TheMightyEthan

Well I'm not planning on doing it any time soon. Probably won't do it ever.

I want the PC version. All of my IRL friends will also want the PC version. No one I know will want the PS3 version. So look at it this way: I could either 1) buy the PC version straight up, or 2) buy the PS3 version, use the code, sell the PS3 disc back to Gamestop, someone else can buy the "used" PS3 version for less than the new version, Valve still gets all the money they normally would have gotten from a new PS3 version sale, and I have the PC version and someone else has the PS3 version, which is exactly what Valve intends to happen anyway, and is why they're doing the promotion. I really don't see how that's morally questionable.

That probably deserves to go in the Games You Like that Everyone Else Hates thread.

Well, I just started playing this again yesterday, and I finally got to a part where the shooting mechanic is exposed for the horrible mess that it is. It's sad, like Bioshock I really loved the atmosphere, but I can't put up with the shooting.

So what you're saying is I should buy the PS3 version, use the PC code, and then sell the PS3 version, right?

Well due to the way this hack works, it shouldn't take them nearly that long to release new custom firmwares, because the underlying security is broken. So instead of having to re-hack the firmware every time, they already have all the access codes. And Sony can't change the access codes cause they're built into the hardware of the PS3.

Why is a dodo more interesting than a mammoth?

So this probably isn't what Dean had in mind, but is certainly within the broad topic of the thread: Japanese scientists plan to resurrect a mammoth through cloning.

I'll test right now. *Edit* - Yep, I created a new user profile, didn't sign up for PSN, and tried to launch Netflix. At first it appeared to launch normally, but after a couple seconds of trying to load it popped up a thing that said "You must sign up for Playstation Network."

I tried AC1 and couldn't even finish the first major assassination cause I didn't like it. Then I tried it again about a year later and I freaking loved it. So I guess I'm in both categories on that one?

Even though it's not a part of PSN I think you still have to have PSN access in order to use it.

Conjunctions are typically considered a single word, so thing's like "it's" and "can't" should be fine. Here's my attempt: Burn cuts, gentle drift. Pinpoint stars.

I can use English quite well, but most of my "book knowledge" about grammar, like the kind of thing the SAT might ask about, actually comes from my French classes. That's were I learned the names of different tenses (present-progressive, past-conditional, etc) and such. *Edit* - At the same time, however, I still think it's silly to say "this is what is right, and you are wrong if you do anything differently" because, as I said, the language has always changed, and will continue to change. Sure the first few new adopters of a new word or grammatical construction will seem strange or stupid to others, but once it's become widely adopted it's part of the language and isn't wrong anymore. Fun fact: using "they" for a non-gendered singular pronoun has only recently become "wrong".

I'm waiting to see how it works out. I'd love to have XBMC on my PS3 so I can stream mkvs, but I don't want to risk losing access to PSN or Netflix on it either. If PS3's were cheaper I would consider buying another one just to jailbreak.

I just like how the name "Wuffles" sounds.

For the vast majority of people whether they write well or not will never, ever be an issue once they're out of school. Those for whom it will be an issue will more than likely learn to write properly. I believe that to the extent a problem exists it's a problem with the school system, not a problem with the technology.

Haha, actually I only vaguely remember your picture.

Right or wrong, if a friend or acquaintance of mine only communicates to me with "hey sup lol" I will automatically assume that they have a double digit IQ. See, to me that's your problem though. And I don't hate good grammar, I try to use it to the best of my ability (and like StaySICK I don't use abbreviations even when texting, except stuff like lol, though I do often leave out apostrophes and capital letters), but if I receive a text that says "wut r u doin" I think it's silly, I don't think the person is stupid. *Edit* - I do have a thing for run-on sentences though. I guess what I mean is that for stuff like texting or IMing I write like I speak, i.e. mostly correctly, but not adhering to all the rules. For stuff like forum posts I get a little bit more proper still, but not perfect. For formal things (such as school papers or whatever) I write correctly to the best of my abilities.

See, I don't like those combinations. For a watch I prefer straight-analog. But it also doesn't bother me that other people can't read an analog clock because, like you say, it's just changing times (ha!). I don't have the foggiest idea how to use a slide rule, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing either.

You were living in an apartment with roommates while still in high school?

No accounting for taste, huh? Those two sentences would perfectly describe my feelings on Bioshock (well, I would have left out the phrase "a little"), but I enjoy the gunplay and combat of Metro 2033 just fine. On PC, for both games.

I agree with dean about the grammar thing. Why is it important? Language evolves, it's not some static thing. So what's "good grammar" now will seem archaic in the future. It's always been that way, and it always will be that way. It doesn't mean the language is deteriorating, just changing. So until you start speaking like a Shakespearean character, or better yet a character from Beowulf, don't talk about the language deteriorating.

Out of curiosity, what do you have against the cloud? I don't think this will ever happen. Sure, it might become too fast for oldtimers like us, but not for the people who've grown up with it (even more than we have, I mean). My fiancee is studying psychology, and apparently studies have found that people who are exposed to constant technological change while they're growing up have no problem continuing to deal with change as adults. It's only people who grew up without the constant change that have a problem. I don't think the spelling/grammar thing is actually related to technology at all. I think the cause of that is that more people are able to read and write now than in the past, and most people are fucking retarded. Even a hundred years ago, it most people in "advanced" nations were barely literate; the ones who could read and write then read and wrote better because they were the highly educated, whereas now every random ass person can read and write. Again though, random ass people are mostly stupid, so even though they can read and write, they do so poorly. It has nothing to do with the technology. And finally: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

WUFFLES!

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