Thursday Next

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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23961357 22nd November, worldwide. (Worldwide in this case being UK, US, Ireland, Canada, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Brazil, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand.)

Yeah, it's not a "first person to invoke a nazism comparison loses" rule it's stating that the longer a discussion continues the more likely it is that nazism will be raised. It's no different to saying "the likelihood that someone will say "um" increases the longer a conversation continues."

http://kitkat.com/#/home Is a pretty cool site too.

And just to be clear, I'm not passing judgement on Dean or any of his family, beyond echoing his feelings that parents should not accessorise their children until they are able to give full and informed consent. Especially where those accessories are permanent.

Being a tad snobby, I do tend to be a bit judgemental of parents who have the ears of their children pierced. Especially when they are not even able to stand, let alone walk, or you know, express an opinion about it. EDIT: I mean the children are unable to stand, as they are 6mths old. Not the parents because they are drinking special brew at 8 in the morning.

Partly because it always takes me a beat to work it out, but also because it can't be read like "lol" or "rofl" can. "Smuh"?

Not sure if this was intentional, but I love that you used a picture of the GamesMaster. Nostalgia-tastic.