Saturday, 12/02/06
4. Nintendo is betting the farm that just like megapixels don't matter as much nowadays when buying digital cameras as lens quality, camera features, etc., the number of polygons your console's processor spits out at what resolution matters less than how fun the games are. As someone who's nonplussed by fancy graphics in video games, I'll take that bet.
He later copped to having knowingly misused "nonplussed" in the American style to provoke a response, but kept quiet about the real syntactic genius of that last sentence. By similarly inverting the original, negative meaning of "I'll take that bet", he composed a double negative out of mangled American idioms. 03:24PM «
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