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DragonBomber · #9 Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:25 pm

@ Axis

It's gypped, and I should know being party Czech Gypsy. ;) Jipped and gyped are both in popular use but really it doesn't match the supposed racial stereotypes the term is trying to evoke. The people you are entertaining with your slurs will at least have no way to attack your grammar. :) Don't feel bad, I educated a teenager here in the South about how some people might take offense to that phrase just the same as he would take offense to the slur most would have thought up looking at him, when I worked at a gas station 3rd shift. There were no rules, only my own amusement and making sure cash was good and the store was clean.

@ NinjaBomber

I have played a handful of those mobile games via emulation and random phones. My wife's old cigarette-burned phone has one still on there but charging the phone for a single game using crappy keypad input is not fun. I can map a joypad to the keyboard buttons for the emulator so it's not as bad somehow.

There are actually even more of those games if you do a deep search on some of the Japanese mobile phone game sites. There's a whole spectrum of quality. There's a genre of mobile games that are horrible quality, nearly monochrome, able to be played on a variety of mobile devices with some sort of subscription deal. One of them had Bomberman playing hackey sack of all things. Weird colors used for sprites at times. There also was one that was nothing but him hitting baseballs. Someone else reading likely recalls the genre/class of phone games I'm speaking of, though my notes are at home/stored away on some external harddrive somewhere.

It totally makes me wish I lived in Japan as there's nothing even half as cool here.