TheMightyEthan

So I'm at the beginning of Chapter 2, but I just wanted to post my theory as to what's happening (partially for verification so that if I'm right I can say "I called it!" later): Don't tell me if I'm right.

We've got both kind of establishments like you guys are describing, but we'd just call them all bars.

But I mean Bob still has to DO something with the data. If I'm Alice and I scream across the room "It's in state 4!" or whatever that's not going to magically transform the particle ("transmit" in this case just means deliver the information in some way). I just want to know what it is Bob does.

So I just tried to read up on quantum teleportation and whatnot on Wikipedia, and my head asplode. I can't tell if it's a case of the writers not dumbing it down enough, them dumbing it down too much, or just being a topic which it is impossible to dumb down enough. *Edit* - I think it's that they're dumbing it down too much, because here's what I learned: 1 - Alice and Bob have entangled particles. 2 - Alice measures one aspect of her particle's state. 3 - Alice transmits that information to Bob. (So far so good, I understand it through this point) 4 - Something happens, presumably involving a wizard. 5 - Bob's particle is now identical to the state that Alice measured. All the articles skip step 4, how Bob takes the information sent by Alice and applies it to his particle, so that's where I get lost.

Should be taken with a grain of salt though, since obviously how many people pirate a game is extremely difficult to track. I wonder what the numbers would look like if they were scaled based on how many systems were sold. Anyway, piracy of course has some kind of impact, but trying to say what that impact is is next to impossible.

Scribblenauts and Advance Wars.

Yeah, I don't think there really are any common pub/bar names in the US, other than "The Library" which is popular in university towns ("No mom, I promise I'll be at the library all night...")

I believe that marriage is a sacred bond between M men and N women, where M and N are non-negative integers. @Jack: What was Rick Perry's mistake?

Yeah, I agree that's most likely, I'm just trying to be optimistic.

I liked Coraline a lot, but this is the first I've ever heard of ParaNorman.

@Strangelove: That was my first thought of Twilight Princess too (I played both versions at launch, because I had a Gamecube and my brother had a Wii), but I played it again on the Wii shortly before Skyward Sword came out and decided I actually liked the Wii controls better than the Gamcube controls. Totally agree about the NSMBWii controls blowing goats for nickels, though.

It's also possible it could be something like 360 did with Xbox 1 games: it upsamples some but not others.

WiiU has been stated to be backward compatible with "most" Wii games, but AFAIK no word on whether they're upsampled to HD or just rendered at original resolution.

*discs

Yeah, several people have suggested a deposit system where if they're fake/trolling/whatever they forfeit it but if it's a legitimate game they get it back. The "when" is definitely a question though, but ultimately that's just details. Really though I think Valve is just approaching this the same way they approach everything else on Steam: put it out there and then iterate, so in that sense I agree it wasn't really "thought through". Overall I think this is a good thing for indies wanting to get on Steam, but that doesn't mean it's perfect.

I don't think the issue is that they're unwilling to bet it, it's that a lot of indie devs, especially ones just starting out, are barely scraping by, and while they could come up with the $100 there's other stuff that they could use it for as well. That said, a few people have pointed out that if it's that much of a burden you could start selling your game elsewhere, and just use the first $100 of proceeds to put it on Greenlight. If you can't make $100 off it from other sources then it probably wasn't going to get Greenlit anyway.

Yeah, if you have an actual CD why didn't you just use it to start with?

I thought it was pretty great URL shortening. I've found that two of the best sources for anything contentious are the BBC and (ironically) the Christian Science Monitor.

It's supposed to be live in the US too.

Oh yeah, I totally agree with you. When I was at college our dorm TV was through satellite, and for some reason our "local" broadcast channels were the New York City affiliates, so during campaign season we got to see lots of ads for local NYC offices. There was one race in particular where Guy A ran positive ads about himself and Guy B only ran negative ads about Guy A, never his own positive ads, so we went through the whole season only ever even hearing Guy A's name. I honestly don't think we ever heard Guy B's name even once. Come election time, who do you think we're going to vote for?

That's not how politics works in America; you just rip on the other side, don't bother actually praising your own. Part of that might be because with only two really viable (ie electable) options if you're told not to vote for one it's pretty clearly implied that you should vote for the other instead.

Yeah, $50 seems like it could serve the same purpose, and be a lot less of a burden for legitimate developers.

ZombiU looks good too, left that one out, but that and Pikmin alone aren't enough for me. More details on its Wii b/c might make it a little more interesting, since if it's good enough I might get one just so I wouldn't have to deal with the weird graphical glitching my Wii has developed. Unless it's going to upsample games to HD resolutions though that's not enough of an incentive either.

Nintendo almost had me after the E3 conference, but they've lost me again. I've never really cared about the New Super Mario series, and while Pikmin 3 is promising I need more than that to sell me on the console.