PS3 Sleazebag Award Nominees

[Ryu]

hahahahha thats awesome
ive seen that clip on youtube recently but it fits perfectly now

[ditchdj]

This is absolutely awesome!


http://www.planetboredom.net/video.php?id=2944



---How many jerkoffs outside you think wanted this clown dead in the worst way after seeing THIS in person!

[Rapscallion]

This is absolutely awesome!


http://www.planetboredom.net/video.php?id=2944



---How many jerkoffs outside you think wanted this clown dead in the worst way after seeing THIS in person!

That was appalling.

Don't they know how to get the best effect out of a sledgehammer? You start with your right hand (if right-handed) up near the head of the mallet and slide it towards the other hand as you swing it down.

Amateurs.

Rapscallion

[Bliss]

Really? Where do you live and do they have any vacancies?

I pay $97 a month for a 3 room, kitchen, living room and dinner room apartment.

Come here, we're waiting for you with open arms.

The news showed people camping out in front of the Best Buy in my area as well. I wonder how they liked the storm that hit us yesterday? It was a really nasty one with nightlike skies and sideways rain. Got a really beautiful double rainbow when it let up, though.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/11/17

[Jester]

I pay $97 a month for a 3 room, kitchen, living room and dinner room apartment.

Come here, we're waiting for you with open arms.

Obviously you don't live in the Florida Keys.

While my roommates and I have a bit of a deal on our apartment, as we "turned" it (painted and cleaned it) rather than wait for the complex to do it, it is still pricey. Without the deal we worked out, for our three bedroom, two bath, small living room, small kitchen, second floor with balcony overlooking the pool (yay!) apartment we would be paying $1950 a month. As I said, we have a bit of a discounted deal, but not that discounted.

$97 a month?!?!?! Where the hell do you live? NEPTUNE?

[Kogarashi]

I pay $97 a month for a 3 room, kitchen, living room and dinner room apartment.

Come here, we're waiting for you with open arms.

Here in CT, our subsidized married grad student housing is just shy of $1000/mo., which is how much we would've been paying for a studio apartment had Hubby ended up at school in Boston instead.

Oddly enough, the single student apartments I lived in (crap apartments, too) out in Utah were roughly $1000/mo. as well, though they only charged residents for part of the (furnished) apartment, so each student had to pay only $250/mo. on average to live there. Which still felt like highway robbery to a lot of us broke college students, considering the job market in the area was saturated and sucked like nobody's business, and financial aid for a single student isn't always the greatest. When Hubby and I got married, we found a nicer (but unfurnished) apartment for only $500/mo., which was much more tolerable.

And I'm not really surprised when I hear of other places (like the Florida Keys) charging even more for rent.

[trunks2k]

I can't imagine spending $97 month for ANYTHING, let alone a three bedroom place. I spend $950/month for my one bedroom place.

[Bliss]

The catch is A) The building is regulated. B) I make $8K a year

[dendawg]

The catch is A) The building is regulated. B) I make $8K a year

Sounds like section 8. Am I right?

[Sphinx]

I had a friend who stood in line for a PS3. and he had a friend who was in another town nearbyand said there was a whole family who came and bought them all!!!! Just so they could sell them on ebay

[symposes]

my best friend claims his cousins friend bought two units, and that they are currently on ebay fetching about 50k USD total

I looked on ebay one auction, which i think was jacked, had a 10 MILLION DOLLAR BID!!

otherwise they are going for 15-20k EACH... thats so amazing because even the xbox 360 didnt get that high.

I wish i had 20 thousand dollars. Id hit the banks getting all the One dollar bills i could, then make a throne from them and laugh at the idiots while sitting ontop of it.

and as for rent, i pay 475 a month for a two bedroom apartment with hardwood floors
50 of that covers electric, 50 for water, if i exceed 50, i pay the difference.

[Jester]

And I'm not really surprised when I hear of other places (like the Florida Keys) charging even more for rent.

You have to understand that the Florida Keys are ridiculously expensive. To give you an idea of what I mean, to buy an average two bedroom one bathroom house in the worst part of town (the part of town where you go to either buy crack or get robbed by people buying or selling crack) will run you minimum of $700,000. That number is not a typo. 700 G's for one shotgun shack in Crack Central. Key West is expensive, kids. Which is one of many reasons I rent!

[TYFSOK]

According to a post at Kotaku, the FIRST 20 PS3s sold (at a big store in Tokyo, with Ken Kutaragi himself there to congratulate the people in line) went to various homeless and/or Chinese and/or students who were paid by "businessmen" to sit in line, grab the PS3s and return them to the businessmen for resale. They didn't even buy any games! When the media tried to interview the first few buyers, it turns out that they couldn't even speak any Japanese!

Meanwhile, I know of at least two or three stores in my town which still have the (low-end) PS3 in stock. Admittedly, these are the small stores that don't/can't discount all that much, but still...

[Kogarashi]

You have to understand that the Florida Keys are ridiculously expensive. Key West is expensive, kids. Which is one of many reasons I rent!

::nod:: Of course. Like I said, not surprised. Tourist attractions (especially ones like the Keys) are always pricier. You have to live in redneck middle-of-nowhere to get an inexpensive deal on average dwelling places, I've noticed (and before anyone gets offended, my parents live in the Northeast version of redneck middle-of-nowhere, and I loved growing up there).

Back somewhat OT, luckily everything at my store was nice and quiet. Not even coyotes to bother the people in line, though we did have a wonderful downpour Thursday night (the kind where you only drive 25 mph on a posted-65 highway because you can't see the lines anymore and are hoping the rain lets up before the wipers burn out). High winds and everything. Brought a nippy temperature drop behind it too.

[greensinestro]

Guess what folks? Standing in line, camping out in line, whatever....not worth it to me. A few months ago I bought an XBOX 360, which was the hot item a year ago. I was glad to have waited being it is not that important to me to risk my life, health, and sanity for a gaming system. True, the price of this XBOX has not gone down any, but paying a lot is better than with my life.