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samus aran rules on 01 January 2009
alephnull said:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Wii, video game system of video game systems:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

I take the risk of looking stupid but can anyone explain to me the hidden message of this?

I´m not stupid, english just isn´t my first language.

 



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haxxiy on 01 January 2009
Sephiroth357 said:
90% of people on this site are Nintendo fanboys.

Your wrong. Actually is about 50% Nintendo fanboys and 40% MS fanboys.

 

On-topic: I still believe that Wii will knock off earlier than its competition. Damn take a look at GBA sales chart, in the beginning it was as strong as PS2 but fell rapidly after DS release because DS everything GBA did and GBA graphics were already pretty bad at time even to a portable. Analog TV shutdown in Japan + X720 with X-Mote + PS3 long lifespan will do the job.



 

 

 

 

 

Lolcislaw on 01 January 2009

There will always be a group of ignorants that still believe that wii is a fad, and its sales will die soon (look at BRUCE) but i dont think we should care about their opinion.



alephnull on 01 January 2009
samus aran rules said:
alephnull said:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Wii, video game system of video game systems:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

I take the risk of looking stupid but can anyone explain to me the hidden message of this?

I´m not stupid, english just isn´t my first language.

 
My fault for plagiarizing :). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias

 

 



Cueil on 01 January 2009

Wii = longest fad in history :p



 
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Khuutra on 01 January 2009
alephnull said:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Wii, video game system of video game systems:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

This is a beautiful poem, one of my favorites, but in this context it ignores the idea of one generation affecting the subsequent ones. Unfortunately, it is not very fitting.



samus aran rules on 01 January 2009
alephnull said:
samus aran rules said:
alephnull said:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Wii, video game system of video game systems:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

I take the risk of looking stupid but can anyone explain to me the hidden message of this?

I´m not stupid, english just isn´t my first language.

 
My fault for plagiarizing :). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias

 

 

Ok. Thanks.

 



Cueil on 01 January 2009
alephnull said:
samus aran rules said:
alephnull said:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Wii, video game system of video game systems:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

I take the risk of looking stupid but can anyone explain to me the hidden message of this?

I´m not stupid, english just isn´t my first language.

 
My fault for plagiarizing :). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias

 

 

 

Trying to play off of the rise and fall of one of the great pheroes and his empire?



 
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samus aran rules on 01 January 2009
haxxiy said:
Sephiroth357 said:
90% of people on this site are Nintendo fanboys.

Your wrong. Actually is about 50% Nintendo fanboys and 40% MS fanboys.

 

On-topic: I still believe that Wii will knock off earlier than its competition. Damn take a look at GBA sales chart, in the beginning it was as strong as PS2 but fell rapidly after DS release because DS everything GBA did and GBA graphics were already pretty bad at time even to a portable. Analog TV shutdown in Japan + X720 with X-Mote + PS3 long lifespan will do the job.

I´m a bit on the fence of the GBA/WII comparison. Shouldn´t Wii be compared to Ds if any? DS offered a whole new way of experiencing videogames just like Wii does.

And what do you mean when you first say that Wii will knock off earlier than it´s competition and then use Microsoft´s presumed followup X720 as case in point? Doesn´t that indecate that Microsoft would kill off 360 before Nintendo would do with Wii?

 



haxxiy on 01 January 2009
samus aran rules said:
haxxiy said:
Sephiroth357 said:
90% of people on this site are Nintendo fanboys.

Your wrong. Actually is about 50% Nintendo fanboys and 40% MS fanboys.

 

On-topic: I still believe that Wii will knock off earlier than its competition. Damn take a look at GBA sales chart, in the beginning it was as strong as PS2 but fell rapidly after DS release because DS everything GBA did and GBA graphics were already pretty bad at time even to a portable. Analog TV shutdown in Japan + X720 with X-Mote + PS3 long lifespan will do the job.

I´m a bit on the fence of the GBA/WII comparison. Shouldn´t Wii be compared to Ds if any? DS offered a whole new way of experiencing videogames just like Wii does.

And what do you mean when you first say that Wii will knock off earlier than it´s competition and then use Microsoft´s presumed followup X720 as case in point? Doesn´t that indecate that Microsoft would kill off 360 before Nintendo would do with Wii?

 

Yes, most likely X720 will come out end of 2010.  But X360 it will have (relatively, at least) better legs than the Wii because of a well-stabilished games base and the fact it is a HD console.