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narcasseThe Nintendo Wii makes me giggle and think silly things, though to be fair it’s pronounced ‘we’ anyway. I keep reading it is the abbreviation for World War II as well which isn’t helping matters either.
Who in their right mind would name something the Microsoft Piss anyway? Or at least something similar. I’m having horrible visions of mini-gamers (small children as they’re sometimes called) standing in queues outside game stores yelling that they ‘need a wee’ at obscene volumes.
As to whether or not I need one of Nintendo’s latest piss-takes, pun very much intended, I’d have to answer that with a succinct “bloody fuck, not if I can help it”. I have a SNES and it has one game to go with it and that game is Street Figher II which was the entire reason I bought the damn thing. Granted I also have a Mega Drive (which I’ve been told was also released elsewhere as the Genesis) with a pile of Sonic and Mortal Kombat games, as well as a Master System adaptor so that I could play Shinobi in black and white or was it Ninja Gaiden? And I’ve just discovered that there’s a film titled Shinobi which looks vaguely charming.
Of course now that I think about it the Mega Drive was hardly wonderfully titled either nor was the Mega CD attachment you could buy to go with it, so that you could actually play the Arslan Senki game. The GameBoy and the NeoGeo weren’t much better affairs either, though the NeoGeos were ridiculously huge for supposedly portable systems.
I suppose it’s one of those lose/lose situations because no matter what your marketing department cooks up, somebody somewhere is going to find it fairly stupid. After all, Coffee-Mate is listed as a distress product which really brings into question the connotations of the word ‘distress’. I suppose I ought to add that technically it’s a luxury product but gets confused with powered milk which is possibly cause for distress for Nestlé at least. Coffee creamers are luxuries allegedly and it’s no fault of theirs that they seem to do exactly the same job as powered milk, I suppose.
I shouldn’t laugh though because I’m not certain that I could have done any better, though at least I wouldn’t have opted for something that sounded like a bodily function. How about… the Microsoft Fuck This for a Lark we Already Make Enough Money? Though you call all call it Vista if you like.
Then again perhaps that’s what they were aiming at anyway since Disk Operated System might just as easily have been System Operated by Disk and we could have all been booting up SOD prompts. Which also reminds me that somehow some subtitle files that I have in my possession are .ass files so I’m not entirely sure that somebody somewhere isn’t taking the piss.
Maybe next time I need to get something past kern I’ll rename it a .buttsez file and send it along. Now there’s an idea. In fact, be wary people, because the next time I upload a nice zip file for my friends and compatriots I may well be tempted to rename it whatever-it-is.ghey.
Also: The Algorithm March (with ninjas) courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bouteillebleu.
It’s really quite clever which would be why everyone should watch it.
Who in their right mind would name something the Microsoft Piss anyway? Or at least something similar. I’m having horrible visions of mini-gamers (small children as they’re sometimes called) standing in queues outside game stores yelling that they ‘need a wee’ at obscene volumes.
As to whether or not I need one of Nintendo’s latest piss-takes, pun very much intended, I’d have to answer that with a succinct “bloody fuck, not if I can help it”. I have a SNES and it has one game to go with it and that game is Street Figher II which was the entire reason I bought the damn thing. Granted I also have a Mega Drive (which I’ve been told was also released elsewhere as the Genesis) with a pile of Sonic and Mortal Kombat games, as well as a Master System adaptor so that I could play Shinobi in black and white or was it Ninja Gaiden? And I’ve just discovered that there’s a film titled Shinobi which looks vaguely charming.
Of course now that I think about it the Mega Drive was hardly wonderfully titled either nor was the Mega CD attachment you could buy to go with it, so that you could actually play the Arslan Senki game. The GameBoy and the NeoGeo weren’t much better affairs either, though the NeoGeos were ridiculously huge for supposedly portable systems.
I suppose it’s one of those lose/lose situations because no matter what your marketing department cooks up, somebody somewhere is going to find it fairly stupid. After all, Coffee-Mate is listed as a distress product which really brings into question the connotations of the word ‘distress’. I suppose I ought to add that technically it’s a luxury product but gets confused with powered milk which is possibly cause for distress for Nestlé at least. Coffee creamers are luxuries allegedly and it’s no fault of theirs that they seem to do exactly the same job as powered milk, I suppose.
I shouldn’t laugh though because I’m not certain that I could have done any better, though at least I wouldn’t have opted for something that sounded like a bodily function. How about… the Microsoft Fuck This for a Lark we Already Make Enough Money? Though you call all call it Vista if you like.
Then again perhaps that’s what they were aiming at anyway since Disk Operated System might just as easily have been System Operated by Disk and we could have all been booting up SOD prompts. Which also reminds me that somehow some subtitle files that I have in my possession are .ass files so I’m not entirely sure that somebody somewhere isn’t taking the piss.
Maybe next time I need to get something past kern I’ll rename it a .buttsez file and send it along. Now there’s an idea. In fact, be wary people, because the next time I upload a nice zip file for my friends and compatriots I may well be tempted to rename it whatever-it-is.ghey.
Also: The Algorithm March (with ninjas) courtesy of
bouteillebleu.It’s really quite clever which would be why everyone should watch it.
