>   The proportions may not be the ideal way to go, but they
 > certainly don't hurt.  I hear most of the registered copies
 > of TR2 in Japan are actually owned by women, not men.
 >   The key to Lara's appeal is that she's quite different
 > compared to your usual game characters.  Consider her
 > background: she comes from a wealthy family which was quite
 > comfy, but decided to rebel and live life on the edge - even
 > if it DID maintain her wealth.  She's a gung-ho person who
 > doesn't accept "never" as an answer.
The key to Lara's appeal are her big err....assets. I personally didn't know 
anything about her background, and i'd imagine the idiots who are actually 
drooling over this video game character don't either. As far as the women 
registering it in Japan, yeah i heard that too, but most women i know would 
be disgusted by her appearance.
 >   I wouldn't be surprised if the machine is $300-450 Canadian
 > when it comes out.  Don't forget that it's supposed to be
 > quite the hardware.  I hear it'll have 8 MB of general RAM, 8
 > MB video, 2 MB sound - that's probably $100-150 right there.
Yeah, that's the thing. If it's that much money i don't know if i'll be able 
to afford it. I could just wait 6 months to a year for it to come down in 
proce. Then it would have an established software library too.
 >   Hey, Bill Gates is just a smart (maybe too smart)
 > businessman.  But they probably won't interfere too much,
No really. He's satan. He's convinced everyone with his huge marketing 
bullcrap campaign that Windows is such a great product. (the only product 
really) Actually, when the Mac came along, Bill saw how much better it was 
than DOS, so he slapped Windows (a cheap imitation of Mac) on top of DOS and 
wiped the better product out.  Sorry for the off-topic rant there. 
Sometimes i just can't help myself.
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