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 HOLY poo poo NEW PLAYSTATION 3 HARDWARE! Official images:   Blog post on European site about it. €299.99 500GB PS3 will come with FIFA 13. Official 250GB hard drive also confirmed as upgrade for 12GB PS3. Blog post on North American site $269 250GB PS3 will come with Uncharted 3 Game of the Year Edition and $30 in voucher items for DUST 514. $299 500GB PS3 will have Assassin's Creed 3 bundled with it. Threads Playstation 3 Games Discussion Playstation Move Playstation Import Thread PSN Game Sharing Playstation Store PS3 Goon Database Hardware  Current PS3 Models Sony PlayStation 3 160GB Sony Playstation 3 (250 Gig) PlayStation 3 320GB System/PlayStation Move Bundle Playstation Plus Playstation Plus is the premium online service from Sony that offers full version game trials, discounts on DLC and games, and lets you download game demos a week early. Recently added was a extended warranty option. Pricing: 3 Months: $17.99 1 Year : $49.99 3DTVs, Blu-rays, and Gaming in 3D (put on your 3D Glasses in order to view this part of the thread properly please) A recent firmware update has added 3D support for games and movies. Game developers can add it to their already existing games with a patch, and some have already done so. A lot of upcoming games such as Gran Turismo 5 and Killzone 3 will have 3D support right out of the box. Blu-ray movies are also supported. Sony has made it known that they are really going to push 3D on this system. They make 3D HDTVs anyways, so it makes sense. The Playstation 3 is becoming hands down the best platform to view 3D content. The Official PS3 Headset It will work with not only your PS3 but with Bluetooth enabled cell phones. This is not your only option for a PS3 headset however, there is a huge selection of bluetooth headsets that work with the PS3 aswell as a wide selection of USB headsets also. As for this official one however:
Playstation Eye The Playstation Eye is the successor to the Eyetoy for the PS2. It's a much higher quality camera complete with microphone for use in videochat, as an in-game microphone or with a variety of software for the PS3. It originally came bundled with the game Eye Of Judgement which made use of it's motion sensing capabilities and has since gone on to support games such as Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and Burnout Paradise, with upcoming support for games such as Little Big Planet if you wish to upload your own art assets to the game for use in user-created levels. You can also use it with the free downloadable program EyeCreate to record and edit your own movies, and with upcoming titles such as EyePet. Fragnstein Designed for people who would like mouse aiming in games. It can be used with ANY PS3 game at all, and has fully customizable firmware, allowing you to tweak sensitivity and button mappings to your liking. The build quality is solid, and many goons swear by it. The elitist COD4 top scorers love it too if that means something to you. Playstation Move Coming September 17th The Playstation Movie is Sony's answer to the motion control trend and so far is shaping up to be the most promising. Check out the Move thread for more information. This is a great trailer for the PS Move: Kevin Butler's Epic PlayStation Move-tage [list][*]Online play on the PS3 is entirely free of charge. The PS3's online network, which includes multiplayer games, friends lists, messaging (video, voice and text chats), a web browser and access to the PlayStation Store are all free. The PlayStation Store is far more than just demos and microtransactions for games however. Developers also have access to an API that lets them access the store from the game, with each having it's own front end with just that game's products. Outside of games, the Store offers both standard and hi-def trailers for movies and games, PS one games (complete with digital manual and playable on both the PS3 and PSP, plus the saves can be shared between the two so you can continue on the go), and of course all those little add-ons and demos for released and upcoming games. Besides that there is also a large quantity of games available to buy on the PSN. These all vary from region to region but there has been a push to substantial PSN game releases with large downloadable titles. [*]Gaming with other Goons Once you've gotten your very own PS3, we have a couple different threads you can explore to get the most out of your system and shoot the poo poo with fellow Goons: -Visit the PS3 Goon Database. The thread is located here. Or go straight to the site. -Official PS3Goons IRC channel is located at #ps3goons on irc.synirc.net. If you've never used IRC before, get mIRC and go here for help FAQ Before you try to ask how to do ANYTHING in the XMB, press Triangle. I'm dead serious. 95% of questions can be answered by simply pressing Triangle and playing around with the menus. If you've already tried pressing Triangle to try and solve your XMB dilemma, then ask in the thread. I got a big huge hard drive and need to put it into FAT32 ha;lp McLarenF1 posted:This Website has this tool and this GUI file. It will format any size partition (I did a 124 GB) to FAT32. Just partition and quick format a drive to NTFS (Windows 7 has built in tool, just search "create and manage disk partitions"), then save the two previosuly linked files to a common folder (NOT on the soon to be reformatted disk), run the GUI exe file and select the desired drive and format it to FAT32. That's it, you're done! Blu-ray Playback?! If you're interested in watching HD movies on Blu-ray, the PS3 (any version) is currently the best value for your money. Priced similarly to other comparable players it offers an internal hard drive for data storage, and internet connection for BD-Live, and DivX playback. Basically, it's the best blu-ray player on the market, and feature updates have kept it consistently so. Movies play in up to 1080p over component and HDMI, though around 2012 studios will have the option of restricting full HD to HDCP secured HDMI connections only. No disc currently does, and hopefully it won't come to pass, as it's frivolous to bootleggers anyways. What's This I Hear about Keyboard & Mouse? That's right, the PS3 allows any game that chooses to implement it to use Keyboard and Mouse controls. Unreal Tournament 3 supports it. Now, many games have chosen not to as well, for fear of the game being unbalanced. Can I make a PSN account for different regions Yes you can. You need an original e-mail address for each one you want to create. During the account creation process, just selection the country that you want to access to the PSN store too. When is the PSN Store updated?  Every Tuesday around 6pm Pacific Time. You can still get full HD without HDMI dammit Both component and DVI will allow 720p/1080p signals for games if your TV supports it. The only catch is that Blu-Ray movies will eventually (in 2012) have the option to require HDMI on a per-disc basis. For games, your trusty PS2 component cables will work just fine -- for that matter all PS2 cables will work. However, if you are using an HDMI cable, it needs to be connected to a HDCP-compliant device or you'll get no video/audio. If your TV doesn't support HDCP via HDMI/DVI, you'll have to use one of the above-mentioned connections. What's the cheapest place for HDMI cables? https://www.monoprice.com In fact this is hands down one of the best websites to shop on for TV, audio, and computer equipment. Comes highly recommended by a lot of goons. I want to stream my gay porn to my HDTV, from my PC http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/ Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. If I loving replace the hard drive in my PS3 with a bigger one, will it void my warranty? Hell naw son. In fact, there is a section in Sony's manual which shows you exactly HOW to replace the hard drive. Pretty neato, eh? Don't bother with a Solid State drive though. It increases install times, while providing at most a 2 second boost in some scenarios. I hosed up, and now my PS3 won't output video to my TV. If you happen to use the PS3 on another display or you just start messing with the settings and screw things up follow these simple instructions: 1. Turn off your PS3. 2. Power it on by holding the power button for at least 5 seconds. You will hear a delayed beep. 3. Profit . The PS3 will automatically detect what it needs to output to, and at that point you should be prompted with a wizard. Follow it. To the land of Oz. I said come in! fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Sep 19, 2012 |
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Cbouncerrun posted:I guess I'll start off the new thread with a question. Under System Settings --> System Info. MUFFlNS posted:Thankyou so much for making a new thread! Somehow I managed to leave out the really good FAQ in the previous thread. Going to update with that.
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Sep 3, 2010 04:25
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Fuzz posted:You need to toss the Frag FX and put the Frag N Stein in that OP in its place. Very very few of us have FragFXs. I can think of at least 10 of us that have FnSes, however, and we all love the poo poo out of them. This device right? http://imgur.com/QoDZN.jpg
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Sep 3, 2010 04:36
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Childlike Empress posted:Only found unconvincing answers to this question via Google: The PS3 does not have a hardware scaler like the 360 does, if I remember correctly. So the max resolution is up to the developer. Most just do 720p, its that way with the 360 too. The vast majority of console games are really 720p. As far as differences go, it really doesn't matter anyways.
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Sep 3, 2010 05:59
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The courts in Australia ruled in Sony's favor on the PS3 Jailbreak ban today; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11176441
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Sep 4, 2010 00:13
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dis astranagant posted:Too little, too late. Pretty much, yep. It's like Sony won a battle, but they pretty much lost the war since now tools are being created where you can just put files on your PSP or iphone, plug that device into your PS3, and you have a free jailbreak device now.
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Sep 4, 2010 00:31
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Aphrodite posted:A $200 or $600 jailbreak device, anyway. The point is it can be used on devices that everyone already has (someone is also working on a android version). No need to order a USB Dongle from some shady website and hope you actually get it after paying them $180 on blind faith basically.
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Sep 4, 2010 00:45
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Ham posted:The PSP port was confirmed fake, EAVPSP is a 15 year old kid and can't code poo poo. There may be others working on it though, it needs a new USB driver. Ooh right, I actually saw that, but skimmed it in a thread on another forum, so forgot about it. Hoping for the iphone version to be real because that is what I have, and assuming some useful homebrew comes from this. Right now all it is is piracy, so its useless to me.
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Sep 4, 2010 01:14
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evilalien posted:Burn-in is a non-issue, but image retention is still annoying as poo poo and shows up after just 3-4 hours of gaming if the game has lots of static elements. I say this as an owner of a new model Panasonic Plasma. Sup Plasma tv owner. I have a Samsung myself and it does the samething. It is very annoying.
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Sep 4, 2010 15:36
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Shumagorath posted:Does anyone know how bad the debug hack is? I heard someone say that it only plays games up to early 2009. Is that true, or is the platform irreparably rooted? That was me who said that and progress on this has been rapidly growing. Leaps and bounds pretty much. Newer games are totally playable now. As it is right now, 47 known games cannot be played from an external drive, and 23 from internal.
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Sep 6, 2010 02:07
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Bubble-T posted:It's pretty game specific though, and it will be interesting to see how this stuff works with DLC for instance. The games become unplayable if you download any updates or DLC for them.
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Sep 6, 2010 03:06
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MUFFlNS posted:Something interesting I just read about PS Jailbreak is that the next release for it (firmware or whatever) will allow you to play backups of PS2 games on any model of PS3, even Slims. I guess Sony really were just holding back backwards compatability to try and make a little cash with HD rereleases of games such as God of War and Sly Cooper This sounds like bullshit to me, I would be really surprised if this were true. I suppose it is possible, but putting that one in the category of over excited freeloaders that just want to pirate games. You have to be careful what you read on a lot of these homebrew websites, their communities can be pretty dumb.
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Sep 6, 2010 13:46
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Mug posted:New firmware update out today, anyone know what it does? I was just coming here to ask this too. I have a feeling I already know what it fixes though.
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Sep 7, 2010 04:47
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Crows Turn Off posted:I'm honestly surprised that homebrew isn't bannable yet, because it's just a thinly-veiled discussion of how to pirate games. There are a few devices with legit homebrew discussion; Xbox, PSP, Wii, and Nintendo DS. Yeah piracy is possible on all of those, but that doesn't mean it should be banned. In the case of the PS3, I kinda agree we probably shouldn't be talking about it right now, as there is no homebrew or even any proof of concept of homebrew being possible.
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Sep 7, 2010 05:09
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Is it possible to swap hard drives with different system versions on them?
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Sep 7, 2010 05:16
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Fuzz posted:I normally like your posts, but what the gently caress, seriously? You have your SNES still hooked up and an old PC you keep setup with MS DOS, just so you can play all those old games you bought as a kid? Get your head out of your rear end. He is actually correct. You don't get to pick and choose which copyright laws you want to follow. These games are still protected, and it is piracy to play them on your psp. Especially since a lot of these games are available still for digital purchase on other platforms. If you are playing Super Mario RPG on your PSP, thats a pretty clear cut case of piracy.
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Sep 7, 2010 05:56
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Loanarn posted:Well the first homebrew app for the PS3 is out and unsurprisingly its a FTP Server. Gee I wonder what that could be used for.
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Sep 7, 2010 21:24
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Ham posted:Copying pirated content directly/copying media files to PS3 (which can already be done very easily with any streaming app). I was being sarcastic. :p
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Sep 7, 2010 22:05
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Happy 15th birthday Playstation.  15 years of Sony dominating (in my opinion) the video game market with the best exclusives of any game console since the Playstation first came out. Plus the Playstation 2 is still, even a decade later now, on store shelves and has sold over 120,000,000 units world wide. I said come in! fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Sep 9, 2010 |
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Sep 9, 2010 22:20
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Toolband posted:Im in the market for a new PS3. Should I get one now or will there be anything new or bundles released in the near future? A Move bundle is out next week.
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Sep 11, 2010 03:09
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Sankis posted:The 40 gig is the first model without any sort of BC which is why it seems so high to me. Maybe $175 - $200 for it. Although I think whatever you sell it for I think you'll have no problem actually selling it. Especially if it has a older firmware. Everyone wants a PS3 nowadays. Older firmware PS3s are being very desirable right now.
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Sep 11, 2010 12:42
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Tarradax posted:I finally went and bought a PS3 early this week (Why the hell didn't I do this sooner? Playing God of War is RELAXING!) and am trying to decide right now if I should or should not update the firmware - With the jailbreak and all, I'm really undecided. Any advice would be appreciated. You won't be able to play any games online, a lot of backups don't work or crash a lot (where their legit disc versions don't crash at all), and who knows if any real homebrew will be made or not. The only homebrew so far is a FTP program and it's pretty unreliable.
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Sep 11, 2010 19:47
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Fuzz posted:What's with all these people selling their PS3s? Yeah really. What a bunch of scrubs. Gonna miss out on Gran Turismo 5.
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Sep 12, 2010 15:29
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Homebrew of any kind is still very early and not really worth posting about. I think we should come back to the subject in like 6 months, see where it is and start a thread if it still isn't a huge pain. The steps you have to go through to do it are a bit much right now and I don't even know any goons yet who have jailbroken their PS3.
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Sep 19, 2010 01:33
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gibbed posted:I have, but I'm not touching the stolen SDK. Too many people are relying on that and it's really annoying that they are (like that snes9x port). How was the process for you? What method did you go through?
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Sep 19, 2010 01:38
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Yep sure does! Around 6 p.m. pacific time.
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Sep 20, 2010 20:45
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Yechezkel posted:Pink DS3 is now available  I really want a white or silver DS3 controller.
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Sep 20, 2010 22:54
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Fuzz posted:I really want a white or silver Japanese DS3. Is there a difference? You can get them easily enough from Amazon, they are just expensive. :/
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Sep 20, 2010 23:09
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I hope GT5 has Facebook integration. What I really want is Twitter integration so the whole internet knows when I win a race, buy a car, or do anything really in GT5.
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Sep 21, 2010 04:05
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These days I can't imagine not having online for my PS3. Back then I was okay with homebrewing my Xbox. It was really no big deal, Xbox Live didn't offer anything really, there wasn't a big enough community for online play like there is now.
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Sep 21, 2010 06:57
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Yep, Sony says it is completely okay.
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Sep 22, 2010 01:21
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What type of files are you playing? Are they .mkv?
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Oct 4, 2010 18:59
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Yeah you shouldn't be getting any problems then. If possible see if you can just transfer the whole thing to your PS3 hard drive and play off that.
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Oct 4, 2010 19:23
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Someone in this thread said they were going to buy one of those, it was a while ago though. If they did, and they are reading this, I hope they come back and say if it works on the latest firmware or not.
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Oct 5, 2010 01:40
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Fuzz posted:Wait what? 3.5 invalidates the Frag N Stein? What the gently caress, Sony. The way I understood it was that some 3rd party devices might not work anymore. I don't know if the Frag N Stein still works. If someone finds me a list of devices that do/don't work with 3.50, i'll put that in the OP.
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http://www.destructoid.com/best-buy-responds-to-critics-of-ps3-firmware-install-fee-185800.phtml  quote:There's been a fair bit of raging on the internet about Best Buy charging customers to perform a firmware update on PlayStation 3 systems. IndustryGamers reached out to the company for a response, to which Best Buy replied with a less than apologetic statement: I hate to admit that a service like this is required, but i've seen it first hand with my parents. They would never able to use even a PS3 without my help. :/ Best Buy has been exploiting peoples stupidity for some time now though and they make a lot of money doing it, not that I think there is anything wrong with this.
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Oct 7, 2010 13:40
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VoidAltoid posted:My PS3 caught the YLOD recently, but I was able to resurrect it via heat gun over the chips and reapplying thermal compound. I'm just wondering, has anyone else had long-lasting success with this method? If it broke down again... Is this a Slim or Fat PS3? Now that the Slim has been out for a year now (or is at least close) i'm wondering how its reliability is holding up. I haven't heard of to many reports of broken slims yet. I think there were two or three in this thread though. I got my Slim in December and haven't had any issues with it.
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Oct 7, 2010 16:38
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I think that is normal for space invaders. You are suppose to play that game while on 
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Oct 7, 2010 17:30
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natlampe posted:An auto mechanic sometimes charges you for something pretty obvious and minor (obvious to someone who knows cars, that is). You wouldn't call people who don't fix their own cars stupid and exploited though, would you? That's not the samething at all, you can't press a button on your car and have the oil automatically changed. The PS3 sets up everything for you automatically, paying someone $30 to do what the system already does for you does make you stupid.
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natlampe posted:Why lack of IT knowledge in particular always seems to attract heavy ridicule, I'll never understand. Because the most basic tasks are still very confusing to a lot of people, the same people who have been using computers for years now. There is really no excuse to be intimidated by a firmware update on your game console. Knowing the basic functions of your PC is on the same level as knowing how to read and write in this day and age. If you don't know this stuff then I don't get how you can manage to make it in the real world. Society is going to get to the point where people can't make it if they keep allowing themselves to be intimidated by technology.
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