TheMightyEthan

This is what I think it is. If it's included on the disc but locked then it seems like the content's already there, they're just withholding it, whereas if it's actually downloaded later then it seems like an addition.

Not even remotely the same. The popular Western conception of God is of a being existing outside the "regular" universe, which while we lack any evidence suggesting its existence beyond that fact there's not any specific reason to say it doesn't exist. With the teapot we know those to be man-made objects, created on Earth, which would suggest that there isn't one orbiting Mars unless we put it there; given that as far as available knowledge goes he haven't put one there we have a fairly compelling reason to believe that there is not, in fact, a teapot orbiting Mars.

@FDS: Vita, obviously.

I thought it was old at the start of the second.

Oh, since some people were asking, they've said that the WiiU will work with flash drives or external hard drives via USB, so you can connect as much storage to it as you want. Nintendo supporting universal standards and Sony requiring proprietary storage... I feel like I woke up in bizarro world.

Atheism is certainly a lack of faith, but I'd argue that some people take their conviction that there is no god to such an extreme that one could say they have faith that there is no god. That's what I would call anti-theism. Someone who is certain there is no god has no more of a scientific outlook than someone who is certain that there is. The scientific outlook is to say that without evidence to show the existence of a god we will assume there is no god, but without evidence disproving god we can't actually say that one does not exist. Now I realize atheism and a scientific outlook are not the same thing, but enough atheists use "science" as an argument against god that the point must be made. The truly scientific outlook is technical agnosticism with atheistic assumptions.

The coolest thing about it for me is the ability to play games on the tablet so you're not hogging the TV. But looking over the list of launch software, though impressive in terms of quantity, the only two games I'm at all interested in off it are Pikmin 3 and ZombiU. And really those not very much. *Edit* - Show me a 3D Mario and a new Zelda and we'll talk. Show me a full-fledged Pokemon game (I know it'll never happen, but a man can dream) and I'll buy it right away.

It was okay, but overall just felt shoddy. Crazy repetitive too.

@Jack: That's the Japan price, and a lot of stuff is more expensive in Japan. The US price should be announced in the next couple hours. @Excel: Even if that is what they meant, it would still apply to the above-ground sections of Skyward Sword.

The dungeons thing doesn't sound terribly impressive to me. Hyrule Field wasn't very big in OoT and the above-ground "dungeon" sections of Skyward Sword are at least that big.

Yes, it's the free-speaking, free-thinking people that are misguided. It's certainly not the religious zealots, oh no. Saying so could hurt their feelings. That statement was issued before the attacks happened, not after.

I don't think you quite understand. Speech doesn't hurt anyone unless they let it. Actions can hurt people regardless. Sticks and stones and all that. @MaliciousH: What's this movie? I haven't seen anything saying yet.

UAC was annoying on Vista but I actually like it on 7. It's nice that it lets me know when programs are trying to auto-update themselves and such.

UAC provides another layer of security against shit doing shit without your permission. Don't know why Steam would need to run in admin mode though, and that's the main reason something would have the UAC shield on its icon.

Ooh, The Last Phoenix and Contrast both look really cool.

Sure they will. It's releasing fall of 2020.

Here are the supposed specs: CPU: “Espresso” CPU on the Wii U has three enhanced Broadway cores GPU: “GPU7” AMD Radeon™-based High Definition GPU. Unique API = GX2, which supports Shader Model 4.0 (DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3 equivalent functionality) Memory: Mem1 = 32MB Mem2 = 1GB (that applications can use) Storage: Internal 8 GB with support for SD Cards (SD Cards up to 2GB/ SDHC Cards up to 32GB) and External USB Connected Hard Drives Networking: 802.11 b/g/n Wifi Video Output: Supports 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p and 480i Video Cables Supported: Compatible cables include HDMI, Wii D-Terminal, Wii Component Video, Wii RGB, Wii S-Video Stereo AV and Wii AV. USB: Four USB 2.0 Ports Three cores is just weird. Without knowing the performance of the CPU, the rest of the specs look like they would have been fairly impressive six years ago.

Barring some surprise game announcement I'm not anticipating, how soon they release Zelda will have a direct bearing on how soon I buy a WiiU.

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/09/10/tekken-tag-tournament-2-dlc-characters-found-on-xbox-360-disc/ This is completely ridiculous. Not only is the DLC on the disc, but it's free so they don't even have the "justification" that they spent extra resources to make it and so need to charge extra for it. I mean, they're just restricting access to content at launch seemingly for the hell of it. I don't even play fighting games and this pisses me off.

My wife's cat hates me. I wish it loved me.

I bought it in a Steam sale a while back for the same reason. It's still in my backlog.

There's very little I wouldn't do for $1 billion.

This. I don't always play games for the moment-to-moment gameplay but for the story or atmosphere, and other times I enjoy the act of playing the game but don't necessarily want it to be all that difficult, and for those times easy mode is wonderful.