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Gizmondo Honcho Gets 18 Months in Fängelse

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ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
07/11/09

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Btw, Owen, his name is Stefan Eriksson. Bo Eriksson is a famed swedish tv-personality.

He is also noteworthy for being a ringleader for organized crime, as well as participating in reality-show where he earned the nickname "Tjock-Steffe", which for some reason is translated to "Fat Steve" in english, according to Wikipedia.
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Wahrheit
07/11/09

@ShadowOdin isn't american:

Wikipedia = dunce? :)
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bakagaijin
07/11/09

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I have a feeling our favorite Swede/American ShadowOdin will approve of this post.
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ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
07/11/09

@bakagaijin: God damnit, stupidforeginer, I am not american. What must I do to make that clear?
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deanbmmv
07/11/09

@ShadowOdin isn't: You're not ShadowOdin either :P
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ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
07/11/09

@deanbmmv: HAH, Yorkshire, HAH
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Hey_Blinkon
07/11/09

@ShadowOdin isn't american: But you're writing in American... are you sure you're not american? :P
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ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
07/11/09

@Hey_Blinkon: It's because over here in Not-America we study American so that you can understand us
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Wahrheit
07/11/09

@Hey_Blinkon:

Fair enough, you all go study swedish instead. Kotaku.se, here we come!
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Bialia
07/11/09

@ShadowOdin isn't american: I endorse your use of the term "Not-America."
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bakagaijin
07/11/09

@ShadowOdin isn't american: Don't try to fool us. We know of you and your shifty American ways.
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bakagaijin
07/11/09

@Bialia: I've always wanted to visit Not-America. I hear it's nice this time of year.

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ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
07/11/09

@bakagaijin: Hm, it seems as stupidforeigner might've caught onto something. I need to remain calm and not attract suspicion and everything will go as planned.
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Clstirens has a Zune
07/11/09

@bakagaijin: I hear it's nice in Not-America at any point.
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Yin
07/11/09

In reply to Gizmondo Honcho Gets 18 Months in Fängelse
"Fängelse" is more like "prison".

"The slammer" is slang, so it would be something like "kåken" (lit. "the house" kind of) or "finkan" ;)
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ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
07/11/09

@Yin: Greetings fellow person with grasp over Swedish
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Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
07/11/09

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For a minute there I thought that said "Gizmodo" and this was an article to rub it in their faces or something. I always imagine a kind of Animal House-like rivalry between the blogs, where you go and pull hijinks and then run away while they shake their fists and go "KOTAKUUUUU!"

I was mistaken, though.
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n00b_pwner
07/11/09

@Mister Jack is Stalking Konata: Naw. Gizmodo and Kotaku sometimes share articles.

Besides, this one is 99% gaming. The other is 99% tech. Not exactly things to directly rival eachother.
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Eruanno
07/11/09

@Mister Jack is Stalking Konata: I read "Gizmodo" too. Though I wouldn't be so evil to rub it in their faces!
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FunkyMunxy
07/11/09

@Mister Jack is Stalking Konata: As long as I'm not the only one, I'll own up to that too.
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Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
07/11/09

@FunkyMunxy: From the looks of a lot of these grayed out comments, a lot of us made the same mistake.
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kdnpdbyninjas
07/11/09

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I read the headline a little too quick and thought it was something about Gizmodo ; )
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n00b_pwner
07/11/09

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He deserves 18 months in prison for just RELEASING the Gizmondo.

I never thought there could be a handheld more useless than the N-Gage, but then again, I was proven wrong.

Why must crappy systems exist?
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1up
07/11/09

@n00b_pwner: I've never got my paws on a Gizmodo, but I remember my local Gamestation (British chain store) really betting on the N-gage.. They had two demo N-gages to play with a few games on them each.. I had a go on Tomb Raider and Tony Hawks.

It was the worst thing ever.
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n00b_pwner
07/11/09

@1up: I remember actually being amazed at the time when the NGage released that it's games could rival PS1 games. Little did I know that the tech was actually mediocre in the system.

Then the DS and PSP released the year after that (and got both systems at launch), and (thankfully), made me forget about the NGage.

The lesson to be learned is is that if there is a system being released by a non-major company, expect it to fail badly due to lack of funding. That's how Microsoft and Sony succeeded for the most part with their consoles.
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somarix
07/11/09

@n00b_pwner: back at the time I was trying to make my boss let me develop for this POS handheld. Windows OS (the best in mobiles for developers), 3D accel, lots of RAM. He tried, and after a while replied "No".

Later, we find-out the PDA would show ads onscreen even if you paid for the games; and getting the SDK had some high price. (they didn't really want 3rd parties to develop for this stuff)

Thus, on the day of its release we partied for not wasting resources on this platform. It could never have serious games for it, we wondered why this decision. Then the news about the Enzo came...
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deanbmmv
07/11/09

@n00b_pwner: Nokia are pretty major though, so your last paragraph is kinda invalid. It was ultimately 'too soon' because the iphone has shown that there are people out there willing to game on mobiles.
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