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Well, I think the whole point is fairness among retailers in general. I think from a business standpoint Activision/Blizzard is trying to let every reseller have equal footing on the release date of the product.

I do remember being excited for that mod 5 years ago.

If by "restricting how certain contracts may be negotiated" you mean allowing competition and not letting unions and cronies control the system it's easy to see how we're advocating freedom. http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_3d93e6aa-363a-11e0-8493-001cc4c002e0.html

Well, if you'd bother to read you'd see that isn't how they got the savings. "Another 52 schools across the state saved an average of $220 per student thanks to the ability to introduce competitive bidding for health insurance, rather than automatically going through WEA Trust, the favored provider of the Wisconsin Education Association Council. If the savings are even half as large as the Governor's surveys indicate, they are still enormous."

To be fair a new color for a system in Japan isn't really news is it?

I also did not remember thinking BB was special the first time but I do enjoy it more with each time I watch it. Strange.

War Horse. I feel like Spielberg was trying to make something meaningful but it just comes off as meandering.

Austerity must be the word of the day because I've seen it at least 10 times today.

I do enjoy Digital Foundry. http://www.eurogamer...t-gen-challenge "If the overall spec seems conservative for a new console shipping seven years after the launch of the Xbox 360, it's worth factoring in that the world outside of games has changed enormously since the credit-fuelled era of 2005/2006. The economic landscape favours austerity. None of the platform holders will be looking at designs as advanced as the PS3 and Xbox 360 were back in the day; they simply can't afford the burn rate, and neither can their customers stomach steep launch prices." Estimates of 1GB of RAM still seem shockingly low to me.

Conditional prediction eh? Oh aren't we the wily one...

Why does it seem like everyone instantly turned on Telltale games right after Jurassic Park came out? Was the game that bad?

Watched The Punisher on Netflix last night. I laughed when I saw John Pinette in there. It wasn't horrible and it was pretty funny in a terrible way in a lot of places but the whole thing felt like a B movie. Best part of the movie though:

well, so far I think there have already been confirmations that there will be no new game consoles by Sony or MS and no HL3.

Like I said, you can't predict things that are already known.

Your predictions were gold last year to be sure.

MG Rising Revengance release date November 2012 (I don't think this has been formally announced yet but I could be wrong) SEGA finally gets a clue and announces Shenmue 3. Playstation Vita gets a price cut. Kinect is much less the focus of MS's show. Only 2-3 Kinect games are shown. MS instead shifts focus of Xbox to media and social networking. Xbox and PS3 both get price cuts. Wii U stage demo goes horribly wrong due to technical difficulties. Some ridiculously white person who should never dance in public dances during MS's presser to keep from breaking precedent. Sony Markets the hmz-t1 for the PS3 with branding and a price cut.

Okay people, here is the place to prove just how great your crystal ball really is. Post your SPECIFIC predictions here. +1 point for any correct predictions. -1 point for incorrect predictions. Whoever has the most points wins. You can't predict anything that's already been announced (hence the definition of predict). By specific I mean if you are calling out a game announce it must be by name not just by studio. You must call out a date if you want to claim a release date for a game at least by month. For example: Last Guardian gets release date for October 2012. Good luck peoples. Also, you if you're going to call something out for not being shown, IE: Last Guardian is a no show, then it must be something which should or could be shown and something that's at least already been announced.

Wiconsin is another good example of republican policies getting great results. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303916904577377963809965708.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop "Property taxes in the state were down 0.4% in 2011, the first decline since 1998. According to Chief Executive magazine, Wisconsin moved up four more places this year to number 20 in an annual CEO survey of the best states to do business, after jumping 17 spots last year. The Governor's office has estimated that altogether the reforms have saved Badger State taxpayers more than $1 billion, including $65 million in changes in health-care plans, and some $543 million in local savings documented by media reports. According to the Wisconsin-based MacIver Institute, Mayor Barrett's city of Milwaukee saved $19 million on health-care costs as a direct result of Mr. Walker's reforms"

Unemployment numbers are not good. More people quit looking for work and the total unemployment if you factor in those not looking for work is now around 14.5%. Yikes. http://www.foxnews.c...oice-for-obama/ "In April, about 522,000 Americans left the labor force, making the addition of 115,000 jobs look all the more alarming. In 2011, about 2.7 million Americans left the work force while only 945,000 came in."

Ben-Hur and The Bridge on the River Kwai. I was pretty glued to both of them as I'd never seen either before. My dad makes it his business to hand me a new old movie blu-ray every time I see him now. Baby crying all night means I had plenty of time to watch them.

Con Air was one of the first R movies I saw so I remember it with fondness.

There's a Battlechess Kickstarter now.

While I agree with you that he needed to act on the intelligence it's the manner in which he's taking credit for it. I mean, you can debate how they got the intelligence. Obama only made a decision to kill Obama and is for some reason trying to make it seem like a really hard decision and even going so far as to say Romney would not have made the same decision. It's all quite poppycock.