Happy Squirrel: Sega pushed their first party stuff a lot harder than Sony did, creating the same kind of problem Nintendo creates for developers, they have to compete with a console designed by a company that exclusively makes games. Nintendo's first party games significantly outsell the 3rd party ones, as is the case with the Saturn and the Dreamcast. In a sense their is a "conflict of interests" since the first party who cannot survive if they run a deficit must not be outperformed by the 3rd party. Microsoft has gotten their shit together this generation by expanding their portfolio beyond FPS's and PC ports, so they could be a potentially benevolent "ruler" this generation. The PS1 generation would not have been as smooth if Sega would have been in charge.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
