robio said:

edgecrusher said:

Is anybody here of the opinion that women constantly think they're right more than guys do?

Christ yes.... I can't win an arguement even when there is no doubt in the world I'm right. There's just something in that second X chromosome that allows women to twist time and space so that they're always right.

Dvader said:

Our women  choked!  I am sure they will blame the men somehow.

robio said:

It's soccer. Do we really care if they won or lost?

phantom_leo said:

What's soccer?

robio said:

It's a game they play in 3rd world countries. It's like basketball for people who aren't smart enough to use their hands and pick up the ball.

Adding another one to watch to the DL'able games Topic!

...Oh Arrrrrchiiiiie!  

I've been playing the God of War collection, plus God of War 3.  I finished part 2 and am currently working on the other ones. I'm also near the end of Spirit Tracks which is something I play when I'm not at home.

I also took the time to play Uncharted 3 with some Gamespot buddies and Uncharted 2 with Steel and Aspro...best mp games ever.  I also finished Golden Axe since it was free.

Bondi's homicide-homage to 1940s Los Angeles is on sale at Amazon for the criminally low sum of $37.00.

robio said:

It's a game they play in 3rd world countries. It's like basketball for people who aren't smart enough to use their hands and pick up the ball.

I cannot plus this enough.

Iga_Bobovic said:

Nippon for the win.

The was no reason for Japan to win, but they said fuck you to reason and did it anyway.

Was like a real life version of a manga, we will see this shit serialized in a manga soon.

They play much better football than America, even if they didn't really in the final. Epic game. Japan ftw. rofl@Hope Solo in the penalty shoot out compared to the short Japanese goalkeeper. America's penalties were terrible though, but still.

Epic game.

Iga_Bobovic said:

robio said:

It's a game they play in 3rd world countries. It's like basketball for people who aren't smart enough to use their hands and pick up the ball.

Third world countries being all contries in the world not including the good old USA.

Pretty popular train of thought in some places.

robio said:

How is that even a valid question? A viking would win without question. Even if the samuarai got in a lucky shot he'd end up taking his own life to preserve his honor once it was all over.

travo said:

Vader, see if you can download the Pandora app on your phone.  There's tons of video game music on there.  You can also listen to the songs from Fallout.

Fucking Pandora and only being available to US residents.

God I need to get into VPN settings..

Foolz said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

Nippon for the win.

The was no reason for Japan to win, but they said fuck you to reason and did it anyway.

Was like a real life version of a manga, we will see this shit serialized in a manga soon.

They play much better football than America, even if they didn't really in the final. Epic game. Japan ftw. rofl@Hope Solo in the penalty shoot out compared to the short Japanese goalkeeper. America's penalties were terrible though, but still.

Epic game.

I think the Japanese keeper is better than Solo in everyway except looks. Japan is the only team that actually plays technical football that is not painful to watch. They did not show it in the final, except for a few moments.

Foolz said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

robio said:

It's a game they play in 3rd world countries. It's like basketball for people who aren't smart enough to use their hands and pick up the ball.

Third world countries being all contries in the world not including the good old USA.

Pretty popular train of thought in some places.

Should we mention that the USA is bankrupt and that some of the ' countries' are loaded?

SteelAttack said:

Brazil choked even worse than the US women team.

Holy shit.

Wait first Argentina and now Brazil out?! Holy shit, must watch Copa America.

Time to shed some manly tears.

The victory of the Japanese women’s soccer team at the FIFA World Cup tournament in Germany smashed a lot of preconceptions, most of them having to do with Japan’s international sports profile. However, a more specific truism bit the dust Sunday afternoon in Frankfurt when Japan came out on top, and that’s the notion that the more money you spend on a sport, the better your chances. About 1.5 million girls and women play soccer in America in some sort of organized fashion. There’s a popular professional league. Women’s soccer is a huge business. In Japan, about 45,000 girls and women play soccer. The women’s semi-pro and pro leagues are barely solvent, and there are no organized teams in Japan for elementary school girls. In fact, one of the more interesting factoids to come out of the news about the victory is that many of the members of the Japan national team started playing soccer as children on boys teams.

As pointed out in an article in the tabloid Nikkan Gendai published before the championship victory, Nadeshiko Japan was winning in spite of their meager remuneration. Very few of the members have pro contracts. Two members, Aya Samejima and Karina Maruyama, earned the most at one time playing soccer, about ¥5 million a year each, but that’s because they originally played for the Tokyo Electric Power Co. team — in Fukushima, as a matter of fact — and were thus company employees. After the disaster of March 11, Tepco’s soccer team activities were suspended, but by that point Maruyama has already left. She went to the U.S. and played for while but ended up returning to play for JEF Chiba. Gendai says her salary there is “very small.” Samejima stayed with Tepco until March and then moved to the USA, where her salary was better, the equivalent of about ¥300,000 a month. Team captain Homare Sawa earned about ¥3.6 million a year playing for the Nihon TV team, which among women soccer players is considered “good.” NTV dissolved its team not long ago, and Sawa now “makes less” playing for a team in Kobe.

They’re the exceptions, though. Gendai characterizes most of the players’ financial situations as being “borderline poverty.” When the national team was preparing for the World Cup they couldn’t start practice until after 7 every night, because most of the members had part-time jobs during the day at convenience stores and other small businesses. They had to provide their own food and were usually too tired to cook for themselves and so ended up eating a lot of junk food and instant meals, thus obliterating another truism: that athletes have to eat well to win.

Compare this to the men’s national soccer team, which employs its own chef who travels with them wherever they go. In fact, if you compare the two organizations’ financial situations, it’s easy to see how much more “cost effective” the women’s team is. Most of the pay for national players comes through incentives. Nadeshiko Japan will receive a total of ¥1.5 million from the Japan Football Association for their first place finish at the FIFA World Cup. If the men’s team came in first, they would receive ¥35 million. Second place? ¥25 million for men, ¥1 million for women. Even if the men place in the top 16 they receive some sort of bonus, but the women’s team have to place at least in the top four to receive a bonus. Also, the men’s team receives a bonus of ¥2 million for each game they win during the World Cup final. The women’s team receives ¥100,000 per win. The men’s team even get a bonus for a win during the preliminaries. The women don’t. According to Gendai, seven members of the the men’s team received a total of ¥20 million each in various bonus payments from the last FIFA World Cup in South Africa, even though the team only placed in the top 16.

It’s not clear what the women will receive after their stunning victory but some rough arithmetic would indicate that each player will probably get less than a million yen at most. If the USA women’s team had won, they would have received from the relevant American soccer association a bonus of $3 million, or ¥237 million, not to mention lots of promotional opportunities. (At present the members of Nadeshiko Japan are only being used for a lowkey ad campaign for the lunchbox chain Hotto Motto.) Not to put too fine a point on it, but do these figures make the Japanese women’s victory all the more impressive? Local news are already reporting projected “economic effectiveness” of ¥1 trillion. It’s difficult to get any more impressed with the team at this point, but even taking into consideration the size of the men’s soccer market compared to the women’s soccer market, already the Japanese language Twittersphere is exploding with one sentiment: Given what these women have done for Japan, not to mention the Japanese media, they deserve to be paid.

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Ravenprose said:

I would have taken out a slice, and thrown it at them. That's how things are done in my family.  

There would be a meltdown if I did that.

edgecrusher said:

My girlfriend is a walking contradiction sometimes....its ok when she does things, but then gets pissed if I do the exact same thing. Also when we get in an argument, she is always right no matter how wrong she in fact may be. Everything is always MY fault.

robio said:

Christ yes.... I can't win an arguement even when there is no doubt in the world I'm right. There's just something in that second X chromosome that allows women to twist time and space so that they're always right.

I've been playing Majora's Mask, got inside the Great Bay temple and there were like 6 swirling cogs and a devices to turn them. There was no way I was doing that at 10 o'clock at night so  I just quit.