TheMightyEthan

I never ragequit mid-match either. I've ragequit plenty of times BETWEEN matches, but I never do it until the match is over (unless it's over something that makes it completely unplayable, like horrible lag or such). That's interesting. I only really play Starcraft 2 online, but at least in that game I prefer it when my enemies quit when they know they have no chance, and I do the same (though always prefaced with a sincere "gg" before I do), cause I feel like slugging it out to the end is kind of a waste of time when the result is predetermined. I look at it kind of like chess: you only play till checkmate, you don't actually take the king. So at least when I do that I'm not ragequitting, I'm just acknowledging that I've lost and moving on to my next match. Though I will say that I find it irritating when people do it too early, like the very instant you get a hit on one of their buildings. When I do it it's usually like all my production facilities are completely destroyed and they're pounding on my resource operation, and I have no hope of reinforcements. Also though it's less of an issue in Starcraft 2 for people who DO want to finish wiping out the base, cause you can hit "keep playing" after the victory thing pops up.

Well it started last semester, when none of us had Thursday/Friday classes. I'm not sure what we'll do this semester, since at least my schedule is now a WTF schedule instead of a MTW schedule.

Electricity is cheaper than either gasoline or diesel. Plus if you get an electric car, it runs on whatever the power grid runs on, which isn't coal everywhere (around here there's actually quite a bit of wind power) and even where it is coal, it can/will be replaced with other sources in the future.

Due to inclement weather, "drinkin Wednesdays with friends" has turned into "homemade pizza and soft-modding my Wii"

I think that in the not-too-distant future kids will be shocked that basically any random-ass person was allowed to manually pilot their own automobile at speeds in excess of 70 miles per hour. I think to them that will seem ludicrously dangerous.

Drinkin Wednesdays with the law school peeps!

Should word filter it to "charcoal". Much more amusing.

I have played Mass Effect all the way through like 9 times (on 360), and I have never seen any of these glitches.

Yay for 10 free dollars!

Okay, the original article I read wasn't very clear, it made it sound like there were no more subsidies at all. They are doing away with subsidized upgrades, but people who are enrolled by June of this year can still do the subsidized upgrade one more time, and you can still get subsidized with an entirely new account. Sorry Dean, I'm done with this subject now.

Marked off Just Cause 2. I am not impressed.

Yeah I know. I was holding out on getting a smartphone until I actually needed one for work.

Yeah, I was wondering about that too. I'm sure we'll get more info closer to launch though.

From what I gather the company that made Metro 2033 was started by a couple of the software engineers from the company that made STALKER, so I doubt they had too much to do with the actual play mechanics, they were more code guys.

Speaking of the cell phone thing, Verizon just announced that they're not giving phone subsidies with new contracts. Looks like I'll be switching carriers when I want to get my smart phone.

The Wikipedia article on the dodo says that most reports were that the meat was tough and didn't taste particularly good (the sailors who went to the island preferred to eat pigeons over the dodo).

I know I don't get the full $60 back It still saves me money as long as the PC version is more than $25, and it still saves the other buyer $5.

Marked off Metro 2033. Like Bioshock, I fucking love the environment/atmosphere/etc, but I just can't put up with the crap shooting.

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.