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DelusionsBeta: By which I'm referring to what used to be called Community Games, here. Admittedly, it's mostly tripe (Baby Maker Extreme, anyone?) but there are a few jems in there. It's where Beat Hazard originated from, for example.
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Aliasalpha: I was just being a smartarse because australia doesn't get that

There are actually quite a few good Indie Games on Live. There's an old-school RPG one for 80 points that's reminiscent of the old Dragon Warrior games (only you play a skeleton). There's another one where you play a nun with a pistol and a scythe and kill zombies. There's I MADE A GAME WITH ZOMBIES. I've found a couple other ones. There's many weird Japanese games too.
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HoneyBakedHam: Those of us old enough to remember an economy based on exchanging money for goods and/or services know that exchanging money for xBox desktop themes and avatar trinkets is equal to inviting a mugger to mug you.

If you think clothing and themes are robbery, nothing can prepare you for what is attached below. Nothing.
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Post edited August 15, 2010 by Arkose
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HoneyBakedHam: Those of us old enough to remember an economy based on exchanging money for goods and/or services know that exchanging money for xBox desktop themes and avatar trinkets is equal to inviting a mugger to mug you.
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Arkose: If you think clothing and themes are robbery, nothing can prepare you for what is attached below. Nothing.

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OUCH! I wasn't prepared for that! :-)
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You know... in fairness, after reading some of these comments... I realize that I own the BioShock Limited Edition Collector's Edition for PC, which contains an art book, a soundtrack CD, a making of DVD, and a statue of a Big Daddy...
...and which I bought solely because I thought the Big Daddy figurine looked cool.
In many ways, all these things are technically useless... at least in that they are not required to play BioShock, but they are tangible. The BioShock game is a distant memory to me now... but Big Daddy is sitting on the shelf where I can see him every day. (next to a Fallout 3 Bobblehead and a few Todd McFarland Spawn figurines)
I guess there really is a certain equivalency between tangible useless things and digital or virtual useless things... but what bothers me personally is just that someday in the far future I'll have an Xbox 720, and all those avatar trinkets will be gone and I'll need new clothes for my 3D Holo-atar... or whatever.
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But I just bought BioShock 2 (because the price dropped) and I'm gonna go play that :-)
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jimthev: Sounds like she is taking money out of your pocket and lighting it on fire. So from her point of view, it is fine.
Such are women.

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i would like to add--as a disclaimer in case there are women in this thread--that i really do admire the fairer sex. but i will never understand you as long as i live.