Thursday Next

Played Rain through to completion on Saturday morning. Thoroughly enjoyed it. The music, the art style, the storytelling were all spot on. The platforming was solid. Never felt like I missed a jump because the controls were iffy or the camera angle was deceptive or anything like that. The puzzles were relatively simple, but for the length of the game, they went deep enough. I think I'm mostly through Beyond now. Hopefully I can finish that this week and get back to TLoU.

Feels to me like my actions affect my character development more than directly affecting the story. But I'll see when I play through again. Personally, I'm loving it at the moment.

I think the reason they say that is that the power output of the cigarette lighter etc. is not enough to keep up with the power drain. I've certainly found that charging through anything other than the power brick is slow as molasses.

Acquired Soul Sacrifice, Beyond and Puppeteer.

The Last of Us - The feels! Mirror's Edge - Most underrated game of a generation. Anyone who did not jump on this at launch is pretty much responsible for the constant dirge of CoD, Battlefield, Gears etc etc etc shooty man games. Dead Space 2 (even though I liked 3 more, 2 is generally accepted as the peak and I want the series in there). This list was brought to you mostly by my employer, though I did drop Mass Effect 2 for TLoU.

I know how you feel. I hear voices sometimes, but I just ignore them and carry on killing.

How's that stylus working out for you?

I own a couple of others, but really only use PS3, Vita, PC and Android. PS4 on order obvs.

If it means no more queues at theme parks, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

What Dean said. It's the sealing that really makes it. Plus, it's pretty much guaranteed to cook evenly.

Yeah, but we can just grow meat in labs now.

Meh, I can live with that. Means I don't have to worry about getting on the housing ladder. Hopefully we'll have a rapture so that we can shed a lot of the population and that will open up more space for the rest of us. Doubly good as the remaining population will be atheistic sciencey types.

Mmm... Toasties... How would that even work on a skillet (a skillet to my understanding being a frying pan). English v English snip coming in 3...2...

Oh my yes! It must be nearly time to kick of suspect santa-ness!

I reckon they will do a couple of machines themselves as vanity products, but the majority of machines with Steam OS will be third party or home built.

I have time for Underworld, Eckhart and Nighy. Looks like a fun little movie.

Just to chuck in my 2p. The Valve site says: "The specific machine we're testing is designed for users who want the most control possible over their hardware. Other boxes will optimize for size, price, quietness, or other factors." I think it helps to think of the lower spec machine as an entry level, standalone, steam machine. It's got enough horsepower to run most recent titles. From the comment above, I'd suggest that a much cheaper slave machine is being contemplated that would be a pure streaming device. I could be wrong though. I happen to agree with Dean that Valve are unlikely to be jumping into the hardware market in a big way. They seem to want to produce to broad a spectrum of devices from streaming boxes up to full rigs, that means that they are not going to be ordering in the levels needed to reduce costs.Sony and MS will be producing tens of millions of machines with identical components. Even taking the soft option that Valve are building 3x standalone machines and say 2 flavours of streaming only device, that cuts their buying power dramatically.

“I think we need to have that moment where we realize [we’re] going broke,” Yoho said. If the debt ceiling isn’t raised, that will sure as heck be a moment. “I think, personally, it would bring stability to the world markets,” since they would be assured that the United States had moved decisively to curb its debt. Great stuff, now, can we get some leading economists to go give their utterly uninformed opinions on how best to treat cattle for various ailments?

4 tickets to this!

I've never had an issue with Kindle. Don't see DRM as a problem since I am able to install a kindle app on almost everything save my microwave oven. It all works seamlessly. Hell, my mum can use it which is testament to its ease on its own.

Yeah... bit odd. Probably down to a flat organisation meaning the mundane stuff gets overlooked because everyone has wheeled their desks to cooler areas.

TIL: The Cowboy Poet is an Elf Racist. They all look the same to him. Shun the racist!

Likely being done as much to prevent someone else squatting on the name as to actually use the name themselves.

Love me some Dizzee!

Given the amount of pain I am in afterwards, that's actually not far from the truth.