Published by Swiss James on 28 Feb 2008 at 01:22 pm
One for the geeks
This is how they cool down their XBox 360s in Shanghai.
Why they do this, I don’t know.
The shop I took this in is the place I buy my Nintendo Wii stuff from. It’s full of menboys in the early 20s, who smoke and play video games from morning until night, or I suppose until their Mum calls them home for tea. I’m a software engineer and even I think they’re geeks.
The only way to tell which of the trogolodytes is a customer and which work there is to try and open the glass cabinets (full of steering wheels, Wii Fit, and every colour of PSP known to humanity) and see which one of them starts smoking faster in a panic. Cheap, pirated games though, so it’s worth a visit if you’re into that kind of thing.
Beijing Xi Lu, a few 100 metres West of the Changde Lu junction
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
Stacey Derbinshire
was that spam? I can’t even tell any more
Yes I think it is SPAM. The clue is there’s no specific reference to your post just generic waffle. It’s designed to get you and other readers to click on the link and poke around.
she says such lovely things though, I can’t bring myself to delete it.
Why do you never say stuff like that?
You see how the spammer has cunningly appealed to your ego. If you can’t bring yourself to delete the comment, perhaps the knowledge that it’s probably not even a SHE might ease your resistance!
As for saying nice things, haven’t I told you repeatedly that I enjoy your blog slightly more than Shopgirl’s blog. What more do you want!
Why does that picture make me drool?
Damn still waiting for my xbox from Microsoft repair center
Stacey’s a girl’s name right? Anyway this thread wouldn’t make sense without it now so it stays!
It would be nice, WoAi, if you asked me how my day was, bought me flowers, tell me my new theme was pretty or something.
Jin- you’re as bad as those people! Do you have really wispy hair on your neck and smoke about 300 Double Happiness cigarettes a day?
Try telling that to Stacy Keach. And have you ever heard of a man impersonating a woman on the internet? It happens!
Flowers are on the way together with a congratulatory note on your latest theme and a drop dead gorgeous banner. Your choice of font is also worthy of mention but there wasn’t enough room on the card for that.
Her false surname proves its not a real person.
Stacey Augmon is also a man. A 6′6″ NBA player to be exact.
I am being requested by my friends to purchase a Wii to go along with my new GIANT television (since they are all xBox owners). I may succumb to their peer pressure.
Heck, you know smoking and playing video game these days pays 6 figures. Bling bling.
i think if i’m going to get another gaming system, it’ll have to be the wii. it’s supposed to be fun for parties and the kids will (hopefully) like it.
don’t fight the Wii, it’s magnificent. Thinking about getting Guitar Hero for it next, the controller plus the game costs the same as just the game back home, plus they’ll throw in a few free games to sweeten the deal so I might as well do it whilst I’m here eh?
Angie PLEASE do not even think about any game console other than Wii. This isn’t one of those “which games console is best” things. XBox or Playstation are amazing machines, but with the age of your kids (ie your son is not a manboy …. yet) the Wii is the no brainer. For the family wedding in Venice last year, we rented a Palazzo with 11 bedrooms and lots of kids ranging from 3 years old to - ahem - 39 years. The Wii kept them all entertained for the entire week.
Oh, and get the Wii Fit for yourself. That’s not a hint about your figure, it’s just great fun (ask James, he tried mine and bought one for himself the next day!).
Oh. My. God. Did you just call me “fat”?!
=P
I bought a Wii fit on Sunday and I’ve already lost 8 pounds and won a summer house in Portland, Oregon.
No Angie what I am saying is Wii Fit is probably the most fun you can have without getting naked!
Wait. . . you don’t have to be naked to do Wii Fit?
T - Obviously being naked is best but if you’re a prude you can still actually get some benefit from it while clothed.
I’m glad you kept “Stacey’s” comment because after searching google for her name I came across this post which was good for two reasons. 1. I got to read a blog I otherwise wouldn’t have known about and 2. I know to mark her comment on my own blog. Keep up the good work indeed. Knifty
hey swiss james, do the pirated wii games in china need a mod chip on the system to run, and are they region locked?
lei - I think it came already chipped, I presume it must have done. It is region locked though, I got a couple of UK games for my birthday and they didn’t work
Then again, I can just buy the pirated version.
aww, that sucks, i was thinking about buying cheap pirated wii games in china when i get there in the summer.
tell you what I’ve just realised- mine is a Japanese version because that’s all that was out at the time. You can probably bring your own wii over here to get it chipped then get pirated games to take home.
You’re bound to need to do something to the machine though, it won’t just play CDs that have been copied, Nintendo aren’t daft!
i was thinking that the chinese game pirates would be highly skilled enough. i guess i was wrong…
well in that case you could say
“If the pirates were skilled enough, they should be able to paint some magic symbols on the case and make it play PS3 games”
If they were smart enough they would make the Wii games work even if you don’t have a Wii, but I guess they’re not that smart.
could you give more specific instructions? i havent been in shanghai for that long.
and by instructions i mean directions…..