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steamboatwillie on 09 March 2009
izaaz101 said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:

And the only things I'd ever pre-ordered before were the Wii and Wii Fit.  

 

Mad World to sell a bajillion copies? Stay tuned folks.

 

You better bet it will



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famousringo on 09 March 2009
tarheel91 said:
famousringo said:

Good for you guys. Auto distribution is at completely unsustainable levels and it's amazing how much money you can save and how much healthier you can be by switching to public transit and/or human power. I intend to never own a car, though I realize I might change my tune if I ever get married and have kids. One car per household ought to be enough, instead of the one car per person standard we've been persuing in recent years.

More on topic, your wife bullying you into pre-ordering MadWorld reminds me of the girl I've seen in some trailers who wears a spikey outfit and murders the Black Baron in amusing ways.

 Have you ever lived in the suburbs?  Only owning one car would be impossible.  My mother and dad both work 30 miles away from the house and 20 miles from each other's job.  I go to school 20 miles from our house and 10-20 miles from them.  Everything's 30 minutes away in a car.  Considering the pathetic public transit around here, how do you suggest we manage with one car?  Plus, what about auto enthusiasts like myself?  My dad has two cars, a Jetta TDI for the daily commute and a E36 M3 for weekends.  He loves cars and driving great ones, but he recognizes that a sports car doesn't typically get the best gas mileage.  Maybe one car is okay in an urban environment, but elsewhere it just doens't work.

@Rubang: And I thought my last girlfriend was awesome for liking anime and korean pop music...  I'm jealous.

Either your suburb is going to get linked up with a public transit system, or you are going to move away from it, or you are going to pay extraordinary prices for parts and fuel. Peak oil is roughly now, and while the current economic crisis has temporarily subued oil prices, it's only a matter of time before energy prices float back up to $100 a barrel and beyond.

I'm not sure if you've noticed, but auto companies have only lasted as long as they have thanks to massive subsidies from all levels of government (they want to tax those rich auto jobs). Now, even those subsidies have proven inadequate and the industry is asking for billions in bailouts from governments all over the world. In other words, the prices that we've been paying for cars don't come close to representing their actual cost, and that cost is going to rise even further as the energy supply starts to recede while demand just keeps rising.

Your car-dependant suburb cannot be sustained. It's either going to adapt to a low-energy future, or it's going to collapse. Hopefully, your community and elected representatives will see this coming and take action to make the necessary adjustments.



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Paperdiego on 09 March 2009

...what the hell is a "wife" and why dont they [preorder madworld more often

...pfft



hello how are you.

tarheel91 on 09 March 2009
famousringo said:
tarheel91 said:
famousringo said:

Good for you guys. Auto distribution is at completely unsustainable levels and it's amazing how much money you can save and how much healthier you can be by switching to public transit and/or human power. I intend to never own a car, though I realize I might change my tune if I ever get married and have kids. One car per household ought to be enough, instead of the one car per person standard we've been persuing in recent years.

More on topic, your wife bullying you into pre-ordering MadWorld reminds me of the girl I've seen in some trailers who wears a spikey outfit and murders the Black Baron in amusing ways.

 Have you ever lived in the suburbs?  Only owning one car would be impossible.  My mother and dad both work 30 miles away from the house and 20 miles from each other's job.  I go to school 20 miles from our house and 10-20 miles from them.  Everything's 30 minutes away in a car.  Considering the pathetic public transit around here, how do you suggest we manage with one car?  Plus, what about auto enthusiasts like myself?  My dad has two cars, a Jetta TDI for the daily commute and a E36 M3 for weekends.  He loves cars and driving great ones, but he recognizes that a sports car doesn't typically get the best gas mileage.  Maybe one car is okay in an urban environment, but elsewhere it just doens't work.

@Rubang: And I thought my last girlfriend was awesome for liking anime and korean pop music...  I'm jealous.

Either your suburb is going to get linked up with a public transit system, or you are going to move away from it, or you are going to pay extraordinary prices for parts and fuel. Peak oil is roughly now, and while the current economic crisis has temporarily subued oil prices, it's only a matter of time before energy prices float back up to $100 a barrel and beyond.

I'm not sure if you've noticed, but auto companies have only lasted as long as they have thanks to massive subsidies from all levels of government (they want to tax those rich auto jobs). Now, even those subsidies have proven inadequate and the industry is asking for billions in bailouts from governments all over the world. In other words, the prices that we've been paying for cars don't come close to representing their actual cost, and that cost is going to rise even further as the energy supply starts to recede while demand just keeps rising.

Your car-dependant suburb cannot be sustained. It's either going to adapt to a low-energy future, or it's going to collapse. Hopefully, your community and elected representatives will see this coming and take action to make the necessary adjustments.

Yes, because everytime humans have faced an issue like this, their answer is to drop the technology and move to less advanced ones?  (I consider walking to be less advanced)  No, necessity is the mother of invention.  I'm very willing to admit that in a few decades, oil will no longer be profitable, and that in less than a century, it will literally be gone if current rates continue.  However, people aren't just going to let this happen.  Alternative fuels sources will be further developed, and eventually we will come up with a way to power small scale commuting.  The world is entirely too dependent on automobiles for it to just willingly give them up.

I don't see either how the automobile industry is unsustainable.  Toyota made a profit for 57 straight years.  They're still very alive as well.  The only reason they're asking for money is to help with loans.  American auto industry aside, it's not doing THAT bad considering we're in a global economic crisis.

 



Paul on 10 March 2009
tarheel91 said:
Paul said:
tarheel91 said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
tarheel91 said:
famousringo said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
bRoKeN said:
no car? =S

Google Maps says it's a 0.6 mile walk.  So yes, we walked 2.4 miles, and will walk 1.2 more on Tuesday to own MadWorld.  But I've heard of a guy who would walk a thousand miles just to fall down at your door, so it's no biggie.

Neither of us have cars.  My license even expired last year and I didn't even bother to renew it.

 

Good for you guys. Auto distribution is at completely unsustainable levels and it's amazing how much money you can save and how much healthier you can be by switching to public transit and/or human power. I intend to never own a car, though I realize I might change my tune if I ever get married and have kids. One car per household ought to be enough, instead of the one car per person standard we've been persuing in recent years.

More on topic, your wife bullying you into pre-ordering MadWorld reminds me of the girl I've seen in some trailers who wears a spikey outfit and murders the Black Baron in amusing ways.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs?  Only owning one car would be impossible.  My mother and dad both work 30 miles away from the house and 20 miles from each other's job.  I go to school 20 miles from our house and 10-20 miles from them.  Everything's 30 minutes away in a car.  Considering the pathetic public transit around here, how do you suggest we manage with one car?  Plus, what about auto enthusiasts like myself?  My dad has two cars, a Jetta TDI for the daily commute and a E36 M3 for weekends.  He loves cars and driving great ones, but he recognizes that a sports car doesn't typically get the best gas mileage.  Maybe one car is okay in an urban environment, but elsewhere it just doens't work.

@Rubang: And I thought my last girlfriend was awesome for liking anime and korean pop music...  I'm jealous.

I used to live in the suburbs, and then I lived in the city but worked in the suburbs.  I had 2 jobs and went to school, without a car.  I rode 1 train and rode 2 buses each day, or sometimes 2 trains and 1 bus.  All my transportation cost me $47 a month for a monthly train and bus pass.

Public transportation isn't really a hassle, especially if you have any reading or homework or portable gaming that needs to get done.  I used to beat most of my DS games on the train.  There are usually user-friendly web sites that can map your whole trip out for you.  And might I recommend finding a cheaper hobby during simultaneous global economic and global food crises?

a3hmax said:
RubangB, don´t worry, be happy!!! maybe she starts to buy the games you want. The only problem is when she likes just buy fitness and animalz games.

You must be scared when she likes buy HVS "animales de la muerte" (animals of death) kill zoo animal turned in zombies is a bad sign, ¿or not?

Oh I'm not worried about it.  I bought Wii Fit for myself and she doesn't even use it.  The last games we played together were Umbrella Chronicles and the first couple hours of Final Fantasy 6.  I got her to play Turtles in Time, River City Ransom, and Streets of Rage 2 with me, but she wasn't into oldschool beat 'em ups.  She loves Twilight Princess and SoulCalibur 2, and apparently is really hyped for MadWorld.  I've never seen her hyped for a game before it came out.  This game could be huge.

We have no trains here.  Well, unless you want to go from Cary to Charlotte, but that's 3 hours away and entirely useless.  Busses are pathetic here.  There aren't any that go from my suburb to the big city.  I really don't see how it's that expensive of a hobby.  Over 10 years you may put $30,000 in it if you buy the right cars that don't depreciate much and take care of it like you should.  That's $3000 a year, and a lot of people spend more than that on gaming alone.

Edit: My suburb is centered around a city with a population of 380,000.  This is not Los Angeles or New York City by any means.

 

$30,000 over 10 years??? How did you come up with that?

 

Assuming you buy a car that doesn't depreciate much, and you get a new one every 3 years, it's reasonable.  I'd say my dad's average fun car is about $18,000.  Going off the latest one, it depreciated about $2500 in 3 years.  That means that by the tenth year, you'd be on your third car.  So you'd end up spending $2300 with about $900 (rounding up) in depreciation in the last year, so 23900 total.  That leaves $6000 for maintenance (which doesn't run you that much when you do most yourself), insurance, and the occasional mod.

 

So you spend $600 a year between maintenance and insurance and the gas is free? I should move down to your neighborhood.



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Mr.Y on 10 March 2009

Jack doesn't have a car, he has a motorcycle.

Gosh guys, get on topic already.



tarheel91 on 10 March 2009

Ignore this post.



tarheel91 on 10 March 2009
Paul said:
tarheel91 said:
Paul said:
tarheel91 said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
tarheel91 said:
famousringo said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
bRoKeN said:
no car? =S

Google Maps says it's a 0.6 mile walk.  So yes, we walked 2.4 miles, and will walk 1.2 more on Tuesday to own MadWorld.  But I've heard of a guy who would walk a thousand miles just to fall down at your door, so it's no biggie.

Neither of us have cars.  My license even expired last year and I didn't even bother to renew it.

Good for you guys. Auto distribution is at completely unsustainable levels and it's amazing how much money you can save and how much healthier you can be by switching to public transit and/or human power. I intend to never own a car, though I realize I might change my tune if I ever get married and have kids. One car per household ought to be enough, instead of the one car per person standard we've been persuing in recent years.

More on topic, your wife bullying you into pre-ordering MadWorld reminds me of the girl I've seen in some trailers who wears a spikey outfit and murders the Black Baron in amusing ways.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs?  Only owning one car would be impossible.  My mother and dad both work 30 miles away from the house and 20 miles from each other's job.  I go to school 20 miles from our house and 10-20 miles from them.  Everything's 30 minutes away in a car.  Considering the pathetic public transit around here, how do you suggest we manage with one car?  Plus, what about auto enthusiasts like myself?  My dad has two cars, a Jetta TDI for the daily commute and a E36 M3 for weekends.  He loves cars and driving great ones, but he recognizes that a sports car doesn't typically get the best gas mileage.  Maybe one car is okay in an urban environment, but elsewhere it just doens't work.

@Rubang: And I thought my last girlfriend was awesome for liking anime and korean pop music...  I'm jealous.

I used to live in the suburbs, and then I lived in the city but worked in the suburbs.  I had 2 jobs and went to school, without a car.  I rode 1 train and rode 2 buses each day, or sometimes 2 trains and 1 bus.  All my transportation cost me $47 a month for a monthly train and bus pass.

Public transportation isn't really a hassle, especially if you have any reading or homework or portable gaming that needs to get done.  I used to beat most of my DS games on the train.  There are usually user-friendly web sites that can map your whole trip out for you.  And might I recommend finding a cheaper hobby during simultaneous global economic and global food crises?

a3hmax said:
RubangB, don´t worry, be happy!!! maybe she starts to buy the games you want. The only problem is when she likes just buy fitness and animalz games.

You must be scared when she likes buy HVS "animales de la muerte" (animals of death) kill zoo animal turned in zombies is a bad sign, ¿or not?

Oh I'm not worried about it.  I bought Wii Fit for myself and she doesn't even use it.  The last games we played together were Umbrella Chronicles and the first couple hours of Final Fantasy 6.  I got her to play Turtles in Time, River City Ransom, and Streets of Rage 2 with me, but she wasn't into oldschool beat 'em ups.  She loves Twilight Princess and SoulCalibur 2, and apparently is really hyped for MadWorld.  I've never seen her hyped for a game before it came out.  This game could be huge.

We have no trains here.  Well, unless you want to go from Cary to Charlotte, but that's 3 hours away and entirely useless.  Busses are pathetic here.  There aren't any that go from my suburb to the big city.  I really don't see how it's that expensive of a hobby.  Over 10 years you may put $30,000 in it if you buy the right cars that don't depreciate much and take care of it like you should.  That's $3000 a year, and a lot of people spend more than that on gaming alone.

Edit: My suburb is centered around a city with a population of 380,000.  This is not Los Angeles or New York City by any means.

 

$30,000 over 10 years??? How did you come up with that?

 

Assuming you buy a car that doesn't depreciate much, and you get a new one every 3 years, it's reasonable.  I'd say my dad's average fun car is about $18,000.  Going off the latest one, it depreciated about $2500 in 3 years.  That means that by the tenth year, you'd be on your third car.  So you'd end up spending $2300 with about $900 (rounding up) in depreciation in the last year, so 23900 total.  That leaves $6000 for maintenance (which doesn't run you that much when you do most yourself), insurance, and the occasional mod.

 

So you spend $600 a year between maintenance and insurance and the gas is free? I should move down to your neighborhood.

Gas isn't part of the equation.  You still would've gone to the same places.  Sure, your gas mileage may not be as impressive, but I don't think that the difference is that noticeable over 3 tanks a year.  Insurance is actually pretty cheap if the car is listed as garaged (it is, since he usually drives something else).  And finally, when you put a thousand miles on a car, and do a lot of the basic self your self, yes, maintenance is that cheap.

Edit: Plus, the other thing is you can, at any time, sell the car and get back a lot of your original investment.  Can you say the same for a lot of hobbies?  Video games are worth a fraction of the price of what you buy them for.