darkguy

My opinion: Not the smartest move from Microsoft, but meh... lol. The Arcade unit probably isn't going to sell at all until the 20 GB XBOX 360s are gone. $279 for a no HDD having, no head set XBOX 360. For $20 more you can get a 20 GB XBOX 360, with a head set. If they don't drop the price of the Arcade unit it will be pretty idiotic of them. Basically Microsoft is saying that you can buy a 20 GB HDD, and a headset for only $20? Yet, you can't do this seperately. If you buy a stand alone 20GB HDD what is it $100 dollars? A headset alone costs $20. That's $120 for those two items. You guys better buy up the 20GB XBOX 360's quick before someone wises up. That's a good deal, they should make it a packet. Headset and 20 GB HDD for only $20. Yeah right. How will consumers feel about this? You can pay $20 more for a 20 GB HDD, and headset. Yet seperately these things cost $120 dollars, wont that cause confusion? I'm paying $120 for two things that appear to be only worth $20? The biggest problem MS has isn't the price of the hardware I'd say. I'd say it's the way they overprice their accessories. $100 for a wireless adapter? Complete crap considering it's easy to substitute it for something cheaper, or even substituting it by running the Ethernet cable that shipped with your system to your laptop. The one thing I find inexcusable from MS is the fact that they don't ship with wireless already in the system when both other platforms ship standard with it. Sorry, but not dropping the price of the Arcade unit Sumarizing it all: For $30 more, you get a 20GB HDD and a headset. And M's biggest problem is accesories, $100 for a wireless adaptor? :( Really, Arcade should be discontinued, not the 20GB model. Anyway, i'm getting my 60GB one this August (along Cod4, Halo3 and a control)

BlackBane, leader of the OoC, needs you. This is the last day for voting, and bands are catching up, as a last resort, i decided to post it here, on TiF, they are a great band, but not much people know them. Here is the direct quote from Blackbane. Allrighty. Several years ago, I started something you may have heard of. Its called what those people that were locked up in straitjackets call: The Order of Cabbage. Unfortunately about a year ago, I had to slow down my activity until I basically quit Runescape, (except for logging in to update the stash/make sure our images that are hosted on the forums don't disappear etc....) to work full time at jobs, and work on my band Finger of knowledge. Right now Im in a contest that is going to take a massive amount of votes. We have 23 days left to get as many votes as possible (im estimating about 1000) to get into the top 20. Now I hear you saying: (and yes I do hear you say this... im ethereal like that) "Whats this have to do with www.ooc.com? (scary how I knew you said that eh?) If Finger of Knowledge Makes it into the top 20 by July 11th, I will register www.ooc.com for 3 years to point to either the forums or the website. ------ After we get to the top 20, the judges consisting of Alan Cross, The president of Virgin, and many other big shots, will decide on 5 of the top 20 to go to the finals and be voted on again. If Finger of Knowledge wins THAT voting round.... I WILL BUY SERVER SPACE AND THE WWW.OOC.COM FOR THREE YEARS and if its not that expensive, I will buy it for more. But that is my offer as it stands. Guaranteed not to go lower. How to get www.ooc.com going: http://whatfeedsyourhunger.ca/bands/ind ... e/band/362 sign in, no personal info is collected, and vote ONCE a day. Use every email account you have, and ask any forum you are known in to vote for us. Everyone you can expose our music to, to like us enough to vote EVERY day for, will be huge! If we can get 4 MILLION cabbages, we can get 1000 votes. The Band is Finger of Knowledge, and if at the very least we don't get to the top 5, I know we can get to the top 20. And you can call it a small favor for me committing my life for over 4 years too bring you this ridiculously delicious cult! (if you have never tasted the cult, I suggest you try all 37 flavors!) And hey, even if we don't win the contest, I am sure people who listen to our music will actually GENUINELY like our music, and we wont have to rely on getting votes on websites for people to know we are a good band. Thank you everyone for the time of my life in the cult, and I hope I can spring to get you guys a flashy new website! - Michael Pacitto - Aka Blackbane, Aka The leader of the crankshaft Army aka Shnookums Aka whyRUpikinCabge!Lol!11+shift"Don't use that abbreviation"BBQ~LosR!~~ If doing this is wrong, please lock it.