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Nope, only Minis work on both PS3 n PSP.

I mentioned this in the BAVGA article but for those that don't read PXOD: It seems pretty neat. I'd like to have a shot at it. Oh and it's free. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-nightjar/id431598741?mt=8

http://www.borderlands2.com/loveletter Borderlands 2 touts it's support for non-shitty port like Borderlands 1 was.

http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/5623/article/the-final-hours-of-mass-effect-3-sheds-light-on-controversial-ending/ Also seems the fan theory of how the game ends is debunked: Also TIM really? Harbinger not good enough?

It starts in about 45 minutes if anyone is interested.

I feel that the background...well more foreground.. music is a bit off and a bit much mind. Especially as it sounds nothing like the battlefield theme. Other than that, kinda neat.

But no one said you had to have two kids and two cars. If you're having kids you can't afford that's kinda your own fault. Also does US not have any form of tax credits/child benefits for families?

The news feed more conceded that maybe folks complaining on the ending are alright to complain, but they never really dispute their view that people are being silly about it. Not really helped by yesterdays post by CW "I don't know/understand" Gabriel. (Though Tycho was also a balancing voice of reason there, even pointing out a few examples of an ending change in games before now)

You can live in a small apartment and have a roof over your head. Providing someone a house is different. Ethan was talking about people losing their houses. As far as medical treatment goes everyone gets life sustaining medical care. Beyond that, if you want medicine you should have to pay for it. Ah, so the disagreement was over semantics then? (despite house covering pretty much any dwelling people live in.) As for life sustaining medical care I was under the impression in the US it was only life saving, not sustaining?

Oh totally forgot. a convo from last night in steam chat: He thought I was making a joke Also PA have covered the stuff about the ending in a comic Nice to see they missed the point by miles.

Okay so if having a roof over your head and to be in good health isn't what you consider to be the minimum standard of living a country can provide it's population then what would you say should/is the minimum standard of living? Like if you were to lose everything tomorrow what would you be perfectly happy with as a minimum standard of living for you and your family?

There's an awful lot of hotels and airports out there. It's not only a decently sized niche, but hugely profitable one too. I can't see your utility supplier having power over your outlets tbh. Yes cut off all electricity as is now, but having the ability to access your internal systems is a bit...nope.

As far as cheating "the competition" we were actively encouraged to pirate adobe n autodesk software in college. So everyone was pretty much on a level playing field in that. (As Ethan said they sort of encourage that too. Unless you're a business then they'll come down hard, but student use is awesome for them cos they know when you're in a position to be buying software, well if Photoshop is king of the torrents then you'll be buying that instead of Paintshop Pro.) As far as games go, about the only competition between two gamers would be their skill at MP and achievements. Most pirated games you can't really do the MP, at least against paying customers, and don't get achievements. Copying recipes would be patent infringement. I think this is where a lot of the issues arrive in discussion is that for most folks patents,copyrights n trademarks are the same thing. The disc the game goes on and the engine that runs it - patented The name on the box - trademarked The characters and locations within the game - copyright. And the rules weren't really meant to get at "the little people" but the big people. i.e to stop...Square from making a game set in Hyrule. Or Atlus making a "Legend of Zelda" game. Or Nintendo making a controller with a glowing orb on the end. It's why Disney tends to be at the forefront of copyright laws, they don't do it to stop joe bloggs from torrenting Beauty and the Beast, they do it to stop Dreamworks from making a Mickey Mouse movie.

See that's what made most of the choices across several games seem cheap, in that pretty much the only thing that these major decisions did was to tag a "50" onto your war assets. Was that really the only way they could think to take the collector base into account is "wooh, 100 war assets". Yes RPGs involve a lot of numbers but that was just taking the piss.

It's hardly like you're having to take every single conversation answer and minute detail into account. Main choices are as such: That's roughly 9 or so fairly chunky choices. Explained in pokemon the endings are: Oh n here's Fallout New Vegas and it's 1,001 different ending conclusions: http://fallout.wikia...w_Vegas_endings There's nothing infeasible about the amount of endings they could produce. Especially when all they did for the most part was change the colour of the renders.

I guess it'd be useful for hotels and airports. Especially as more n more folks bring electric gadgets n such around with them. There's no advantages to include this tech in normal homes and appliances but does come with an added cost, so I can't see it being used there.

Origin, unlike GFW n Steam, doesn't have a built in achievement system meaning stuff to get folks back into the game via MP and NG+ is largely pointless beyond the games base merits.

Question: I know in the US "The rich" get's the euphemism of "job creators", is there any tax related incentives for these "job creators" to actually...create jobs. Or is it more of a "we have the funds to get many people into work, but whether we actually use those funds to do that or not doens't actually matter". Cos that seems a fair deal to offer something like that. Don't necessarily pay higher taxes, keeping your cash from the money grubbing gov't and unwashed masses, but getting to direct your funds into worthwhile society building endeavours at your own discretion. If your paying your cash as a salary to those that were unemployed instead of as taxes fudning those out of work then it cuts down multiple issues: lowers unemployment stops you from having to fund jobless degenerates employed people can pay shit for themselves n carry their weight no need to put your cash directly to inefficient gov't keep your lower tax rates. edit: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303863404577281483630937016.html $100 to use the TSA express lane for frequent flyers.

http://www.geekosystem.com/send-them-your-money-project/ hehhe

All the non-ABC endings at once! See if you can spot the difference, which guys saved the rachni, which killed the geth, the ones that saved the collector base n the save where everyone lived. (even Kaiden n Ashley at the same time)

I'm not sure I'm keen on the model of: Buy game, then buy ending/arrival/truth later. I guess it's a pretty smart way to break past the $60 pricing barrier, but not one I'm keen on as a gamer.

@Excel: It's half price over here since the start, it's US where it's not half price. For some random reason.

iirc it was around 43 people in a group of 20 thousand. And given it was a public group it's kinda hard to have people not come in and make everyone else look bad for a screenshot.