Anyone remember this jem of a thread?

[BreakmanX]

I love hardware. To me the Ps3 is a work of art. Unfortunately, there has been fairly poor software support for it. MEanwhile the 360 hardware is an absolute pile of shit, but has some really great games. It is like the Mona Lisa framed with french fries and ketchup dripping down the painting, and occasionally they have to send the painting away for a month so that they can get the FUCKING ketchup off. Odd thing, the museum actually knew that the ketchup would drip and put it there in the first place.

I've never really been a part of any of the console wars up until the Xbox. It wasn't some vast conspiracy, but simply the fact that it was the first console that I'd ever owned that broke on me in 17 years. That was irritating. But, I still played it and talked well of the games I liked for the system as well as live. Of course, I knew that they would fix the issues for the 360.

I've spent more than 24 hours of my life on the phone, seriously I counted, just trying to get my system to work. I hate the 360's hardware because it has treated me poorly. It is really irritating to me that there is this great hardware, the ps3, that is so under utilized because of marketing and Microsoft's ability to get great publishers on board. Sony had also been dicks to companies for a while.

It is all cyclical. Atari was top dog for a while, then Nintendo was top dog for two console generations, SEGA was top dog for like 1/4th of a generation, then Sony was top dog for two generations, and now Nintendo is top dog again with Microsoft doing very well at second place. It is all fluid. If Microsoft releases a great console next gen, I'll get that too. The jokes about the 360 are funny, to me at least, because they are true. That's it. And it seems that many people justify all the problems as being ok because of the other stuff. No, the 360 is a piece of dog shit that happens to have great stuff for it. The 360 is not great. The games are great. When I make fun of the 360, I rarely make fun of anything beyond the hardware. That doesn't mean I hate the games for it. I love my dog, but I hate when he shits on the carpet and there is nothing that he can do that will make me enjoy the process of picking feces off the floor. I can say I hate the shit, and it doesn't mean I hate the dog.

In everything it is important to know all the flaws of that which you love so that you then can improve upon it.

[WiizerFanboy]

I love it when you make analogies.