Mr. GOH!

The Cowboy Poet has not thrown off his console slave mentality. PC gaming is the only right and true way to game without being beholden to a terrible anti-consumer console manufacturer. I mean, the fact that he thinks strategy games are improved for consoles is evidence enough to demonstrate that he's in the grips of console Stockholm syndrome.

Well, when late-in-the-cycle great console games are released late in the cycle, then it might be worth buying a console. I did not miss much the last cycle waiting a few years to buy a 360 and almost six years to buy a PS3.

It'll have way more games than either console, however,

Margins on unsold hardware and software are pretty shitty, even for Nintendo, though.

Okay, who wants Crusader Kings 2? Gotta friend me on steam, though. And it's gone.

The bottom line: both consoles suck, buy a gaming PC.

Playing Papers, Please! A dystopian document thriller. It's great for a $10 game. Brilliantly designed. You play a lucky soul who wins the October, 1982 Labor Lottery in the fictional Eastern Bloc country Arzstotzka. You are assigned to be the bureaucrat-on-the-spot at a new customs checkpoint. You earn money for every person you correctly let into the country. You must manually check immigrants' and visitors papers, passports, visas, and so on to make sure everything is right. You must also earn enough money to pay your rent and buy food for your family and pay the heating bill. Of course, trying to make it in a terrible communist bureaucratic hell is tough, with the government changing entry requirements daily, terrorist cells attempting to bribe or blackmail you, and your coworkers trying to make deals. It's fantastic. http://dukope.com/ <--- great capsule description from the maker http://papersplea.se/

Cloud computing is nonsense with the speed and latency of average household internet connection in the U.S. What will likely happen, step by step, is: 1. Player hits 'record.' 2. Xbone begins records to the HDD. 3. Either while it's recording, or after the player hits 'stop,' it uploads the recording to cloud storage. It also deletes the data on the HDD when the upload is finished.

It takes a very long time to re-skin old Zelda and Mario games, Ethan. Be patient, and you'll get a slightly higher definition version of all your favorite Nintendo franchises. Just don't think about how, under that friendly, shiny exterior, there is no soul any longer.

Papers, Please! A Dystopian Document Thriller. http://papersplea.se/ Bought with the proceeds of from the sale of every single steam card I owned.

Word. Nintendo fucked up. I think we can all agree on that.

Ridiculous. Netflix is free on every other goddamn device I own, so why would I pay extra to watch it via the Xbone? I mean, people have goddamn BLUR AY PLAYERS that stream Netflix and such. Just have to switch the input and bypass the fucking Xbone.

If Nintendo were truly planning to abandon the Wii U, there'd be a fire sale to just liquidate the inventory to recoup what they can. Nintendo's Wii U strategy is to hold on through the end of 2014, I reckon. They believe they're playing the long game and, although they fucked up the launch, they want to see if the Wii U will catch ona t this price point rather than at a lower price point. I think Nintendo does not want the Wii U to be the bargain-basement console the Wii was. *Why* that is, is beyond me, since the Wii was terrible yet made Nintendo a shitload of money.

Nintendo says it won't be cutting prices on the Wii U any time soon because Nintendo is already taking a loss on each unit sold. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-08-07-nintendo-still-selling-wii-u-at-a-loss I do wonder why the article gets the Wii U prices wrong. Isn't the 32Gb option $350 and the 8GB cruel joke option $300? Good luck, Wii U. You're gonna need it.

It was also code for "this is a console timed exclusive, so buy a new console at launch like a sucker!"

The Xbone is undoubtedly a more complicated console that the 360, in terms of both hardware and software. Even if I wanted an Xbone, I'd wait a good six months before buying to see just how, exactly, MS will fuck things up. Hopefully not as badly as they did with the 360 and its RROD issues, but a lot more can go wrong with the Xbone rollout than could with the 360.

Hate to break it to ya, Wally, but the repeated failing of your 360s was a sign of severe karmic imbalance and great evil in your soul. If you were pure and good, you'd still be on your original 360.

I played Remember Me to the first substantial memory manipulation. I had been drinking whiskey while playing and was, by that point, too drunk to understand how memory manipulation is supposed to work. So I got fed up, and rage quit. Not sure when I'll get back to it.

Making a homemade honey mustard marinade for some turkey cutlets tomorrow. Gonna roast fingerling potatoes (with truffle oil-infused salt FUCK YES) and steam a bunch of asparagus and kale for the veggies. Num num num.

Fools, the Xbone is gonna be watercooled like a boss. Deluxe version comes inside it's own mini-freezer, too. I had three 360s, and two redringed. The first was an unofficial refurb that lasted all of three months. the second was an Arcade I bought new in 2008 (had an HDD from the refurbed unit), and it RROD'd in less than seven months. My most recent one still works, AFAIK, since I haven't turned it on for almost two years.

Playing BL2 solo, because I don't get along with people. I feel that the BL2 environments are more interesting and that the enemy variety is much better. But, yes; it's still Borderlands, and if you disliked the core concept of BL1, BL2 isn't for you.

Didn't see it noted anywhere, but many large cities in the USA have passed LGBT employment protection laws. It's out in the GOP fever swamps of rural and suburban America that you can be fired on account of the type of consenting adult with which you like to share orgasms. Also, I scored 'Straight' on the test to which Dean linked.

Bottom line is that Nintendo better not be relying on an HD remake of WindWaker to sell the WiiU. I won't call the Wii U doomed at this point, but if sales have not improved much after the holiday season, Nintendo is in for a world of hurt.

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing. So sue me, I wanna play another Diablo clone with loot and killing waves of baddies.

SeppukWiiU?