Happy Happy b-day Engadget!

happy birthday engadget. you are my favorite site that starts with the letter E!

Happy birthday! Hopefully you will be around for a long while to come. :)

I understand you're in a traffic battle with all the other tech blogs out there Engadget but you should maybe start taking into consideration why a lot of your fans come to this site. Normally I look the other way when it comes to these apple speculation pieces but this one is just so blatantly bad (it's a picture of a picture on a monitor for crying out loud!) that I can't imagine what was going through your heads when you decided to post this.

It's like you're giving any Apple "news" a free ride to the front page without actually doing any research. Instead of acting as a filter for tech BS, you're now a conduit. Consider yourselves deleted from my bookmarks.

Definitely rockin' some Big Black, Sisters of Mercy, The Sound, and Echo and the Bunnymen

I've lost weight thanks to excersize and diet. I have fun playing my Wii. You'd really have to be out of shape to consider playing the Wii a workout.

I mean, I'm all for the merging of exersize and fun, but let's not go nuts here people. The Wii is a toy, not an excersize machine.

Get an mp3 player and go for a run for god sakes.

A mature gamer is one who plays as little games as possible. So I don't really get this 360/ps3 are for mature gamers attitude. When you sit down to play a game all day, how exactly does that make you more mature? Also, as a few others have already noted, violent games are in no way mature (except as a literal rating). Sure technically they can only be bought by people over a certain age, but that doesn't mean they are more intelligent (which is what smug "hardcore" gamers consider themselves).

I'm 25 and a Wii owner. It is my "primary console", whatever that means. I don't intend on buying a ps3, or an xbox 360. In fact, I think the xbox 360 and ps3 are inherently alienating. The image conjured in my head when I think of people playing xbox 360 or a ps3 is someone playing them ALONE in a dark room/basement until obcene hours of the night, chugging red bull, and instantly jumping online to tell their message board friends how kick ass this new game is. Think: DEPRESSING.

I don't mean to stereotype but when I've actually played the so called "hardcore" gamer systems, they've always been in similar surroundings as I described above. Nobody's really having a great time and there's always someone who's played it so much that multiplayer matches are impossible because they kick everyone's ass.

I've played Wii Tennis for about 15 minutes a day since I bought my Wii and I still lose to my friends who don't even own the system. The learning curve is perfectly suited for a group enviroment. Games are supposed to be fun, not ego boosters for the socially alienated.

I've played GoW, Halo 2, and a few of the more popular games and the amount of fun I have playing Wii Golf is more than all of them combined.

I have an Xmod in my car and a Sound Blaster Audigy ZS for my notebook. I hooked the xmod up to my laptop and compared it to my audigy ZS and I liked the Audigy ZS better in terms of sound clarity. The Xmod is great for a car though.

So this is like a poke in the eye for those of us (read: me) who are fruitlessly searching for a Wii to use it for its intended purpose.