good social safety net is essential to the health of a community and its people, and I can actually sympathize with you skull. I have actually known people with incredibly difficult childhoods and serious mental and emotional issues who were failed by the system. In those situations, it really is almost next to impossible to get out of. In the first world (and in other places), a person can rise out of poverty (even with the deck stacked against them), but only if they have the health and tools to do so. The best I can think of is to make the resources for people to repair themselves available to everyone without making them feel like some kind of criminal or subhuman (which is practically non-existent in most of North America), because ultimately, it still is up to the individual to change their life if they are not happy with it.

Also, I'm pretty sure Pred is just a stereotypical ugly Ozzie and not some English prat.
August 14th 2011, 01:35 PM
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Quiztis
Peasant He/Him Sweden bloop
Life? What's that? Can I download it?! 
I live in a cardboard box and I can't afford anything. Gief $.
August 14th 2011, 01:41 PM
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You call getting up at 6 in the morning hard? I have to get up at 4 just to get ready for school, then there I sit writing relentlessly for 60 hours in the heat.
Predator is not even a bloke, I reckon. He's just some git from Mars, mate.
August 14th 2011, 01:47 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
Thank you Striker, for being the first to actually show some intelligence and knowledge about what the situation is in some places. It's hard for people who aren't in a certain situation, to understand it and its effects on people. Although I don't appreciate you mocking my life and saying "it's nothing". The life-situation I am in has taken more than a few people's lives, so I wouldn't really joke about it.

But I still don't see the reason why someone needs eight gaming consoles. If someone really sees a point about it, then be my guest, tell Doodler which one he should pick, but I really see no point in more than spending money on one console. Getting one free is fine, but wasting money on numeral consoles... yeah.
August 14th 2011, 01:54 PM
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Hey schnapper, that was some fast delivery! I totally loved the fangs and everything. It was great of you to pack in the garlic bread and silver Lugers as a surprise. I ate the garlic bread and loved it (in your face, weaker vampires!) and tested the stuff on one of my enemy werewolves (I'm not a Twilight fanatic though). He was unable to eat anything except for cabbage after I dealt with him, and then I finished him off using the fangs. Excuse me, must go hunt down some innocent, poor humans who rely on other hard-working ones to get money.
Here's a picture of me with my new-bought needed stuff that killed around 5000 people on the planet.
August 14th 2011, 02:38 PM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
Also, I'm pretty sure Pred is just a stereotypical ugly Ozzie and not some English prat.


I cant wait for some Aussie members to step up and crack your head, and then Strike you off, Striker.

You racist little brat.
August 14th 2011, 02:42 PM
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It's not racist if they're all Caucasian. Nationalist, maybe? Plus, I'm pretty sure he was joking.
August 14th 2011, 03:30 PM
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Leprochaun
Peasant He/Him Japan bloop
Responsible for making things not look like ass 
Well, not entirely true dinkulum. Caucasian is still a race, it's just built off of many other races, all the european races, and some of asia, not a lot. But there's plenty of races in-between, like you could call irish people stinking drunks and that's racist towards Irish people and they're caucasian, but saying that isn't racist to all caucasians. So you can be racist to caucasians, just not all of them at once.
August 14th 2011, 03:37 PM
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Mkay. Well, I think he was only talking about some English (the prats) and some Australians (the ugly ones) anyway. Striker doesn't strike me as being prejudiced against half the DN.
August 14th 2011, 03:41 PM
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Leprochaun
Peasant He/Him Japan bloop
Responsible for making things not look like ass 
He was joking. He started sarcastic, and ended sarcastic.
August 14th 2011, 05:00 PM
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Striker
Noble She/Her United States
Daniel, there are clowns. 
Yes, you read my comment wrong, Godley. I've met enough Aussies and Brits both personally and online to have seen some of the best and worst characters. For instance, a fair number of the Australians I've met in person have been rude, belligerent, ignorant assholes. The funny thing is that these are stereotypes that Americans often are attributed, too. However, there have been other Australians that I've had the pleasure of meeting that were very cool, decent people whose company I enjoyed greatly.

@skull: I think you'll find that are lots of people that have been through some serious shit, but don't talk about it much. Denigrating those who you don't think didn't have it as bad as you just earns you zero sympathy and makes them resent and disbelieve you. Yeah, bad shit happens, and being able to joke about it really does help, IMO. Plus, you know, it gave me a chance to quote Monty Python.
August 14th 2011, 05:22 PM
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Absolution
Peasant They/Them
The Dark Lord of the DN. 
Ladies and gentlemen - Striker once again bypasses the swear filter to assert his authority as bad staff. Let me refer you to a little something Striker once said. "8) Our swear filter is a joke, but you look even more absurd when you try get around it." (Source)

And finally, the REAL rules page itself written by Almight Dan Walma "No swearing on the site. We have swear filters, please do not bypass these filters." (Source)

How did Striker become staff again? Not only is he breaking a rule, he's also being a hypocrite.
August 14th 2011, 05:51 PM
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Mrgantoe
Peasant He/Him Cuba
I'm simply a distraction. 
I view striker to be a intristing figure and a just mod. Don't forget absoulution RedInk1 made the website. He made it so staff could bypass the swear filter don't try to put yourself in redinks shoes they'll shoot you right out abs.
August 14th 2011, 10:02 PM
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Striker
Noble She/Her United States
Daniel, there are clowns. 
O_o I don't think that's a word that's normally blocked by the swear filter. I could be wrong though. I'm used to the filter just picking up stuff I write. I'm honestly not sure when Dan changed it for me. *shrug*
August 14th 2011, 10:05 PM
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Mrgantoe
Peasant He/Him Cuba
I'm simply a distraction. 
donkeys your welcome children.
August 15th 2011, 12:47 AM
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schnapper
Peasant He/Him Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Let us save our effort and just lie down and die. 
If you want to avoid arseholes in Australia, stay in Victoria or South Australia, or in rural towns with an older population. NSW has the highest number of arseholes per capita.

Re: swearing, I feel that in the 21st century, the barbarian forefathers of internet rules are antiquated; not only do most kids swear at an early age, also there is no solid evidence to prove that a couple of choice words here and there teach kids to swear. Maybe DD is an exception (she doges)

Ultimately, the odd word here and there should be ok: I presume that they're blocked for the masses to avoid abuse overuse.
August 15th 2011, 12:55 AM
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Behold the power of HE-MAN and SHE-DOGE!
Hey schnapper: that was a ninja sneak attack!
August 15th 2011, 01:31 AM
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schnapper
Peasant He/Him Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Let us save our effort and just lie down and die. 
What we do best, mate! Hehe - I feel like team Rocket.
August 15th 2011, 01:37 AM
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Fear me.... if you dare.
August 16th 2011, 01:59 AM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
You're Muslim? Yay!

There are 100s of Christians on the board, but I never saw then shout Yay!

Or are you trying to create religious disharmony here?
August 16th 2011, 02:02 AM
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Bahahaha!
Why so weak, Predator?
I bought my GBA SP which came prepacked with 1 game (Crash Bandicoot), and am now gathering money for a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.
And because there was no other Muslim except me on this board until recently.
August 16th 2011, 02:57 AM
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schnapper
Peasant He/Him Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Let us save our effort and just lie down and die. 
@ Pred: You could be right... I always thought they were just really slow at everything (thinking, working, moving around, talking etc). But when I think about it, arsehole + retard = crime against humanity.
August 16th 2011, 09:08 AM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
Did you get the backlight version of the GBA SP?
August 16th 2011, 11:18 PM
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Yep, the AGS101 model
August 17th 2011, 01:34 AM
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schnapper
Peasant He/Him Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Let us save our effort and just lie down and die. 
I have one of those + a flash cartridge. Let's trade pokemon!
August 17th 2011, 01:40 AM
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Flash cartridge? For piracy? *licks lips*
August 17th 2011, 10:16 AM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
Or for homebrew.
August 17th 2011, 10:20 AM
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I see.
August 17th 2011, 10:43 AM
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Quiztis
Peasant He/Him Sweden bloop
Life? What's that? Can I download it?! 
The Dingoo is a perfect buy for a guy like you, Doodler.
August 17th 2011, 11:36 AM
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If I get the one that plays PS1 games, then yes
August 17th 2011, 01:19 PM
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DuckHater
Peasant He/Him India
From The Depths Of Tartarus Itself 
I like chicken.