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TIL: The Flying Gebril is a stand-up guy!

I've got the original Ico with post cards.

Checking emails, not reading them. If I see something from say Amazon, that is not a dispatch notification I can happily delete it and not waste time taking out my phone to see that it is a pointless marketing email. The watch enables me to know when I need my hugemungous phone and when I can safely dismiss such notifications. Is it really big deal for the marketing email though? If you use Kaiten mail instead of Gmail you can mark as read right from the notification bar. On the Moto X you can see that notification and deal with it really fast, too. Though I also use Unroll.me to deal with shit like that so I have my email on lock pretty well. What I mean is, I can check the watch, see the subject / from and decide whether I want to take time out to read and respond to the message, or just delete it. If it's deletable, the phone never leaves my pocket, if it's important then I get the phone out. It might be a notification from Amazon saying "Your package has shipped" I'd dismiss but not delete that message. It might be from my friend asking me to take a look at his CV in which case I'll need the phone, it might be from my Dad forwarding on some stupid joke that I can just delete. It adds another layer of filtering beyond the notification tone / vibration.

It'd also be really weird to smell tasty...

Fourth degree Extends through entire skin, and into underlying fat, muscle and bone[10] Black; charred with eschar Dry Painless 4th degree is where it's at! Painless.

Also Gravity Rush is not supported at launch... Ouch...

That's what I thought. I checked on Wikipedia and apparently they are. Of course now that they are a thing RebootCop 2 will have to feature 5th degree burns over 110% of his body.

PS4 is in the living room. The boys come home and want to play it but... Dang it all to hell, the parents are watching some sci-fi action flick. Oh well. Knock the PlayStation 4 on, grab a couple of controllers and remote play the PS4 on your bedroom telly via PS Vita TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MoTr_-FE0U I guess this belongs here?

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/09/09/sce-japan-playstation-press-conference-2013-livestream/#comments PS Vita TV (Skip to ~1hr 55m).

Checking emails, not reading them. If I see something from say Amazon, that is not a dispatch notification I can happily delete it and not waste time taking out my phone to see that it is a pointless marketing email. The watch enables me to know when I need my hugemungous phone and when I can safely dismiss such notifications.

Only use case I can think of is as FDS says in something like Demon's Souls where I wait in a safe area for health / magic to regenerate.

Tried a different browser? In case it's a stored password / oddly named cookie thing.

Yeah, not keen on him having a face. Makes him too human. In fact the whole Alex Murphy death/torture scene is hugely dehumanising. It's what, like 10 minutes long? He has his arm removed is literally shot to pieces. It's also a bit stupid/convenient that 80% of his body has 4th degree burns, but his face and right hand apparently have 0th degree burns.

Did not know that. Maybe they should add a lefty or two into the ads. As for size. I, for example would be happy with a Note sized device for emailing, watching videos and playing games. But for general phoney things like checking the time, texting, and checking emails, tweets and other notifications a smaller device would be preferable. A Note III + Gear bundle would be tempting.

"Second Party": Two words. Four syllables. Twelve characters. Everyone knows what you mean. "Limited Third Party": Three words. Six syllables. Eighteen characters. Nobody apart from FDS knows what you are on about. Ignoring the time taken in arguing semantics with a pedant, "Second Party" is much more efficient way of making the point.

Problem I have with Notes is that they use pens and I am sinister. Means that little things like the menus and stuff tend to be aligned for right handedness. Also, I totally get pairing your biggest phone with the smart watch. It's the third Note, but lots of people might have been holding off due to size issues. The gear removes that barrier to entry (at a significant cost).

I see. Big difference between exclusives and "exclusives". PS exclusives will all only be on PS. Xbox has a different interpretation of the word, hence quotation marks.

Purchased Killzone Mercs. Anyone else? Not played it since the Beta started so not sure how friends, clans whatever work.

It get's the point across. At the end of the day that's the aim right?

No idea if they will or not. But other exclusives, Titan Fall being a prime example, will be on PC. My point being that PC + PS4 will give you a broader spectrum than PC + XBox One. There will still be one or two exceptions but then I never really was overly enamoured of Halo.

Killzone Mercs. (Vita) Walking Dead. (Vita) Also got Stealth Bastard, Urban Trials and New Little Kings Story on Vita thanks to Plus. Vita is rapidly becoming my #1 gaming device.

Back on topic, I'd not bother with an Xbone largely because if you have a PC and a PS4 you will get all the PS4 exclusives and all the Xbox One "exclusives" (eventually).

Who the hell eats KitKats so wrong?

Will be interesting to see if Sony respond by bringing EU launch in line with US.