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I'm sure you'll be excited to hear that, until my dad stops screaming at me to change the channel and actually walks over to steal the remote, I am watching Aussie football.

Ain't FiOS wunnerful?

Also, this is the weirdest sport I've ever seen. I keep thinking I'm watching quidditch.

1. Its nintendo, they have been making money off recycling content in games for over a decade.
2. Its Pokemon and its popularity peaked long ago so one big game might not get as many sales as 4 combined.
3. Its on a DS (handheld) which people see as casual pick up and play whenever platform and one 'super' game would be lengthy to the point it would borderline a hardcore rpg. Nintendo dont seem fans of pleasing proper gamers any more and merely prefer casual party titles.

Spent nearly 4 hours on it yesterday and didnt even realise the time. Scary after around 6-7 years. :lol:

They should be they wont as it wouldnt make as much money as splitting content into say 4 games.

I will look into getting it from that source as i was getting the emulator and rom from different sources and wasnt sure if the rom had been patched or what. Thanks for the link, currently been reliving some nostalgia and playing through Pokemon Sapphire on my GBA emulator. :lol:

I was playing around with that very Emulator yesterday and as everyone was talking about it i thought id get the Pokemon Soul Silver. I managed to get past the 2 crash bugs (crashing when rom opens and black screen as game starts) but the rom crashed if i tried to save it.

What is the firmware your referring to? Heard this mentioned but not seen that much info about that.

Did you manage to get the emulator to work properly in the end? Been looking into getting back into some emulation myself but havent used any since the old GBA/SNES emulators (last ones i used). Which one do you use? As im looking for a good DS emulator and had a brief look last night and found one that was recommended by quite a few people.

Which one? About the fact that no one likes Australian football?

Or the one about how football is stupid?

Who cares? And yeah, the reason that soccer and football have names other than "football" is because they have some degree of popularity outside of their core. In places where one football is played more, they need to differentiate it from the outsider. Sorry to break this to you, but it's very emphatically Australian football. Just about no one else plays it, and definitely no one plays it enough to need another name in common usage.

Meh. I watch football but I don't actually care either way. It is, in a lot of ways, an intensely stupid game. But it's watchable, and more so as a group activity.

Why does soccer make sense as an alternate name? Do you know whose ass they pulled the term from? It only makes sense as anything other than gibberish syllables without it.

Why is hockey called hockey? Cricket cricket? Tennis called tennis? Fifty billion other examples fifty billion other examples? With some exceptions (baseball, basketball, maybe volleyball, handball) the names of sports NEVER make sense outside of the historical/etymological context.

I'm sorry, but what do I care? You guys play AFL, so go ahead and call it football and soccer whatever you call soccer and football gridiron. I, on the other hand, am American. In American English, football has been football for decades, soccer has been soccer, and AFL has been completely unknown with the possible exception of a few US soldiers and such (y'know, the AustUS games and such).

For all I and my fellow Americans care, you could have been playing Aussie football since 50 BC-- it still isn't an American sport, and it's not relevant to our own special little dialect of English.

No. Football is called what it is for historical reasons. Yes, it seems like a contradiction. But in our last argument, didn't you say something about the history of the sport being important?

The name is an oxymoron but it's named what it is for valid historical/etymological reasons.

And... yeah, this brings "pointless argument" to whole new levels, even by our high standards. "...not allowed to be called football" my ass.

Also, last time it was the Olympics thread that spawned the argument. And I think we can blame Droded for that one. "The ICC has more members than the IBAF" my ass.

"My ass," I like that phrase.

So, the hefty middle-aged black lady was you? I had no idea.

I honestly have no idea. I had to look it up to see where the copyright office was located. And the library of congress is (or was) technically open to anyone. These days it might be congressmen-only.

You managed to get space in the Library of Congress building for an elaborate plot? I bow to you. You didn't even end up getting sniped by angry people in orange helicopters for breaking in!

Didn't you realize? I snuck behind your back and got it officially declared a week ago. Notarized and everything. I even filed it with the US Copyright Office today! In person! Baseball is better than cricket.

No, it's a loss of interest. We've argued the inarguable to death.

You just threw in the state sport to make me laugh, didn't you?

Indeed, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

Bowling? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Sure. But I could have sworn the point you were ACTUALLY getting at was that the ump's uniform was all gentlemanly and snazzified with the hat and the white suit and such.

Because, ducks fly together, man. (Plus, I've worn a baseball hat just about 24/7 since I was about eight. If not earlier. I LIKE baseball hats.)

You're welcome. I hope you appreciate the things I do for this forum. If you prefer, you can go for a sex engine. That was the alternative phrasing I was considering.

(Yeah, I think any actual discussion is dead and ground into the mud.)

No, throwing sidearm is BAD BAD BAD. Some pro pitchers do it, but it's rare. And no, I don't think so.

No, but you are the one who was gibbering about "gentleman's game." Which is full of ****. For the reasons I went over involving my opinion of the word "gentlemen," and most of the people who've claimed to be "gentlemen." Rant switch got thrown and you got spattered with the side effects. Sorry.

A fourth, thankyewverymuch. And I'm SURE that the curved bill covers more of the face.

No, but I was. I have a one-track mind. Be happy it wasn't set up with a more disturbing train. You'd hate to see a one-track mind with a sex locomotive barreling down it.

No, because it's NOT entirely different. Bowling CAN be reduced to "throw ball, hit wicket." Yes, there's other fripperies, but a baseball pitcher could get by, somewhat at least, on that alone for awhile. Other stuff could come later. Honestly, though, I suspect the learning curve'd be about the same.

All right, **** "supposed to be," too. I'm sorry, but I take issue with the term "gentleman." Seriously, too much stupid **** has been done by people who thought themselves fine gentlemen. It's a stupid word, largely because enormous dicks like to brag about how classy or honorable or gentlemanly they are whilst... being enormous dicks.

Baseball hat does that too, and doesn't look as silly. And a good neck-sunburn is required, shows you've been out there. (Though, honestly, the pads cover that a bit, too.)

Indeed you are wrong, my friend. Coasties in the piratey capacity board ships from small boats. It's Coasties in their ninja-y capacity that do the rapelling on board and slinking around with oversized shotguns and pointy metal bits (seriously-- the counterterror specialists are trained more ninja than pirate).

And I have a hard time deciding which of these is more ludicrous-- the pirate-ninja or the cricket ump hat discussion.

Also, a ninja could get on board a pirate ship if they were a Coastie. So HA! And then they could anti-pirate the pirate's goods.

Well, maybe.

No, the best pitcher would STILL be blowing away batsmen (some of them, at least) and the bowler would still be trying to figure how to get a ball over the plate without getting smashed out of the park. I couldn't comment on how long it would take to learn the relevant skills. F'rinstance, the pitcher might have trouble getting used to the absurdity of allowing unsportsmanlike conduct.

Gentleman's game. Please excuse me while I strive not to vomit. Jeeze, man, you're a Aussie! Descendent of transported cons! You're about as much of a gentleman as a Georgian*.

Look, man, that's a funny looking hat. Plus, I can't see it without thinking of this, which is DEEPLY, deeply disturbing. Either that, or funny-looking fishermen or refugees from the fifties. But yeah, at least they got rid of the suit and tie. I'll give them that.

Ignore the Indian guy? But he's the best part of that picture!

*The Georgian comment was uncalled for. Georgia is famous for being settled by cons, pulling a LOT of **** moves with slaves, the Cherokee and other Native Americans, neighboring states, and the federal government, all the while bragging about what gentlement they are. They're a bit better in the modern day, but their ancestors were DICKS.

EDIT: So, **** gets censored, but not the plural form of the same word? How odd.

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