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Spend less time asking what game we're getting, start hoping and trusting that we get a game at all. The Pebblewatch Kickstarter just shipped to Best Buy instead of backers first; the Ouya game console sold out on Amazon without first shipping to Kickstarter backers, and the Double Fine Kickstarter game just ran out of money ($3mil) and will now dump half a game onto Steam's early release program for full price until that pays for the second half to be released as a "free" update. I'll be delighted to get a Project Eternity game of any kind.

How, exactly. Show me some evidence for willful corporate malfeasance.

Most all of the OO devs left the project to start Libre Office. I have it on my machine, but I cannot say whether there are now colons where you expect them. Edit: woops, I see your thread, now.

Evidently, "Deal With It" knows exactly how to deal with it. Just another reason I'm happy to jump ship to Sony this year.

Sorry, man. They were already showing the highlights here about two hours ago. Thought it wasn't sensitive. No, it's my fault anyway, sorry.

^^ Dude!! Spoiler Alert! Aww, damn ... oh well, at least it wasn't Red Bull.

The bonkers sale on Amazon finally got me to buy Borderlands 2, as well as (most of) its DLC, and even the first Borderlands, for barely $20.

Stromatolites exhausted their way into converting the entire atmosphere into a free oxygen environment.

Not so much what I did today, as who I saw. Saw again, at random. She might be an angel in real life, though I've never seen her face. An ultra-rare being with a black Arai helmet, a green ZX-10, and hips better-defined than a 458 Italia's. The first time I saw her, was at Chevron on Birmingham, topping off at dusk in full gear: jacket, gloves, boots, and that Arai, visor down. She left the station and I swooned. Dude, only military and thrill-junkies ride sportbikes (mine is a CBR), and here was this trim, 105lb female taking off with all the grace that only total control brings. Today I drove the cage home, and there she was again, turning off of Marron onto Monroe, still lithe and lovely. Just the third time I've seen her in three years. I know, pics, or she's not real, but that bike has 160 horsepower ... she is impossible to capture on film.

Ha, I was there, too. Maybe not a nosedive, just no direction at all. Not better, not worse, only the same traversal/discovery pattern. I still enjoy Lara's adventures from then and now, however. You might be right that it was Fallout, anyway. I didn't mean to imply that Inquisition looks like a traversal-type exploration, nor that it's patently obvious. But when marketing tells me that, unlike DA:O and DA2, the Inquisitor player character will get to "explore much more," I believe it. Maybe I just want to, too much.

It should be obvious already. Multiple quotes have said it will be about characters and great exploration therewith. Inquisition is gonna be a humdinger.

Nice, nice! Bryce Canyon would be the most amazing geology in the West if it weren't for that other big hole sorta nearby. Well, and Yosemite. And those deep underground caverns in New Mexico, with the gigantic crystals. Actually, Yellowstone, too. And Death Valley. Man, it's beautiful out here.

Very likely. EA has heard our cries and is doing something about it.

Live NASA satellite launch on now!! http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html Literally rocket-launched from the bottom of an L-1011 jumbo liner.

A must-have, no doubt. I'm convinced graphical fidelity will be nearly identical on a 7850 PC and PS4, at launch of DA:I ... so I'm opting for the wireless controller version on the bigger screen. Speaking of fidelity, I may have a crush on the interviewer in this E3 back-and-forth with Bioware's Jessica Merizan. Not many specifics about Inquisition, unless you follow her advice and go read the third book in the Dragon Age saga, which I have not.

Nice, very good. Good news, indeed. So long, Prop Hate. Many tears of cheer out here in CA streets.

MERPS ... Middle-earth Role Playing System. Wasn't my first, but might have been my favorite. Top Secret, I think it was called ... a spy RPG. GURPS ... Generic Universe. Didn't play that too much. AD&D was the main platform. The Forgotten Realms were well and truly remembered.

My brains are depleted after stumbling over the syntax in that peer review article rant. That level of indignation reads like a rejection letter. A rebuttal to a breakup. And the most "exciting period" in science is decidedly every new day we're here to see it. The most interesting part of the OP article was the "milliseconds" reaction time for feelings to manifest. I feel, faster than I think. Which likely means Rodin mislabeled his work. That sculptured Thinker isn't thinking, it's feeling, and then deciding how to interpret it. Hmmm ...

I wish I had a thousand dollars. You don't have to come up with a thousand dollars until November. Pre-orders are just promises to buy later. I can only promise for one console. The potential for a quick ebay sale later this year is good, I think, but I will also say that Amazon has four different guaranteed-launch-day-delivery PS4 bundles, available for the last ten days, all of which still listed in the top ten biggest sellers in video games, with Day One Xbox One also still available. In other words, it's relatively easy to reserve a new console right now, despite the fact pre-order totals for both consoles peaked at 2500 units per minute June 10-14. Also Gamestop told its managers to accept an unlimited amount of PS4 pre-orders for an indefinite amount of time, for now. I'm just saying, don't gamble on multiple pre-orders unless you can. Edit: Or not. You can always cancel it the day before it ships.

I have read your arguments carefully, and find you to be diligent. Maybe I took a different survey, but country of origin wouldn't matter. There are no accurate or inaccurate results from a subjective questionnaire about decision-making. Particularly when we don't know what relevance, if any, the data will have upon the greater thesis. You never know, double-blind, this could be a purely free-form experiment in psychology that has nothing whatever to do with video games and reviews. I kinda hope there is a psychiatric professor behind this--then maybe what's-his-name might get help and stop practically shouting his transference neurosis, cripes.

The prize of my blu-ray TV collection so far, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Gradually finishing Season 3 now, until late next month when Season 4 comes out. CBS Digital has taken great pains to restore the series, frame by frame from the original 35mm. The fidelity is just ... it brings a tear to my eye. All new CG planets, digital FX, 7.1 DTS ... *sniff* Unrelated but equally endearing, Lucy Liu makes Elementary worthwhile, all on her own IMO. She has a natural stoic depth making up for Watson's kind of reticent dialogue. And I half-expect O-Ren Ishii to come out at any moment.

So I'll never get to play a Dragonlance game ... son of a gully dwarf. I won't give up hope. I'll just have to win Powerball and start my own studio.

The hardware isn't the only important factor here. By the time their library has grown to something semi interesting, their hardware will be pretty much outdated. And right now...well...it's like this and this VS. this and this. The only thing that has given the consoles such a long lifespan are the exclusive games, otherwise they would have long been in the dead book by now. With all that said, I still wouldn't mind having a PS4 once some good games are out for it. The dead book. I like it. It's where the movie, Children of Men, should stay and never come out. Comparing new game availability versus old, or just depth of library ... Sony said they plan to allow PS4 players to stream a library of PS, PS2, and PS3 games to the new console. I find that very convenient, as long as I can download and store each game, available for offline play. Talking to you, The Last of Us. And the number of surprisingly good indie titles coming up, make the platform equal in appeal to my PC. I think direct comparison is plausible now, what with shared x86 going around. Customization changes comparison, but so does a driver update. Whatever the experience is post-pipeline should be able to be measured, objectively enough to satisfy my hardware nerd jones. All I'm saying, is that it's a great time to be an enthusiast. Viable, durable, powerful choices are available.

A little further down in that article: The 7870 is $200 on a good day, which would be half of the PS4's cost alone. Of course, you would also have to add a physical case to your system, plus input devices, a blu-ray drive, and an operating system--all of which are included with the console. Not to mention the PS4 finally comes bundled with an HDMI cable. Yay! By now you're up to at least $800 for a similarly spec'd PC. Anand has some good write-ups on the new hardware, even though he's resolutely a CPU champion.

No, the custom chip in new consoles is not "one quarter" strength of even Haswell. You cannot build a 7870/660 system with an input device for $400.