TheMightyEthan

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.

I've never had memtest give me a failure, even when I know that a specific stick of RAM is bad.

According to this Ico at least runs at 852x480 on Vita, but the Vita's native resolution is 960x544.

I haven't actually used it because I don't have any games that support it AFAIK.

Yeah, I'm guessing at first it was just a straight port of the PSP version, but that they could work with it to optimize it for the Vita to make it work a lot better.

Yeah, it's a great feature that should be used more. It would be wonderful to be able to use the PS3 without monopolizing the TV.

I'm glad that we're not the only ones who put idiots in charge of departments that they either know nothing about or are actively hostile to.

I know I use this far too often, but

That looks to me like it kind of undercuts my point, because it has drugging the person in "other means", a separate category from "force or threat", which would imply to me that "other means" wouldn't fall under "forcible rape" in that regime, unlike in the common law.

DRUUUUGS!

Also available in US for $50.

Selling my Nook Tablet. If I'd known this was coming back when I bought the Nook Tablet I probably would have held out for it. Basically my only real issue with the Nook is that the fact that I have to have it jailbroken to do a lot of the stuff I want (like install Play Store apps) makes it a little wonky to deal with sometimes, and this can do everything I want out of the box.

If you're in the US, eleven, the PC version of Assassin's Creed is $7 on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010EK3SE/ref=ox_ya_os_product

Honestly, I think a better way would have been to have the d-pad just switch between screens, and still have you touch the icon you want. I think that would have made for the best usability.

I don't know, honestly.

I really liked it a lot. In fact I'd say I enjoyed it more than GTA, though I'm not quite willing to say I liked it more than GTA.

What did Revan's link link to? It just takes me to a "game not found" page on Ubi's store. Similarly Dean's link takes me to a "page not found" page on the Play store.