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Dapper Dan 01-25-2009 08:36 PM

He finally woke up and decided he needed a rifle...............
 
http://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/ele/1005098608.html

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Modded Xbox with 1000's of Games - $400 (Auburn)

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Date: 2009-01-23, 4:23PM PST


Modded original Xbox with 80G hard drive with 1000�s of emulators and roms for all gaming systems like Atari, arcade, NES, Super NES, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64. Pretty much any video game you have ever played when you were a kid are on here. Really any video game before xbox that you could ever think of is on here to play whenever you feel like. Also has 36 original Xbox games built in as well. You can burn xbox games onto the hardrive and also play copied games and DVD�s and burned movies. Comes with 3 controllers and a remote control for movies. Oh, another cool feature, there is a hidden toggle switch on the side that switches it into a regular xbox if you want it to be. Asking $400 obo. Will Consider trade for pistol or rifle or something else. Let me know what you got. Feel free to Email me with any questions. Thanks
HUGE list follows...............
http://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/ele/1005098608.html

RJB 01-25-2009 08:41 PM

Re: He finally woke up and decided he needed a rifle...............
 
He had a zombie game on that list in the link. He's ready to go gunning now.

MNeagle 01-25-2009 08:44 PM

Re: He finally woke up and decided he needed a rifle...............
 
Looks as if his gaming is more than an obsession. Yikes, think of the money he's burned through.

Tn...Andy 01-25-2009 08:47 PM

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Sounds like he finally figured out life is the ultimate game.

Ralleia 01-25-2009 08:49 PM

Re: He finally woke up and decided he needed a rifle...............
 
Or the money he avoided burning through by staying at home and playing video games.

Seriously though, isn't a shotgun generally more useful than a rifle?

MNeagle 01-25-2009 08:51 PM

Re: He finally woke up and decided he needed a rifle...............
 
R, I meant the money he spent BUYING all those games. Did you see the list? Wowsers.

Ralleia 01-25-2009 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by MNeagle (Post 1531335)
R, I meant the money he spent BUYING all those games. Did you see the list? Wowsers.

I know that, but think of the money he could have lost if instead of buying and spending all his mental energy playing all those games, he:

(1) got interested in owning a house since the housing market only goes up so he took out a mortgage on a house a couple years ago that he's now upside down on,

or

(2) got interested in the stock market and got a brokerage account bought on margin and got royally screwed,

or

(3) spent time and money dating, got hitched now is paying for a messy and costly contested divorce.
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I play video games (and have done (2) and (3) and own a house that I'm not technically upside down on, but I would have been far happier without it).

Sometimes blowing your money and time on ****load of video games might just be better than some of the more "constructive" alternatives, no? :553:

scholarcoon 01-25-2009 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by RJB (Post 1531317)
He had a zombie game on that list in the link. He's ready to go gunning now.

He's gonna hunt zombies for real now. We're gonna hear about him on the news in a few weeks. :confused_ma:

MNeagle 01-25-2009 09:07 PM

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I guess I was thinking how many preps or PMs he could have instead. But your points are valid.

Mantokir 01-25-2009 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by MNeagle (Post 1531335)
R, I meant the money he spent BUYING all those games. Did you see the list? Wowsers.


Just a note, the only games on there that he paid for is the first list. The second one, the ROMs, are free. The first list would have run him around 1800 bucks at 50 bucks a game.

Dapper Dan 01-25-2009 11:29 PM

Re: He finally woke up and decided he needed a rifle...............
 
Here's another one- http://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/bar/1007600835.html

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**********PSP, Games, Movies, (Cash If Necessary) For Firearm********* (ENUMCLAW )

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Date: 2009-01-25, 5:09PM PST


--PSP--

-----Games:-----
-Transformers
-Fight Night Round 3
-Starwars Battlefront
-Medal of Honor
-Medal of Honor 2
-300

---Movies:---
-RV
-Spider-Man 3

-Charger (not car)

I am looking for any one of these:
.45 Caliber
.40 Caliber
357 Mag
9 MM
OR
Any Other Kind of Firearm Pistol, Revolver, Shotgun, Rifle

Also have cash but the trade has to be right

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Dapper Dan 01-25-2009 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Mantokir (Post 1531470)
Just a note, the only games on there that he paid for is the first list. The second one, the ROMs, are free. The first list would have run him around 1800 bucks at 50 bucks a game.

My wife counted 1442 games total. If you average $25 per game, it's over $35K, and that's not including the uber tricked out xbox ($300-$600?).

That could have bought 5 acres, a crude bug out shack, and a few guns + other preps.

CAVU 01-25-2009 11:45 PM

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This goes to show that Guns are money.:10_1_20:

MetalMoney 01-25-2009 11:46 PM

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The games that are listed as 'Roms' are semi-legal (not really) copies that are stored within the Hard Drive on the XBOX. He did -not- pay for them.

They are openly downloaded on teh internet every day. I.E. this is like buying someones MP3 player with the previous owners music still on it... They probably didnt pay for the music, and you know for sure you didnt.

scyth 01-26-2009 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by CAVU (Post 1531586)
This goes to show that Guns are money.:10_1_20:

Not so fast, hombre,


Guns are just another tool, like a pair of pliers.

Owned them and used them all my life that way.

Dealing is a different trip.

scyth

Mantokir 01-26-2009 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Dapper Dan (Post 1531578)
My wife counted 1442 games total. If you average $25 per game, it's over $35K, and that's not including the uber tricked out xbox ($300-$600?).

That could have bought 5 acres, a crude bug out shack, and a few guns + other preps.


i see that, but the ROMs are free, the games for the NES/SNES that he has there, you download those off the internet. So he didn't spend anything for those.

ROMs are similar to Napster back in the day, you look em up, download em and then get the program to play em. No cost to you.

P.S. I give your wife props... I couldn't sit there and count em all myself. :confused_ma:

dimitri 01-26-2009 09:34 AM

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The xbox is modded, which means he likely didn't pay for any of them. Once it is modded you can download games and play them from the harddrive - which is what it sounds like he did.


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