[rescue] OT: FeeCee rescue

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:54:52PM -0700, N. Miller wrote:

> One of my Mac friends recently rationalized an Xbox (used)
> purchase by saying, "This will prevent me from having to
> buy a PC to game on."  When I told him M$ would still get
> money from it (we recently had a philosophical discussion
> about the fact that putting any $ in M$'s pocket is,
> essentially, putting a $ into the pocket of an entity trying
> to get rid of every UNIX sys admin on the planet), he said,
> "Not if I only buy used games."
> 
> Still seems like a bargain with the devil to me.

Sounds like it to me too, but there are too many layers to figure it out
exactly.  Besides, what's wrong with a PS2 and gamecube?  Except maybe
Halo, and one of the Buffy games, I can't think of anything worthwhile
sounding that is xbox only.